Documentary
Uncover New Zealand’s most extreme religious cult, Gloriavale, and the true stories of people attempting to break free, including current and former members that have never gone on record before. Made with support from NZ on Air.
WARNING: Deals with the issue of sexual abuse.
Series of documentaries on italian underground cinema through the portrayal of some of the most representative authors – Alfredo Leonardi, Tonino De Bernardi, Romano Scavolini, Piero Bargellini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Alberto Grifi, Paolo Brunatto, Franco Brocani (and Mario Schifano), Paolo Gioli, Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi, Annabella Miscuglio, Massimo Bacigalupo – the cinema of the present confronts this movement so vital and courageous, which still remains an example for the new generations.
The series “Chernobyl – The Catastrophe” is a search for clues to the truth. How did the nuclear power plant explode in April 1986? And what is Moscow still hiding about the accident today? Contemporary witnesses provide insights into the rise and fall of Chernobyl – a place where belief in nuclear power became a catastrophe with serious consequences.
In Tokyo, after midnight, many people wander around without destinations. Some were partying, some were working late, and some were just too drunk to catch the train on time. What happens if a camera crew suddenly asks them to let a camera follow them home in exchange of paying the taxi fare? There is no time for preparation for the interviewee. The camera documents their house just as it is. Some starts to talk about their previous dream by showing photo albums. Some start to confess their gratefulness towards their wife in the middle of the night. Why not discover how people react when a TV crew suddenly visits their home after midnight.
An intimate, authentic portrait of Hitler’s Germany as recorded by the people who lived it. Never-before-seen home movies, Nazi propaganda films and personal recollections culled from German’s diaries, journals and letters provide a rare look inside the darker pages of world history.
In this docuseries, a scrappy electronic cigarette startup becomes a multibillion-dollar company until an epidemic causes its success to go up in smoke.
A documentary capturing the modern day VHS culture and VHS collectors.
Both an activist and a documentarian, Valentina Pedicini also brings her background in anthropology to this impressively captured, claustrophobic nonfiction feature. Venturing beneath sea level, From the Depths profiles the lone woman at work in the last coal mine in Sardinia, Italy.