Zeitgenössische Fotografie in Amerika

Echoes from the Tian Shan

GDR Photo Shoot: Propaganda and Daily Life

Life in the GDR was not only documented on behalf of the state, but also by photographic artists and journalists. The documentary goes on a journey through time with some of them and shows little-known aspects of the GDR from its foundation to the fall of the Wall. Photographers in the GDR had a surprising amount of freedom; there was no explicit censorship of images. This allowed them to make visible what the state wanted to hide. This documentary presents two photographers who observed life in the GDR and whose work has been rediscovered in recent years.

White Guitar

The story of an unfinished documentary about Alfredo Zitarrosa and that of his director, Francisco "Papico" Cibils.

Akwaaba: The Awakening

A documentary film chronicling the lives of African-Americans from Los Angeles, CA, traveling to Africa The Motherland for the first time.

Blake and Gwen: Now and Then

Follow the offstage, unlikely romance of the king of country, Blake Shelton, and pop princess, Gwen Stefani. Both stars braved their share of challenges on the way to writing their own love song.

bOObs: The War on Women's Breasts

Investigates the controversy swirling around the breast cancer screening test mammography.

Territorio natural Casanare

Through the reflections of a father and daughter about themselves and their close relationship with their natural environment and the animal world, we embark on a journey deep into the Altagracia Reserves in the Colombian Orinoco region.

Dog Days of Winter

In the mountains of 1960s America, thrill-seeking skiers quit toeing the line and began carving out new ways of making it down the mountain in style. They established a community of athletes, living for the creative freedom of hot dog skiing.This look back on the origins of the now Olympic discipline reveals its carefree beginnings, and the showmen who took this dangerous sport to the big time.

The Survivalists

This documentary talks to women training with machine guns, to undergraduates taking courses in How to Stay Alive, to retired generals who run schools for mercenary killers, and to self-appointed clergy who say their native America has "gone soft on the Devil and the Reds" and has become a "Disneyland for Dummies".

Narritjin at Djarrakpi

In 1974, Narritjin Maymuru and his family are establishing a small settlement at Djarrakpi, an important Manggalili clan site on the northern head of Blue Mud Bay in the Northern Territory.

Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up

Despite the mantra of 'live fast, die young', Britain's first rock 'n' roll generations are now enjoying old age. What was once about youth and taking risks is now about longevity, survival, nostalgia and refusing to grow up, give up or shut up. But what happens when the music refuses to die and its performers refuse to leave the stage? What happens when rock's youthful rebelliousness is delivered wrapped in wrinkles?

Russell Brand on the Road

Russell Brand sets out across America's vast heartland in homage to one of his literary heroes, Jack Kerouac, and his classic novel, On the Road. Travelling with his friend and co-host of his Radio 2 show The Russell Brand Show, he sets off on a coast-to-coast adventure that becomes a journey of self discovery.

Invisible Film

Invisible Film reimagines Peter Watkins’s Punishment Park (1971), a radical anti-war film banned in both the UK and the US after the Vietnam War. Melik Ohanian replaces its images with a single static shot of a 35mm projector screening the censored film in daylight in the San Bernardino desert—its original location. Projected without a screen, the image disappears into the desert air, turning cinema itself into both subject and ghost.

Paralelas

But when it rains

The city of Alicante (southeastern Spain) experienced catastrophic floods in 1982 and 1997. Locals share their memories from the floods, and their concerns for the present.

Look at Life: Looking for Nothing

A look at a number of different sights, including the Manchester Whitweek walks, liners, pet-shop windows and holes.

I saw Jesus

How to film God? This essay explores mystical experiences and the possibilities of narrating encounters with that which can only be stirred and awakened in the spirit. Beginning with a childhood mystical experience, the director searches for ways to stage the numinous. Digital images, artificial intelligence, and multimedia material from the internet are juxtaposed with personal testimony and medieval texts to create a reflection on the encounter with the transcendent in the digital age.

España de los contrastes

A luminous journey through Spain in search of the sun and the many commonalities and differences that for millennia have united and divided the inhabitants of that land of many landscapes, many cultures and many ideas.

Cine Noir, The Films of the Night

A documentary short film that narrates the history of cinema noir and the meaning it has, but within it there is a mystery that has to be discovered.

Decker Vs. Dracula: Behind The Truth

Decker creator and star, Tim Heidecker, sheds light on the troubled production, Decker Vs. Dracula.