Categorie: Documentary 2021

Tarika is a medium who has dedicated her life to learning how to manage her innate abilities to communicate with the beyond. Her world is entered by Sirio, a man whose life was torn apart by the tragic death of his wife, and Nadia, a vibrant woman hiding a dark family past. Through Tarika’s abilities to cross the threshold between life and afterlife, Sirio and Nadia exceed their limits, gaining a second chance to face some unresolved issues with their departed, which becomes the vehicle for their understanding of their deeper nature and their own human journey.

Year 2010, at 66 years old, Ramiro Calle, pioneer in introducing yoga in Spain, contracts listeriosis in Sri Lanka. Entered in Madrid and against the prognosis that granted 4 hours to him of life, he recovered disturbing to the medical body. Few months after that he continued giving classes in its center, the Shadak, through where came more than three hundred thousand people since 1971. An inexpert narrator, through the experience of Ramiro Calle and his 50 years of personal investigation, investigate about the real yoga; its more deceptive virtues, their intention and its forms. Without avoiding the controversy, with humor, force and wisdom we will go to the bottom of the question of YOGA in Spain and Rishikesh, India, thanks to a unique audio-visual trip on something so discussed, so practiced and as well, so little known.

Sending Off is a gentle film about the end of life. Filmed over ten months in rural Japan, director Ian Thomas Ash documents a home care doctor as she and her team provide hospice care for residents of a village who choose to pass away at home. The changing seasons provide a backdrop to the deepening relationships the patients form with their families as they reach the end of their lives. The trust the director formed with the medical team and patients is reflected in the often surprising level of access granted to the camera. The film has been described as being both “emotionally charged… makes us question our own attitude towards death and aging” while also having the power to “take away the fear of death.” Sending Off was named Best Documentary at the 2019 Nippon Connection, the largest festival of Japanese film in the world.
This film contains images around the dying and the dead that some might find disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.