
Between Revolutions
A semi-fictional correspondence between two women: one goes to Iran in 1979 to topple the Shah; the other experiences the onerous years of Ceaușescu’s Romania. Their biographies run in parallel via images of everyday life and videograms of revolution.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Vlad Petri
Actors: Ilinca Harnut, Victoria Stoiciu
Country: Romania, Qatar, Iran, Croatia
The Monopoly of Violence
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Super Size Me
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Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist
Through candid interviews, the perpetrators of Argentina’s most notorious bank heist detail how — and why — they carried out the radical 2006 operation.
Cartel Land
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Beautiful Losers
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The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic
A behind-the-scene look at the origins and evolution of the Academy Award-winning film.
Alien Planet
The dynamic meeting of solid science and futuristic simulation culminates in a dramatic exploration to another inhabited planet seven light years away. Alien Planet creates a realistic depiction of creatures…
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
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Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt tries to show the background and developments…
Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee
In 1973, martial arts great Bruce Lee died, his final film, Game of Death, left unfinished. With the public hungry for more Lee, movie execs decide to find a replacement….
March of the Penguins
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