Plot and Background
Director Hellmuth Costard asked himself in 1974: “Is it possible to make films in Germany today?”. Benefiting from a television job, he equips himself with his own camera system and films with several cameras in order to make the illusion of filming clear. In 1977 he failed, interviewed colleagues like Hark Bohm (“North Sea is Murder Sea”) and met his idol Jean-Luc Godard, who came to Hamburg for a day but failed at the NDR and left again. Costard is speechless.Read More »
Tells the story of a hundred years of a life as seen through the eyes of thirty Irish centenarians.Read More »
AUGUST 1980: Following the unjustified dismissal of Anna Walentynowicz, an employee just months away from retirement, her colleagues at the Gdansk shipyards organized a general solidarity strike. The movement grew to unprecedented proportions and would have irreversible consequences for all of Polish society, and by extension, for the Soviet bloc.Read More »
Kira Deshler wrote:
In 1986, documentarian Pam Walton released a short film simply titled Lesbians. The video captures three lesbians – Diane Porath, Dianne Rhudy, and Marilyn Watkins – discussing their lives and opinions. Or, as the cheeky synopsis reads, “Three politically incorrect lesbians talk about being lesbian.”Read More »
This sensitive long-term documentary portrays the timid archeology student Sven who is one of the first pedophiles to face the camera without a pixelated face and distorted voice to openly talk about his difficult struggle against his forbidden desires. [imdb]Read More »
When an elderly dog is scheduled to be euthanized, Donna decides to take the dog home to fill the emptiness she feels, Donna begins to take home more and more animals and she is soon in over her head.Read More »
Drawing inspiration from Frederick Wiseman’s classic aesthetic, Nepalese filmmaker Kesang Tseten spends a year observing the community and culture of Himalayan immigrants in and around the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens. During the buildup to the 2020 U.S. Census, the inhabitants reveal their motivation to have their presence recorded, encouraged by visits from their political representatives, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In carefully captured verite footage, we see a rich portrait of people deeply connected to homeland traditions while adjusting to life in exile.Read More »
Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé reveals his passion for cinema, Africa and the world to Cambodian director Rithy Panh.Read More »
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The documentary is about the foundation of a new town in the province of Oristano: Mussolinia. Named Arborea after 1945, it was founded as a result of a dike’s construction in the Tirso basin. The film shows the vastness of the dike in details. Forty thousand hectares of Campidano were made suitable to settlement thanks to hydroelectric plants, and the hard work of plowing and sowing the fields. The images show the efforts of building up a city from nothing to the first farms and houses, the road network and the new church. The last frames are in a street market: the display of goods to be sold and the faces of women doing their shopping.Read More »