A poetic documentary of its nature and of some rare people living on Gotska Sandön, an isolated island in the Baltic Sea, close to Ingmar Bergman’s home residence Fårö.
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Bergman interviews the locals of Fårö in this fascinating documentary. An expression of personal and political solidarity with the fellow inhabitants of his adopted home, the island of Fårö in the Baltic Sea, this documentary investigates the sometimes deleterious effects of the modern world on traditional farming and fishing communities. The young, especially, voice doubts about remaining in such a remote, quiet place.
Documentary about the Swedish band Di sma undar jårdi mixed with recordings from one of their shows.
Tom Leimer arrives to the isle of Gotland, Sweden during the summer in order to find his old love Therese Sandström. She has, however, started a new life together with the upper-class-guy Karl von Silberhelm, and wishes no longer to know Tom because of his criminal past. A virus, turning people into living dead, breaks out on the isle. Tom makes his decision to try to rescue Therese - a choice that turns out to be more dangerous than he expected, since each who is infected hungers always for fresh human-flesh.
Happy End is a story about Lukas, a self-absorbed young man adrift who meets Marja, an experienced, older woman. Lukas dreams of becoming a rock star. He escapes the city to his father's holiday flat in Visby, a town on the Baltic island of Gotland. But the flat has been rented out to Marja, an eccentric 69-year-old writer determined to complete her memoirs. Nothing can hold her back, least of all a confused dreamer. Much against their will, a friendship slowly develops. But Marja harbors a secret, and when the truth emerges their friendship is put to the test. Their stay on Gotland takes an unexpected turn...
Lieutenants Johnny Waller and Ingvar Lund have been appointed captains of two torpedo boats.
Set in beautiful Faro, a young woman named Ida, feels lonely and loses all hope, believing death is looking for her. She soon comes up with a creative way of trying to cheat death itself.
A bunch of young people travel to Gotland on their vacation - partying expected 24/7. But they get into trouble - with both the local population and a criminal gang.
A documentary about a group of activists in Tallinn who try to improve their quarter.
In a slum in Chennai, India, a young mother of two, wants to sell her kidney so she can pay off the crippling debts of her family. If she sells Hema will be the fifth member of her family to sell a kidney for an amount that represents several years' wages. Across the world in Nanaimo, Canada, forty year old single mom Sandra's kidneys are failing and she has been on a waiting list for 5 years now. Two different people. Two journeys.
Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings a recording of the event, also featuring backstage, rehearsals, testimonies and some relaxing moments of these great names in Bahia's music.
Panair do Brasil revives the story of the most important commercial aviation company in Brazil, between 1930 and 1965, with its commercial daring in establishing routes to the four corners of a continental country, taking the adventure of air transport to never-before imagined places, as well as the first international routes. Four decades after it closed its doors, it still retains a marked presence in the country's collective imagination for its pioneering spirit and stories of heroic deeds and for the bewilderment which was aroused by the facts surrounding its closure during the military regime.
Relive the most outrageous moments, outtakes and bloopers from popular game shows all around the world -- ranging from the 1950s through the present -- with this hilarious series. Actor and television personality Ben Stein ("America's Most Smartest Model") hosts the show, with segments such as "Top Host Screw-ups," "Top Blonde Moments," "Top Wardrobe Malfunctions," "Top Celebrity Moments" and "Top Brain Freeze Moments."
The doctor who tried to save him. The Secret Service agent who was seconds too late. The man wrongly accused of his murder. And the woman who unwittingly sheltered an assassin. The death of JFK has inspired thousands of books and debates over the last 50 years, but the stories of the people there on that day have gone largely untold...until now. Experience November 22, 1963 as it has never been presented before, in this minute-by-minute account of that day, narrated by Academy Award-winner Kevin Spacey, and brought to life through rarely seen footage and rarely heard testimonies.
'Children of the Stars' is the strange but true story of a UFO contactee group who relive their past lives on other planets by making their own science fiction films. In 1973, Ruth Norman, a 73-year-old widow and self described cosmic visionary, purchased 67 acres of land in the mountains east of San Diego, California as a landing site for the Space Brothers (emissaries from the Intergalactic Confederation). Nearly 40 years later, a group of dedicated followers still await their arrival.
An American family trapped in a horrifying cult, led by a man that 50 million people call God. What they uncovered was anything but godly…
Unfolding on three continents, this engaging documentary follows four groups of people whose lives are wrapped up in the complex world of chocolate.
In the film by Sergei Miroshnichenko, the classic of Russian and world literature Alexander Solzhenitsyn reflects on his human and writer's fate: "... well, a lot has already been done in life. Maybe I'm on the last stretch, and the river doesn't promise me any elbow ahead yet… But the heart does not submit to the last mold." The writer appears before the audience as a husband and father - the head of a large and friendly family.
The main character of the film is Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. The film uses materials both previously known and unpublished so far, as well as interviews with Alexander Isaevich, in which he talks about the future of Russia and the world in the 21st century, about modern literature and his difficult life. In addition to him, people who knew him closely, Evgeny Mironov, Alexander Sokurov, Georges Niva, Boris Morozov and his most important close friend and wife Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyna, participate in the film.