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The short reportage film depicts the situation of hard-to-recycle waste. Our guides are a local government employee and the staff of Technical Services Zlín, whom the director interviewed and filmed at work. In the local context of an East Moravian municipality, it examines the technical, economic and political aspects of the problem. In addition, there are the inevitable social issues regarding the wider sustainability of the contemporary consumer lifestyle.

The last day of Pompeii was completely different to what was previously thought. Even the recorded date of the catastrophe is not correct. A century-long excavation reveals the last secrets.

Commemorate the 40th anniversary of one of the largest freight carriers in the nation! Look back at the creation, evolution and current operating status of this storied railroad.

A documentary about some young guys who love making movies and cinema. Its a backstage of a movie.

May 8th, 2020 marks 75 years since Victory in Europe, when the Nazis surrendered to the Allies ending WWII in Europe. We relive that electrifying day, and many of the dramatic events leading up to it, through the words of the people who remember it.

After a lifetime of writing about famous rock stars, Larry "Ratso" Sloman releases his own album and records a tribute to Nick Cave's son.

Mental Lugano is a blurred (muddy?) imprint trying to put together a puzzle with several pieces that are no longer there. It's an animal crossing the night with blank eyes; the pieces of a game already lost. What is Lugano, what is Mataderos, what is Madero? Mental connections involve a question of memory, which also implies a question of forgetting, to the extent that only through active forgetting can the passage be made for them to remain.

"Michikha Is Not Afraid of Airplanes" is a visual essay about a journey - even one that is impossible, didn't take place, or was undertaken vicariously. The project examines the extent to which the early 20th century story of Evenk guide Michikha and Polish anthropologist Maria Antonina Czaplicka is a universal tale about power couples in describing the world.

TV program producer Phill Harris unfolds his journey of making 'River to Reef' and where has that lead him to today.

Is it possible to live a more peaceful and creative life on our planet? In a time when the state of the planet poses important questions: What is life worth to us? And what do we still consider sacred? These questions inspired the Director to meet the Indian mystic, philosopher and grassroots activist Vimala Thakar (1921 – 2009). It was an encounter that deeply inspired and changed her life. Almost twenty years later, she researches the profound work of this fascinating woman again in the context of our time, and translates her urgent call for holistic thinking and action into a cinematic work of art.

Participants in the Belarusian protests talk about imprisonment, the role of girls in the Belarusian resistance and a moral test for men.

The story of the Salton Sea from it's creation in 1905 to the current environmental crisis that it faces today.

Neighborhood townspeople gab about the local deer.

Five dancers explore the concepts of tradition, culture, memory, and identity, questioning the transformation and deconstruction of these themes in their own lives.

"Water Drips, Vanishes" is a collaboration between artist Lucy Cordes Enelman and fellow artist and Washington DC based poet, Zewiditu Jewel, meditating on the disappearance of Assateague Beach, an island in the state of Maryland off the eastern coast of the US. Both Engelman and Jewel grew up going to the island’s beach and protected nature preserve where a large band of wild ponies have lived for several hundred years. The island’s swampland and beach area are disappearing due to rising sea levels and more furious storms. The footage is shot on Super 8 and the vocal tracks are poem readings by Jewel, who also appears in some of the footage.

"Akirot (Uprootings)" is a personal account which lays out a complex set of identifications and dis-identifications with the homeland, beginning with childhood memories and ending with the act of departing from the country that was called home. The videos weave together footage shot in two locations in Israel with illustrations from books of local flora. At the centre of the work is an unspoken conflict between mother and daughter considering their Israeli identity. Using hermother, anational nature trail guide, Leshem exploresthe Israeli relation to the land as a site through which identity is constructed. Through the performative and symbolic gesture of uprooting,the work deals with the personal pain of rejecting one’s motherland. As the term “motherland” suggests, land and mother are never distinguished from one another. The political objection to the land is at the same time a separation from the mother.

The remaining neon signs of the Bay Area stand apart from modern lighted signs in their material characteristics and the history they connote. Light Isle suggests the notion of neon as a medium by emphasizing its simplicity, vibrancy and famous luminescence and questions that if neon's distinct characteristics allow its recognition as a distinct medium, then do other formats of visual and audio mediums prominently suggest their unique differences? (Matthew Hidy)

Introversion is often misunderstood. Introverts are seen as shy and antisocial, but these are misconceptions. There is so much power in being quiet and listening in a world that can't stop talking. This is a personal story, with an aim to empower, inform and inspire.

This is a story about indigenous people's land rights. In order to learn more about the history of the Atayal people’s migration, the director traces the journey of the Atayal ancestors.

How can we visualise the past without perceiving it too much as a historical fact? This film uses a clever combination of archival material and oral history to bring memories of a transgenerative trauma and the associated pain to the surface.

Once Upon a Sea is a poetic, interactive XR documentary telling the tragic tale of the legendary Dead Sea. Through a physical exploration of the sea’s forbidden, moonlike landscapes, to intimate encounters with local characters, the user gets a rare glimpse into one of the world’s most dangerous,soon to be extinct, wonders. Centuries of human intervention and political neglect have turned the Dead Sea into a precarious place. Its water levels have dropped dramatically, leaving behind sinkholes and collapsing beaches. The experience offers a deep insight into the complexity and very human impact of this ecological and geopolitical crisis. Once Upon a Sea is our call to action.

Joseph Ward OBE, opera singer and director, was a friend and colleague of opera stars, including Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti. Retiring from his performance career he devoted himself to teaching and was influential in the international career of Jane Eaglen and a new generation of opera greats. In his twilight years Joseph became coach, mentor and honorary grandfather to Kang Wang, an Australian tenor, guiding him in his first steps to becoming an exciting new international talent. At 82, Joseph reminisces about the deeply felt moments in his own life, his performance experience and the life changing insights he was able to pass on to his students.

'El Llano' is offered as a paradise; a delirious experience where nature discovers its enigmatic beauty in couplets. Here, music, landscape, riders and horses star in a vibrant and robust culture, brought to the world stage in the verses and voice of Orlando "El Cholo" Valderrama, but unknown in its greatness by the inhabitants of the city.

A musician, a carpenter and a photographer invite us into their own personal world and reveal the most sensitive aspects of their work.

Upcoming Sara Cwynar Project

Inspired by the filmmaker's life experience, Ketchup & Soya Sauce is a feature documentary highlighting how partners in mixed relationships involving a first-generation Chinese immigrant and a non-Chinese partner celebrate and manage their cultural differences. The Canadian participants range in age from 20 to 90 years old and are in either a heterosexual or homosexual relationship. The documentary depicts an 80-year evolution in culture and attitude toward mixed relationships in both China and Canada. It explores the participant's social background and how their romance began as well as food habits, language and communication, intimacy, financial management, child education, pop culture, and culture shock. The documentary's tone mixes humor with reflective and emotional moments.

This short film is a multispecies ethnographic collaboration between humans and donkeys, in the permacultural site of Centre Thar dö Ling, in the Valley of Sagana (Sicily, Italy), where the land is being regenerated, and regenerative, through more-than-human ecological interactions. Land is shaped as land shapes.

Footage of Donald J. Trump visiting Vladimir Putin et al. overlain with circus performer animatronics.

Africa's most iconic animals battle the elements and each other to survive.

The film tells the story of 93 boys who were arrested in São Paulo and taken to Minas Gerais during the Military Dictatorship.

Ode to Desolation shares the story of Jim Henterly, a naturalist, illustrator and fire lookout as he contemplates the dwindling days of Fire Lookouts in North America.

An Eternalism film.

Combining culture, mystery, adventure, and ancient wisdom, Spirit of The Earth delivers in a big way. Join explorer and filmmaker Ben Holt as navigates the vast corners of North East India in search of deep connection with lesser-known cultures, bringing the viewer on the journey of a lifetime.

The story revolves around a controversial television journalist who, bored with his life, takes it upon himself to instill a love of reading and writing in a group of young prisoners, believing that in doing so he will redeem them and perhaps himself. Both goals fail when boundaries are crossed and tragedy strikes.

Since the early nineteenth century bikes have come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. From penny farthings to boneshakers to modern super-light road bikes. Since their inception bikes have been made from all sorts of materials ranging from wood and steel to aluminium and carbon fibre. Simon Richardson however, is on the hunt for the bike of the future. He's travelling to Amsterdam to find out if 3D printing could graduate from its current uses in rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing and take over as the preferred method to create bicycles.

There is almost no one who doesn't dream of building their own house one day. But it takes a lot of time and money to make this dream come true. These hurdles can easily be overcome with a Scandinavian wooden house. The so-called Swedish bullerby houses are inexpensive and turnkey within a few months. This documentation accompanies planners and builders at work and shows how a prefabricated house in Scandinavian design is created.

When it left, death didn't even close our eyes centers on the testimonies of laborers working in Kosovo’s construction industry. They attest to how this precarious and unregulated labor market has serious human costs to those that have to seek its employment. Speaking of how they are expected to work hours—from 12, 13, 15, even up to 24 hours—and in conditions far beyond prescribed regulations or normal human expectations. One of the primary consequences is a high rate of injury, which then precludes future work in the industry—some workers even admit that they would rather face death than lose the ability to earn a living.

In a dreamlike series of reflections, time itself seemingly pauses as a teenager documents vistas left vacant by a quarantine in Gydnia, Poland

Loops representing the return of everyday life after the silence of first pandemic lockdown. Shot in the summer of 2020 in Hamburg, Germany.

Meet Mama Gloria. Chicago’s Black transgender icon Gloria Allen, now in her 70s, blazed a trail for trans people like few others before her. Emerging from Chicago’s South Side drag ball culture in the 1960s, Gloria overcame traumatic violence to become a proud leader in her community. Most famously, she pioneered a charm school for young transgender people that served as inspiration for Chicago playwright Philip Dawkins’ hit play Charm. Luchina Fisher’s empathic and engaging documentary is not only a portrait of a groundbreaking legend, but also a celebration of unconditional love, the love Gloria received from her own mother and that she now gives to her chosen children.

Anuj Malhotra and Chandan Sen's “Mayadweep” chronicles the diverse set of circumstances that resulted in the institution of the iconic Bikaner Gang Canal in Rajasthan. This film establishes a legacy of aristocratic apathy, the suffering it yields and the social upheaval that results. At the same time the film tries to mimic the spiritual, visual and aural landscape of site of it’s central events. FEATURING EXCLUSIVELY ON CINEMAPRENEUR

Sabda and friends have been together since junior high school, they are known to always share stories of joy and sorrow since then. With the intention of nostalgia in the future, Randy an initiator wants to record a small moment of their happiness housed in the backyard of his house, the simple story of the four different characters.

The Tenth Man and director Zithelo Bobby Mthombeni's new documentary 'THIS LAND' is a short film about Ireland's relationship with race, identity and immigration. The film explores new ways of experiencing Irishness, via discussions with chefs, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, journalists and activists. It also explores the impact of racism and Direct Provision on the outlook of the people interviewed.

The Austrian Kreisky government enforced a policy of full employment, it was not allowed to set foot on the lawn in Vienna's Burggarten, the city and the minds of the people are grey. In a nutshell: es is zum Scheissn! The Kronen Zeitung speaks the mind of the philistine bourgeoisie and tells about "drug abuse, duck murders and sex orgies", the city government reluctantly provides a youth center only to evict it subsequently, a former Nazi becomes president and Vienna is burning because of the Opera Ball demonstrations. Punk in Vienna was not different than punk anywhere else. And yet, it was. "Scheiss Kieberei" instead of ACAB, Dead Nittels instead of California über alles, "Nazis raus" by Extrem on the same compilation as "We're gonna fight" by 7 Seconds. And anyway, the band names: Chuzpe, Schund, Pöbel. The outcast kids of Helmut Qualtinger tell their own story.

The film is a series of interviews with veterans and soldiers. The characters share their life experiences and talk about the difficulties of re-adjusting to civilian life.

An examination of Chicago's lost lesbian bars, why they've disappeared, and what comes next.

'Secrets of Nature' was a series of short films produced by the BBC in the 1920s and 1930s about animals, plants and our relationship to them. In 2021, and in tandem with the 'Cinema e Razão Ecológica' conference, Teresa Castro gives it a new reading in four episodes in which she explores the world of lichens, mushrooms and ruderal plants. An unprecedented mini-video series, produced by Culturgest.

On a remote beach in the Caribbean, a fisherman, trapped in the monotony of his daily life, wakes up to the call of Yemayá, the goddess of the sea.

During lockdown Imara made regular window appearances to post as looped videos on Instagram. Imitating the theatre that we couldn’t perform in or attend, these works express the inherent trapped-ness of lockdown. Here the appearances are combined, their natural soundtracks making a jerky music, and imitating a gig that couldn’t happen live.

Water is necessary for the survival of all living things on the Earth's surface. Around our planet, it appears in many forms, liquid, gas or solid. Almost 70% of the freshwater on our planet is held within glaciers and ice-sheets. We take water for granted, even though it is something we all depend on. Our future, amongst other challenges, depends on the capability of preserving the ice. Simply as we cannot live without the air, many species cannot live without ice. This short documentary was filmed in Greenland, Antarctica, Nunavut, Svalbard, Iceland, over 3 years.

A young Italian doctor thrust into a COVID-19 ICU ward grapples with isolation and uncertainty with no end in sight.

The coronavirus lockdown in spring 2020 sent underpaid "essential workers" to the front lines to face possible illness and death, and locked people in "high risk groups" - if they were lucky - into isolation at home. The spring, usually a time of joyful resurgence of life, rushed by at a snail's pace, an agonized wait for the curves to flatten or the virus to run its course. In "Suspended Spring," the swirling augmented reality cherry blossoms, in Japanese culture a sign of the beauty and the impermanence of life, follow you around wherever you go, inside or outside, as the traditional song "Sakura" is slowed and stretched beyond recognition. A memento mori for life in the time of Coronavirus, 2020.