PARALELLA PNEUMA ½ - Jesus Chorou

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue a...

Runtime

1h 9m

Director

Walter Ruttmann

Cast

Paul von Hindenburg

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold meda...

Runtime

2h 7m

Director

Leni Riefenstahl

Cast

David Albritton, Jack Beresford, Arvo Askola

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls and fields deployed for such sports as fencing, polo, cycling, and the modern pentathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris.

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Leni Riefenstahl

Cast

Sheigo Arai, Jack Beresford, Ralf Berzsenyi

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider...

Runtime

1h 20m

Director

Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou

Cast

Jacques Perrin, Kristin Scott Thomas

A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Ron Fricke

Cast

Documentary, Patrick Disanto