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In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Chilean Junta’s Chancellery, entered into two large concentration camps in the north of the country — Chacabuco and Pisagua — leaving with filmed sequences and sound recordings.
1974 Special Jury Prize, Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week
1974 Jury Prize, Grenoble International Documentary Film Festival
1974 Silver Sestertius, Nyon International Documentary Film FestivalRead More »
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Video-tape documentary program about the First Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting that took place in Bogotá in July 1981. The documentary includes interventions, interviews, photographs and other materials, focusing on the main themes of the meeting: feminism and political struggle, culture and sexuality.Read More »
A unique concert given to the long term inmates of the famous jail. Johnny and June sing ‘Wanted Man’ (written especially for the concert by Bob Dylan) and ‘San Quentin’ (written by Cash just in time for the concert). Also features the songs ‘I Walk the Line’, ‘Folsom Prison Blues’, ‘Orange Blossom Special’, ‘Jackson’, ‘Darling Companion’, ‘Daddy Snag Bass’, ‘A Boy Named Sue’, ‘Peace in the Valley’, ‘He Turned Water into Wine’. The audience are very appreciative.Read More »
Mannesmann was a German industrial conglomerate. It was originally established as a manufacturer of steel pipes in 1890 under the name “Deutsch-Österreichische Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG”. (Loosely translated: “German-Austrian Mannesmann pipe mills AG”). In the twentieth century, Mannesmann’s product range grew and the company expanded into numerous sectors – starting from various steel products and trading to mechanical and electrical engineering, automotive and telecommunications. From 1955, the conglomerate’s management holding with headquarters in Düsseldorf was named Mannesmann AG. – more (on wikipedia)Read More »
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The 1962 documentary Lonely Boy, directed by Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor, is a film about the manufacture of a pop idol. Paul Anka, the subject of the documentary, is a popular performer at the peak of his career, but the directors use a variety of strategies to express their view of him as an isolated figure who is seen by his handlers as a piece of merchandise and whose success is questionable. They do this through interviews which focus on the process of Anka’s rise, frequent references to the merchandising operation he is at the center of, editing that highlights the freakishness and hysteria of his fans, and frequent shots that emphasize his isolation. Several other films made in the 1960s dealt with the phenomenon of celebrity in the same cinema vérité style, and examining how the editing choices made by Koenig and Kroitor differ from films such as Primary (Robert Drew, 1960), What’s Happening! The Beatles In the U.S.A. (Albert and David Maysles, 1964) and Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967) is useful in illustrating the directors’ skeptical view of the celebrity machine and the idea that despite Anka’s success, Lonely Boy can be seen as yet another Canadian film about failure.Read More »
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Children return from boarding school to a taiga village for spring break. The film reveals the lives of the northern Mansi people through their eyes.Read More »
After the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, a boy grew up obsessed with all the movies he couldn’t see. He met a mysterious film collector who saved thousands of films from destruction by the new regime. Despite arrest and torture, the collector refused to give up his secret hoard. Together they forged a friendship based on passion for cinema and resistance against tyranny. The boy escaped to exile in London to become a filmmaker, and tells their shared story of obsession and celluloid dreams.Read More »
An intimate look at the life of astronauts aboard the International Space Station and the future of space exploration.Read More »
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This film starts from a meeting, quite fortuitous, between a man who acted in a film, thirty years ago, and another, a filmmaker, who likes this film very much. The film in question is Mes petites amoureuses, by Jean Eustache, and their meeting takes place in Narbonne, the town where the film was shot. The younger of the two men, the filmmaker, then embarked on the making of a documentary on the shooting of Mes petites amoureuses. Hilaire, who had played in this film, returns for him on the traces of this shooting, and tries to reconstitute the band that he formed with his friends and that Jean Eustache had decided to film.Read More »