When “The Man” kills his brother, pumps heroin into the local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with a secret weapon disguised as Anaconda Malt Liquor, there is only one brother brave enough to take them on: the legendary Black Dynamite. This grand and glorious ’70s blaxploitation throwback is a fist full of chase scenes, gunfights, kung fu and a house of ill repute.
Baczynski brothers gave death a space of time: every day, from 5pm to 8pm, they have been waiting for her, sited on a sofa, for more than 30 years. Dorota, Tadeusz, Mordechaj have a brother, Leopold, who has always been left out of their lives and of the blue velvet sofa. He can only wait for the sofa to be free.
This is a unique music documentary celebrating 40 years of rock ‘n’ roll icon Bruce Springsteen. Working with the director, Baillie Walsh, The Boss’ fans have submitted clips to create a film that reflects on their personal insights and experiences, exploring what this timeless artist means to them. Combined with the unreleased archival footage of Springsteen’s performances throughout his career, and his incredible music, this is a film for the people, by the people.
From the photographs taken by Russell Lee in the rural America during the Great Depression, Square Dance, Los Angeles County, California, 2013 tries to recover the life and relationships of the people photographed following the emotions they raise.
Castro is on the run. He’s left his life behind and is now living in hiding in a room in a small town. He was alone, but someone has appeared in his life: Celia. She is young, beautiful and sometimes cruel. Celia and Castro survive together with no job or money. One day they abandon the small town and head to the capital in search of a new place to stay. There, Castro starts looking for a job. Meanwhile, the couple is followed by a motley crew of other characters, each one for different reasons.
On the Coast is a short essay film on the ephemeral feeling of summer, observed in Erikli, a small coastal town on the Aegean Sea in Turkey. The film reflects on the nature of vacation, as it is a transformed version of reality, the fantastical counterpart to winter.
The story of Ricky, a 13-year-old boy with autism, and his mother, Mariana, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, who works long days cleaning houses while Ricky, deeply imaginative but painfully isolated, struggles to cope. One day nobody picks Ricky up from school and he begins an odyssey of self discovery,
where his confrontation with the bizarre, indifferent world of the subway pushes him
to interact with the world.
Working with footage that the filmmaker captured in Japan 2011 right after the country was hit by an earthquake and tsunami, Substanz overlaps images and sound recreating a sensation of being lost in a foreign country under state of emergency.
A nun needs company at night. But when she returns home, it’s quite another thing.
Black Rain is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. Here we see the HI (Heliospheric Imager) visual data as it tracks interplanetary space for solar wind and CME’s (coronal mass ejections) heading towards Earth.
Suzanne isn’t just the subject but also the troublesome centre of this ambitious and fascinatingly slippery family drama. Over several years the film follows the lives of Suzanne and her younger sister Maria, daughters of a widowed truck driver. Constantly surprising, the film makes a series of unexpected leaps in time, reminding us that real life never follows a straight narrative path.
Mary is a hardworking nurse who dreams of only one thing: changing her life around. She resents her husband for being an irresponsible and incapable of holding down a job. Leeward is an idealistic musician who fancies himself a misunderstood artist. When the bubbly young Lilas, a 19 year old French artist who’s trying to make it in New York, moves into the couple’s tiny Chinatown apartment, their already fragile balance is upset even further.
A realistic and engaging portrayal of a dysfunctional, lower class family living in the Liège suburb of Seraing, Belgium.
Morande Street nº 80 is the side door to the Presidential Palace of Santiago in Chile. Salvador Allende chose it as the main access to his offices. On September 11, 1973, the president’s body was removed through the door, which has been kept locked to this day. A group of people born in 1973 exit through this door.
Symphony nº 42 presents in 47 scenes surreal situations based on the interaction of men with nature.
In this documentary de Cláudia Alves travels to India with two friends (a Brazilian and an Indian) looking for traces of a Colonial past. There she will come across different characters and through them she’ll understand what’s left of the Portuguese presence in India and the common history of the two countries. But in each encounter she will learn a new tale, a myth, so many ways of showing an idea and a country. These are the fantastic Tales on Blindness brought to us in fragments along the journey.
Lost in a garbage dump and looking for some human attention, Little Rabbit tries to reach the city with his new mate Little Indian.
Eight-year old Jamie lives with his granny and elder brother in a Scots mining village in 1945. With his mother in a mental home, and his father absent, he is subject to the hardships of poverty.