The Optimists

A documentary about an unusual volleyball team in Hamar, Norway, with ladies aged from 66 to 98. Now they are up for their first match, after 30 years of training.

2013-08-22 | en

The Hindenburg Disaster: Probable Cause

2001-01-01 | en

While The Night Falls

An intimate portrait of the lives of Delvys and Carlos, siblings who live alone with their elderly mother in a rural part of a small Cuban town. The film portrays a family engulfed in their inner worlds. Between the sacrifices they make out of love for those who are present, and their longing for things that are absent, they struggle to find meaning as they reflect, contemplate, and carry the weight of existence, trying together, to move forward.

2023-05-02 | es

Keď ide o život

2024-03-31 | sk

Take 2

Short film by Sandi Mitchell showing footage of the ruins of the NFB's Halifax office after it was destroyed in a fire in 1991.

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Boj o Hřensko

2022-10-15 | cs

Life in Four Elements

A journey into four classical elements through the four main characters of the film. The main characters in the movie represent each of their own elements.

2017-03-17 | fi

Fire in Paradise

In this documentary, survivors recall the catastrophic 2018 Camp Fire, which razed the town of Paradise and became California’s deadliest wildfire.

2019-09-01 | en

Lara

Lara, a German au pair, recently arrived in Marseille, where a new life is beginning for her. Being an introverted young girl, she nevertheless throws herself into the unknown, into the twists and turns of a city whose codes she still does not know.

2024-08-10 | fr

Kaminfeuer 4K

2014-11-17 | de

Lessons of Darkness

Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.

1992-02-21 | de

Brotando en las cenizas

2024-10-02 | es

Le Grand Combat du XV de France

2007-09-12 | fr

Smokehouse

A group of friends reunite in the north of Scotland during summer.

2023-09-04 | en

AEOLUS

2024-10-11 | it

Forests

In a dark, ambiguous environment, minuscule particles drift slowly before the lens. The image focuses to reveal spruce trees and tall pines, while Innu voices tell us the story of this territory, this flooded forest. Muffled percussive sounds gradually become louder, suggesting the presence of a hydroelectric dam. The submerged trees gradually transform into firebrands as whispers bring back the stories of this forest.

2022-05-14 | fr

The Woolworths Choir of 1979

Concerned with processes of assembly, CHOIR brings together disparate bodies of material and archival technologies into dissonant concert. It is a work of several parts. Part one constructs an auditorium in which an action will be staged. Part two assembles the chorus to narrate the action. Part three supplies the action.

2012-10-02 | en

Boys Night II: Electric Boogaloo

The boys are back in this wet and wild sequel

2022-06-04 | en

Landmarkers

After the raging fire, landmarks are rediscovered, artificial frontiers carved into the earth. They are stones founded in history by almost extinct ways of doing, where word is law. As nature renews itself, Helena reestablishes the limits of her property and preserves a legacy in which the material is mixed with the human, returning to the roots of an intangible fortune.

2022-03-16 | en

Burning

Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer’. Burning is an exploration of what happened as told from the perspective of victims of the fires, activists and scientists.

2021-09-09 | en