Koka

Apr 17, 2024

0h 47m

★ 8.0

Overview

Somewhere on the coast of the Bering Sea, a father and son make a living fishing in a community that seems almost outside of time. Aliaksandr Tsymbaliuk’s camera takes us in close to the subjects, recording both the harshness of their condition and the rigour of education, softened by paternal love and the universal insouciance of childhood.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich

Studio Munka

VEV Productions

Koka Trailers

Cast

No Cast found.

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0.0

Wild Honey

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No overview available.

0.0

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No overview available.

6.3

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0.0

Soaring Over America

Jan 1, 2010

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0.0

Quatro em Linha

May 2, 2025

No overview available.

0.0

Unconditional: A Journey of Selfless Love

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0.0

Gaza Is Our Home

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0.0

Everywhere I Look

Mar 8, 2025

A young trans woman travels back to places she visited as a child with her mother, reflecting on memory, loss, and grief.

9.0

Being 97

Jan 20, 2018

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0.0

HAND. LINE. COD.

Sep 14, 2016

In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditional fishers—catch cod live by hand, one at a time, by hook and line. After a 20-year moratorium on North Atlantic cod, the stocks are returning. These fishers are leading a revolution in sustainability, taking their premium product directly to the commercial market for the first time. Travel with them from the early morning hours, spend time on the ocean, and witness the intricacies of a 500-year-old tradition that's making a comeback.

0.0

Finnish American Lives

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A moving portrait of traditional Finnish American culture in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, highlighting that fragile community of memory connecting ourselves with parents and grandparents. It uses the “biographical model” of folklore filmmaking to tell the story of Erikki Vourenmaa, a 92-year-old Finnish immigrant, and his family living near Ironwood, Michigan. This three-generation farm family works, celebrates, reflects, and grieves together. The film explores the meaning of family, ethnic history, aging and intergenerational bonds. It contrasts between the immigrant elder, his American-born son and the partially assimilated grandchildren to illustrate change and continuity in the "sauna belt" of the Lake Superior Region. As Dr. Sharon Sherman concluded, “Loukinen’s focus on the bonds between generations will strike emotional chords about family relationships and ethnic identity for numerous cultural groups.”

5.7

In the Frozen Tomb of Mongolia

Aug 30, 2014

No overview available.

7.0

Jacob's First Mandolin

Aug 26, 2022

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0.0

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