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Stand Up My Beauty
A documentary starring Nardos Wude Tesfaw
Nardos, an Azmari singer from Addis Ababa, dreams of telling stories about the lives of ordinary people through her music. In her search for the stories behind her songs, she meets Gennet, a poet who lives on the streets with her children. Nardos puts the lives, visions and power of Ethiopian women at the center of her creation as we slowly immerse ourselves in a rapidly changing country.
The Strait Guys
A documentary starring George M. Koumal and Scott R. Spencer
THE STRAIT GUYS follows Czech-born mining engineer, George, and his fast-talking protégé, Scott, along the proposed route of the InterContinental Railway through Alaska, to the Bering Strait and onward to Russia ... (more)
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The Art of Silence
A documentary starring Marcel Marceau
The first documentary about the legendary mime Marcel Marceau. He inspired several generations of artists, including his grandson and his family, who shed new light on his life’s work.
The Young Kadyas
A documentary
Twenty-five girls from Israel and Germany set out on a journey to learn and sing songs that poet Kadya Molodowsky wrote as poems and to which Alan Bern composed melodies. But before the girls lies not only the task of learning the repertoire, but they have to grow from two choirs into one ... (more)
The Red Orchestra (2021)
A documentary
Re-examining the story of the Red Orchestra: the most important resistance network in Nazi Germany, whose operations extended from Berlin and Brussels to Paris.
Memory: The Origins of Alien
A documentary starring Ronald Shusett, Roger Christian and Ivor Powell
The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger. A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and our collective unconscious.