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High Tide in Dorchester aims to foster a conversation about climate change and related impacts of sea level rise and erosion, and leverage that conversation into action. The focus, Dorchester County, MD, is already experiencing the future that increasingly faces coastal areas worldwide. This low-lying county on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay is the fourth largest of Maryland’s 23 counties by land area, but it is destined to drop to the 14th largest by 2100 — or sooner — as waters rise and erosion worsens. Dorchester is the coal miner’s canary; ground zero for the Chesapeake Region.

An insight into young Somali mens experience in Sweden.

Therese is one of the top gamers in Sweden. Her life online became an opening to e-sport. She created her virtual identity "Szanto" and decided to fight for her dream - an equal gaming world.

16mm film shot at the Van Doesburg house in Meudon. Projected in a special split screen with an eight-second delay between the two projectors. The timing difference creates a new framework of constant dialogue between the architectural details and Katja Mater's own drawings.

Statues can die, too. Or, as shown in Leninopad, they can be cleared away from their public sites in an alleged act of liberation. After the political upheaval in 2013, Jermolaewa embarked on a journey through Ukraine, travelling to diverse settings to document the fall of now-incriminated statues of Lenin.

Commissioned by No Bound’s Festival artistic director. ‘Final Sheffield’ portrays the ethos of the event in a non traditional way and exists as a piece of work that can speak on it’s own.

Meet Seleone, an elder from Hihifo district on Wallis Island. He is interviewed by Lotana, a nurse, who asks him about traditional ways of life, and how to integrate this knowledge into methods of teaching young people about non-communicable diseases. Through interviews with Seleone, the film shows how modernisation has profoundly changed the Wallisian way of life, with a focus on the abandonment of subsistence farming, hunting and fishing, and the introduction of imported processed foods.

Chronicle of one summer in the village of Sardayal: mother-anarchy, port wine, an SBPC concert in the school gym, a disco in the 2000s in the house of culture and a Mari wedding-performance.

A film about the most recent project of the architect Guilherme Machado Vaz, produced by Building Pictures, portraits the last day of Summer at “Casa em Afife.”

These are shots of the border fence as seen from both the U.S. and Mexico from El Paso/Juarez to San Diego/Tijuana. They show international ports of entry as well as populated and desolate areas along the fence.

A new video essay on the 1985 film The Quiet Earth by New York arts journalist and critic Bryan Reesman. He provides an overview of the science fiction film with his thoughts on its themes, lingering questions, and longevity.

Picking up on Pierre Schaeffer’s musical theory, this video essay looks at the final scene from Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly as a source of concrete sound. No additional sounds were used. The stroboscopic audio is nothing but the original soundtrack, dissected and interrupted by clicking manually from frame to frame.

"En Mi Pueblo" is a film that reflects upon memories of home and place as they once were. Images of a rural landscape evoke feelings of a distant past while the delicate voice of an aging man imparts a sense of intimacy upon a life once lived.

Join Chris as he drives his friend John to insanity over six days in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Together they have some close calls with lightning, climb the highest mountain in the United States, and discover the history of the trail.

Jenn Stanley, a writer, and her father Peter, who works in construction, came to StoryCorps to talk about how politics affects their relationship.

Two undocumented friends struggle with the reality of an unknown future, reimagining what it means to be a teenage girl in the U.S.

The year is 2025. Maria and Luís are survivors of the natural disasters that devastated the planet. They take care of bees, now the most valuable animals on Earth.

14-year-old Fang Hong shows her room.

The contestants for Miss Snake Charmer are not your typical high school beauty queens. These teens must show they are more than just pretty faces-that they have the guts and grit to win America's toughest beauty pageant. Contestants must prove their bravery by killing, and skinning, a rattlesnake before showcasing their talents and evening wear. The winner then spends the weekend reigning over pits of live vipers during the World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup.

Visual explorations and technical possibilities of a new camera. Bursts of time, flashes and fragmentation.

How to Destroy Time Machines is a film for your ears. It focuses on Jeph Jerman, an Arizona-based experimental musician, his passion for sounds, and his unique perception of the world. Jeph doesn't want to get into time machines, where most people are stuck worrying about the future or dwelling on the past. When we are limited by such restrictions, we rarely enjoy the current moment. This is a story about being here and now. It's not only a movie about an extraordinary composer but also a parable for life.

This blooming spring roars through the streets that there will be not a minute of silence but a lifetime of struggle. That their murdered ancestors, swept away by cement and oblivion, rise like a wave of platform flowers, their bones are the possession of all those who survive discrimination, exclusion and transphobia. Dead under the hands of the world and in their own arms, today, like a silent monument, the root of this struggle flourishes in cement. Today something does happen, today they are everywhere, in all people; because they will be able to cut each and every one of the flowers but they will not stop the spring. Right now: transvestite, trans-sexual, trans-human, trans-powerful, insurrectional spring, beautifully grotesque, wild, furious, own, crazy, free. Trans Spring

View trajectories in a war broadcast online. The film uses materials taken by anonymous authors in the ATO (antiterrorist operation) zone between 2014 and 2018 and posted on social networks. The authorship of these videos could not be established.

How many people will be forced to leave their homes by 2050? While the figure divides the scientific community, these climate refugees could well number in the millions. This is one of the questions this film seeks to answer, as it takes us from the Sahel to Siberia, via Indonesia.

An interview with S.T. Joshi, author of I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft.

Documentary from Fernando Muñoz offers a history of calypso by profiling one of the last active Panamanian calypso ensembles, Grupo Amistad.

Primera Luz is a documentary portrait of a family that begins in the Sierras de Córdoba. Carolina and Darius, two audiovisual filmmakers, become parents with Lila's birth. The film investigates motherhood, fatherhood, between everyday chores and emotional frailties, external threats, and the cyclical periodicity of nature.

Short film that combines contemporary pictures of the cities Mannheim and Ludwigshafen with a historical text from Ernst Bloch.

At the center of the story – a 12-year-old boy Fedya and his mother. In early childhood, Fedya suffered from severe meningitis and lost his hearing. But his mom was always there – seems that she’s able to carry the whole world on her shoulders and keep all the love of this world in her heart. A special role in the life of this family is given to the music teacher Aleksei Borozdin – thanks to his classes the deaf boy started talking and made it to study in a gymnasium.

When John Harrington, the eldest son of a descendant of the last Chief of an Oregon tribe learns the whereabouts of warbonnets stolen after his father's death and taken to another reservation in Canada, he undertakes an 8,200+ mile odyssey, along with two of his brothers, to recover the stolen warbonnets.

Based on archival images from Yugoslav cinema, the film begins with words spoken by Milena Dravić in Dušan Makavejev’s W.R. Mystery of the Organism. On the other side, marked by the patriarchy, the fragmented experience of the woman and her broken body will follow.

The first time 97-year-old runner George Etzweiler completed the race up the northeast’s tallest peak, Mount Washington, he was 69 years old. Despite having a pacemaker, the State College, Pennsylvania resident continues to compete in the grueling 7.6-mile race up nearly 4,700 feet of paved road, breaking his own record each year for oldest finisher. In addition to his ancient, lucky, green running shorts, Etzweiler carries something else special with him: The memory of his late wife of 68 years, Mary.

As a response to the current investment in large hydroelectric dams as a ground to Brazil's 'sustainable' economic growth, "Costs" addresses the impacts these endeavour have caused on both the environment and people. Director Marilene Ribeiro surveys three hydro schemes that happen at different times in Brazil (past - the Sobradinho dam, present - the Belo Monte dam, and future - the Garambi-Panambi dam complex). The video engages with situations in which the impacts caused by dams emerge in a more sensitive way; for example, when participants of her project (individuals who have been affected by these ventures) draw, sing, or speak about their feelings and their interpretations of their lived experience.

Lena is 47, and she is still in the hope to meet an ideal man with the Simoron’s help. Lena is sure that her life is full of magic and wonders, although she is bound to spend all days with her jobless alcoholic friend in search of a living and food.

Memories of a village sunk in a dam.

We are invited to immerse ourselves in this documentary about the trajectory of Elaine Patricia, a young black woman of 20 years who has experienced various challenges, especially racial prejudice. The protagonist still inspires us with a history of overcoming, by breaking with paradigms rooted in the social context and at the conclusion of the dreamed high school.

The Spender House in Essex was designed in 1968 by Richard and Su Rogers (Team 4) for photographer and artist Humphrey Spender. It was a prototype and precursor to the iconic house, Parkside, designed for Rogers’ parents the following year, making it the first example of hi-tech domestic architecture in the UK.

Produced by the Sex Worker Advocacy & Resistance Movement (SWARM), ,To Survive; To Live' weaves together candid interviews from five people selling sex in austerity Britain. Setting aside the polarising rhetoric that often surrounds discussions of sex work, the film gives an intimate insight into the hopes, fears and needs of a group whose voices are routinely silenced.

A fictitious short documentary that discusses LGBT+ teen suicide. It is the first installment to the "Rainbows" series.

Kathy Acker's writing, and a seminal portrait of her taken by intersex photographer Del LaGrace Volcano, provide a lens through which to explore trans subjectivity and the queering of cinema. Pol Merchan's hybrid doc fluidly moves from the documentation of the punk era to a more performative exploration of gender.

A military uniform that represents the uniting of American and South Vietnamese forces. The Olympic tracksuit worn by Tommie Smith when he raised a fist in silent protest. The original art by Roy Lichtenstein on his powerful "Gun in America" Time Magazine cover. These are just some of the objects on display at various Smithsonian museums that tell the story of one of the most influential years in American history: 1968. Through these remarkable artifacts, witness a year of courage, revolution, tragedy, and triumph.

A poetic look at a rarely seen side of a revolutionary movement.

Your postcode shouldn't dictate what you can wear or who you can love. This documentary highlights the unique challenges the LGBTQI community face growing up and living in regional towns.

Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 is a documentary feature film about the false information and political influences which led to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Alternative Facts sheds light on the people and politics that influenced the signing of the infamous Executive Order 9066 which authorized the mass incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans. The film will expose the lies used to justify the decision and the cover-up that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Alternative Facts will also examine the parallels to the current climate of fear, attitudes towards immigrant communities, and similar attempts to abuse the powers of the government.