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Gary K. One Step at a Time

2020

Gary K. One Step at a Time

2020
The story of the actor who plays Bill W., the founder of AA, on his own personal journey of recovery.
Biebrza: The European Amazon

2016

Biebrza: The European Amazon

2016
This movie shows Biebrza Valley's wildlife during the four seasons of the year. Spectacular wildlife images, exceptional sounds of nature and specially composed music make this poetic story about the lives of rare European animals come to life. Is Biebrza the European Amazon river?
Creature from Big Muddy: An Illinois Bigfoot Legend

2021

Creature from Big Muddy: An Illinois Bigfoot Legend

2021
6
In the early 1970's in Murphysboro, Illinois, the town was terrorized by a creature that was thought to come out of a local river called the Big Muddy. This documentary explores the legend of The Big Muddy Monster.
Bread in the Bones

2020

Bread in the Bones

2020
Stories of work and play, of love and loss...and bread. Bread has been at the center of human life and creativity for at least the last ten thousand years - it is in our bones and a witness to history. This essay documentary brings bread to the front of the line and explores its relation to politics, poetry and pleasure. The loaf of bread is the vehicle through which we explore stories of sex and death, immigration and refugees, social justice and the counter-culture, and of art, work and pleasure.
Pyramid Builders: New Clues

2019

Pyramid Builders: New Clues

2019
Over the past few decades, significant discoveries have been made on the very site where the pyramids were built. But now, hundreds of kilometers from the pyramids themselves, we are gaining more insight into just how they were built. Two teams of Egyptologists, one based in the middle of the desert, the other located on the Red Sea coast, are currently discovering more about the Egypt of Khufu’s time, than at the foot of the pyramids. What they found help them figure out how ancient Egyptians worked. This film has been shot from within, immersed for several weeks within these 2 archaeological missions. Authentic archaeological experiments have been filmed in real time, revealing ancient techniques and methods, unlocking certain secrets of these ancient great builders.
Elián

2020

Elián

2020
The documentary aims to portray the protagonist while exposing different areas in which he performs. The film not only accompanies him during the creation of murals, exhibits and curatorships in several countries, but also challenges the established social parameters since Elian, who was born with dissident body, has lived and lives outside both ideological and physical norms.
Arangol

2016

Arangol

2016
Arangol, the life of an anonymous hero who becomes the Cid Campeador of soccer in a country that plays baseball. A story that reflects the constancy, struggle and perseverance of Juan Arango, who with his talent and a blind faith in himself achieves his goals. Conquering the world thanks to soccer has been his best example of personal improvement that expresses what the Venezuelans are made of.
Parkland Rising

2020

Parkland Rising

2020
Follow the high school's students and families who became fierce leaders of a national movement for gun reform following the shooting of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.
Memory - les origines d'Alien

2019

Memory - les origines d'Alien

2019
8
Jellyfish

2019

Jellyfish

2019
Jellyfish is a cinematic novel; a meditative approach to talk about notions of gender by translating cognitive knowledge and literary elements into filmic narrative. The film depicts two types of characters: inhabitants of the fictional planet of gender utopian society that are gender fluid, and real characters who find themselves outside of cisnormativity. It offers another way of seeing gender with its possibility to float between different forms without limitations and restrictions.
Metamorphosis

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Metamorphosis

0000
7
Metamorphosis is a documentary-style film giving the true account Bill Troester and the transformation he experienced by Jesus out of a life of violence, crime and drug addiction.
The Rest Is History

2019

The Rest Is History

2019
From the days of illegal raves to the dark club sounds of Optical and Ed Rush. The Rest Is History is a look back at the early years of Jungle/Drum and bass music, how it developed, and the culture that surrounded it.
Motherload

2019

Motherload

2019
10
Documentary about a new mom's quest to understand and promote the cargo bike movement in a gas-powered, digital and divided world.
Chef's Diaries: Scotland

2019

Chef's Diaries: Scotland

2019
6
The Roca brothers embark on a new challenge: exploring Scotland. Their journey will see them rediscover a cuisine that has kept itself hidden from the world in the past years.
Jack & Yaya

2019

Jack & Yaya

2019
1
Best friends Jack and Yaya celebrate their 30th year of friendship in their hometown in South Jersey alongside a motley crew of extended family and neighbors. While they party and reminisce, Jack and Yaya support each other as they both fight for acceptance as openly trans people.
Atheist America

2017

Atheist America

2017
"The Atheist Experience," produced in Austin, Texas, is the only atheist TV show in the United States. Every Sunday afternoon, two atheists debate callers for one hour, on camera. ATHEIST AMERICA portrays the show, its protagonists, and the discussions between the hosts and callers. The debates between believers and skeptics are funny, touching and shocking in turn, and they're interspersed with footage of the very public religious displays common in the state of Texas. The film is an intimate, concentrated, and entertaining insight into the culture wars, and is sure to provoke inspiration as well as frustration, no matter which side of the divide you fall on.
Behold the Earth

2017

Behold the Earth

2017
The 1960s environmental movement inspired young scientists like E.O. Wilson, Cal DeWitt, and Theo Colborn, some of whom were raised within America’s largest religious group: evangelicals. Today, a new generation of scientist/evangelicals includes Katharine Hayhoe, Ben Lowe, and Corina Newsome. Can this new generation revive the reach and relevance of America's evangelical and environmental movements?
The Man Who Loves to Hurt Himself

2018

The Man Who Loves to Hurt Himself

2018
7.5
A unique examination of the life-long existential journey taken by a self-made musician, his unforgiving ambition and self-destructive determination to express himself.
Food As Medicine

2016

Food As Medicine

2016
5
From personal healing, inspiration grew to create a positive film about people addressing disease with food. There are a lot of negative messages about the state of our nation's health and diet, and we were inspired by the community of people we found who are fighting back against this downward trend. Food As Medicine is a documentary film that follows the growing movement of using food to heal chronic illness and disease.
Kim Swims

2017

Kim Swims

2017
7.7
The inspiring true story of an accomplished open water swimmer's attempt to become the first woman to swim 30 miles through a stretch of cold, rough and shark-inhabited waters off of the San Francisco coast.