Ned Burgess

Carmen Castillo reconstructs what life was like at the French Embassy in Chile from September 1973 to July 1974, through the writings of Françoise de Menthon, wife of the ambassador, and the testimonies of both embassy officials from that time andr some of its hundreds of refugees. A story about how humanistic values and ethics can be imposed at critical moments to bureaucracy, formalisms and, especially, fear.

Today, as in the spring of 2016, when this film was shot, the debate about the future of the island encourages Cuba and its inhabitants. A journey into the thoughts and stories of the Cubans of the interior reveals the complexity of the Cuban reality and its uncertainties in the face of a future that is far from being mapped out beforehand. This documentary analyzes the situation in Cuba after the reestablishment of relations with the United States, which began in 2014 and was initiated by the president of the United States, Barack Obama, and the Cuban head of state, Raúl Castro

Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian cinema, to an original work that continues to inspire today's cinema. Coming from one of the greatest families of the Italian aristocracy, he could have been a rich and cultured man, living in opulence and idleness, but Luchino wanted a different destiny. This is the story that director Elisabeth Kapnist and Christian Dumais-Lvowski wanted to tell. Count Visconti di Modrone wears the clothes of a legend that he never stopped shaping throughout his life. This documentary reconstructs the fabric of a brilliant life, dedicated to art; theater, opera, and cinema. This artistic work is also that of a committed man, who was a fellow traveler of the Communist Party, and who resisted fascism.

“You buy a book. You don’t really know why. It lies around, and then one day you open it, almost absentmindedly. And there you are, facing your own innermost secrets.” So begins Stan Neumann’s cinematic adaptation of W.G. Sebald’s award-winning novel, Austerlitz. The vaulted and majestic space of the railway station in Antwerp is where our journey really starts with actor Denis Lavant (Holy Motors) addressing the camera directly, and musing on the curious nature of railway stations. This bravura opening is startling, charming, and like the unnamed narrator of the book, you surrender to the proceedings and perambulate alongside Lavant, as he journeys through the great buildings of Europe, faded and shuttered hotels and grand colonnades with broken windows.

What does mean to be politically active in 2015? Documentarian Carmen Castillo hops the globe and engages with her recently passed friend, the philosopher and agitator Daniel Bensaid, to answer such questions.

From the plains of the Huasco Valley to the Atacama Desert and the mines of northern Chile, the narrator gathers the testimonies of farmers, neighbors, small landowners and political leaders. In the surrounding area and in the Pascua Lama gold mine itself, called The Treasure of America because of the enormous gold reserves it holds, the action is centred. The investigation is possible thanks to the access to the Canadian multinational Barrick Gold whose reports on the environment will be questioned.

A tribute and doc-crime-drama celebrating American film noir and the icons of the Hollywood golden age. It recaptures the time and place of New York in the 30's and 40s as well as plays with the codes and references of the genre.

Calle Santa Fe, 5 de octubre de 1974, en los suburbios de Santiago de Chile, Carmen Castillo es herida y su compañero, Miguel Enríquez, jefe del MIR y de la resistencia contra la dictadura de Pinochet, muere en combate. Esta es la historia de esa mujer que emprende un viaje crudo, sin nostalgia ni complacencia en los lugares del presente, en la memoria de los vencidos. ¿Valieron la pena esos actos de resistencia? ¿Miguel murió por nada? De encuentro en encuentro, con la familia, la calle Santa Fe, los vecinos, los compañeros, sus vidas, sus rostros, la protagonista recorre un camino que va de la resistencia al exilio, de los días luminosos de Allende a los largos años sombríos de la dictadura y los muchos que resistieron, desde el afuera al Chile de hoy, desde el rechazo al conocimiento. Calle Santa Fe es un documental -escogido para la selección oficial Un Certain Regard en Cannes 2007- sobre la memoria y la diginidad de una superviviente de la dictadura chilena.

The '60s. Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia, two amateur radio enthusiasts, listened to sound from space with home-built equipment in their hometown of Turin. But one night, they recorded something quite different from the usual static that would change their lives forever...

Gustave Courbet defied the conventions of classical French painting to become an innovator of Realism. This documentary by filmmaker Romain Goupil explores Courbet's life and work, revealing the fiery spirit that drove him to lead rather than follow.

An examination of the how television news in the US has covered war from Vietnam to the present day

A short documentary about the making of Chaplin's "Limelight."

A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre at the refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Genet visits the camp. Suffering from throat cancer and having written nothing in years, Genet begins to write on the threshold of his death about this disturbing new experience. It leads to his last book, entitled “Un captif amoureux” in which Genet reflects on the Palestinian revolution, its defeat, and the loss of one’s homeland. In this film a young French woman of Algerian origin who is reading the book returns to the landscapes of the Palestinian resistance and the refugee camps full of exiles, in search of Genet.

A documentary about cinematographer Gabriel Veyre's adventures introducing cinema to Japan and South America. Veyre was a traveling cameraman for the Lumiere Co. He declared cinema dead only 2 years after it's inception after he saw a villager jerk a woman's head to face the camera when he was filming a small group of them.

Documental producido y dirigido por Errol Morris que retrata varios residentes excéntricos de la ciudad de Vernon, en Florida. Originalmente titulada "Nub City", esta continuación de "Gates of Heaven" estaba inicialmente centrada en residentes de la ciudad sureña que se automutilaban para conseguir cobrar sumas del seguro de vida. Después de que la vida del propio Morris se viera amenazada por tratar este delicado tema, el director se vió obligado a re-elaborar "Nub City" y convertirla en esta "Vernon, Florida".

Documental acerca del experimento que llevó a cabo la estudiante de psicología Penny Patterson con Koko, un gorila hembra del Zoo de San Francisco con el que, después de varios años de trabajo, consiguió comunicarse a través de la lengua de signos.

Un peculiar vistazo al negocio de los cementerios de animales, que en el fondo son la excusa para hablar de la relación de los humanos con la muerte y sus propias emociones. (FILMAFFINITY)

In February 1971, women in Troyes go on strike in a hosiery factory and organise a sit-in of the premises. Several workers talk about their liberation movement and the experiences that have changed their lives.