For four long years Islamic State ruled its 'caliphate' from its capital, the city of Raqqa. IS propaganda painted it as paradise. From the outside, there were only glimpses of what life was really like. Now freed from IS control, survivors emerge from the rubble of a city utterly destroyed…
All eyes were on Berlin in the summer of 1936, where Nazi-Germany was hosting one of the most political Olympic Games in history. Unnoticed by most, a political drama unfolds when Sohn Kee-Chung, a Korean athlete, wins a gold medal in the marathon. Forced to run under the Japanese flag, his victory goes…
"This is a very important project. The story of the Western Sahara is one of the great untold stories of the present time." - Ken Loach The Runner is a film about endurance. It is the story of a champion long-distance runner whose journey transformed him from an athlete into the symbol…
Il Corridore / The Runner A film by Paolo Casalis & Stefano Scarafia 52' ITA (English, French, Spanish Subtitles) Produzione/Production BODA 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,…
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 former Lada factory, built in the Russian city of Tolyatti in the 1970s, was meant to show the Western world the miracle of Soviet prosperity. The perfect utopia that none dared to doubt. More than four decades later, the plant has been losing billions of rubles every year as it slowly decays.…
Featuring artwork indebted to German Expressionism and animated in the tradition of Eisenstein, this "lost silent Soviet animated film" tells the story of Ten Days That Shook the World in ways unseen before. "The Russian Revolution-What Really Happened: A Motion Comic Graphic History"…
Filmwebsite(DVD and more): http://www.amadelio.org THE RUSSIANS is a film about the photography of Oleg Videnin. It looks at the unknown world of so-called normal Russian life and the real people Oleg Videnin uses in his work. The film accompanies Oleg Videnin as he photographs people on the streets…
In Spring 1945, a sudden uprising of Georgian prisoners of war on the peaceful island of Texel in the Netherlands brings mayhem to the island. Thousands of Germans, hundreds of Georgians and more than a hundred locals die in the uprising. The Georgians want to liberate the island and clear their name…
A film by Amanda Lukoff US | 2020 | 65 minutes | Color | English -- Filmmaker Amanda Lukoff grew up advocating for her sister Gabrielle, especially whenever she heard the word ‘retard(ed),’ which was far too often. The disparaging word is everywhere – in TV, movies, music, social…
An Unknown Chapter of the Tragic Events in Asia Minor in 1914 In 1914, just before the beginning of World War I, an unknown tragedy takes place at the far oriental flanks of Europe : subsequent to many attacks by Turkish irregulars, the Greek population along the coast of Asia Minor is forced to abandon…
Watch this internationally acclaimed award-winning series based on a best-selling book! The Sacred Balance is a four-part documentary series hosted by David Suzuki. Filmed on five continents, this ground-breaking series celebrates a new scientific world-view, an inclusive vision of nature in which…
