The Quest for Tonewood
★ 7 · 2021 · 83m · Documentary
Gaspar, a luthier, wants to make a violin from the wood of a tree so rare that it may or may not exist anymore.
More Like This
Resonancia
2013
Raul Lara, an Ecuadorian luthier, works around seven months in the construction of each instrument. Sometimes staying for four consecutive months inside his workshop, place in which time and space are surreal. The guitar becomes alive and receives its soul in here.
More info →
De occulta philosophia
2014
A memorable intellectual journey to rediscover Baroque music, from the handmade fabrication of a harpsichord by master luthier Titus Crijnen to the interpretation of several scores by Bach and other Baroque composers by the Spanish ensemble La Reverencia.
More info →
Sons of Wood
2014
Don Luis Valdez is a luthier of traditional music instruments, who embarks on the task of teaching a group of inmates from the "Santiago 1" prison (Chile), to build a guitar.
More info →
Nobody Somewhere
2023
In a future where systems of control spread out to the furthest reaches of the planet, a woman tries to survive in a realm of naturalized oppression. Her art is her weapon and an expression of resistance.
More info →A Canadian Horror Story
2024
The true horror story that even the great Johnny Carson talked about on the Tonight Show in 1970.
More info →
Das Kind und die Welt
1931
The development of a child in its everyday environment is documented. It shows how the child gradually conquers, expands and asserts its living space. The hidden camera observes the child from the first weeks of life until the age of eight,
More info →
Gilyaka
2019
This film is about a person who is unique to the present. The representative of the ancient people found an amazing balance between the life of his ancestors and modern life. He remains active and "alive” in difficult conditions. He doesn’t complain about fate, he just works very hard. He has no equals in fishing skills. He is experiencing some kind of absolutely unity with nature, he doesn’t fight with it. His family consists of three dogs and two cats and there’s no one closer.
More info →
Открыто. Входите сами
2019
The main character of the film is Svetlana Kanitskaya, who was left without work during perestroika. She moved from town to village and, left alone with nature, a new world opened for her, which she tried to show in her paintings.
More info →