Observational Film #1 by Kazuhiro Soda 2007, 120 minutes, Documentary Official Selection: Berlin International Film Festival 2007 Peabody Award 2008 Best Film, Beldocs 2009 ”Campaign” may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite. …
The Forgotten Boys of Brazil follows the research of historian Sidney Aguilar, beginning with the discovery of bricks marked with Nazi swastikas on a farm in the countryside of São Paulo. The documentary reveals something really frightening: during the 1930s, fifty black boys were taken from an…
After studying abroad, Mercedes returns to her native city to join her father, acclaimed filmmaker and writer Victor Gaviria (The Rose Seller), in the shooting of his next film. He is a director who has filmed his family throughout the years. In the encounter of both filmmakers’ ways of looking,…
The city’s musicians and poets take us on a musical tour of Iran’s capital in a charming film about a music culture rarely heard of in the West. Erfan is a poet and musician, and he lives with his parents and their lively parrot. From his small car, he guides us through Tehran, where the…
Observational Film #6 by Kazuhiro Soda 2015, 145 minutes, Documentary, with English Subtitles Audience Award: Kinotayo Film Festival Official Selection: Locarno International Film Festival "It is a rare film of intelligence and empathy. The film’s deceptively simple setup and purist…
An immersive journey through the precious landscape of the Driftless Area - a land spared from the crushing effects of the continental glaciers of the last Ice Age. Geologic events left intact an ancient and ruggedly beautiful terrain of high, rocky cliffs rising above the mighty Mississippi River…
Hat Goethe seinen Faust tatsächlich unter Drogeneinfluss geschrieben? Gibt es im Jenseits Kabelanschluss? Und - Gibt es Gott wirklich? Antworten darauf versucht „Spartacus, Abaris und die Illuminaten“ zu geben. Zwei exzellente Theaterschauspieler, Heiner Heusinger und Wolfgang Krebs…
— For Home Use Only — Stewart Lee Udall was the most prominent and effective Secretary of the Interior in American history. Directed by award-winning filmmaker John de Graaf, STEWART UDALL: The Politics of Beauty examines the trajectory of Udall’s life from his childhood through…
Physics Nobel Laureate Tony Leggett discusses his book The Problems of Physics and shares captivating insights about the insightful plain-speaking itemization that he developed of the physics landscape according to four basic categories—the very small (particle physics), the very large (cosmology),…
A speculative ethnographic documentary across multiple temporalities showing glimpses of the lives and visions of human communities and other lifeforms in Antarctica.
The media call their son the “patient killer.” He was given a life sentence for his numerous crimes. Life goes on for his parents Ulla and Didi Högel, but nothing is the same as before. They must accept the bitter truth, figure out how to cope with everyday life, and learn how to reposition…
A radio host in the city of Puno, Peru, Chaska helps bring popular Quechua stories into the homes, stores, and fields of thousands of highland-dwelling families. But she is also a mom to three restless children, and a dutiful daughter of rural alpaca herders. Finding a comfortable balance between her…
