Auto de Resistência
A documentary about the Rio de Janeiro police killings praticed as so-called “self-defense acts”.
The film follows people who deal with those deaths in their daily lives, showing how Brazil’s Federal Government deals with these cases, from the police investigations to the courtrooms.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Lula Carvalho, Natasha Neri
Actors: Flávio Bolsonaro, Marcelo Freixo, Marielle Franco
The Mystery of the Carpathian Sphinx
The concepts in this controversial film challenge modern theories regarding the origins of civilization and high culture. Neanderthal influence still exists today in our beliefs, myths, folklore, and religious practices….
Birders
Bird watchers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border share their enthusiasm for protecting and preserving some of the world’s most beautiful species.
Pick It Up!: Ska in the ’90s
Pick It Up! is an independent documentary film about the rise in popularity of ska music in the 1990s and the subsequent return to the underground. The film features members…
Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando, a self-taught architect, proposes an international architecture that he believes can only be conceived by someone Japanese. His architecture mixes Piranesian drama with contemplative spaces in urban complexes,…
Ballet Mécanique
Ballet Mécanique (1923-4) is a Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with cinematographic input from Man…
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother’s archives in this intimate documentary.
Evanescence: Embracing the Bitter Truth
Perfect documentary about this album after 10 years. Evanescence absolully the best band of the decade.
Killing Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa was one of the most powerful men in America. In 1974 he disappeared, never been seen again: one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century.
Ice Bridge: The impossible Journey
Is it possible that Ice Age people succeeded in crossing the frozen Atlantic Ocean to North America, thousands of years before the Vikings and Columbus? Two archaeologists believe so after…
Federico Fellini’s Autobiography
Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life events and fantasies, who did not…
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mutter Museum housed there. This short film…
Bob and the Monster
Six years in the making, this documentary film follows outspoken indie-rock hero Bob Forrest, through his life-threatening struggle with addiction, to his transformation into one of the most influential and…