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Julia is seven years.old. She was born in prison and had a different mother at three different periods of time. All of these women attempt to mother her now. They want what’s best for the child, but their actions threaten the future of the girl. The director Natalia Kadyrova met the film’s protagonist when she was shooting her previous film. It dealt with an experiment – the children lived together with their sentenced parents in jail.
A claustrophobic journey into spaces never seen before. ‘The Tough’ carries a lot of meanings: defiant, vicious, resistant, relentless, strong, resilient, cold, hard. The explorer has reason to choose this name for his discovery - a place deep below snowy ground. And why? The unknown stirs his imagination, pushes him forward. The camera follows him, step by step, taking part in the exploration of the spaces which more and more fiercely resist the delicate human shape.
The young history teacher organizes the revolutionary communist movement which is fighting to preserve the monument to Dzerzhinsky. However, public mistrust, mockery, and alcohol block his path to the goal.
Filmed over 10 years in 30 cities, the film shows the interactive works on a large scale by the artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The work of the Mexican creator has been exposed, among other places, in Trafalgar Square in London, the Park Avenue tunnel in New York and the border between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.
How much strength of spirit does it require to remain truly independent in old age? Ken Smith is a hermit recovering from a stroke in an urban hospital, with determination to return to his off-grid woodland, despite concern from the medical service.
Turner Prize–winning artist-filmmaker Charlotte Prodger deftly blends the scientific with the diaristic, as the hunt for a rare maned lioness structures a personal reflection on queer desire and mobility.
Looby is the story of what happens when an artist chooses to speak out. For Australian painter Keith Looby, it cost him almost everything. Winner of prestigious art prizes and collected by major galleries at home and abroad, Keith's addiction to speaking his mind has left a string of failed business relationships, marriages and friendships. Bludgeoned into coherence by the film-makers, assessed by dealers, curators, critics and fellow artists, Looby is a chance to look at a brilliant artist who had his moment in the sun, and to ask whether he should have another.
A documentary about the life of a children’s resuscitator. For ten years he has been with children between life and death. Once his world collapsed, and he was left alone with the empty ceiling of a rented apartment. Then he covered his whole body with tattoos. Then he was in the center of two tragedies, to which the attention of the whole world was drawn.
Working as a chiropractor in a provincial town, Boris daily receives a wide variety of visitors, from small to large. Individuals are replaced in a never-ending flow, merging into an endless fabulous whirlpool against the background of a birch grove on the wall of the massage room, and there are already miracles and the devil wandering.
A playful take on gendered technology and the mechanisation of society. Adina Camhy traces spiralling stories both personal and societal, mapping out the entangled development of musical and militaristic machines.
An observational documentary following a scientist who has devoted thirty years of his life to developing a vaccine for leukaemia. Now, as his retirement looms, it is finally being trialed in up to 12 terminally ill patients.
Let it be known that I (Haley Fohr) once walked the Earth and chose to sing my way through life. Let it be known that one of these many singing rituals transpired on Nov 11, 2018 at Le Guess Who? Festival. On this evening Cooper Crain rearranged works from 2017's "Reaching For Indigo", members of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra helped re-imagine this aforementioned music, Le Guess Who? Festival documented it, and here today we have "Reaching For Indigo : GAIA INFINITUS: Performed Live at Le Guess Who? Festival".
The story of a Finnish independent punk rock record label.
The Tiwi Islands to the north of Australia is home to one of the world's oldest living cultures. It is also home to one of the world's largest populations of transgender women, they call themselves the Sistergirls. This is their story.
"Details of paintings by Joan Mitchell undergo Eternalizing. The process introduces emphatic flicker that helps create illusions of depth, even for a single eye. But flicker is not for everyone and should be avoided by those with unusual brain conditions. Abstract-Expressionism was a way out of thinking of WWII and Mitchell was among the best of its practitioners. Paint is what happens in her work, inspired by nature but transfigured and with no obvious reference to objects. Her great range of paint applications, however, do invite the imagining of them in depth. Imagined in depth, yes but not the all-too-convincing illusion show here." - Ken Jacobs
Billie, a 17-year-old non-binary teenager, prepares to attend a formal for underage queer youth for the first time. As they choose their outfit and get their hair dyed, they reveal how they navigate the awkwardness of adolescence while also dealing with the anxieties that come with being young and queer.
A short documentary, composed entirely of archive footage, on "Praça Onze," a Brazilian samba song by Herivelto Martins based on actor Grande Otelo's efforts on saving Praça Onze, where Carnaval parades were held in Rio de Janeiro up to the late 1930s, from being demolished.
A man falls into the sea to swim 140 kilometers/ His dream is to put Kastellorizo, the easternmost island of Europe, back on the Greek map. This journey will teach us how to succeed until we fail and how to start fighting once we fail and until we succeed again.
Short documentary film about life of foreigners in a small English city just before Brexit.
The old Finnish farmer Juha is about to retire, but still has one mission to accomplish: to sell his big, but heavily indebted dairy farm to his son Henry (26). But the young man has his own ideas, and as the economic challenges on the farm accumulate, the conflict between father and son escalates.
In this film, 18 psychoanalysts and a pediatrician develop their edifying vision of sexuality, interviews interspersed with a small animated film showing in a very pedagogical way how the psychoanalyst's grip on the patient is built.
Olivia is an old adventurous woman who awaits news from her husband. Through her daily routine we discover her bitter-sweet secret for happiness.
Mr. Julius Maslovat is a child survivor of the Holocaust and is the youngest prisoner on record in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Mr. Maslovat narrates his journey of self-discovery through his collection of various historical documents that are linked to his life, ranging from his birth certificate to photographs of the brave individuals who helped him to survive through his time in concentration camps.
Documentary following Egyptian women's football players at REO tournament
With the announced closure of The Bernard Shaw and hotels built on every corner of Dublin are we in danger of losing the heart of the city?
An inside look at the Patriots' 2018 championship season as told by the men who designed it. Featuring in-depth interviews with head coach Bill Belichick and the Patriots' coaching staff.
In 2018, Taiwan was kept busy by noises of the election, among which the process of restarting the coal-fired power plant in Shen’ao was the most controversial and eye-catching. I followed the diving and canoeing instructor, recorded the rose coral reef and searched for a rare species of mollusk, the Epimenia babai Salvini–Plawen, in the waters of the local conservation area, and explored the ecological truth of Silence at the bottom of Deep Shen’ao together.
Dragonflies, beetles and ants, oh my! Take a journey to the miniature world, and get a bug's eye view of all sorts of alien creatures that exist all around us. With humor, suspense, and wonder, you'll never know what to expect around the next corner!
Treasure seekers have searched for King Solomon's mines with no results; new evidence sheds light on this century's old mystery.
Towards a Black Testimony: Prayer, Protest, Peace is a new work by Languid Hands that examines Black Testimony as obscured, ignored and undermined. Drawing on archival imagery, Black geographies, and the dying declarations of Black Martyrs, it explores the complexities of truth, empathy, justice, the law, life and death for the Black Mass.
Technological change has transformed the world of photography and the photographer's skills. Joan Fontcuberta had to evolve in his discourses and strategies to interpret a changing world and review the creative framework that he himself had designed in the 80s, questioning the Remains of Photography.
“Second Chances: One Year in Ohio’s Drug Courts” shows the complicated struggle of drug addiction and how courts can play a crucial role in the recovery attempts of users, their families and communities. The one-hour film was produced and edited by Anne Fife of Ohio Government Telecommunications under contract to the Ohio Supreme Court’s Office of Public Information. It was released through the office’s Court News Ohio website and will be made widely available. It follows the drug use and adjudication of 19 Ohioans.
The docufilm traces the artistic and human path of the great actor through the living voices of colleagues and experts nostalgic of the theater of Totò.
Documentary short shot in the apartment of a suicide victim.
In a scenery of increasing criminalization of marginalized cultural narratives in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), this documentary shows the point of view of an actual carioca Funk DJ about the political and social context in Brazil.
Inspired by the name of an oil town in Texas, Sour Lake was the name given by Texaco in the sixties to a small town in the Ecuadorian jungle, known in Spanish as Lago Agrio. This name underlies the framework that builds the film: from the surroundings of this city to the Colombian Andes, where the jungle vegetation merges with the mountains.
Artemy Ulyanov works as a nurse in the morgue. And writes books. Which are published by the largest publishers.
Thousands come to the cemetery for Hrobky (Memorial Day) to commemorate their departed relatives, to get blessed, to celebrate life... It’s a wonderful tradition, isn't it?
Is finding the perfect matt red lipstick something women should aspire to? Red Film reveals and critiques the persuasive capitalist machinations directed at women to conform and consume. A flurry of quotations from the world’s foremost thinkers address the color-coding of mass-produced consumer goods such as cosmetics, shoes and the red muscle car. All the while, Cwynar hangs upside down turning blue in the face from telling the story over and over again.
The film is about the combat path and the fate of front-line cameramen of the Great Patriotic War. There were 258 of them: almost every one was wounded, every second was seriously injured, and every fifth died on the front line during filming. They did not just have to face the horrors of war, they were able to find the strength to learn how to work in this new cruel reality. They were able, at the cost of their own lives, to capture on film and pass on to the future generation the heroic feat of the entire Soviet people.
A film about the outstanding Ukrainian composer Igor Shamo (1825-1982). Choirs rehearse a fragment of the folk opera "Yatran Games," which was never staged during the composer's lifetime. The authors of the film offer their audiovisual interpretation of fragments of the opera.
An essay film celebrating the work and home life of a rural state in the early twentieth century. Focusing on "the gaze" of amateur filmmakers and their subjects - so often someone they know well. Drawn from the regional archives at Northeast Historic Film.
A pair of wellness physicians help show two middle-aged patients that it’s never too late to embrace healthy habits and turn their lives around.
Cocinar belleza gathers a group of authorised voices with different artistic profiles around a simple question: can a flavour be beautiful? With this concept, a debate is opened, moderated by the figures of the publicist Toni Segarra and the 3-star Michelin chef, Quique Dacosta, a world reference of cutting-edge gastronomy. One of the vocations of the art is to create beauty. Paradoxically, beauty as a concept has almost never been used in conjunction with taste. Dacosta approaches each one of these artists to jointly mull over the question of whether avant garde cuisine is an artistic discipline.
Documentary short film about weirdest legends from Northern Russia villages and forests. Journey to ethnics and folklore of Komi people. Feel the energy of sacred Parma forest. We made expedition to 8 distant villages and collected this stories by local people.
A group of friends, a school bus, and a dad embark on an epic expedition to explore Minnesota's great Boundary Waters.
Jon Jost: MURI ROMANI II is a "slow film" showing the walls of the center of Rome in a manner which is both beautiful and mysterious, and hopefully prompts a meditative state which unconsciously raises thoughts of the deep history of Rome and of humanity.
The spatial realities of mental health.