Page 36 - Autumn Lineup 2019

Directors: Thomas Risch and Sébastien Koegler
Director: Tom Barton-Humphreys
Supersonic: The Great Adventure
1 x 90’ or 1 x 60’, 2019, HD
From the breaking of the sound barrier in 1947 to supersonic fighter jets, to the recent NASA advances and civilian jet projects for crossing the Atlantic in only 3.5 hours, this documentary recounts 70 years of human and technological challenges. For long, the sound barrier was considered unbreakable. To approach it, engineers have imagined since the 1940’s ever more innovative engines. Today, breaking the sound barrier is perfunctory for army jet pilots. But it hasn’t always been the case ...
Untamed Romania
1 x 90’ 2018, 4K
‘Untamed Romania’ celebrates Romania’s astounding beauty and sheer diversity of wild animals. Vast mountains, ancient forests and expansive wetlands provide undisturbed habitats to many of the continent’s iconic creatures. From the forested slopes of the Carpathian Mountains, to the wind blown waters of the Danube Delta. Untamed Romania reveals how the country’s creatures adapt to the varying seasons, and how forests in particular are crucial to their existence.
Off the Fence/Auchan Romania S.A.
Wild Ways Of The Coast
1 x 90’ or 1 x 60’, 2019, HD
To many life-forms, the border between land and sea is an invaluable habitat. From cliffs to tidepools, from reefs to sand dunes - all are home to members of the animal kingdom. It is an environment of extremes where seal colonies take advantage of the cool waters and the fish that congregate here. The seals attract predators, but the surrounding cliffs make an attack by predators unlikely. Some animals spend all of their lives here. But not all.
V-Day: Volcanic Planet
1 x 120’, 2018, 4K
V-Day asks: What would happen if all of the volcanoes erupted on a single day? Join scientists around the globe as they deploy the latest technology to understand and predict volcanic behaviour. Spectacular footage of past and current eruptions, combined with CGI based upon the latest scientific discoveries, puts us right in the heart of volcanoes. Then, by speeding up the action into a single day, we get a new perspective on the remarkable forces that have shaped our planet for millions of years.
Pioneer Productions/Smithsonian Networks
The Woman Who Loves Giraffes
1 x 83’ or 1 x 60’, 2019, HD
In 1956 at the age of 23, Anne Innis Dagg travelled to South Africa to become the world’s first scientist to study the behaviour of an animal in the wild. Her pioneering efforts were groundbreaking, but her career was destroyed upon her return home. In ‘The Woman Who Loves Giraffes’, Anne takes us on her first expedition back to Africa to retrace her trailblazing journey and offers an intimate window into her life as a young woman, juxtaposed with a first hand look at the devastating reality that giraffes are facing today.
Writer & Producer: Andrea Gastgeb Executive Producer: Sabine Holzer
Terra Mater Factual Productions
Bleu Kobalt
Director: Roeland Doust
Yasuni Man
1 x 86’, 2018, HD
‘Yasuni Man’ is a film about a conflict raging deep within the Ecuadorian Amazon. Once under siege by missionaries seeking to civilise them, the Waorani people battle industry operatives and their own government in a fight to survive. Join filmmaker Ryan Patrick Killackey and his native friend Otobo as they embark on an expedition into the most biodiverse forest on Earth. Witness what may be lost as oil companies encroach, human rights violations run rampant, and an eden of a forest is destroyed - all for the oil that lies beneath Yasuni.
Director: Allison Reid
Director: Ryan Patrick Killackey
Free Spirit Films
Pollywog Productions
Feature Docs