Fireworks Movies

This colorful archival record of Québec City's Winter Carnival shows that many popular events of today—pageants, parades, boat races,...

4 people intend to commit suicide together by blowing themselves up using a large ball of fireworks, but strange events occur, every times they...

This film depicts Bunleua Sulilat’s temple/sculpture garden 'Sala Keoku', located in northern Thailand. Passages of blackness sporadically...

The word panchão was first heard in Macao. From the Chinese pan-tcheong or pau-tcheong, dictionaries define it as a Macanese regionalism also...

Tora-chan and Miike are working on the side of a tuna steamship and manage to run afoul of the short-tempered captain. But the captain makes plenty...

A young girl's beguilement by technology and her ultimate escape from it.

A boy finds some fireworks, but his excitement quickly turns to disappointment when the fuse goes bad.

Father’s Fireworks is a short film the artist edited out of footage of daily life that he had previously shot. The film first depicts a...

August 11, 2011, five months following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, memorials, prayers, and fireworks for recovery were held simultaneously...

Jaime, a master pyrotechnician from Valle de Santiago, Mexico, tells us how he decided to dedicate his life to pyrotechnics and how this tradition is...

A gentle love story from the harsh environment of northern Bohemia.

Animation by Katomomo. Music by Kazune Yamagata.

A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.

Documentary reveals how fireworks are made, how they create their effects and how pyrotechnicians design and execute firework displays.

A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

Stark 70s firework safety film which mixes the everyday and the uncanny.

Futako, a woman made from the remains of fireworks, is fated to explode at the fireworks festival this summer. After spending time with Ichiro, she...

The Katakai Festival, one of Niigata and Echigo's Three Great Fireworks Festivals, has a 400-year history. Held annually on September 9th and 10th in...