Rua dos Lagares
Located in Carcavelos, Quinta Nova de Santo António, or Quinta dos Ingleses, as it is recognized by the population, shelters a small community of people affected by the housing crisis. Natives and immigrants, deprived of a roof over their heads, carry on with their lives in search of better opportunities and a breeze of change. Guided by residents' voices, this documentary is based on the adaptability of human beings in the face of life's adversities and their constant pursue of happiness.
Mar Urbano Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal, 1927. The writer and journalist Fernando Pessoa accepts from his boss the commission to create an advertising slogan for the drink Coca-Louca; but conservative government authorities consider the new drink as revolutionary as it is diabolical.
Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewell letter to his daughter. When emptying her father’s house, the daughter discovers the letter. It is the beginning of a new encounter.
Setlist: One Step Closer Lying From You Somewhere I Belong No More Sorrow Papercut Points of Authority Given Up Don't Stay From the Inside Leave Out All the Rest Numb Pushing Me Away (Piano Version) Breaking the Habit In the End Crawling What I've Done Encore: The Little Things Give You Away Bleed It Out Faint
In Lisbon, a German married couple get aboard the legendary tramway no 28.
New stories about the film and its production from interviews with actors, writers, key production members - plus surprise special guests.
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Peaceful Atom of Dubna
Documentary footage of late 1950s Russia covers such cities and towns as Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, the Black Sea, Kharkov, Sochi, Sukumi, Gori, Bukhara, Samarkand, Frunzo and Siberia.
When Loo Lay Yen suffers a stroke, the lives of her husband and three boys are changed forever. Shot by her eldest son, Tai Binquan, the film features family albums alongside raw documentary footage. where are you now is both a loving tribute to Loo and a piercing inquiry into care, dignity and the ethics of representing end-of-life experiences.
Documentary filmed on May 30-June 3 1990 in USA during Mikhail Gorbachev's American voyage to take part in Washington Summit visit and sign bilateral Soviet-American Chemical Weapons Accord.
Educational film that shows all the horrors that witch-doctors caused in backward villages before the modern medicine took it over.
Contraste
In 1963, the Ministry of Information and Tourism commissioned filmmaker José Val del Omar to make a series of ten shorts on the campaign Festivales de España for the New York World's Fair in 1964. With the excuse of documenting the shows of this cultural initiative in different Spanish cities, Val del Omar unfolds a dreamlike universe somewhere between the lyrical and the anthropological. This film corresponds to the two final episodes Luna de Sangre and Festival en las entrañas.
A brief glimpse into the life of Gina, the dog whisperer of Skid Row. An avid animal lover and activist, Gina takes us through a day in her life on Skid Row, where she lives with her rescue pitbull and foster animals.
Artist Bart Eysink Smeets is ready to confront our obsession with being unique. To rid the world of this, he will prove that he is not unique. He goes looking for his doppelgänger.
A story that not many women have been able to tell. This is one more attempt to do so.
Flightpath is a meditation on death and mourning, seen through the eyes of a wildlife researcher. When Sarah loses her boyfriend in a plane crash, she dives into a project studying bird mortality for a wind turbine company in the California desert. She comes to terms with her grief through her relationship with her tracking dogs as they catalog remains.