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Tbilisi to Tennessee is the story of Shota Adamashvili, the only Country singer in the remote Republic of Georgia. With an unstoppable dream to make it to Nashville, Shota must develop his music despite uninterested audiences, creative loneliness, and thousands of miles keeping him from the life he wants. As he struggles to find his voice in a world where he doesn’t belong, Shota must find whether inspiration comes from the life he’s stuck in, or from within.
The compelling story of how San Francisco secured its fabled water supply, the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park. The film traces the early history and controversy to bring pristine drinking water to 2.7 million Bay Area residents, and the challenges facing the region with looming climate change.
We Are the Roots is a documentary that tells the stories of African American immigrants who settled in Alberta and Saskatchewan in the early 1900s, with stories from 19 descendants of original settlers, as they moved north to escape slavery, persecution and racism in America. Once in Canada, these families would then experience more discrimination, both in Edmonton and in rural communities they settled.
For four long years, Islamic State ruled its 'caliphate' from the city of Raqqa. Now freed from IS' brutal dictatorship, survivors emerge and return to a city utterly destroyed by war. Can Raqqa be rebuilt?
Two young people travelling 4.766 kilometers along the 24th longitude looking for cultural encounters. A documentary about people living in Europe.
An evocative documentary focusing on Callan, a transgender rock and roll musician whose uninhibited performances and spirited personality make her someone to be reckoned with.
A teenager named Aditya attends the Autism Care Nepal Society’s School of inclusive education. Together with his mother - Jyoti, the boy spends every day of his life. It is not easy for him to make new friends, because his form of autism implies an extraordinary response to noise, sounds, and strangers. The school teachers and those who are close to Adityas, strive to prepare this boy for the independent adult life. But in the school - Aditya is not alone.
A short bathroom sink documentary about hair and why trans and gender diverse people must ask themselves the question, to shave or not to shave?
Bimi became the first Huni Kuin women to organize her own village, an activity once exclusive to men. In her life's trajectory, due to her strong and determined personality, she faced a series of hardships, especially due to the hierarchy and traditions of the Huni Kuin people, an essentially patriarchal society, resulting in the organization of a new village in which she develops many roles, including that of Shaman Healer, keeper of many ancestral knowledges of the Huni Kuin people.
Aurélien, a close friend of the director, is diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. He lives in fragile stability and in constant confrontation. In Quelle folie, he either confronts the camera or is confronted with the crowds that fill the streets of Pamplona during the festival of San Fermín to face the bulls running aimlessly.
"GEDE VIZYON" takes its viewer on an unusual tour of the Grand Cemetery of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. While exploring the material and immaterial intricacies of the cultural, spiritual and historical space that is the cemetery, the camera takes on a life of its own. Running amok in the labyrinthine structure of its environment, it captures evocative sounds and images on its erratic voyage.
Message of the Forest can be heard as an ode to the Sal Forests of West Bengal, or a song for the weathering of parent rocks, or an incantation inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s vision of a world cam- pus that would become Visva-Bharati in Santineketan in West Bengal in 1921.
Beka is 26 years old... His father taught him his profession. Beka makes art photography and a film about a physicist and composer. He had his first photo exhibition recently. Father's patience and understanding helped him to introduce his son to adult life and make him believe in his own talent.
Igor thought he could overcome any obstacle. After a series of events that changed his life, he reconsidered many events that happened to him.
A day in the life of a simple rickshaw driver in Delhi, India.
After Syrian refugees fleeing the war settle in Georges’ community, he and his union work to ensure they all have access to safe public drinking water and sanitation.
After Hurricane Andrew devastated the Miami Marine Stadium, the structure was left abandoned, until the work of local graffiti artists reanimated the structure into a concrete gallery.
At 79-years old, former film editor Jocelyne Bourgeois is goaded, coaxed, challenged by me, her persistent filmmaker grandson, to face her true identity, because it is my story too. We embark together to the places she has avoided since WWII, putting back the scenes she edited out. Facing this deleted past is painful but a life changing gift for us both.
In 2015 a group of Mapuche students organized the first linguistic internship school in Mapuzugun. More than 50 students from all over the country arrived to get involved in an attempt to revitalize the Mapuche language. This documentary follows the stories of four participants in their decolonization process through the learning of their mother tongue, examining the hegemonic forces that are responsible for making their language disappear.
The life of a musician and an artist in Transnistria is not easy, normal work cannot be found, and you think about the meaning of life - the hand itself reaches for the bottle.
Testimony in first person of the Chilean human rights leader Mireya García about the history of her family and the break that meant, personally and nationally, the 1973 Civic-Military Strike. It's the story of a family, and through it, history of her country in the last 45 years.
Result of twenty years of patient and passionate collection, constituting a fund of several thousand images taken on the German side and most of them unpublished, The Red and the Gray offers an adaptation of the famous war story by the German writer Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel. Confronting History, photography and writing, carried here by the voice of Hubertus Biermann, the film documents the passage from the old world of 1914-1915, the Red of the 19th century, to the Gray which replaces it, that of "the inhabitant of 'a new world'.
Igor is almost a grown man. Together with his retired mother he spends summer days out in the country, endlessly doing crossword puzzles. But can he really have rest while neighbours’ hens are wandering around the yard, some nasty insects are buzzing in the bushes nearby, and his mother is struggling with a six-letter word?
A documentary about the pioneering women who broke through the glass ceiling of professional poker.
Wendi Moore-O'Neal, Black feminist organizer and freedom singer from New Orleans, is fired from her community organizing job after marrying her wife, Mandisa, due to the homophobic celibacy policy of her employer
A short documentary exploring the relationship between a father and son. Feeling as though he never bonded with his father Martyn, director Chris Chambers-Smith talks to those who knew Martyn best, trying to figure out why he feels as if they never connected like a father and son.
Amazon river dolphins are endangered, yet we know too little about the animals. A transnational research project is now set to change this.
This film was shot during the last year of Daniil Dondurey’s life in Moscow and Tel Aviv, where he was receiving treatment. Dondurey’s monologue is broken up by city landscapes, the animated buzz of a café, the silence of an emptied dacha… Dondurey talks about his pursuits, encounters, and tastes; he recalls his student years in Leningrad. He jokes, smiles, and hopes.
Documentary about acting.
In commemoration of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination in 1968, this film is the story of an integral Afro-centric Washington D.C. Sculptor and arts activist, Uzikee Nelson, who has navigated through the decades of key pivotal moments in the shifting history of the D.C. Capital as it faced systematic dismantling of its once emblematic title, 'The Chocolate City'.
One man's art. One woman's unexpected path to healing. An American woman's emotional quest to find the art of her Polish-Jewish great-grandfather, lost during World War II.
My name is HER Yoon-soo and Iminm 25 years old. Iminve somehow managed to graduate from a film school, and now my dream is to stand on my own two feet while making films. Yet in reality, I still flit from one part-time job to another, working at cafes and restaurants. I turn to some of the alumni from my film school in search of success stories. But the reality they face is far different from my expectations.
Gharshelegh is a tradition among the Turkmen people of Raz and Jargalan County located in Northeast Iran. This is in fact a kind of boy and girl exchange among families, with an intention of marriage. Alireza is a young man of 36 years who, along with his sister, became a victim of this tradition after being forced to marry his own cousin. After visiting Tehran and seeing open relationships between men and women, he gets frustrated and after a while separates from his wife. After several years, Alireza has now decided to choose a spouse once again, regardless of the wishes of his parents, and by ignoring cumbersome old traditions.
A filmmaker embeds himself with an anti-smuggling task force but is eventually compelled to examine himself instead.
All of Reese's first eighteen features are overlaid and timed to end at the same time.
Fighting, vulnerability, depression and stereotypes; Piotr expresses how he finds balance between MMA and art to harmonise his life.
The story of a couple who lived, witnessed and were inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and who are following his footsteps by providing home, building lives and giving hope for abandoned, orphan and physically and mentally disabled people (including children) in the holy city of Tirupati, India.
A portrait of a boy who works as an ad booker and dreams of changing his hometown.
“To see a girl I fell in love with at the first sight, I imitated my idol Herzog to start a journey on foot.”
If there’s a message in the bottle, then Omotoso presupposes it’s not only about a winemaker but a country. Through the lens of first generation black vintners, The Colour of Wine looks at the history of South Africa wine-making and how we are still working to eradicate the ignoble rot of apartheid from our vineyards. The personal stories of four winemakers are blended with interviews of wine experts from around the world to tell the bigger story of a passionate group who are bringing about transformation in the industry, one glass at a time. This is the fifth film for renowned director Omotoso, whose works include God is African, Man on Ground and Vaya, all of which have premiered and won awards at festivals around the world.
Dr. Rota is a 78-year-old businessman, scientist and writer, full of conflicts and dreams of fame.
Papua New Guinea "Land of the Unexpected", a country of rugged mountain ranges, impassable terrain and isolated villages. With over 850 indigenous languages and cultural groups, people align themselves with their tribe before their nation. P.N.G. Style follows adventurer and one-man film crew David Fedele's 3 month solo journey through Papua New Guinea, armed only with a backpack, camcorder and traveling guitar.
Driven by a five-part composition – broken down by sea, shore, land, mountains, sky – this one-hour celebration of Planet Earth pairs artistry with science as it combines stunning National Geographic natural history footage with an original symphony composed by Bleeding Fingers Music, and a special musical collaboration with X Ambassadors, resulting in a powerful tribute to the beauty and wonders of our wild world.
This heartwarming, invigorating debut from Anna Frances Ewert transports us to a Cistercian monastery in the Irish countryside where seven aging monks struggle to keep their devout community running. We watch as they pray, exercise, tend to cattle, tend to one another, and pray again. But more than anything, we listen as these wise, humble men reflect on their lives and their philosophies.
The 'North Korea Freedom Week' events have been held every year since 2004, but have not garnered that much interest or awareness. There is much talk of the defectors doing a lot of work for reunification, but in reality, many do not how or what work the defector are doing. The purpose is to show through the documentary, what effect the 12th North Korea Freedom Week has had both here and abroad. There was a desire to show what could be accomplished by the defectors who have been training and learning, and preparing. There was a desire to show what we as a society must do first, for reunification.
A visual and thematic exploration of the idea of 'mental time travel', shifting between documentary and fiction, between remembering the past and simulating the future. The film acts as a structural model through loops, repetitions and layering – until a completely new structure is created. The focal point of this structure is the portrayal of Thai noise musician Thom Assajan-Jakgawan (known as Thom AJ Madson). Thom decided to impose solitary confinement on himself in a small room – a form of hibernation – and meditate on an experiment to give a sound to a plumeria tree. Deploying feedback loops, among other techniques, he alternates between creating sound experiments and continuing the meditative rhythms of his daily spiritual routine. Later, he finds himself morphing into an invisible entity. As he tries to retrieve his body, he finds another invisible person inhabiting it.
What is the Rapture? How did this once obscure misreading of the Bible become entrenched in the American South?
This is a surreal trip through a gorgeously animated landscape of chickens, pierogies and Lenin. Adrienne returns to Poland to visit her grandmother, aunt and uncle. While there she hears all manner of stories about the country’s communist past. In the heart of the home—the kitchen—ghosts of old, both real and imagined, are confronted, reworked and released.