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A movie that dives deeply into the stronghold of Vrankrijk; an underground scene of anarchists and activists in downtown Amsterdam. Vrankrix not only houses a colorful group of residents but is also a meeting point for international activists with radical ideas. Hiphop, punk, queer, anarchists, sharing economy, veganism, globalization: it all comes together in this micro cosmos. The comic book of Asterix and the Mansions of the Gods has served as a source of inspiration the mere existence of a small Gallic village becomes jeopardized by the Roman high-rise construction of hotels, playgrounds and tourists.

Inspired by the diaristic cinema of Jonas Mekas, Malafaya organises the videos he’s been shooting for the past year and half of his life. A visual poem between the nostalgia of beauty and the hunt for images, between boredom and dancing

On a night train, a father tells his son a bedtime story. The day after, they will arrive in Siberia, 500 km away from the closest village, to follow Vissarion, a self-proclaimed reincarnation of Jesus. With his delicate voice, the boy shares his fears and fading memories. An intimate look at the dark nature of sectarianism.

to forget is a filmic journey on the potentialities of forgetting and its resemblance to remembering. Recorded on expired Super-8 and 16mm film, forgetting becomes productive and ”’visible” in non-existing, fading and colour-transformed film exposures. This (non-)documentation of possibly empty and fading spaces (to be) is further highlighted by Jejuno’s trance-like and uncanny sound composition: The abyss is present.

Coronavirus has changed the lives of everyone. What predictions can be made and, most importantly, what lessons can be learned from the current situation?

Three friends come together for a mission to guide blind Navy veteran Lonnie Bedwell on a 14-day river trip through the Grand Canyon. Battling powerful rapids including the daunting Lava Falls, this is a film about overcoming the residual impacts of war through kayaking – forming a team, kicking out in the current and finding a line through the chaos.

Poet Yolanda Rossman Tejada talks about her life and work while at home, in times of quarantine.

The independent work accompanies the beginning of the artistic trajectory of Lyz Parayzo, a visual artist who, through his works and performances, puts into question the space of art in a non-binary body coming from the periphery. Lyz, has the body as the main work support and her daily performance as a research platform revealing the mismatch between what is said, what is done, discourse and practice. For the lack of authorization, for the intrusion, for the unwanted inclusion, questioning the free school that does not allow to be freed, the art gallery that does not include the non-salable, the institutional space that assimilates the transgression since it has already been incorporated by the system.

A dog listens to music

Disintegration of light on a field trip

In the early and uncertain days of the Coronavirus lockdown, Chicago needed a beacon of creative unity. The Quarantine Concerts began streaming on March 20th, enabled by the Experimental Sound Studio and featuring envelope-pushing artists from around the globe.

Everything Under Heaven is a short documentary looking at the continued proliferation of antagonisms between global powers, the threat of global - even nuclear - war, and the crisis of imperialist capitalism. Building upon the analysis put forward in our 2018 documentary, History is Marching, and our 2019 short film, An Atlantic Tide, it covers the US-China trade war, the "phase one" US-China deal, Hong Kong, the politicisation of the coronavirus, conflicts between the EU imperialist bloc and the US, Brexit, the resurgence of a Turkish colonialism, the US dollar and oil, and the US' push toward drastic escalation in the Middle-East. They are in free fall. We are the solution.

Central American migrants embark on a Via Crucis, or Way of Sorrows from Biblical lore, on their journey through Mexico to pay homage to the Virgen de Guadalupe on the hill of Tepeyac. Their ultimate goal: to surrender to US Customs and Border Protection.

Three monks living in Mount Athos share their thoughts about faith and monasticism, their decision to become monks and their everyday reality, the monastic community, and the visitors of Athos. The camera travels through the peninsula and reaches pristine places, including the summit of Mount Athos; it recording quotidien snapshots, but also images that remain unknown even to the most regular visitors.

From 1984 to 1989, Costantinos Pittas took a solo journey across Europe and he shot 30,000 black-and-white photographs with a Minox 35mm compact camera. His aim was to capture the human core of the people living on both sides of Europe’s Iron Curtain. His last picture was taken in Berlin, a day after the Wall came down. As he was motivated by the dream for a united Europe, he thought that his project made no sense after the end of the Cold War. He stashed the negatives away in a box and forgot about them. For a good 25 years…

Clara's collection of thoughts through a period of isolation.

Zlatko Ćosić’s Dirty Look is a suspenseful study in stillness: the reduced movements of a seabird, returning our gaze, permitted the freedom to do what it wants and when it wants. Whose look is dirty – and who or what looks dirty?

Using an assemblage of illustrated images, Yeonu Ju explores mass gatherings in her tripartite work A Crowd. The first part, Belief, considers crowds gathered at concerts and sporting events. In Crossroads, people teem the city streets. Finally, Dinosaur presents us with the eventuality of humanity en masse: image upon image of waste. The pixelated images go in and out of focus, their unsettling instability echoing the inherent fickleness of crowds themselves.

Because of the health emergency, this year we cannot actively commemorate the anniversary of the Portella massacre. Let’s find out what witness Serafino Petta thinks.

Samuel Muxingueno escapes from conflict areas in eastern Angola, and seeks shelter in Luanda. Here, his main enemy becomes his own shadow. Seeking to get rid of it, Samuel turns to life in the darkness of a deserted building. To be able to get back into the light, he makes a radical decision.

In Bologna, Italy, the resistance movement fights Nazi-fascism between 1943 and 1945.

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An old couple leaves Tehran to return to their town on the Turkish border, which has become a clandestine gateway into Europe. Abolfazl Talooni sounds out the ambiguity of a people forced to participate in this traffic and dispossessed of their lands, where the beauty of the landscapes sketches out geopolitics of despair.

As 14-year-old Hollie sews her first dress with her mother, she faces the decision all Mennonite girls must make as they reach adulthood. Will she put on the dress, become a full member of the Mennonite church and assume her role as a mother, or will she join the wider world?

A documentary focused on the past, present, and future told through the stories of sixty high school students.

More than 20 potential vaccines are in development, but none are guaranteed to work. We dive into the race for the vaccine and talk with those who are currently racing to end the pandemic.

Equinox is the scientific term for the time when day and night astronomically are in an equal length anywhere on earth. It takes place every year in September and March respectively. For astronomers, the March equinox in the northern hemisphere signifies the beginning of a new spring. Clara Busch's abstract video piece, the shortest work at this year's festival, marks the changing times in its own concise and suggestive way. Organic forms that at a closer look turn out to be of an indefinite and artificial nature, present themselves to us in a digital universe in which we are fully immersed for the four minutes this very special equinox lasts.

Corrèze is a department in the Limousin region. Champseix is a hamlet near Bugeat, a small town with 800 inhabitants. Viam Lake is about 5 kilometres equidistant from both. The diagonal of emptiness, a DV camera, at the end of 2016.

An Eternalism film.

With the launch of streaming services from Disney and Apple, the rollout of 5G and the growth in cryptocurrencies, experts are warning about the impact this huge rise in data use could have on the environment. There are now hundreds of thousands of data centres around the world, storing everything from viral videos to doctors’ notes and even bank account details. Many of them run on electricity generated by burning fossil fuels. Film and TV writer Beth Webb went in search of the internet and discovered that ‘the cloud’ is actually a vast network of energy-guzzling data centres and undersea cables.

Every day, 11 million people fly across the globe, unaware that the air in the cabin may contain dangerous toxins.

In this film, which was shot last May and June, Davidson expands on the themes that flowed through her 2018 album, Working Class Woman. We join her in Detroit, Montreal, Barcelona, Lyon, Paris and Berlin, as Davidson ponders her next life chapter, discovering along the way the dicey, stressful and occasionally thrilling nature of life as a touring live act.

An ensemble of Russia’s elite rippers and street artists team up for a plaza-packed full-length that also features huge hubbas and a dreamy soundtrack. Step through the post-Soviet portal to see a granite-covered vision come to life.

A documentary about the untold story of Rock n Roll High School...part 2

Edo Avant-Garde reveals the pivotal role Japanese artists of the Edo era (1603 – 1868) played in setting the stage for the “modern art” movement in the West. During the Edo era, while a pacified Japan isolated itself from the world, audacious Japanese artists innovated stylization, abstraction, minimalism, surrealism, geometric composition and the illusion of 3-D. Their elegant originality is most striking in images of the natural world depicted on folding screens and scrolls by Sotatsu, Korin, Okyo, Rosetsu, Shohaku and many others who left their art unsigned.

Documentary showing the coaches of the French Revolution and more.

Born out of West Yorkshire Queer Stories’ oral history project, I’m OK are you OK? inclusively represents the diverse stories of nine people from across the region. Ranging from sex ‘education’ in the 1960s to life as a QTIPOC teen in present day Bradford, the film uses mixed media and a variety of storytelling modes to intimately relate lived experience.

It’s a documentary about Sahrawi people, removing of geography and politics, making it simply a "human" story. Giving a voice to this people who are in an impossible situation, forced to live confined in a refugee camp.

The Colombian Chocó is home to Afro and indigenous communities and hermit crabs. A reflection on life and death based on the biodiversity of the region.

When I was little there was a big flood in the neighbourhood. The neighbours survived, but many of the memories we kept in the basement did not make it. My father saved and cleaned various slides one by one; however, the water had given them a different meaning.

In a small village in northern Norway, we get glimpses of people behind their windows. They are in self-imposed quarantine during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. With only a glass between them and the rest of the world, we get insight into how they feel, what they feel and what kind of expectations they have during one of humanity's greatest challenges.

Following three third-generation Italians living in Edinburgh, this documentary explores the establishment of one of the biggest immigrant communities in Scotland and their rich contribution to Scottish cuisine. Once considered the recipe of an honest immigrant, what happens when WWII transforms ice cream to the food of the enemy?

On the influential and groundbreaking contemporary American artist

Fermented bamboo-shoot is a delicacy as well as an everyday staple for many communities across Northeast India. It is an integral part of the food culture and links the region to its Southeast Asian and East Asian neighbours. Seasons of Life follows three people as they labour to forage and ferment tender bamboos-shoot, cherished across several Himalayan households in South Asia.

In the documentary, we meet three young British women whose lives are overshadowed by congenital or accidental facial deformities. Although the insecurity related to the face limits women's everyday life in a superficial society, we see how the constant struggle with appearance can also empower in unexpected ways.

Story about Sudanese women traditional dress (Toob) and the impact of it in Sudanese upraising 2018.