Movies Similar to Self-Actualization

Land Without Bread(1933)

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.

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The Forger(2017)

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenager, he became a member of the French Resistance and used his talent to save the lives of thousands of Jews. The Forger is a well-crafted origin story of a real-life superhero.

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I Was Only 14(2016)

Filmmaker Froukje van Wengerden’s 86-year-old grandmother shares a powerful memory from 1944, when she was just 14. As her story unfolds, we see a group of contemporary 14-year-old girls. Their procession of portraits permits the spectator to see simultaneously forward and back, into the future and towards the past. A miraculous testimonial that uses eye contact to focus the viewer inward and evoke unexpected emotions.

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ExamiNation(2011)

A short documentary about a Korean high school student preparing for the most important exam she will ever take, an eight hour long college entrance exam.

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An Imminent Threat

“An Imminent Threat” follows a fisherman activist, Yngve Larsen, who fights against oil and gas drilling activities in north of Norway. Will Yngve succeed in avoiding the extinction of many species of fish and thus irreversible damage to our planet?

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Night and Fog(1959)

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

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How the Telephone Talks(1919)

"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray Studios New York, which was the dominant animation studio based in the United States in the years surrounding World War I.

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La quemada(2022)

12 years later, a failed school short film is resignified to share the multiple experiences that exist in the creation of a film.

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This quiet morning light(2022)

In the municipality of Cortazar, Salvador Juárez seeks to rescue and share the memory of what it was once like to live there.

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La visite du Général De Gaulle au Québec(1967)

Documentary presenting the different stages of General de Gaulle's trip to Quebec in 1967, accompanied by extracts from his speeches.

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Learning Disabilities in Primary Care(2022)

People with learning disabilities often experience worse physical and mental health. This film is a starting point to address these inequalities.

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Begegnung in Berlin(1965)

Short documentary directed by Günter Schlesinger

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The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat(1896)

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

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I Am a Truck(1953)

Worldy renowned for his masterpiece The Housemaid (1960), Kim Ki-young debuts with his first short film I Am a Truck (1953), which was sponsored by UN and made a year after the armistice of the Korean War. This film is a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a soon-to-be powerful auteur and influential filmmaker in the post-war Korean cinema, if not the whole history of Korean cinema.

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Isabella(2015)

This film aims to capture the stories of the aging Isabella, but also captures her condition and loss of cohesiveness as she loses herself into dementia and Parkinson's. It is also a very personal film since the subject is the grandmother of one of the co- directors. The idea is interesting as it links one strong clear memory, told several times, to other fragments and truths of her condition. Animation is sparingly but cleverly used to complement the delivery and avoid it just being a talking head.

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Martha(2004)

"I can get closer to God only through love for a man," says 75-year-old sculptor Marta, who still retains the ability to fall in love. And with each falling in love, experience your new birth - A WOMAN AND AN ARTIST. Her life dramatically combines old age, approaching death with a thirst for love and creativity…

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3 Days, 3 Years(2021)

Elena, a Tsotsil Mayan woman from San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas, is appointed Municipal Trustee by a purely male community assembly.

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Hay algo que no he dicho(2021)

Three women intimately share how they faced the world and their own family when deciding to terminate a pregnancy.

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The Sun's Gonna Shine(1969)

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

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Captain Blood: A Swashbuckler Is Born(2005)

This documentary is featured on the DVD for Captain Blood (1935), released in 2005.

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