Introspection

Two classmates decide to make a short film about drugs to enter their school’s Arts Festival; however, things don’t go as they planned.

A middle-aged woman confronts loneliness as she reflects on her past.

A mournful woman seeks redemption in a cemetery.

A woman struggles to overcome a powerful, elusive force.

In a modern and superficial New York City, a grieving woman encounters an unusual person on the street, blurring the lines between dreams and reality.

A teenager faces overwhelming absurdity.

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls and fields deployed for such sports as fencing, polo, cycling, and the modern pentathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris.