Henry Mancini: More Than Music

Jürgen Friedrich Mahrt (1882-1940) left behind a large collection of taxidermied birds and butterflies, as well as countless photographs, documenting the wildlife habitats of his time, many of which no longer exist today. His great-granddaughter has the collections analyzed by experts.

Through observational and interview recording, it seeks to describe the relationships between a Catholic parish, an evangelical church, and the shrine of "Gauchito" Antonio Gil, located in a neighborhood in the Buenos Aires suburbs called Villa Rosa.

This remarkable documentary tells the story of Professor Jenny Hocking, the historian who took on the Australian Government and HM Queen Elizabeth II in a landmark legal battle - and won.

Anna Grigoryevna, an ordinary Soviet woman, dreamed of a trip to Paris for thirty years. And in 1986, during perestroika, she finally finds herself in the city of her dreams. Her husband and son give her a camera, but because of an excess of emotions, she forgets all the instructions and brings the film, which, when developed, turned out to be a marriage. Recently, the adult son of Anna Grigoryevna found a film. And I decided that this is modern art! He walks around the studios, exhibition curators, they laugh at him, this story is incomprehensible to his mother, his girlfriend is not interested in it. And between these walks, a life passes in which each of these women claims her rights to him.

The communist poet Nazim Hikmet, after serving 17 years in Turkish prisons, fled to the Soviet Union as the country of victorious communism. Communism turned out to be a hoax, it lost its homeland forever. The Turkish word "hasret" (longing) is one of the few Turkish words that his adopted daughter learned. His heart could not stand the melancholy and hypocrisy of Soviet life, he died early and was buried in Moscow, where he was safely forgotten. But this old story becomes suddenly very relevant during the referendum in Istanbul.

Peasant summer from early spring to late autumn. Today there are no peasant farms in the Voronezh steppes for a long time, the collective farms are a thing of the past, and the various firms created in their place, the land was bought up by huge holdings. Others today are tractor drivers, those who are lucky with work. Other news on the radios, the Donbass is very close, and in that summer of 2015 there were battles going on there. But summer is still a whole life that still needs to be lived.

The Almanac of the Laboratory of Scientific Cinema. 16 directors selected the most interesting scientific developments and research at Skoltech and created 16 short films.

Miroslav Vitouš – jazzová legenda

The document illustrates the reconstruction and modernization of Polish villages after the destruction during World War II.

The Golden Wedding

The action takes place in the house of cinema veterans. Life has changed in recent years. Our heroes are from a previous time. They are almost like Mohican Indians and their living space is also limited to a small area. But life goes on at the same time…

The Song is a short music documentary about the artist David Olney. Olney (1948-2020) was one of the most influential Americana singer-songwriters, his writing is masterful and he had his own distinct style.

Living Water

Pražské Jezulátko

A Biography of George Lucas.

Filmed over 17 years, this up-close documentary takes the viewer through the life experiences of an ordinary Indian man trying to hold on to his calling of being a poet while juggling a normal life.

Filming took place in the fall of 1962 in various locations in Barbagia, Sardinia, but above all in Oliena, where the entire carasau bread processing cycle was filmed.

Gal Costa: Recanto – Ao Vivo

In a popular suburb of Tunis, a fanfare trombonist dreamed that his son, Anès, would become a great musician. Appropriating the father's dream, the child has developed extraordinary skills in the practice of the violin. He won several competitions and finally gained access to London's prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School. The film traces the stages of this extraordinary journey, the obstacles that Anès encounters, his evolution during his exile in Europe.

The film depicts the Lumière Brothers discussing and examining their Cinématographe machine. This film has traveled through time since 1925, moving between different conservation sites before finally being stored in the Moving Image Research Collections of the University of South Carolina. Every degradation of the image is the result of a natural decomposition, and the filmmaker presents the material sans alteration.