"Nollywood: Something Out of Nothing"06 June 2014Factual47 mins
From traditional voodoo stories, via realistic tales with urban themes, to ground-breaking genre films: Nigerian cinema has a wide range indeed. Join the ride as Nigerian filmmaker Abba Makama sets out to explain the Lagos-based film industry we know as Nollywood – an industry that produces up to 50 films per week, often with a budget of less than 10 000 dollars.
One-hour documentary recounts the untold story of the remarkable rise and fall of the Thanhouser Studio, one of American’s pioneering motion picture studios during the first decade of the twentieth century.
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The amazing and inspiring journey of Mexican guitarists ‘Rodrigo y Gabriela’ who at a very young age decided to do only what they loved the most: music.
A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.
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