Short student documentary about New Cinema Zvezda in Belgrade.
Srba is graduating pupil and football fanatic, or more precise king of a street soccer, who plays even without others, in a winter, summer, rain or snow, while his grandma lights narrow backyard (so called small Maracana) with a flashlight. He wouldn't accept to become professional by no means and to play for money, rejecting offers of various scouts promising him a career in Spain, Greece, Germany, Turkey... main characters of Srba's school days are his best friends, Daca who is secretly in love with him ever since first grade, professors Hannibal and Darwin and Beki, new schoolmate to whom Srba fells in love - and she loves Red Star...
Mamma Bear, Poppa Bear and Baby Bear live in a cazy and tidy cottage in the woods. The entire Bear family is a very neat, but Baby Bear is so particular that Momma Bear thinks he may be just a bit too fussy. When Momma Bear cooks up a lovely bubbling pot of creamy porridge, they all agree that it's too hot to eat and decide to take a walk while it cools. While they are away, Goldilocks, an unusually clusmy girl, stumbles upon and through Poppa Bear's garden, crashes into the cottage, pirates the porridge, fouls up the furniture and finally falls asleep in Baby Bear's bunk. When the Bears return home they can't belive the damage, but Baby Bear has to laugh he sees the mess!
The Woodcutter and his wife love their son Tom Thumb, even though he is no taller than his mother's thumb! But they are very poor, and so one day when two men offer to buy Tom Thumb to help make their fortunes, Tom tells his father to accept the money, which he does with great misgivings. Tom, however, sets off on the adventures of a lifetime.
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
One night, nine children from the same Tunisian village attempt the deadly crossing. Like a poem or a prayer, this film welcomes the words of bereaved mothers and gives dignity to their grief.
Explore the stories of women caught up in World War II, from the American Home Front to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. Included in this hour-long film are also the personal stories of the incredible women who served in a war that proved women were equal to men when it came to patriotism, service, or in some cases, self-preservation during watershed moments which called for steadfastness.
SLAYING GOLIATH takes an unprecedented intimate look at the world of amateur youth basketball through the eyes of the New York Select Huskies team as they seek to win the AAU National Basketball Championship. The grueling price the team must pay to win exposes the hidden dark side of amateur sports.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina the New Orleans City Council decides to demolish public housing leaving thousands of people without homes. Staging a courageous battle that reminds us of how much home means to us all, residents became activists, attracting the attention of international human rights monitors and taking their cause to the highest levels of HUD (Housing and Urban Development Agency) in Washington DC.
This short documentary features interviews with white people on the challenges of talking about race.
After learning yoga changes one woman's life, she brings its transformative power to her community of working-class African Americans. Together, they realize the power of mind, body, spirit and community.
Armed with music and a message, influential hip-hop group Racionais MC's turned their street poetry into a powerful movement in Brazil and beyond.
Through the eyes and voice of biologist Janine Benyus, the non-fiction feature “Biocentrics” takes the viewer through different corners of the planet to reveal the birth and the principles that guide biomimicry, a methodology of innovation inspired by nature. As a hub connecting ancestral knowledge, diverse cultures, natural technologies and initiatives that choose the continuity of life as their premise, the charismatic activist proposes a common agenda, a new posture and a tool, which is the vanguard of contemporary science, to face the global challenges that lie ahead and putting life back at the center of decision-making.