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In the year 2017, contestants from the TV show RuPaul's Drag Race arrived in Lima, Peru. This documentary is not only focused on that, but also on the local drag queens, their dreams, points of view, their art and their identities.
The film is about the unknown pages of the siege of Leningrad, about the Holocaust at the walls of the city, where the terrible mass murder of Jews took place. In these terrible days, the community found its leader. They became Abram Ruvimovich Lobanov, who in 1943 officially became a Rabbi of Leningrad. Every year, on January 27, the Great choral synagogue of St. Petersburg holds prayers in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, all the besiegers, all the defenders and liberators of Leningrad. They were first performed on January 27, 1944. The film will also tell about a new date in the Jewish calendar - 26 Iyar, the day of salvation and liberation. It was 26 Iyar, or may 9, that marked a turning point in Jewish history, thanks to which the Jews were not only saved from complete destruction, but also found their national home — the state of Israel.
A local group of friends in Northern NJ filming the history of Hackettstown claims that they have captured Undeniable proof that there is life after death. Sergio Duque along with Totowa resident Carl Cifaldi and his son Carl, daughter Laura Cifaldi and Paterson Residents Randy DeOrio and Theresa Baker Thielen have captured both visual and audio footage that has generated quite a buzz throughout social media. Laura Cifaldi who is known for her medium work in NJ was asked to join her father, brother and the "Paraseekers" team to get her feel on a large property which has historic precedence in Hackettstown. Sergio also has direct EVP responses to questions that were asked by the film crew which has left them baffled. The film crew never expected to witness everything that was captured nor have they ever had their equipment malfunction including having their new batteries constantly die. The "Paraseekers" team who uses an approach that no other Paranormal research team has ever used ...
DIIV open up about sobriety, their near-break up and the new phase of their band.
In “Rights Not Roses,” we hear directly from Zarmina, a survivor of early marriage. We meet a network of community activists fighting to end the scourge of child, early, and forced marriage in Pakistan, where 21% of girls are married before the age of 18. These include Rukhshanda Naz, a human rights attorney and long-time women’s rights leader who is fighting in Pakistan’s courts to extricate girls like Zarmina from early and forced marriages, and whose passionate advocacy for ending child marriage is informed by her family’s own experiences.
A day in the life of glass blower Devin Kim, as he takes us on a ride through his process in crafting a glass piece using various tool and tricks of the trade realizing this unique glass art with style and grace.
Gijón was one of the most bombed cities on the northern front during the Spanish civil war. This documentary confronts, on the one hand, the images of a propaganda video made by the rebel side in 1937, with the images of abundant graphic material of the time, which show a very different reality of the city.
In June, Latvians celebrate their most important festival: the summer solstice. In Kolka, a small fishing village nestled on a strip of land where the Baltic meets the Gulf of Riga, the locals prepare for the shortest night of the year, a moment when magic can happen.
A scrap of women wrestler’s lives in Iran
Several families living on an island in the Mékong Delta have chosen to develop a tourist area built on a community-based model. Each person has their role to play in making a success of the project by acquiring new skills. But this success stirs up envy.
Take a trip into the mind of parapsychologist, cartoonist, and performance artist Tom Howell as he rallies collaborators to work on his new show, Hidden Planet, and prepare for its debut in Washington, D.C.
The Canadian premiere of Mikel Rouse's multimedia opera Dennis Cleveland at the 2008 Luminato Festival.
Shubha Das Mollick’s documentary traces the experience of the Jewish community in Kolkata.
Mayan conceptual artist Benvenuto Chavajay prepares his most recent performance. His odyssey begins at his exhibition in Paris' Pompidou Centre, passes through the streets of Guatemala City, until it arrives in the heart of the tz'utujil land of San Pedro La Laguna.
Supermarket offers do not always live up to the promises.
Whilst Working on his Magnum Opus, director, editor, writer, and star, Matthew Cavanaugh encounters true loneliness.
Some of the repressed stories of my ancestors can be rediscovered by me and used to better understand who I am. All the stories, which were repressed, are often repeated. Respectively, we may go from the specific to the general. I want to go back to the forgotten so as not to repeat it again and to see the reasons for our current state. Knowing the reasons, we will be able to accept reality and change it.
The story of 3 BASE jumpers changing the paradigm of human-powered access and female empowerment in action sports. Knowing that car and plane access have adverse environmental effects, they set out to discover how much they can reduce their impact while still enjoying the places they love and practicing the sports that bring them joy.
Film tells the story of Lidia Maksymowicz, a two-year-old girl, who in 1942 was imprisoned in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, where Dr. Mengele carried out his insane experiments on Jewish children. Her mother, forced to participate in a death march, swore to the child that one day she would return for her. Lidia, like all Auschwitz prisoners, was freed in January 1945 by Soviet soldiers and was given up for adoption to a Polish family. She lived out her youth thinking that her mother had died on a death march. But one day, in 1962, someone knocked at her door.
“Boo” – the name is as unusual as the sound is special. The avant-garde composer Harry Partch invented instruments for micro-sounds and completely new musical experiences. The musician and instrument maker Thomas Meixner dedicated two years of his life, marked by family and health losses, to rebuilding 75 of these sound-generators for a concert tour. The film portrays a monomaniac who fiercely avoids social life but with great sensitivity makes material sing.
During the first Easter in the pandemic a young woman, closed in the walls of her home, is taking care of her seriously ill grandfather. They spend time talking, eating together and playing poker. What joins them is genuine closeness as well as one guilty pleasure – they both like to smoke.
A matriarchy rules on one of the Bijagos Islands off the coast of Guinea-Bissau. The tribe of the same name lives on Orango, one of the most populated islands in the archipelago.
In 2020, the LGBTQ+ community in Taipei decided to host a pride parade during the COVID-19 pandemic, celebrating and marching for those who could not do it in their own countries.
While working on her recent film commission for Kettle’s Yard, Here is Elsewhere , Sarah Wood became curious about what the exhibition of art means at this time. In one part of Kettle’s Yard Alfred Wallis Rediscovered is installed and in another part of the gallery, Wood’s film. How do they relate to one another? How does art enable connection? The answer was Correspondence – a short essay film constructed from archive footage taken around the Cornish coastline. Correspondence speaks across time to fellow artist Alfred Wallis about the role the site of art plays in a time of social isolation. The scripted voiceover in the new film takes the form of a letter written by Wood to Wallis.
Who is that who is looking in the mirror? Who is that who looks from the mirror? A short film that has experimented with corona pandemic vibes and words that came out while staying isolated. How is it when you have to stay by yourself alone with your thoughts, that create a new world inside your head. A new reality that no-one else can see beside you, A world where you have taken a new unknown appearance, If the home is a safe space, is your mind that?
Chinese herbal medicines have a long and venerated history. We follow the forays of a "barefoot doctor" to the mountains to collect herbs in central Taiwan, and observe his religious practices to cure his patients using these herbal medicines as well as summoning spiritual forces. This film reveals the cultural and religious context of Chinese medicines—the intertwined dimensions of physical and spiritual energy that relate to human fate.
The action explores the surrealistic absurdist ritual called “Elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus”. This procedure, in my understanding, is a ceremony of an eccentric farce, with the intersection of modern form of religious worship and hierarchical animal behavior of primates.
Cirque du Cambodia follows the journey of two youths who live out every child's fantasy - to run away from home and join the circus. But not just any circus - they dream of taking the stage with Cirque du Soleil, the largest theatrical company in the world. Their home, a poor village in the ancient, faraway Kingdom of Cambodia, makes their quest even more extraordinary....
Recurring recollections of his time in a town started infiltrating the dreams of a photographer, pushing him to return to the dream and leaving reality.
Camille became a peasant, as they say of someone that lives off the land. She chose the Creuse region, a rough and supple land, laborious yet luminous, but experiences a growing rejection of the agricultural standards that govern her production. Raising her three children, caring for her animals and plants, will always be more important to her than yield. In parallel, her children learn to make choices in the face of the standards imposed on them by the school system.
We check in on Farmer John & his inner circle, after the devastating events of the coronavirus.
Land rescues, which the commercial press called "invasions," multiplied in Puerto Rico from the late 1960s to the 1980s. Poor communities organized to raise a decent roof. Adolfina is the best known example of that struggle that has many stories to tell.
On November 3, 1996, «the richest man in Ukraine», Yevhen Shcherban, was killed in Donetsk. At the time of the murder, his fortune was estimated at about $ 500 million. Scherban's companies were engaged in the production and sale of metal, gas, oil products, construction and financial transactions. The elder son of the murdered businessman Yevhen Shcherban Jr. has been conducting his own investigation since 2013 and is trying to find out where his father's inheritance has disappeared.
Michael Robinson's second short on film.
Three pals journey into the psychedelic depths of Wisconsin tourist spots.
Sasha fled from Yekaterinburg to Cyprus out of heartache. A formerly successful animated film director, she is trying to find a comfortable position in a new country. Creative ambition is giving way to the desire to make money, live comfortably and "have the freedom to move." However, the winter Cypriot sun is not able to melt the cold in Sasha's heart ...
A poetic coming of age documentary that follows several intertwined conversations with a multicultural film crew and their struggle with cultural identity. Introducing and combating 'Cultural Dysphoria' allows those apart of multiple cultures to find peace within themselves by rediscovering Canadian customs and the culture that has gifted them a beginning. It is essential that those individuals see, not a disadvantage, but the privilege and beauty to have been apart of both.
The Black Artists’ Group of St. Louis (BAG) formed in the late 1960s as an arts collective devoted to raising Black consciousness, battling social injustice, and exploring the far reaches of experimental performance.
“America’s Last Little Italy” explores the deep historic roots of the Hill, St. Louis’ iconic Italian neighborhood. Italians who immigrated to St. Louis in search of the American Dream built a “Little Italy” in the city’s heart that still flourishes to this day.
Waikiki is a place unique in Hawaii's history. Over the years, it has transformed from a gathering place for Hawaiian royalty into a gathering place for millions of people from around the globe.
New movie by Eneos Çarka
Not only a video story of the quarantine, but also an open love letter to the city of Milan, its inhabitants and its wonderful views, even of the suburbs.
The screen broken in three echoes a colonial Tlaxcaltec codex. A montage over the political family militancy; the constant apparition of Tlaxcala as a welcoming territory to invasions. Images that move against the grain of the Indiginous prophecies that predicted the arrival of Spain; but also with the promises that preceded the signature of the TLC and the UFO historiography, so profoundly ingrained in Mexican idiosyncrasy.
A monologue revealing the inner world of a young girl, a talented violinist, playing in a provincial chamber orchestra. It is far from that glamorous constellation of divas who daily pour their cold light from the sky of modern Russian television. It is an amazing combination of beauty, intelligence and talent. That is why she is not a star.
Workers wrongfully dismissed wage battle against their employer, China Telecom. Incorporating artistic means of expression such as photography and theater, various artists wage extraordinary performances with the workers in the film, in solidarity with their struggles.