Amid Guanajuato's vibrant streets, an aging filmmaker becomes a modern Don Quixote, joined by a spirited young animator as his loyal Sanchia. Together, they navigate themes of mortality, unfulfilled dreams, and the fragile line between madness and clarity, uncovering the transformative power of light, art, and the landscapes that shape our souls.
Documentary that covers, as a diary-album, everyday scenes recorded between 2018 and 2024 around my house, in a peripheral neighborhood of Corrientes in the northeast of Argentina. In the passage from day to night, gestures and melodies unfold that collapse the imposed ways of living and transform into joyful resistance to the advance of the extreme right. We are broken and so are our images. We are a handful of pixels that dance in the darkness, to the rhythm of the power of the banal.
Blind Spot is the first film to document both the antisemitism that existed on American campuses before October 7 and how it led to the explosion of virulent and often violent campus antisemitism after October 7.
Bati da Vila is a short documentary that brings the wisdom of Dona Nicinha and the oldest families of Vila de Ponta Negra, showing the process and importance of making Bati olive oil, valuing the memory and ancestral wisdom of this important territory of the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte.
Two political trials and executions have left an indelible mark on post-conflict Greece. The trial of Nikos Belogiannis and the trial of Nikos Ploumpidis. Ploumpidis, however, died alone, slandered by enemies and friends, dishonored. Personal drama and collective destiny co-shape this Promethean hero, who seems straight out of an ancient tragedy.
Through this documentary, Emmanuelle Béart aims to uncover the truth about incest. The actress, accompanied by director Anastasia Mikova, breaks her silence and confronts her reality with that of others, shedding light on a taboo subject.
Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences, and analysis to help reframe, deconstruct, and re-contextualize the "lost" decade of horror: the '90s.
Simone, Francesca and Olivia are three young people from Bologna who are members of the Communist Renewal Party. Full of life, they take part in demonstrations and party meetings and believe that they can change the current world, dominated by ruthless capitalism and pressure for performance, for the better. At least until the moment when it turns out that it is almost impossible to change the minds of the older party members and the unsuccessful attempts to win new supporters intersect with the difficulties in their personal lives. Comrades is an empathetic time-lapse portrait that shows how the current young generation is losing its illusions, and how difficult it is to keep faith in what we believe makes sense.
Host Marie-Claude Julien meets director Bernard Émond on the day of the launch of his latest film Une femme respectable. He chose Trois-Rivières and its historic rue Des Ursulines to set the story of his main character. The house where the filming took place belongs to Marie-Claude. She took advantage of the director's visit to conduct this interview.
Compiled from nearly 15 hours of interviews, this documentary dives into the history of cult musical phenomenon, Ride the Cyclone, as told by the people who lived it.
A musician goes from the stage to the cage in a compelling piece of star-studded reality journalism. Joining forces with a pair of UFC fighters, a recording artist dives head first into the world of professional MMA to answer the question: what would happen if you took an average guy off the street and put him in the cage with one of the best fighters on the planet?
These are the witnesses of Joseph Stalin's Holodomor Genocide of Ukrainians in 1932-33. Each persevered through horror. Each confronted death and struggled to survive to keep Ukraine's history and culture alive. This documentary exposes the secret that murdered millions.