Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton

The Corporation

2003 · ★ 7.6

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.

DEBRAIR: O mestre do reisado em Frutal

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Isack Hadjar, le feu intérieur

2024 · ★ 10

Who is Isack Hadjar, the 20-year-old driver who has been predicted as the next Frenchman to enter F1 ? For the past two seasons, he has been competing in the Formula 2 championship, the antechamber to the premier class. This year is crucial if he is to make his mark. After a catastrophic start in which he was plagued by bad luck, he bounced back to lead the championship. From his victories to his moments of doubt and intimacy, he shows himself for what he is: talented and ambitious.

Whose Is This Song?

2003 · ★ 6.4

Adela Peeva explores the national origin of a song common amongst a set of countries, and finds that the answer is not as simple as one might think.

A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back

1998

The University of Tennessee lady volunteer basketball team is followed during their 1996 season.

"Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?": A Cape Verdean American Story

2006 · ★ 6

The untold tragedy and scandal of what happened to a vibrant community of immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands in the Fox Point section of Providence, Rhode Island who were forcibly displaced by urban renewal to make way for fancy coffee shops, antique stores and elegantly restored houses. Poignant, heartfelt and warm, in a timeless snapshot SKFPR captures the essence, spirit and heart of a community whose history was erased before it was written.

Waiting for August

2014 · ★ 7.5

Georgiana Halmac is turning 15 this winter, but she has no time for teenage dreams when her mother, who's on unemployment, moves to Torino to find work. Georgiana is left in charge of her six siblings in a social housing condo on the outskirts of Bacau, Romania. Caught between adolescence and the responsibilities of adulthood, Georgiana does the best she can, improvising with parenting advice from the television and the occasional phone call with her mother. As she handles her own issues and high-school dramas, Georgiana must also deal with admonishing neighbours who threaten to turn the whole family into social services. With incredible calm and stoicism, Georgiana amazes as she holds everything together in an ingenious and delicate balance.

Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace

1996 · ★ 6.5

Documentary overview of Peter Lorre's ascension to fame as a master purveyor of silky but disquieting peril.

Greater Freedom Lesser Freedom

2000 · ★ 10

Two women fought with uncompromising conviction to change the world in the late 1960s - Inge Viett as a former member of the RAF in Germany, Maria Barhoum as former member of the FAU in Uruguay. In 1999, they met in Cuba, a country that seemed to mirror many of their questions, hopes and fears. The film looks at their real lives and different roads to exile; two utopian visions sought under very different conditions on separate continents. It is a double portrait of two extraordinary women that succeeds in avoiding the twin pitfalls of condemnation and glorification.

Alain Delon, a unique portrait

2015 · ★ 7.2

Biography of a star and figure study : This fascinating portrait is for anyone who wants to know more about the man behind the mask. By the end of the film, you will view this famous French icon in a totally different light. Delon speaks in a series of surprising interviews, spanning nearly 50 years.

The Runners

2013 · ★ 6

As we run, the layers of responsibility and identity we have gathered in our lives, the father, mother, lawyer, teacher, Manchester United-supporter labels, all fall away, leaving us with the raw human being underneath. With nothing but our own two legs moving us, we begin to get a vague, tingling sense of who, or what, we really are.

Ultra

2017 · ★ 7

A unique drama about everyday athletes who join an extreme running race. Their dream and burden is to test their personal limits, heal their souls and release their demons.