The Lost Wave

The Beach Boys - California Surfin

2004

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Storm Riders

1980 · ★ 3

Feature length surf film described as one of the slickest and most professional ever made featuring the worlds top surfers Mark Richards, Gerry Lopez, Simon Anderson plus Wayne Lynch and many more. The film featured a rocking soundtrack with music by The Doors, Australian Crawl, Split Enz, The Church, Sunnyboys and many more. Special features on this DVD include the cult short surf film KONG's ISLAND.

Gorillas: From the Heart of Darkness

Rwanda was once a country of peace, beauty and fabulous wildlife. Romain Baertsoen arrived there in 1966 and started to film two of Rwanda's secrets, the Bahima tribe and rare mountain gorillas. The Rwandan Civil War shattered the peace in 1994, as warring factions pillaged towns and plundered the forests. Remarkably, the gorillas survived, but the world around them is increasingly uncertain.

Ouaga, the Capital of Cinema

2000

Between 1983 and 1987, Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso and the home city of FESPACO, one of the most important Pan-African film festivals in the world, was the scene of an exciting cinema utopia. With the support of the young president Thomas Sankara, the festival became a symbol of the cultural renaissance of a whole continent. The assassination of Sankara stifled the hopes of millions of young Africans, but the dynamism of FESPACO and African cinema did not stop.

Memory Books

2008

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. Aware of the illness, it is a way for the family to come to terms with the inevitable death that it faces. Hopelessness and desperation are confronted through the collaborative effort of remembering and recording, a process that inspires unexpected strength and even solace in the face of death.

White Man with Black Bread

2007 · ★ 8

Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("RAF") lives in Mali. In his compelling portrait, Jonas Grosch shows a man who simply cannot stand still if he senses injustice. The courage to stand up for one’s beliefs coupled with vanity? However one chooses to look at it, it is easy to imagine what made him connect with the "RAF". With his irrepressible will for freedom, Christof Wackernagel gets entangled in the horrors of day-to-day life in Africa.

The Aviatrix

2015 · ★ 10

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years later, Tracey Curtis-Taylor set out in a vintage biplane to fly that adventure again. Following Tracey as she retraces the journey, The Aviatrix is more than just a film about the rapture of flying – it’s a story about living life on your own terms and having the courage and determination to realise your greatest dreams.

Cruel Famine Continent

1973

Cruel Famine Continent documents the Great Sahelian drought in West Africa and its effect on the people. The production was an attempt to pivot Toei's output from yakuza films and Toei Porn towards "global issues" and "whatever makes money", as stated by then-Toei president Shigeru Okada. Theatrical proceeds were to be shared as relief funds through the Japanese Red Cross, though the box office returns are unknown. Footage shot for the documentary by Yoshimitsu Banno would later be reused in the 1974 Toho production Prophecies of Nostradamus.

Bali High

1981

Featuring the incredible tube riding of Peter Mccabe, Tommy Carroll, Larry Blair and others in a dazzling array of exotic wave frontiers including Java, Bali, Hawaii and the mysterious "Isle of Kong". A surfing Odyssey by Stephen Spaulding

A Little Hawaiian Style

1988

World-famous surf photographer Don King and hi wife Liysa King welcome you to join them as they take you on a laid-back look at some of Hawaii's premier watermen going for it... HAWAIIAN STYLE

Bustin' Out

1990

Pottz, Dane, Curren and Johnny Boy at Backdoor... Munga, Nicky Wood and Chris Billy down uner in Oz... Poto, Carroll, Derek & Michael Ho, Burns & Kasuya ripping and charging at Pipeline, Backdoor, OTW and Rocky Point... Schmidt, Ruffo, Gallagher, Steve Price and Peter Mell in Nor Cal Juice... and more!

Follow the Sun

1983

Travel to remote beaches of war-torn Central America (see never-before -photographed waves of Roco Bruja). Catch the waves of Puerto Rico, the North Shore, Outer Hawaiian Islands, California and the warm waters of the Caribbean.