Director Sam Hampton brings heart to this transgender-transition film with a story of celebration, health, and unconditional love. A much-needed portrayal of biracial trans and gender-nonconforming lives in America, this documentary chronicles the transition of Zo Thorpe and the sympathetic response…
“Set up to Sell – Surfing as a Lifestyle Product” is a documentary film about the increasing commercialization of surfing and sexism in surf culture. It focus on the nexus of surfing, lifestyle and creativity and what it means to be a female surfer. Best of Ericeira Award – International…
As a young man, the great Spanish director Carlos Saura did not quite know what he would like to become: motorcycle racer, flamenco dancer or photographer? 60 years, 40 films and numerous film awards later, his passion for photography runs like a thread through his life. The publishers Gerhard Steidl…
When the elderly math teacher, Sibhatleab, ventures alone from a refugee camp in Ethiopia, he finds himself at the bottom rung of the social ladder in a vast, faceless Texan metropolis in the summer before a contentious election. As he still copes with his unthinkable twenty-five year history of imprisonment…
No Wave Back is a documentary which tracks the story of the first Czech surfer to ever ride the Big Wave. Big waves are at least 6 meters high and if they appear in Spain it is truly rare and very unique. Just as unique as the people in the local community who are waiting the whole year around for their…
Surfing is for us - people from central Europe - is quite an unbeatable activity. At the same time it´s one of the most attractive lifestyle sports which is becoming more popular every day. Follow several people who have moved abroad so they can live their lives with a surfboard. They have decided…
Diverse, audacious, original, the mid-2000s marked Montreal as the epicenter of the indie rock music scene. Montreal remains since a reference for music-lovers searching for the next big thing. Aptly titled From Montreal, the film follows the realities of musicians and their promoters in a city divided…
Al Capone was one of the world’s most notorious gangsters and leader of a vicious crime syndicate that smuggled booze into prohibition-era Chicago. As an icon, Capone represented the collapse of law and order in Chicago during the 1920s. It was a kill or be killed world. Capone was always in…
ABU is a journey to the center of a fragmented family while they grapple with religion, sexuality, colonialism and migration. Through a tapestry of narratives composed of family footage, observation and classic Bollywood films, gay identifying Pakistani-Muslim filmmaker Arshad Khan takes viewers through the…
Frankie and Allie fight to make a difference against the devastating heroin epidemic. The two recovering addicts spend their lives pulling needles out of the arms of active users. But after that problem is solved, the addicts must be placed into the proper treatment facility. Sadly, the corrupt billion-dollar…
In “350 Days,” pro wrestling legends Bret Hart, Superstar Billy Graham and dozens more peel back the curtain on the severe toll working on the road 350 days a year took on their bodies, families, marriages and psyches. This compelling documentary chronicles their struggles to survive…
Illustre citoyen de Nyon, Jacques Muyal a voué sa vie entière à une passion dévorante: le jazz. Tout commence à Tanger où, adolescent, il anime une émission de radio influente qui présente à un auditoire international l'immense richesse…
