A documentary that revives the memory of the Technical Industrial School of Santa Maria through the voices of former teachers and retired staff, revealing not only how these individuals helped shape and strengthen the institution, but also how CTISM marked and transformed their lives, intertwining individual destinies and collective memory into a living portrait of technical education in Brazil.
Una festa per la città - Venezia 1973
Do Útero Ao Túmulo
A personal biography of the leader of the PCP (Portuguese Communist Party) seen through the eyes of those who were close to him and those who studied his trajectory and thought.
Um breve respiro democrático
Based on true events. USSR, 1950s. As the reach of the oppressive communist regime escalates,
Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring the Communists to government in Italy and achieve socialism in a democratic country. From 1973, when he escaped an attack by the Bulgarian secret services, to the assassination of his main ally Aldo Moro in 1978, not forgetting his trips to Moscow and the covers of Time: the story of a man who wanted to change the world, but failed.
Surrounded by solitude a homeless walks through streets and abandoned buildings searching for food to survive. But what he fears most is to be found.
De vuelta a casa
An intimate collection of highlights, high-jinx, and memories spanning the five years of magic that made A New Day the hottest ticket in Las Vegas history.
This poetic story-documentary shows the death of a tradition as a man reflects on a certain spring of his boyhood. We see a Greek community and culture as it is assimilated into an American city. Filmed in the neighborhoods surrounding the present day site of UIC.
The only novel written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1958), just like its screen adaptation by Luchino Visconti, is considered a masterpiece. This film tells about the life of Tomasi and his German-Baltic wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee – their unusual love story. The chaos of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and World War II forced Alexandra to leave St. Petersburg and later on – the family's castle in Stāmeriena, Latvia. During the war, in 1943, she fled to her husband in Palermo, where she would live until the day she died.
As Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger wanted to lead the Church back to its former strength, but instead he plunged it into a deep crisis. He reacted largely inactive to the revelations of multiple cases of abuse by clergy. In order to understand the thinking of this unconditional hardliner, documentary filmmaker Christoph Röhl delves deep into Ratzinger's past - but what really leaves us speechless are the testimonies of how the church, on a large and small scale, dealt with the crimes of its priests.
An intimate behind the scenes short film while shooting the Black Adder special Back and Forth.
A look at the methane gas ships that come to the UK from the Sahara Desert.
Despite a war raging close by, mud treatments and electroshock therapies continue at Kuyalnik Sanatorium, an enormous 1970s brutalist building on the shores of Odesa, where a small group search for love, healing, and happiness.
Trottoirs de Paris
Le Dos au mur
Are midwifery and its tradition's dying out or is midwifery the hope of the future? GIVE LIGHT shares penetrating interviews of indigenous midwives from five continents. In their These women relate their stories with confidence, humor, and faith in the capabilities of the women that they serve. The documentary compares and contrasts the birth experiences by indigenous midwives with contemporary methods to explore the current rite of passage in childbirth in our modern world.
An experimental short film dedicated to the Mother of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda. Highly inspired by Agnès Varda's Along the Coast (1958).