An introduction to the basics of cross-country horse riding with tips from professionals.
An introduction to the different types of competitions you can enter with your horse and what you should consider before choosing one.
A champion of the equestrian world, Steve Guerdat has risen to the top of show jumping thanks to his exemplary work ethic and technical skill, but also through forging special bonds with his horses. In “Dream Team”, part of an exclusive documentary series about the Rolex family, he recalls what it took to develop profound partnerships with Nino des Buissonnets and Dynamix de Belheme, charges that helped him capture some of the biggest successes of his illustrious career.
A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star Jappeloup and his troubled rider, locked in a tense relationship with his horseman father and forever uncertain of his own skills as an equestrian
A Point of View film from a filmmaker who likes a bit of fat on women and wonders if he's the only one who does, and why is the beauty ideal so thin?
A woman on a meadow, strolling around, narcisstically involved, wandering. Now and again one can see her breasts through her half-opened shirt. The camera films with a powerful telephoto lens. This idyll is radically destroyed when the woman suddenly looks directly into the camera. There is an immediate cut (the voyeur has been discovered) and the whole sequence of events begins from the beginning again, but each time re-filmed from the last till finally, only a completely abstract, flickering picture remains.
A journey through the history of Portuguese electronic music from 1968 to 2016.
A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.
Cinéastes de notre temps : Norman McLaren
A film by Werner Nekes.
Savage and primitive, hypnotic and hell-bent, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring turned Paris into the scene of one of the most astounding opening nights in history. In this episode of Keeping Score, the clutching tendrils of the music pull us back through France and Russia to the wild abandon of pagan times.
Sampa Rock
Presents a science fiction story in which two aliens tell the story of earth after World War III, when human beings are reduced to the level of savage cannibals. Even though the man and woman fall in love, they cannot stay together because one will be food for the other
This BBC documentary "The Stones in Morocco" traces their summer 1989 visit to Tangier. A three days stay in the magical northern city of Morocco, to record live sessions with The Master Musicians of Jajouka in Tangier's Palais Ben Abbou, to finish give birth to the "Continental drift" song from the "Steel Wheels" album.
The idea of determinism and freedom in the Khayal tradition of Hindustani music.
A documentary following Sasha Fatsevych as he turns his love for retro cars and film into a thriving business.
Five young Panamanian freestyle artists fight to turn their craft into a way of life, as rap becomes their only voice in a country that doesn’t always listen.
MAGHREB FLAMENCO is the first short documentary by Flamenco Biënnale NL made in 2008. With Cherifa Kersit (1967), the 'Cheikha' - the grande dame - of the singing tradition of the Berbers from the Moroccan Middle Atlas Mountains and guitarist Niño Josele (1974), protégé of Paco de Lucía, a descendant of a gipsy dynasty from the South Spanish Almería. The flamenco guitar mingles with the lotar, the Berber lute; and the raw Berber songs alternate with the "Cante Jondo", deep flamenco song. Together they built musical bridges, or rather, restored the old connections across the Strait of Gibraltar.
A series of 34 short documentary films for ESPN featuring testimony from the only men alive to have scored a goal in a world cup final. In the history of the World Cup only 68 people have scored a goal in the final (including penalty shoot-outs). Of which 34 are alive today.
Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a character hardly found today. The film retells Frisch’s story as a witness of the unfolding 20th century, wondering if such “voices” are needed at all, or if we could do without them.