The World’s Inspiring Places
At a time when travelers are rushing to see places before they change, or vanish forever, two young college friends wanted to check out a place that people have been working to protect—Sierra Gorda in Central Mexico. With a small crew, Christian and Ian traveled through deserts, forests, and vast mountains they didn’t know existed …Read more »
Land’s Baptism
By crossing six Portuguese emmigration generations in Rio de Janeiro throughout the years this film rescues oral memory by telling inspiring stories concerning diaspora but it also creates a visual document about the Portuguese identity in wonder city, making it a character, and inspiring itself on the book “Emigrantes” by the Portuguese writer Ferreira de …Read more »
HOME
After the sudden death of his father Matthias embarks on a search for his lost brother who is supposed to live in Vietnam. For Matthias he is the way out of his moral dilemma. But Matthias was not aware of the encounters and how this journey would change him. At the alleged residence of his …Read more »
A stop to Santiago
Ins and outs, day and night, joy and pain, friends and strangers – those are the contrasts in the “Camino de Santiago”. The “albergue” – a hostel that serves as retreat and place of communion, becomes a home away from home. Director: Barbara Tavares
DRIVEN
After a lifetime of physical accomplishments that include teaching himself to walk at age 7, Getúlio wants to show others that anything is possible. Set in the Dolomites mountain range in northern Italy, the documentary follows the young Brazilian boy Getúlio Felipe, 14, who has cerebral palsy, along with his friend and director Pedro McCardell, …Read more »