A New Kind of Wilderness 2024
1h 24m | Documentary | Release date: April 5, 2024 (Norway)
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On a small farm surrounded by fir forest lives a family that has made an unconventional choice – Maria and Nik and their four children grow their own food, are homeschooled and sleep together. They live out their dream of a free and independent life close to each other and nature. But then tragedy strikes them, and the world they know is turned upside down. Reluctantly, the family must change their lifestyle and adapt to modern society again.
Zwischen Knast und Kinderzimmer – Jugendhaft in Russland 2020
Zwischen Knast und Kinderzimmer – Jugendhaft in Russland 2020
38m | Documentary | Release date: March 25, 2020 (Germany)
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Serafimowka is a special boarding school in the middle of the Russian province. The 50 boys who go to school there all have a criminal past. The military drill starts every morning at 6.45 a.m. Sports, school lessons and kitchen service: Military hardness and iron discipline are said to make criminal youth ordinary citizens of Russia. The documentary shows the hard everyday life behind the boarding school walls.
Name Me Lawand 2022
1h 31m | Documentary | Release date: July 7, 2023 (Ireland)
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Void of any language, communication or true sense of self, Lawand struggles to piece together his surroundings in his new home in Derbyshire, England after a traumatic and turbulent year of seeking asylum through Europe.
Siddharta and Fabrizio, one of them nine years old, the other 65, are the core of a community that renounces every civilising comfort. Damiano Giacomelli and Lorenzo Raponi observe the life of the ‘Noci Sonanti’ over one summer marked by sun-drenched days and newborn cats.
Naturists gather in Rio De Janeiro Brazil for beach volleyball, group exercises, fun in the waves, wrestling on the sand, and hula hoops in ocean. Then it’s back to the Nudist Resort for pool games, an outdoor shower, and lots of dancing.
Mondo Magic 1975
Magia nuda (original title)
1h 25m | Documentary | Release date: January 24, 1975 (Italy)
Storyline:
This film is about tribes in Africa and South America who turn toward magic as a means of survival and way of life. The Mundari tribe in Africa herd cattle but do not slaughter them for meat. They make use of the cattle urine as an insect repellent and shower underneath their cows. They also use the dung as a body covering to further thwart insects and pest. The cattle are so prized to the Mundari that they are treated as a member of the family and a number of Mundari are shown puffing into the cattle’s vagina to encourage an early birth. A hunt is then shown where the Mundari are able to bring down mighty Elephants and Giraffes with ease. Yet unlike sport hunters they hunt merely for survival and pay respect to the beast before eating them. The Dinka tribe is another group who praise their cattle but they bleed the cows and mix it in their milk to help sustain tribes during periods of hunger. They also migrate to different areas along the Nile as to not over consume their pastures. The camera then moves to the South American continent where The Yanawana people are shown in their full glory. They sleep in simple hammocks and allow their dogs every freedom. One woman is even shown suckling a puppy along with her own child. Hunters prepare to catch their meal and a feast of spiders, crab and tapir is enjoyed by all. The Yanawana hold a gathering each year where the shamans drink a mixture of the crushed skulls of their dead shamans to transfer the soul and release it to the heavens. Psychic healers in the Philippines are shown next, they appear to do surgery without leaving scars and impress those around them. Christians are then shown self inflicting wounds as a form of penance to their saints. The cameras move back to Africa where children in Ethiopia have their Uvula removed for no real reason known to us. An Arab woman takes her daughter to a woman called a Marabou and has her checked to insure she is still pure, others use her services to heal themselves with holy messages from the Koran. The final scene has a tribe which takes woman and uses them as fertility gods, they help insure fertility and a big family.
