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Gods in Shackles
Gods in Shackles is a feature-length documentary film, an exposé revealing the dark side of the southern Indian state of Kerala's glamorous cultural festivals that exploit temple elephants for profit under the guise of culture and religion.
And Did They Listen?
Hidden in plain sight, for decades, the most important story in human history.
On a mission - from the depths of space - one man risked his life
to reveal the long hidden, ancient secrets to the people of Earth.
Pastor Troy War In ATL
Drachinzeit, a rite of passage
Independent documentary film "Drachinzeit" about female coming-of-age
"Drachinzeit`` a rite of passage, is an independent documentary film, which shows the coming-of-age of 8 girls on the verge of womanhood and take the awkwardness of puberty and transform it into beauty. During six months, the German film maker Sil Egger accompanied teenage girls on their journey involving several encounters in which they are consciously working towards becoming young women, guided by a female community. Step by step they grow in confidence, learn to set their personal boundaries and discover their own femininity. In a final ceremony, they say goodbye to their childhood. It is a journey full of mixed emotions and surprises.
BRUMAIRE
Brumaire, in the French revolutionary calendar, is the month of mist and fog. From Emile Zola’s Germinal to Brumaire, a cycle of industrial and social history is completed. The very last French coal mine shut down ten years ago. And over the past ten years everything has changed. A former miner is taking us into his deepest memories, through darkness of mine galleries, smell, work, sweat, comrades, social struggles, and the final closure. Emptiness. The younger generation was born out of those ruins, in another world, on a forgotten land, in Lorraine region. Nowadays, workers are denied collective strength, threatened by unemployment, trapped in precarious jobs, and open to far-right political ideas With no dreams. How could a working class land, where the blood of major union struggles used to flow, end up brought down by a faceless enemy ?
KIDS OF CARNAVAL
Kids of Carnaval shows art and life of the children of the samba schools. The documentary goes into the heart of the schools in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to follow in the footsteps of children who dance samba from beginning to stand. Shows the formation and dreams of these "dancers".
MY 89 GENERATION
MY 89 GENERATION is a crowd-sourcing documentary film, that consists of footage recorded by the characters of the movie themselves: young people born after 1989 (the year when "communism" in Poland ended and the democracy won). We asked them to send us their own films about their lives in different than their parents reality. Out of tens of hours of footage we have chosen our seven main characters, young people striving for their dreams while living through their first loves, betrayals and breakups. These are the stories of Wojtek, Ela, Mikolaj, Martyna, Adam, Lukasz and Malgosia. They are all passion-driven people, who want to make their dreams come true, they seek for love and ways to express their affections and emotions, although they do not always know how to do it properly.
Picturing War
Which pictures do we get to see?
In a world of modern mass communication and a never ending stream of pictures, this question is more important than ever. Which conflict is worth reporting? Which war might interest the consumers of media outlets? And how do pictures travel from around the globe, from zones of conflict to the european and worldwide public?
These questions are the central message of our movie „BilderKrieg“, which is best translated as „War of Pictures“. We want to follow the brave people who chose to become war photographers, show how they gather the pictures we might see one day on the title of a big newspaper – or not.
NORTHWEST GLADIATORS
35 riders from all over the world meet every year in Portrush, Northern Ireland, to participate at the largest motorcycle spectacle in Northern Ireland , the Northwest 200. The course („The triangle“) is a street circuit, made up of public roads running between the towns of Portstewart, Coleraine and Portrush. The race s one of the fastest in the world, with speeds in excess of 200 mph (320 km/h). In practice for the 2012 event Martin Jessopp was clocked at 208 mph (335 km/h). It is one of around fifteen events run on public roads between April and October throughout the island of Ireland.
Maasai 10th Lost Tribe of Israel
A group of young boys in Samburu, Kenya, undergo a series of time honoured rituals to become warriors; their rite of passage
Loving Carmen
Georges Bizet's Carmen is the most staged, most recorded and most shot opera in the world! It is the most famous French piece of art, which for decades has become a brand itself.
Queen of hearts
The Cooperative AR/TV Trans is a theater cooperative composed of transvestites and trans people; it was created for the sole purpose of get the girls out of prostitution.
They studied theater and produce their shows.
The protagonists tell us their dreams, show their daily struggles and share their experiences and realities to be accepted and belong to society as well.
Stopper: The Rise and Fall of the Bastard Squad
Reckless, lawless, notorious. Stopper was the band that helped define the anger and intensity of the 1990s American Southeast Punk Rock scene. This is the story of a group that had everything going for them, but managed to turn every opportunity into another disastrous cautionary tale. This film follows Stopper from the vibrant early 90s punk scene to the substance abuse that destroys them, eventually leading to a life sentence for the singer in Georgia's most violent maximum security prison. 'Stopper: The Rise and Fall of the Bastard Squad' is a drug fueled tale of youth subculture run amok.
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