
25 Sep 2022

Heartbeat of a Nation
A short documentary that celebrates Dene cultural reclamation and revitalization, in which a father passes on traditional knowledge to his child through the teachings of a caribou drum.
And so I cry sometimes...
Holger Diekmann was a singer, bass player, and drummer in multiple local bands throughout his short life. Filmmaker Jonas Helmerichs sets out to learn what kind of person his late uncle was. Intimate family portrait and exploration of grief, depression, and death.

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25 Sep 2022

A short documentary that celebrates Dene cultural reclamation and revitalization, in which a father passes on traditional knowledge to his child through the teachings of a caribou drum.

22 Jul 2025

In a world obsessed with happiness, so many of us are feeling more lost than ever. After a life-altering accident, Tim travels across four countries to explore how we define happiness — and whether we’re even asking the right questions. What he discovers could change the way we live, and what we value, forever.

22 Jan 2023

A year in the life of an underdog competitive high school mariachi band in the Texas borderlands.

12 Mar 2022

An elderly choir group brings back erased violent history by singing songs that were written in prison and have been silenced for more than 50 years.

07 Oct 2017

How does a traumatic event shape a family? How do you sift through the memories to find hidden clues and unlock a collective grief? Kingdom of Us takes a look at a mother and her seven children, whose father's suicide left them in financial ruin. Through home movies and raw moments, the Shanks family travels the rocky road towards hope.

01 Jun 1999

Dan Cleveland, a Minneapolis-based rock guitarist/deliveryman meets obstacles to his musical ambitions with uncanny determination, perseverance, and strange "inventions."

18 Nov 2023

"Niki's Music Shop" - a music shop that refuses to arrive in the present. For many years musician Tom Blankenberg has been passing by the shop regularly, and he is fascinated by the fact that absolutely nothing ever changes here. The collection of old instruments in the shop window has remained untouched for decades. And above all, the shop is always closed. When Blankenberg sets out to find out what's behind it, the shop is suddenly open...


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04 Sep 2017

The first authorized biography of Christopher Wallace, allowing Christopher to narrate his own life story. Using archival footage and previously unknown audio to tell the story along with interviews with those that knew him the best.

06 Aug 2017

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

09 Feb 2024

The final episode of Tamino's writing process in seclusion before he heads into the studio to record Sahar


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20 Feb 2025

VPRO icon Wim Brands died on April 4, 2016. He was known to the general public as a presenter of the VPRO Boeken program and also closer, with six collections of poetry to his name. This documentary about his life and work, built entirely from archive material, pays tribute to this television personality. A portrait in which attention is also paid to his complicated relationship with death. With a.o. Karl Ove Knausgård, David Sedaris, Ellen Deckwitz and Pieter Boskma. Brands' work merges with his rich inner life and that he chose death at the age of 56 casts a shadow over everything.

10 Mar 2002

An on-the-scene documentary following the events of September 11, 2001 from an insider's view, through the lens of two French filmmakers who simply set out to make a movie about a rookie NYC fireman and ended up filming the tragic event that changed our lives forever.

10 Nov 1978

A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common factor is death by some means.

25 Dec 2019

Dolly Parton leads a moving, musical journey in this documentary that details the people and places who have helped shape her iconic career.

16 Dec 2023

From the sweaty basement bars of 70s New York to the glittering peak of the global charts, how disco conquered the world - its origins, its triumphs, its fall and its legacy.

22 Nov 2011

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In Mexico, the lack of jobs in villages and communities forces people to migrate to cities in search of opportunities and better income. This is the case of Justino, originally from the village of Muchucuxcáh, in the Yucatán Peninsula, who after traveling to Cancun and encountering problems and suffering there, decided to return to his village and learn to work with wood. Justino demonstrates how humans can interact with nature and their surroundings to have a dignified job.

12 Nov 2020

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