At struggling independent movie theatres across Alberta, passionate business owners are reviving, re-inventing and sometimes letting go of these once-vital community spaces.
This documentary explores karakami, a patterned decorative paper hand printed onto washi. The director visits the Karacho studio, established 400 years ago, whose 11th generation master - Kenkichi Senda, still produces karakami using the original woodblocks from the studio's founding. We see how pattern making developed, drawing inspiration from other cultures, back in time to the rock carvings at Val Camonica.
As ABBA mark 50 years since winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, it's time to take another voyage into the archives for more of the Swedish supergroup’s best BBC moments.
At the age of 53, Michael moves back into his childhood bedroom, after his mother has been diagnosed with earl onset dementia. Can the photographer, who suffers from depression, rise to the challenges posed by this living arrangement?
Nearly 3,600 years ago, the eastern Mediterranean was shaken by the eruption of the Santorini volcano, north of Crete, which destroyed several port cities and covered the entire region in a thick layer of ash. This cataclysm, long considered the trigger for the collapse of Minoan civilization, still raises many questions, which a vast international deep-sea drilling project is attempting to answer. Prepared over a period of six years, Expedition 398 brought together a team of scientists from eight countries aboard a research vessel equipped with state-of-the-art technology. Its aim: to take samples from the Santorini caldera in order to establish the age, history and dangerousness of the volcano.
As a child, Frøydis experienced violence and neglect. When she grew older, she made the difficult decision to cut off all contact with her parents. The Final Chapter chronicles Frøydis’s experience after she learns that her father, to whom she has not spoken in years, is dying. Deeply conflicted at the prospect of reconnecting with him, she explores her feelings with her oldest friend and her partner. In these candid exchanges, she describes the sanctuary she found in staying with her friend’s family when she was young, how much the safety and connection meant to her. The warmth of these exchanges starkly contrasts with her fears about revisiting a relationship that is both painful and central to her life. Stunning cinematography and visual metaphors resonate with Frøydis’s poignant words as she approaches this momentous decision with beauty and restraint.
On a ReTreAt wiTh 20 friends, a mysTeriOuS concoCtiOn FallS inTo the Wrong hAnds. After a tragedy like this, one can only be left questioning, WHY??? Uncover the secrets, discover the adventure. Pour one out for Frances.
With previously unheard interviews with the band and new interviews with those who met them, this is the story of ABBA’s love affair with the UK since their Eurovision triumph.
Unexpected Peace follows social anthropologist Jonathan Bornman as he explores three stories: the Amish school shooting in Nickle Mines, PA; the murders of Murid (Sufi Muslim) migrants from Senegal in Harlem, New York; and Muslim-Christian conflict in Solo, Indonesia. In each case, communities responded to horrific acts of violence with forgiveness and actions of nonviolence.
Filmmaker Bruno Jorge makes an autoethnography by filming the characters who crossed his path during the years he lived with his family in a small rural village in the interior of Minas Gerais.
A Taiwanese American filmmaker questions her family’s silence around the cycles of violence that have persisted since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949.