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Can one be happy despite being gravely ill? Nick Difino, a food performer, posed this question to himself. After being diagnosed with a Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, his disease became a challenge to find his own "recipe for happiness". His story - mainly narrated using his video diaries - is alternated with the voices of seven acclaimed Chefs and artists - among which Simone Salvini, Roy Paci, Diego Rossi and others - who portray Nick's struggle, since cooking for him during the treatment has got them closely involved. While preparing the meals they ponder over subjects as disease, happiness, love for life, death and - of course - the role of Food.
A documentary about Basque inmigrants who went to USA looking for work and a better future. Basically, Amerikanuak talks about feeling homesick, about struggling in a different country to make a decent living and about being part of a comunity.
Residents of Quintela de Leirado recount firsthand how, during Franco's dictatorship, many people resorted to smuggling to survive.
Portait of a couple in the city of the title who have been married for fifty years.
Kevin Bacon, Jamie Kennedy, Ariana Richards, Ron Underwood, Don Michael Paul and many more talk about the actor behind the paranoid, passionate, gun-wielding character of Burt Gummer. "The Legend of Burt Gummer" is a short documentary about Michael Gross' 30-year career as Burt Gummer, the fans that made the franchise what it is today, and how the character has evolved over thirty years, a TV series, and seven movies.
Documentary to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this popular cult sci-fi television series.
It shows the Neretva river from its source to the shores of the Adriatic Sea. The document also captures the original four-hundred-year-old bridge in Mostar.
Gilles Caron was at the height of his career as a brilliant photojournalist when he went missing in Cambodia in 1970. He was just 30 years old. Through his iconic photographs, and the gaps between them, this film, constructed like an investigation, aims to restore the photographer’s presence, recount the story of his gaze, and how he managed to cover every high profile conflict of his day in such a short period of time.
Series revealing the lives of the Dragons' Den Dragons
In this visual essay, Ana Costa Ribeiro uses personal archives to delve into the adventurous, relatively short life of her grandfather Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro, a pioneer in experimental physics in Brazil in the middle of the last century. He was the discoverer of the thermodielectric effect: “something to do with lightning,” as it was explained in a child’s terms to his granddaughter.
Documentary looking back at a Britain during the darkest days of WWII using stunning new archived footage and interviews with people who lived through it.
Educational short about contraception and sexual education for the youth.
In the heart of Rome, face to Saint Peter’s, stands a Palace. The owner, like a renaissance patron, has once been offering shelter to a bizarre group of friends, embracing their joyfully ambitious causes. The perfect hideout from where to pursue the most aleatory artistic projects, far from the hassles of life. Now in their 50s’, they are suddenly reunited by the premature death of their charismatic leader, Mauro. He left something tangible to the group of friends: hours of footage where he directed them in the most diverse roles, a supposed masterpiece that was never finished, and now a a mirror reflecting images from the past. The mourning, in the shudder of a moment, shakes the numbed spirits, leading them into a radical confrontation with their future.
Archival race footage, outtakes, home videos and interviews Dale Earnhardt's friends, family, and competitors are used in this documentary on the racing legend who won seven NASCAR championships before his death in 2001 at the Daytona 500.
19th century carnival ride.
Cámara Fría is a documentary essay made entirely from Argentine films released during the last civil-military dictatorship (1976-83). It is a work of montage, recontextualizing and intervening in images. The "backdrop" of the films becomes a central element. The role of Argentine cinema during the dictatorship.
Comedian Joe Wilkinson is joined by a host of celebrities as they travel the country by train. What do you get when you combine Joe Wilkinson, his love of trains and famous faces that he admires? A sort of train based podcast thing… that’s kind of it, really. With Joe’s love of train travel and all things “behind the scenes”, he’s gatecrashing the real train journeys of people he admires and going along for (their) ride.
In a quest for a new, more humane society, a counter-culture revolution takes the world by storm. In the first of the InterReflections Trilogy, we look back to the modern world and wonder how it was we managed to survive as long as we had.
The story of Iceland’s oldest boys band, Studmenn, is truly remarkable and is told here from childhood till ripe old age.
Starring youtubers Luisito Comunica and Juanpa Zurita, the documentary focuses on the Coronavirus pandemic and confinement impact, combining them with statements from health specialists, researchers and other content creators experiences, such as the Colombian Sebastian Villalobos; Argentine Micaela Suarez; Peruvian Wendy Sulca, and others.
In the three-hour special, investigative journalist Diane Dimond explores whether the billionaire’s death was really a suicide or part of a far more sinister cover-up at the hands of a powerful friend with something to hide.
Terror Mandelão addresses sound, technology, and the job market in the universe of baile funk in São Paulo's favelas. The film follows the journey of DJ K, one of the main DJs of Baile do Helipa, the street party of Heliópolis favela, and his friend Zero K, who got his first hit after 10 years as MC. Combining documentary, fictional elements, and visual experimentation, it portrays the ups and downs faced by young artists on the outskirts.
"Follow the truckers, you will eat well and cheaply". The legendary trattorias "of the truckers", where you eat well and spend little? These are the ones discovered by Chef Rubio in the new program "Truckers in the Trattoria".
Documentary series looking at the lives of enduring icons.
The groundbreaking and prolific music documentary series returns with several new episodes and the best of the vault remastered and updated for today’s audiences featuring artist interviews, a creative refresh and reimagined visual style.
Breathtaking natural beauty, tolerant, safe and prosperous. That is the picture we have of Canada in the Netherlands. But is it really that paradisical, or does Trudeau's country know how to put on a mask of civility? Writer Emy Koopman travels in Paradise Canada from Vancouver to Montreal and looks at the problems brewing beneath the surface. The series delves into all the urgent themes of our time and examines the state of Canada with racism and gender equality, migration, climate change and the welfare state. Emy Koopman speaks to famous Canadian intellectuals such as Charles Taylor, Margaret Atwood and Jordan Peterson.
Def Poetry, also known as Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry or Def Poetry Jam, which was co-founded by Bruce George, Danny Simmons and Deborah Pointer, is an HBO television series produced by hip-hop music entrepreneur Russell Simmons. The series presents performances by established spoken word poets, as well as up-and-coming ones. Well-known actors and musicians will often surprise the audience by showing up to recite their own original poems. The show is hosted by Mos Def. Def Poetry is a spin-off of Def Comedy Jam. As he did on Def Comedy, Simmons appears at the end of every episode to thank the audience.
Comedian Hannah Gadsby unravels the apparently simple practice of recreating our own nude human form. Taking a close look at one of the most enduring subjects in western art history.