“The Next Step” is a story of tragedy, triumph, and a wild ride on Route 66. In 2019, Janne Kouri, Founder of NextStep, rode his power wheelchair 3100 miles from LA to D.C. to raise awareness and funds to support the 6 million Americans living with paralysis. Janne was joined by friends who…
"a beautifully animated and bittersweet film about two brothers and their upbringing with an alcoholic mother and musician father" - CPH:DOX Nordic:Dox Award Jury When Steffan's mother died, he felt nothing. No sadness, no relief. How did it come to this? Director Steffan Strandberg…
In the Atlas steppe highlands. After the wars, on a land where threat still echoes, a young man, Lamine, and a kid wander in the night. From place to place, the past resurfaces from the shadows, through Lamine’s stories and the singular rituals he reenacts, all along the re-flowering ruins.
A project in Cardiff for adults with severe learning disabilities living in the community. Nimrod is a unique project, set up in Cardiff. Its aim is to prove that if the whole range of Community Services is properly co-ordinated, even people with severe learning disabilities can live in ordinary houses…
Twenty-five years after the end of the Trojan War, Odysseus still has not returned home. So his son, Telemachus, sets off on a journey in search of his lost father. So begins Homer's revered epic poem, The Odyssey, the primary narrative reference point for THE NINE MUSES, John Akomfrah's remarkable…
The film tells the story of the Schneeberger family a.k.a The 9 Wheels. Mountain bike stars of the future, Emric (10) and Raoul (13) are home schooled by their parents Toni and Laetitia. They live in their motorhome going from bike park to bike park across Europe, a decision prompted by the discovery…
In the 1970s, New York artist Joe Smith rented an apartment overlooking Fifth Avenue. In the years that followed, the rooms became a black hole of drug addiction, hopelessness, and squandered dreams. A chance meeting with one of the residents drew photojournalist Jessica Dimmock to the apartment, where…
Documentary Film Series Highlighting the cutting edge work of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates.
Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. Nobel characterized the Peace Prize as "to the person who has done the most or best to advance fellowship among nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the establishment…
The Nomad presented by Knolly Bikes follows the journey of 8 riders proving you don't have to be the best to just love it. Produced by Austen Tanney the film explores personal progression and the refusal to conform to the industry benchmarks of race results, hashtags and followers to gauge success.…
A British version of a 1971 American film deals primarily with the physiological changes in boys and girls at the onset of adolescence, and secondarily with their worries and tensions during that troubled period. It was made by the producers of 'Boy to Man'' and ''Girl to Woman''…
In October 2011 Garrett McNamara returned to Portugal to explore the giant waves formed by the Nazaré Canyon. This is the story of two month leading up to an incredible ride, told by a group of people who helped to shine light on one of the biggest wave spots in the world. Now streaming on…
