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I met Sissy at dance lessons. Aside dancing, I know she is also learning to play percussions. I am impressed by her rapport with rhythm, given her hearing problem, which was mild at first, then rapidly worsened. Today, she has 60% hearing loss. Nevertheless, she communicates superbly through a unique physicality.
A portrait of an unorthodox ecosystem in a former candy factory in Brooklyn.
Documents the work of a small-town broadcasting group's history and their near century of archival work.
A film about contemporary Cuban youth through the music and dance of Reggaeton. Despite being the most popular music in the island, it's barely heard in the official media, thriving in a truly unique underground scene and being promoted in the most ingenious ways. In the midst of a unique sociopolitical situation during a key moment in Cuban history, we discover a cultural and commercial phenomenon without equal, hand in hand with an irreverent youth that's living its own revolution.
A 20-minute interactive mixed-reality documentary unveiling how a Chinese art student in Italy sparked one of the largest democratic protests in China by relentlessly sharing bad news on Twitter. The experience blends hand-drawn animation, 3D-converted archival footage, and immersive interaction to place viewers within Teacher Li’s transformative journey and explore the global impact of social media activism.
The 1975 Metropolitan Championship was, for River, more than the conquest of a title; it marked the end of an agony that required the efforts of historical figures of the club. In the midst of a political and economic crisis, the film documents the tensions and challenges that had to be overcome in order to achieve the yearned-for lap of honor.
In Lisbon’s residence of The Little Sisters of the Poor Congregation, a group of 7 nuns takes care of 75 elderly people, helping them in their final years.
As Sicilian journalist Giuseppe Quatriglio turns 90, his daughter starts filming him. When he dies, she keeps on filming. Boxes become archival materials, as journeys, women and post-war Europe come to the fore. And in the end, there is a father.
Shots from a trip in Maine both distorted and regular. Whether it be the wild or modern places
A group of young people from Father Oberlin's Moving Mountains Foundation are undergoing a therapeutic process for substance use issues, and they share their journeys of search and empowerment from various perspectives. They describe social contexts and realities that hinder many young people from disadvantaged neighborhoods from having the opportunity for a life project.
Mother Hyo-jeong moved to a different room three times while living with her mother-in-law. Hyo-jeong, who has been a full-time housewife for 20 years, became her new head of household as a counselor. But her dad still wants the role of her submissive wife. Her mom wants her independence into her safe space. While she lives in each room, her father's intrusion continues. Although her mother keeps moving rooms, her father continues to disturb her mother's space. Will her mom really have her own space, can she have that fifth room?
Nour’s journey of coming to terms with her longing for her father and for Syria, as she confronts loss and the profound emotional impact of absence.
Documentary about Vojislav 'Bubiša' Simić (born 1924), a Serbian musician and composer.
In 2023, the first Puppy Ireland pageant was held. Three hopefuls in the running for the sash, take us on the road to the crowning or in this case, hooding.
As our son, Oyen, is turning 15, navigating both adolescence and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It feels like we are nurturing a 'superman.’
After surviving a terminal illness diagnosis, Blaz sets off to a grueling celebratory Giro d'Italia. With him is his partner, filmmaker Maja Doroteja Prelog, tasked with capturing the triumphant biking tour. What was initially planned as a ride from the Dolomites to Sicily to reclaim control of one's own life and celebrate overcoming their greatest fear, soon becomes a journey of self-discovery for the couple. The focus shifted and now Maja's experience and needs hold the lens. While the lens of the camera turns inward, the relationship unravels, revealing a brave examination of self and what it truly means to be together. CENT'ANNI is an emotional rollercoaster with heart-wrenching confessions and poetic visuals in the midst of beautiful natural sceneries, an unfiltered testament to love and change.
A young lesbian girl, a student at the girls' seminary , studies Torah and undergoes conversion therapy in an attempt to change her sexual orientation and establish a holy Jewish family.
A culture-language documentary about the Zazas living in eastern Turkey. Focusing on their culture and how well the endangered language of the Zazas is understood and spoken by the youth.
A sand-animated documentary about the Chevra Kadisha, the men who clean and dress bodies for burial according to Jewish tradition.
An experimental documentary by British director Liberty Smith investigating her mother’s thirty-year-old memory of their old house being blown up for a television film.
Based on a discursive analysis of historical right-wing forces in Argentina and around the world, the objective is to situate the current Argentine government in the context of a resurgence of reactionary thinking, as well as to warn of the country's potential direction.
Manly Feelings is a short film by Chris Blom, about the difficulty that many men face while experiencing, expressing, and sharing the difficult emotion of sadness. The film lingers in this place of difficulty through interviews with men, supported by metaphorical imagery.
After discovering she was adopted, daughter explores her biological father's hometown, hoping to uncover a life she was not aware of.
Oksana, a Ukrainian doctor, is living in Finland when Russia attacks Ukraine. She hops on a bus with Finnish volunteers and heads to the border of Ukraine and Poland. The goal of these rescue operations is to bring as many Ukrainians fleeing the war to Finland as possible.
In this original and funny self-portrait, moving between hope, despair and heartbreak, we follow the main character Rogier Kappers for seven years. He wants to realize the dream he had as a nine-year-old boy: to become a famous musician playing the glass organ, an instrument made of singing glasses. Boundless optimism or naive impulsivity?
With the painter Gerhard Richter.
Documentary short about a group of friends who gather each October to watch horror movies.
Noelle and Hazely take on a post-graduation cross-country roadtrip!
A dog dreams.
Héctor Antonio Angulo, heir to Tumaco's herbal medicine tradition and PhD in neurophysiology, persists at 75 years of age in a dream he has had for 35 years: to create a Center for Scientific Research, Biotechnological Development, and Integrative Medicine to heal the people of the Colombian Pacific.
Hediye, a Muslim woman grappling with the conflict between her sexual identity and her faith. As she navigates the transience of this love and its heartbreaks, Hediye is forced to reconsider her faith and her heart.
A biopic of Australian fisherman, photographer and physicist, Richard Freeman and his fascinating, theoretical, Natural Model of the Universe. In this film, Mr. Freeman showcases scientific proofs that prove out his new model, all while detailing his life as a fisherman for over 40 years on Australia's Sunshine Coast.
For eight years, Robert Kowalski documented the Smolensk monthly commemorations, which unexpectedly became a forum for direct meetings between the then state authorities and citizens. The laying of wreaths and street prayers by those in power were protected by snipers, anti-terrorist units, the SOP (Government Protection Bureau) and mounted police. Jarosław Kaczyński's antagonists were people associated in small groups or even acting alone. On the one hand, we have a real human tragedy here, and on the other, a parallel reality of political marketing. Over the years, the nature of the titular rituals has gradually changed: from solemn rituals serving to consolidate power to grotesque combinations after its loss.
A snapshot into the life of clan elder, Taloch, and his teenage son, Connach, in the South West of England, as they navigate embracing their heritage with the incoming summer solstice and the turmoil of teenhood.
From my two-week trip to Japan in November.
Anthony Pedone’s film documents an extraordinary response to an appalling American injustice. In 2004, up-and-coming music entrepreneur Weldon Angelos was sentenced to 55 years in federal prison. His crime? Three marijuana sales, totalling $350, to an informer. Angelos’s case became a cause célèbre, attracting rare cross-partisan support: not only did the judge and prosecutor call for his release, but so did powerful conservatives such as Charles Koch. With help from his music industry associates, including Snoop Dogg, Angelos fought long and hard for his freedom, which was only granted after more than a decade.
The film is a study of a son’s extraordinary love for his dying mother and the psychological cost he pays for sacrificing his life for her.
Commissioned for the MAS museum’s 2020 exhibition ‘100x Congo’, Collectif Faire-Part facilitated a vital dialogue between residents of Antwerp and Kinshasa. Through intimate conversations, In vele handen documents the layered reckoning with the collection’s colonial legacy, the profound emotional weight of the objects, and the urgent, pivotal debate surrounding repatriating these cultural artefacts to their homeland.
The surprising discovery of three large fragments of the Pax In Lucem mural, an iconic work by Joaquín Torres-García left for lost in the fierce fire of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro in 1978, triggers a journey into the artist's life full of his great-grandson Alexander. The film is released within the framework of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Uruguayan master.
A trip to the creating of the theatrical costume, starting from the first idea in the costume designer's mind, until the final construction by the dressmaker's hand. The film follows the set up of the exhibition "Traces of ephemeral", coordinated by Ioulia Stavridou for the National Theater of Northern Greece. By her students to her memory.
Every year Sugpiat kids gather for Akhiok Kids Camp to connect with and celebrate knowledge their Ancestors grew for over 7500 years. But a barrier lies between the kids and their Ancestors: 200 years of colonial suppression that reduced their words to whispers. The Camp is part of the race against time to repatriate and reawaken Sugpiaq knowledge and culture.
Amazon, Congo Basin, Borneo. A journey across rainforests. A collective song of Indigenous women’s voices as they share their stories, what the forest means to their very being, their fears in a reality of socio-ecological destruction, and their hopes for constructing something different.
How do you cover a war in your own country? We spent two years with journalists from Ukraine's public broadcaster and saw how Russia's invasion transformed their profession and changed their beliefs. Broadcast on 5/4/2024
The first release by Little Egypt Collective stages a sound recordist reconnecting with the flat fields where once stood Pyramid Courts – the housing projects that formed the heart of the Black community of the Little Egypt region of southern Illinois.
Siblings Thiago and Ísis,explore three Brazilian biomas: Cerrado, Pantanal and Mata Atlântica together with their father, filmmaker João. They help an animal in danger in each scenario and discover their importance and their mysteries. The film presents the theme of environmental preservation to children in a playful way, with music and funny animations.
This work is a tribute to a man who worked in the shadows for years, a point guard who truly served the people of his small town.
