Bergman interviews the locals of Fårö in this fascinating documentary. An expression of personal and political solidarity with the fellow inhabitants of his adopted home, the island of Fårö in the Baltic Sea, this documentary investigates the sometimes deleterious effects of the modern world on traditional farming and fishing communities. The young, especially, voice doubts about remaining in such a remote, quiet place.
Documentary about the Swedish band Di sma undar jårdi mixed with recordings from one of their shows.
Tom Leimer arrives to the isle of Gotland, Sweden during the summer in order to find his old love Therese Sandström. She has, however, started a new life together with the upper-class-guy Karl von Silberhelm, and wishes no longer to know Tom because of his criminal past. A virus, turning people into living dead, breaks out on the isle. Tom makes his decision to try to rescue Therese - a choice that turns out to be more dangerous than he expected, since each who is infected hungers always for fresh human-flesh.
Lieutenants Johnny Waller and Ingvar Lund have been appointed captains of two torpedo boats.
Happy End is a story about Lukas, a self-absorbed young man adrift who meets Marja, an experienced, older woman. Lukas dreams of becoming a rock star. He escapes the city to his father's holiday flat in Visby, a town on the Baltic island of Gotland. But the flat has been rented out to Marja, an eccentric 69-year-old writer determined to complete her memoirs. Nothing can hold her back, least of all a confused dreamer. Much against their will, a friendship slowly develops. But Marja harbors a secret, and when the truth emerges their friendship is put to the test. Their stay on Gotland takes an unexpected turn...
Set in beautiful Faro, a young woman named Ida, feels lonely and loses all hope, believing death is looking for her. She soon comes up with a creative way of trying to cheat death itself.
A bunch of young people travel to Gotland on their vacation - partying expected 24/7. But they get into trouble - with both the local population and a criminal gang.
In the Pacific Northwest, a crew investigates the mysterious legend of a deep lake where the cold and stillness claim lives and keep secrets. But as they delve deeper, they uncover a horrifying truth about the lake's dark past and the fate of those who enter its depths.
For a hundred years, the former fishing village of Campione d'Italia, an Italian enclave in Switzerland, has drawn enormous wealth from a monumental casino. There is hardly a resident who has not benefited economically or socially from it. But the bankruptcy of this colossus destroys all prospects and autonomy. The reopening gives the village one last chance.
On July 25, 1985, Antonin's little brother Benjamin was born. He died three days later. His mother and him never saw him. No ritual, no support. How to mourn someone who barely existed?
how is the byu men's soccer team so successful??????
Andrey Kudinenko's essay film about the cinema of Valentin Vinogradov, an ottepel era Soviet director accused of aestheticism.
Experimental documentary short starring Batato Barea and Peter Pank, filmed in July 1991
From political conferences to the George Formby Society's annual bash, and Pleasure Beach to the weather, an Arena documentary on the seaside town of Blackpool and its history.
Details the tenth attempt by Jim Erickson and Art Higbee to scale the two thousand-foot-high vertical face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Narrated by Robert Redford.
Documentary on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture.
Ever since King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, the official explanation had been simply that the government disapproved of his marriage to a twice-divorced woman. However newly-released documents, embargoed until recently, suggest that Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang, played a large part in a plan to make certain that Edward VIII abdicated, not only because of his marriage to a divorcee but also because the archbishop disapproved of the King's whole lifestyle and modern attitudes to life.
Documentary about rock pioneer Roky Erickson, detailing his rise as a psychedelic hero, his lengthy institutionalization, his descent into poverty and filth, and his brother's struggle with their religious mother to improve Roky's care.
A look at post-industrial Detroit and its burgeoning urban agricultural movement.
Wannabe filmmakers Phillip Fellini (Sam Maccarone) and Forrest Fonda (Preston Lacy) think they've found the subject of a lifetime when they meet a cave-dwelling, beer-swilling Missouri backwoodsman named Lucky "Cucumber" Cavanaugh (Dian Bachar), rumored to be the unluckiest man alive. But when Lucky's fortunes begin to turn, he and the filmmakers end up on a wild adventure in a comic mockumentary.