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This work is a long-term research project developed until now in 10 different cities over the world: Seoul, Bogota, Naples, Saint-Petersburg, Rabat, Tokyo, Kyoto, Shanghai, Doha and Venice. Born as an artistic commission for the Agora Biennale in Bordeaux around the theme of the moving landscapes, these videos plunge into cities in a spontaneous and subjective approach with very modest means in order to translate in the closest possible way the feel of their constant moving nature: their human landscape. Presented in a comparative dynamic through the lens of a selection of themes and issues linked with the street daily life, the videos enable us to perceive each of these different urban contexts as an experimental, local and unique laboratory answering the same global challenge of how can we live all together.

This work is a long-term research project developed until now in 10 different cities over the world: Seoul, Bogota, Naples, Saint-Petersburg, Rabat, Tokyo, Kyoto, Shanghai, Doha and Venice. Born as an artistic commission for the Agora Biennale in Bordeaux around the theme of the moving landscapes, these videos plunge into cities in a spontaneous and subjective approach with very modest means in order to translate in the closest possible way the feel of their constant moving nature: their human landscape. Presented in a comparative dynamic through the lens of a selection of themes and issues linked with the street daily life, the videos enable us to perceive each of these different urban contexts as an experimental, local and unique laboratory answering the same global challenge of how can we live all together.

After the trying constraints of lockdown and social distancing that brutally reduced urban space to its strict minimum, making it into a place where isolated individuals merely cohabit, Homo Urbanus is a cinematic odyssey offering a vibrant tribute to what we have been most cruelly deprived of: namely, public space. Taking the form of a free-wheeling journey around the world (10 films, 10 cities), the project invites us to observe in detail the multiple forms and complex interactions that exist every day between people and their urban environments. Somewhere between visual anthropology and observational cinema, these films put urban man under the microscope and encourage us to take a closer look at individual and collective behaviour, interpersonal dynamics, social tensions, and the economic and political forces that play out every day on the grand stage of the city streets.

In May 2012, Mick Philpott started a fire in his own house which killed six children, five of them his own, and was jailed for life for manslaughter in April the following year. This documentary looks at the aftermath of the tragedy and features interviews with one of Philpott's sons, close family members, friends and neighbours.

Five letters to a friend : 2015-2017. In 1981, Ukrainian director Ivan Mykolaichuk shot his film "Such a Late, Such a Warm Autumn" about Ukrainian migrant who misses homeland and comes back from Canada to Ukraine. Ten years later, in 1991 Ukraine gained independence. Since then millions of Ukrainian emigrated to seek a better life; in the very Ukraine grew up the first generation for whom the independence of their country is the only natural experience. What meaning has filled the words "to come from Ukraine"? "To come from the south of Ukraine"? Or - more personally - "to come from Odessa?"

A short documentary looking into the life of Newcastle based Drag Queen, Miss Rory, who hosts at the Boulevard Cabaret bar.

Hundreds of thousands of scientists have left Russia in recent decades. Some are returning. Russia greets those who come back in different ways.

The goal of our project is to show a small man's destiny with a global tragedy in the background.

See you later is a mantra, a declaration of love, and a testament to all those who are waiting and who, in the end, could not meet the ones they were waiting for. Commanders fill in a form for «planned casualties» before every military operation, but this story is about why you and I are still alive. It is an autobiography for two, where the war is not the most important thing.

There are 18, (maybe 19!) species of Penguins living on and around the great southern continent of Antarctica and nearby countries. Adelie, African, Chinstrap, Emperor, Galapagos, Gentoo?to name a few. Starting from the largest-the Emperor Penguin- we feature all 18 species right down to the Little Blue.

Oscar Duke, an NHS doctor with albinism heads to Tanzania and Malawi to discover what life is like for other people with the same genetic condition. Whilst in East Africa, Oscar explores the reasons why albino people are vulnerable to attack in these countries as well as interview some of the people who hold prejudiced views towards albinism.

Heroism, loyalty, persistence, innovation, selflessness, and finally, recognition of their patriotism in the face of persecution are all present in this remarkable story.

Beauty parlours as places of listening between 3 women in Women Women Women. The young stripper Kika has a troubled night. In Naftalan, the mother of the director is being treated for psoriasis in a specialised hospital and in White Trash a dumping ground is inhabited by hundreds of gulls in a dense fog. Now I Am Irena confronts a past pregnancy and Welcome to Igrane shows a region’s resistance to touristification.

The capixaba band Dead Fish is today the great reference of Brazilian melodic hardcore. With its 25 years on the road, its background has changed several times, but its questioning and combative spirit remains intact. To tell this story full of ups and downs are the founding members, eternal, fleeting and momentary members, as well as producers and people close to the group. Filled with unreleased archival material Asphalt - 25 years of Dead Fish offers a complete overview of a life dedicated to music.

John Vanderlyn “...is pronounced to be the first painter that now is or ever has been in America.” ~ Aaron Burr, 1802 “The First Artist in America” is the story of John Vanderlyn, the celebrated artist who portrayed seven American presidents, rose to fame as a 19th century neoclassical history painter, and died penniless and alone in his hometown of Kingston, New York.

This documentary film by Dana Holyfield features evidence and encounters with the legendary Honey Island Swamp Monster. It also features the raw film footage that Harlan Ford captured.

The camera glides over the blue-green mountains and suddenly picks out a silver dome on a small plateau – one of the telescopes of the Special Astrophysical Observatory, the largest and most important astronomical center in Russia. It was built half a century ago-away from the bright city lights, closer to the sky – in the mountains of the Western Caucasus in Karachay-Cherkessia. A few kilometers below is a village with panel houses, a school, a club and an administration. In a small world, lost in space and time – whether it is the Soviet seventies, or the future of the Strugatsky novels – modern artists come with their works. The film unobtrusively confronts opposites-physicists and lyricists, schoolchildren and gray-haired scientists, the dome of the telescope and the tent of the temple, artifacts and ancient mountains. But the main opposition is the small Earth and the boundless Cosmos, to which people listen with bated breath.

This work presents a side by side preview of video components for an installation titled Waabanishimo: Miigaadan which was originally shot on color 16mm film and edited digitally. Projections are meant to face each other on opposing walls. The sound plays in the space and all three loops of the two videos and sound are independent of each other. Waabanishimo: She Dances Till Daylight is an ongoing project that investigates urban indigeneity, ceremony, tradition, landscape, spirits, light, and photographic mediums. Multimedia artist Eve-Lauryn LaFountain creates ghostly images using long exposures to burn the pathway of her ceremonies and celestial bodies into the frame.

Staged for 'Take 3' to be the shot, the 'perfect shot.' The rest are bloopers, this film is called 'BLOOPERS' a staged shoot for the perfect shot without consideration of chance. One roll of super 8 film, duration of 8 takes, 3 actions, 8 shots made. How can we edit a pre-planned shoot in which one shot is planned to make it?

A documentary about the rising alternative turbo-folk scene in Serbia.

A story about the life of an ordinary Ukrainian village, with its sorrows and joys. The story is about the simple life of rural people who think little about the past and the future, but live in the present-here and now, doing specific everyday things, slowly adapting to the changes coming from the outside world.

Volodia used to be a part of the crew in a Soviet ship abandoned in Argentina during the fall of the USSR. No state or organization agreed to take sailors in legally. They lost their citizenship and were left without documents... This is the convergence of people, torn apart by society, who builded a home on their own. A home without walls, roof nor windows: the streets. And with a common friend, Volodia. Sailor, actor, eternal student, trade unionist but above all things he is a nonconformist whose mission is to help others. During 7 years of shooting this documentary he introduced us to his Kafkaesque reality. Between sarcasm and hope, always smiling, always dignified, with the unreachable goal to return to the sea, Volodia begins a new life every day.

One lady, a director from the province, goes to Moscow to see the dream of her life, the superman of the twentieth century-director Nikita Mikhalkov... And the meeting will take place.

Documentary with exclusive images and testimonies of the mythical Rock Festival created by Mario Luna in 1980, in the Cordoba city of La Falda (Argentina).

Three stories, three families, three women. Their husbands were passengers of the TU-154 that crashed in Sochi on December 25, 2016.

An animated film, the story of which is collected from quotations from the writings of modern schoolchildren about how people lived in the Soviet Union.

An unusual family with ten children lives in a Siberian village. They do all the work and household chores together. Children grow up, and everyone has their own life ahead of them. And now, despite all the difficulties, they are together... The head of the family talks about his everyday life and whether it is difficult to have such a large family.

Documentary that follows artist Sitcom across a short tour of the northeastern US.

Three years of filming documenting all the way and going through the entire history of the Argentine punk rock band Cadena Perpetua, from its beginnings to that unforgettable night of November 5, 2015 at Luna Park, where the walls of the mythical stadium were shaken by the roar of some 5,000 spectators.

The NVBDR is a scenic ride across Nevada, beginning in Oatman, AZ, and finishing in Jarbidge, NV. Created for dual-sport and adventure motorcyclists, this 900-mile south-to-north route primarily uses dirt roads to lead riders through Nevada’s expansive deserts, open sagebrush valleys, and seemingly endless mountain ranges. In rural Nevada, you’ll experience historic saloons and relics from it’s rich mining history. The state’s maverick spirit remains, and you’ll see ghost towns, artifacts, desert sculptures, murals, the world’s largest car forest, jackrabbits, antelope and even wild mustangs. Most importantly, the film reveals miles of meandering two-track roads that are just perfect for spending time on an adventure motorcycle.

Cling and I are friends. Both of us are lesbian. Being frustrated in lesbian relationships, we decided to get married with men. However, we couldn't make love with men at all. Eventually, I got divorced. Cling still struggles about continuing her marriage. Both of us are trying to gure out what happiness is.

A documentary that interweaves identity, gender, art and the musical subgenre- noise. The film traces Tara’s transformation from Marc, One Man Nation, to Tara Transitory through intimate interviews with those impacted by her decision to move towards the feminine spectrum, as well as those inspired by her.

A documentary on cult leader Roch Moïse Thériault

A short documentary about the stigma of tattoos in Japan.

Raúl, a teenager with cerebral palsy shows his concerns and thoughts through a mime. Among them, David's life, a boy with autism who loves planes and is always carrying with leaflets.

Work by Sofia Caetano.

A short film featuring over 50 unique participants exploring how love evolves with age.

Short film that invites us to think about the relation between the presence of iron — a fugitive from the stars, sleeping deep inside the earth — and the veins of warm-blooded mammals. It reads meteorites for clues about the stains at the edge of every sharp blade that cuts into flesh, and registers resonances that ricochet between mining, militarism and the mutations that mark a remote landscape.

A trip to Wallmapu, Chile, is part of the first meeting with Mapuche communities, through various stories we will know the relevance of the Machi for the community, who is the political and religious entity of the culture.

9/11: Voices of the Aircraft Dispatchers tells the story of what five airline dispatchers faced on one of the darkest days in history. Little is published about what the airline operational centers encountered that day, and this documentary helps bring those actions to light.

"An oblique portrait of gay Japanese American actor Sab Shimono, whose work on stage and screen spans more than five decades. The grammatology of his career attests to conflicting lexicons of race, representation, and selfhood." (Tina Takemoto)

"A Prime Condition" (2017) contrasts the supposedly secure underground storage of film reels in a salt mine in Hutchinson, Kansas, with the obsolescence of DVDs.

In March 2008, a new volcanic vent opened within Halema‘uma‘u, a crater at the summit of Kīlauea Volcano in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park on the Island of Hawaiʻi. This new vent is one of two ongoing eruptions on the volcano. The other is on Kīlauea’s East Rift Zone, where vents have been erupting nearly nonstop since 1983.

In 1982, the West Vancouver Highlanders were in the provincial championship game against a cross town rival. This was the first appearance for West Van and their head coach, Brian Upson. It would also be his last game. Brian was fighting a losing battle against cancer and was living on borrowed time. What followed was one of the most incredible stories in basketball history.