A group of queer Latinx skaters struggle with crippling mental health and societal expectations in Southern California. In their local skate community, they find cathartic release, chosen family and mastery of empowerment.
Enter the colorful world of Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated Patricia Field, the costume designer behind Sex and the City, Emily in Paris, Ugly Betty, and The Devil Wears Prada. A queer, first-generation Greek-American, this fiery redhead defied the odds to become a fashion icon. Features interviews with Kim Cattrall, Lily Collins, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael Urie, and more.
1979. Flicking through pictures from a Soviet magazine, 15-year-old Martim dreams of building a new society. His radical communist parents send him to study at Astrakan for one year. In her new film, Catarina Mourão captures with tremendous precision the moment a middle-aged man passes his story on to his son, thus shedding the taboo of his ineffable experience.
Something is wrong with the “soil”, rendering farmers unable to make money. Enthusiastic middle-aged farmer A-Ren switches to the tech industry, aiming to revive the soil by turning garbage into compost, with his family reluctantly supporting his dream. Meanwhile, An-he, who is nearing retirement, leads his family to cultivate the land using organic farming methods. Farming becomes not only a way of life but also an attitude towards life. As the cycles of nature unfold between the tug-of-war of ideals versus reality, two farmers — one old, one young; one calm, one energetic — will intersect amid the changing seasons of life.
As the character Jockiboi, Joakim Lundell was completely limitless and when he was a participant in the scandalous reality show "Kings of Tylösand" he gained hundreds of thousands of followers on his blog. In a long interview with Malou von Sivers, he talks about his broken childhood and about rising from absolute rock bottom. A conversation about reconciliation and forgiveness.
Homelessness: one of the worst societal traumas of this century. “BUILDING HOPE: Ending Homelessness” puts a face on those experiencing homelessness and tells us it could happen to anyone. But there is hope. We can all make a difference.
The creators of the documentary film "Gram srca" entered the world of addiction and accompanied addicts on the streets of Ljubljana, who in interviews confessed their own experience of the harmful consequences of drug use... loss of home, broken and destroyed families, child abduction, prostitution, HIV infections, physical violence, alcoholism...
A precious life is born. Innocent and beautiful. Assigned at birth a gender based on their anatomy. But the phrase born a boy or girl may not be correct.
This is the story of the outstanding Ukrainian warrior and freedom fighter Dmytro Kotsyubailo, who took part in revolution on the Maidan (Kyiv, Ukraine) as an 18-year-old boy, then went to the front to defend the country from the russians.
Three men enter the Forbidden Zone in search of a magical room that can fulfill one's innermost desires. In this film, the viewer follows the main character who, through a shocking glimpse of a vertical truth, is hurled straight into an inner and outer landscape that reflects the traveler's own state of mind. She finds herself in a conversation about time and space with a spirit medium and a professor of quantum physics, at an Easter dinner with priests and confronted by her inner demons in an abandoned mine. All the while she hears the room calling her on - or is it her own heart? What awaits us in the innermost room of the heart?
A shocking BBC investigation into serious sexual abuse allegations by Mohamed al Fayed, the former owner of luxury department store Harrods. The Egyptian billionaire businessman, who died last year aged 94, is accused of multiple counts of rape and attempted rape by the women who worked for him. At the time of many of the alleged attacks, Al Fayed was the owner of London’s luxury department store Harrods, the iconic Ritz Paris hotel and English football club Fulham FC. The BBC has heard testimony from over 20 survivors, with 13 featured in the film. With horrifying accounts of abuse that spanned Al Fayed’s 25-year reign at Harrods, for the first time the scale and seriousness of these allegations are exposed, as well as the system that helped cover it up. A web of corruption and fear that extended from the shop floors to the highest levels of the organization is revealed. Brave survivors now break their silence.
US election officials in rural and urban jurisdictions of four battleground states hold the line against organized efforts to undermine their work as they prepare for the contentious 2024 contest.