A middle-aged man reflects back on his tumultuous adolescent phase while sitting in his childhood bedroom. Through intricate and deeply personal musings somehow all tied to his hair - hair growing or hair receding - we, over time accumulate meaning into the larger journey of his life.
Among Athenian balconies, fragmented images, sounds, and fleeting and incomplete stories emerge. The seasons change, the significant intertwines with the insignificant, and beauty and ugliness coexist. Weather phenomena, absurd circumstances, events, human gestures, and other fragments of life weave together the spectrum of an urban ecosystem.
Babasaheb Ambedkar visited Karnataka on several occasions. But his each visits had a purpose and consequence. This film records each of his visit in context and provides a historical perspective of his journey
The dark cabaret of The Tiger Lillies and the provocative mind of Martyn Jacques, through a haunting performance filmed at the emblematic Olympion Theater in Thes- saloniki and during one night with Martyn Jacques in the city. Alone with the Moon.
After his documentary 'Once upon a time Libreville' made in 1972, director Simon Auge recalls the memories of his city dating and what it has become in modern times. "You have to live with your time," he concludes.
An intimate and moving short documentary where a young Franco-Lebanese director has a heartfelt exchange with her mother, Kawssar, as they spend time together in her late grandmother's house. In a space now filled with nostalgia and emptiness, Kawssar recounts how Lebanon's civil war drove her into exile and how she had to cope with the loss of family members, all the while poring over her mother's diaries. A transgenerational story, Mon Raison d'Être explores grief, loneliness and motherhood, lifting the veil on things left unsaid. A delicate journey of a filmmaker and her mother, struggling within their own relationship and ultimately trying to heal together.
Inspired by the phrase of the American activist Angela Davis – “When the black woman moves, the whole structure of society moves with her” -, the documentary tells the story of three black women whose personal trajectories are intertwined with laws that transformed their lives and those of countless Brazilian citizens.
On their roller-coaster ride trying to become pregnant using assisted reproduction, Anna (40) and Ari (32) – a two-woman couple – invite us into the intimacy of their home where we go on an amusing, bitter-sweet adventure. Their journey is harder and longer than expected: 116 weeks, 5 embryo transfers, 745 pills, and 67 injections. So, the jokes must come thick and fast to face all the ups and downs of what seems like an endless scientific experiment. Things sometimes go badly, but comedy always comes to the rescue.
"American Sons" follows a brotherhood of Marines a decade after their deployment to Afghanistan, as they struggle to overcome the trauma of combat and the loss of their best friend, Corporal JV Villarreal. Leaving more than his memory behind, JV’s narrated, first-person video diary of his life in Afghanistan serves as both a haunting window into these Marines’ past and a testament to the unbreakable bonds of those who sacrifice in war together.
In the small mountain town of Barga, Italy, a group of four filmmakers speak with local cat lovers and immerse themselves in the unique world of street-trotting felines and Gattaras.
Shot over seven years, Jack and his father dedicate their lives and spend millions of dollars to find the legendary Yamashita's Gold, allegedly buried across the Philippines and never fully recovered by the Japanese Army. A dark path that leads to obsession and addiction threatening the livelihoods of his wife, children and their entire families.
TW Hansen is a blind used car salesman, a landlord, and a film picture car coordinator living in Milwaukee. One of TW's tenants began following him with a camera after he drunkenly purchased an ambulance without keys using his boss's money.
Spreadsheet Champions follows six students as they put their Excel-lent skills to the ultimate test in Microsoft's most prestigious and difficult category. A heartwarming tale of formulas and friendship, Spreadsheet Champions reveals the far-reaching influence of spreadsheets in today’s world and the power of young minds to shape our future.
Legendary NASA robotics engineer and best-selling science fiction author, Gentry Lee, has spent a lifetime seeking an answer to the ultimate cosmic question: Are we alone in the universe? At age 82 he has come to a revelatory conclusion.