Twenty-five years ago, an obscure singer named Eva Cassidy and her producer pooled their limited funds to record a live performance and self-release an album. This is the story of one unforgettable night, January 3, 1996, at a jazz club in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. It’s the tale of a set of recordings that nearly didn’t happen, and the remarkable success that followed, as told by the band members who shared the stage with her that night. No one could have predicted that the audio and video from that single evening would become the cornerstone of her extraordinary posthumous fame around the world.
This film chronicles the health and social problems that African albinos face and details the fight waged on their behalf by advocacy groups in Spain.
A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful. And there is something strange about the staff—they all look very similar. To top it all off, the weather seems to be having an adverse affect on the Hotel's foundations.
A young housekeeper accepts a promising position at the home of a wealthy family, only to realize that someone may hiding a deadly secret. Not knowing who to trust, she must solve the mystery while avoiding impending deadly consequences.
Three friends' road trip turns terrifying when they witness a murder in a gated community. Trapped inside, hunted by residents who blame them, their bond fractures as a charismatic yet sinister patriarch closes in.
In the suburbs of Denver, the U.S. secretly manufactured thousands of atomic weapons, leaving behind a toxic legacy that will persist for generations.
In a little more than 2 minutes we see how an old woman goes from being present to being lost inside herself, due to her senile dementia.
A movie shot in almost one single take. The parable should not be interpreted in words.
Who Wants War
Love, Oleksandr Dovzhenko's cinema, the 20th century... These concepts make up the formula of life for two people. Heavenly love is all that is left for Maria Volkhovska, the widow of the prominent Ukrainian film actor Petro Masokha, who played the leading roles in Dovzhenko's films "Ivan" and "Earth".
About love and loyalty, which helps to withstand the trials of fate in the most difficult times. The film features Svitlana Knyazeva and Leonid Osyka, Kateryna and Boryslav Brondukov', Kostyantyn Stepankov and Ada Rogovtseva.
Esteban (18), a shy film student, returns for a few days to his hometown of Cañete. There he will try to film the places that marked his childhood, only to discover that most of them are falling apart, just like his memories.
Through the juxtaposition of images, the documentary proposes to show the juxtaposition present in Chilean society and how it is capable of lamenting the coup d'état and a week later celebrating the Glories of the Army and the “18th”.
Les petits secrets de L'Équipe du Soir
En attendant les éléphants
Fukazawa Hiroshi chronicles the efforts of Teddy Chen to make Dark October, a film about Sun Yat-sen
A retold biblical story of Noah to rescue all the animals in the world.
Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. They are accompanied by police officers and immigration officials. The passengers are flown to their native countries, where they haven't set foot in in up to twenty years, and where their lives might be in danger. Children, wives and work are left behind in Switzerland. Near Geneva, in Frambois prison, live 25 illegal immigrants waiting for deportation. They are offered an opportunity to say goodbye to their families and return to their native countries on a regular flight, escorted by plain-clothes police officers. If they refuse this offer, the special flight is arranged fast and unexpectedly. The stories behind the locked cells are truly heartbreaking.
Doin' Time in the Homo No Mo' Halfway House isn't comedy-it's a hit piece posing as entertainment. Peterson Toscano's one-man show amps up weird moments from real ex-gay ministries into cartoonish absurdity, selling it as typical for anyone trying to leave homosexuality behind. Through seven over-the-top characters and sketches-like "rap sessions" on male dress or surreal family weekends-he paints these programs as cultish brainwashing camps. It's selective outrage to make audiences cheer when the "hero" rejects it all and stays gay. Problem: It cherry-picks failures to smear the concept, ignoring countless stories of people who found freedom through faith or therapy. Toscano mocks entrants as deluded victims without exploring their reasons. This isn't artful satire like The Producers. It's activism with laughs to shame and silence. Watch knowing it's propaganda, not a documentary.
Glauco Mattoso, a blind sadomasochistic poet, agrees to participate in a documentary about his own life, but the conditions he imposes raise difficulties to the work of the young director.