Page 28 - Spring Lineup 2019

Director: Rachel Goslins
BESA: The Promise
1 x 86’, 2009, HD
Follow the journeys’ of two men as they reveal Albania’s secret heroism in WWII. Norman Gershman, a renowned Jewish- American photographer determined to document first-person accounts of the Albanian Muslims who rescued Jews during the Holocaust and Rexhep Hoxha, a Muslim-Albanian who must fulfill the promise made to a Jewish family his father rescued during the Holocaust and return to them a set of Hebrew books they left behind.
JWM Productions
Cantabria: Spain’s Magical Mountains
1 x 90’ or 1 x 60’ or 2 x 60’, 2018, HD
The Cantabrian region is a magical, mysterious place with many secrets yet to be discovered. It’s a kingdom of forests, rough canyons, high mountains and amazing wildlife; filled with primeval landscapes where fantasy and reality blurs. Throughout the four seasons we will tell stories of the secret lives of our main characters; the brown bear, the wolf, the wildcat, the snow grouse, the salmon, solicitous ants and magnificent spiders and butterflies.
Terra Mater Factual Studios/ Wanda VisiÓn S.A.
Director: Tom Cook
The British Garden: Life And Death On Your Lawn
1 x 89’, 2017, HD
The British back garden is a familiar setting, but underneath the peonies and petunias is a much wilder hidden world, a miniature Serengeti, with beauty and brutality in equal measure. In this documentary, Chris Packham and a team of wildlife experts spend an entire year exploring every inch of a series of interlinked back gardens. They want to answer fundamental questions: how much wildlife lives beyond our back doors? How good is the British garden for
wildlife? Windfall Films Circus Of The Wild
1 x 90’ or 1 x 60’, 2018, HD
Barbary macaques are up to mischief in Gibraltar; pickpocketing unwary tourists. Their relatives, the Japanese macaques, are much more laid back. On Ellesmere Island, the wolves there have found a lost phone, now they’re playing football with it. They make us wonder. Especially when they turn up in unexpected places. Like little droll penguins that toddle over the sandy beaches of South Africa. Shouldn’t they be somewhere a little, well, cooler?
DocLights/NDR/Naturfilm/
Director: Joaquin Gutiérrez Acha
Executive Producers: Andrea Gastgeb & Sabine Holzer
Cuddly & Wild: Adorable Animal Babies
1 x 90’ or 1 x 60’, 2018, HD
The first year in a wild animal’s life is the most crucial. Will it get enough nourishment? How will it cope with sibling rivalry or the ever looming risk of predation? Through a series of touching stories, we come face-to-face with these dangers. The gray seals of Heligoland are born with fur and a thick layer of fat, ready to withstand the bitter wind chill. Getting through the first year may not guarantee long life, but from here on in the chances of survival grow.
DocLights/NDR/Naturfilm/
Terra Mater Factual Studios Written By: Beatrix Stoeple & Tom Synnatzschke
Executive Producers: Sabine Holzer & JÖrn RÖver
Terra Mater Factual Studios Written & Produced By: Simon Riedel
Executive Producers: Sabine Holzer & JÖrn RÖver
Bitcoin Big Bang
1 x 104’, 2018, 4K
August 1, 2015, Mark Karpelès exits his home in Tokyo under police escort. Hiding his face under a cap he wears a carefully chosen t-shirt: “Effortless French”. Indicted and imprisoned for forgery of computer data and embezzlement after the disappearance of 850,000 bitcoins, the equivalent of a half Million Dollars. With exclusive access to Mark, we reveal who was the Effortless French man and where all those bitcoins disappeared to?
Director: Vincent Gonon & Xavier Sayanoff
@Brainworks 2018
Feature Docs