Projektor

Obsession

January 2015 •Czech

Oscar, a digital hipster, dives into the fantastic world of analogue loving projectionists. It’s not as easy as it might seems, one may even get hurt! The documentary is about the dying culture of 70mm material and the last mohykans, who aren’t afraid of fighting for their beloved film copies and feed the hungry old projectors with them.

Peeping Tom

May 1960 •English

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

March 1994 •French

A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.

She Was an Acrobat's Daughter

April 1937 •English

An evening at the local movie theater, including a sing-along led by Maestro Stickoutski at the Mighty Fertilizer organ, a Goofy-Tone newsreel, and the feature, Petrified Florist, featuring caricatures of Bette Davis and Leslie Howard.

Mira corpora

July 2004 •French

The film appears like a ritual with splendids and crypteds psalms. The Great Master of Order (Marcel Mazé, new fetish actor after Aloual) seduces the young male prey with a running cinema projector which carves Murnau's Nosferatu extracts on their bodies. Metamorphosis, rituals passages, Eros and Thanotos, illusion and reality, film into the film are the themes and images in perpetual osmosis in this Stéphane Marti's opus.

Fordlândia

January 2011 •Portuguese

Machado do Brasil

January 2014 •Portuguese

Machado de Assis, the most famous Brazilian writer, is transported, without further explanation, to current times. Received with skepticism by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, where he will be questioned by immortal colleagues who suspect they are dealing with an imposter, Machado defends himself vehemently. Is he the true Immortal, founder of the Academy?

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

June 1896 •French

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

Britain's Trillion Pound Paradise: Inside Cayman

January 2016 •English

Jacques Peretti travels to the Cayman Islands to investigate the controversial British tax haven - a place with the population of Bognor Regis but a trillion pounds in the bank.

Flying High Again

October 2023 •English

In a world, where the snowboard corporatocracy cares more about the next Instagram swipe, one company has decided to team up with legendary snowboard film director, Mike Hatchett, and do the impossible. This film defies all odds - to bring together a crew of passionate riders for a full-length feature film - and celebrate what matters most: a bomber squad, rowdy soundtrack, and pure unadulterated riding action. Are you ready?

Apnea

March 2025 •Italian

Bakari was born a slave in Gambia and found himself at age 18 on a boat in the middle of the Mediterranean. Like his, 14 other voices recount what they went through to get to Europe.

Sort Sol - 422 dage i dybet

November 2004 •Danish

Empty Harbours, Empty Dreams

December 1976 •English

The film explores how the three British colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island became provinces of Canada and charts the subsequent decline of their economies after Confederation. Photographs, archival drawings, cartoons and interviews with Maritime historians are used to document the case.

Boyzone: Something Else

December 1997 •English

Follow the tuneful Irish lads as they go about preparing for their tour, making promo videos and recording new singles.

Here, Hold My Kid

November 2023 •English

Two professional skiers, two new mothers, one sponsorship. A quirky documentary style film capturing the highs and lows of two women determined to succeed with side-splitting, hilarious moments.

Trawler Fishermen

January 1966 •English

This short film was shot on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and shows off the new technology employed on modern fishing boats in the mid-1960s. The featured trawler is open-stern style, allowing full nets to be dragged easily from the sea then lifted to release the silvery catch into the cleaning troughs. -NFB

Das Dorf der Freundschaft

August 2001 •German

A German Documentary about the “village of friendship” that was created by American Veteran George Mizo to help the Vietnamese kids suffering from the Vietnam War.

Hotel Rwanda

December 2004 •English

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

September 1927 •German

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.