Movies: Optimistic

In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik and Co. were keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve p...

This moving documentary chronicles the last year in the life of Robert Eads, a trans man dying of ovarian cancer. We're introduced to several prominent figures in Robert's life -- most importantly, his life partner and caretaker Lola Cola, who is als...

Bianca manages a precarious living as a talented but underemployed actress in Rio de Janeiro, performing for private events dressed as movie icons. Troubled by the belief that she has missed her big break, Bianca's situation is upturned by an auditio...

To reconcile her sins, Mrs. Garbo invites her friend, Bovete-Berta to a tea party and engages in gossip. But her husband, Jean-Jacques, unexpectedly gets a visit ......

Bruno, a misunderstood teenager, has developed an obsession with burning objects, recording them, and uploading videos to the internet to deal with his father’s death. When his lonely mother starts dating another man, Bruno escapes from home. He goes...

When illness forces her away from her beloved trauma cleaning business, Sandra Pankhurst faces up to her traumatic past and begins a search for her birth mother....

Arturo Urbiola, independent singer/songwriter, talks about the influence music has had on his life, it's impact, and what's in store for his artistic career after becoming a father....

Mixing archival footage and interviews with the band and its crew, this film celebrates the 40-year history of legendary rockers Paralamas do Sucesso....

After a series of personal failures, Savannah, a college student, creates Boxland, a world where she does not have to take responsibility for her actions, and it's up to her best friend Connor, and his brother Martin, to rescue her from her paradise ...

Carefree retired teacher Tom and his new partner Iona have run away to start a new life together in the South of France, but when Tom's estranged son shows up unannounced with his girlfriend Adele, their past traumas begin to catch up with them. Adel...

Not only has she got pink extensions, painted on eyebrows, glitter stockings and superman hotpants, Starlady’s a youth worker in some of Australia’s most remote and challenging places. And she reckons that hairdressing can improve people’s lives. Li...

Along her journey to relieve herself of anxiety, Alexia, a mid-twenty year old woman, is encouraged by Dr. Ecorn to revisit a past childhood event. She struggles to decipher the insidious meaning behind the memory. Gradually, EMDR, a technique favour...

The Billion Dollar Hotel is a documentary that explores life in and around the Burj Al Arab Hotel. It follows the experiences of hotel staff at all levels and the highs and lows of working to provide the best possible service where any request by a g...

Told by a member's son, this is the story of five kids from L.A.'s Watts neighborhood who formed a little-known funk and soul outfit in the 1970s....

In 1876 Bulgaria, a desperate revolutionary must convince a room of suspecting Ottoman soldiers that he is innocent. Based on the history of the April Uprising -- a struggle for independence between Bulgaria and the immense Ottoman Empire....

A guy walks into a café......

This is the story of how Parma rose through the Italian divisions to become Champions in Europe, before a spectacular crash saw them bankrupt and relegated to the amateur leagues....

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A short documentary film produced by the British government in 1964. With the help of modernist animations, it covers the development of penicillin into a usable pharmaceutical, from Alexander Fleming's initial discovery, to the purification performe...