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Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets Karin, a mysterious jazz pianist who seems to know more about him than she can know. Suddenly, mysterious deaths begin to pile up and Johannes tries to uncover the secret under the mountain.
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Ukraine, 1990s. Young Vova, cruel and tenacious, struggles to find his place among the ruthless members of the underworld in a city where crime and corruption reign.
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Na cidade de Deli, os perigos da mudança climática são um problema do presente, não do futuro, para 30 milhões de habitantes lutando para sobreviver. Invisible Demons explora as consequências do crescimento econômico da Índia, capturando uma cidade em crise e nossas realidades climáticas coletivas.
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An exhaustive explanation of how the military occupation of an invaded territory occurs and its consequences, using as a paradigmatic example the recent history of Israel and the Palestinian territories, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, from 1967, when the Six-Day War took place, to the present day; an account by filmmaker Avi Mograbi enriched by the testimonies of Israeli army veterans.
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O documentário reúne pedaços biográficos de uma família dividida entre o final do século 19 e o século 20. É sobre pessoas que por acaso se encontraram, para então se perderem. Agora são seus descendentes, filhos e netos, que começam a desaparecer. É sobre fala e silêncio. Primeiro amor e felicidade perdidos. Pais e mães, filhos e irmãos, as relações, a mágoa e a alegria nas paisagens de transição — cada um com as entrelaçadas características de seu tempo. Uma colagem de imagens, sons, cartas, diários, notas, vozes, fragmentos de tempo e espaço.
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AQUARELA leva o público em uma jornada profundamente cinematográfica através da beleza transformadora e do poder bruto da água.
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Filled with vitality, humor and unexpected situations, Hamada paints an unusual portrait of a group of young friends living in a refugee camp in the middle of nowhere. Western Sahara is known as “the last colony in Africa” and this conflict is the longest and one of the least known ongoing disputes in the continent, but the Sahrawi people refuse to become invisible.
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The “Film about the Father” is a difficult genre. Andreas Goldstein, son of the GDR cultural functionary Klaus Gysi (1912–1999) has tackled this task with a complete lack of vanity, but with insistence: measured and calm, honest and intellectual, analytical and personal. He uncovers a mosaic that renounces both the teleologies of the self-styled winners of history and the simplifications of (West) German Oscar nominees. This film is not about the lives of others, but about his own life. Not about yesterday, about today, too.
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Croácia, 7 de janeiro de 1992. Durante a guerra, o corpo de um jovem jornalista é encontrado com o uniforme de um grupo mercenário internacional. Dezenove anos mais tarde, sua prima Anja Kofmel investiga essa história para tentar compreender o papel dele no conflito.
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Verão de 1989, Alemanha Oriental. Adam trabalha como alfaiate, Evelyn como garçonete. Eles estão planejando férias juntos quando Evelyn descobre que Adam a está traindo e decide sair de férias sozinha. Ela viaja para a Hungria, seguida por Adam. Assim que a fronteira com a Áustria cai, tudo muda na Hungria. As fronteiras estão abertas, como novas possibilidades para Adam e Evelyn decidirem em que mundo - oriental ou ocidental - querem construir uma vida feliz.
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Na região da bacia de Donbass, divisa entre a Ucrânia e a Rússia, ocorrem diversos conflitos civis entre grupos de ambos os lados, além do movimento da Nova Rússia, que pretende anexar regiões ucranianas ao país vizinho. Em meio aos conflitos, surgem situações inesperadas, grotescas, articuladas como uma comédia absurda e violenta dos tempos individualistas em que vivemos.
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Filmado em 23 países ao longo de mais de um ano, o documentário Human Flow narra a enorme amplitude da crise global dos refugiados. O diretor chinês Ai Weiwei captura a condição das mais de 65 milhões de pessoas deslocadas atualmente que fugiram de suas casas em busca de novas vidas.
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Kos (13) is going through the most bizarre period in his life. His mother died a few years ago and his dad is having a heart attack. While Kos’ father is in the hospital, it looks like the hotel he is running will be a big mess. But Kos and his three sisters do not intend to let that happen. After the siblings find out that father is deep in financial problems, the hotel is threatened with closure. The children however come up with a solution: someone has to win the local beauty pageant, with a hefty cash prize attached.
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Art, politics and motorcycles - on the occasion of his 90th birthday John Berger or the Art of Looking is an intimate portrait of the writer and art critic whose ground-breaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding of the concept for over five decades. The film explores how paintings become narratives and stories turn into images, and rarely does anybody demonstrate this as poignantly as Berger.
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It is a story about the Soviet worker Pyotr and the German engineer Hans, who came to the USSR before the war on a business trip. At a Soviet plant the German team works in cooperation with Russian specialists. Once Hans makes a mistake which causes the explosion of the furnace and human losses. Hans finds himself at the mercy of Pyotr, the only witness to his actions near the furnace. Pyotr also depends on Hans, because Pyotr’s very presence near the furnace entails accusation of subversive actions and a death sentence. Mutual suspicion gives way to silent sympathy and later friendship. They even look like each other, both have small children. Pyotr secretly leaves the town with his family but Hans feels loss rather that relief at the disappearance of the embarrassing witness.
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O filme é uma adaptação do conto de Bykaw Vasil '. A ação é definida em 1942 no território da Bielorrússia ocupada pelo exército alemão. Os alemães enfrentam forte resistência por parte dos Partisans e o ódio da população local. Os Partisans suspeitam de Sushenya, um espião, que colabora com os nazistas porque ele foi preso pela primeira vez e, em seguida, subitamente liberada depois de terem explodido um trem alemão. Dois deles capturam Sushenya e levám-no para a floresta, onde eles vão matá-lo como um traidor. Eles caem em uma armadilha preparada pelos alemães que são severamente feridos por um dos partisans. Sushenya tenta salvar a vida de seu algoz, através da investida dos Partisans ferido nas costas para a aldeia mais próxima. No entanto, Sushenya está sob suspeita. Ele lamenta que ele era um bem-respeitado e confiável residente da aldeia, vivendo com a família em paz, no entanto, a guerra mudou para sempre.
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A chance meeting between Nicolai and Nina, a friend from the past, makes Nicolai return to an abandoned hotel in which, many years ago, he experienced his only love, full of tragedy and an overwhelming feeling.
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This German documentary looks inside a nearly idle restaurant in a dowdy building in the country of Georgia, its listless workers waiting for business to pick up. The mournful atmosphere serves as a metaphor for the uncertain future of Georgia.
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What would be the shortest route between Entre Rios in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth's surface. During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down.
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In Echigo in Japan the snow often lies several feet deep well into May covering landscape and villages. Over the centuries the inhabitants have organised their lives accordingly. In order to record their very distinctive forms of everyday life, their festivals and religious rituals Ulrike Ottinger journeyed to the mythical snow country – accompanied by two Kabuki performers. Taking the parts of the students Takeo and Mako they follow in the footsteps of Bokushi Suzuki who in the mid-19th century wrote his remarkable book “Snow Country Tales”.
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O caminhoneiro Georgy apanha uma carga e segue para seu destino. Forçado a pegar um atalho, se perde, mas gradualmente, e contra a sua vontade, é atraído pelo dia a dia de uma pequena aldeia.
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In the Andes, a Belgian doctor and his photojournalist wife become ensnared in a native tribe's struggle with a mining company.
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Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after animals fall victim to a plague which threatens to eradicate nomadism.
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Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after animals fall victim to a plague which threatens to eradicate nomadism.
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Documentary by Thomas Heise.
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A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
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Winter. A bus stop in a small village. People are waiting for a bus. They talk. Listening to their conversations, the viewer can imagine the world they live in. United by the movement of the camera, the place and the people blend together.
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Documentary by Thomas Heise.
Film by Wolfgang Schmidt.
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Short comedy from Berlin.
