A dive, the noon sunlight cuts through the water. The air on both longs will have to be enough to rip the abalone from the rocks in the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. With no aid from air tanks or any other tools to enable underwater breathing, the body as a whole is summoned to its limit. In Wagu, a fishing…
Ama Dablam – Beyond The Void is a documentary film about an expedition to climb the 6.856 meters high peak in the Himalayas. It’s an adventure film for general audiences. Main character is Simon Yates “the man with the knife” who became world famous when the film “Touching…
Jürg Neuenschwander ist mit den drei Schweizer Hauptfiguren des Films «Q Begegnungen auf der Milchstrasse» unterwegs in Burkina Faso und Mali. Am panafrikanischen Film-Festival in Ouagadougou die Premiere, zwischen Open-Air-Vorführungen Fahrten auf ausgewaschenen Pisten durch grossartige…
Tailor to Hollywood's A-list, and a superstar in his own right, Ozwald Boateng is a dynamic force of energy, passion and color. 1998: already celebrated as one of the most talented menswear designers in the world, Ozwald Boateng is about to go bankrupt and divorce his first wife. Through luck and…
An enigmatic entity roams the Dutch hinterlands, silently pointing a camera at all that it encounters. Soon it finds itself standing in front of a doorway. Met with an uninvited, inscrutable camera operator, how will the region’s inhabitants respond? Amusing and unsettling, mundane and otherworldly,…
Dirigida por José María Zavala (El Misterio del Padre Pío, Renacidos y Wojtyla. La investigación), la nueva película Amanece en Calcuta es un cántico a una pequeña-gran mujer que entregó su vida a los más pobres de entre los pobres. Si…
El 2 de julio de 2000 Vicente Fox gana en México la elección por la presidencia de la República; el PRI pierde el poder después de 71 años. Canal 6 de Julio documenta este suceso histórico, muestra imágenes originales de este episodio, y se adentra en…
SYNOPSIS Den Beginn einer faszinierenden Reise, die P. A. Straubinger zu Yogis und Quantenphysikern, zu Fastenärzten und Schulmedizinern, zu Psychiatern und Bewusstseinsforschern, zu Qigong-Meistern, Hausfrauen und Lebenskünstlern, also gleichermaßen zu Wissenschaftlern und zu Esoterikern…
Pushing at the limits of non-fiction cinema, A Man Imagined is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay. Made in close collaboration with 67-year-old Lloyd, this immersive documentary fable follows the jagged path of a decades-long…
Reda is 26 years old. His dreams of escaping the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Helweh ended in failure after three years trapped in Greece. He returned with a heroin addiction to life in a camp being torn apart by internal strife and the encroachment of war from Syria. Against all odds he…
One of the most important and complex works by two-time Palme d'Or winning director Shohei Imamura, A MAN VANISHES begins as an investigation into one of the thousands of missing persons cases that occur in Japan each year. The film follows the case of Tadashi, a handsome businessman who has…
NOTE: this film is for personal use only. For educational rentals, please email orders@wmm.com A film by Valeria Sarmiento Chile | 1982 | 66 minutes | Color | Subtitled -- Set in Costa Rica and touched with dark humor, this stylistically imaginative documentary illuminates the social climate and…
