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The film presents a portrait of Zied Abdellaoui who – seeking a better life – came to Austria through the Balkan route. He walked 4517km, experienced 26 illegal push-backs, several violent abuses and now resides without documents in Austria.
Janet Guardiola, together with her two daughters Sophia and Samantha, form the group of naturalists Mariposas Azules, which originated due to the need for environmental protection for the Cerro del Topo Chico in Escobedo, Nuevo León, Mexico. Seeing that her work observing nature is giving good results, Janet fosters her model at the Ojo de agua Jardines del Canada, with little Jazmín.
Once heralded as the spirit of American manufacturing, music, and democracy, Detroit kicked its fiscal can down the road for decades plummeting into insolvency, culminating in the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. GRADUALLY, THEN SUDDENLY is the inside story of how a state-appointed Emergency Manager and the people of this iconic American city- confronting financial ruin-followed a treacherous path towards a new beginning.
John G. Avildsen has only recently cemented his reputation as the "king of the underdogs," owing to his having directed both Rocky (1976) and The Karate Kid (1984). Within the last decade, a feature-length biographical documentary was released and a critical study book was published. But before Rocky, he was an astute chronicler of the counterculture, whose films possessed a rugged street aesthetic. Those early films (including Joe, Guess What We Learned in School Today, Cry Uncle, Save the Tiger, and The Stoolie) are evaluated for assuming an alternate posture on the counterculture happenings of the era.
Cara Romero's contemporary fine art photography captures Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective history, and lived experiences from an Indigenous female perspective.
Imagine a disease so rare there's no cure. Austin Crawford was diagnosed with MSA or Multiple System Atrophy. As his health fades we find Austin building a hot rod from his wheelchair and sharing his story to his followers on Tiktok.
One day, the wife has changed. She becomes more forgetful, gets herself lost on the streets, and finds it hard to recognize people she meets every day. She used to cook full meals for many guests but now struggles to even make fried eggs. Like so, her time goes backward.
Aurelio represents the duality between being the first in his family to leave for the city and finish a professional career and being the youngest and most important traditional doctor in his region. He lives and rescues the tradition and gift that was given to him by his grandparents before he left.
An experimental nature film showing the “adventures” of insects and plant life within one square foot of the filmmaker’s yard.
Based on the book by Ned MacDonald comes this engaging feature documentary that explores the history of the Inverness Coal Mines. After an abundance of quality coal is discovered in a remote settlement on Cape Breton Island, wealthy foreign developers and miners arrive from across the world to extract the black gold from the depths. As the years continue, exploitation of the land and workers challenges the survival of Inverness Town and its people.
The film is set in Tangier, a city in northern Morocco known for its rich cultural heritage and vibrant artistic scene. It features Iliass, a young interdisciplinary artist who skillfully merges four distinct art forms—blurring the lines between tradition and modernity—to create a singular, innovative expression. Through Iliass's journey, the film explores the dynamic interplay of identity, creativity, and the transformative power of art, set against the backdrop of Tangier’s unique blend of Mediterranean and Moroccan influences.
Do we farm to produce food or money? Is it profitable to produce without poisons? How do I want to feed myself? Can we imagine agriculture with a focus on biodiversity and the health of the soil and people? Producers, marketers, and consumers open their gates and doors to affirm that the way is agroecology. If you are interested in the present and future of how we inhabit this planet, listen to them. It is time to change course; it is time for a new paradigm.
just one of those things is part of a new series of work made at the relaunch of High Heel Project in 2022. Katayama layers cut-out legs and high heels on top of her self-portrait, animating them to create a moving collage. She comments, 'The most important thing is not that everyone should wear high heels, but that, first and foremost, we should have the freedom to say what we want and what we don't want. With the goal of freedom of choice open to all, I must continue to walk and speak up wearing symbolic and extreme high heels:
A report on carousel operators, what their profession means, and if it has a future at all. Big business, but also small genuine smiles. What's the most important part of all this?
The second part of the series Cypriot Collage Stories sketches out the history of this Mediterranean island as a conflict of its two mothers – Aphrodite and Virgin Mary. Animations and collages are intertwined with found footage of the 1974 Turkish invasion of the island, revealing the obvious fact that modern conflicts are rooted in history.
Peter Bergen tracks the CIA and US Navy SEALs on the hunt to kill Osama bin Laden. What they ultimately find is an unexpected intelligence win fall.
They were children when they left, dreaming of a life without worry: freedom and wealth. But what awaited them was a nightmare. One of them began to change, leading him to commit a lethal knife attack in Turku, Finland. By following the lives of two of the attacker’s friends, the film delves into the experiences of an entire generation of young Moroccan men who feel like they do not belong anywhere. While their families push them to travel to Europe to find a better life, Europe casts them out.
An uplifting documentary about coping with inoperable cancer may sound unlikely, but here it is. Gordon was diagnosed eight years ago and began using the medium of queer comic books to confront his feelings and fears. He employs humour to get to the heart of taboos surrounding death and disease, weaving many of the wonderful carers and nurses he meets into his expressively illustrated world. Sage, sweet, and stimulating, it is also a long-distance love story between Edinburgh and Virginia, USA. We could all learn a thing or two about love, life – and death – from Gordon.
After the survey he conducted on the "women of May", Jorge Amat decided to address the male side of the event. Testimonies, memories, reflections, fifty-five years later. Those who appear in this film are first-rate witnesses, very rarely put forward during the conventional commemorations: Jean Pierre Le Dantec, Jean Pierre Duteuil, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Edgar Morin, Henri Weber, Gerard Fromanger, Guy Scarpetta, Alain Jaubert, Tomas Ibanez, Maurice Grimaud, Edouard Balladur, Hervé Hamon, Jacques Tarnero and Marc Levitt.
A hybrid experimental short film reflecting on a Latinx immigration experience.
An in-depth look at the tumultuous history of a nation now under siege by Russian forces.
Memories shape my identity and challenge my soul and body to confront what I am or strive not to be.
French scuba instructor Mike befriends a special and unique-looking fish called Maurice in the paradise of Crete's Kalypso Bay. After bonding over 3 summer seasons, Mike now worries for the safety of his fish friend and diving buddy as fishermen appear near Maurice's home waters.
A short documentary film of 16 minutes that presents the searching phase that the director of the film went through after her interrogation and arrest by the Israeli occupation forces in Jerusalem, that phase led her into seeing everything differently, her connection with her home and the streets changed, she felt like everything around her is pushing her to leave her own city Jerusalem, but after she left the city there was something that still drags her to it, this contradictory relationship with the place made always searching, she made this film as a mean for her search in her surrounding.
Jemal is a musician and saz player. He became seriously ill 19 years ago and doctors did say he has a few months to live. His wife Barika began studying remedies and folk medicine, instead of waiting for death to come.
A documentary about the Laylat al-Maazim concert by the Arab artist Muhammad Abdo, which was held in Riyadh at the Muhammad Abdo Arena Theater and organized by Rotana.
Witness how Ukrainian art and culture have become targets of the ongoing war; and meet the inspiring people on the frontlines protecting it.
Whitman Brook Orchard is an oasis which stands ready to receive, unfolding its lessons season by season. This film is about the pacing of life, the close observation of our natural environment, land stewardship and a tribute to a love lost and a place rejuvenated.
An Upper West Side Instagrammer documents her dumpster diving while calling out wasteful corporate practices.
Two filmmakers, one mother and one son, find answers and strength in the struggles of Indigenous Nasa in Cauca, Colombia as they document their journeys decades apart.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, internet and media artist Constant Dullaart built his own platform as a response to existing social media. It’s a place where you can genuinely get together with friends, rather than just being a target for clickbait or competing with others for likes and comments.
The political situation in Belarus forced Dima to flee the country. Fearing for loved ones, she constantly keeps in touch with those who had to stay there. Despite all efforts to arrange his life in Poland, he still has to fight the shadow of the past.
Memories of three adults on their children's convalescent stays in Spa Kynžvart. "The nurses forbade us to go to the corridor where the toilets were after curfew, so we had to pee behind the wardrobe."
On the cusp of turning 20, South Australian film student Daniel decides to go looking for a centipede, and three of his classmates join him to document his seemingly insignificant journey.
The Furry community brings together people who bring to life animal characters with human characteristics, through drawing and costumes. FURSONA is an incursion into the universe of Aly, a member of this community.
18 years have passed since the implementation of the Employment Permit System, and through this system, many migrant workers have stepped on Korean land, with the goal of chasing their dreams. The protagonists of this film also came to Korea in search of a dream,but because there’s no freedom to change workplace in the Employment Permit System, their dreams are hitting the walls of reality.This is the story of 3 migrant workers living the harsh lives of laborers.
A close-up of a baby girl.
The artist Sverre Malling is known for his allegories and his way of implementing motif elements from Norwegian culture in a different context. He made himself even better known outside the art community as the signer in the July 22 trial. In this film, the creators have followed and observed Malling in the creation of the giant work of art «Norwegian muskox»: a drawing of a muskox. We follow every stroke of the canvas in a fascinating study of both the work of art and Malling as an artist, and the great detail work and focus one can have on a project over such a long period of time. The muskox is a slow animal and the film is a tribute to the slowness, which gives a pleasant and meditative pace to the film.
A documentary film about a 70-year-old man who has never in his life had his photo taken. So, one day, he asks a young man to take a picture of him and starts telling his tale of photocopy.
On 22 July 2016 a German high-school student David Sonboly killed nine people in a seemingly random attack in a Munich shopping-centre. Why do some young people become mass murderers? A look at radicalisation within extreme-right groups online.
Over hundred years of development, the Chinese film industry has been through a lot. Lisa Lu, a nearly hundred-year-old Chinese American actress, stands for a book of Chinese film history herself. In the film, Lisa Lu talks about her life, career, and her on-going process of dream pursuing inside the movie world. During this journey, she’ll also bring out a couple more memorable Chinese filmmakers. Including one of the first Asian actress who has her own “star” on the Hollywood Boulevard, Anna May Wong; Minwei Li, who made a huge contribution to China by documenting the warfare, Chusheng Cai, one of the founders of Chinese feature film, and the world-famous martial artist, Bruce Lee.
While many have migrated to new spaces during the pandemic, we've all become intimately familiar with the places we call home over the past two years. It's a basic human need, but we're increasingly transient—and in a virtual world, where is our community? Returning to her rural Ontario hometown Horning's Mills and its philosophical residents, filmmaker Tess Girard delicately ponders the spaces we choose to occupy. Conversations with a youthful gravedigger who provides locals with their final resting place contrast with an eccentric elderly couple who plan to save humanity with a bunker of buried school buses known as Ark Two. Girard seeks solace through these interactions while attempting to reconnect to her roots, questioning where she is meant to be. This deeply personal meditation embraces bucolic landscapes down to the smallest detail and grounds itself in quiet, reflective moments.
A philosophical field trip from Cairo, along the Nile and into the desert in search for what light means as a religious concept in post-revolutionary Egypt.
Rafa, Karen and Lesslie are three Mexican brothers who started out by recording each other's pranks and posting them on their social networks. Over time, they became some of the most influential content creators in the digital age, revolutionizing the entertainment industry.
Created in Unreal Engine, Escaping Gravity interrogates the tension between the pioneering optimism of airship construction in the 1920s and the consequences of hubris, as a reflection on our contemporary political and cultural landscape in a post-pandemic world.
Lech is 26 years old. He lives in a flophouse in Kostroma, where people spend years (and sometimes they die right there, because it's easier to die well-fed and with a roof over your head). His wife left Lehi. Or rather, she offered to be friends, and he did not understand the joke. Lech is going through a hard breakup, so he decides to record a rap: suddenly his ex-wife will hear and understand who she has lost.
This is not a documentary about documentary film-making.
Around 700 Spanish women arrive in Australia in the early 1960s due to an informal agreement between the government and the regime of Francisco Franco.
Debut short film of Sepehr Sohrabi.
From the observation point of a commercial centre in the heart of Paris; silhouettes are looking at the sky waiting for something to happen. At the same time, on the borders of Europe, others are preparing their shopping lists.
In the autumn of his life, forester Anton Prelesnik travels through the autumn forest, where he spent most of his years. The Kocevsko forest is his home. In it, he gave meaning to a turbulent and difficult life that overwhelms too many people's destinies: workers at the once famous Roska sawmill, Kocevje Germans, taking care of the wounded in partisan hospitals, those killed in extrajudicial killings…