MGM-tycoon Louis B. Mayer called Hedy Lamarr "the most beautiful girl of the century." A psychological portrait of glamour star Hedy Lamarr who became scandalously famous in 1933 as the first nude on the screen with her appearance in the Austrian/Czech film Ecstasy. She then had an extraordinary career in more than 25 Hollywood films. Don't forget her historic patent for a torp...
Shot in the U.S., Germany and Vietnam and using nothing more than archival footage, interviews and facts, B-52 relates the story of America’s bomber, tracing the history of the aircraft from its inception in the Cold War days of 1947 until now where the planes are obsolete, and many are sitting in the Arizona desert. Through his portrait of an American society that invests its ...
"It’s a black-and-white record of European cities in the dark (2-5am), from Basle to Belfast. Quiet, and meditative, what emerges most strongly is an eerie sense of city landscapes as deserted film sets, in which the desolate architecture overwhelms any sense of reality. The only reassurance that we are not in some endless machine-Metropolis is the shadow of daytime activity: a...
After four years of the Trump administration, Jonathan Katz, a Jewish activist from New York, travels across the American Midwest to support the presidential candidacy of Bernie Sanders. Committed body and soul to a revolution through the ballot box, his deepest convictions are shaken. While it is the last campaign for him, as it is for Bernie, he meets a new generation of acti...
Jonathan Katz strongly believes that candidate Bernie Sanders is the only hope for the United States of America threatened by Donald Trump. Sanders is a voice outside the establishment and has put new values and priorities into his political agenda. Pushed forward by his enthusiasm, Jonathan joins the thousands of women and men that rally around the caucuses supporting Senator ...
By cracking the ancient hieroglyphic code, Jean-Franois Champollion gave words to a thousand-year-old, mysterious civilization - but behind his legendary feat was a mysterious brother who made it all possible.
New correspondence discovered between Jean-Franois Champollion and his brother Jacques-Joseph now allows us to fully understand how a young, self-taught genius was able...
Chutzpah is a Hebrew word that can be translated as 'insolent'. To deal with an emotional and professional crisis, Monica starts filming everything: her private life becomes a narrative. As she publicly shares her intimate diary, the filmmaker wonders where the boundaries of privacy lie and how much filming and filming herself is a part of her life and a chance to reflect on he...