Cinéma et Réalité

Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.

A director (P. Chann) tries to make a movie following the guise of Joseph Campbell's framework.

Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time.

A group of friends attempt to make a film in 48 hours. Made in 48 hours.

It was 1978 and the Romanian dictator Ceausescu was in control of the country. Artists were being prosecuted and isolated due to their "unacceptable" background and views. Amongst them stood the extremely talented musician Rodion Rosca. Although he was a radio star, his debut album was never released.

"Endless Corridor" is the definitive account of an agonizing human rights tragedy in which hundreds of Azerbaijanis massacred after Armenian Forces stormed the city of Khojaly during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. It happened in 1992, but the full story never been told throughout the world until now.

The story of the celebration of the historic three-day Havana Jam festival at the Karl Marx Theatre, in Havana, Cuba, from March 2-4, 1979.

From behind the closed doors of women's washrooms, The Powder Room reveals women sharing intimacies in the privacy of each other's company. Originating from the director's observation that women trade secrets with friends and strangers in public washrooms, this innovative and candid documentary takes us to high school bathrooms, seniors centres' powder roooms, Newfoundland dance halls, New York nightclubs, a sauna in Copenhagen, a Casablanca hamman and country-and-western bars in Texas. In each location, as women are filmed in verité sequences, they confess their joys, their frustrations and their pain about love, sex, relationships with men and friendships with each other.

Viewers are given an inside look at the making of "Mary Poppins Returns," with interviews with stars Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Live at Wembley Arena, the British girl group Little Mix performed their third concert tour in support of their third studio album, Get Weird.

A new phenomenon of authentic Chinese rap has taken the internet by storm. But behind the unprecedented gains in popularity, there is a struggle for freedom of speech. Rappers are trying to figure out what they still can and cannot do after new censorship is announced.

Over a dozen of the planet's brightest minds are brought together to show how the weird is becoming wired and why a new era of quantum technologies is going to rock your world.

Mrtvý student, který se nikdy nenarodil

Is it easy to be a doctor in rural Russia? The main character of the film – doctor of Vologodsk air medical service Sergei Diakov – tells about struggle, hope, empathy and responsibility.

A behind-the-scenes look at the process of creating, rehearsing, and performing the Halloween Horror Movie Improv Show, run and done by Funny People Society.

Documentary following the planning and execution of Sweden's biggest music festival. Interviews with festival staff are followed by interviews and performances by the bands. This year the festival had chartered their own plane from London to bring the coolest bands in Britain to Sweden, which prompted television personality Henrik Schyffert to quip "If this plane crashes the hottest band in England will be Marillion"

A visual trance that traces the daily odyssey of the dockers of the Port of Masusa in the Amazon. Dozens of ships dock at this dock that supply Iquitos, the largest city in the world without a land connection. A continuous transfer through which the resources of the jungle are also bled towards the mainland.

The story of one of the most controversial characters in art collecting whose name continues to provoke and divide. Francesco Conz tried to exceed the border between art and life. An entrepreneur from Veneto, in the mid-1970s he decided to give up everything he had to devote himself with great determination to his devouring passion for the artistic avant-gardes of the second half of the twentieth century, which would turn into a real obsession until the tragic ending.

20 years ago the small town of Wunsiedel was at the edge: businesses had to close, jobs were lost, locals left for good. When a bunch of idealists decided to stop this race to the bottom. They developed a plan not only to put the region's energy supply on a completely new foundation, but also to create new prospects.

Alternating archive footage of Anita Ekberg with the story of a quintessential diva as Monica Bellucci who is offered the chance to play Anita in a movie, digging through this woman’s story, she retraces her exceptional life, frailties and chooses, reflecting on what it feels like to be an icon. What key decisions a contemporary diva faces in order not to fall into oblivion?