The Party
A young woman is pulled away from a colorful party and thrust into a nightmare.
Noise
A first-time raver enters an underground club searching for escape, but the night descends into terror.
.WAVIEE
Raves are the pinnacle of creating safe spaces; houses creative expression through music, fashion, and icons that promote community building. We follow D Waviee, a DJ and a trans icon in the Filipino rave scene, while we get a glimpse of the local rave scene—as she closes the night of queer joy, with her music.
Darshan
What We Started
Bert Marcus and Cyrus Saidi present an informed and absorbing exploration of the history of EDM, boosted by an energetic soundtrack and anchored by the personal stories of legendary DJ Carl Cox and superstar newcomer Martin Garrix. Insights from numerous other DJs and musical talents like Moby, David Guetta, Paul Oakenfold and Usher help tell the often oppositional tales of old school vs. new school and mainstream vs. underground.
Raving Maniacs
At a rave, people give out glowing pills that turns people into zombies.
South West 9
Five very different characters are thrown together in one weird, mashed up day. It started out like any other, but 24 hours later everything had changed. South West 9 takes you through the windscreen of the new millenium. The death of idealism, capitalism, religion and hippies. Even the drugs don't work anymore. The 'summer of love' generation have come down and they're ready to riot. Seattle. Stockholm. Paris. Genoa. May Day riots.
Techno Rzeczpospolita
Dust Devils
A beautifully done video of Burning Man 2001, 2002 & 2003. Lots of people interviews, Center Cafe activity and extensive coverage of artist David Best and the Temple construction and burn. This documentary captures the swirling columns of dust that were created during the intense heat of the 2002 Temple burn.
Paradise
In the early 90s, Portugal experienced its own dance music explosion. Raves of epic proportions and a new sound shaped what was then called: “Underground house music from a paradise called Portugal”. Featuring exclusive footage and interviews with DJs, producers, dancers, and promoters, the story unfolds to reveal the birth and evolution of Portuguese rave culture and its lasting influence on electronic music worldwide.
Le Rat Débile et Le Rat Méchant
On the verge of arrest, a corrupt congressman takes refuge in his cousin’s house, the home of a boorish yet life-loving peasant. Swapping a luxury mansion for a hovel, a veritable pigsty, this refined and educated gentleman finds it hard to adapt to such a crude way of life. To make matters worse, a DJ with a trailer parked nearby is planning to throw a rave out in the middle of nowhere. The disgraced politician is waiting for his accomplices, who are supposed to take him to an airport so he can flee to South America. But nothing goes according to plan, and he ends up stranded with his vulgar relative in the back of beyond.
Love Parade: When Love Learned to Dance
At the end of the Cold War, something new arised that should influence an entire generation and express their attitude to life. It started with an idea in the underground subculture of Berlin shortly before the fall of the Wall. With the motto "Peace, Joy, Pancakes", Club DJ Dr. Motte and companions launched the first Love Parade. A procession registered as political demonstration with only 150 colorfully dressed people dancing to house and techno. What started out small developed over the years into the largest party on the planet with visitors from all over the world. In 1999, 1.5 million people took part. With the help of interviews with important organizers and contemporary witnesses, the documentary reflects the history of the Love Parade, but also illuminates the dark side of how commerce and money business increasingly destroyed the real spirit, long before the emigration to other cities and the Love Parade disaster of Duisburg in 2010, which caused an era to end in deep grief.
Im Techno-Rausch - 60 Stunden Dauerparty
Documentary about the rave and techno scene of the 90s.
Party! Party! Party! – Der lange Tanz des Techno
A documentary about the rave and techno scene of the 90s. Back then, this emerging youth scene was still unfamiliar to most people and difficult to categorize.
Weekender
The exploits of two friends who make the move from partying at illegal warehouse raves to becoming successful promoters at the peak of the Manchester, Amsterdam, and Ibiza rave scene in the early 90s.
Free Party: A Folk History
The film follows the inception of the movement, a meeting between ravers and the new age travellers during Thatcher's last days in power, and the explosive years that followed, leading up the infamous Castlemorton free festival in 1992 - the largest ever illegal rave, which provoked the drastic change of the laws of trespass with the notorious introduction of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994.
Rave
A strange illness spreads among the participants of an illegal rave.
Belushi's Toilet
In the not so distant future, the war on drugs is considered a failure. Prohibition has ended. A group of friends risk their relationships and sanity, to create the perfect new drug.
My Bad Sister
Polly and Sophie are My Bad Sister, the UK rave scene’s most infamous twin sisters. When a new chapter of sobriety threatens the hedonism of their music and relationship, Joe Magowan’s intimate documentary finds out if their sisterly bond can survive getting clean.
Night Falls
Lucky endures the party days’ rhythm, with no other drugs than music and his girlfriend Glow. The night never ends, and amid the revelry, rumors spread: two charred bodies have appeared in an abandoned house near the road.