A bike messengers crew based in Madrid, specialized in long-distance travels, fly to Japan with their fixed-gear bikes. Inspired by the legendary Japanese Odyssey, they ride without any assistance through 22 stages and more than 1,200 km.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has endured 20 years of devastating violence. Rape has been used as a weapon of war to destroy community and access precious minerals. Congo is often referred to as “the worst place in the world to be a woman.” CITY OF JOY tells a different story of the region. The film focuses on Jane, a student at a center where women who have suffered unimaginable abuse join together to become leaders. We also meet the founders of the center: a devout Congolese Doctor (Dr Denis Mukwege, 2016 Nobel Peace Prize nominee) a Congolese activist (Christine Schuler-Deschryver) and a radical N.Y. playwright (Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues). The film weaves between joy and pain as these individuals band together to demand hope in a place so often deemed hopeless.
Proving that India’s heroes aren’t just in Bollywood, Blood Relative follows the remarkable story of an activist fighting to save two young adults who are dying from the blood disease thalassemia. Suffering stunted growth and lacking access to medication, they remain trapped in the bodies of children. Chronicling one man’s battle, the film exposes modern India”s broken healthcare system.
“Hell or High Seas” follows U.S. Navy veteran Taylor Grieger and writer Stephen O’Shea on the adventure of a lifetime. As the two sail around Cape Horn – the world’s most treacherous ocean waters – to raise awareness about veteran suicide, Taylor finds healing from his own painful journey with PTSD.
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In the summer of 2004, audiences looked on in disbelief as the Greek National Football Team, a country that had never previously won a single match or even scored a goal in a major tournament, took down the giants of world football to become the unlikeliest of European Champions. The architect behind this unprecedented triumph was legendary German football coach ‘King’ Otto Rehhagel. After accomplishing every major success in Germany, he made the bold decision to leave all he knew behind and work in a foreign country with the underachieving Greek National Team. This is the story of how these two contrasting cultures came together to speak the same language and write a new chapter of Greek mythology.
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Documentary charting the raucous history of the infamous spring vacation revelries in Daytona, which started in the early 60s, and by the 1980s led to the arrival of tens of thousands of college students, lured by lust, booze, fun in the sun and eventually, the hope to make it onto MTV.
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An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracking feminist icon Susan Sontag’s seminal, life-changing moments through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson.
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