Films A-Z

Familia

Familia
Mikael Wiström, Alberto Herskovits / Sweden / 2010 / 82 min.

The main characters of Mikael Wiström and Alberto Herskovits's documentary are the members of a poor Peruvian family. Even though they no longer have to live in a temporary wooden dwelling right next to a dump, and Daniel, the father, goes out to work every day to earn a living on his motorbike taxi, ...

Four Velvet Men Then and Now - Jan Ruml

Evoluce 4 z revoluce - Jan Ruml
Jan Šikl, Pavel Koutecký / Czech Republic / 2010 / 57 min.

Twenty years ago, filmmaker Pavel Koutecký began following the stories of four people who actively took part in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution: musician Michael Kocáb, dissident Jan Ruml and students Kryštof Rímský and Martin Mejstřík. After Koutecký's death, the project was taken on by ...

Four Velvet Men Then and Now - Martin Mejstřík

Evoluce 4 z revoluce - Martin Mejstřík
Jan Šikl, Pavel Koutecký / Czech Republic / 2010 / 57 min.

Twenty years ago, filmmaker Pavel Koutecký began following the stories of four people who actively took part in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution: musician Michael Kocáb, dissident Jan Ruml and students Kryštof Rímský and Martin Mejstřík. After Koutecký's death, the project was taken on by ...

Freedom Riders

Freedom Riders
Stanley Nelson / USA / 2010 / 113 min.

In May 1961, two groups of young people, comprising whites and African- Americans, left Washington on bus routes bound for the southern states of the USA. They called themselves the Freedom Riders. Mostly consisting of American university students, they wanted to draw attention to legislation in some ...

Future of Hope

Future of Hope
Henry Bateman / UK, Iceland / 2010 / 75 min.

In October 2008, Iceland was hit hard by the financial crisis. The system of loans and living on credit, which the islanders had become far too accustomed to, collapsed like a house of cards. At that moment, it became clear to Icelanders that they would have to begin again and, above all, do things ...