Gramvousa. A stronghold of conquerors, a pirates’ den or a charging point for freedom fighters? How can a small, barren islet keep so many secrets? Dimitris Gotsopoulos takes us on a fascinating journey of discovery in the backdrop of the Aegean, where nothing is as it seems and roles keep shifting. Just like in any good story.
“We are all stardust”: this was a phrase often quoted by Dionysis Simopoulos (1943–2022), an astronomy educator and science communicator who was the one who established the first-ever Planetarium in Athens, Greece, introducing the universe to millions of people with lectures, books, tv shows, documentaries. This documentary focues on his fascinating life!
The timeline of a fire that broke out on August 19, 2023, and 17 days later became the largest wildfire in Europe in recent years, leaving behind 935,000 hectares of burnt land. The account of the fire was recorded through aerial images, to achieve the best possible visualization.
Α mother and a daughter reveal bits of their past life. They had to deal with some major political and social shifts of Greece’s recent history: civil war, exile, emigration.
A camera in a prison. The inmate. An everyday discussion with the outside world. In the confines of a prison, Walls delves deep into the introspection of an inmate's journey, exploring dreams, hope, and the harsh truths of existence.
Construction workers’ hard struggles and grandiose strikes lead to important achievements for the workers, like social security, continuous working hours, benefits and allowances, and banning police presence from their assemblies. Meanwhile, the construction workers movement got heavily politicized by posing concrete political demands.
The documentary explores the life of birds of prey and their struggle for survival in a changing world. From nesting to hunting, it reveals their importance in ecosystems and the threats from human activities. Through impressive images, it presents nature’s diversity and the need to preserve this preciousness.
"It’s a common refrain: school is full of useless (if interesting!) lessons… but we learn next to nothing about how to manage our finances. "It’s true that many Americans still lack basic financial knowledge, which is a contributing factor to the money challenges – high levels of debt, insufficient savings, and poor investment decisions – that a lot of us face. But it’s not necessarily true that we never learned anything: many of us sat through a few classes on money management. It just may not have been enough to stick. "In this video, we’ll take a brief look at the state of financial education in the US: past, present, and future."
"A Wall Street Journal investigation found that since Oct. 7, Israeli settlers have been rapidly building illegal roads and outposts across the West Bank. This work is sometimes done under armed guard with funding from the Israeli government."
In Elefsina, a working-class town scarred by a sense of precarity and unrest that has generated unique sociopolitical dynamics, the Panelefsiniakos Sports Club has been a space of encounter and synthesis for nine decades. The stories of its athletes, executives, and friends unlock the locals’ relation with the past, present, and future of the town.
Samneto, a young orphan, sells water to pay for his studies and survive. The region he lives in, near Belfike, in Madagascar, is experiencing a severe drought: according to him, it has not rained for three years, which forces him to dig up to three meters deep to get water – which was previously accessible from river pumps. The meager revenue collected by our witness barely allows him to survive...
"Cruising is booming – 2023 ticket sales have surpassed historic levels and 2024 has seen the launch of the largest cruise ship ever built. "But as cruise tourism's popularity has increased, so have the pollution problems it brings. To customers, it may not be evident that any problems exist, since some cruise line companies claim to be becoming more climate-friendly. "The truth can be quite different. Josh Toussaint-Strauss interrogates what impact the world's biggest ships are having on the planet."
Inés travels to Kiruna, a town on the Swedish Arctic Circle, more than thirteen thousand kilometers from Uruguay. She revisits her past of exile captured in hundreds of handwritten letters, written between her and her father, imprisoned for 14 years. Letters in which they shared dreams and difficulties, fighting against absence, where writing and family became a bridge to be together, wherever.
Documentary film about the coexistence of Finnish cottage-goers and an uninvited visitor called Pectinatella magnifica – it’s something and there’s a lot of it. The arrival of green and slimy blobs among the safe and familiar environment brings uncomfortable feelings in the self-indulgent middle class community.
How do artists view their own work? How does actor Esko Salminen immerse himself in his roles, how does the writer/director Saara Turunen create a whole new world for the stage, and why does musician PK Keränen pick up his guitar time and time again? Is creativity a conscious or subconscious process, a pleasure or a compulsion? Veikko Aaltonen’s documentary takes us straight into the heart of creativity with artists from different fields and generations. Celebrating the various forms of passion and creative work, the film presents a compelling case for the significance of art.