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Daughters Of The Wind (2025)
Three blind athletes dream of participating in the Paralympic Games. Blindness marked their lives from birth, and later, athletics led them to discover the world.
Monzón (1970)
Short documentary about the origins of the boxer Carlos Monzón, made by the filmmaker Julio Toledo, who followed the athlete during his early years with the idea of making a film about his career and his journey as an international competitor.
En tres y dos (1985)
A famous baseball player faces retirement and the conflicts it causes in his professional and family life until the night he must play for the last time.
Giro Polar (2020)
With the intention of finding the purest light and capturing one of the most extraordinary phenomena: the aurora borealis, José Emilio Ramos sets out into the unknown and discovers the most remote places in Alaska, where the nights seem to last forever and the weather conditions for life are extreme. Through the skies of the North Pole, which remain untouched by the light pollution of human civilizations, the Mexican filmmaker and photographer reflects on his role in this universe, in which we are tiny and fleeting, and raises awareness of the natural beauty that surrounds us and that we must preserve at all costs to continue to exist.
Emptiness
A documentary essay about emptiness in Europe, exploring its causes, life in the emptying places, and attempts to overcome it in five landscapes: Latvia, Romania, Italy, Germany, and the UK.
Norita (2024)
As a mother seeking justice for her disappeared son during the dark days of Argentina's dictatorship, Norita's unwavering determination and fearless activism led her to co-found the renowned Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a pivotal human rights organization.
De Niro, New York
Constructed from over five decades of films featuring Robert De Niro in New York City, 'De Niro, New York' (2024) moves through space and time with a dream logic; placing De Niro’s many on-screen personalities in direct conversation with each other. These moments of connection and interaction paint a portrait of an artist and his city evolving together over more than half a century. Originally screened at Tribeca Festival in 6 channel format on the Hexadome—a six-screen, 52-speaker spatial installation engineered by the Institute of Sound and Music in Berlin.
12 Squadron Buccaneers (1980)
Documentary following a squadron in the RAF.
Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision (2022)
What do the movies First Blood and Weekend at Bernie's have in common? One man with a clear and curious thematic focus, that's what. Ted Kotcheff is an auteur filmmaker. He is a director with a unifying style, a clear thematic concern, and a coherent vision of life. This video essay defines these elements with an in-depth analysis of his filmography, which also includes Wake in Fright (1971), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), Fun with Dick and Jane (1976), North Dallas Forty (1979), and many others.
Deutschland. Fußball. Sommermärchen 2024? (2024)
Germany. Summer. Soccer World Cup 2006: A nation experiences a summer fairytale. Germany, 18 years later. The UEFA Euro 2024. A changed country. And yet another happy and peaceful summer fairytale? Esther Sedlaczek takes the audience on a journey through Germany 2024 and paints a sporting, entertaining and thought-provoking picture of the state of the "soccer nation".