Memories on Stone (2014)

A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded AIP (then called American Releasing Corporation) on a $3000 loan in 1954 with his partner, James H. Nicholson, a former West Coast exhibitor and distributor. The company made its mark by targeting teenagers with quickly produced films that exploited subjects mainstream films were reluctant to tackle.

Una historia de horror y fantasía, llena de suspenso, y una metáfora urgente de la historia reciente de Guatemala y sus heridas políticas curadas.

While serving with the African Union, former Marine Capt. Brian Steidle documents the brutal ethnic cleansing occuring in Darfur. Determined that the Western public should know about the atrocities he is witnessing, Steidle contacts New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof, who publishes some of Steidle's photographic evidence.

Desde un juicio histórico por un genocidio hasta el derrocamiento de un presidente, '500 años' relata la historia de una resistencia en Guatemala llevada a cabo por la población de mayoría maya indígena, que ahora tendrá que reimaginar su sociedad.

A través de la obra cinematográfica de Joshua Oppenheimer sobre los responsables del genocidio en Indonesia, una familia de supervivientes descubre cómo fue asesinado su hijo y la identidad de los hombres que lo mataron. El hermano más joven se decide a romper ese silencio y miedo con el que viven los supervivientes, enfrentándose a los responsables del asesinato de su hermano, algo inimaginable en un país en el que los asesinos siguen en el poder.

Darên bitenê is a fascinating documentary exploring the “dengbej” musical heritage of the singers, poets and storytellers from Northern Syria’s Rojava region. Featuring a stunning scenery of poetic landscapes, the film is interlaced with stories of Kurdish and Assyrian songs that narrate the long history of love and suffering of this semi-autonomous region.

"Nû Jîn", New Life, with the slogan ' Woman is life. Life is resistance and resistance is Kobanê', depicts the daily life of women guerillas, Elif Kobanê (18), Vîyan Peyman and Arjîn, joining in the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in their battle against ISIS. The documentary relates the ISIS assault of 15 September 2014 and the five-month resistance by the YPJ and People's Defense Units (YPG) through the lens of three women fighter

Un grupo de periodistas americanos destinados a Sudán deberán enfrentarse al dilema de si volver o no a su país de origen para contar las atrocidades que han vivido, o si quedarse para ayudar a las víctimas del conflicto.

Linguist-philologist Mark Janse discovers speakers of the Cappadocian language – previously assumed extinct, linguists worldwide are exhilarated at the discovery, but Janse realizes the rediscovered language is doomed to die anyway.

Black Sun es un intransigente retrato de los crimenes de guerra perpetrados por la Armada Imperial Japonesa sobre la población civil y militar de Nanking durante la ocupación de la ciudad. Alabada por los críticos como una de las más perturbadoras películas jamás vistas. lack Sun: The Nanking Massacre muestra las terribles experiencias de los miembros de una pobre familia china mientras tratan sobrevivir a la ocupación japonesa de su ciudad. Dos jovenes niños, Jean y John, escapan con su tío tras ser testigos del brutal asesinato de su madre y su padre por los soldados japoneses. Mientras huyen de los japoneses, se separan y los niños tienen que valerse por sí mismos en la ciudad machacada por la guerra. La película muestra sin tapujos la despiadada conducta de los comandantes del ejército japonés mientras tratan de subyugar la ciudad por todos los medios posibles, persiguiendo la dominación japonesa de China y su objetivo de una gran Asia bajo el dominio japonés.

A documentary about the history of Ukrainian Cossacks in the Kuban.

Superfan David Whiteley celebrates the unsung British heroes behind the first film in the Star Wars’ franchise, 1977’s eponymously titled Star Wars. The Star Wars saga ends with the release of The Rise of Skywalker in December 2019. This documentary celebrates where it all began. It includes previously unheard stories from the people who made one of the most successful movies of all time, with additional interviews and previously unseen behind-the-scenes footage. The presenter, Star Wars superfan David Whiteley, who has his own connection to the original film (he was born on May the 4th), tracks down the often modest British talent who brought the galaxy to life. David explores the contribution of the London Symphony Orchestra and meets Ann Skinner, who was in charge of continuity. As well as seeing her original stills from the set, Ann reveals how she helped Sir Alec Guinness with one of the most famous speeches in Star Wars.

Lloyd Kaufman from Troma sits down for a Q&A at The Prince Charles Cinema in London on the evening of a Troma Triple-bill.

Especial para televisión que se ubica en el arco argumental de Dragon Ball Z. Se cuenta la historia del padre de Goku, Bardock, y su intento por salvar su planeta aunque le cueste la vida...

En un futuro alternativo en el que Goku lleva muerto varios años, los androides N°17 y N°18 siembran el caos y el terror. Gohan, quien perdió un brazo en uno de sus primeros enfrentamientos con los androides, y Trunks son los únicos guerreros supervivientes e intentan ocasionalmente detenerlos, siempre con escasa fortuna.

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as Atatürk, the Father of the Turks, founder of the modern state, and the current president Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, who apparently wants Turkey to regain the political and military pre-eminence it had as an empire under the Ottoman dynasty.

A documentary on Rojava/North-East Syria and the social change there.

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always been the epicenter of the German film industry.

A shocking political expose, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling for survival, dignity and justice after decades of top-secret human radiation experiments conducted on them by the U.S. government.

Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. When a delegation of the Herero and Nama tribes travels to Berlin during a ‘Colonial Exhibition’, he takes a special interest in their young female translator Kezia Kambazembi as subject for his studies.