Battle on the Great River
After an unsuccessful attempt in 1946 to film a traditional bangaoui (hippopotamus hunt) on the Niger River, Jean Rouch returns several years later to document the ritual in full. The film records the ceremonial preparat
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After an unsuccessful attempt in 1946 to film a traditional bangaoui (hippopotamus hunt) on the Niger River, Jean Rouch returns several years later to document the ritual in full. The film records the ceremonial preparat
In an age where immigration has become a heated and divisive subject, this is a personal and true story of one immigrants journey to the United States From Honduras and the hardships that come with it.
A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.
A girl Frank who failed in her love with Bijan wants to commit suicide but is saved by Hossein Gaby. Her love Bijan who because of his father thinks she has leaved him meets another girl. ...
The heroine, a young archaeology student, whose relationship with herself, and with those around her, is forever marked by a traumatic event. Initially, Gaia cannot find the words to describe her situation, let alone the
Dedicated to the poet Paul Celan, the film traces the itinerary of the deportation of Jews from Czernowitz and Bucovina to Mikhailovka camp on the banks of the river Bug during WW2. Among them was the poet’s mother.
Li Ming is collecting folk songs on the banks of the Taohua River and is deeply attracted by the voice of Jin Li Rong, a village girl nicknamed "Wild Cat". After the outbreak of war, Rong fled to Hong Kong, and was broug
Journey through the water and the history of the Kukama, who inhabit the Amazon in Peru
This documentary details the indigenous environmental movement in Honduras in 2016 specifically in the aftermath of prominent activist Berta Cáceres' assassination at the hands of a hired hitman. The documentary shows th
A mournful ballad tracing a Wuchuan migrant worker's troubled life and first love.
Men in boats traveling along the Ozu River, sometimes getting out to walk on the gravel and pull the vessels along.
Three men steer timber rafts on the Xiaohui river. Fifty-something Pan Laowu is still single. Thirty years ago, he was in love with a girl. He talks about memory of this love affair with regret.
A documentary film by North Ossetian television about how a river flowing through several republics of the North Caucasus unites people living in them. Together they build bridges, work in production, create the famous T
A man on a bridge, separated from the love of his life. Wanting to be with her one last time, he decides to go and seek her in the hereafter.
A documentary film from Colombia that records the story of the uprising. Research and reflection on the problem of violence in Colombian society.
Piave is consider as sacred river to Italy. The drammatic event of the war and the Vajont disaster left a permanent mark on Italian history. Along the path, past and present, sacred and profane coexist, a portrait of the
After an accidental escape from home and marriage, Nara returns alone to the city where she once studied abroad, in search of a long-lost friend. Along the way, memories of a river and a choice repeatedly emerge in her m
Dang Gui saves a woman, Liu Lan and her daughter, who are running away from bandits. Dang Gui falls in love with Liu Lan, but she is taken by the bandits and Dang Gui must take responsibility for raising the girl.
Condensed from 40 hours of footage shot between 2007 and 2012, The Divine River is an exhilarating, hallucinatory, harrowing record of music, ritual, life and landscape along the Niger River—which the Tuareg call Egerew
Australian Meryl Tankard has been living and working in the German city of Wuppertal for three years and now regales us with her memories of her time in the dance theatre there.