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- DirectorSandi TanStarsJasmine Kin Kia NgPhilip CheahSophia Siddique HarveyA woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.
- DirectorJimmy ChinElizabeth Chai VasarhelyiStarsAlex HonnoldTommy CaldwellJimmy ChinAlex Honnold faces the biggest challenge of his career, climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He pursues it Free Solo, which means climbing without a rope and alone.
- DirectorJackie ChanXavier LeeStarsJackie ChanWai-Kwong LoBradley James AllanA documentary where Jackie Chan and his stuntman team show you the secrets of some of the great stunts they do in films. The film also takes you on the sets of "Who Am I?" and "Rush Hour".
- DirectorAntoine CoursatStarsJackie ChanMarie BorginiVerena RendtorffJackie Chan is a true icon of Asian and Chinese culture. Over a 45-year-long career, he has carved a niche for himself as an actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter, but also singer and formidable businessman. After starring in almost 200 films, Chan has reconciled fans of genre film and Hollywood blockbusters, whilst bridging the gap between Asian and Western cinema. Through film excerpts, archive footage and images, and an offbeat approach inspired by the visual codes of the golden age of kung fu films, this documentary will take a look back at the creation of a popular hero who has come to be an icon for China, and the entire Asian continent.
- DirectorEva MüllerMichael SchmittStarsMaximilian SchmidtMax S. reveals how he built a drug empire from his childhood bedroom in this story that inspired the series "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)."
- DirectorSusanne Regina MeuresStarsAnoosh RakizadeArash ShadramPeyman Navidi NahandTwo DJ's in Tehran are battling to play the music they love and set up dance parties. Local regime does not look well at harbingers of western culture of decay so the protagonists need to do big decisions.
- DirectorMaria EhrichManuel VeringStarsMaria EhrichManuel VeringActress Maria Ehrich and journalist Manuel Vering go in early 2018 on a world tour, which lasts seven months. They travel over 20,000 kilometers with an old VW Beetle, in which they sleep and travel from Mexico to Newfoundland.
- DirectorFelix StarckStarsMogliFelix StarckTwo free spirits, one dog. Traveling the vast spaces of an enormous continent in search of something more.
- DirectorAlek KeshishianStarsRaquelle StevensLiana BlackburnBrent L. BoxbergerAfter years in the limelight, Selena Gomez achieves unimaginable stardom. But just as she reaches a new peak, an unexpected turn pulls her into darkness.
- DirectorKaku ArakawaStarsHayao MiyazakiToshio SuzukiYuhei SakuragiA look at famous Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki following his retirement in 2013.
- DirectorLana WilsonStarsTaylor SwiftAndrea SwiftScott SwiftA look at iconic pop artist Taylor Swift during a transformational time in her life as she embraces her role as a singer/songwriter and harnesses the full power of her voice.
- DirectorGeorges FranjuStarsJehanne d'AlcyAndré MélièsMarie-Georges MélièsA biography of the pioneer film director Georges Méliès, featuring his son André playing Georges, and with shots of his second wife, aged 90.
- DirectorMax JabsStarsMax JabsNono KonopkaTwo young friends set off on a 15,000 km bicycle tour around the world for a unique fund-raising campaign - barely knowing what to expect, but with the dream of building a school in Guatemala.
- DirectorAnselm Nathanael PahnkeStarsAnselm Nathanael PahnkeCape Town. On his 25th birthday, Anselm starts a journey across Africa on a bicycle with two friends. After they arrive in the scorching Kalahari Desert, the trio suddenly splits. His friends fly home while Anselm decides to continue the ride up north - alone. Cautious at his vulnerability to his surroundings at first, he gains confidence and learns to adapt to the various cultures and their way of life. Step by step his incredible path unfolds and leads him through 15 countries of the African continent and to extraordinary encounters. His bicycle becomes his gateway to local life: it invites communication and enables him to found and support projects that promote rural youth. His conviction to travel by his own strength, camp in unimaginable places and rely on intuition, leads him to exceptional adventures, but also to acutely experience fundamental issues. Besides night-time encounters with lions or hippos and repeated malaria and typhus infections, he struggles with water provision, discrimination and corrupted officials. He still faces the ultimate challenge - riding 3.000 kilometers through the Sahara against the relentless North Wind. After a year, 15.000 kilometers and 15 travelled countries, having fallen in love with this multi-facetted world, his journey faces an unpleasant end - ironically by people that would protect him against the "dangerous" continent.
- DirectorDaniel RintzStarsIssa BreibishKristian BruunMegan GayA naive dreamer attempts to circumnavigate the world on his motorcycle, surviving only on the money he makes along the way.
- DirectorDaniel RintzStarsDaniel RintzJosephine FlohrA geographer and a film-maker trade-in their daily routine for life on the road in order to find out how they want to live.
- DirectorFelix StarckStarsFelix StarckYoung millennial German fueled by wanderlust and a lack of real world responsibilities travels the globe by bike, peddling across 22 countries and over 20,000 kms to find meaning in life. Leverages power of social media and parental support to overcome obstacles.
- DirectorMat WhitecrossMichael WinterbottomStarsRiz AhmedFarhad HarunWaqar SiddiquiPart drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
- DirectorSusan LacyStarsSteven SpielbergMartin ScorseseRichard DreyfussA documentary on Steven Spielberg, filmmaker. Includes interviews with relatives, film critics, peers and people who have worked with him.
- DirectorMartin H. SchmittStarsRalph WagnerDavid Michael WilliamsonThe 56-minute documentary "Moon Shots" shows impressive ultra-HD photographs of the moon shots and tells thrilling stories from the Apollo era.
- DirectorMark DeebleVictoria StoneStarsChiwetel EjioforAthena is a mother who will do everything in her power to protect her herd when they are forced to leave their waterhole. This epic journey, narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor, takes audiences across the African savannah, and into the heart of an elephant family. A tale of love, loss and coming home.
- DirectorJacob LaMendolaStarsJuan CatalanAlma OsegueraTodd MelnikWhen Juan Catalan is arrested for a murder he didn't commit, he builds his case around raw footage from the popular TV show, Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000).
- DirectorJoshua IzenbergWynn PadulaStarsBobby LaneVan CurazaMartin PollockAfter years of nightmares, depression, and seizures, Iraq war veteran Bobby Lane could see no way out of his trauma other than suicide. Then he met Van Curaza, a former big wave surfer who since founded Operation Surf and dedicated his life to helping veterans find solace in surfing. Backed by a growing body of research demonstrating the healing power of the ocean on the mind and body, organizations such as Operation Surf and the Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation are using surfing to help veterans cope with physical and mental trauma.
- DirectorShinpei TakedaStarsMiyuki BroadwaterGloria Hollander LyonKarl D. Lyon2 former high school friends drive from Canada to Mexico as they visit atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki that live in the States. During the trip, they record the piece of a modern history crucially important in Japanese collective psyche while exploring their own identities and revealing the reality of psychological scars.
- DirectorOlaf SaumerStarsEckhard BaumFats DominoCornelia FroboessECKIS WORLD is a documentary about the owner of probably the oldest Video-store in the World. Eckhard Baum opened in the summer of 1975 in Kassel, the Film-Shop. With the sale and exchange of Super8 films started everything. Shortly thereafter bought Ecki the first video recorder and took films illegal from tv, but what he still did not know from the movies and on television gave these tapes. Later he bought the first original movies on VHS, Beta and Video2000 order to lend. Today, still more video tapes on the shelves as DVDs. The film shows Ecki with his customers in its video library, his passion for film and his life outside the video-library.