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Deadly Gorgeous is a documentary about the importance of beauty even after death. Mixing fiction and reality, the film explores the world of corpse makeup artists, cemeteries and a couple that need to think about how their own funerals would be like.
Agustina has been a shepherdess for as long as she can remember. Throughout her life she has had three great loves. Between dreams and memories she sings about everything that has and has not been. Agustina lives with Dionisio in a rural community called El Saltillo in Guanajuato, Mexico. Serranillas are medieval spanish compositions dealing with some kind of amatory adventure in rural landscapes.
Animated film
This movie is a journey through the director’s childhood. Fábio Silva uses the cinematic apparatus to take us on a trip to the past, to his past, towards the reasons behind his current estrangement from his father, calling on home videos as evidence of his account. A mysterious film in which the young filmmaker risks exposing his family privacy, full of betrayal and forgiveness. It is a privilege to watch a story told with such boldness, in which the boundaries between author, audience, and family trauma are barely distinguishable.
Filmmaker Erik E. Crown joins local water activists to investigate accelerated cancer rates and other illnesses in central Florida communities, tracing the source to phosphate mining.
A film resolutely turned on the side of the bees, full of hope, enriching, committed, exciting and politically incorrect ... which will transform our view of this insect and the living world. Our relationship with the living world must change if we want to safeguard our environment. Changing our view on nature, working with it and not against it, are values that this film wants to share.
In "We'll always have Paris," the Eifel Tower, Champs-Élysées, magnificent fountains, and trimmed hedges stand as faux French in the hazy rain of Tianducheng. The residential complex located in the suburbs of the Chinese megapolis Hangzhou is one of the countless, largely unpopulated pop-up sites that sprung up overnight through high-speed real-estate speculation. In Raidel’s film, the Eifel Tower is the anti-gravity center of a phantom zone furnished with stark high-rises, parking areas, and gardens—an urban proposition that amounts to nothing.
In Bellum, modern warfare and the development of AI are connecting three seemingly disparate locations and lives; a scientist in Sweden, a private military contractor in the Nevada desert in the USA and a world renowned war photographer in Afghanistan. Through their actions and decisions, the film delves into the jargons and logics that pushes warfare forward. It’s often said that war is inhumane. But in this film, this assumption is turned upside down. Because in fact it seems there is nothing more human than war. Humanity has always been at war, often over abstract ideas such as nationality, borders, religion, money or freedom and this is something that in fact distinguishes us from all other animals on this planet. Perhaps the Greco-Roman world was right that war was a demon; Bellum. And, that the war actually feeds itself: “Bellum se ipsum alet”.
Into the Dust 4 is Larry Janesky’s third attempt to finish the Baja 1000 Ironman. See what happens in this inspiring story of stepping into towering challenges, and giving all you can to persevere. At age 54, can he make it to the finish? Into the Dust has been watched by over four million people worldwide, and the gripping sequels have shown first hand one of the most physically difficult feats in all of Motorsports, to solo the Baja 1000 on a motorcycle.
An experimental film about memories and the uncertain future.
Wolves Among Us is a biblical and scholarly film that critiques the spiritual state of today's Christian church.
Made with virtually no budget during COVID-19 quarantine in 2020, IRANIAN LIVES MATTER abstractly recounts the true story of what occurred in Iran during the November 2019 protests, sparked by a surprise hike in gasoline prices, which quickly spread across the entire nation and was subsequently crushed by the dictator's iron fist, resulting in the death of approximately 1500 protesters, as reported by Reuters. IRANIAN LIVES MATTER is an experimental documentary, an audio-visual endurance test that audibly takes its audience through the chaos in the streets of Iran as the brutal regime cracks down on Iranian protesters, while visually showing the hands of the dictatorship as it crosses out 1500 lives one by one to further emphasize the scale of the massacre and show to a world desensitized to news of mass killings in the Middle East what the term "1500 dead" truly means.
Elwah Gonzales, Keanu Rafil, and Nonilon Torpez all had art within them back when they were young. But like everyone else, they had to grow up and start making decisions. Enrollment Day is a deconstruction of the growth of an artist focused on the choice to take up an entirely different path during their formative collegiate years and what happened after.
What lies behind the violation of every rule? An account reliving the yearly ritual that takes place at the autodrome in Mugello where fifty thousand participants from all around the world descend in search of the extreme.
Robert Peroni founds The Red House, a refuge that helps the Inuit population.
Tatiana Revina, who has brought up several generations of Olympic champions in cross-country skiing, has lost everything. She lives in a crumbling village house with her daughter and three grandchildren. Her grandson Mark wants to become a rapper and a blogger, and is disgusted with sports. Tatiana is trying to instill high benchmarks in him, but they see life way too differently. The summer is over soon, children will move to the city, leaving Tatiana alone, and will make a decision: how and why to live their lives.
Backstreet to the American Dream is a bilingual documentary that explores the modern-day American Dream. This deep dive into the birthplace of the food truck revolution – Los Angeles – juxtaposes the experiences of American entrepreneurs and Mexican immigrants in the industry, and looks at how street food fosters racial tolerance. Indeed, central to the story are two very distinct enterprises: El Pescadito - a seafood truck that’s been parking at the same swap meet in South L.A. since 1982, and Grill ‘Em All, the prestigious first-season winner of The Great Food Truck Race on The Food Network in 2010.
A documentary that is the journey of adopted identical Vietnamese twins. At a tender age, one of the twins begins to navigate their gender identity and the family pulls together to support Levi's transition.
‘Dysphoric’ is a documentary on the rise of Gender Identity Ideology and its effects on women and girls - especially in developing countries. The film explores gender transition, the permanent medical side-effects of hormones and surgeries, the propaganda by 'woke' corporations that glorifies thousands of stereotypical gender presentations coalesced as fashion, a surge in pronoun policing, language hijacking that calls women ‘menstruators’, and the many hurdles women face while trying to question this modern-day misogyny. The film amplifies the voices of detransitioners, clinicians, psychiatrists, sociologists, feminists, academics and concerned citizens.
A docudrama about the Gay Trials of Frankfurt 1950-51. When a teenage hustler was arrested by the police he revealed the names of his clients to save his own neck. His betrayal destroyed the lives of more than 200 gay men within 10 months.
Producer Michael Gingold discusses the locations where 'New York Ninja' was filmed.
A short film stitched together from found footage, clandestine voice recordings, and sit-down interviews from a mysteriously abandoned documentary about an unidentified corpse found at the apartment of a man who claims to be a police informant.
"For Attention" is an intimate documentary about self-harm, exploring whether it's possible to redirect pain into something productive. A portrait of daily struggles for a gay, depressed Seattleite.
Have you seen a big cat in the Australian bush? Deeply ingrained in Australian folklore are tales of big cats roaming the bush. The Hunt follows researchers in their life long pursuit to prove these animals exist.
A documentary, filmed entirely in the Basque Country, about Basque mythology and the ancestral beliefs of its people. Created by writer Toti Martínez de Lezea and anthropologist Anuntxi Arana, Amari immerses us in a world of legends full of supernatural beings that formed and continue to form part of the Basque people's imagination.
There is a belief that world had started from duck's egg and human was created from silt collected at the bottom of the great ocean. In eastern european part of Russia Mari nation is living. Their mindset and culture had formed centuries ago. They are called last and only pagans of europe whos prays are heard by one lite god "Kygy Yomo" — ОНАЕН.
"Memories of a Family" is a short essay film that communicates the complicated dynamic between personal and familial memory. With an experimental approach in editing, Kyle Day uses his family's home videos as a materialized form of familial memory that he deconstructs and reconstructs based on his and his family members' personal memories and subjective views of the family.
On December 30th, 2000, a blizzard in the Pyrenees killed 9 people in Balandrau. An emotional portrait of the tragedy narrated by the survivors.
The director Alain Jessua evokes his beginnings, his career and recalls with passion his experience with the greatest filmmakers.
For some people, the legendary singer Jan Nedvěd represents an obsolete kitsch artist, for others a musical cult icon representing values that are rapidly disappearing. The documentary follows the daily life of a musician, advanced in his years, who embarks on (perhaps) his last tour, recalling his youth spent in the great outdoors and recounting criticism he received for performing at political demonstrations. A series of interviews with Nedvěd about his passion for music, interpersonal skills, and his twilight years supplement commentaries on loved ones, loyal fans, today's young vagabonds, and the humorous controversy of contemporary musicians stiffly parodying Nedvěd's own songs.
The film portrays the return to home and encounter with lost memories. Air Carnations explores the possibilities of filmmaking to put pieces together through the editing process. Researching different perspectives on the filmmaker’s childhood home in Chile, interviews with their mother and sister reveal complex family dynamics.
The breadth and physiographic diversity that characterize the Melgaço border offered multiple possibilities of passage during the time of smuggling and immigration by leaps and hops. And it is in this mythical place that the roots of a multifaceted artist are born. Madalena Lima infects us with her intelligent, expressive and ironic way of being. Her work celebrates traditions and opportunities, as well as revealing contradictions and weaknesses, experimenting with new techniques without neglecting the concept. By telling her story, we enter into symbiosis with the landmarks that imprint a unique identity to this land in Minho.
The night is dark and cold, I walk through the plantations, I look at the leaves and stems of the banana trees while memories of my grandfather come to my mind.
This short film investigates the cult of image making surrounding one of the most iconic American landscapes. Through a barrage of home movies and social videos this film examines the extensive archive of amateur images that have been created in and around Grand Canyon National Park, provoking questions about the relationships between tourism, photography, land use and memory in the American southwest.
Nestled between the sea and the mountains in the South of France, the town of Grasse is known as the birthplace of perfume. Various flowers and plants have been cultivated from the surrounding hills since the 16th century, but there is one flower in particular that is the most sought after of them all.
From fishing boats to delicatessen counters. An ominous droning lies over the impressive images of already dubious production processes. The shrimp end up in fish cakes. The seagulls lament the calamity. The people are at a loss.
In the city of GenHe, the coldest part of China, a team of teenagers from underprivileged backgrounds run every day under extremely harsh circumstances. The sports school has provided them with something they couldn’t get from their families: joy and hope for a better life. A heart-warming documentary devoted to the vivid, optimistic, and positive spirit of youth, introducing a group of ordinary characters and guiding us through a stunning natural landscape.
Based on Diary of a Mutilated Mother by Esther Hernández Palacios, a grieving mother and academic whose 26-year-old daughter Irene was murdered in Veracruz. Through her diary, Esther transforms her pain into a powerful testimony of survival, reflecting the shared anguish of countless women affected by violence in Mexico. As a symbol of protest and memory, she alters her name, while the film features her heartfelt readings from the diary.
A new 15-minute examination of the artistry and production history of F.M. Murnau's Phantom by UCLA film historian Janet Bergstrom.
According to the World Health Organization, about 15% of the world’s population lives with some form of disability. They have the right to come to the forefront of life just like any other human being. A group of parents in Mysore have succeeded in bringing such children with disabilities to the forefront and showing the world that they do not need to be replaced. The documentary ‘The Rebirth’, scripted and directed by Jayaraj, provides an opportunity to get to know her life better.
A documentary that will inspire you to overcome. It took Chris Norton 7 years to walk his bride 7 yards down the aisle after a life-altering football tackle.
the story of women who reflect on how to break an invisible and imperceptible limit in an audiovisual industry with a patriarchal construction base and origin. Their voices reveal a silent story about what is not talked about in the mass media that feed this conservative patriarchal facet of the sector.
[GE, 1626) conducts a mathematics-like exercise and observation. Filmed somewhere in the Chicago landscape, through a meticulous study of sound and speed, it describes a border between industry and nature, subtle and violent.
La Piave is an attempt to describe the Piave river and its surroundings as a character in constant change. Each chapter shows a different research session in which the landscape is analyzed in its structure through individual shots, thus forming a naturalist mosaic that accounts for the different conformations of the territory over the years. This first part collects the documentation of the place made by me between 2017 and 2021, as well as a couple of found footage sequences.
A highly relevant and sensitively handled reflection on the dynamic between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. This film addresses the question of white privilege head-on and calls for dialogue.
London After Midnight (1927), directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney, is the most sought-after lost film by fans of fantastic cinema. Has this mythical treasure finally been found in an old South American cinema?
On a sweltering afternoon in the summer of 2003, to celebrate his fiftieth birthday, Martin Newell performed a career-spanning set of songs at Colchester Arts Centre. Aided and abetted by a band of musicians that includes his old partner Nelson, from the Brotherhood of Lizards, Martin performed a wonderful 100 minute show that took in both his earliest songs and brand new compositions given their first live outing. The footage lay forgotten for almost twenty years but has now been lovingly assembled & restored for your viewing pleasure by director Michael Cumming.
Fighting for Respect captures the plight of African American soldiers who fought in WWI, receiving the Croix de Guerre military decoration from France, while still fighting discrimination and hatred at home in America.
Dawn Porter’s uplifting short takes us behind the scenes of Amy Sherald’s Breonna Taylor portrait, bringing grace and dignity to the tragic loss of her life.
The incredible story of one of history's most iconic aircrafts - the Lancaster bomber - and its instrumental role in the defeat of Nazi Germany