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- A trapper and his wife brave the harsh Yukon climate, trecherous landscape and dangerous wildlife in an attempt to live a life of solitude.
- Sixteen year old Sergei is the son of Boris, the head of the Batagi clan of reindeer breeders. Awarded the title of herdsman, with the clan's largest herd, he joins the Evenk tribe for the first time as they begin their summer cattle drive across the pastures of the Siberian mountains. As the tribe's only source of income, these reindeer are their pride and joy and they will stop at nothing to protect them from their most bitter enemy, the Wolf.
- Penty and his family are members of the Guarani tribe from the community of Bameno in the heart of the Amazon forest. They live in the selva, in a region that has been preserved from modern influence for many centuries. Today, however, as modern civilization is penetrating the forest to exploit its wealth, Guarani culture is fading. For the past decades, large industrial groups have been threatening the flora and fauna. The Guarani are one of the last traditional tribes of South America, with only 87 members left. This film paints the intimate portrait of a people struggling to preserve their traditional ways.
- The story of a young city boy wanting to become the mahout, the elephant driver. Despite his master's belief that only Karen tribe people are born to be mahouts, the lad finally wins his heart and becomes a real mahout.
- The story of General Smyslovsky and his pro-Axis, anti-Communist First Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned in the USSR.
- 75 teams, 1200 dogs, minus 50 ° C, 1750 km across Alaska. The Iditarod race is not only an event of national importance in Alaska, but also the longest and hardest dog sled race in the world. For the trapper and film director Nicolas Vanier, this was his last expedition and also an ultimate challenge in ice and snow. From the elaborate preparations across the long distance surrounded by epic and untouched nature to crossing the finish line, the extraordinary documentary accompanies a sporty and emotionally extreme adventure with breathtaking air - and captivating close-ups of huskies in fascinating landscapes.
- The critically important work by renowned naturalist Claudine Andre to save the endangered bonobo apes of the Congo is presented in this visually stunning feature film.
- A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a skillful cyclist perhaps as a great tribute to François, the mailman played by Tati in The Big Day, Moullet makes a comedy by pedaling at a pace that allows him to reinvent the possibilities of film gags. La Cabale des oursins is a guided tour to the northern France, transformed into a Geography lesson in the pataphysical style of an Alfred Jarry disciple.
- No other sport in the world requires that you tape your racket to your hand - but for wheelchair tennis. Mark Eccleston is an athlete who has overcome tremendous adversity - this frank, fearless and often funny film tells his triumph of the human spirit. He became one of the world's leading wheelchair tennis players and held the World No 1 spot for fourteen months. He went on to win a silver medal in the Athens Paralympics in 2004 . Mark could never have achieved this level of success without the great will power he shows daily - and a philosophy which is as useful to the able bodied as to the disabled.
- A man goes on a three year hike on the trail of wolves in the French Alps.
- "Gentle into the Night" is the story of two lost souls: Martha, an American lady who has lived in Italy for many years without ever learning the language; and Renato, twenty five years younger than Martha, who for all his life has been working odd jobs and has no place to call home. Martha's home is a house in Tuscany she has inherited from her grandfather. There she lived and brought up her children after an early divorce. Martha, who at times suffers from a sudden loss of memory, and her obsession with the large country home, has become a nuisance to her children. They have send their mother to a care center, and are trying to sell the house. We meet Renato when he has just taken on a job for a small detective agency that specializes in divorce cases. He is observing two lovers traveling together through Northern Italy when he meets Martha who has run away from the care center...
- Athens in August becomes the place where a group of young people live, fall in love and have fun - guided by, and communicating through, the Internet.
- German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. LOVES DEBRIS didnt have, and couldn't have had, any pre-planned action. There was no script, no continuity. On the other hand, there were precise constraints that provided the rules of the game: the setting, the Abbey of Royaumont, and the chosen participants. Each singer came accompanied by a person of his or her choice, and worked on an aria chosen by the director. And there was ELISABETH COOPER, a "one-woman orchestra", who transposed and played the scores on the piano and organ.
- In Chambord, we know "the castle", the most majestic castle of the Loire Valley. Built by François I in 1519, it celebrates this year its 500th anniversary. A wonderful anniversary for the monument and the park that surrounds it. For the splendid stone dream is in the heart of a 5,000 hectare estate. This is the place that the King chose at the time, this forest inhabited by animal species to build his residence. He had his domain enclosed by a 32 kilometer long wall that still remains. The territory thus represents the surface of Paris intra-muros.
- Documentary that shows different animal species from all over the world courting and mating.
- Seen from the sky, the Earth is blue, the color of the sea. But what do we actually know about oceans ? What exactly lives in the oceans? To answer these questions, a team of scientists set sail aboard the schooner Tara. Their voyage will soon turn to an investigation into a secret realm... the largely unknown world of plankton. As we go deeper in the ocean, we're entering their secret world and explore the major role they are playing in the life of planet Earth.
- At the age of 77, Roger Lapébie is the oldest winner of the Tour de France still alive. Half a century has passed since his legendary victory in 1937. Yet Roger still covers more than 200 miles each week by bicycle on the highways and byways of the Landes. The portrait of a great, good-natured cyclist, who declares: 'I love my bike more than I love myself.'