A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 19M
Director : Jordan Osmond, Samuel Alexander
Sinopsis
A feature-length documentary that follows a community in Australia who came together to explore and demonstrate a simpler way to live in response to global crises.
Grace y su amiga Judith salen a dar un paseo a caballo y sufren un terrible accidente al ser atropelladas por un tráiler. Judith y su caballo mueren, mientras que Grace y el suyo (Pilgrim) resultan gravemente heridos. En un intento desesperado por recuperar a Pilgrim que, desde el accidente, se ha convertido en un caballo salvaje, Anie, la madre de Grace, decide ir a Montana a ver a Tom Booker, un vaquero que posee una facultad especial para hablar y curar a los caballos.
Documental sobre los efectos devastadores del cambio climático. El ex-vicepresidente norteamericano Al Gore muestra un contundente y preocupante retrato de la situación del planeta, amenazado por el calientamiento global provocado por las ingentes emisiones de CO2 por parte de la acción del hombre. Un documental cuya leyenda reza: "De lejos la película más aterradora que verá jamás".
Andrei Gorèakov, un poeta ruso, recorre Italia en compañía de Eugenia con la intención de investigar la vida de un compositor del siglo XVI. En su viaje se encontrarán con el apocalíptico Domenico.
A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.
Multipremiado documental sobre el fotoreportero norteamericano James Nachtwey, considerado uno de los mejores fotógrafos de guerra del mundo. El film relata la historia de Nachtwey al tiempo que trata los sentimientos y dilemas a los que se enfrentan todos aquellos fotógrafos y periodistas que están cubriendo conflictos bélicos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Tres pescadores barbateños, Manuel, El Perra y El Sheriff, amigos de toda la vida, intentan sobrevivir como pueden a pesar de la crisis pesquera que vive la costa gaditana. El hijo de uno de ellos, Manolín, llega un día a su casa con un problema más: quiere hacer la Primera Comunión. Sus padres, Manuel y María, no están casados y el niño no está bautizado. Ante la voluntad, casi mística, de Manolín, sus padres se ven obligados a poner un poco de orden en su vida. Pero el orden cuesta dinero.
Documental no sólo sobre las causas, sino también sobre los responsables de la crisis económica mundial de 2008, que signíficó la ruina de millones de personas que perdieron sus hogares y empleos, y, además, puso en peligro la estabilidad económica de los países desarrollados. A través de una extensa investigación y de entrevistas a financieros, políticos y periodistas, se muestra el auge de empresarios sin escrúpulos y la degradación de la política y la educación.
David, a widower, is working himself to death. Late nights doing paperwork and running on fumes is normal. Bills are piling up by the week, and foreclosure looms on the horizon. Blaming God for his wife's death, he ends his relationship with the church. Steven, the remaining Christian of the household, has been watching his father's unhealthy lifestyle with great concern. With help from his grandpa and best friend Maggie, Steven reaches out to his father in any way he can. Despite his grieving and worsening financial problems, David begins seeking an answer to the question haunting him since his wife's death...WHY? STANDING FIRM is a story of suffering, God's purpose in it, and being joyful despite it.
After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now… the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos.
The degraded socio-economic condition of Argentina leading to the December 2001 rebellions, and its consequent social chaos analyzed by focusing on real people from Buenos Aires poorest shantytowns, crumbling hospitals, and women middle class farmers fighting multi national banks that are shamelessly appropriating their farmlands. Written by Gonz30
Un joven pakistaní (Riz Ahmed) licenciado en Princeton y que vive en Nueva York desea con todas sus ganas alcanzar el éxito empresarial como analista financiero en Wall Street. Pero las circustancias hacen que se vea envuelto en un conflicto entre su sueño americano, una crisis de rehenes, y la llamada permanente de la patria de su familia.
A character-driven, action-packed documentary about Detroit, told through the eyes of the Detroit firefighters, the men and women charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead.
Michael Gordon, un árbitro de la NBA, viaja a París para cumplir la última voluntad de su padre: ser enterrado en esa ciudad. Ellen Andrews es una americana que vive en la capital francesa y que trabaja en la compañía aérea en la que Michael viaja. Ambos se conocen, se enamoran y, con el tiempo, se casan. Su relación, sin embargo, no es idílica, pues está salpicada de desagradables peleas, amargas separaciones y románticas reconciliaciones.
An original satire about women of the 90s in search of the men of their dreams. Franzy believes she's through with men, but desperately needs new amorous story lines for the comic strip she writes for a newspaper. So she observes her friend Maischa struggling to satisfy her need for love -- and someone who knows how to install her new shelf. Since joiner Klaus demands too much attention, she sets her eyes on the good-looking footballer Rene.
¿Cómo explicar que del esplendor de la burbuja inmobiliaria, hayamos pasado a una crisis económica sin precedentes? €uroestafa narra un viaje al pasado para entender la involución económica y social del presente. Un viaje que nos ayudará a esclarecer ciertas tramas económicas difusas de nuestra historia, que han sido claves para el devenir de la sociedad Española y Europea. El documental indaga en los orígenes de la crisis, cuestionando el desarrollo de momentos históricos tan importantes como la Unión Económica y Monetaria.
Three film-makers travel to Iraq to film the ongoing crisis in which ISIS forces are trying to take over the country. The film-makers speak with locals, military, police and other media outlets to get their opinions on the crisis but it's the voices of the children which often goes unheard, so the film-makers listen to the children, and find out their views on the crisis.
When 20-year old Nathan loses his career and his girlfriend, he questions his purpose in life. Compounding his struggle, Nathan grew up in a foster home and never met his birth mother. He sets out on a quest to find his mother and somehow come to terms with her rejection of him. His journey begins by flying to the city where he was born. Upon his arrival, Nathan checks into a hotel and meets Mave the hotel's housekeeper. Encouraged by Mave's wisdom and the help of hotel guest Shelly, Nathan finds the address of his mother, Linda. Linda is a social worker who agonizes over the decision she made with Nathan 20 years ago. In an effort to admonish the guilt of giving up her son, Linda is caught up in the life of a teenage mother-to-be, Tori, who is conflicted by the decision to abort her baby. When Nathan gathers the courage to meet his mother, he uncovers a terrible secret that totally redefines what was meant to be for his life.
Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in Serbia, placed in asylum centers after their dramatic journeys from war-torn and poverty-stricken areas of North Africa, Near and Middle East go through a period of adaptation to life and social circumstances in Serbia. In most cases, however, their goal is to reach one of the EU countries. Docu-drama is a space for them to, beside the socio-political context in which they found themselves, show their individual values, becoming heroes that viewers can identify with and whose destiny and struggle they can understand.
Bernabé, director creativo de una agencia de publicidad, se dedica a ligar con jovencitas con la excusa de que está en crisis. Pero ahora lo estará de verdad: su mujer le ha dejado, no consigue ningún ligue y se va del trabajo.