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Patrick and the Whale

Marine videographer Patrick Dykstra explores the wondrous world of whales in this breathtaking and revealing documentary.

Dolphin Man

As well as providing the subject for Luc Besson’s The Big Blue, Jacques Mayol did more than anyone to establish the sport of free diving to enormous depths without an oxygen supply. Using breathing techniques derived from yoga, he went to 50, 60, and even 100 meters—depths no one had considered to be within the bounds of human possibility. Mayol was a sportsman, a mystic, a vagabond, but above all, a man who believed in testing the limits of experience. This visually stunning tribute shows a man’s quest to be at one with the vastness of the ocean and to have no fear of the abyss within, where lurks serenity, freedom and finally, death.

The Last of the Sea Women

On the shores of Jeju Island, a fierce group of South Korean divers fight to save their vanishing culture from looming threats.

Le Silence de la carpe

The Deepest Breath

Bonded by their love of freediving, a record-setting champion and a heroic safety diver try to make history with a remarkable feat, ready to risk it all.

Le souffle de vie

In Polynesia, as humpback whales come to breed in the warm waters of the Pacific, Natoo immerses herself in a timeless experience.

Sunny Boy

Arthur Guérin-Boëri is suffocating in his local swimming pool. His swim lane has become a dead end. The French athlete, multiple world champion in dynamic apnea, decides to leave the warmth of his pool and plunge into the frozen waters of a Finnish lake to set a new record. His journey then led him to immerse himself almost naked under a block of ice, in an attempt to set a new record in the icy waters of a Canadian lake. In his quest for legitimacy, which brings him close to death on several occasions, Arthur ends up finding himself.

Hold Your Breath: The Ice Dive

Follow free diver Johanna Nordblad in this documentary as she attempts to break the world record for distance traveled under ice with one breath.

Attention: A Life in Extremes

The Song of Haenyeo

Breakwater

A young ex-con risks his newfound freedom to track down the estranged daughter of a fellow inmate, and unknowingly brings a devil from her past straight to her doorstep.

The Big Blue

Childhood friends Jacques and Enzo share a passion for the danger of free diving. Jacques, following in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy, harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing patterns in the water, with his vital signs more closely resembling those of dolphins than men.

A Cruise with Whales and Dolphins

The story of Captain Cousteau’s chief diver, Bernard Delemotte, and freediving champion Jacques Mayol, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean with two little girls to dive with dolphins and whales.

Fokking hell!

The Lost Paradise

After Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the village of Stara Zburivka in the Kherson region was occupied by invaders, and its head, Viktor Marunyak (one of the heroes of the 2015 film Ukrainian Sheriffs), was tortured in Russian captivity and then forced to leave. The film is made in the format of an interview with Marunyak, but in reality it is something much more: a meditation on the relativity of all earthly problems.

Los últimos del Tívoli

The Last Trimate

Narrated by Mel Gibson, The Last Trimate is a compelling account of the work of Birute Mary Galdikas -- who, alongside Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, is one of the three formidable women to have dedicated their lives to the great apes of the world -- she highlights the plight of the elusive 'red ape' and offers some hope for their survival as their very habitat is decimated at a startling rate.

Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!

23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him.

Music in Grožnjan

A look at the music folklore legacy and instruments used in the small Istrian town of Groznjan.

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