Alternating archive footage of Anita Ekberg with the story of a quintessential diva as Monica Bellucci who is offered the chance to play Anita in a movie, digging through this woman’s story, she retraces her exceptional life, frailties and chooses, reflecting on what it feels like to be an icon. What key decisions a contemporary diva faces in order not to fall into oblivion?
A mix of live performances and behind-the-scenes footage from the televised benefit concert to raise relief funds for victims of Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son André as his own father.
The story of those affected by the 1990 Brazilian confiscation, the largest ever carried out by a democratic government against its citizens.
Have you ever woken in the night unable to move, certain that you are not alone? This is an experimental documentary examining what happens when dreams leak into waking life. It is about what is real, what is not, and if it even matters.
In her documentary, director Sabine Michel revisits her own experiences during the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and Germany's subsequent reunification, as well as those of her four friends Claudi, Vera, Claudia and Veruscha. The five women were about 18 years old at that time, and belonged to the last school class in Dresden to graduate in the German Democratic Republic. The country and society school had prepared them for suddenly ceased to exist, thus they had to completely start anew. More than twenty years later, the five women travel to Paris together. During the train ride, they talk about their former dreams and aspirations, and how different their lives turned out to be.
Against a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline, Judson Dance Theater company member Freddy Herko and author and cultural critic Jill Johnston dance together on Wynn Chamberlain’s rooftop.
There are 200,000 people per year in the US that struggle with Health Anxiety. For many, this became an obstacle when it came to getting the vaccine. Jeff Richards films a video diary of his own struggles with Health Anxiety and getting the vaccine in the hopes of helping others.
A visual trance that traces the daily odyssey of the dockers of the Port of Masusa in the Amazon. Dozens of ships dock at this dock that supply Iquitos, the largest city in the world without a land connection. A continuous transfer through which the resources of the jungle are also bled towards the mainland.
The film brings together two World War II-era stories of resilience and survival: one from Nanjing, where Japanese soldiers massacred Chinese civilians, and the other from Germany, where the Nazi regime sought the systematic murder of Jewish populations in Europe and beyond.
A behind-the-scenes look at the process of creating, rehearsing, and performing the Halloween Horror Movie Improv Show, run and done by Funny People Society.
Documentary following the planning and execution of Sweden's biggest music festival. Interviews with festival staff are followed by interviews and performances by the bands. This year the festival had chartered their own plane from London to bring the coolest bands in Britain to Sweden, which prompted television personality Henrik Schyffert to quip "If this plane crashes the hottest band in England will be Marillion"
The story of one of the most controversial characters in art collecting whose name continues to provoke and divide. Francesco Conz tried to exceed the border between art and life. An entrepreneur from Veneto, in the mid-1970s he decided to give up everything he had to devote himself with great determination to his devouring passion for the artistic avant-gardes of the second half of the twentieth century, which would turn into a real obsession until the tragic ending.
20 years ago the small town of Wunsiedel was at the edge: businesses had to close, jobs were lost, locals left for good. When a bunch of idealists decided to stop this race to the bottom. They developed a plan not only to put the region's energy supply on a completely new foundation, but also to create new prospects.
'Irreplaceable' is the best word to define the experience at the COP in Sumba, which took place from July 13th to August 3rd, 2023. It was not an easy endeavor to collaborate Petra Christian University students with others from different universities in Sumba and internationally to work together to enhance the villages in Sumba. Different cultures and traits have become one of the hurdles to face by continuing to hold hands together. Learn a glimpse at the adventure, COP participants who finally learned lessons and created memories throughout their time in Sumba.
Are we alone in the universe? This question has been preoccupying humanity for decades. Today, people don’t believe in extraterrestrial life. But there are witnesses from different countries, having interesting experiences. This documentary focuses on stories of a group of people from Turkey who had those kind of experiences.
On your screen is an impressive spectacle: the biggest concert of Andrius Mamontovas solo career and documentary footage of the event behind the scenes. The eyes and ears of 20,000 spectators admired the most popular hits of A. Mamontovas and "Foje" on the legendarystage of Vingis Park, which sounded uniquely in a new format - with the support of the symphony orchestra conducted by maestro Modesto Pitrėnas. This film is a recording of a historic concert that the performer himself dreamed of seeing through the eyes of the audience. You can see up close - not only the action on the stage from the front rows, but also several months of preparation for a magical musical journey during the forty years of A. Mamontovas career.
Chelsea was placed in a youth institution not long after she was born. In "Chelsea's Blues" she visits key figures in her life, trying to gather more information about her upbringing and to talk about who she is and who she wants to be.