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In the 1990s, Chinese composer and educator Bao Yuankai began composing Western-style symphonic pieces rooted in traditional folk music. One of his acclaimed pieces is Sketches of Taiwan, which Bao was inspired to write after falling in love with Taiwan’s people and culture. Tsui Yung-Hui follows as he retraces his musical journey, decades-long love affair with Taiwanese culture and how he came up with brilliant, groundbreaking work that artfully bridges East and West.

A documentary directed by American filmmaker Jonathan Stack, a two-time Oscar nominee, that deals with the "anti-democratic" condition of the former president who has been under house arrest for 32 months without a conviction or due process.

For a few months every year, a small harbour in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean comes alive with hundreds of sailing boats. With little dramas around every corner, the tiny harbour briefly becomes a miniature model of the world.

The contemporary Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong traveled to the border of the United States and Mexico for his new painting project. Faced with complicated border and refugee issues, a foreign country, and stranger people, he used his Chinese sensibility and artist’s simplicity to find inspiration for his creation.

Two generations of residents of a student accommodation in Amsterdam take a trip down memory lane and talk about an infamous party that took place there in 1999.

An imaginative take on the origin story of Bill Reid, one of Canada’s most iconic Haida artists.

Druids have existed far longer than hitherto assumed, since the 4th century BC. Their traces are found all over middle Europe: from the northern Balkans to Ireland. Their cultural achievements were equal in almost every way to those of the Romans and Greeks: They could read and write and spoke Greek and Latin - for centuries, they were the powerful elite of their culture. Only one single Druid is known by name to history: Diviciacos - an aristocrat of the Aedui and personal friend of Julius Caesar. Diviciacos was a politician, a judge and a diplomat, but he lived at a time when the Celtic lands of Gaul were conquered by the Romans. Greek and Roman contemporaries distrusted the actions of this forbear of the famous comic book druid Getafix: They imagined him in bloody rituals in somber woods.

Internal journey during a short shipwreck. I am in Iguazu Falls. I cannot find my mother and I only have a camera with me.

Five young filmmakers share stories of their families, who were on the frontlines during the first wave of the Coronavirus. These intimate accounts shine a light on families caught in chaos and crisis, in a city hiding from a deadly virus, in a country riven by social upheaval.

The horizon, where the sky and the earth meet, is always elsewhere, a promised place where these two elements come together. a metaphor, an orienting, a promise of transition, change, transcendence. a place where the corporeal and spiritual meet, or are cleaved apart. Also, here, the space between narrative and documentary, fact and fiction, is scratched between two voices. Jayne love reads a text i wrote for her, short sentences on the concept of the horizon and the briefest suggestion of narrative collide with pieces of Richard (Oswan) Williams' beautiful, rum-fueled living room sermons to me.

Sankofa Chicago is the first in a three-part docuseries exploring the meaning of Sankofa—knowing our past to understand the present. Through personal stories and expert interviews, it highlights how this philosophy can empower communities, address injustice, and inspire cultural healing in Chicago and beyond.

A musical look at the invaluable contribution made by women to Puerto Rican music.

Irradiation is the thermal emanation of vital heat, the ancestral support that immerses beings in the solar blood. This is the immersion of beings in the bloody solar flow that gives the intense color of our present time. Part of Tonalli.

How to talk about History, the big one and the small one, ours and that of each of us? Watching television, browsing the Internet, rummaging through the stock of world archives? Or more simply, going back to our own images that built us?

A series of video letters composed between Nicolás Grandi in Buenos Aires and Priya Sen in New Delhi, artists and collaborators since 2011.

Featuring shocking, never-before-seen law enforcement video surrendered by a disgraced officer, End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock is the incredible story of the indigenous women who establish a peaceful camp in protest of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline construction that desecrated ancient burial and prayer sites and threatens their land, water, and very existence.

Poland experienced a homophobic tsunami in 2020. LGBT people, whom the ruling party chose to be the enemy, became the target of an intense campaign of power supported by the church and public media officials. The breakthrough came on August 7 - the day the LGBT community said enough, demonstrating on the streets of Warsaw in defense of one of them - activist Margot. On that day, the power of rainbow solidarity clashed with brutal police aggression. There were high-profile, show arrests, as a result of which 48 participants of the protest were arrested. Among them are the protagonists of Michał Bolland's shocking film - Kajetan, Kamila, Krem and Julia and her partner. Their stories make it possible to understand and feel what price the non-heteronormative part of Polish society pays for homophobia and power transphobia. And what was the situation of the LGBT rights movement? Sometimes called the Polish Stonewall, August 7 may go down in history.

Miyazaki artist Komatsu Takahide stumbled upon a painting of a Taiwanese indigenous girl in a local antique shop. He discovered the painter Shiotsuki Toho had made significant contributions to the Taiwanese art scene although remaining unknown in Japan. Toho arrived in Taiwan as an educator under the colonial government in 1921, harboured a deep love for Taiwanese indigenous people and cultures. Komatsu embarked on a journey to trace this century-ago fellow artist, pondering what "freedom" means to an artist.

A recollection of childhood memories involving a mother, Eva, and her oldest son Rifqi. Eva explains why she had to leave Rifqi with his grandparents when he was only two. At the time, her second pregnancy had taken a turn for the worse.

“God, you’re such an idiot.” “Why did this happen to my family?” “We’re totally screwed.” Therapy Fragments is an experimental documentary that follows Blanca as she reflects on her mental health history while wandering through various green spaces in Toronto. In conversation with her former roommate, she explores her cultural background, her former ways of being in the world, and the aspects of therapy that have been most helpful to her.

While the lockdown was happening in New York City, Bahar Baharloo joined a volunteer bike messenger service to help people in need, first traveling the empty streets and later navigating the protests.

Letters from a distance documents a communication exercise thought out by healthcare workers from a public hospital in Mexico City to help with the distance between COVID-19 patients and their family members through letters, that eventually turn into video messages or photographs during the peak of the pandemic giving people hope and certainty. It is also a voyage through the lives of mexican families who faced the most painful pandemic, due to their social, economic and political contexts while being moved by hope and love.

Using anonymous home movie footage of Expo '67 in Montreal, the artist sets out to recreate a memory that perhaps never existed. Celluloid manipulation and sound decay techniques coalesce to transform a mythic landscape into a sublime expanse of disintegrated memory

In 1965, Bob Dylan recorded "Like a Rolling Stone", one of the greatest songs of all time... A recreation of a show given by the troupe of the Comedie-Francaise from the book of Greil Marcus.

In 1989 the ecuadorian writer Gustavo Garzón Guzmán was arrested and acussed of being part of a political movement the Movimiento Montoneras Patria Libre (MPL). A year pass to get his freedom but in the time returning to his job and literary studies on de 10th november of 1990 he was vanished during the Rodrigo Borja Cevallos presidential time.

In 1958, de Gaulle made the President a figure who represented both the heritage of the monarchy and that of the French Revolution. In other words, he's the ideal candidate for a leading or supporting role in cinema. Yet in France, unlike in the United States, the list of films using the presidential figure, real or fictional, is meagre. What lies behind this absence?

To spite fake Instagram accounts, İdil and Şevval conduct the most unnecessary investigation of the century. Things change, however, when their findings reveal discrepancies beyond their expectations.

Sculptor Tu-shui Huang (1895-1930) was way ahead of his time, combining traditional Chinese themes with Western influences that he learned while studying at the art academy in Tokyo. This earned him a reputation as the “founder of modern Taiwanese sculpture,” but he also drew criticism.

Hong Kong is facing tyranny, and a pair of brothers are marching on their own ways in the revolution. However, the horror is approaching, and it’s like this city knows everything, it reborns after it collapses. There seems to be a huge energy behind this, asking inwardly: What is the fight for?

The Pilgrimage of the Virgin of Zapopan is one of the most important and representative religious and cultural traditions in Jalisco. It is a pilgrimage that, due to its magnitude and relevance, was declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Religiously, it takes place every October 12 and brings together more than two million people.

It’s been over thirty years since rave culture rose to prominence in the UK, launching a new youth movement that genuinely shaped a generation. With Britain’s youth facing similar socio-political challenges to those that provided a dark backdrop to rave’s early years, Amazon Music explores UK rave’s story to date, and where it might be going next. ‘Better Days’ documents over 30 years of UK rave culture; from the first wave of illegal free parties to lockdown gatherings during the global pandemic and everything in between. Featuring interviews with Prospa, Sherelle, Orbital, Dance System, TSHA, and more. The documentary also features an original Score by Overmono, and two Amazon Original remixes: Dance System Feat. Rush Davis – ‘Better Days’ (Amazon Original) Listen on Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0949... Orbital – ‘Chime Re-Record’ (Special Request Remix) [Amazon Original]

Driven by the murder of an anthropologist by a native group, a flâneur travels with his video-camera to different cities around the world, where different types of image technologies are used. Without realising it, the traveller will be documenting the days leading up to the pandemic and many of his observations will end up being an allegory of our upcoming lockdown in front of screens.

A short film, featuring windows.

Cosplay is more than a hobby; it is a lifestyle. Cosplay Your Way: In Color is a cosplay documentary from Cosplay Your Way centered around POC cosplayers that are taking the art of cosplay to new heights and ensuring that people of color who contribute to the craft are seen and recognized for their contributions. Go behind the scenes of the CosNoir shoot, co-hosted by AMP Cosplay, and not only learn how to cosplay, but get insight on why to cosplay along with the positive effects it has on the people that engage in the artistic expression. Cosplay artists discuss how they deal with the highs and lows of cosplay, from racism and body insecurities, to how cosplay is therapeutic, as well as how cosplay opened up the door to budding careers as designers, photographers and foamsiths.

Sum of Our Parts introduces the extraordinary performance art form through the lens of four performance artists. Deeply entwined with their practice, the film serves as an intimate enquiry into their experience with the physical body; weighing on and grounding them — shaping, bending, and ebbing with the passing of time and life.

Growing up, Walter accepted that having dyslexia meant he would never be a writer. Now, in his final year of screenwriting, Walter works to finish his feature film script. Walter is one of thousands of aspiring Australian screenwriters uncertain of his chances of getting his work made. I’M A WRITER is a 5 minute documentary that depicts a young artist to whom writing is unequivocally the most important thing.

A film almanac, in which modern Russian designers and design studios reflect on what we can show the world in addition to Balalaika and Khokhloma. Let's trace the history of Russian visual culture — from the appearance of the Cyrillic alphabet and folk crafts to constructivism, Soviet DIY and metamodern. Let's analyze the visual language of Russian icons, find the motifs of folk costume in modern fashion, look at the Baroque, classicism, Art Nouveau and other styles from the perspective of modern design. We will try to decode our culture and find something valuable in the forgotten together with well-known designers Anton Schneider, Regina Turbina, Alexey Ivanovsky, Tatiana Egoshina, design studios FYD, CLAN, ONY,Just Be Nice, White Russian Studio and more.

We live in a hectic and chaotic world that relentlessly stresses our planet, humans and animals alike. joyful is a unique audio-visual exploration of finding joy in all the turmoil that surrounds us. This short film uses videos, timelapses, hyperlapses, drone shots, slow motion, astrophotography and satellite images from around the world with dramatic sound design and music overlay to depict life as we know it and simple moments of joy and calm that provides us respite in all the chaos…

A documentary about the work of filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and film director Ruy Guerra. The audiovisual collage presents the director's trajectory, from his first experience with cinema up to his most recent thoughts on his work.

Marie Reinert, an expert in the art of infiltration, explores gestures and movement in the workplace, the body as a tool and the economy as a system – these are her raw materials. Here, the space she infiltrates is the informal economy of Kinshasa, examined through the eyes of the artists: Chris Shongo, Jerry Lelo, Francis Longwa, Magloire Mpaka, Olikas Ngongo and Margot Oto, a group which celebrated the occasion by giving itself the name System K, which signifies that everything can be haggled for in Kinshasa.

In the midst of the social unrest caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Calpan, Puebla, there is a small corner where hope is harvested daily: the people's asylum.

A tribute to the people that we fear to lose, and for the ones that we have lost. It is a story about the fear that we have to face as the new normal.

Former rescuers organize an extreme expedition called "Find a Fallen Star" to feel the high of their work again and share it with friends.

Explore the life of Mary Breckinridge and her efforts founding the Frontier Nursing Service, whose nurse-midwives traveled by horseback to provide healthcare to those living in a remote, mountainous region of Kentucky.

Kayayei (k-æ-y-æ-y-ei): Porter girls who come from the Ghanaian interior to the metropolitan cities in the south. A compound word from the word ‘kaya’ which means burden. And ‘yei’ which means women.

..at large under the sun... is a new short film, a lyrical post-apocalyptic diary movie for 2020 imbued with an irrepressible chthonic joyfulness that erupts from broken stone and broken birds. The soundtrack boasts an atmospheric sonic contribution by Declan Synnott.

A silent landscape flashes past the windows of a moving car conveying different sets of passengers. The conversations veer towards such diverse themes as carol-singing, nuclear waste, and the dangers of hornets’ nests. Tea Lukač’s anthropological probe gets by with a minimum of cinematic devices in order to deliver a focused study of the phenomena of memory, history and tradition.

Dive into Nano Riantiarno's passion and love of theater. The story from behind the stage and the maestro who is the mastermind behind it.

Now we know why they are here – they want Earth’s resources, and our resources, even those in our bodies, and they are colonizing the sea and certain strategic energy sources, such as volcanos where fleets have appeared as if from underground to consume or capture energy. What we still don’t know is how our political leaders feel about these colonies or if they’ve struck a secret deal. In either case, life on Earth as we know it is about to change. Come with us as we dig deeper into the evidence and find out the truths too ominous for governments to acknowledge publicly.

Based on an idea by a group of artists, technicians and film and stage crews, on June 24th, 2020, the event “A Shout for a New Renaissance” was staged at at Theater 8 of the Cinecittà Studios, calling on the art world to give more visibility to the problems of workers in the entertainment industry in the wake of the Covid-19 emergency.

An entertaining video filmed over two years. Kids, teachers, heads, parents, ex-pupils tell the story of this unique experimental school. “Kids don’t have to go to lessons at Summerhill and can wear and do mostly what they want. How does that work??!!

The Jehovah’s Witnesses are a religious group with eight million followers in multiple nations, including Australia. A knock on the door and an earnest offer to share their teachings is the only interaction most people will have with this god-fearing organisation. Few would know the extreme nature of their beliefs. The conduct of the religious group came under scrutiny in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

In the late 1970s, when the question of making a four-wheel drive rally car was raised, Audi engineers contacted FIA to consult on homologation issues. At that time, this technology was banned, and no one raised the problem of making such a car. At the time, the FIA saw no problem in authorizing the little whim, leaving the Germans to build their own toy. Following the publication of the 1979 FIA Yearbook, which lifted the ban on all-wheel drive, Audi went ahead with its design for the revolutionary quattro. Lots of people expected the quattro to look like a Jeep. Many laughed but then there was silence. Audi went ahead with its quattro, the car that will change the face of rallying forever. It was the birth of a legend that captured the imagination and brought out fans in their tens of thousands. The future had arrived.