Peter Medak's films toy with notions of cosplay, masquerade, gamesmanship, and how power and permission structures figure into these human diversions. His filmography includes The Ruling Class (1972), The Changeling (1980), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1971), The Krays (1990), and others, all which capitalize on these ideas. Sanity is fragile, ephemeral, and suspended from a very thin tether in all his films. This piece gets to the bottom of why Medak centers his work on such themes, and why they carry biographical weight for him personally.
Director Martin offers unprecedented access to the band's creative process, documenting their journey from initial concepts to final recordings in Australia. Experience the tensions, breakthroughs, and quiet moments of inspiration that birthed "No One Was Driving the Car" across Australia, Manila, Bicester, and Grand Rapids.
A Christmas meal in a French family from the Puy-de-Dôme, secretly recorded, featuring arguments, bursts of laughter, and lessons on how to use a film camera.
A whole day in Adriano Aprà's temple-studio, for a conversation about the future of cinema, his fruitful life, and teaching utopia to young filmmakers eager to invent and experiment. This tribute to Adriano Aprà is a ceremony listening to his voice, through the film by three young people.
VMX crush Dyessa Garcia takes fans through the sizzling hot journey of one of VMX’s original A-listers – AJ Raval going all out in her most unforgettable and daring scenes.
A documentary film exploring an untold part of Canada’s past through the eyes of Inuk artist and filmmaker Elisapie Isaac. After facing a moral dilemma, Elisapie sets out to meet others who, like her, are “Hudson Baybies,” the children born of the mixed unions between Indigenous women and Hudson’s Bay Company employees working in trading posts and general stores across the North.
Stan Hill Jr. is a Haudenosaunee artist living in Miawpukek First Nation Reserve, Conne River, Newfoundland. In “The Bear Inside a Whale,” he and his family discuss racism, identity, religion, creation and art, along with the cultural extinction of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Throughout the film, we follow Stan carving a bear out of a whale vertebra. And we visit The Rooms (museum) in St. John’s, Newfoundland, where Stan talks about viewing and reclaiming Indigenous artefacts.
In this unprecedented primetime program, 50 volunteers take part in experiments without knowing that the aim of the program is to understand the unconscious mechanisms that can lead us to discriminatory behavior. Because if they knew, it would bias the results of the experiments.
I AM RAQUEL WELCH is a feature documentary that celebrates the life of a trailblazing actress and single mother who not only redefined the world's idea of a Hollywood "Sex Symbol," but also led the way for modern-day action heroines.
At 6 p.m. on an otherwise ordinary day, Isidro picks up his last passenger. 97 minutes and 5 stab wounds later, everything is captured by the vehicle’s interior camera. Now, the testimony of his fellow drivers pieces together a story of fear and fury from those who make their living with their hands on the wheel.
Sisters Zaynab and Maryam are two Afghan soccer players who play for the Herat women's team. When the Taliban return to power in Afghanistan, they decide to flee the regime. Maryam manages to board a flight to Italy, while Zaynab is left behind. The film follows their parallel and separate lives between Afghanistan and Europe.