Trumping Democracy

Barcelona. Ritmo de un día

May 1940 •Spanish

Silence

May 1998 •Polish

A portrait of a family living in a village in Masuria.

Gente de mesón

May 1969 •Spanish

Represión: un arma de doble filo

October 2015 •Spanish

Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español

May 2010 •Spanish

Documentary about the history of experimental cinema in Spain. FRAGMENTS is a historical survey of “the other” Spanish Cinema — films that brazenly explored their artistic, poetic and conceptual potential. Spanish experimental cinema can be glimpsed in a series of important yet isolated events that FRAGMENTS compiles through various firsthand accounts, film excerpts and documents. For the first time in Spain, a documentary brings together the most relevant of a cinema that is slowly losing its invisibility.

Good Farm

September 2012 •

Collar de moscas

May 2002 •Spanish

Buñuel's Prisoners

May 2000 •Dutch

The filmmaker interviews still surviving residents of Las Hurdes, where Buñuel shot a controversial documentary almost 70 years ago, and compares the area as shown in that work to the way it seems now.

Los chicos de la foto

May 2014 •Spanish

Jesús Franco, manera de vivir

May 2007 •Spanish

Lucian Freud: Painted Life

May 2012 •English

Documentary about the painter Lucian Freud.

El jardín de las delicias

May 2009 •Spanish

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition

May 1912 •Norwegian

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's original footage from his South Pole expedition from 1910 to 1912.

Dying for Everest

May 2007 •English

On 15 May, 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mt Everest. It was a remarkable achievement and Inglis was feted by press and public alike. But only a few days later he was plunged into a storm of controversy when it was learned that he had passed an incapacitated climber, Englishman David Sharp, leaving him to a lonely end high in the Death Zone.

Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi

November 2016 •English

The sights and sounds of a kimchi factory in Vietnam.

In Prague

April 1964 •Spanish

Documentary short film by Mario Handler about the city of Prague as part of an internship to study film in Europe.

The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead - A Classic Album Under Review

June 2008 •English

Showing for the first time how it all came together and what made it so great, the film is all at once hugely enlightening, downright entertaining, and remains the only visual document of this momentous happening ever released.

Spotlight on Merna

November 2016 •English

Taking part in The Voice Kids is already quite something, but for 11-year-old Merna it’s really something special. Her parents had to flee Iraq because they are part of the Christian minority, and IS was threatening to kidnap Merna. They now live in Lebanon, where one in three people is a refugee. The family has been waiting for two years for permission to move on. FaceTiming with her older sister, who stayed behind in Iraq, and cooking her favorite dishes with her mother make the situation more bearable. But what also really helps is singing – this calms Merna and makes her less afraid. She used to sing only in church, but since The Voice her beautiful, melancholy voice touches everyone. Because of her status as a refugee, Merna isn’t allowed to attend the foreign performances with the other finalists, but she’s now a national celebrity in Lebanon.

Air Guitar Nation

March 2006 •English

If your bedroom has become too small a stage for your air guitar antics, take inspiration from the competitors featured here as they battle their way from the inaugural U.S. Air Guitar Championship to the world championship in Oulu, Finland. Along the way, filmmaker Alexandra Lipsitz documents the fierce rivalries that develop as would-be rock legends vie for top honors in technical accuracy, stage presence and "airness."

Barão Vermelho: Por que a gente é assim?

May 2017 •Portuguese

A documentary about Barão Vermelho, one of Brazil's most famous rock bands during the 1980s, following its steps through archive footage and interviews with all of its remaining members and associated parties.