El don del mar

Rick Rosenthal goes on a quest that plumbs the secrets of the legendary bluefin tuna. This fish can weigh up to 1,500 pounds and can move up to 50 miles per hour. Here he catches a bluefin tuna on camera.

Film director Branko Belan follows the journey of fishermen as they set out to catch tuna around the Velebit Channel.

From the book by the same name by Ninni Ravazza, "Diario di Tonnara" tells the story of the towns, villages, communities and adventures that dictate the daily lives of the tuna fishermen in Italy.

Bananas, eggs, and tuna: three basic foodstuffs with three wildly different points of origin. Moullet begins with these on his plate but constructs his film by working backwards and finding the sources for these items and how they reach our plates. As Moullet’s investigation deepens, however, the film moves beyond the confines of a simple exploration of food origins into more political and social realms, not only relating to food but also to the medium of film.

With Pete Smith providing dry off-screen commentary, we watch some serious fishing: a marlin caught near Catalina, a hammerhead shark caught then wrestled in a small rowboat near Baja, the largest (721 pounds) great white shark caught to date in California waters, Chinook Indians catching salmon at Celilo Falls in Oregon - each with his designated place on the river where his ancestors stood, and, last, a crew on a boat off Mexico hoisting and hurling tuna using unbarbed hooks (baited only with a feather) as fast as they can as long as the school is there - backbreaking work - but a $25,000 catch.

The director explains his love for tuna meat which was in his family for generations.

A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.

After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.

After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

A five-DVD, 12-hour set covering 58 years, this is a sweeping time capsule of the history of the Bronx Bombers and of baseball itself - it documents the New York Yankees' 17 World Series titles between 1943 and 2000, chronicling Yankee greats including Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson, and Derek Jeter.

An intimate look at the singer-songwriter's journey, navigating life on the road, on stage, and at home, while creating his album

A documentary film about the coming out story of Katsuki Mama, the owner of the gay bar "Kyushu Otoko" in Shinjuku 2-chome.

Around 200 Swedes volunteered to fight as SS soldiers for Germany. Who were they? What happened to them during and after the war? Waffen-SS became known for massacres and ethnic cleansing. Documents reveal that Swedish SS soldiers knew at the time of the Holocaust, but the information was classified. Families and some of the Swedes themselves tell us through recordings, letters and diaries.

A main agenda of the prewar farmer's movement was struggle against landowners. Prokino also considered this as their prime concern. The main title sequence and the latter part of the film have unfortunately been lost. While we cannot see its entire structure, we can still get a glimpse of it from this surviving short.

Mujer de Tierra

Dans la voie, Portrait d'un guide au travail

"Usual thing, try and get the question in the answer" - A conversation with the band discussing recording techniques, inter cut with personal archive footage from previous album sessions.

In this documentary, landscape architect Louis De Jaeger outlines how food forests can save the earth from suffocation, resuscitate communities, make agriculture sustainable, reverse global warming and still produce an abundance of food. This film takes you on a trip through the secret gardens of food forest pioneers. From urban jungles to healing projects in psychiatric institutions. Because nature appears to be the best healer for the social, psychological and ecological scars that people have caused. If we give nature's resilience a chance, together we can create a new Eden. In fact, pieces of this new paradise are already visible.

In his first major television special, British Asian illusionist Adam Patel, showcases his trademark brand of magic, sleight-of-hand, perceptual manipulation and mind hacking, astounding celebrities and the general public.

A surreal montage of selfdom in a lensed world. We start in transit and end in the boudoir. Tea and light snacks will be served.