In 1950, Janett Christman was murdered while babysitting in Columbia, Missouri. Almost 75 years later, a filmmaker investigates the unsolved case and its surprising connection to pop culture while she confronts her obsession with true crime.
Cavers are in no way numb to the absurdity of their hobby. Squeezing through impossibly tight spaces, jumping across chasms and crawling through chest deep water are just another day. Despite this, the question of why is seldom asked. Chouteau: Scenes from Below explores the thoughts, feelings, and history of the Chouteau Grotto as they find ways to push deeper underground.
Experiencers of UFO sightings and Extraterrestrial encounters tell their personal stories, with reenactments portraying their experiences. Throughout, trauma therapists and UFOlogists make commentary.
A visual praise song for a radiant soul, Michael Olufunmilola Ononaiye, on the occasion of his transcendence from man to melody, from brother to memory.
The Triple 7 Expedition is a 168-hour skydiving journey led by a team of former special operators and skydiving veterans. The expedition's goal is to break the record for seven skydives in seven days on seven continents. In January 2023, the Triple 7 Expedition completed its record-breaking expedition by landing its seventh skydive in Perth, Australia in 6 days, 6 hours, and 6 minutes. The expedition also includes 16 flights, 80.5 hours of flight time, and 456 hours away from family. The expedition's route begins in Antarctica and includes stops in Santiago, Chile, Miami, Florida, Barcelona, Spain, and Cairo, Egypt. The expedition's goal is to honor fallen heroes and raise money for scholarships to military families.
Guitarist Jørgen has lost faith in himself and feels that his life is crumbling. More crucially, he has lost his sound and neither his therapist nor his loved ones understand what he’s talking about. Then he meets eccentric guitar repairman Ove. As Ove goes to work fixing Jørgen’s amp, Jørgen starts picking up the pieces of his life. AN INWARD PATH is a fascinating documentary about two men whose lives have gone awry and who develop a common language and method of healing by nerding out about music and sound in the most intense way imaginable.
In 2012, the government revoked the Overseas Domestic Workers visa concession, removing the rights of domestic workers in the UK to change employers. This has increased their vulnerability to abuse, exploitation and reduced protection. Six women share their journey from the Philippines to the UK, how it's affected their families back home, and the community they've created in the UK.
The film gives voice to the growing trend of Afro-descendants moving back to the continent of Africa to live. It highlights the life of a professional educator and their journey through the Texas school system to find freedom amid issues surrounding school equity, racism, and miseducation. This is juxtaposed against the life and legacy of the founding father of Tanzania, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, who enacted empowering policies such as Ujamaa and Education for Self-Reliance, and the life and times of Dr. John Pombe Magufuli, the president who denounced COVID-19.
The documentary follows the life of Mauro Fiorentino, a very ordinary 48-year-old bus driver who decides to reveal the naughtiest and most scandalous details of his life. Amidst escapades, wild living in Rimini and deep reflections on relationships, this documentary explores the facets of his unique personality and his experiences in confronting the challenges of adult life.
The story of Buffalo Bill, born William Frederick Cody (1846-1917), a self-made man who went from working as a bison hunter to becoming an international showman who practically created pop culture's idea of the Wild West.
This documentary film is a portrait of a film critic as seen by a filmmaker. While contemporary cinema manipulates reality by hiding itself, this experiment manifests the opposite in an explicit and evident way. The film critic has been asked to travel to the city of Bergamo to participate in a 70-minute film experiment: savoring 2 kg of oysters and drinking 2 bottles of wine, while simultaneously answering 15 general knowledge questions and 15 solicitations of a private and personal nature. The outcome is a ruinous game in which the meaning of filming and the fragility of a human being merge into a melancholic testament.
Impassioned surfer Taylor Lane builds a functional surfboard with 10,000 cigarette butts collected from California beaches. The Cigarette Surfboard becomes a platform to learn from professional surfers who are working to protect the ocean, and the symbol of a grassroots campaign to hold Big Tobacco accountable for their toxic, plastic waste. Surfing is the medium, but the message is universal.
An exploration of the site of the first purpose-built modern film studio in the US (American Vitagraph Company) which operated from 1907 through the silent era, was repurposed into a yeshiva school for girls in the early 1980s, and rebuilt in 2000s for residential use with the original 70-foot smokestack still intact. The film includes interviews with film historians and descendants of the studio founders; re-photographed nitrate fragments of films that were produced at the Brooklyn studios over 100 years ago; and original footage shot inside the yeshiva school and of the building during and after demolition. The film explores both profound resistances and persistent echoes of national and local cultural histories, the archeology of the American film industry, local neighborhood demographics, gentrification, and politics.
Overwhelmed by the degradation of his beloved river, a musician decides to sail 1300 km in a traditional wooden boat to symbolically reclaim its wilderness. His voyage offers an opportunity for reflection on humanity's impact on the environment and serves as a reminder of the devastating ecological disaster on the Odra River. Amidst the sounds of nature, the protagonist seeks hope for a future where ecological balance prevails, not only for himself and his daughter but also for the world. Dive into the primal symphony of the river, momentarily escaping the chaos of modern life.