01 Feb 2025
Resilience: The Story of Ryan Porter
A short documentary on jazz trombonist, Ryan Porter.
Documentary revealing the science behind why so many people find it difficult to nod off, and offering practical tips on the best ways to get a good night's sleep.

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01 Feb 2025
A short documentary on jazz trombonist, Ryan Porter.

08 Oct 2023

If there is one person Matthew Lancit can’t get out of his mind, it is his uncle Harvey. Dark rings around his eyes, pale, blind, his legs amputated. Like Harvey, the filmmaker also suffers from diabetes. He has the disease under control, but one question is always nagging at him: How much longer? His long-term (self-)observation reliably revolves around fears of infirmity and mutilation. He translates the feared body horror into film, stages himself as a zombie, vampire, a desolate figure. Lancit playfully anticipates his potential decline, serving up a whole arsenal of effects which – as video recordings prove – go back to his youth. It is not for nothing that the “dead” in the title is also reminiscent of “dad.” Because “Play Dead!” also negotiates his own role as a father.

21 Jan 2024

A teen with autism unlocks a joyous world of self-expression as she shares her voice for the first time using a letter board.

01 Jun 2021

Who are the people behind the international anti-Covid-vaccine movement and why are they doing it? This journey inside the astonishing world of the anti-vaxxers finds out.

19 Jun 2021

When filmmaker Debra Chasnoff faces stage-4 cancer, she turns her lens on herself and the disease. What emerges is a portrait of her extended LGBTQ family —a story about hanging on while letting go.

11 Aug 2023

Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.

12 Mar 2010

Narrator and director Michael Schaap's confessional style and general goofiness bring levity to an awkward topic: "erectile dysfunction" and the little blue pill that treats it.

30 Sep 2023

Suicide is one of the world's leading causes of death, with almost 800,000 people taking their own lives every year, not counting those who go unrecorded. What drives people to take their own lives, and how can they be prevented from doing so? This documentary attempts to provide some answers.

08 Feb 2023

A journey through six different countries and characters into a world where chemistry is the ultimate response to human pursuits of well-being.

21 Jun 2009

An exploration of how the once taboo art form has become socially acceptable.

16 Sep 2017

More and more doctors and surgeons are using hypnosis as a supplement to anesthesia during surgery. Hypnosis is also gaining increasing recognition among conventional physicians, especially for anesthesia and pain treatment. Can it also help with psychological stress disorders such as trauma, phobias, addiction, depression or burnout?

11 Sep 1996

The film documents, in an often dramatic and humorous fashion, Gray's investigations into alternative medicine for an eye condition (Macular pucker) he had developed.

27 May 2022

This documentary features candid studio conversations with people of diverse backgrounds from the Erika Lust community. They share personal experiences with self-pleasure, exploring why they masturbate, how their views have evolved, and what they were taught growing up.

01 Dec 2023

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08 Sep 2017

Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, documentarian Matt Embry takes viewers on a transnational journey — from Italy to Canada, and from the lab to the home — in order to examine the politics of the condition.

21 Jan 2025

Caroline Darian, Gisèle Pelicot's daughter, looks back on the tragedy that shook her family: for ten years, her father drugged her mother to subject her to rapes committed by strangers recruited on the Internet. This case exposes the scandal of chemical submission, a practice where attackers, generally close to the victims, use prescription or over-the-counter medications to commit their crimes. This phenomenon, far from being marginal, affects victims with varied profiles...
01 Jan 1958
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27 Nov 2012

The Hugo's Brain is a French documentary-drama about autism. The documentary crosses authentic autistic stories with a fiction story about the life of an autistic (Hugo), from childhood to adulthood, portraying his difficulties and his handicap.

01 Jan 1993

This report was broadcast on ARD in 1993. In 43 minutes, the development of psychiatry "in the third year after reunification" is shown using two institutions in the new federal states as examples. A touchstone for all of psychiatry and disability care to this day. The film shows a shocking way in which disabled people are treated. The commentary uses the perspective of those affected. 50 years after euthanasia in Germany, this documentary reminds us of this once again.

13 Sep 2023

A food-loving and scientific tribute to the Mediterranean diet and, not least, the liquid gold: olive oil.