Director Helke Sander is cleaning house. As she roams through her home and archive, she looks back on her life and work. Her stay in Finland during her marriage to Finnish writer Markku Lahtela opened her eyes to the possibility of more equal relationships between women and men. On her return to Berlin she initiated the New German Women’s Movement and began making films. The selected film clips offer a fascinating glimpse into post-War German society and Sander’s position in it as a woman, mother, artist and activist.
The film tells about the first steps of Evgenia Medvedeva on the ice, about working with Eteri Tutberidze, about everything that the world champion had to give up for the sake of sports, and what to gain. And also - about overcoming, about sincere and complex emotions and real partings. And also - about plans, prospects and about who to be after the sport.
Packed with all new footage from the Las Vegas area, Clive Christopher joins forces with one of Vegas top investigators Steve Barone. Different shooting methods are discussed while fresh new UFO & UAP content is displayed. With this sightings happening near Area 51, some of this footage was deemed historic by leading investigators across the world.
Once one of YouTube's most beloved creators; Boogie2988's career took a sharp turn downward in 2019. 4 years later his life is in shambles. This documentary follows Boogie's day-to-day life after losing his marriage, audience, and money.
Two filmmakers set out to talk with Vietnam veterans in the hope of learning more about a war that happened before they were born. Thinking this will be an exercise in education, they soon realize it may be even more important for the veterans. This realization turns a quick trip of discovery into a 30,000 mile, multi-year journey into these veterans’ lives, revealing the healing power speaking about their experiences, both overseas and back home, had for them and their families.
From award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter comes "The Lady Bird Diaries," a groundbreaking all-archival documentary film about Lady Bird Johnson, one of the most influential and least understood First Ladies. The feature film looks at the 123 hours of personal and revealing audio diaries that Lady Bird recorded during her husband’s administration. The film reveals Lady Bird as an astute observer of character and culture and a savvy political strategist. It recasts her crucial role in LBJ’s presidency and brings viewers behind the scenes of one of the most tumultuous and consequential periods in modern American history.
Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando” tells the story of a young man who grows up to become a 36-year-old woman. Almost a century after its publication, Paul B. Preciado speaks to Virginia Woolf to tell her that her fictional character has become a reality. The transition of Orlando’s body now lies at the root of all non-binary bodies and there are Orlandos all over the world. Through the authentic voices of other young bodies undergoing metamorphosis, Preciado retraces the stages of his personal transformation through a poetic journey in which life, writing, theory and image merge freely in the search for truth. Every Orlando, he says, is a transgender person who is risking his, her or their life on a daily basis as they find themselves forced to confront government laws, history and psychiatry, as well as traditional notions of the family and the power of multinational pharmaceutical companies.
Austrian artist Gustav Klimt's most famous painting, The Kiss, is examined in this documentary which looks at his life and the 19th century artistic movements that he both influenced and was influenced by.
In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having your life shared on screen. Featuring the protagonists of acclaimed documentaries The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square, as well as the filmmakers of Minding the Gap, Cameraperson, An Inconvenient Truth, and more.
For centuries, many men and women have left everything to dedicate their lives to contemplation. LIBRES, is a journey into the interior of man. We have obtained permission to enter and speak with people who rarely speak, in places that remain closed to the world: monasteries. What leads a person to divest himself of the world he knows, to withdraw from it for the rest of his life? How does such a person think? LIBRES approaches great questions of the existence of man, with a single objective: to listen to them.