Zwölf begnadete Nachwuchsalpinistinnen und -alpinisten, fünf Geologen der Uni Lausanne und vier Spitzenbergführer gehen ein beispielloses Wagnis in Patagonien ein. Die Jugendlichen, gecoacht von den Klettergrössen Ralf Weber, Ueli Steck, Denis Burdet und David Fasel, bergen im Auftrag…
SOUL OF THE SEA 51 minutes Directed by Ivan Hughes Produced by Angela Heck and Katie Mustard South Georgia stands alone in the path of relentless storms and high winds in the South Atlantic Ocean. It’s the final resting place of famed explorer Ernest Shackleton and a place whose savage…
Denmark in the year 1064. Jova (Leonie Benesch) lives as a servant in the household of the merchant Ottar, who runs his business in the town of Haithabu. One day she finds out that her father (Reiner Schöne) was a renowned warrior who set out to the east shortly after her birth and didn’t come…
Norway in the year 872. Sigrun (Esther Schweins) could be a happy woman. As husfreya (housewife) she presides over an impressive Viking household on the coast, she has lots of children, her husband Ulf (Luca Maric) commands his own ship. Yet Sigrun’s marriage is an unhappy one. The family is burdened…
Watch the award winning series from arctic Norway. Winner of Prix Europa 2011. English trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgy7Vcjve-k Other trailers from the series: http://fx.no/eng/?category_name=snow-ball-war The small town of Vardoe is located on an island high up on the arctic coast…
LOST COAST FILM ESSAY/ USA 80 MIN / ENGLISH / 2014 SYNOPSIS Set against the raw, remote beauty of California’s Lost Coast, this film is both a personal journey in search of transcendence and a quiet cinematic homage to the immensity of the natural world. Lost Coast invites reflection in…
"Is it hot in here, or am I the only one dressed for Poland in the 17th century?" Yisrael Campbell looks more like a rabbi than a comedian, but don't be fooled by the big black hat, frock coat and Hasidic side-curls. Born Chris Campbell, the son of an ex-nun and a Catholic schoolteacher,…
Adored by his many fans, often reviled by the critics, Paulo Coelho is one of the world's most successful writers. His books have climbed the bestseller lists worldwide for years, have been turned into movies and been read by over 500 million readers in 150 countries. His best-known title is "The…
What Matters? is an award-winning documentary about three friends, two idealistic activists and one skeptic, attempting to live in extreme poverty (on $1.25 a day) across 3 continents. The adventure takes a devastating turn when two of them survive a deadly plane crash in Africa, and all three must fight…
Did you know the Mona Lisa was stolen... and that she was missing for nearly 2-1/2 years? Find out how and why in “Mona Lisa Is Missing,” a fascinating, award-winning documentary about the 1911 theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous masterpiece. Now more than a century since…
Cloud Nine follows a team of clearance personnel based in Guinea Bissau. Steve Ballinger and his wife, Cassandra Mckowen, co-founded Cleared Ground De-mining in 2005 with the intention of making a difference in the world of mines action. The film puts the experiences of humanitarian de-miners to the…
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