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  • Tetsu Kono's Crazy Routine

    One Japanese man’s decade-long obsession with Korean cinema. Since 2005, Tetsu Kono, a middle-aged Japanese man, has come from Tokyo to South Korea to attend an average of twenty Korean film festivals annually, while revealing very little to others about himself and about his marginal existence i...

  • Angel Of Nanjing

    The man single-handedly patrolling the Yangtze River Bridge to save those attempting suicide
    Angel of NanjingThe Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing is the most popular place in the world to commit suicide, with over 5 attempts per week. For the past 11 years, blue-collar worker Chen Si has been patr...

  • Immersion

    The darkness, the muffled noises, holding your breath until the very last minute: this documentary plunges into the world of free diving. Lakes, rivers, oceans - the abyss is a source of fascination for Igor. Travelling from Switzerland to the world’s deepest blue hole in the Caribbean, Igor star...

  • Banzai Switzerland

    Someone in Japan is in love with Switzerland, its culture, its folklore and, more specifically: the Swiss alphorn! The Tamagawa Alphorn Club from Nanasawa, Japan, is travelling to Switzerland to attend the International Alphorn Festival in Nendaz at the end of July. Alphorn playing started to be ...

  • Am I Boy Or Girl

    1 season

    A series designed to record, share and celebrate two personal stories of brave transgender women & men - stories of struggle, of courage and of triumph. Those individuals who chose to be involved with the project reflect the broad diversity that exists within the trans community itself. Though ...

  • The Eye Of Istanbul

    The story of legendary Armenian-Turkish photographer, Ara Guler
    An insightful doc thick with the sights and smells of a foreign rarely glimpsed world. Ara Güler's archive of photographs captures the essence of Istanbul over sixty years. The legendary Armenian-Turkish photographer dedicated his li...

  • Out Of The Dark

    The story of a brave young soccer team that gripped the world. The extraordinary international effort to find and rescue 12 boys and their coach from a remote cave in northern Thailand was watched closely by millions. Four Corners documents this wonderful and tragic tale from the day the boys fi...

  • Tanzania Transit

    The disparate lives of three passengers aboard a cross country train. On board a sleeper train crossing Tanzania, the stories of three passengers unfold. Rukia is an entrepreneurial woman, on her way to begin a new life. Isaya is an old Masai man heading back to the bush with his grandson. Peter,...

  • Unknown Distance

    After five tours and ten years as a Marine Sniper, Sergeant Douglas Brown, alongside director and producer Gordon Clark, takes us on an emotional journey across America, documenting the powerful testimony of returning combat veterans - all trained with a deadly skill set, now rendered useless. Ho...

  • Dances With The Wind

    ‘Fury Dance’ is a story about a Korean protest dancer, Sam-hun Lee. He fought for the democratization of South Korea in the ‘80’s through dance, while giving up his own dream to become a ballerino. The film takes the viewer through prominent events in South Korean history, as Sam-hun dances to so...

  • Silent Forests

    More than half of the Central-African forest elephant population has been decimated by poachers in the last decade. Following one of Cameroon’s first female eco-guards, a grassroots law enforcement group, a Congolese biologist, a reformed poacher and a Czech activist, this intimate portrait gains...

  • Ganz - How I Lost My Beetle

    The Volkswagen Beetle is a design classic. Celebrated by the Nazis, and championed by Hitler, the Beetle's true origins were obscured by a web of intrigue, espionage and slander. This extraordinary doc reveals the untold story of Josef Ganz, the Jewish visionary behind one of the world's most ado...

  • Where The Light Shines

    Afghanistan's first ski team reach for a brighter future, From their amateur efforts at home in the Bamyan peaks, Sajjad and Alishah have the chance to ski for Afghanistan in the Winter Olympics. As local kids strap wood to their feet and imitate their heroes, the men face up to the difficulty of...

  • Deep In The Heart

    Deep In The Heart follows four patients, Lisa, Ted, Greg and Pat, as they deal with the emotional drama of major life-saving surgery. It’s an emotional story familiar to families up and down the country: skilled surgeons can fix bodies, but it’s up to the patients to make sure it doesn’t all go w...

  • Perseverance

    Dimitri is Fish Captain in Trouville-sur-Mer, Normandy. accompanied with his deckhands, Joris and Omar, embarked on a trawler, they track fishes... Far from their families from Monday to Friday, in the harshness of the job, they face the whims of the sea. Welcome aboard of "La Persévérance".

  • Our Territory

    Mathieu Volpe returns to the territories of his childhood, armed with a few feet of film, to meet those who were absent from his summer memories: the migrants from Northern and Southern Africa, gathered together for picking in modern plantations. With grace and humility, he reveals a parallel eco...

  • Shaman Road

    Born in different countries yet resembling each other so much,
    two women walked the path of life that was surprisingly similar.
    A baby girl was born in a small rural village of Jura in France.
    Her name is Colette.
    Another baby was born on the outskirt of Seoul, Korea.
    She is Sung-mi.
    Colette and ...

  • The Good Education

    Exams are approaching, the school year finally ends for Peipei, a young aspiring artist from a high school in Henan, a poor province of China. Abandoned by her family, the scapegoat of her comrades and teachers, this “wild flower” has never adapted to the rules of the institution and is strugglin...

  • 3 Cents a Kilo

    The day-to-day lives of three Singaporean cardboard collectors. 3 Kilos takes us through their routines and ruminations, showing us how they meet unremitting hardship with grit, humour, and back-breaking hard work.

  • Close Your Eyes And Fly

    The whole world thought it was impossible — that blind people could fly aeroplanes. Sabrina is a blind woman from birth who, with great tenacity, has learned to fly.

  • The Claustrophiles

    This film about caving is not meant for cavers. It was made for all those people who stay outside and ask questions such as: " How can you breathe? ", “Aren’t you afraid of being trapped there?" "But...what do
    you do in there?" Speleology films focus on the scientific study of caves and the cave ...

  • On Tour With Elvis

    This documentary mixes never before seen footage of Elvis on tour between 1973/74 at concerts in Las Vegas, Kansas, Bloomington and Philadelphia along with interviews with Elvis fans who attended concerts on that Tour. Considered some of his best performances.

  • A Social Cure

    The true story of the highly successful South African social media campaign to combat AIDS

  • Ghost Mountain

    Family tried to flee, but ended up in an even more life-threatening situation. Without the tireless efforts of Non-Governmental Organisations and Government officials,who saved them in dramatic conditions, they would have been forgotten, like the millions of Cambodians who died. Decades later, wh...