Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy

Casa Bonita opened in 1974 in an unassuming strip mall. The massive "Disneyland of Mexican restaurants" is an Old West and Acapulco-inspired fever dream made famous by its indoor waterfall, cliff divers, and haunted caves, and was featured in a classic 2003 episode of South Park. When its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, learn that Casa Bonita might close its doors for good, they attempt to preserve a crumbling piece of their childhood and Denver history.

When Ruben, a young Chicano musician, is caught between his mother’s expectations and his own hopes, he is forced to make a decision that will change his life forever. Based on true events, “Con Esperanza” follows Ruben on his journey of pursuing his dreams, balancing both the traditional and financial expectations of his Mother.

Loosely based on Charles Dicken’s book “A Tale of Two Cities”, Working Class tells the tale of underground street artists Mike Giant and Mike Maxwell and their decade long friendship that started with a tattoo. The story is told through the cities they call home by, cutting back and forth between the neighborhoods of San Francisco and San Diego, as the artists talk about their life philosophies and the work they create.

James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it goes sour, he ends up in prison with a 133-year sentence. Bataille escapes from behind bars to make an appointment to fix the car of music biz tycoon, as well as watch the love of his life take part in the town's annual talent show.

Tita, who lives on a ranch in Mexico, falls in love with a boy, Pedro, who lives nearby; but when they want to get married, Tita's family prevents it, because she must remain single to take care of her mother.

A transgender man gets a job at a Mexican restaurant in London. When people start going missing, eyes turn to the animatronic animal characters who perform on the restaurant’s stage.

Julian dreams of becoming a chef while working in his father's auto repair shop. When he finds out about a cooking competition that awards the winner a full scholarship to culinary school, he jumps at the chance with the encouragement of his grandma and despite his father's disapproval.

Miguel tells us how the Yucatecan dish Tikin Xiik' is prepared in the town of Dzidzantún while at the same time he recounts how his grandfather used to prepare it.

When business is slow on opening day of their food truck, Olivia and her chef cat, Ferdinand, concoct elaborate schemes to bring in customers.

Maria is a girl who loves to cook and lives with his grandmother, Doña Tere, in Mexico City's downtown. Doña Tere has a traditional Mexican restaurant called "El Molcajete". After the death of her daughter, Doña Tere abandoned his passion for cooking and stopped working in "El Molcajete", now operating under the direction of chef Rosi. Maria does everything possible to bring her grandmother back to the restaurant, while chef Rosi cooks dishes according to new trends in fusion cuisine which highlights the light food, but Maria and Doña Tere won't accept the traditional flavors and cooking secrets to be forgotten. The cuisine battle between Tere and chef Rosi is an epic fight not only between long-stablished mexican food and light food, but also a struggle of family bonds, friendship, cooking secrets, flavour’s passion and more than two hundred ingredients that are needed in order to prepare Mole, a traditional mexican sauce.

In an era of activism, filmmaker Connor Luke Simpson enters the world of Fat Acceptance, a provocative social movement that is seeking to change the negative perception of obesity. Is everything we know about obesity wrong, or, will this movement just become a footnote in the history books?

Few places symbolise the dawn of modernity with its expectations and upheavals better than the Jelmoli department store. The director documents the 125-year history from its foundation to its closure at the end of 2024.

Manguaba

In March 2018, oncologist Andrey Pavlenko learned that he had stomach cancer. For almost two years, Andrey struggled with the disease and simultaneously performed operations, created his own department in the clinic, and launched his own charitable foundation. All this time, it was filmed by the team of special projects of the portal "Such things". Andrey's chances of recovery were about 50-50. Eight rounds of chemotherapy, stomach removal, recovery, community service, and depression are what he went through during the treatment. On January 5, 2020, Andrey died. Before his death, realizing that there was not much time left, he gave one last interview. It became the basis of the film.

The film is based on a series of videos for the Internet dedicated to front-line operators of the Great Patriotic War.

This discovery film, based on the real events of the life of Alexander Pushkin, will completely change the idea of who we used to call "our everything", without suspecting to what extent it is true.

Who promised Muscovites that the war of 1812 would not affect them? How was it punished for retelling news to friends in the XIX century? How did Napoleon and the French behave in captured Moscow? And the main question is: who really burned Moscow?

The village of Soiga was founded by monks 400 years ago. At the beginning of the twentieth century, deforestation was organized in the Arkhangelsk region. In the 1950s, a narrow-gauge railway was built to transport timber to the Severnaya Dvina River. Now the village of Soiga is surrounded by swamps and is located 38 kilometers from the nearest highway. After the reduction of the forest fund, financial support for the road and the settlement stopped. The only way to get there is by a narrow - gauge railway, which has existed there since 1958. For about 40 years, local residents and the locomotive driver Boris Petrovich Skumin have maintained the road in good condition.

Settled on earthen counters, lying under the endless steps of buyers and onlookers, the history of the country for the last 100 years in the stories of the inhabitants of the flea market on Udelnaya.

According to statistics, every third Russian in the summer-autumn season becomes a real mushroom picker. And we are not looking for mushrooms for food, but because we love to do it, because for many it is a real passion called "silent hunting". At the same time, many mushroom pickers do not even know what these unique creatures of nature are, appearing and disappearing completely suddenly. This amazing, third kingdom of wildlife is still largely a mystery, even for scientists.