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  • 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...

  • In The Starlight

    In the Starlight is an intimate portrayal about the life of nature photographer Paul Zizka and his quest to capture the night skies.

  • Air Ace

    Story of Winnie Drinkwater, the world's first female commercial airline pilot. It details her trials and tribulations as she broke barriers in an industry
    dominated by men.

  • Someday My Prince Will Come

    Documentary following nine-year-old Laura Anne and her 11 year-old cousin, Steven, as they move towards the end of their childhoods over the course of a year. Set in a quiet village in Cumbria England against a striking backdrop of factories, fields and windmills frames the narrative as Laura Ann...

  • Fight Club London

    Fight Club London looks at one of the world's fastest growing sports, Mixed Martial Arts. Three fighters prepare for upcoming cage fights. A 14 year boy, a fully fledged pro, and an Indian girl who wants to make her cage debut before she gets married. What's the true reality behind this sport?...

  • Pink Saris

    Sampat Pal Devi had had enough of the violence and lack of freedom in Indian women's lives and decided to take matters into her own hands. She gathered like-minded women together and, wearing pink, they started storming the offices of corrupt officials, hectoring and beating abusive husbands and ...

  • The Legendary Marion Williams

    Marion Williams was an American Gospel Icon whose charismatic sound and unique “whaling” vocal techniques earned her international fame in the United States, Europe, and Africa. Marion’s powerful voice led the Ward Singers to national popularity when they began recording in 1948, and also inspire...

  • Auntie Moves In

    1 season

    Families call on some big-hearted but practical ‘Aunties’ to help them through the rocky terrain of modern life, from money woes to health problems and love life troubles. Real people, real problems – there are times when families need nothing short of their own fairy godmother to help them throu...

  • The Graduates

    Three students who've had tough upbringings in different parts of the world achieve their dreams by changing their lives through a university education. (active TV)

  • Music For Elephants

    An incredible, unique and moving documentary about a concert-pianist who plays music to blind, injured and orphaned elephants with amazing results. At a sanctuary on the shores of the iconic River Kwai in Thailand, Paul Barton plays the works of world's greatest composers to endangered Asian ele...

  • What's in A Name - A Versace Story

    In this documentary film, the Alfredo Versace story is one of much intrigue. A man raised from humble beginnings, builds a life of fortune, to have it all taken away; stripped of his name, fortune, and friends. However, Alfredo would survive this tragedy in a way that clearly reveals his true cha...

  • The Rapture Of Free Soloing On Acid

    This film follows the legendary climbing photographer and Stone Master, Dean Fidelman. Fidelman was at the forefront of the free climbing revolution in Yosemite Valley and Joshua Tree during the 1970s, making photographs with John Bachar, Lynn Hill, Ron Kauk, John Long, and many other talented cl...

  • Clowns

    Why would anyone choose a thankless career of balloon-folding, silly trousers, and five-year-old hecklers? Daisy Asquith investigates the lives of four children’s party entertainers. Some love children – nothing makes Potty the Pirate happier than watching their faces light up with laughter – whe...

  • Liz Smith's Summer

    A film about age, loneliness and an old lady at sea, this is a celebrity travelogue like you've never seen before. Actress Liz Smith, known for playing elderly women (who are always eventually killed off) she is now 87 and while her life has been an eventful one, she's never had a real holiday. T...

  • The Jazz Baroness

    The true story of a Jewish British Baroness who fell in love with the musical genius Thelonious Monk. Contemporary filmmaker Hannah Rothschild tries to uncover the real story behind her great aunt's sudden disappearance. In 1951 the beautiful married mother of five left home and went to New York ...