O morro da Mangueira é o cenário onde o compositor Tantinho e antigos sambistas da estação primeira vão relembrar histórias sobre a favela e o samba. O documentário retrata os desafios e dilemas que os diversos personagens enfrentam em suas vidas para…
4 years at the mountainfarmers in the hight alps. Multiawardwinning documentary
At the height of the civil rights movement, Constance Baker Motley joined the NAACP's legal team. The only woman in the group, she left her husband and infant son in New York for weeks at a time to represent the NAACP in Southern courts. The first female Black lawyer Southern judges and juries had…
Dokumentāla filma par dziedātāja pieredzi vienā no izcilākajiem Latvijas koru kustības fenomeniem - jauniešu korī “Kamēr…”. 20 gadus veca kora dalībnieka skatījums uz kora pasaules aizkulisēm, dziedātāju mūzikas kaisli, draudzību un grūtību pārvarēšanu garajā ceļā līdz…
Afghan and Iraqi translators played a key role in enabling communication between locals and foreign forces. But as American involvement in the war-torn region winds down, these abandoned interpreters are faced with an impossible choice: wait for U.S. amnesty paperwork that may never materialise or attempt…
Hundreds of feet beneath the jungles of Ghana, thousands of sweat-soaked miners squeeze through tiny crevices to dig raw gold to feed an insatiable global industry. Considered outlaws by the government, these "galamsey" have two options - either get rich quick or die trying. As the surging…
There are millions being made in the Australian marijuana business, but these entrepreneurs aren’t risking jail to make their fortunes. They’re betting big on the home-grown medicinal marijuana industry and riding the ‘pot stock’ boom, where the potential for a whole range of…
Painting at night is difficult and problematic. So why have so many great artists taken on the challenge? Waldemar Januszczak celebrates the nocturnal art of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Velazquez, Hopper and Magritte as he explores art's edgy relationship with the night and tries to discover why the dark…
Norwegian journalist Jørgen Lorentzen was in Turkey during the coup attempt in 2016. One of the neighbours stated that he had experienced many coups before, and that this was not real. From that moment on Lorentzen started investigating the event and its aftermath. This film is the product of…
Following the deaths of his father and many others from his village, filmmaker Daniel Lambo sets off on a passionate quest to find the truth about the deadly asbestos industry. His search takes him to the largest asbestos waste dump in India and unveils a cold-blooded industry still endangering the lives…
LARRY’S GARAGE - The story of Larry Levan and the Paradise Garage. Documentary 90 min. December 2019 LARRY’S GARAGE: SYNOPSIS In July of 2015 while surfing the net, the Italian DJ and music producer Corrado Rizza found what he considered to be an amazing video on YouTube. It was published…
WINNER! Inaugural Capricornia Award for Best Short Documentary at the Darwin International Film Festival. A powerful story of rehabilitation and re-connection with family and community. Arlun James Jonathan McCormack, Born 3:57pm, 1st of March 1992, 52cm long, weighing 8lb 7oz. With these…
