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A music band was filmed in its sensitive change period before and after the creation of their second album.

The question of meaning seems to occupy humanity since the beginning of time and the attempts to find an answer are as diverse as the human beings themselves. But what happens when one tries to examine that question from a non-human perspective? Filmmakers Bedekovic/Grunsky attempt this experiment by sending the alter ego X on a journey through Europe, before the outbreak of COVID-19. Although X observes the human world in a pure analytic way, she is offered quite emotional thoughts from the terrestrials.

An analysis of the importance of sound in horror films.

After his mother falls ill, filmmaker Humberto González Bustillo flies back home to be by her side. Before his return, he remembers his childhood, and in turn recounts the colonial interests in Venezuelan lands, together with the continuous oil crisis.

A cinematic essay on behalf of Tyachiv, the director's birthplace.

Ophelia is 92 years old, and her foggy memories continue to fade. The only way to slow down the unstoppable action of time is to document the present and rediscover the past in old Super 8s.

On April 10th, 2020, Father Fred Mazzarella died from Cancer. He was a man with a powerful heart. He touched the hearts of many, including my own. This documentary will explore a glimpse into his life and the people he inspired.

Part of a film anthology "The Trash". The exhausting and monotonous daily routine that millions of citizens of contemporary capitalist society live, in a disorderly, disorganized, disoriented and disheveled way.

Reviewing past performances, the actors of Movement Dang-Dang discuss how they can continue performing in an era of non-face-to-face. The performance director suggests that they reinterpret and play one of the roles they had previously played. Actors participating in this event talk about what acting means to them and discuss how the theater and performing arts can survive in a transition period like the present.

In the heart of central Europe are some of the world’s most impenetrable military strongholds. In France, 160 megastructure fortresses still line the country’s borders 3 centuries after they were constructed. As solid as ever, how did they withstand attack after attack? Was the secret in their materials? Their shape? In fact, the strength and resilience of these megastructures is due to the genius of one man: Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban.

The film is a story about the deep connection of the life and art of the artist. It takes you on a journey through Berlin like you have never seen before. Take a deep dive behind the scenes of the famous red and blue graffiti letterings that cover the heart of the city and tune into the connection between art, letters and spirituality.

Some of the scariest fangs in the land: venomous vipers.

Although Teresa Liivak has settled down in nine different places, she calls a white Ford Transit her real home. Teresa rebuilt her van to be a barbershop on wheels. On her journey she meets very different kinds of men.

A massive data breach results in the release of millions of secret documents revealing the confidential inner-workings and mysteries of Santa’s entire Christmas operation.

The Sertão is reconstructed according to the memories of migrants who went to the interior of São Paulo a few years ago. Through the power of orality, 5 characters transport us to this space and tell us about the universal and singular of the youth lived in the region.

A musical journey through the Atacama Desert, meeting the drum and percussion. The musician Pedro Greene —founder of historic bands from our country, such as Blops and Cometa—, takes an inspirational journey, meeting people and sounds related to construction and the ritual sense. A tribute to musical enjoyment and the sound nature of the landscape.

Pierre is an ordinary 55 years old man, solitary and very shy. He lives in his tidy and quiet apartment surrounded by his favourite figurine collections. However, his job is far from his low profil type. He’s been a Drag Queen Barmaid for the past 30 years, a hard and restrictive work he never really chose. But for him, it’s a job like any other.

A documentary showcasing the traditional Filipino way of eating, through a foreign, outdated lens.

"Twenty Pearls" tells a powerful story of sisterhood. In 1908, nine Black women enrolled at Howard University made one decision that would change the course of history. These college students created Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

How to use this old technology of the postcard, with its marriage of image and text, its insistence that every exchange has two-sides which can never be considered at the same time, to write oneself back into the world? The traveller alights in Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, even in Canada, finding words for the old wounds, sitting for a portrait in the middle of the city, out of doors, alone in a crowd. The military ghosts are never far, their costumes barely able to cover up the casual brutalities, even as the city’s citizens come together in unexpected formations, inventing new lives and conversations, like the plant life that flourishes around them, as resplendent as weeds. One of his most perfect and most personal reflections, a letter from the heart.

In isolation, we see the effects of light and darkness on the mind and body.

Homo Homini Lupus is a tragicomedy, a performative game that reflects on precarisation as well as on the meaning of art in a world where neoliberalism has disturbed the creative process. The creative drive is set against economic survival, the artwork valued mainly in business terms.

The Atomic Bomb Reflector is a fantastic invention developed by Sergei Kalmykov to convert destructive force into creative energy. The theatre director Rustem Begenov will ask the audience to fall asleep, sing a song of praise to themselves and switch on a Soviet-era light bulb – anything to make Kalmykov’s invention work. What is Rustem preaching, and to what extent is it comprehensible and necessary for mankind today?

An e-mail and a found book are taken as evidence for an investigation: through analysis from a forensic software a relationship between what is built by humans and the spread of a virus is sought. What is the secret relationship between stones and pixels?

Thesalonica Sia gets ready to celebrate her 18th birthday in this short film by Zed Ramos.

Following a one-year hiatus, this special one-night event features amazing sights and sounds from five of the nation’s top Drum Corps International ensembles, including iconic DCI World Championship performances from Fort Mill, SC’s Carolina Crown’s Inferno (2015); Rosemont, IL’s The Cavaliers’ Propaganda (2016), Concord, CA’s Blue Devils’ Metamorph (2017); Santa Clara, CA’s Santa Clara Vanguard’s (2018) Babylon; and Canton, OH’s Bluecoats The Bluecoats 2019). Additionally, interspersed between the performances, attendees will see live spots with broadcast hosts from the spring training site of the Bluecoats, in addition to pre-recorded up-to-the-moment rehearsal camp updates from several other groups that will appear at DCI events this August at Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium.

When Ida worked in the DIY supermarket, people kept asking where she was from. With her brown eyes and dark hair, she stood out from the rest of her family, where everyone is blonde – apart from her Iranian father. The only thing is: she has never met him, and until recently, the prospect of doing so has not kept her awake at night. But now, as a 28-year-old, Ida is starting to look for answers to all the unresolved questions about her father – and herself. A trip to Iran is the start of an inner journey, which takes her to unexpected places. She works her way closer and closer to her absent Iranian father with self-effacing humour and sincerity in a personal film about finding oneself.

In the Peruvian Andes, textiles are omnipresent in the lives of indigenous people; they are both eminently practical and stunningly beautiful as generations of weavers have applied their creativity to invent techniques and designs found nowhere else in the world. Textiles still form a powerful part of identity. But this identity is at risk. Indigenous people still face racism on a daily basis. And a globalized market economy that produces cheap, machine-made products destroys respect and interest in the hand-made. Infringement on the intellectual rights of native peoples only makes this worse.The Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco (CTTC) was established by Andean weavers and their supporters to aid in the survival of Cusqueñan textile traditions and to provide support to the indigenous people who create them.

Cheapskate Goldy Locks helps a family with out-of-control shopping habits.

An Ohio woman's COVID story is revealed.

A poetic exploration of the camera's gaze and a family's relationship with the filmmaker's mother.

Dragica does not lack for work. The house and cattle in western Serbia demand toil from dawn to dusk. She milks, harvests, prepares porridge for her handicapped daughter. Her own mother recently passed away. Now Dragica wears black and shaves her old father. Can there be an alternative to this daily self-sacrifice? Almost casually, Isaac Knights-Washbourn leaves space for such reflections: While chopping tomatoes, the woman opens up to a guest from town.

The indigenous people of the Darién Gap rainforest work with conservationists to use their heritage and traditions to protect the endangered Harpy Eagle and, in turn, protect their community.

180 million years ago, through a chance horizontal gene transfer, ferns acquired a much needed light sensor (neochrome) that allowed them to modify and survive in low light environments. We should all be so lucky.

The Alien Earth and the Earth Alien commingle under the spell of a deadly nightshade.

At Deoksan elementary school under Woelaksan (Mt.), there are 15 children who have been in the same class for 6 years. They don't sit quietly in class like other school kids. After school, they gather at a hidden secret spot by the river, and they whisper, saying that the homeroom teacher is an adult who can't even control his emotions. Yoonjae, a new teacher who imagined that children would sit quietly in the classroom, is bewildered when he sees the children different from what he expected. The changing seasons with the children, and what will their sky be filled with?

Teitur left the Faroe Islands as an ambitious teenager who wanted to find a better place to make music. After a long and successful music career abroad, Teitur returns back to his home country populated by only 50,000 inhabitants. His goal is to create an album with local musicians, many of them amateurs. In his search for the style for the album, he realises that he has been longing for the simple things in the culture and traditions of the islands.

First Step Swim follows Caitlin on a journey of wild swimming as she navigates not only her relationship to her body, but also to the water and space in which she inhabits throughout this short film.

Michael, a DVD vendor, spirals down after being kicked out from his own house by his wife due to financial difficulties.

When the revolution in Syria turned into war, Nidal Al Dibs and his family fled to Cairo. There, he started filming his Egyptian friends as they attempt to reopen a long-closed cinema in their impoverished neighborhood. As this endeavor proves to be more and more difficult, Nidal turns to managing renovations of his house back in his troubled homeland.

Albertina sells flowers in the cemetery of San Miguel de Azapa (Chile), a small town built on indigenous tombs. For half a century, she has commanded traditions that seek to achieve prosperity for the living by keeping her relationship with the dead on good terms. The death of this matriarch triggers a series of rites that her family and friends carefully observe. Thus the community seeks to ensure a good dispatch of the soul of their “grandmother” and preserve the traditions that she promoted.

Albert Lin is on a global adventure, from icy Black Sea depths to the heights of the Peruvian Andes, searching for the origins of Great Flood stories.

Through their windows, residents report criticism, poetry and reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic in the Vidigal favela.

Jump into the world of ‘Big Air’ All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) riding with Derek Guetter as he tours the country with his Live Show and Butter film crew discovering epic locations and talented riders that live life on 4-wheels.

The film is dedicated to the life and achievements of the Ukrainian national volleyball team. Viewers have the opportunity to learn about the details of the national team's performances and preparations for the 2021 European Championship, including information about the coaching staff and players.

Around 1520, Schwaz and the silver region became the Silver Empire, the Silicon Valley of Europe. Not only the mining of silver and copper, but also the associated “industry” characterize the villages and hamlets of the region. With the arrival of the Fuggers, the Tyrolean trades disappear. Power, powerlessness, wealth and poverty - new times dawn in the “silver empire”. In 1521, the Fuggers take over the exploitation of silver mining in Schwaz/Tyrol. This marks the beginning of a new European era. Schwaz silver is used to buy empires, finance wars and set progress in motion. But it is not only the “silver town” of Schwaz, but also the entire region around Schwaz along the Lower Inn Valley, as well as other regions of Europe, that provide innovations with silver and also the lesser-known copper mining.

Short film.

To Make a Film Just to Meet Vera (2021) is an experimental documentary about an encounter between two women, media artist Pinja Valja and model Vera Ruuska. As a child, Pinja dreamt of becoming a princess when she grows up. The main duty of the princess was to be beautiful, wear gorgeous clothes and be admired – just like a model. Pinja begins to make a documentary about Vera in order to explore her own childhood dream.

Fajar Suharno was a theater maestro from the 80's to the 90's. He was imprisoned because his theater activities were considered against the New Order government. At its peak, he made a show entitled "Geger Uwong Ngoyak Macan" about the events of crushing people who were considered thugs/criminals (Petrus). The show was held exactly the day before the massacre took place

A documentary film about the most important nineteenth-century photographer of Vilnius - Juzefas Čechavičius.

Filmmaker Sophie Dros enters into a dialogue with strong women in a powerfull document about being a woman in the Netherlands today. Inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's essay The second sex, filmmaker Sophie Dros (winner of the NFF Debut Competition 2017) talks to four women and a group of young girls. Together they go in search of universal stories; about dealing with expectations, empathy and connection, desires, fear, need for confirmation and losing control.

Phenomena fuses art and science together to explore naturally occurring patterns, and the fundamental forces of nature that create them, to take us on an ambitious, innovative, and psychedelic journey through the fabric of the universe. Filmmaker Josef Gatti recreates nine “phenomena” to produce mesmerizing art films, which are then paired with an original music score by Kim Moyes from Australian dance music duo The Presets. Phenomena is available as a 28-minute experience film, and coming soon as a 45-minute narrative film, and also online as a 9 part digital series via ABC Science Australia.