"A unique docu hybrid that turns one man's decades of self-filming into an existential message in a bottle." - Variety In 1977, Sam Klemke started obsessively documenting his entire life on film. Beginning decades before the modern obsession with selfies and status updates, we see Sam…
Torre David, a 45-story office tower in Caracas, was almost complete when it was abandoned following the death of its developer and a national banking crisis that crippled the Venezuelan economy in 1994. Neglected for over a decade, in 2007 it became the improvised home for a community of over 800 families…
In almost every biography of painter Edvard Munch, it is his father’s side of the family that gets the most prominence. And indeed, the Munch side of the family is a colourful gallery of priests, deans, painters and writers, distinguished and obscure. In the Mothers of Munch, it becomes apparent…
AT 2014, 90 min, Elisabeth Scharang Workers vote on their company’s balance sheet, banks are no longer needed to finance loans, and going to the movies on a Monday afternoon rather than sitting at the office is an option. Restructuring of work has already begun. 197 million unemployed worldwide…
A Story about a young man who choose to return to the countryside and resume the farming of "red rice seed" - an ancient species that can only be farmed the old ways. XIONG Jie-feng is naive but not easily influenced. Different from other Chinese young people who prefer working in the cities,…
Ka-jeng, a 17-year-old music prodigy from a well-to-do family. At the age of 11, he was invited to play Beethoven’s Concerto for Piano No. 1 with a professional orchestra in Czech. Despite all his gains, he began to question incessantly about his life. This documentary dive deep into his mind:…
Subtitles/Untertitel: Deutsch / English / Français / Español Ein Weg, tausend Schicksale. Lebens- und Leidensgeschichten, Familien und Aussteiger, Hoffnungsvolle und Verzweifelte: Der «Camino de Santiago» lockt jedes Jahr unzählige Menschen auf eine Reise zu sich selbst.…
Click CC for subtitles (English, Finnish, Swedish). "Everybody is a little bit gay." Matti and Mikko play for Finland's worst amateur rugby team. Overworked and domesticated, the two men long for a space to revel in their masculinity and bond with other men. While weekend rugby…
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In Burundi Africa, grenades are the same price as a pint beer. Grenades are the weapon of choice for resolving conflicts. Whether general elections, land disputes, theft, tensions between political parties, policing the population, grenades are thrown in homes, buses, markets, bars, streets, businesses,…
A moderator conducts a hypothetic enquiry in which real journalists make decisions. Should a newspaper publish the contents of a secret document relating to the safety of a new car? Moderator: Professor Charles Nesson of the Harvard Law School. Part of an award-winning series The Bounds of Freedom,…
A moderator conducts a hypothetic enquiry in which real journalists make decisions. Should a television producer show an incident of rape even though it may be disturbing and controversial? Would he regard it as an integral part of the play, or gratuitous titillation? Moderator: Mike Scott, Programme…
