For 15 year olds. How to avoid obesity Obesity: what causes it? A dietician describes sensible meals with correct balance of foods, and a doctor explains that the pattern is set early in life. Exercise can help greatly. Sugar is particularly bad and also it’s the major cause of tooth decay.…
For 15 year olds about old age Looks at some of the positive aspects of old age and what can be done to make old people’s lives more pleasant. Young volunteers are shown helping in various ways and a doctor explains some of the medical characteristics of growing old. Three old people talk about…
What happens when some extreme sports people enter into a dialogue with some jazz musicians on the face of a rock? Andreas Pichler documents a project from the South Tyrol Jazz Festival, Alto Adige, in which climbers and tightrope walkers find their own unique rhythm. If you are not fully concentrated,…
"Near the Peaks' - Paragliding in a french mountain sanctuary. We've come a long way since the first flights in France in 1978! Today Paragliding is a mature sport, governed by the French Federation of Free Flight, which includes more than 30 000 members. Filmed in parallel with the French…
An artful glimpse into the brilliant mind of the world's most celebrated architect. Over four decades, 'starchitect' and master provocateur Rem Koolhaas has shaken up the field of architecture, and redefined the role of the architect in the world. Filmmaker Tomas Koolhaas spent 3 years…
WILDLIFE CLASSICS : JV and Gillian are given the task of reintroducing three magnificent cheetahs- two of which are the rare King Cheetah- back into their natural surroundings. JV and Gillian document and share their story as they follow the lives of the three cub’s journey from cub to adulthood…
CLASSIC WILDLIFE : For millions of years the annual migration in the Masai Mara has survived everything that the natural world has thrown at it. Wildebeest, Zebra and countless other species set off on this journey of enormous proportions to reach the greener grasses thousands of miles away. But the…
The film is in two parts and focuses on the Mongols living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Part One, The Grasslands, follows the life of a nomadic Mongol family on their yearly journey following their herds across north China.Part Two, The Desert, gives a more contemporary view of…
Marco Olmo is a living legend of extreme running. He became late, when the others started to stop. In his "previous lives", as he says, he has been a farmer, a truck driver, a workman. Running has Became his reason for living, the way to take revenge on His hard destiny. At the age of 58 he…
The Upper Langhe hills, the Langhe hills around Asti, the high mountains in the provinces of Cuneo and Biella in Piedmont are the dwelling place of the shepherds presented in this documentary. For centuries they have lived there in perfect harmony with the earth and with their flocks. Filmed between…
LENGTH OF SWEDEN is an endurance ride documentary—following Erik Nohlin, Rita Jett and Kristian Hallberg on the 2,100 km Sverigetempot randonée along the spine of sparsely populated Scandinavia. All three riders could crack a nut like this without talking about it. But these very thoughts…
Ireland’s recession pushes young people out. Surplus to requirement in the world beyond the Roller Derby track, the fast paced and aggressive Derby world becomes a haven for determined, pissed-off women in a crippled country. Young Irish women go on a high-octane Roller Derby odyssey in search…
