Since October 7, 2023, at least 178 journalists have been killed in Gaza. That's more journalists than in both World Wars combined. While the world remains silent, we must raise our voices against injustice. In this poignant new documentary, Robert Greenwald exposes Israel's crimes against journalism and humanity through the lives and deaths of Palestinian journalists Belal Jadallah, Heba al-Abadla, and Ismail al-Ghoul.
Rồi Thứ Hai Sẽ Đến is a documentary film made by the student group Ái Chà (from the High-Quality Journalism K22-1 class, Faculty of Journalism & Communication, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU-HCM). The documentary tells the story of Mr. Thắng - a teacher with no degree and no sign board. For the past 15 years, Mr. Thắng has persistently pursued his dream of bringing literacy closer to children who cannot afford to go to school.
Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)
In celebration of the release of Sparks’ 28th album, ‘MAD!’, Ron and Russell Mael will join actor, presenter and comedian Rob Brydon for an in-person evening that promises to be insightful and illuminating, containing fresh perspectives on a career that has spanned in excess of five decades. “I still have the cassette of Propaganda, a present on my ninth birthday. Since then Sparks have held a very special place in my heart. They are the epitome of creativity and musicality. I am so looking forward to meeting them and having a MAD! discussion.” - Rob Brydon. “As we’ve never had the honor of meeting British Royalty, we are extremely excited to be in discussion with Rob Brydon, MBE and, incidentally, one of the funniest people alive.” - Ron Mael and Russell Mael.
A documentary about Sami comic artist Mats Jonsson and his relative Stor-Stina. Her remains were long believed to have been lost in a fire but were recently found and returned to her home town of Malå to be buried.
The forest is cultivated with a saw. At least that’s still what forestry schools teach. But what does a healthy forest actually need? Foresters and hunters see the forest as an agricultural commodity and nature as something that must be constantly regulated and managed. On the other side stand conservationists – advocates of non-intervention, who believe the forest can take care of itself without us. Where does private ownership stand in this conflict? And is a human’s right to use natural resources in their surroundings superior to the bear’s right to do the same? Slovak forests have become a battleground – but also a proxy issue of a social conflict that runs much deeper than it first appears.
Katelijne suffers a spinal cord injury in a boating accident. They refuse to accept life in a wheelchair. Katelijne does everything she can to regain control over her body and life and begins a long and complex rehabilitation process with perseverance.
NO BAD TAKES is a raw, offbeat documentary nearly a decade in the making, following the longest—and possibly last—literary journey of legendary cult writer William T. Vollmann. Capturing both the mind of the artist and a fractured portrait of America, the film is a meditation on impermanence, friendship, and the possibilities of the creative process when one is open to the world.
The film is about the legendary Ukrainian volunteer, officer, and public figure Taras Bobanych "Hammer". Taras started his fight on the Maidan. Since 2016, he has been a member of the 1st Separate Assault Company of the Right Sector and, at the same time, a friend and associate of Dmytro "Da Vinci" Kotsyubaylo. With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, "Hammer" led the battalion and defended first Kyiv and then Kharkiv regions from the enemy. The film about Taras is a collection of stories of the Ukrainian people's ten-year struggle for their freedom. The legendary "Hammer" has always played a prominent role in this struggle.
Anthology of dreams of people who had to leave their homes. And who found in Europe a Tower of Babel where no one speaks the same language and no one understands each other. Here, people walk as if lost, meeting in dreams and searching for ways to return home.
Over the course of ten years, the participants of the Surf Siberia project have visited the most remote shores on the planet, from the cold waters of Russia to the tropical waves of Indonesia. “Culture Code: Fragments” collects these years into a visual chronicle full of adventures, film grain, and personal stories. Here, surfing and skateboarding are not just sports, but a language for talking about growing up, finding yourself, and the power of community.
An intimate portrait of editor Agnieszka Bojanowska, a longtime collaborator of Bogdan Dziworski. The film captures their friendship and offers a final glimpse into her creative craft.
A film essay that intertwines the director's gaze with that of her late mother. Beyond exploring mourning and absence as exclusively painful experiences, the film pays tribute to her mother through memories embodied by places and objects that evidence the traces of her existence. The filmmaker asks herself: What does she owe her mother for who she is and how she films? To what extent does her film belong to her?
“You got to try to live your own life,” Arzu, one of the football players from the Turkish-Kreuzberg girls’ team Ağrı Spor, demanded in a 1995 film by Aysun Bademsoy. Today she is in her late forties and leads her own life, like her former teammates Türkan, Nalan and Nazan. Bademsoy visited the four of them for the fourth time, following their lives, recalling their visions for the future from back then. And this time she also talked to their daughters, some of whom on the brink of adulthood, who also think about adaptation, tradition, religion and culture. Little has changed between then and now, being German remains a difficult question to answer for every generation.
Committed to unearthing her ancestors' silenced history, Margarita embarks on a profound journey, guided by the diary of Katrulaf, an indigenous Mapuche prisoner of war. She retraces the Mapuches’ deportation route, and in unearthing these pasts, gives voice to a displaced people and the genocide inflicted upon them during the military invasions that founded Argentina and Chile.