Through the eyes of people who became convinced of a date for the end of the world, Right Between Your Ears explores how people believe, how we turn beliefs into certainties, and mistake them for the truth.
A stock trader with a young family, a philosophy student about to graduate, a retail manager who became so convinced she quit her job of 18 years. As they face the consequences of their conviction, neuroscience and social psychology offer insight into how we can become convinced we’re right, even when we're wrong.
The People's Cloud is a project investigating the ecology and impact of cloud computing on the lives of those who use it, the places it is physically located in and the people who work to maintain it. Traveling Europe in search of the infrastructure of the internet, the film surveys the acoustic properties of such locations and their relationship with the overall environmental and geopolitical impact of mobile data storage. Interviews take place with engineers, technicians, manufacturers, marketing experts, salespeople, economists, husbands, wives, family members, academics, cultural thinkers and artists and we discover what 'the cloud' means to them and what this data boom has meant to their lives.
Based on the book by Norman Foster and Mauricio Vicent- A depiction of a country that is emerging from a time capsule after 50 years of stubborn survival, capturing the humour and resourcefulness that has kept Cubans and their cars going.
Six stories of old-timers who keep their cars “going on forever and forever”. Through these stories, the film paints a portrait of the country’s 50 years old political isolation and chronicles the changes the country is now undergoing.
The true life story of how convenience store clerk Kevin Smith made his seminal feature film 'Clerks' and the people who aided him in his indie crusade.
A Naughty Thing Called Life "The Papa Spyk Story" is a visual depiction of a newly released, and incredibly well received, autobiography from Author, Edouard "Spyk" Gheur. The author tells us in his book of his rise to fame and riches as a well endorsed professional rugby player and successful model/television actor and how his addiction to steroids and cocaine brought everything he had worked for crashing down around him. In his early 30's his aorta, which acts as the main artery supplying the heart, exploded into pieces as a result of the intense and prolonged use of chemical enhancements and recreational drugs.
Spyk lived to tell the story of his agony and the journey of recovery he has been on since. Once told he would never be able to father a child, he now has a beautiful young daughter to be thankful for but problems still continue to arise in Spyk's life and the persistent struggle reveals the amount of fight one man can carry within himself.
Exploring iconic actor Steve McQueen's explores for motorbikes, his relationship with his stunt double Bud Ekins and the film they were in together 'The Great Escape'.
Through McQueen and Ekins's shared love of bikes, the duo created a new track-racing bike, which McQueen took to England where he met up with the Rickman brothers of Metisse motorbikes, and thus the ‘Desert Racer’ was born
The untold story of a music revolution that changed the world forever.
The pop music revolution that went on to rock the world and change society forever, didn't begin - or end - with the Beatles alone!
Despite the many popular myths and the attempts to airbrush the truth from music history, the best is live and kicking, stronger than ever in Liverpool, the city that gave birth to it all.
Exploring the history of Eel Pie Island which became the epicentre of R&B in South West London in the 60s and launched the careers of many rock legends from The Stones, Yardbirds and The Who to Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd and Genesis. How black Blues music influenced a generation.
James is an American boy whose life is brought to a halt by depression. Turning his back on progressive western treatments, he goes in search of healing in the Peruvian jungle. Over the course of six months James finds answers and a kind of redemption hidden deep in the amazon.
We see the rise of a successful mixed race couple living in London with everything going for them. Just like so many of us life is pure bliss and for them and with a young family they have everything and more to live for. But with one huge changing event which can happen to any one of us we witness there hopes, dreams and desires crushed and the world they once knew comes crashing down. With no way to escape the waves of torment that we see come thrashing down on them and the poverty trap they fall into a world dependant on the state, before long the dreams they once had become a nightmare just to stay together and survive. Inspired by 'Cathy Come Home' a film by Ken Loach
INTERBEING is the first-ever documentary biopic about Thich Nhat Hanh, the legendary Vietnamese Zen master, peace activist, and Father of Mindfulness. From the war-torn streets of Vietnam to the world stage, his journey is a powerful reminder that compassion, clarity and inner peace are radical acts in a world in turmoil. This is the story of the world’s most influential spiritual leaders and how his timeless wisdom and teachings offer a bold, transformative antidote to today’s chaos, greed and division.
