In the name of Dignity (90′ - 2011)
Documentaries
90' / Current Affairs / Documentaries / Ecology / HD / Today's world
John O’Brien is a fisherman from the island of Inis Bó Finne, off the coast of Donegal in Ireland. John’s people
have been fishing salmon for generations and they would like to be able to pass their traditions and culture on
to the future generation.
52' / Art & Culture / Documentaries / Ecology / History
Cameroon is a country where men and women continue to construct their own habitats according to ancestral methods and in perfect harmony with the environment in which they live. From the shores of Lake Chad to the great equatorial forest, our guides will be André Gide, a pigmy shool-teacher, the chief of a mountain tribe, the sultan of the Kotokos…
90' / Art & Culture / Auteur Documentary Film / Awards / Documentaries / HD / History
Swetlana Geier is considered the greatest translator of Russian literature into German. Her new translations of Dostoyevsky’s five great novels, known as the “five elephants”, are her life’s work and literary mile-stones.
“The concept of transportation is not an adequate metaphor for translation. It is not transportation, since the luggage never arrives. I’ve always been interested in the losses. By what always has to be left outside that which has been newly created, the translation.”
52' / Documentaries / HD
Japanese people are crazy about horse racing. First punter in the world, they are around 150 000 people to go to the Japan cup. Thanks to different accounts given by breeders, owners, jockeys, horse trainers, journalists and punters, the documentary brings us into the heart of madness in Japan for horse races.
52' / Art & Culture / Documentaries / Uncategorized
La récolte du réalisateur témoigne de la lente conquête opérée par les femmes rurales depuis les années 1960, un combat mené en catimini, pour acquérir leur indépendance et leur choix de vie. Il témoigne aussi de leur engagement à l’intérieur des exploitations. Des personnages forts, lucides, riches et le plus souvent discrets
90' / Art & Culture / Auteur Documentary Film / Documentaries / HD
JazzMix est un film de 90’ qui retrace huit concerts de huit groupes actuels de New-York filmés dans huit différents clubs de Jazz de Manhattan. JazzMix est aussi et surtout une ballade dans le New-York d’aujourd’hui puisque pendant ces huit concerts, le film se promène dans les quartiers des différents clubs de jazz avec une touche de poésie propre à New-York, c’est-à-dire métissée, urbaine, et résolument touchante.
52' / Art & Culture / Documentaries / HD / History
Sable Island, 300 km south-east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, is renowned for its wild horses and shipwrecks. It is also an island with a fascinating geology and natural history that reflect the challenge of surviving wind, waves and isolation.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Auteur Documentary Film
SIGNERS KOFFER is a kind of road movie across Europa. From the Siviss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland. Always following the scenery’s magically charged contours. Immersing yourself, letting yourself be infected, then travelling on. Roman Signer determines the route that we are moving on and the film improvises along the way.
52' / Art & Culture / Documentaries
French artist Xavier Veilhan has been invited to exhibit at the estate of Versailles, following on from American artist Jeff Koons. Unlike his predecessor, Xavier Veilhan’s selection is composed entirely of works designed for the exhibition.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Auteur Documentary Film / Documentaries / HD
In growth centres like the Pearl River Delta in Southern China, one hundred million people have already set out from rural, underdeveloped provinces to earn their living there.
52' / 90' / Current Affairs / Documentaries / Ecology / HD / Investigation / Today's world
Mirage of El Dorado leads us far into the Andes of northen Chile, where a pitched battles takes place between a farming community and Canadian mining giants like Barrick Gold and its Pascua Lama project.
52' / Documentaries / Travel / Discovery
Easter Island is a mystic and mysterious land far away at the end of the world witch we seem to know a lot (regarding the famous statues) but in fact we don’t know anything about it.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Auteur Documentary Film / Documentaries
The documentary shows the aftermath and desperation of war as well as the hope of its survivor’s society. Together, the moving and still images work to give the viewer a more complete view of the current state of affairs in Sierra Leone during the last five years.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Awards / Documentaries / HD
Markus Raetz’s works - drawings, paintings and sculptures - astound us like magic tricks. Poetic, ironic or erotic, they call into question our visual habits.
52' / 90' / Documentaries / History / Project
¡Salud y República! is a documentary based on the extraordinary life of Juan Negrín López, Head of the republican spanish government of the 2nd republic from 1937 to 1945.
52' / 90' / Awards / Documentaries / HD / Investigation / Today's world
On October 7, 2006, Vladimir Putin’s 54th birthday, the journalist Anna Politkovskaja is shot in the lift of her Moscow home. Anna’s death is a personal tragedy: she has just learnt that she is to become a grandmother. But the murder is also a political act, for Politkovskaja was the President’s fiercest critic.
52' / Awards / Current Affairs / Documentaries
From 1970 to 2003, 1,600 women said they had been raped by British soldiers in northern Kenya. Feeling dishonored, their husbands beat and abandoned them. A handful of these women created Umoja, a village off-limits to men, which became the refuge of Samburu women. Jealous men regularly threaten the village and create many problems for its founder, Rebecca Lolosoli.
After the success of Earth from Above with more than 2 million copies sold in 14 different languages, renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand undertakes an incredible journey in search of the most beautiful horses in the world.
52' / Art & Culture / Awards / Current Affairs / Documentaries
Belarus is known as the “Last Dictatorship in Europe” and being a freethinker is not too good. Even such an innocent activity (plein-airs and creating the gallery) is considered as unwelcome and can cause problems with local authorities.
But next plein-air is starting…
The Golestan Rider is the story of a shepherd who dreamed of one day becoming a champion. Abduljabar has lined up beside the other jockeys.
52' / Documentaries / Travel / Discovery
This documentary is dedicated to people in danger: the zaparas. This Indian ethnic group lives in the middle of the Amazonian forest, on the border of Ecuador and Peru. The creator of these people - Piatsaw - had predicted from the very beginning their disappearance.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Documentaries / HD
The film is a traditional portrait of an artist, the outlines of a time where will emerge questions about the future of Art and the tensions of our time.
90' / Auteur Documentary Film / Documentaries / Fiction / HD / Spiritual Living / Today's world
Bill Coller, a humorous and down-to-earth Scot has been working as a medium for 15 years; six times a day he receives clients from all over the world and communicates for them with the hereafter: “Mourning affects everybody” he says. Hope, curiosity, the wish for certainty and the search for comfort draw people who are longing for a sign of life from the deceased to Bill.
52' / Art & Culture / Documentaries
‘Out of the ordinary’ would be the way to describe the personality of Jacques Monory, one of the most famous French painters still alive.
52' / Art & Culture / Auteur Documentary Film / Documentaries
When Agota Kristof wrote the Notebook she quickly had her first international success. Since then, she was translated in 35 languages.
52' / Documentaries / Ecology / HD / Science / Today's world
12 months expedition, 18 000 nautical miles, 21 legs, 9 seas, 9 countries, to call attention to the necessity for international initiatives in favour of the environment. Climate Change is happening around the world, both in the Arctic and in the Tropics.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Documentaries / HD / History
All over the planet, hundreds of very small theaters and art-houses disappear, huge multiplexes are being born and the struggle for survival is sometimes very tough. Hitting the road to seek THE oldest theater of the WORLD can be viewed as a nice pretext to make a panorama of this situation.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Documentaries
‘Beijing 798′ is a feature length documentary on the history of the Factory 798 in the north of Beijng, which has become the center and the symbol of the Chinese contemporary art scene.
52' / Art & Culture / Documentaries
Repairer and restorer of ancient musical instruments, including illustrious names such as Amati, Stradivarius, Montagnana and Da Salo, he possesses an infallible ear that can immediately pinpoint the source of a flaw or disequilibrium within the harmonics of an instrument
52' / Documentaries / Ecology / Spiritual Living / Today's world
Auroville (City of Dawn ) is an experimental township near Puducherry in South India , whose stated purpose is to realize human unity in diversity. It is a popular tourist destination, and has been described as a “New Age metropolis conceived as an alternative exercise in ecological and spiritual living.