A story following the HEART of coffee and tea around the world as a universal means of connection. What started as a fascination with coffee, turned into a journey revealing the beautiful, harsh, and captivating intricacies of the human experience. A narrative that incorporates communities and individuals in 9 countries with interviews in 9 languages throughout; proving that we all speak the language of sharing a coffee or tea together. Journalist Brooke Bierhaus takes viewers on an intimate journey to better understand the human experience and cross-cultural unification by sharing a connected cup.
An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over the world. The film is constructed like a symphony.
Nine filmmakers each profile a young girl from a different part of the world to weave a global tapestry of youth in the 21st century.
Unfolding on three continents, this engaging documentary follows four groups of people whose lives are wrapped up in the complex world of chocolate.
When three generations of women return to post-Soviet Europe to care for an ailing patriarch, they face a corrupt healthcare system and discover a society and a past that both links them together and sets them apart.
Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
When a Hong Kong teenager from a poor family wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events that will soon bring him from his secluded fishing village to Tokyo. On the way, he connects with a barely competent tour guide and a gender-fluid pickpocket. Upon returning home with this merry band of schemers, he and his family of counterfeiters discover that a multinational conglomerate led by a ruthless Japanese developer has found the village, and is determined to raze it to build the new center of world trade.
Advent – a time of joyful anticipation. You will surely remember the feeling you had as a child, waking up on the first December morning. Rising early, ready to open a new door for 24 consecutive days.
A fine distinctness of manhood come from the aftermath of a rape victim's life.
This collection of experimental shorts includes the winner form SXSW film festival and celebrates the talents of Australian filmaker Julian Dahl (Camjackers). After traveling major film festivals world wide, the collection is made available to American audience for the first tiem in this unique release we are proud to present, experimental filmmaking rarely seen in release featuring, in the words of David Finkelstein; "Stark Photography That Resonates On a Poeti and Symbolic Level." Incluces; "Falling," "Puppy Love," "Stream," "Insect," "Alien Baby," "Go," "Camjackers Trailer," an interview with filmaker Julian Dahl and a bunch of extras
Elliot Tittensor (TV's Shameless) stars as Daz in headlining film PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT, a gripping British film debut that sees him woo a young lad in an underpass, only to be threatened with a break-up the following morning. Passive and submissive roles are tackled and tugged in gay graffiti tale VANDALS and Icelandic grapple-fest WRESTLING, while POSTMORTEM, MY NAME IS LOVE, and Iris Prize-winner STEAM look at promising encounters that turn awry. Rounding out the collection are HEIKO, an alternative ode to foot fetishes, BREATH where 12-year-old Erik swims out to sea to make a daring move on his best friend's father, and the crème de la crème from this collection TREVOR, which won multiple prestigious awards from Sundance, Berlinale, and even The Academy Awards (Oscar) for Best Short Film.
For this anthology movie, producers Vestra Pictures assigned international directors with a phobia and set them to work making a horror short about it.
We filmed a birthday party for our best friend Bea.
Stories from Ukraine about the impact of the Russian invasion on ordinary people and their fight to protect their homeland and each other. They are contributing to the resistance by providing medical aid, food, rescuing pets, expressing their feelings through art and other means. They embody Ukrainian unity and the strength of the human spirit.
Léaud et les Bas
Collapsing prices on the world coffee market have thrown millions of growers around the world into poverty. The price farmers receive for coffee is at its lowest in over thirty years. Coffee plantation owners are bankrupt and the workers are starving. Filmed in Nicaragua and Vietnam, the film describes the human consequences that the collapse of coffee prices has caused in producer countries. Multinational companies have profited because coffee is so cheap. The crisis is worldwide: the International Coffee Organization says that the price crash has pushed over 25 million people into poverty as farmers who used to grow food now sell coffee.
Grandma Kham, an 87 year-old-woman, lives lone and is still strong enough to burn charcoal and weed out grass. But what does she have to go through along the way? And how will she prepare for her own final moment?
Hollywood star Patrick Dempsey trades the red carpet for the racetrack in Destined to Drive, an exhilarating documentary capturing his high-stakes return to professional motorsports after nearly a decade away.
A rural Argentine music teacher and his students fight harmful agrochemical spraying by writing protest songs and staging a large “environmental Woodstock” despite industry resistance.