Never-before-seen footage and intimate interviews celebrate the life and legacy of iconic Mexican American singer Selena Quintanilla and her family band.
Two intrepid Nairobi women decide to transform what used to be a whites-only library until 1958 into a vibrant cultural hub. Along the way, they must navigate local politics, raise millions for the rebuild, and confront the lingering ghosts of Kenya’s colonial past.
Explorer Matthieu Tordeur takes us with him to Antarctica, with the aim of raising awareness of respect for the poles. He takes us with him to discover these distant lands and magical landscapes and a rich and fragile biodiversity. This return to Antarctica, 4 years after his expedition to conquer the South Pole, is also an opportunity for Matthieu to bear witness to the rapid and irreversible changes which are shaking up this region of the globe.
The documentary encapsulates a quarter of a century of efforts to rescue the Cambados gamela, a unique traditional boat that had been lost since the 1950s.
Five floors. Forty apartments. Rats, leaks and debts. In Pantin, I live in a building with a danger order. Under court order, we have to renovate it. Between Dantesque arguments, missing money and humor as a fire extinguisher, I film our collective rescue.
They come to buy newspapers and cigarettes, boast, complain, or talk. A mother with a teething baby, a woman worried about her cat’s disease, an old man devoted to the Catholic radio… How many people in the kiosk window with so many small and big human stories, funny and bitter ones, always authentic and not leaving a viewer indifferent.
Jérôme was sexually abused as a child by a priest. In a deeply personal film, he tries to search for clues in his memories and come to terms with the complicity of his former social environment.
A short documentary profiling the London skate scene through interviews with skaters Ant Bean, Daphne Greca, and Louie Jones. 'Shreds' explores the redemptive and communal aspects of the skate community through personal stories told by those well placed in the scene.
In late winter, raft guide hopefuls join an intensive training program to learn to navigate the nation’s only Class III/IV urban whitewater in Richmond, Virginia. Through trials, tough lessons, and sometimes dangerous adventures, a handful of the group become guides in time for the summer season, only for their journey to be interrupted by an environmental disaster affecting one of the featured rapids.
In 1973, Maria José Bernardino and António Rosa fled from poverty in rural Alentejo to live in industrialized Setúbal. 51 years later, they recall childhood memories, life struggles and family life, while also discussing hobbies and aspirations with their grandson.
For over 50 years, Dallas County Heritage Society managed Old City Park. But its contract is up and is not going to be renewed. As such, 20,000 antique items from the park — ranging from dolls to quilts to office equipment — are put in an estate sale in Dallas.
There is a tradition in Paredes do Bairro that is unparalleled in the region, and perhaps even in Portugal: the digging up of the Pedra da Sesta on 25th March, the feast day of Maria Malandrona, and then burying it on 25th September, thus marking the beginning and end of the rural workers' sesta (nap).
Street posters are visible in every corner of the city. But who are the invisible people who put them up? A documentary story, told by the filmmaker, himself a member of a collective responsible for the poster paste-ups in Lisbon.
Intermittent fasting, autophagy, "metabolic switch": ten years after their first successful documentary on fasting, Sylvie Gilman and Thierry de Lestrade delve back into promising research on a booming practice.