The Story Of British Pathe

After a mother's passing, a daughter searches through archival footage to understand who she was, and how it connects to the father's abusive relationship that is shaping her understanding of womanhood.

Jacob grew up in the country with his grandparents and the quiet life there made him a happy child. But after he moved with his parents to a distant big city, his life changed completely. During his school years, he slowly realised that his ethnic background caused him many problems. He set a goal to move there one day, but the distance didn't help loosen the shackles on his mind. Jacob thought it was fine as long as he went far enough away, but he did not expect it to be at the cost of loneliness and the imprisonment of the soul.

This documentary explores the evolution of a blank canvas into a painting. A painting is so much more than just painting on a canvas, it embraces everything around that inspires the artist. With each brushstroke, a bit of life is smeared across the canvas until the painting is Life itself reflecting back at us.

The famous tragedy of Charlemagne and his nephew the Duque of Mantua, in conflict about a murder. The play, six hours long in its complete version, is performed each year in several villages of Saint Thomas Island, an ancient Portuguese colony. The characters, interpreted only by men wearing masks and sumptuous clothes in European style, are transmitted from father to son, and declaim an unalterable text. Several interviews with them lead us to understand the almost sacred function they are representing.

This film describes the unique Jewish culture in Atlanta, where the annual Kosher BBQ Festival takes place. And no, this is not an oxymoron. Director Adam Hirsch, one of this Festival’s organizers, looks behind the scenes of this curious event, observes the lives of people who try to combine the traditional Jewish culture with that of the American South.

Forbidden Photos: Second Story (Can)

Far from what a conventional documentary is, without statistics, without a voice explaining about what we should reflect on, without music guiding our emotions, without conclusions, without permits to shoot, nor official nor private sponsorship. Independent. Only raw images in the precise moments and places of the most recent earthquake in Mexico City.

Today in Shibuya, Tokyo, pick-ups are still going on everywhere. High school students dress up in make-up fashions, hang out in discos, and ride around on four wheels. Mikami, Takeshi, Nobuhiro, and Toru are selling party tickets for the day. Mikami is dating Kyoko, but she is about to marry the fiancé her parents have decided to marry. The other three are still virgins. Takeshi can't get over his older girlfriend, Masaze, and Toru has no idea what to do with himself. Nobuhiro is set to move to Hokkaido, but he can't forget about Sonoko, a beautiful girl he saw on the train one morning. On the day of Nobuhiro and Sonoko's first date, Mikami runs out of the ceremony hall and has a private wedding ceremony with Kyoko. At that time, Takeshi sends her to a hotel with Toru to test Mase, but she regrets it.

A portrait of one of the most successful European singers of all time. Salvatore Adamo arrived in Belgium from Sicily at the age of three. A miner’s son, he began singing at an early age before finding fame at home and then internationally, in the 1960s.

Don Salvador, the town barber, is an undercover informant for the Vigilantes (Autodefense) civilian troops in the fight against the drug cartels. He will be the middleman for a key piece of information; protecting it will face him against retaliation and his own values.

Two blind jewel thieves, a young man who can’t succeed at killing himself, a love-struck police officer and two female morgue attendants find their lives interconnected when an unusual fish is set free and a charmed ring is moved.

Even after his dad told him he is going to lose his hair, johnny refused to believe him, until the day when it hit him right in the face. He tried to fight it with everything he got, tried to hide, cure and ignore, but all he ever needed was to let go. When he did, he was free again to enjoy and live a confident and happy life.

Four more paranormal narratives: Be Gone, Crone!: My Friend at the Stairwell; Paralysis; The Black Hair at the Abandoned Building.

A man travels from New York to LA to see his son for the first time and gets stuck in a small Texas town and involved in a double murder.

During a visit to her sister Amaliata, Rosa, a wise Wayuu woman, teaches Amaliata’s grandchildren the importance of reciprocity within their culture.

After completing “Macao Stories”, Chu Iao Ian produced “Macao Stories 2: Love in the City” by inviting six new directors (including Macanese, Portuguese, and Chinese) to make 6 short films about love and the city. The film took into account market considerations while cultivating local film talents. The six stories are: “A Book to Remember” (directed by Jordan Cheng), “June” (directed by Fernando Eloy), “Sofa” (directed by Ao Ieong Weng-Fong), “Cake” (directed by Tou Kin Hong), “Shocking” (directed by Elisabela Larrea), and “Frozen World” (directed by Harriet Wong).

Macau Stories 3 - City Maze is composed of three individual stories.

160 meters is the distance between the two banks of the estuary of Bilbao. An economic, social and cultural approach at two ways of looking at life.

In the church of Jehovah’s witnesses there are no alternative ways of living. Three young adults tell what it feels like to choose differently and get abandoned by one’s loved ones. The tales are touching reminders of how the principles of religious sects can still tear family members apart even today.

The film brings us into an imaginative world with a kind, curious and slightly naive wolf, his friends and their adventures.