Film Festivals
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International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Since 1983 this expansive Dutch forum for non-fiction filmmaking has thrown a spotlight on documentaries of various lengths and nationalities, with prestigious prizes awarded in several categories.
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2011
5 Broken Cameras
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2013 Academy Awards®, 5 BROKEN CAMERAS is an extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism and a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot...Start your free trial to watch -
2010
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
An enigmatic musical poet and the most documented classical musician of the last century, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate international audiences twenty-six years after his untimely death. GENIUS WITHIN: THE INNER LIFE OF GLENN GOULD humanizes the legend, weaving together an...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS is a revealing look inside the kitchen of renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria. Located in Catalonia, Spain, Adria's restaurant elBulli, closed for six months each year while Adria and his team of culinary experts design a fresh, innovative menu for the next season. Not content...Start your free trial to watch -
2010
Last Train Home
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future. Working over several...Start your free trial to watch -
2010
The Boy Mir
In this extraordinary and unique film, one young boy becomes, over the course of ten years, a young man. It is a common story but this is Afghanistan, one of the most dangerous countries on earth. What makes the story even more remarkable is the humour and adventure that runs through it. Every new challenge is met with a...Start your free trial to watch -
2010
There Once Was an Island
What if your community had to decide whether to leave their homeland forever and there was no help available? This is the reality for the culturally unique Polynesian community of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific. As a terrifying tidal flood rips through their already damaged...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Earth
Alexander Dovzhenko was among the greatest of Soviet directors and his EARTH is one of the undisputed masterpieces of the cinema (though his earlier ZVENIGORA is arguably a more revolutionary work). No single viewing of EARTH will ever reveal all of its poetic brilliance. In its compelling story, an old farmer dies and his...Start your free trial to watch -
2009
American Radical
A devoted son of Holocaust survivors and ardent critic of Israeli foreign policy, the polarizing American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein has been called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some, and an inspirational revolutionary by others. Exploring the deeply complex issues at the heart...Start your free trial to watch -
2009
Double Take
An Official Selection at both the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals, Johan Grimonprez's DOUBLE TAKE is a unique film that combines early 60's advertising, hysterical Red Menace newsreels and Alfred Hitchcock (featuring his hilarious introductions to his TV show and movies, and interviews with actual Hitchcock impersonator...Start your free trial to watch -
2007
Shadow of the Holy Book
This high-spirited, political satire exposes the complicity of multinational corporations in supporting and legitimizing dictator, Saparmurat Niyazov, of Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most egregious violators of human rights. Niyazov, self-appointed President for Life, transformed a remote Central Asian...Start your free trial to watch
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2007
Stranded
It is one of the most astonishing and inspiring survival tales of all time. On October 13, 1972, a young rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, boarded a plane for a match in Chile, and then vanished into thin air. Two days before Christmas, 16 of the 45 passengers miraculously resurfaced. They had managed to survive for 72...Start your free trial to watch




