1. Who Is This Kusturica? (Кто такой этот Кустурица?)
Emir Kusturica views himself as a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous filmmaker by pure chance, as he shoots his movies only in between concert tours with the “No Smoking Orchestra” band. At these little pinpoints of time he gets “Palms d’Or” at Cannes, “Golden Lions” in Venice, builds his own villages, a power plant and a piste and regrets not becoming a professional football player. Kusturica’s own living is very much similar to his movies, where shoes are polished with cats, death is treated like a story from tabloid press, and life is a miracle...
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
2. The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the origin of human life, offers evidence and theories to support such a thesis in this PBS special. He claims that Africa was populated by only a few thousand people that some deserted their homeland in a conquest that has resulted in global domination.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
3. Bancoco
A New Yorker journeys to the jungle in the Darien Gap of Panama to reconnect with an indigenous tribe he met and photographed 20 years ago. Their reunion highlights the profound power of photos and the human connection that transcends cultural barriers.
4. North America: Its Rivers
Explores the distinctive features of the major rivers of the continent, and discusses their contributions to the farming, recreation, transportation and hydroelectric power of North America.
5. Píseň jižních Čech (Píseň jižních Čech)
(Píseň jižních Čech)
6. Woman (Žemsko)
Between four walls of her apartment, a girl enjoys in intimate idleness and being her true self.
7. Saved by Language
Can a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one from the 15th century. Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew from Sarajevo , who spoke Ladino/Judeo-Spanish, his mother tongue, to survive the Holocaust. Moris used Ladino to communicate with an Italian Colonel who helped him escape to a Partizan refuge after he ran away from the train taking Yugoslavian Jews to Nazi death camps. By speaking in Ladino to a Spanish-speaking US pilot in 1944 he was able to survive and lead the pilot, along with his American and British colleagues, to a safe Partizan airport.
8. Podkarpatská Rus (Podkarpatská Rus)
(Podkarpatská Rus)
9. The River of Life and Death (Řeka života a smrti)
(Řeka života a smrti)
10. Horehronie (Horehronie)
(Horehronie)
11. Laush (Lauš)
A documentary-narrative film which looks at real events and personal phenomena of artist Zarko Lausevic. "Laush" above all tells a story of an evil time we've all been through, represents both sides and is made with empathy and respect towards everyone involved in the tragic incident. Through recreations, narration, memories of colleagues and quotes from the book "A Year Passes, a Day Will Never Pass" which the artist wrote during the hardest stage of his life, the weight of his fate is presented. The aim of this project is to portray the life of brilliant actor, who in the midst of great fame, disappeared from the scene through the cruelty of dubious times.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
12. Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body (Jugoslavija: Kako je ideologija pokretala naše kolektivno telo)
A research-based essay film, but also a very personal perspective on the history of socialist Yugoslavia, its dramatic end, and its recent transformation into a few democratic nation states.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
13. City of Splendour (Grad izobilja)
A documentary about punk and subculture scene of Pula, Croatia from 1978 to 1991, the city that gave birth to one of the most vivid punk and alternative rock scenes in former Yugoslavia, despite having population of just over 60,000 residents.
14. The Long Road Through Balkan History
Bosnian Croat writer Miljenko Jergović and Serbian writer Marko Vidojković replace one another by the steering wheel of Yugo, a symbol of their common past while driving on the Brotherhood and Unity Highway that stretched across five of six republics of Yugoslavia.
15. The Happy Child (Sretno dijete)
The Happy Child is a story of "New Wave" rock genre predominant in the ex-Yugoslavia during the socialist 70's and 80's.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
16. The Lost Forest
How would natural habitats develop without human interference? In this documentary we follow an international team of scientists and explorers on an extraordinary mission in Mozambique to reach a forest that no human has set foot in. The team aims to collect data from the forest to help our understanding of how climate change is affecting our planet. But the forest sits atop a mountain, and to reach it, the team must first climb a sheer 100m wall of rock.
17. A Meeting with Milton Santos (Encontro com Milton Santos ou O Mundo Global Visto do Lado de Cá)
The film deals with the process of globalization based on the thought of geographer Milton Santos, who through his ideas and practices, inspires the debate about Brazilian society and the construction of a new world. Santos discusses his views on the importance of respecting difference and his belief that an alternative globalisation model could wholly enfranchise all citizens of the world. An illustrious presence in 20th century social sciences, the man dubbed as ‘geography’s philosopher’ eloquently elucidates a developing world perspective on the global age.
It has an average vote of 8.3 on TMDB.
18. Antártica: O Continente dos Extremos (Antártica: O Continente dos Extremos)
(Antártica: O Continente dos Extremos)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
19. ¿Qué pasó con Yugoslavia?. El engaño de nuestra vida (¿Qué pasó con Yugoslavia?. El engaño de nuestra vida)
(¿Qué pasó con Yugoslavia?. El engaño de nuestra vida)
20. The Illness and Recovery of Buda Brakus (Bolest i ozdravljenje Bude Brakusa)
The protagonists of this docudrama are old farmers who migrated to Banat after the First World War, in 1922. The film is focused on a couple of important events in their impressive lives, which are woven into lively scenes and stories full of wise instances. Their statements become spontaneous recounts of the lives of people in this region.