New Documentary Movies on Pantaflix - Page 387

This is Only the Beginning

2024

This is Only the Beginning

2024
A young reclusive man moves from his small town in Sweden to Osaka, in search of connection and an escape from the mundanity of life.
Our Lady Who Burns

2024

Our Lady Who Burns

2024
The Serra da Gardunha mountain range in central Portugal has long been associated with the unexplained. Over the years, alleged visions of saintly apparitions have given way to alien sightings, with witnesses reporting mysterious lights in the sky and rumours circulating that a UFO hangar lies hidden beneath the craggy rocks. Meanwhile, two friends speculate over the extent of the mountain’s power as they discuss whether its spirits might be able to offer relief to their old and heavily pregnant cat.
The Opposite of Dying

2024

The Opposite of Dying

2024
Tang lives alone in a cave in the mountains. He spends his days trekking and meeting friends in the local town. While this self-styled hermit has lived for years with almost no money, now he dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur. Coming down from the mountain, he meets local businessmen and old friends, pitching them a series of outlandish money-making schemes – from a campsite on the rooftop of a local hotel, to a 300-day-long hermit experience for tourists. With a deep urge to live a meaningful life, Tang is confronted by the prejudices of townsfolk who see him as nothing more than a local oddity.
Light Darkness Light

2024

Light Darkness Light

2024
Father Ian Nichols has just had cutting-edge surgery. The darkness of the world he once lived in has now been transformed to one of abstract artificial vision. Acutely sensitive to the environment around him and articulate in conveying the sensations he experiences – physically, emotionally and spiritually – his presence transforms Light Darkness Light into a profound meditation on lived experiences.
In My Own Words: Hanif Kureishi

2024

In My Own Words: Hanif Kureishi

2024
Using a trove of archive photographs and film, Kureishi reflects on his father’s experiences as an immigrant in the post-war years, his own youth and entry into the world of theatre, the tumult around the publication of The Satanic Verses and its continued reverberations, and how he has transformed the life around him into a work of art.
Habibullah

2024

Habibullah

2024
Kurdish folk singer Habibullah Zandi has been performing all his life. Whether at weddings or around the campfire, he shares his voice to bring others happiness. When a video of him goes viral on TikTok the young village mullah confronts him about the sins of singing. Tensions rise, but so does his defiance. For Habibullah, the Islamic faith and his singing are not at odds. This film mirrors its protagonist – it is quietly self-assured, joyful and with a deep love for the beauty of this world.
Exhumator

2024

Exhumator

2024
There are many reasons why a dead body might need an exhumation: police investigations, transfer to another country, cemetery renovations or an administrative expiration of the grave. In all these cases Heinz is there to assist. He treats bodily remains with care and respect, whispering to the dead as if they were still alive. Carrying out this traditionally hidden work for 40 years, Heinz has become sensitive to not only the care of the bones, but the spirit and energy that lingers around them.
De Occulta Imagine

2024

De Occulta Imagine

2024
Taking us on a deep dive into the Audio-visual Archive of the Labour and Democratic Movement in Italy, the director transforms images related to the ‘Southern Question’ – news reports and films from the 1960s that deal with the subordinate state of Southern Italy comparative to the North.
Beyond Words

2024

Beyond Words

2024
Members of the Genetic Choir Ensemble use careful reciprocal listening and improvisation techniques to connect with nursing home residents who have lost their ability to communicate conventionally. In a series of delicate scenes, the singers share their ideas and put their methods into practice, filling these once sad and silent spaces with a gentle comforting hubbub of hums, murmurs and intermingling voices. Through this intimate approach, the smallest of gestures – a flicker of a smile, a moment of eye contact – carry profound meaning.
Angular Phoenix

2024

Angular Phoenix

2024
Proposes a speculative meeting between the Baron of Água Izé, the first nobleman in the Portuguese colonies of the 1800s who was of mixed European and African ancestry, and Maria Correia, the Black Princess of Príncipe Island in the 1700s. Reanimating them through the bodies of contemporary artists, the film uses dance, poetry and music to weave profound threads between the past and the present. Transcending space, time and language, their encounter wrestles with questions of culpability, power and the exploitation of both land and Black bodies.
Kilometre

2024

Kilometre

2024
Roma was working in London when the Ukrainian conflict rapidly escalated with Russia’s army rolling across the border of his home. He decides to return to his family, whose town soon becomes a battlefield. While they take shelter in basements, cut off from the rest of their country, Roma joins an air intelligence unit, operating drones to locate the whereabouts of the invading force. As the drone flies, Roma is so close to his family, but in reality, the gulf between them is enormous.
Quem é Essa Mulher?

2024

Quem é Essa Mulher?

2024
The Quilters

2024

The Quilters

2024
Follows the daily lives of several quilters inside the sewing room at South Central Correctional Center, a Level 5 maximum-security prison in a small town two hours south of St. Louis, MO. From design to completion, the men reveal their struggles, triumphs, and sense of pride in creating something beautiful in this windowless, sacred space deep within the prison walls.
Wild Wild Space

2024

Wild Wild Space

2024
6.9
Follow three rocket and satellite companies – Astra Space, Rocket Lab, and Planet Labs – and the quests of their idiosyncratic founders to conquer the burgeoning space industry.
Satisfied

2024

Satisfied

2024
An intimate look at the actress Renée Elise Goldsberry; a woman’s struggle to have a family and balance a career, against the backdrop of the hit musical Hamilton.
The Coming Days

2024

The Coming Days

2024
In Chengdu, China, a grandfather get sick and hospitalized. His family accompanied him and commemorated him in their own way. In San Francisco, USA, music therapist Liu Xiaotian sings in order to provide hospice care to those who were dying. The constructed plot and warm records convey to us that in the face of life, old age, illness and death, cherishing the present is the best solution.
Lagoa do Nado - A festa de um parque

2024

Lagoa do Nado - A festa de um parque

2024
My dad never told me I love you

2024

My dad never told me I love you

2024
Portrait of a father seen by his son.
Ms. Hu's Garden

2024

Ms. Hu's Garden

2024
Auntie Hu in Chongqing makes a living by running an extremely inexpensive small hotel. Although she lives in poverty, she sometimes relieves her guests and builds a colorful garden out of discarded garbage, a poetic space to achieve self-redemption and comfort her sick son. Spanning nine years, the film is a true reflection of the spiritual world and resilience of a mother and her son.
The Last Island

2024

The Last Island

2024
7
The extraordinary story of eight friends who find themselves casually involved in one of the darkest moments in the history of the Mediterranean Sea. From the quiet evening on a boat to the sudden rescue of dozens of people at sea, the film explores the strength of friendship and human resilience in emergency situations.