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Another in the Fire
1h 39m
Movie 2025

Another in the Fire

On May 22, 1980, Michael Sinclair Walter was in a near fatal car accident in Redondo Beach, California. In a coma, paralyzed, blind in one eye, and with a million to one chance of survival, Michael battled back against doctors’ predictions. He not only overcame a horribly broken body, but he overcame addictions and personal behavior that were major obstacles to his eventual success.

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Big Boss
0h 41m
Movie 2023

Big Boss

Big Boss is the remarkable true story of Keke Palmer, a young woman from Chicago who faces immense challenges in the male-dominated music industry. Written and directed by Keke herself, the film showcases her perseverance, self-love, unyielding faith, and indomitable spirit. Throughout her journey, Keke discovers that the greatest obstacle she must overcome is learning to trust her instincts.

Between the White Key and the Black Key
1h 34m
Movie 2023

Between the White Key and the Black Key

In an audacious reworking of the biopic, this ensemble drama sees jazz pianist Minami Hiroshi’s memoir cleverly reinterpreted into a surreal and playful story about chasing dreams, disillusionment and the inner lives of professional artists. Closer to playing two sides of the same coin than tackling a dual role, Ikematsu Sosuke embodies two versions of Minami – the naïve upstart and the jaded pro – who magically cross paths as they become entangled with a cast of colourful characters in the seedy alleyways and jazz clubs of Ginza over a single night.

Lovebugs
0h 13m
Movie 2023

Lovebugs

From his cozy library inside the walls of a suburban home, an intellectual snail tells of his life’s love, loss and change.

Flowers And Rain
1h 54m
Movie 2020

Flowers And Rain

Childhood was complicated for Yoshida and he faces Japanese society as an outsider after his return from London alongside his parents. He feels displaced and frustrated, but soon finds new strength through hip-hop. Under the name of SEEDA, he starts to rap and deals drugs to produce his music while surviving in Tokyo. When he realizes that his new life as a rapper can’t simply undo the connections to his family, it’s too late.

Self Portrait
1h 20m
Movie 2020

Self Portrait

The documentary is a portrait of an artist and a portrait of a deadly disease. Lene Marie Fossen was a gifted photographer who suffered from severe anorexia. Self Portrait is a film about the power of art and survival, but it also raises important questions about what treatment one who suffers from severe anorexia needs.

Holger und ich.
0h 19m
Movie 2025

Holger und ich.

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.

Double Around the Interlude
0h 15m
Movie 2024

Double Around the Interlude

A flock of memories activated by various musical exercises, to strike the past to the heart, to build something utopian: the future, a sonic architecture. Music as a tool, transcriptions of YouTube tutorials as poetry, percussion exercises as descriptions of reality.

Bob's Funeral
0h 19m
Movie 2024

Bob's Funeral

Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.

The Books of Bob
1h 29m
Movie 2024

The Books of Bob

"My 60-year-long love affair with books and authors, their stories, and the life lessons they have gifted me. Filmed during the 2024 Oscars for Joel Havers Annual I Shot A Movie During The Oscars Worldwide Film Festival."

Ensayos y errores
Movie 2024

Ensayos y errores

Arcturus
0h 26m
Movie 2024

Arcturus

The warmth of moments captured on a family’s home video merge with the mystical discovery of bear bones and archival footage resurrecting a bear hunt.

Soad Hosny - Fall from Grace
0h 12m
Movie 2024

Soad Hosny - Fall from Grace

12 minuted video on youtube about last moments of the celebrated actress Soad Hosny.

Citizen Rose
TV Show 2018

Citizen Rose

Rose McGowan, artist and activist, documents the work being done to spread her message of “bravery, art, joy and survival.”

South
0h 28m
Movie 2020

South

What kind of power is accessible through the discovery of a voice? Morgan Quaintance interlinks two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side with his own biography to explore what happens when speech is ignored, and the voice fades.

Insufficient Direction
0h 3m
TV Show 2014

Insufficient Direction

This is the anime adaptation of Kantoku Fuyuki Todoki (Insufficient Direction), the first essay manga by the "queen of the manga world," Moyoco Anno. The comedic and heartwarming autobiographical story follows her everyday married "otaku lifestyle" with Hideaki Anno, "the founder of the otaku cult."

Laci's Great Escape
0h 10m
Movie 2020

Laci's Great Escape

Escaping is not as easy as you'd think.

N.T.R: Kathanayakudu
2h 50m
Movie 2019

N.T.R: Kathanayakudu

Based on the journey of the legendary Telugu actor, filmmaker and ex-Chief Minister Late Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri.

The Ronda Rousey Story: Through My Father's Eyes
1h 40m
Movie 2019

The Ronda Rousey Story: Through My Father's Eyes

This documentary chronicles former Olympian and UFC champion Ronda Rousey's ascent to iconic status in the world of mixed martial arts.

Ghosts: Long Way Home
1h 56m
Movie 2019

Ghosts: Long Way Home

After a spell cast by Grandma Faraway, the oldest son of a small family encounters the ghost of his late Grandma Maria still living in her old house, and they chat as they used to.

Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh
1h 15m
Movie 2019

Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh

In his first HBO comedy special, Gary Gulman offers candid reflections on his struggles with depression through stand-up and short documentary interludes. While speaking to issues of mental health, Gulman also offers his observations on a number of topics, including his admiration for Millennial attitudes toward bullying, the intersection of masculinity and sports, and how his mother's voice is always in his head.

Me and My Magnet and My Dead Friend
0h 13m
Movie 2019

Me and My Magnet and My Dead Friend

My childhood memories carry two important symbols, a large magnet that I pulled around behind me and a dead friend.

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