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Ternocon 2018 was a terno-making convention and contest for regional designers initiated by the CCP through its Cultural Exchange Department and Bench (Suyen Corporation). The project aimed to encourage the use of the terno as formal dress, to inspire a new generation of Filipino designers to make ternos that are grounded in the history of the Philippine National Dress, and to motivate regional designers to create works that are at par with the construction techniques of senior fashion designers.

Experience remarkable stories from the unprecedented scientific mission to comprehensively study the environmental impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and find new ways to ease the devastation. Dispatches From The Gulf 2 follow-up to the Emmy® Award-winning film Dispatches from the Gulf. Narrated by Matt Damon.

An insight into young Somali mens experience in Sweden.

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.

Anita, a woman who survived the Poquianchis' martyrdom after 11 years of kidnapping, testifies how she managed to free herself and confront her fears, finding a way to heal and shape her own identity.

A short documentary about Sam and Jean, my grandparents, learning to live apart after more than 60 years together.

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.”

Ziarah takes to the sea in search of the remains of Tupaia, a nobleman indispensable in liaising between the Māori and James Cook’s ship in 1769. On an uninhabited Indonesian island where Tupaia is believed to be buried, Bridget Reweti telescopes then and now, relating history to contemporary ecological problems. (CIRCUIT)

"Grapple is my impotent and shaky grip attempt to reconcile the work we are doing with AMBOS and take ownership of this physical and emotional space. The border fence, especially this particular stretch of fence, has haunted my memories, as it was absent most of my childhood and left a marked scar on my small town of Playas de Tijuana when it was installed. The fence is a permanent reminder that we are not wanted, that we are less than, that we are what gets filtered out. It is a stigma we invisibly carry the rest of our lives, as we find our place in the world navigating the liminal."

In this truly catchy musical fantasia, Momu & No Es use all the tools at their disposal to pull you into a hypnotic trance: poppy synthesizers, goofy GIFs, internet trash. But beneath the pulsing beats and fun animations is a dark harbinger of what’s to become of our hyperconnected, surveilled present.

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

Dubbed the Warhol of the digital age, contemporary artist and filmmaker Tyler Shields is infamous for his unsettling aesthetic and star-studded subjects. Tyler’s photographs and films have been exhibited in galleries around the world featuring a host of Hollywood stars, including: Evan Peters, Lindsay Lohan, Aaron Paul, Demi Lovato, Emma Roberts, Dave Franco, Justin Long, Hayden Panetierre, Zachary Quinto and Chris Hardwick, among others.​

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.

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.

Mustaev and Minko pick up the camera in the same rush as they grab the phone to film an emergency. For self-defense, as a measure of civil defense. Or out of a burning desire to capture an extraordinary phenomenon: for example, a story about how the leadership of a theater Institute forcibly imposes a dubious ideological production of the authorship of a certain Deputy on an entire group of students.

A retired federal judge, Olga Andrianova, has a second home. One is her own family: her husband, son, daughter and three grandchildren, and the second is a motley, restless and very defenseless company of people of different ages: residents of a psycho-neurological boarding school in Torzhok. So she lives in two houses.

A documentary film about the relationship between the modernist urbanism of Brazilian capital, Brasilia, and its influence on the life of its inhabitants, their interpersonal relationships and their affective relationship with the city.

Geeta is one of the few female taxi drivers in India. Her service "for women by women" enables women to move freely in the city at any time. Her hope is that the cityscape and atmosphere of the city will increasingly change, and so will the position of women in society. In her words: "The more women become taxi drivers, the less women are afraid to step out of the house."

A documentary film about Pulitzer prize-winning composer David Del Tredici and the historical and cultural significance of his music within and outside the gay community. The film investigates the sometimes ineffable processes that are fundamental to music composition, performance, and the communication of meaning through art. Highlighting the nuanced challenges of private sexual identity projected outward into art, the film examines Del Tredici’s personal transformations through the joys and sorrows of gay life, and his goal of communicating sexuality through music that is influential in modern culture. Through performances of Del Tredici's atonal and neo-Romantic music and interviews with world-renowned musicians and scholars, the film explores what sexuality in music represents creatively and what the implications of identifying an art form as gay, as Del Tredici has done, may be.

The 1910s marked the early years of tourism to Colorado’s front range and quickly, promoters presented the surrounding mountains as magnificent park attractions. Today, 46 public parks make up the Denver Mountain Parks system, including famous destinations such as Red Rocks Park & Amphitheater, Mount Evans, and Winter Park. Meet those who had the foresight to preserve these epic spaces, and understand why it is vital to preserve them for Coloradans and tourists alike.

A documentary that deals with an unfortunate event and its consequences, due to a serious socioeconomic problem that is perceived throughout all Latin America.

Wayne McMillan and Mark Gage are two Melbourne pavement artists who have a unique relationship and collaboration that allows them to flawlessly combine their ideas to create fantastic original art works.

A documentary about a small community on Valparaiso - Chile, commenting on globalism and another local social problems.

From the Baltic Sea to the Kamchatka peninsula, the search for the perfect wave powers this documentary on surf culture in Russia.

After 25 years on stage, the creator of the famous Brazillian drag queen Dillah Dilluz faces difficulty to find work, besides prejudice and exclusion within his family. An intimate portrait of a restless artist who "invents his own joy."

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.

I went back to China from France, to see my illed father...

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 visceral exploration of the death of cinema and the murder of memories.

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

Before TV, stories of blood-sucking werewolves ran rampant in rocky Portuguese villages. Shepherds once gathered to tell tales about men and wolves. These days, only a handful remember or practice the oral tradition and ancient instincts to remain alert and fearful are being forgotten along with it.

80% of the world's population can no longer see the Milky Way. What do we lose when we lose sight of the stars? Excessive and improper lighting robs us of our night skies, disrupts our sleep patterns and endangers nocturnal habitats. The current advances in LED technology have enabled several cities to safely light their streets and save energy without disrupting the nighttime environment. Saving the Dark explores the need to preserve dark night skies and what we can do to combat light pollution. Created in association with the International Dark-Sky Association.

After being evacuated as a child in 1992, BC-based filmmaker Bojan Bodružić returned to Sarajevo in 2000 and began to film his grandparents; over the course of 15 years, he recorded their incredible life stories and their experiences during the Bosnian War. The result is at once a moving family portrait and an account of a country forever changed. The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs is an invaluable collection of memories—both personal and historical—and a deeply affecting.

All of Reese's first eighteen features are overlaid and timed to end at the same time.

A tribute to to the German piano manufacturer C. Bechstein.

“To see a girl I fell in love with at the first sight, I imitated my idol Herzog to start a journey on foot.”

A documentary about the shipwreck of the sailboat Kestrel on the beach in the city of Santos.

As a fair-skinned Aboriginal man living away from his country, middle-aged Grant struggles with his identity. So, he decides to quit everything and go fishing with his father.

Understanding the Opioid Epidemic combines stories of people and communities impacted by this epidemic along with information from experts and those at the frontlines of dealing with the epidemic. The program traces the history of how the nation got into this situation and provides possible solutions and directions for dealing with the crisis.

Rosa is an experimental documentary that juxtaposes the filmmaker’s life in two extreme locations (Baghdad, Iraq and Montana, USA) through three elements of nature: dust, rust and wind.

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Give a man a video camera, and you will have a film in twenty years. Home videos are even funnier here as the cameraman – the director’s own father – was unaware he was filming.

The American military has used the Arizona desert on the US border to Mexico for staging field manoeuvres since the end of World War Two. Abandoned relics strewn across the landscape bear witness to 60 years of developments in the machinery of war. Helicopters cruise above the vast area and pilots practice dropping bombs. Between these war games and the reality of surveillance cameras, border patrols and fences, migrants attempt to make their way across the desert to reach the United States. Cacti can be lifesavers, but sometimes it’s even too late for them to be of any aid. The desert claims its victims, those that manage to make it past the patrols. But there are also individuals here who help those adrift in a no man’s land between war games and reality. Those that recover the dead.