ZAUBERWEGE - On the path to music

Cat Dylan

Rock is a beautiful style of music, with many artists and songs, but how did this classic style of music come about?

Spanish musician Santiago Auserón soaked up the rhythmic wisdom of son during his first visit to Cuba in 1984, an influence he soon transferred to his own work.

In this medium-length documentary, which goes through emotional and funny moments, we discover how Post Mortem transcended its condition of being a debut album to become an authentic artistic movement.

Razões Africanas

O Fim do Mundo, Enfim

Scientists, luthiers and musicians lead an international quest to recreate the sound of the famous Stradivari violin.

A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

O Pianista

L'eternità di una nota

Americania - "Concierto En La Sala"

angústia

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Hip Hip Parade! was a primetime special promoting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, originally broadcast on PBS stations throughout Thanksgiving week 1978. Hosting the special were Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, of The Muppet Show fame.

The boys compete to see who could stay within the branches of a Christmas tree the longest, intermingled with sketches and other surprises.

Diamond Road is a three-part series and 96 minute feature documentary exploring the historical, cultural and socio-political facets of the world's most intriguing gem. Boring deep into the diamond world, the series seeks to understand the multiple meanings of an object that is as old as the earth itself.

50 minutos e 23 segundos com Júlio Bressane

The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983. As a director of photography he worked on such films as The Birch Wood, Landscape Afterthe Battle and Austeria. He introduced, among others, hand‑held camera shots, colour lights and shooting at minimum exposure. Reminiscences of his colleagues and friends, including Andrzej Wajda and Piotr Szulkin, show a gifted artist and a modest man who valued his work above all.

Christopher Frayling analyzes the importance of the film's influence on the making of later films and its impact on directors and writers