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Video Essay on the 1962 movie "Carnival Of Souls" by critic and filmmaker David Cairns which was produced by the Criterion Collection in 2016

Supported in part by a grant from the Salem Cultural Council, detailing the saving of Salem's historic downtown facades.

Women's ways is a documentary that explores the world of the mountain through the strength of women. There are three main subjects : Marion Poitevin, Liv Sansoz and Martina Cufar-Potard.
Through interviews we discover what they share and also what separates them in their paths through life, but above all we discover the strength of woman in all its potential.

A documentary about the dervishes in the Rufai Tekke, in the Skopje neighborhood of Gazi Baba. Through interviews, we learn about the history of the Tekke, built in 1818. The philosophy of life and tradition of the Rufai Dervishes originate from the Ottoman era and are passed down through generations, like a legacy.

Accompanied by her father, who took part in the reconstruction of Beirut in 1992, Srage wanders through Dalieh, a small city-center port where the last families of fishermen are soon to be evicted as the district is privatized.

Equal parts music video and documentary. This clip was shot in and around the infamous former Chornobyl nuclear plant where catastrophe struck in 1986.

A dynamic documentary film on up-and-coming bands in the east of the Ukraine: they play an aggressive form of rock and punk, prefer not to think of the war and find themselves in a constant state of rebellion against the establishment. Music gives meaning to life, though saying that the music-making process isn't always conflict-free.

A story of a young girl, struggling with the turmoils of a drug addiction, documented by her cousin, who tries to intervene and to get her the help she needs.

The film consists of women's voices—the voices of miners' wives. Their confessions lead us through the streets of the small town of Chervonopartizansk, located in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

Despite lacking the necessary education, experience, and money, the students decide to build a race car and participate in international competitions. They could not even imagine how many obstacles would await them on the way to their goal.

An experimental mini-film that combines documentary and feature film. The sounds of Ukrainian society's pain performed by the "military memories" orchestra.

They want everybody to know about them. They want everybody to remember that there are violent fighting in our country. They want to be heard. They don't want another people to feel the same.

Highly specialized Canadian Medical volunteers arrive at the Main Military Clinical Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, they help make a difference in the lives of wounded Ukrainian soldiers, victims of Russia's invasion of eastern Ukraine.

A former Japanese soldier during World War II gives his testimony about the massacres in China and the existence of the ‘comfort women’ in this animation.

Slovenia is the land of a thousand faces. The most beautiful landscapes that couldn't be more different can be found in the smallest of spaces: The high mountain peaks of the Julian Alps with gorges and river valleys, fascinating caves and Karst areas, cheerful wine villages and picturesque coastal towns, such as the Venetian-style Piran.

A short film by Avesta Mahmoudvand.

In order to fly only a few tens of seconds, these people are ready to climb the mountain for hours. And they think their efforts are worth it. Wingsuit, a wing of a special design, allows you to plunge into the world of complete freedom for at least a short time, to feel like birds. Base jumping also gives a slightly less thrill – this is what skydiving from fixed objects is called. However, this freedom is deceptive, and sometimes its price is prohibitively high.

A picture of rebellion. About those who want to be or at least appear to be rebels.

A film about a girl Alina with Down syndrome and Mayra, who adopted her. In the context of Alina's story, the film raises the topic of art therapy for children with disabilities.

A VR experience about love, grief and reconciliation between a child trafficking survivor and her father.

High Lakes combines staged scenes along with observational documentary recordings of summer housekeeping work at a lakeside resort in the Oregon Cascades. The film’s voice-over sound track includes interviews with family, friends and colleagues discussing their own past work experiences. These voices are accompanied by personal reflections of Minty’s time working in resort housekeeping, and raises questions about precarious work, both its place in the economy, and what it means for the future of work.

A young designer arrives in a small Bulgarian village, where most inhabitants left are elderly women. She convinces the grannies to weave a new model of a traditional carpet-runner, called "chergi". But as they start to assemble an old weaving loom, they find out that parts are missing. Now the women have to restore old knowledge and the missing links between themselves.

In Zongolica's Mountain Range, in the mexican state of Veracruz, naturally dyed wool yarn and excellent quality textiles are produced. Women are the ones in charge of working and teaching the art of weaving textiles with the waist loom technique. Everyday with perseverance and wisdom they masterfully wave their lives and future.

The film, as a crystal of seven years observation and three years shooting, recounts the social changes of Xiaoluoshui, a Mosuo village by the side of Lugu Lake in Yunnan Province of China. With the emergence of commodity economy and tourism, obvious changes have been brought to the village within a few years. They rest not only on the surface, but also in people’s confusions, pains and paradoxes at the advent of the tremendous social reform.

A short documentary about six Syrian children who escaped the war in Aleppo and got stuck in child labor.

Engines of the future. The true creators of the revolution. Revolutions of the spirit. The stars of the Russian avant-garde of the early 20th century managed to make a real world revolution. Their works, their ideas still influence the life of every modern person. The film will focus on the Russian avant-garde in art and literature. Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marc Chagall, Vasily Kandinsky, David Burliuk, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Tatlin and many others - they were called hooligans and rowdies from art, and they were looking for a new form for a new life. They changed everything - from painting and architecture to advertising and music. It was a challenge to the whole world, a rebellion and an attempt to create a man of the future. That is why modern young people should talk about the most revolutionary trend in art. They try on the roles of avant-gardists, evaluate situations and facts, looking into the past from the 21st century.

Esthetics of the passing time, bats and dying professions in one of the most enigmatic buildings – the Kharkiv Derzhprom...

Histories of Simulated Intimacy is a sensory essay film that investigates the gaps in time and space produced by the technological mediation of human love and desire. Roving, dismembered voices – messages left for the filmmaker by former lovers, found voice messages made on gramophone discs – hunt for image-bodies, creating a simultaneous presence and absence: a woman carried gently by the flow of a Lazy River; the undulations of a darkened, glimmering dance party; memories and traces of the once-massive Iowan prairies. The film explores polarities such as public and private, nature and culture, near and far, bios and techne, producing a space in which technologies of intimacy, separated by historical measurements of time, can coalesce in perpetuity.

The cassette with the materials of which the film was edited, was found in the archive of film documents. Judging by the nature of filming, it has been recorded by a cameraman in the 90-s for the documentary plot or story. Or probably it's just a video diary about a vacation, taken with professional skill. But in the end, it turned out that 20 years later the found panoramas of sea and mountain landscapes of Crimea inspired the director and the composer for the creation of video pieces for flute with the participation of one artist.

An expository and poetic documentary that invites thinkers and artists from different areas to analyze the construction of images that affect the female body in issues that cross genders.

Get a play-by-play of the incredible Six Day War in 1967, including the ins and outs of Israel’s strategy, leadership, and impressive military feats. But more than that, it opens the door to important questions and issues that Israel faced in the aftermath of the war, and still does to this day.

Dima is a person from the future, who does not find it easy to live in the present.

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).

Video interview about the life of Moscow, about its morning awakening.

Two people, not counting the cat, go on an anti-crisis trip by car to see the beauty of Russia and talk about how to relax in an interesting and budget-friendly way.

The film is about the melon growers of the Orenburg region, who plant watermelons and melons every year at their own risk. It is not easy to grow an environmentally friendly red berry. It's even harder to sell it…

For 15 years, Natalia has been working in the city of Kimry, Tver region, in a workshop where she paints portraits of people on tombstones. Different people come to her. Someone orders portraits for the loved ones of the deceased, and someone-for themselves for the future...

The Rostov producer decides to make a real hip-hop star out of a street kid. Most recently, the producer himself got out of the "ghetto", realizing the American dream-overnight he received fame, money, and a beautiful life. Having met a young bad-ass mulatto rapper, the producer decides to repeat his feat, but already playing the role of an influential patron and mentor.

Dima Voron and his rapper friends live in Nijni Taguil, Russia. At 23 years old Dima has been working at the factory for 7 years. He composes a light and melodious rap, he is talented, just like his friends. For a long time they thought of a way to success. But the city and the mechanics of the factory create a counterpoint to their hope. It is only through their music that they can express their feelings and dreams.

The film is a monologue by Masha Rolnikaite (1927-2016), the author of the famous diary book "I Must Tell", who survived the nightmares of the ghettos and death camps in her youth.

Teriberka is an ancient Pomeranian camp on the shore of the Barents Sea. Since ancient times, people lived here. They were not afraid of the long polar night, nor of the winter blizzards and storms, nor of the barrenness of the stony earth and sand. Only by sea it was possible to reach Teriberskaya Bay, where the first artels of Pomor fishermen settled on the sandy shore. At the beginning of the 21st century, Teriberka lost its status as a regional center, turning into a dying village with a surreal landscape. The taciturn inhabitants remained devoted to their native Land, which is divided and sold behind their backs, evicted from their homes and deprived of fishing. But the sea gives them inner freedom. Without looking back.

In the north of Russia, far beyond the Arctic Circle, on the shore of the White Sea, on the Kanin Peninsula, there is an amazing settlement. The houses in it, almost to the roofs, are covered with sand, and the streets are somewhere deep under the sand dunes. From a distance, this village can be mistaken for an abandoned one. But people live there. The film tells the story of the dramatic transformation of Shoina-a thriving fishing village-into a dying village, almost completely buried in the sand.

Emergency service personnel talk about the realities of post-traumatic stress disorder, and its impact on their lives and their families.

Teresa, a former Cuban combatant, fixes her television to see Obama's arrival in Cuba. She reacts to this historic moment, which leads her to remember her life as a militant and her personal life.