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1) Alfie
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alfie is the ultimate Ladykiller. He is wonderfully successful with women -- and rarely gets emotionally involved with them. But in this charming comedic drama, Alfie experiences a series of reversals that threaten his carefree lifestyle: his health is put into question, his child is adopted by another man, he gets a married woman pregnant, and when he finally does decide to settle down, he is rejected for a younger man. Capturing the changing attitudes...
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Enrique was separated from his mother at birth and Ascensión was forced to hand over her daughter after giving birth to her. Both are victims of the "stolen children" conspiracy; a slippery slope for the Spanish government. Whilst they continue their legal battle, they'll continue with their searches and live alongside blame, rejection, and the construction of their own identities.
Publisher
British Film Institute
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A man and his gay friend Robinson, are recruited as spies. They set out on seven trips around England - to the west and east of London; Oxford and Bristol; the West Midlands; Birmingham and Liverpool; Manchester and Hull; Scarborough and Whitby; and Blackpool and Sellafield.
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
THE SEER & THE UNSEEN is a magic realist fable about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief, told through the story of an Icelandic grandmother who speaks on behalf of nature under threat. As it is about to be razed by a road construction project, our heroine Ragga fights to save a threatened lava field believed to be home to a community of elves - invisible spirits of nature that over half of Iceland believes in. This...
7) Genius Loci
Publisher
Audiovisiva
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
The film is concerned with the restoration and reopening of the Olivetti store in Piazza San Marco in Venice to document the recovery of an historic and meaningful place. It is the place where Carlo Scarpa combines his attention to detail with the most extreme ability in the use and combination of materials. It represents a unique example in the panorama of restorations and installations of the 1950s, both in Italy and internationally.
8) Vas-y Coupe!
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Every year for the harvest, a motley team of laborers travels from the north of France to a celebrated family-owned vineyard in the Champagne region. Many of them have been picking these grapes for a quarter century and, though the work can be grueling, there is a cherished comfort in the comradery, the lovingly prepared meals, and the late-night partying. But as the winemaker begins to hand over the business to his son-and younger workers increasingly...
9) Valentina
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Romany
Description
Valentina lives among her extended family in the poor quarters of a Roma neighborhood in Macedonia. The ten-year-old girl is a tomboy and a highly gifted storyteller. Via quirky anecdotes, surreal daydreams and painful memories, Valentina introduces us to her family: we observe her father Asim collecting bulky rubbish, her mother Naile begging, her sister Ramize braiding hair, her brother Ferdi who is full of mischief and her granddad who can only...
10) Sorokin Trip
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Vladimir Sorokin is an author who blew up the Soviet literary tradition and built his own world on its ruins. SOROKIN TRIP is the first documentary about the most significant writer and dramatist in modern Russian literature. Sorokin for the first time talks about his own life with utmost frankness; his childhood in a worker's settlement near Moscow, his life in the workshops of underground artists, the persecution he suffered at the hands of the...
12) Frau Loosli
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Swiss German
Description
Mrs. Loosli is old. Her husband died many years ago; her children have moved out. She spends her days alone on her farm at the foot hills of the Swiss Alps. She knits. She keeps in shape on her treadmill. She listens to the radio. She fires up the oven and fetches wood. She bakes an apple pie for herself. She spends time with her dog. A young film crew documents how each morning she braces herself against her life's loneliness and the absurdity of...
13) Nicky’s Family
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The nearly forgotten story of Nicholas Winton, an Englishman who organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of WorldWar II. *"An enthralling documentary by Matej Minac..." - Anita Gates, **New York Times***
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Comedian Jack Dee has drawn the short straw. He's going on a two-week journey to Siberia, one of the most remote and inhospitable places on the planet. The trip starts with a nine-and-a-half-hour plane journey from Moscow into Yakutsk and then a two-and-half-hour helicopter ride up into the mountains of Lepikha. Jack will stay for two nights in a desolate reindeer herder village where he will learn basic survival skills and will be introduced to the...
Publisher
First Look Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
George and George are both 83. Every summer they sail together on the Mazury lakes in northeast Poland, happy with the simplicity of life, the beauty of nature and their friendship. In this intimate film of friendship and joy, we see what might be their last summer on the lakes together.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Monday 15th, April 2019. The world watches in horror as Notre-Dame, Paris' iconic cathedral, burns. While news stations around the globe cover the events live and the streets fill with people in shock, an extraordinary story was taking place behind the scenes. Just a few key moments decided the fate of the Notre Dame, saving it from total destruction. Director Emilie Lançon gained access to unpublished images and exclusive testimonies from the Paris...
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An intimate conversation between the director and her mother, the dynamic activist and scholar Srbijanka Turajlić, reveals a house and a country haunted by history. What begins as the chronicle of a childhood home grows into an elegant portrait of a charismatic and brilliant woman in times of great political turmoil.
19) Good Fight
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The fight for the freedom of Loyalist Spain during the 1936-39 civil war pitted an International Brigade of 35,000 civilian soldiers from more than 50 nations against the well-equipped insurgents of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Aid to Franco came via Italian fighter planes from Mussolini and from the Nazi Condor Legion of Junker bombers sent by Hitler, who wanted to try out his new weaponry in anticipation of the larger war to come. Spurred by...
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
A portrait of a bohemian Ukrainian family. Artist/Singer Tolik, his sister Anya and his niece Katya are struggling through daily life filled with love, soul searching, loneliness and illness. Official Selection at the **Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival**.
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