In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, Alice Rohrwacher and more) the same question: “is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”
Left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht’s working day is marked by applause and admiration but also doubts and intrigues. This film follows her and her team: from the 2017 election campaign to her withdrawal from political leadership in 2019.
Two Americans deliberately head to the edge of war, just seven miles from the Syrian border, to live among 80,000 uprooted refugees in Jordan's Za'atari refugee camp.
A portrait of Flemming Quist Møller's life, both as the man, the musician and the artist. Throughout the narrative, we encounter his work with film, music, theater, plays, satire drawings, book illustrations, paintings, screenwriting; we experience that he, as a communicator and narrator, is always on the side of the weak, working with the simple, straightforward and human.
Veterans of the Vietnam War tell about their experiences. The disasters but also the glorious moments of war. The central figure in the documentary is the scenario writer of Full Metal Jacket, Michael Herr. The veterans describe how it felt to kill for the first time and how those feelings still haunt them.
A book is buried under a mango tree in a backyard in Cape Verde, initiating a journey to reconstruct a fictional, geographic, emotional, and identitary cartography of loss, based on the five stages of grief.
The Hotel is the last part of a trilogy about travelling. The first two were The Atlantic (Atlanten, 1995) and The Lighthouse (Fyren, 2000). The hotel is a different kind of home. It can be a refuge, cul-de-sac, castle, nightmare, creative space...The first hotel was created as protection against the elements. Weary travellers could find shelter and rest. But it was also a place for legends and anecdotes.
The film provides a look at the 1980 Mundialito, an international friendly soccer tournament organized by the Uruguayan Soccer Association, which brought together the World Cup-winning national teams and the Netherlands, and was organized in Uruguay during an unconventional political situation.
A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra".
The UK schools scandal through the eyes of Black parents, teachers, and activists who banded together to expose the injustice and force the education system to change.
In 1995, 60 American theatre and TV students traveled to Russia - in a Fine Arts exchange with 40 Russian theatre and film students. Over thirty emotional days, they shattered stereotypes thru the very media that created them.
From the early 19th century 1946 Paris had many brothels that were tolerated and controlled by the state. These were sometimes rough places but more often were housed in richly designed buildings and serviced a clientèle from all walks of life. This documentary looks back at the Paris brothels through photographs, historians as well as memories from some who would frequent them as clients or work there as prostitutes.
This documentary from PBS travels throughout America in search of the best breakfast places the country has to offer. Along the way, the patrons, employees, and owners of such establishments give their take on what makes for great breakfast fare, and what keeps a customer coming back for more.
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