Yves Montmayeur takes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as the starting point for his study of the new female warrior in Asian pop culture. From Beijing to Tokyo and Taiwan, he went to meet with the most iconic muses of this new trend, including Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Shu Qi, and Asami.
A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.
In Asturias, the Duro Felguera company dismissed 232 employees in 1993. From then on, a ten-year struggle began for the workers to be reinstated. "Resistencia" is the story of a workers' struggle that ended up triumphing.
EDDY'S WORLD is a fascinating portrait of a 98 year old working toy inventor. Best known for the iconic "chattering teeth" and 800 classic toys, he shares his passion for creativity and his philosophies of life and aging. Eddy lives in a retirement community and we follow him through his daily routine - working on new models in his garage machine shop, writing short stories on his computer, creating translucent lithophane portraits with his new 3D printer., walking and exercising. Eddy began designing toys on the Batfish Submarine during World War II. He is an endearing story teller who believes that optimism and new ideas keep him young and healthy.
"This short film is a letter to a person whom I haven't seen for a long time. Since I couldn't find the words to explain to him what had happened in my life that time, I thought I'd show him in pictures what my days had been like without him."
As daughter of an Austrian baroness and a Dutch geologist, Gisèle d'Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht (now 84) lived on the move. She has for instance lived in America, Austria, Holland, France and Greece. From her youth she knew she would be a painter. Over the course of the years, she has built up a large and diverse oeuvre inspired by poetry, mythology and the whimsy of nature.
Rio 2016 official film, "Days of Truce" is an original portrait of the Brazilian experience in hosting the Games and a powerful manifesto that explores how the Olympic values are relevant in our modern society.
Panzeri was an honest man, a critical journalist, a freethinker. He faced power and died alone and forgotten. Kohan is an outsider obsessed with doing justice, getting Panzeri out of ostracism and bringing him back to this world. Without Panzeri, football has only a few days to live.
A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film discusses the establishment of relief camps and projects, where men were paid twenty cents per day; the founding of organizations such as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), Workers' Unity League, and Relief Camp Workers' Union; general unionization and protest of the unemployed, including the On To Ottawa Trek, Regina Riot, sit-in strike from May to June 1938 at the Vancouver Main Post Office, Vancouver Art Gallery and Hotel Georgia, and the resulting Bloody Sunday of June 19.
Short documentary on the Ladakh.region.
Fourth part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.
A documentary covering the Second Chimurenga, the Zimbabwean War of Liberation.
The Elvis '68 Comeback Special, directed and produced by Steve Binder, is considered one of the greatest music shows and artist performances in pop music history.
They were heroes of a special kind. They came from the steppes, the sons of farmers, of factory floor women. Salt-of-the-earth, strapping young men, model husbands, who believed in communism with all their hearts. Bright futures lay ahead of them. In the name of the Inter-cosmos Program they were about to conquer space. The second they touched down, they were treated like pop stars and worshiped as heroes. And today? What do the heroes of socialism do without socialism?
A film about division, inequality, food & communion in South Africa.
An Afghan mother and a US filmmaker, connected through one stray bullet, forge a surprising friendship amidst America's longest war.
The story of Yuhan, a Chinese expatriate who must leave her adopted home of Los Angeles to pursue her music dreams in Hamburg, Germany. As she prepares to depart, Yuhan reflects on the excitement and loneliness that opportunity can bring.