Cinema Futures

The “digital revolution” reached the cinema late and was chiefly styled as a technological advancement. Today, in an era where analog celluloid strips are disappearing, and given the diversity of digital moving picture formats, there is much more at stake: Are the world’s film archives on the brink of a dark age? Are we facing the massive loss of collective audiovisual memory? Is film dying, or just changing? CINEMA FUTURES travels to international locations and, together with renowned filmmakers, museum curators, historians and engineers, dramatizes the future of film and the cinema in the age of digital moving pictures.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Tacita Dean, Apichatpong Weerasethakul

After Work

Kuwait’s constitution says that every person has the right to a job, so in some places 20 people are employed for one person’s job. In South Korea, they work so much that a policy has been introduced to turn off computers at the end of the day so that employees can’t work any more. In the US, they give up over 500 million holiday hours each year, while Amazon’s drivers are trying to form a union. Meanwhile, robots are poised to take over most jobs and put the rest of us out of work. Work is so crucial to our identity and what we spend our waking hours on that it is barely noticed anymore. A lot has happened since a group of Puritan priests invented the concept of work ethic in the 1600s, and in the 21st century the very concept of work is in many ways disintegrating. A perfect situation for a filmmaker like Swedish mastermind Erik Gandini, who travels the world to explore what the concept of work means today – if it means anything at all.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis

The Bloody Border

The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves from the tyrannical clutches of the British Empire; an epic tale of poverty, hunger, despair, violence and unyielding courage.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV

Actors: Simon T. Roden

Jackass Number Two

Jackass Number Two is a compilation of various stunts, pranks and skits, and essentially has no plot. Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before.

Genre: Akcja, Komedia, Dokumentalny

Actors: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Ryan Dunn, Dave England, Jason Acuña, Preston Lacy, Ehren McGhehey, Brandon DiCamillo, Jess Margera, Phil Margera, April Margera, Stephanie Hodge, Spike Jonze, John Waters, Tony Hawk, Mat Hoffman, Mark Zupan, Jeff Tremaine, Brandon Novak, Loomis Fall, Dimitry Elyashkevich, Sean Cliver, Trip Taylor, Greg Iguchi, Rick Kosick, Manny Puig, Mike Kassak, Clyde Singleton, Mike Judge

[REC]: Horror Without Pause

The horror film [REC] — directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, and released in 2007 — was an unprecedented triumph for Spanish fantasy cinema. Fifteen years later, those responsible for the creation and worldwide success of this cinematic milestone decode its keys and resurrect the myth.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, Alberto Marini, Pablo Rosso

Out of Thin Air

Set within the stark Icelandic landscape, OUT OF THIN AIR examines the 1976 police investigation into the disappearance of two men in the early 1970s.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Kryminał

Actors: Björk

Chef Flynn

Ten-year-old Flynn McGarry transforms his living room into a supper club using his classmates as line cooks. Achieving sudden fame, Flynn outgrows his bedroom kitchen and sets out to challenge the hierarchy of the culinary world.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Flynn McGarry, Meg McGarry, Paris McGarry, Will McGarry

Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

Delight in the fascinating, intersecting stories of the iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro and his editor of 50 years, the literary giant Robert Gottlieb, as they race to complete their life’s work.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Scelsi: The First Motion of the Immovable

It all begins with a childhood memory: that day when the father of the future filmmaker Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva forces him to listen to certain music that initially terrifies him; a distant echo from the past that leads him to follow the trail of his mysterious ancestor, the Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), who claimed that his music was directly inspired by the gods…

Genre: Dokumentalny, Muzyczny, Historyczny

Actors: Franco d'Ayala Valva, Aldo Brizzi, Michiko Hirayama, Joëlle Léandre, Marianne Schroeder, Carol Robinson, Livia Mazzanti, Elena Schirru, Salvatore Pilosu, Alexander Lauterwasser

All About Asado

All About Asado is a trip into the culinary heart of Argentina. Asado, the tradition of grilled meat, is a food and also a ritual. It is primitive and modern, wild and sophisticated, an art and a science. Few phenomena reveal the essential characteristics of Argentina’s national identity with more originality and precision. Equal parts road-movie, documentary and fiction, Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s playful film delves into the almost sacred tradition of asado, using a sharp and irreverent gaze to explore the country’s meaty fixation.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Putin's Witnesses

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president of the country. From that day and for a year, Vitaly Mansky's camera documented Putin's rise to power. The story of a privileged witness. The harsh explanation of the reason why politics is the art of possibility of achieving the best with the support of many, but also of giving the worst in return.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny

Actors: Vitaly Mansky, Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Naina Yeltsina, Tatyana Yumasheva, Vera Dmitrievna Gurevich, Anatoly Chubais, Dmitry Medvedev, Elena Okulova, Gleb Pavlovsky, Ivan Okulov, Ksenia Ponomaryova, Lyudmila Putina, Mikhail Kasyanov, Mikhail Lesin, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergei Mikhalkov, Tony Blair, Valentin Yumashev, Vladislav Surkov

Ghosts of Sugar Land

Shocked when their friend embraces extremism, a group of Muslim Americans in Texas recount their time with him and theories about his fate.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Kc Okoro

Kevin Hart & Chris Rock: Headliners Only

Genre: Komedia, Dokumentalny

Actors: Chris Rock, Kevin Hart

Curse of the Blair Witch

Curse of the Blair Witch is a documentary about the Blair Witch legend and the three filmmakers who disappeared in October of 1999. It first aired on the Sci-Fi Channel on July 11, 1999 as a promotional prelude to the release of The Blair Witch Project on July 30, 1999.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Horror, Thriller

Actors: Frank Pastor, Rachel Braaten, Randy Campbell, Dottie Corrigan, Bill Dreggors, Charlie Carlson, Michael Hoover, David Jones, Lisa Heesch, Joe Nagy, Tom Williams

Footprints, the Path of Your Life

Genre: Dokumentalny

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The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes

This documentary explores the mystery surrounding the death of movie icon Marilyn Monroe through previously unheard interviews with her inner circle.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Anthony Summers, Linzi Hateley

Who the Fuck is That Guy?: The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago

'Who the Fuck is That Guy'? The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago tells the astonishing story of a gay Puerto Rican kid growing up in a Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood, who got on the subway one day and began a musical odyssey that helped shape the musical landscape across N.Y.C. and around the world. Directed by Drew Stone and produced by Michael Alex the film tells the incredible story of a cherished New York City icon. From rubbing elbows with N. Y. scene makers as an teenager at Max's Kansas City and CBGB, to being the architect of a rock 'n' roll renaissance as the 19 year-old talent booker at the legendary Ritz, to making history as a 24 year-old A&R exec, signing the biggest metal band in a generation in Metallica, Michael Alago was on fire.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Muzyczny

Actors: Michael Alago, Cheryl Alago, Cherry Vanilla, Cheetah Chrome, John Lydon, Rob Zombie, Eric Bogosian, Cyndi Lauper, Mike Gitter, Dito Montiel, Antone DeSantis, Daniel Rey, Jerry Brandt, Phil Caivano, Danny Fields, Debbie Southwood Smith, Kurdt Vanderhoof, Lars Ulrich, Gavin Van Vlack, Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield, Phil Anselmo, Sean Yseult, John Joseph, Jason Newsted, Joe Sib, Carol Friedman, Mina Caputo, Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, Jimmy Marino, Marion Connolly, Vince Aletti

Assassins

True crime meets global spy thriller in this gripping account of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the North Korean leader. The film follows the trial of the two female assassins, probing the question: were the women trained killers or innocent pawns of North Korea?

Genre: Dokumentalny

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The Critic

Carlos Boyero is one of Spanish cinema's most followed and feared figures. Controversy has hounded him since he published his first article more than forty years ago, and he has remained in the eye of the hurricane ever since. Is he the last representative of a disappearing time? Has social media put an end to the traditional influence of the critics. Taking the background and personality of this very controversial figure as its basis, El crítico / The Critic will also endeavour to reflect on the enormous changes taking place in Spain in the field of film criticism.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Wild Amsterdam

The city from the unique perspective of the many wild animals and plants that inhabit it. Seen through the eyes of the adventurous urban cat, Abatutu.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Martijn Fischer, Abatutu

Ania

An inspiring story about Ania Przybylska, a brave girl from Gdynia who loved life and dared to make her dreams come true. The documentary is built of interviews and never-before-seen footage from private archives portraying a woman who balanced her career and public appearance with family life.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Life Overtakes Me

Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Henry Ascher, Nadja Hatem, Mikael Billing, Karl Sallin, Elizabeth Hultcrantz, Gellert Tamas, Anne-Liis von Knorring

A Game of Secrets

In a Lisbon courtroom, a young man stands accused of having stolen thousands of confidential documents to expose professional football’s deepest secrets. Through the trial, his spectacular revelations are unfolded, giving new insights into the hidden forces controlling a game gone billion-dollar industry - where 700-percent profits and parties on private islands are part of the business model.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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American Teen

A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Hannah Bailey, Megan Krizmanich, Colin Clemens, Jake Tusing, Mitch Reinholt