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For three years, filmmaker Marion Kainz followed Johanna, a 13-year-old girl from Berlin, and captured her longing for security and freedom in a documentary about her journey toward an independent life.

Runtime

1h 23m

Director

Marion Kainz

Cast

Johanna Ehrlichmann

Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped by the RAF (Red Army Faction). The kidnap had been made to orchestrate the release of the original leaders of the RAF, aka the Baader-Meinhof.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff

Cast

Hannelore Hoger, Angela Winkler, Vadim Glowna

While serving with the African Union, former Marine Capt. Brian Steidle documents the brutal ethnic cleansing occuring in Darfur. Determined that the Western public should know about the atrocities he is witnessing, Steidle contacts New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof, who publishes some of Steidle's photographic evidence.

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg

Cast

Brian Steidle

If your bedroom has become too small a stage for your air guitar antics, take inspiration from the competitors featured here as they battle their way from the inaugural U.S. Air Guitar Championship to the world championship in Oulu, Finland. Along the way, filmmaker Alexandra Lipsitz documents the fierce rivalries that develop as would...

Runtime

1h 21m

Director

Alexandra Lipsitz

Cast

Sam Laybourne, Gavin McInnes, S. Craig Zahler

In the crystal clear waters off the coast of Borneo, a unique way of life threatens to disappear forever. For generations, the Badjao were oceanic nomads, living in harmony with the sea as fishermen and free divers. Nowadays, however, only a few Badjao remain, like Alexan, who still remembers the old ways. He hopes to pass his knowledg...

Runtime

1h 17m

Director

Eliza Kubarska

Cast

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