La barre haute (2021)

THE ZAMA ZAMA PROJECT is an experimental documentation of ruinous postindustrial mining life in southern Africa.

Скрытая от посторонних глаз, внутри алмазной промышленности бушует война. Когда режиссер Джейсон Кон проникает в этот крайне секретный мир, он раскрывает масштабное, далеко идущее преступление, которое угрожает ценности каждого когда-либо добытого алмаза. На карту поставлено не что иное, как универсальный символ любви и преданности - обручальное кольцо.

An audition for men aged between 16 and 99. There are no props nor make-up, just pure improvisation. All that is required is the willingness to engage openly with the topic and language of the words on the page. No small challenge, since the text in question is the scandalous novel published anonymously in 1906 “Josefine Mutzenbacher, or the Life Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself” which, as this film confirms, continues to be the subject of passionate and controversial discussions about desire, even today. What might be world-class pornographic literature for some is seen by others as an abusive depiction of child sexuality.

In Camouflage, writer Félix Bruzzone embodies a runner who has an obsession with Campo de Mayo, the biggest military unit in Argentina. It is also the place where his mother disappeared in 1976 and the main clandestine center of detention, torture and extermination during the last dictatorship. The film will follow Félix as he finds characters that allow him to enter and explore this place so loaded with history.

An immersion into the rich landscapes of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote strip of sand.

Xinyuan films in her personal essay film Jet Lag is her trip from Vienna to China. The hazmat suits on the aeroplane and the layers of tape sealing off each room in the quarantine hotel conjure up images of crime scenes or medical thrillers, although once she does gymnastics on the bed, the mood immediately shifts.

Cem Kaya’s dense documentary essay celebrates 60 years of Turkish music in Germany. An alternative post-war history that is at the same time a musical Who’s Who – from Yüksel Özkasap to Derdiyoklar and Muhabbet.

A biography set in East and West Berlin in which singer-songwriter Bettina Wegner, born in 1947, sings about life in the GDR, her feelings of being uprooted in West Berlin, and looks back with humour and honesty on a life of resistance.

Akuol de Mabior is the daughter of a martyr of the revolution in South Sudan. As her mother is sworn in as vice president, the young woman tries to find out if this country torn by civil war can ever become her home.

As a young man, Ike Nnaebue tried to flee to Europe. Twenty years later, he retraces the steps of his journey back then to find out what motivates young people today to expose themselves to the dangers of a passage into an uncertain future.

A journey across the United States to explore the story of the Civil War of Americans from President Obama's final year in office through the present.

A cinematic essay interweaving private archive images and a mixture of reflective, speculative and poetic intertitles that, like “an old movie from the 20th century”, invites us to meditate on what Des Pallières once liked to call “our old homeland”.

A focus on the inner workings of a political party making headlines at district, state and national level as an “alternative for Germany”. Thanks to the film’s striking objectivity, it becomes clear where argument ends and contradictions begin.

Poignant stories of homelessness on the West Coast of the US frame this cinematic portrait of a surging humanitarian crisis.

Шесть мужчин, подвергавшихся в детстве насилию со стороны католических священников, становятся друг для друга семьей и обретают силу, создавая фильмы о пережитой травме.

Документальный фильм «14 вершин. Нет ничего невозможного» следует за Нирмалом, непальским альпинистом, сумевшим вписать своё имя в историю альпинизма. В марте 2019 года он объявил о начале программы, чья цель заключается в восхождении на 14 знаменитых восьмитысячников на протяжении одного сезона. Другими словами, Нирмал собрался сделать то, что до него никто не делал, уложившись всего в 7 месяцев. Реализация этого проекта была подробно заснята, а её результат получил название «14 вершин. Нет ничего невозможного». Картина позволяет увидеть подготовку Нирмала и его команды. Несмотря на относительно короткий хронометраж, не охватывающий всего путешествия альпиниста и его помощников, в нём показываются основные моменты покорения вершин. Фильм позволяет увидеть испытания, выпавшие на долю Нирмала. Показываются основные проблемы, включая непредвиденные. Но ещё важнее то, что он запечатлевает эмоции альпиниста и его команды.

La Polla Records, one of the most legendary punk bands, returns to bid its farewell. To celebrate the group's last tour, its singer, Evaristo Páramos, revives 40 years of history from his town in the Basque Country. This is the extraordinary tale of villagers who revolutionised incensed music with songs turned into hymns by their thousands of followers.

An irreverent entrepreneur overcomes a series of adversities to create a new sport- and unexpectedly launches a global cultural phenomenon: snowboarding.

В этом короткометражном анимационном документальном фильме ветераны Второй мировой войны находят тайный лагерь, где еврейские солдаты содержали нацистских военнопленных.

This documentary traces the rise and crash of scammers who conned the EU carbon quota system and pocketed millions before turning on one another.