Search Operation: The New Town Survivor / 2022

The Survivor / 2008

After WWII Comisarul Moldovan spent years as a political prisoner of the communist regime. The favorite entertainment of the Russian Colonel in charge of the prison was to have the inmates play Russian Roulette. Only his unbelievable luck and survivor spirit helped Moldovan live through his detention. Out of the prison the ex-policeman joins an international Russian Roulette illegal gaming circuit. In late 70's faith brings him to a Central European town where Goldberg, an old acquaintance of his is organizing an "improved" version of the game where two opponents are shooting each other. Step by step Moldovan meets lots of familiar faces, both friends and enemies. It looks like the whole Bucharest's underworld from the 40's chose to meet here.

Would You Realize That I’m a Survivor? /

A Queer South American artist transforms her female bust into a male chest in the bathroom of a dive bar in NYC’s East Village. Then they transform their face inside the bar while sharing fragments of their life and getting ready to go out without a certain destination. It all happens in the time provided by one roll of Super 8 film.

The Survivor / 2010

Marc, twelve-year-old young man, resumes consciousness in a field. He has his body bruised by multiple wounds. Back at home, plunged into a profound silence and into a state of stupefaction, he provokes strange reactions from his family. What happened to him?

The Survivor of the Hippocampus /

Diane, a tough woman, runs a hotel used by prostitutes in 2030. Her old friend Franck drowns in alcohol the memory of his brother, Paul, who vanished years ago. He asks Diane to visit his brain to kill this memory. On the way, Diane makes some unexpected discoveries.

The Survivor of the Laughing Forest /

The portrayal of the group of women in the story as driven to a kind of hysteria after three years of isolated living at an army supply depot “deep in the ghostly arms of the forest” suggests the ways the war traumatized even those not involved directly in the actual fighting. The “laughing disorder” that apparently afflicts these women is likened to “the wild, cruel laughter of war.” There is no real path to recovery, no hope of finding happiness during peacetime. The women have been irrevocably changed by the war and counted now among its millions of victims.

Survivor / 2016

Chinese movie

Survivor / 1991

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Piripkura / 2018

The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil, struggle to maintain their indigenous way of life amidst the region's massive deforestation. Living deep in the rainforest, Pakyî and Tamandua live off the land relying on a machete, an ax, and a torch lit in 1998.

The Lost Battalion / 1919

World War I, October 1918. The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army, who have been recruited in New York City and trained in Yaphank, are sent to France, to help break down the German defenses located in the Argonne forest…

Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains / 2008

The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who managed to survive for 72 days, at an altitude of almost 4,000 meters, in the heart of the Andes Mountains, after their plane, en route to Chile, crashed there on October 13, 1972.

Refuge of Fear / 1974

Two couples are caught inside a bomb shelter as nuclear war rages outside.

Make It Out Alive / 2017

The untold human stories behind some of the world’s greatest disasters.

Hitler's Forgotten Victims / 1997

The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps. It also explores the history of German racism and examines the treatment of Black prisoners-of-war. The film uses interviews with survivors and their families as well as archival material to document the Black German Holocaust experience.

Noa Noa / 1974

The Survivors of the Bounty

The Story of the Shipwrecked from the Patria / 1997

On November 25, 1940, the SS Patria sank in the port of Haifa killing 267 people. The ship was carrying almost 1,800 Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe whom the British authorities were deporting from Mandatory Palestine to Mauritius because they lacked entry permits. Opposed to the deportation, the Haganah planted a bomb intended to disable the ship to prevent it from leaving Haifa. However, they miscalculated the effects of the explosion and the bomb sank the ship in less than 16 minutes (Dir. Pavel Štingl, 2006, 45 min.). Pavel Stingl an award winning documentary filmmaker studied at the Film and Television Academy of the Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). The screening is part of the ongoing “Docs in Salute” film series presented by the Library of Congress in collaboration with the Embassy of the Czech Republic.

Surviving Pulse: Life After a Mass Shooting / 2022

On June 12, 2016, Pulse nightclub’s weekly “Latin Night” was in full swing on South Orange Avenue. Just over 300 patrons were dancing and laughing as last call rolled around 2AM. Moments later a terrorist attack shattered the seemingly “safe space” of one of Orlando’s beloved gay bars. When the madness subsided, 49 beautiful souls were lost, dozens more injured, and a community of thousands was left broken. But what has happened since that night to the survivors—the ones who lost friends and lovers, who are bonded together by an unthinkable act of violence? This powerful and amazingly hopeful testament gathers together many of the people who hunkered down in bathroom stalls and behind the bar and allows them a space to share the details of that night and the ongoing effects of living through a “national tragedy” from an incredibly intimate perspective.

Benefit for the Living Dead / 2005

A re-tooling of 'Night of the Living Dead' designed to generate royalties for the "survivor's" who are responsible for the creation of the 1968 film.