Signs of Vigorous Life: New German Cinema features interview footage with Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Volker Schlondorff, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The documentary takes you through the origins of German film during its post war failures to the birth of the New German Cinema and its founding members.
A major transgression in the representation of psychiatry, Matti da slegare films its “madmen” in the outside world, its ethics at odds with sensationalist views of the asylum apparatus. The filmmaker uses speech to reject oppression, through a long-term approach: standing against internment, for the individual and for collective intelligence.
This documentary shows the preparation for and the celebration of the Christmas holidays in an area of Trás-os-Montes, a region in north-eastern Portugal where particularly archaic traditions have survived. The festivities continue from Christmas until Ash Wednesday, including Christmas, Saint Stephen, New Year's, Epiphany and Carnival. The birth, the life and the death of Jesu...