PillalawThere is a black day that terrifies several… +2 More
From UPF
William León
Arturo León
No
00:33:00
2013
Ecuador
Fiction
There is a black day that terrifies several villagers from the small town of Pungala. A being half lion half condor called Pillallaw threatens their young children with death. The only way to stop within the calendar is through a spell that the parents must cast, following a strict ritual. Nobody knows the origin of this, but this story has been told by several generations and its threat has continued until Pillallaw meets Atik, a father willing to do anything to put an end to this legend. Pillallaw is the adaptation of an Andean legend of terror.
Eren Isabel McGinnis |
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The Busy Young PsychicXie Jun-ya is a high school girl and a baseball… +2 More
From UPF
神算
Chen Ho-Yu
Liu Yu-Shiuan
No
00:29:00
2013
Taiwan
Fiction
Xie Jun-ya is a high school girl and a baseball lover. Yet she is also a psychic, and this ability has been causing her much distress. She hopes to alleviate the condition by meditating in the temple, but she is only met with many worshippers. From the Feng Shui of an ancestor’s tomb to the next lottery winning numbers - people seek all sorts of advice from her. Too occupied being a psychic, Jun-ya has barely any time for baseball. Frankly she does not care how much money she receives by answering the adults’ questions. All she thinks about is if the boy on the baseball team likes her. On the boy’s birthday, Jun-ya wants to go to the birthday party and tell him her feelings. But people are lining up in the temple, waiting for her to point them in the right direction. How does Jun-ya choose between her responsibility for a long-standing tradition and her life as an adolescent? This is not only a story about the life of a teenage girl with unique talents, but also a story depicting the rich traditional culture in Taiwan.
Eren Isabel McGinnis |
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Tongan FerriesIn 2009 Tonga was hit by disaster: the passenger… +2 More
From UPF
Adrian Stevanon
Richard Langston
Yes
Native Affairs
35
00:17:37
2013
New Zealand
Reportage
In 2009 Tonga was hit by disaster: the passenger ferry Princess Ashika sank, killing 74 Tongan. In 2011 the New Zealand Prime Minister John Key sent experts to Tonga to look at the state of its ferries and found that ‘significant risks to the safety of life’ still exist. Their reports were never published. The World Bank made their own assessment, concluding that many of the vessels in operation were unseaworthy. Yet the vessels continue their service. The situation facing the 4000 people of Eua was so dangerous, the small community set about fundraising to buy their own boat. Why was a report commissioned only to keep the findings secret? Why was no aid directed towards fixing up the boats? And how far did the tiny community of Eua get in their quest to buy their own boat? This investigation tries to provide some answers.
Eren Isabel McGinnis |
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News Room - Syrians in TransitionThe News Room is a slot for short documentary… +2 More
From UPF
Sala de Notícias - Sírios em Transição
Marina Darmaros / Wissam Moukayed
Marina Darmaros
Yes
News Room (Sala de Notícias) = Curtas
00:15:35
2012
Brazil
Documentary
The News Room is a slot for short documentary reportages that is open to diverse views, languages and narratives with contemporary relevance for Brazil and for the world. In this episode, the social dissatisfaction and uprising against the Government of Bashar al-Assad caused Syria to be devastated by violence. Even with the protests and sanctions imposed by the UN, the Syrian president does not give up power and the country undergoes a serious conflict. An ex-officer of the Syrian army exiled in Moscow, where he studies journalism, returns to his homeland in order to show the horrors carried out by Bashar Al Assad’s army.
Eren Isabel McGinnis |
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National Knitting Eve13 hours of live broadcast all about knitting.… +2 More
From UPF
Nasjonal strikkekveld
Lise-May Spissøy
Hallgrim Hals / Thomas Hellum
No
00:35:00
2013
Norway
Documentary
13 hours of live broadcast all about knitting. Norge Rundt is a well-established programme, that runs weekly, but this evening it was all about knitting. 40 minutes on the main channel NRK1. At 20h the Knitting Eve changed to NRK2. The first 4 hours consisted of a TVshow with a host and guests, subjects like mathematics in knitting, guerilla knitting, social knitting and a small yarn-factory were discussed. A normal, but long and slow TV-production. Also live knitting by guest knitters. At midnight the record-attempt ‘back to back’; shearing a sheep, spinning yarn and finishing off by knitting a sweater was started. It took over 8 hours, just spinning and knitting. Everything done by hand, live on TV. After inviting the viewers to take part on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, we put many of their pictures and comments on the air. A social media manager, was situated in the area of transmission and was live on the programme telling the viewers about incoming messages and images.
Kaori Kaiko
Stefano Semeria |
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GoggleboxWe watch hours of television every day –… +2 More
From UPF
Annie Conlon / Katrina Grant / Luned Tonderai / Lucy Whelan
Tania Alexander
Yes
Gogglebox (Season 2)
13
00:35:00
2013
United Kingdom
Docudrama
We watch hours of television every day – the TV set is the focal point of our home; it is where we eat, chat, break up, make up, chill out or freak out. Each week Gogglebox presents the highlights of the week’s television, intercut with footage of ordinary people watching it at home. Featuring a cross-section of society – the working class family, a student household, a gay couple, elderly grandparents and their grandchildren – we see not only their diverse reactions to the week’s biggest soap storyline or high-end drama, but also to the country’s sporting events and unfolding big news stories. The show features these same characters every week.
Kaori Kaiko
Stefano Semeria |
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The Wrinkled MinuteFour nice old ladies tell not-so-nice… +2 More
From UPF
La minute vieille
Fabrice Maruca
Laurent Ceccaldi
Yes
The Wrinkled Minute (season 1)
4
00:02:00
2012
France
Comedy
Four nice old ladies tell not-so-nice jokes… … about a gross fat man trying to open a bank account and not getting off on a good start. Or a big-mouthed frog who is walking through the country in the summer and is in for a surprise. The encounter of a shopkeeper with a scruffy young want-to-be salesman will inspire some mirth. And – last but not least – a dead man in hell meets the devil, of all creatures!
Kaori Kaiko
Stefano Semeria |
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BrainFlash!A weekly team-challenge quiz show for the whole… +2 More
From UPF
Hiroyuki Sakamoto
Nobuto Ariyoshi
Yes
BrainFlash!
19
00:30:00
2013
Japan
Entertainment
A weekly team-challenge quiz show for the whole family. Two teams of contestants present quizwords using clay, shadow pictures, portraits and other means, with some very entertaining results. These were the games used in this edition: What’s The Word? Each team captain must define a series of loan words within a time limit. Teammates guess each quizword from the definition. Clue Them In! Players draw clues to help a team member guess a quizword. Say It With Clay! Each team member has 90 seconds to make a clay sculpture that represents a quizword for a player to guess. Putting You In The Picture! Team members become living sculptures, arranging themselves on the studio floor so they present an image of a quizword when viewed from above.
Kaori Kaiko
Stefano Semeria |
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MekimiThis is the story of Alma, a young media star… +2 More
From UPF
Ram Nehari
Yifat Prestelnik
Yes
Mekimi
5
00:39:30
2013
Israel
Fiction
This is the story of Alma, a young media star living in Tel Aviv in the early 90s, who seems to have it all: money, fame, a great boyfriend, successful friends, and a life running along a sure path to success. But in reality, there is a big, black hole in Alma’s heart. Entering her life and stealing her heart is film student Ben, a dark, mysterious anarchist. They fall deeply in love, appearing to be one another’s salvation, and at other times seeming to pull one another into the depths of oblivion, until they decide to repent and to marry. ‛Mekimi’ is a 5-episode drama series based on a bestseller book by the ex-radio presenter Noa Yaron-Dayan, who in the middle of the 1990s became a religious penitent turning to the Bresolver branch of Orthodox Judaism. The series documents five elements from the book, turning them into five meaningful moments in the process of religious penitence.
Liselott Forsmann |
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Babe in ArmsRedfern Now is an indigenous drama series set in… +2 More
From UPF
Adrian Wills
Darren Dale / Miranda Dear
Yes
Redfern Now (Season 2)
6
00:59:00
2013
Australia
Drama
Redfern Now is an indigenous drama series set in the inner suburban Sydney suburb of Redfern – a suburb where Aboriginal Australians have lived since European settlement, historically in very poor living conditions. In this episode Janine and Justin welcome their baby into the world but like many new parents find themselves under great strains in their new roles. After Justin’s insistence that caring for a child is in every woman’s DNA doesn’t go over well with Janine, they have a huge argument. Justin storms off. This triggers an incident, which is every parent’s nightmare – their son goes missing. The authorities are called, a media blitz is undertaken and professional mourners set up vigil outside the family home. As the days roll on, and there is no word or clue as to the whereabouts of the child, suspicion switches to the parents.
Liselott Forsmann |
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The LegacyThe Legacy is a modern family portrait set at the… +2 More
From UPF
Arvingerne
Pernilla August
Christian Rank
Yes
Arvingerne
10
00:56:00
2014
Denmark
Drama
The Legacy is a modern family portrait set at the legendary manor Grønnegaard where the internationally renowned artist Veronika Grønnegaard has lived an eccentric and colourful life since the wild sixties. The serial follows Veronika’s four adult children whose free and chaotic childhood at Grønnegaard has left its mark on them in very different ways. They live scattered to the four winds until Veronika dies and they gather to wind up the estate. Just before she dies, Veronika leaves the manor to her daughter Signe, who was given up for adoption. Signe lives with her partner in a quiet residential area in the local town and has never known the truth of her parentage. What was meant to be a quick and painless estate division becomes the start of a journey into secrets and lies that turn their lives upside down and forces them to look at each other and themselves with new eyes.
Liselott Forsmann |
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Surfing the Web of HateThe Internet is flooded with sexual harassment… +2 More
From UPF
Män som näthatar kvinnor
Nicke Nordmark / Hasse Johansson
Nicke Nordmark / Hasse Johansson
Yes
Uppdrag granskning = Mission Investigate
18
00:58:00
2013
Sweden
Documentary
The Internet is flooded with sexual harassment and death threats, mostly aimed at women. Why do some men feel free to do this? This reportage takes a closer look at the phenomenon of misogyny and hate speech on the web and we meet well-known Swedish women who are used to receiving serious threats. We also meet 21-year old Julia, an ordinary Swedish girl who wrote a post on clothing giant H&M’s Facebook page and received thousands of threatening and humiliating comments. Reporters Nicke Nordmark and Hasse Johansson confront some of the men who threatened Julia, to ask: WHY?
Minna Knus-Galán |
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The Sextortion of Amanda ToddAmanda Todd was a naive young teenager from… +2 More
From UPF
Tamar Weinstein
Tamar Weinstein
Yes
The Fifth Estate
00:42:00
2013
Canada
Documentary
Amanda Todd was a naive young teenager from Vancouver, British Columbia, who made just one mistake in life - but that mistake ended up killing her. Like many teens all over the world she felt very comfortable with her online friends who encouraged each other to do increasingly risqué things on chat lines. One day Amanda was coaxed into flashing her breasts. She didn’t know that predators called ‘Cappers’ are always surfing the net looking for pictures they could trade as teen porn. Her image was captured, and shared instantly around the world, and in the months that followed she was mercilessly blackmailed. The Fifth Estate, Canada’s investigative documentary programme, tells the story of what really happened and who these young male ‘Cappers’ are. Producers spent months meeting and developing a rapport with family members and close friends of Amanda. And the question they put to themselves was, whether this was exploiting Amanda’s misery all over again?
Minna Knus-Galán |
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Chile, the Forbidden ImagesThis documentary recovers in four episodes the… +2 More
From UPF
Chile: las imagenes prohibidas
Claudio Marchant
Paz Diaz
Yes
Chile: las imagenes prohibidas
4
01:12:00
2013
Chile
Documentary
This documentary recovers in four episodes the unknown images of the military dictatorship of Pinochet, who ruled Chile for 17 years. It uses unpublished audiovisual archives that were banned during the military regime, and that in 2013, 40 years after the coup d’état, were shown for the first time on television. Images that Chileans had never had access to before, and which reveal the true story of a period where human rights were systematically violated, and where torture, disappearances, and political killings were institutionalized. With hard work in the area of investigative and production journalism, we were able to locate the anonymous people who appear in the audiovisual archives that were recovered and revive the memory of those painful years.
Minna Knus-Galán |
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RadioA giant earthquake and tsunami wreaked… +2 More
From UPF
Yoshiyuki Kishi
Miwako Hosoda / Hisashi Miura / Hiromitsu Sugita
No
01:13:00
2013
Japan
Fiction
A giant earthquake and tsunami wreaked unprecedented havoc in northeastern Japan on 11.3.2011. Ten months have passed since then, and Shigeharu, the vice-president of a fish-paste company, is worried about a high-school student named Bo, who has shut herself in her room in temporary housing and refuses to engage with the world. To help her break out of her shell, he urges her to become an announcer on the local temporary radio station Onagawa Disaster FM. Bo is initially awkward at public speaking. She starts a blog that helps her express her feelings. A middle-aged man named Tobimatsu, who is from the same town as Bo but now lives in Tokyo, begins listening to the broadcasts online. Bo’s interaction with Tobimatsu and her fellow radio broadcasters helps her gradually recover her emotional health, and she begins to look toward to the future with hope. This drama is based on a true story.
Melanie Wolber |
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After Nine IIThis series follows the exploits of black gay men… +2 More
From UPF
Sechaba Morojele
Sechaba Morojele
Yes
After Nine: Season 2
13
00:24:00
2013
South Africa
Drama
This series follows the exploits of black gay men in a modern South African society, revolving around the love story between Hector and China. It delves into the underworld of a black gay man and his inner struggles to find a way to deal with the torment of revealing his true sexuality to his wife and family. China, a closeted gay businessman, meets Hector an attractive architect when he is recruited into his family’s construction company. Their instant mutual attraction leads them to an inevitable relationship. At first China thinks he can carry on living his customary double ‘After 9’ lifestyle - a loyal boyfriend to Bokang his long standing fiancé and in a secret relationship with Hector – but pressure is mounting. In this episode China drives Sbu to his homestead in the rural areas for his coming out ceremony. Zane and Zee are there to support Sbu. China refuses to own up to being gay. He stays behind and explains to the elders what being gay is all about.
Melanie Wolber |