Keyword: artfilm

Into Great Silence

7.3

2005

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An examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France.

Balifilm

6.8

1997

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Originally commissioned for the stage, this is a collection of images and sounds from two years on the island of Bali, the track consists of 8 gamelan performers playing bronze and wooden instruments.

The Paris Opera

7

2017

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A behind-the-scenes look at the Paris Opera, under the direction of Stephane Lissner.

The Making of a Dream

6.2

2017

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The Making of a Dream is a cinematic essay on stories of dancers. It shows joys and pains from the first steps in an amateur school to the goal to become a principal dancer in a world known ballet company.

Tosca's Kiss

6.8

1984

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Meet the inhabitants of the Casa di Riposa in Milan, the worlds first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. In his documentary film Toscas Kiss, which has developed an underground cult following over the years and is a favorite among opera and music lovers worldwide, director Daniel Schmid has captured a world in which these wonderful singers (many of whom had significant careers on the opera stage) re-live and re-enact their triumphant roles of the glorious past. Toscas Kiss is a touching and often hilarious film on the subject of aging and the power and timeless capacity of music to inspire.

Zen for Nothing

7

2016

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ZEN FOR NOTHING tells of the experiences of Sabine Timoteo from Switzerland, as a \Zen novice\ in Antaiji in Autumn, Winter and Spring.

Bear-Like

6.5

2019

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At the far end of the Alaskan peninsula, for filmmaker Roman Droux a childhood dream comes true. Together with the researcher David Bittner he discovers the universe of wild grizzlies at smelling-distance.

Chris the Swiss

6.1

2018

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Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war a young journalists body is being found dressed with an uniform of the international mercenary group. 19 years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel detects his story.

Scissere

5.8

1982

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A recently released mental patient imagines himself living the lives of three different people he randomly encounters.

Gambling, Gods and LSD

7

2002

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Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmakers mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and sounds, reflecting the fragmented but alluring worlds it attempts to capture.

David Wants to Fly

6.8

2010

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A documentary. David Sieveking takes the advice of his idol, David Lynch and tries out Maharishi Mahesh Yogis transcendental meditation technique.

Raving Iran

7.3

2016

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Two DJs 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.