Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away

Chicago blues great Buddy Guy never was the same after he heard John Lee Hooker’s seminal “Boogie Chillun’” while growing up in his rural stomping grounds of Lettswork, Louisiana. In 1957 he set out for the Windy City and its vibrant blues scene, where he played his way into the clubs, cut records, befriended and gigged with other greats (Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Otis Rush), forged his skillful, intense, wild persona, hit the road, influenced new generations of musicians (Mick, Keith, Eric, Stevie Ray Vaughan), performed at the Obama White House and collected nine Grammys along the way. Supported by a sumptuous assemblage of performance footage, testimonials from those he’s inspired (including Clapton, Carlos Santana, Gary Clark Jr., and John Mayer) and some classic blues licks, Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away finds Guy (now a young 84) looking back at his life, providing valuable insight into his music while leaving room for some memorable anecdotes.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Gary Clark Jr., Carlos Santana, John Mayer

The Man Who Didn't Change History

The "man who didn't change history" was a university professor: Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, esteemed Italian scholar of Roman art and a founding father of modern archaeology. A figure that the Fascist regime could be proud of, in the 1930s, if it weren't for the fact that the professor was firmly anti-Fascist. Things came to a head over Hitler's famous journey to Italy in 1938, when Bandinelli was courteously invited to accompany Mussolini and the Führer, serving as tour guide and interpreter at the museums and archaeological sites. Now the dilemma arose: don the uniform and salute the two detested dictators, or compromise a lifetime of study, his career and even his personal safety? When the invitation turned into a peremptory order that Bandinelli couldn't refuse, he no longer had a choice.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Stefano De Sardo, Claudio Bigagli

The History of the Pit Stop: Gone in Two Seconds

The mavericks who pioneered the modern pit stop made it a raceday staple that takes less than two seconds.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny

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Fulci for Fake

The first biopic on director Lucio Fulci, using previously unseen materials to investigate the man and his works.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Nicola Nocella, Michele Soavi, Paolo Malco, Fabio Frizzi, Sergio Salvati, Camilla Fulci, Antonella Fulci, Enrico Vanzina, Berenice Sparano, Sandro Bitetto, Davide Pulici, Michele Romagnoli, Martina Troni

Margarethe von Trotta: A Women's Director

Margarethe von Trotta, one of the few icons of German directing, internationally revered as a star director, celebrates her 80th birthday: her works are among the most important in German cinema of all time.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Margarethe von Trotta

The Cathedral

For 60 years, with no help or architectural expertise, one man builds a gigantic cathedral using waste and recycled materials. He works mostly alone, without ever drawing a single sketch, while his community labels him a madman.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Storm Front in Mayo

Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV, Wojenny

Actors: Eva Sweeney, Colin Wright, Mike Johnson, John Downes, Antony Beevor, Robert Gerwarth, Susan Eisenhower, Joseph Skelly, Richard G. Trefry, Maureen Flavin Sweeney, Gerald Fleming, David McCullagh, Catherine Ross, Jeremy Green, Rodney Teck, John C. Sweeney, Vincent Sweeney, Richard Callaghan, Joe Cattini, Adolf Hitler, Bernard Montgomery, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Éamon de Valera, Erwin Rommel, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Stagg, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill

Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis

Down on the banks of the Maroni River, little Derreck dreams of heroic warriors. He’s a member of the Wayana tribe in French Guyana. In this film, Derreck is not our only portal into another world. His sister Sylvana also dreams – of an impossible love, who belongs to a different tribe. Their grandmother Malilou takes us back to her youth in the 1950s. It seems that everyone wanders off now and again into a parallel, at times almost ghostly world. Whereas the youngest members of the tribe can still lose themselves in boundless flights of fantasy, the older generation contemplates more existential questions. How do dreams of the future relate to identity? What makes you a real Wayana?

Genre: Dokumentalny, Familijny, Fantasy

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Killing the Indian in the Child

The Indian Act, passed in Canada in 1876, made members of Aboriginal peoples second-class citizens, separated from the white population: nomadic for centuries, they were moved to reservations to control their behavior and resources; and thousands of their youngest members were separated from their families to be Christianized: a cultural genocide that still resonates in Canadian society today.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV

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My So-Called High School Rank

A deep dive into the lives of high school students in three radically disparate communities as they navigate the pressures around college while staging a musical, until seismic events upend their dreams and expectations.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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My Blonde GF

A thriller-like story, except that it is true. Helen, an awarded author, is a public person. Her photographs can easily be found online and on her social media profiles. The woman has never shared her intimate photographs or recordings. To her immense surprise, she discovers that vulgar pictures containing her image can be found on porn sites. Helen is terrified and feels as if she is losing ground under her feet. She was abused, just like many other persons who increasingly more often are falling victim to deepfakes.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Ettore Bassi: Stage and Race

Ettore Bassi is well known as an actor, but not everybody knows that he's also a professional hillclimb racing driver. Today his life is often divided between the stage and the racing track. In 2022, the two passions collide, and end up revealing much about the man and about his past...

Genre: Dokumentalny

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The Many Lives of Jorge Semprún

The incredible life of Jorge Semprún (1923-2011): son of a republican intellectual; exiled in the early days of the Spanish Civil War; survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II; clandestine communist in Spain during Franco's dictatorship; controversial socialist politician; acclaimed writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny

Actors: Jorge Semprún

After Maria

Strong Puerto Rican women forced to flee the island after Hurricane Maria have bonded like family in a FEMA hotel in the Bronx. They seek stability in their new life as forces try to pull them apart.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Glenda Martes

André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema

A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of those who worked with him: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Juliette Binoche and Sandrine Kiberlain, among others.

Genre: Dokumentalny, film TV

Actors: André Téchiné, Thierry Klifa, Juliette Binoche, Olivier Assayas, Sandrine Kiberlain, Daniel Auteuil, Cédric Anger, Guillaume Canet, Emmanuelle Béart, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Adjani, Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Dewaere, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Dogs and Us : The Secret of a Friendship

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Peter Kaempfe, Michael Pomroy

The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution

In restaurant kitchens, tight quarters, high pressure and hot tempers combine to create toxic conditions that make it difficult for anyone to survive, let alone climb the ladder to head chef. For women, the situation is even worse. Running a successful restaurant is a daunting challenge, even more so when the odds are stacked against you. But as women take charge at more of the world's top dining establishments, a cultural shift is dismantling the macho environment that made celebrities out of "bad boy" chefs. From New York City's star chefs Anita Lo and Amanda Cohen to the queen of French cuisine Anne-Sophie Pic, seven chefs share their struggles to overcome a system of inequality and harassment while delivering delicious dishes and redefining the dining experience. An appetite for change has taken hold and there's no turning back

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes

Serial killer Dennis Nilsen narrates his life and horrific crimes via a series of chilling audiotapes recorded from his jail cell.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Haiti Betrayed

Canada, once seen by Haitians as a constructive partner, conspired with the United States and France in 2003 to topple the democratically-elected government. Seven years in the making, Elaine Brière’s film meticulously reconstructs Canada’s role in the events that culminated in the United Nations-sanctioned coup d’état on February 29, 2004 and the bloody aftermath that followed.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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We Met in Virtual Reality

Filmed entirely inside the world of virtual reality (VR), this immersive and revealing documentary roots itself in several unique communities within VRChat, a burgeoning virtual reality platform. Through observational scenes captured in real-time, in true documentary style, this film reveals the growing power and intimacy of several relationships formed in the virtual world, many of which began during the COVID-19 lockdown, while so many in the physical world were facing intense isolation.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Animacja

Actors: Jenny0629, IsYourBoi, DragonHeart

The Small Hours

In Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, tradition, memory and folklore, walk the streets on the shoulders of a people who proudly displays a legacy rooted in their culture for centuries.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Sébastien Tellier: Many Lives

Since his first album, French musician Sébastien Tellier never ceased to surprise, amuse, and even bother; all without getting lost along the way. The constantly renewed authenticity of his musical universe is still one of the strongest in contemporary pop scene.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Muzyczny

Actors: Sébastien Tellier

Pedal the World

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Felix Starck

Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses

This impressive doco disperses the fog of shame and sensationalism to shed light on the tragedy that made international headlines in 2007 when a young Wainuiomata woman died during a mākutu lifting.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Vivien Bell, Tangaroa Te Ariki, Viv Babbington