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"Beyond the Shadows" is a short hand processed 16mm shadow puppet film. It explores a series of Appalachian family stories Inspired by the dreams of West Virginia Native and director Steven J. York and his father William York. The film depicts mountain mysticism, traditional Appalachian folk magic, and dreams of life out at the old homeplace.
A portrait of a puppeteering couple quickly transforms into a self-reflexive meta movie involving the filmmaker and his romantic partner (overheard in phone conversations and acted out by puppets) thanks to an ingenious body-switch. The puppet becomes the puppet master, as older subject and younger author swap stories of romantic intimacy across generations, class perspectives and racial differences.
Manuela lives in Cameroon and was four years old when her parents went abroad to work. She’s eleven now and preparing for her first graduation. She is growing up with her grandparents and, despite leading a good life, had to struggle with grief for a long time. Now she has learned how to cope with absence and how to be together despite the long distance.
She first appeared on stage at the age of eleven with the legendary Krautrock band “Embryo”. Her father Christian Burchard founded the band in 1969 and led it until 2016. Today – in her mid-thirties – Marja Burchard is the bandleader in this project, which has become a kind of family for her. But what seems so simple and organic is far from self-evident in an extremely male-dominated sphere, as Rebecca Zehr shows in her precisely observed and designed film.
In a cinema letter to Jean Vigo, Lynne Sachs ponders the French filmmaker’s 1933 classic Zéro de conduite, in which school boys wage an anarchist rebellion against their authoritarian teachers. Thinking about the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol by right-wing activists, Sachs wonders how both innocent play and calculated protest can quickly turn into chaos and violence.
A rare insight into the military career and personal life of Germany's most famous Second World War commander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Told from the perspective of his son Manfred, it tells what happens when a career soldier runs afoul of a dictator. Highly decorated and one of Hitler's favourite commanders in the early years of World War II, the 'Desert Fox' was something of an enigma. Never a member of the Nazi party, Rommel detested the blending of politics and war. He would quickly discover that both were always in play in Hitler's Germany. Greg Kinnear narrates.
Daniel is a Lebanese-German musician with Jewish roots. Alisha is a black-German student at Leuphana University. Rasha Alhindi is a German-Palestinian filmmaker and the director of this short documentary that looks at how global migration has affected the identity of a small city in northern Germany – and some of its residents. How do individuals with a migration background fit into German society?
A behind-the-scenes look at how supermarket giant Sainsbury's created its festive food range for Christmas 2021.
In appreciation of the eponymous stream, this poem is a love letter to the beauty found in nature. Written and spoken in English and Anishinaabemowin.
The Sieben Linden eco-village may be featured on television and in print media and admired for its successful small ecological footprint (only one-third of the German average), but short reports and articles naturally fail to elaborate on how challenging such a sustainable life in community really is.
In a Brooklyn studio, acclaimed Pakistani-born artist Salman Toor is at work on a new figurative painting that’s going to be shown alongside canvases by art historical heroes like Johannes Vermeer at the Frick Madison in New York City.
In this endless pandemic area, where our sexuality has sometimes had to evolve, has been tested, women from different backgrounds offer their intimate testimonies, addressing their desires and pleasures alone.
Follows the unexpected twists and turns in the life of attorney Alex Murdaugh, discussing facts and insights as the deaths of his Wife and son remain unsolved.
Imola, April 29, 1994: Ayrton Senna is at zero points in the Drivers' World Championship. In his team Team, Williams, someone is already beginning to be perplexed. Perhaps, believing that it is no longer the Ayrton Senna that everyone knows. The Brazilian had understood these sensations, presenting himself at Imola with the utmost determination of his career. The Documentary traces the three days that changed the future of Formula 1 forever, having the Senna Judge and the mechanic who dismantled Ayrton's crashed car speak for the first time, inside a hangar at the Enzo and Dino Ferrari racetrack.
On the 30th of June, 1966, in a small country-side town in Japan, four members of the Hashimoto family are stabbed and burnt to death in their family home. The savagery of the crime shakes the country and shortly after, 30-year-old retired boxer Iwao Hakamada is arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Despite a lack of evidence, Hakamada would remain on death row for almost half a century before being granted a retrial in 2014.
Over a warbling electric soundtrack are dancing paper dolls, branches and trees, women made of clay - there once was a girl who lived in the woods, she climbed a tree and then she became.
Steak and potatoes - if there's a better combination out there, we've yet to taste it. Award-winning chef Alex McCoy tests a variety of methods to ensure that you cook the ultimate steak right from your home.
Documentary filmed on board a cruise ship during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A short film about being nb/trans in modern day society.
The Life of Pi'erre is a short documentary that details the South Carolina native's life as a producer and engineer at Epic Records, a life that existed prior to a decision that would change his life forever: starting a series of solo releases that would cement him as a rap virtuoso for years to come.
After the death of her beloved husband Neil Chayet, famed CBS Boston radio host of Looking at the Law, Martha Chayet struggles to adapt to life as a widow. When she steps out of the house to run errands, it's all by herself. When she cooks, it's just for one. Things are just a little bit quieter around the house these days. Meanwhile, the filmmaker is grieving the sudden passing of his father. As he films Martha’s day-to-day life, both come to the realization that although we may never overcome our grief, we can learn to embrace it, welcome it, and channel it to preserve the legacies of our loved ones.
A documentary about young people born after the early-1990s Abkhaz–Georgian conflict. Through six stories of young Abkhazia and Georgia protagonists, it focuses on how inherited post-conflict realities shape everyday life, identity, mobility, and the possibility of dialogue, without turning the film into a political debate.
After staying in Switzerland for fifteen years, earning a living in construction, «Bouba» returns to Senegal to help shape the future of his motherland.
Documentary narrating the creative trip that French studio DigixArt went through during the 3 years of development on Road 96, culminating with the release of their most ambitious and successful project to date. Directed by Danny Fonseca and Florian Gallant, in this 52 minute documentary you will learn about the challenges the talented minds of the team faced at each stage of production, and how they found solutions that made the game grow and evolve to what the world can enjoy today.
A documentary on the critical role that Cape May, NJ plays in the eastern migration of monarchs to Mexico each year. It follows members of the New Jersey Audubon and Monarch Monitoring Project as they tag and track the monarchs passing through.
Documentary filmed on a sailing voyage to the eleven volcanic islands of the Caribbean.
As debate continues as to the effect of gaming on our mental health & wellbeing, we speak to gamers from the UK who tell us how, for them, the positives outweigh the negatives.
Of the 700 families who lived in Kampung Kebun Bayam, Papanggo, North Jakarta, only 76 remains. The village, which was founded in 1997, was once a successful urban farming community. However, the situation has changed. The gardens have already been demolished, the houses are now in ruins. In recent years, the construction of the Jakarta International Stadium has been accompanied by the gradual departure of the residents of Kampung Kebun Bayam. This film was made together with the residents of Kampung Kebun Bayam, recording the situations of their final days, including humorous and heartwarming things. Buildings can be razed to the ground, but the feeling of community, collective memory, and friendship that has existed for years make them forever be the residents of Kampung Kebun Bayam.
The director's friend tells her digestion problems and how it affects her everyday life. Two slightly differing versions from 2021 and 2023.
Signal communications proliferate across borders. incongruent forms subtracted from form. fractal topographies without document.
A disjointed process of the filmmaker’s mother making katanga (ka-tinn-yaa) in analog film. A simple dish which represents survival, kinship and resourcefulness.
Léo Walk is 26 years old. After starting to break at the age of 7, he danced for Christine and the Queen and signed the choreographies of artists like Angèle. This year was supposed to be the year of consecration: Léo and his company La Marche Bleue were finally on the front of the stage. But that was before... Before the Covid.
On August 28, 1971, Chez Panisse opened its doors in Berkeley, Calif. The restaurant merged fine dining with high-quality, locally and seasonally sourced food. Over the past half-century, founder and activist Alice Waters has inspired countless restaurants, chefs and home cooks, forging a movement of simple food made with local ingredients.
This film dives into archive film and video of RNLI crews, with an immersive soundtrack from some of the UK's most exciting contemporary musicians.
Anna, Korean name Kim Myong-hee. 43 years after her adoption to the United States, she visits a remote island in the Yellow Sea. There in Deokjeok Island live Suh Jae-song and In Hyun-ae, a couple who raised orphaned Anna as if she were their own. Their house on the island has two special rooms. One is a room full of records of all the children the couple sent for adoption. The other is a temporary home for all adoptees who come visit Korea later in life. The couple lived as foster parents for these children for 30 years since 1966. Together with a Catholic priest from the US, they sent 1,600 kids to the US for adoption. They sent Myong-hee, then 14-year-old, and her two brothers to a family in the US in the hopes of them living in a happy household under loving parents. But contrary to their wishes, Myong-hee’s life in America turns out to be a series of pain and misfortunes. For the first time in 43 years, Myong-hee talks about her painful memories.
The film consists of fragments of feature films of the twenties. They reflect the life of the country from a variety of sides: we see how people work, eat, drink, have fun, suffer, love.
It’s 2019 - a year before the pandemic - and The Paperhand Puppet Intervention is set to begin its 20th season. Follow along as the company embarks on its remarkable creative journey and take a deep dive into the psyches of the company’s founders (Donovan Zimmerman and Jan Burger), and the diverse group of artists who help bring the show to life. Shot primarily on a single camera and with no budget in Saxapahaw and Chapel Hill, NC, We Are Here is a 55-minute documentary that investigates the intention and process of a community whose aim is to move us to action through moving art. It takes a whole lot more than cardboard, wood, duct tape, and string to make a great show. In We Are Here, we find out what makes a puppet come to life and we are challenged to reconsider our own place in the world.
How did we learn to read and write? How much playing and how much seriousness does it take to acquire one of the most basic skills in life? This film presents the process of learning to read and write in the first grade of elementary school. A teacher who explains and shows each letter with never-ending patience and love, and 13 students who draw fishes in order to write correctly, disagree, laugh, have difficulties, try their best with every syllable, and concentrate on their target. Little adventures in the classroom with pencils, erasers and straight (or not) lines.
Reconciliation becomes possible between a gay circus trainer and his mom when he and his husband adopt a student.
"Examination of David Dinan is a documentary short I made in order to examine the different ways that people can be perceived, as well as providing a character study of my best friend."
A photographer takes pictures of things she finds interesting
At the end of October in 2019, a group of militants settle in the middle of a forest in the Ardennes. Their goal to defend the area from the economic and building activities in the area carried out by the company Idelux. From this initiative a new protected area is created.
The history and harsh realities of the Canadian Residential School system (1857 until 1988) is examined through the words of civic leaders and tribal influencers from Canada's West Coast.
We’re #1! – The Story of 1990 ACC Football, a documentary chronicling the remarkable 1990 football season in the Atlantic Coast Conference
a film produced by Wang Wentao
A look into the New York City parole system reveals its limitations and prejudices, as parolees speak about their experiences trying to convince others that they are more than the actions of their past.
"At the New Year's Eve event of the 'Crossover' International Performance Art Festival, Canadian performance artist John G. Boehme appeared very calmly. He wore a black face mask and stared at the audience (camera) like a still life object in front of the screen, then he began to swallow the mask." – Cai Qing
ayşe (ayşe akçaylı) is a teenage girl with bipolar disorder