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a video journal of my time in Jamaica.

A woman in Myanmar. A documentary about her, I think. Will watch it soon, I'll come back to you.

Shafiq Hoque works at a store in Toronto's neighbourhood of Regent Park by day and drives an Uber at night. Trying to make ends meet while juggling two precarious jobs, he finds solace and strength in community.

In 1993, during the armed conflict between BH Army and the hvo, around 80,000 inhabitants of Central Bosnia became completely surrounded. People were dying of hunger and disease. In the largest humanitarian action after World War II, a convoy of 90 trucks arrived to Nova Bila. On their way back, the empty trucks became targets.

A look at the staff and customers of a restaurant on the day of its closing after 35 years.

Struggling through life's journey, Chaquis Maliq manages to overcome the odds of being overshadowed by a male dominant industry, by self-producing her latest music project.

The film takes its title from a short documentary 'Diviner Water in Luppitt' (1976), housed in the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA) in Plymouth. ‘Diviner’ is a term originating from the 15th century to describe a person who might use special powers to predict future events, or for someone who seeks out water under the ground with the use of a divining or dowsing rod. ‘Diviner’ is formed almost entirely from moving image material held at SWFTA, apart from the opening sequence, which was filmed on 16mm in the archives. ‘Diviner’ meditates on our understanding of the transmitted image, and suggests that history, rather than occurring within a linear narrative, is cyclical and bound to repeat.

Alhajji Ibrahim is an Islamic scholar who has served as judge at the Sultanate of Ngaoundéré in Northern Cameroon for 46 years. The film follows Alhajji during the last years of his life, focusing on the relationships in a polygamous family. Living far away from urban centres, people like Alhaji and his family struggle to adapt to the arrival of modern education, their increasing marginalization, worsening poverty, and, in recent years, the constant threat of the Boko Haram insurgency. Shot over several years, Wives provides rare, intimate glimpses into the dynamics of a West-African polygamous Muslim family, and the challenges faced by an older generation whose norms and values are losing legitimacy in a rapidly changing environment.

Floyd is a 19-year-old who is not afraid of anything. He is the captain of his school's ball hockey team. We follow him for a day as he gives us his reflections on his condition, on life and on death.

Embark on a wild expedition through Disney's Animal Kingdom in this extraordinary all-access special. Experience Walt Disney World's largest theme park as we journey from day to night, discovering close-up encounters with wild animals, meeting the passionate keepers who care for them, and unveil thrilling new adventures brought to life by Walt Disney Imagineering.

This story is about the Russian North. The research undertaken by the author began with the villages in the Arkhangelsk region, near the White Sea, where his family came from and where he spent his childhood. A large part of the villages are remote from the cities and often have no connection with them, except for air transport...

Part science fiction, part homage to film history, this short black-and-white film fuses images of the moon with archival footage of King Mohammed V of Morocco’s face. All this swirling imagery is set to an eerie soundtrack that takes the viewer on a surreal journey. (Heure Exquise)

The film juxtaposes two journeys, one in search of the name of a Pahari painter lost in genealogical registers, and the other in search of a lake once called the eighth wonder of the world.

A reflection on life in Mount Druitt.

History as a social science, as a literary genre, as a political campaign, as a collective writing, as a pantheon, as a prison, as a myth.

Eleven years has passed, 16 villages are flooded by mud in Sidoarjo. Locals are forced to get used to the disaster and managed to create jobs on their own. They are selling the view of their drowned villages as tourist attraction and motorbike taxis to ride along the mud shore. Everyday, the motorbike taxi drivers shares their experience when the mud erupted and drowned their villages with the tourists.

In Blue Orchids, Johan Grimonprez creates a double portrait of two experts situated on opposite ends of the same issue—the global arms trade. The stories of Chris Hedges, a former New York Times war correspondent, and Riccardo Privitera, arms and equipment dealer for the now-defunct Talisman Europe Ltd, provide an unusual and disturbing context for shocking revelations about the industry of war. While interviewing Privitera and Hedges for Grimonprez’s recently released feature Shadow World (2016), it became clear that the two men were describing the same anguish and trauma, but from paradoxical perspectives. One has dedicated his life to unmasking lies, while the other has built his life on them. Both their personal and political histories gradually reveal the depths of suffering and duplicity, showing that the arms trade is a symptom of a profound illness: greed.

Toni is one of the figures who works in Klithikan flea market every day, either as a merchant or customer. His secondhand goods are those that are closely related to old papers. He often found historical documents or evidence out of the market. The klithikan’s goods are known as abandoned goods or trash. And the film talks about historical goods from trashes.

This documentary follows the challenges of Castro, a masculine-of-centre high school teacher, as she becomes pregnant and grows a family with her wife, Candy.

Al-Awdah li Agadir (1967) films the reconstruction of Agadir after the earthquake that almost destroyed the entire city and is akin to a modernist constructivist moving image tableau.

Shot in the subway during the summer and fall of 2016, each subject appears for a minute, 69 in all, one for each of Toronto’s subway stops. Serial portraits in black and white.

Nine struggling students from across the United States have chosen Eagle Rock School as their best hope for graduating high school. Their first course: a twenty-four day backpacking trip across the Colorado wilderness. Will they learn to live and work as a team in order to pursue this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

The inspiring story of the unemployed man who stood up against the Greek crisis and created a social kitchen for the homeless and refugees.

The Human Papilloma Vaccine (HPV) is a treatment in widespread use but its efficacy in preventing cancer is medically unproven, while unintended, adverse reactions are blighting and even ending the lives of girls and young women across the world. However, pharmaceutical manufacturers and many health authorities are refusing to acknowledge there is a problem and the medical community is continuing to offer the vaccine. Sacrificial Virgins – so named because the vaccine is often given to girls before they become sexually active – exposes increasing evidence of serious neurological damage following the HPV injections. It calls for the vaccine to be withdrawn in the hope that this will help to halt another global tragedy.

The documentary Paper, Horse and Birds follows a day in the life of a Roma family, who collect secondary raw materials and live in Crvena zvezda, a part of the city of Niš. The film follows their activities – collection and division of scrap metal and waste paper, a family lunch and their everyday discussions, wihch helps us understand how they make ends meet and what their hardships are. Despite the de facto difficult financial situation, we see a complex family with solidarity and warm interpersonal relations. The storyline of the film has three aspects. The first is the documentary footage of a day in the life of the family. The second uses interviews with the family members to tell the story of the position of the Roma people, child labor and their exploitation. The third aspect shows

Documentary about film school and film students in Thailand.

Ahmed, originally from Somalia, was born into violence, with civil war ravaging his country. He is now a refugee desperate to improve his life, and that of his family.

COPYSHOP accompanies Berlin-Köpenick rapper Romano on a journey of discovery to Hong Kong, where he recalls his time working in a copy shop in his home town. It’s all about megacities, stereotypes, creative spaces, rap music, Romano’s copy shop biography and the copy of the copy of the copy...

Somewhere in the dreary nooks of Mumbai's film industry, Camera Threat explores the ambivalent relationship this film city has with the moving image. Seated on a casting couch, two actors are getting stuck in impromptu conversations on the side effects of a world that no longer bothers to tell facts from fiction.

The inhabitants trapped in Sarajevo during the Yugoslavian War made an amateur video calling for a time machine to get them out of the city. Simultaneous translation is used to bring this call out of the past and into the present.

How to Build a Robot

A journey through the high plateau of Bolivia and Peru, drastically affected by both formal and informal mining. This is causing the pollution of rivers and harming the people who live along their banks, ultimately leading to the slow death of Lake Titicaca. Furthermore, there are dramatic consequences: social conflicts, human trafficking, and the use of forced labor in the mines. Comparatively, one can observe the social conflicts in the mines of Germany.

Dozens of people lost their lives in the 2008 terrorist attack on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, India. Years later, five witnesses return to the scene. Until the day of the attack, their lives had been entirely different, and each of them was at the hotel for an entirely different reason. Now they share this traumatic experience.

What if working together for the good of all was the most common business model? Watch, as several organizations strive towards building a more cooperative future. By putting humanity before the bottom line, they are finding their place in an economy previously dominated by profits and big business.

This warm and humorous doco about Kobi Bosshard, widely regarded as the grandfather of contemporary New Zealand jewellery, explores his philosophy of life and work, as captured by his daughter Andrea Bosshard.

Fifteen ex-transgender individuals join with numerous experts to dispel the confusion and bear witness to what Jesus Christ can do for those who struggle with gender dysphoria.

Bursting onto the South African rock scene from a tiny Stellenbosch bar in 1994, their scandalous name and unrivalled energy turned them into legends. This is their story.

Recent Super 8 films selected for Media City by Helga Fanderl, including a short tribute to Peter Hutton. Der Augenblick ist mein is borrowed from a poem by Andreas Gryphius. Karussell (Carousel), Wasserpflanzen (Water Plants), Blätter auf dem Glasdach (Leaves on a Glass Roof), Gespiegelt (Mirrored), Blütenbaum (Blossom Tree), Imkerschule (Beekeeping School), Pleinair Fotos (Plein-air Photos), Mimosen im Wind (Mimosa in the Wind), Für P. (For P.)

In this hard-hitting documentary, we hear from the loved ones who grieve for them, giving viewers a first-person account of what it's like to lose someone on the road.

A four person team attempts to row the Northwest Passage in order to shed light on climate change in the arctic.

Revelations about the UFO and alien presence on Earth and how military and government factions are aware of this potential threat. Top experts reveal the extent of which US Presidents past and present are made aware of the UFO situation.

This epic saga, beginning in 1894, not only chronicles the historic rivalry between the Canton McKinley Bulldogs and the Massillon Tigers, but it helps to explain the genesis of modern football.

Working primarily in digital media and installation, Sondra Perry’s interest lies in the relationship between identity and the digital realm; specifically in what she refers to as the “abstraction of subjecthood” that occurs in technologically-rendered images of blackness. Her work seeks to interrogate and elucidate the role of digital technology in the systematic oppression of black identities.

Pattern Language describes the aliveness of certain human ambitions through an index of structural patterns.

Synopsis “I have no regrets,” says Vivianne Gauthier, sitting on her bed in the room where she has slept for over eighty years. A singular woman—strong, disciplined, and energetic—this choreographer and dance teacher lived life on her own terms, leaving her mark on the cultural history of her country, Haiti. This film offers a glimpse into her life through a visit to her home, a “Gingerbread House” where every corner is filled with memories. Here is the portrait of an endearing woman, revealing a side of Haiti that is too often overlooked.

This series of videos expresses specific feelings that conflicts me and people around me when I talk about being from a such an isolated place as Greenland. My home country is rich in traditional live as hunting, being close to the nature and using everything around you as a tool as in having sleddogs. At the same time, we live a very normal life compare to the rest of the world with tv, modern clothing and a very normal consumer kind of life style.

sweat/tears/sea is an audio-visual installation and meditation on alternative temporalities of feeling, experience, and linguistic unfolding. Here movement (bodily, textual & spatial) becomes a way of thinking through questions of positionality regarding the self and environment. It was sparked by my participation in the Seminario Itinerante in the summer of 2016, an experimental group seminar organized by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Anahita Hekmat, and Mapenzi Chibale Nonó through Beta-Local (San Juan, PR), and the experience of walking down the western coast of Puerto Rico & living outside immersed in its elements for a stretch of time. I seek to acknowledge the contradictions present in this contested landscape; the co-existence of beauty and disenfranchisement, of abundance and glaring lack. Tapping into the rhythm of dreaming and growth despite difficulty, this piece extends the resonance of these concepts to other internal and external landscapes.

When people think of Greece, few realize that the country has high mountains and a winter season, with skiing and snowboarding. Determined to change this perception, Greek-American filmmaker Constantine Papanicolaou sets out on an adventure to make a ski film that will show the magic of winter in Greece.