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"Otherlogue IV" is a screen dance meditation presenting choreographic portraits that explore family history and hoodrat things with friends. The film is directed, shot, and edited by bree gant and was created in collaboration with artists Celia Benvenutti, Hanniyah Cross, and Raven Whitney Joel, with appearances by Dr. Leon Gant and Nahimana Aponi. The soundtrack features music by Dave Gulley. – bree gant
A short film about a Youth Service in England and the struggles they have been through
Can a transvestite produce theory? This short film, recorded in the villages of Santo André and Guaiú, in the south of Bahia, features the text and performance of performer and teacher Dodi Leal, who presents a vision of embodied knowledge production based on a brief narrative of her artistic work. 'I'm afraid of theories that don't dance' indicates the deep relationship of the trans body with environmental art, investigating the movement of gender in the mangrove, the vivification of river thought and dance flows of the sea. The concepts dance and vibrate as the binarism of body versus nature is broken.
A period of life is shown through flickers of moments.
Between Lagos and London, the artist recalls her grandmother and her childhood to explore faith, grief, and memory in postcolonial Nigeria.
This documentary is based on the boys of Jaipur, an outlying island of Tanguar Haor (vast areas of swampland) in Sunamganj, Bangladesh. They are the primary victim of global warming. Climate change is affecting their cropping, fishing, and living habitat. Now their only livelihood is to offer folk songs to visitors from outside.
This unique documentary celebrates the work of one of Ireland's greatest living female designers. Clodagh has been an International design icon for over half of the 20th century. She continues to defy all barriers of gender, age and race to forge a critically acclaimed global career. We explore what drives this single-minded designer.
The true-crime story of New Jersey Jewish gangster Myron Sugerman, the world leader in illegal slot machines—who hunted Nazis as a hobby.
A look at the life and career of Dolly Parton, drawing on interviews given across her five-decade career and featuring the stories behind many of her biggest hit songs.
Munich 72 is a documentary experience created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Munich Olympics and the 1972 Munich Massacre.
The documentary narrates the events experienced in Ukraine (April 17-May 22, 2022), both in the field of humanitarian volunteering in the rear, and in the vanguard, on the war front line. It also shows the movement of displaced persons (IDP's) and the life of the civilian population in the bombed places, with interviews with soldiers, volunteers and civilians; from the devastated places in the north of Kyiv, passing through Kharkiv, the Donbas region or the Kherson front with Mykolaiv, and then ending in the self-proclaimed and pro-Russian Republic of Transnistria (Moldova), bordering Ukraine.
In the year in which sustainability is one of the priority themes in the electoral debate, Miriam Leitão went to the Amazon, one of the regions of the country that suffer most from deforestation.
In 2022, audiences can look forward to the upcoming documentary series, "Putahe Behind The Scenes." This captivating series promises to take viewers on an immersive journey through the making of some of the most popular films and television shows of recent times. Featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, insightful interviews with cast and crew, and a behind-the-curtain glimpse of the filmmaking process, "Putahe Behind The Scenes" is a must-watch for all film enthusiasts, aspiring filmmakers.
DOCUMENTARY, BEHIND THE SCENES, ON-SET INTERVIEWS PERTAINING TO SECRETS (2022)
Learn how to paint lovely spring flowers with watercolor by following this easy style and instructions from artist and studio owner Jean McDonnell.
ABC News' Terry Moran hosts a special that shines a light on the more than 1 million refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.
America’s illicit drugs are being laced with one of the deadliest opioids ever created, killing in record numbers. ABC’s Bob Woodruff travels across a nation in crisis to uncover the epidemic of fentanyl poisoning.
Born with cerebral palsy, Isabela Gieseler Pinheiro is a film student and lover of various forms of art. In this, she goes on a journey to remember her history as an artist and as a person with a disability in order to seek a form of self-knowledge and self-transformation.
"Yours the Power and the Glory" seeks to portray the implication of religion in pop culture, exploring the religious roots of art that dominated the gaze. Why do we feel so attracted to religious symbology?
'Amstergwen' documents the virtual journey undertaken by Dutch journalist Gwen van der Zwan through the world of Twitch. A rapidly growing online streaming platform. She wants to submerge herself into this world for a year. However she soon finds a toxic cocktail of hatred, money, bullying, attention, misogyny and adoration. This takes her on a trip that swallows her up completely.
Bennip is a person with an intellectual disability who is able to become a barista at a Café owned by the Integrated Center of Kartini Temanggung. However, being a barista today is not easy for bennip because he has to fight against the negative stigma in society that thinks that people with disabilities are unable to work well. Therefore, Bennip tries to prove to the public that people with disabilities are able to work well.
Winter nights in London
In the desert of Morocco the characters of film chose to live in isolation from the city and its society. Harmonious with difficult environmental conditions, they take pleasure in speaking to the Creator far from creation in boundless spaces.
A self-taught astronomical photographer finds a new challenge when the chance to capture a rare Blood Moon eclipse presents itself.
Jeanne Gurtat shares her story of saving young Jewish girls at the France/Switzerland border during WWII, navigating the harsh climate and Nazi patrolled streets.
It’s 2018, and Belgian theater director Tom Struyf finds himself by chance in Willard, a tiny hamlet in New York State whose only street ends at a vast lake. On one side of the street stand wooden houses that have clearly seen better days. On the other stands the ruin of the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane.
When Ann, a trans person, sees the costs of her transition skyrocketing, she gets drawn into sex work—with traumatizing consequences.
What if your girlfriend tells you she's having a baby with you? What if home birth seems more appealing to you than hospital birth? What if you live in a house with other roommates? Find out how a young couple dealt with these issues.
This experimental film presents a kaleidoscopic and psychedelic composition of digitally modified images thematizing mainly nature, the human body, and machines. Silberstein draws his inspiration from video games and cybernetics theory resulting in futuristic meditation. The sci-fi atmosphere is made complete with electronic music by sound artist Łukasz Szałankiewicz.
In December 2020, the pandemic caused the cancellation of all performances the filmmaker had arranged for a small experimental theatre in Queens, New York City. She and her partner, a composer, decided to move into the theatre for two weeks and perform every night for an absent audience. The film consists of a mixture of genres and forms, from stand-up performances, to monologues about art and life, to musical installations. Combined with documentary footage of everyday actions, the film reveals the tragicomic fate of an artist in quarantine, whose work is meaningless without a live audience.
This is a piece of dramatic fiction resting on a subtle balance between social realism and highly stylized theatrical directing. In her first film, Emily Barbelin depicts the lived experience of a bunch of sex workers in a microcosm ruled by male desires that form the pattern of their nights. These men are barely seen, for in fact they are fleeting figures, either sleeping or caught in violent frenzies. In a voice-over, a woman calls out to some faraway mother, as a wintertime landscape is passing by from the window of a train, echoing the words.
Scrap is our future is a film made about teenage garbage collectors in Ngaoundéré, a city in northern Cameroon. This film tells an intimate story of Dembélé an orphan, which since the death of his mother in 2015, has become responsible for his own life. His life is set in the streets with other youths collecting scrap. Dirty, sleeping in left-behind bus wreck, addicted to various drugs, they belong to a growing but highly stigmatised group of youths in Ngaoundéré. Reflecting over life Dembélé says “it is scrap that is our future”.
The Millennium Tour 2019 was one of the Top 5 hip hop concert tours of the year. Now, the truth will be revealed of what went wrong backstage.
What is that you can see at night? What is allowed, what is not? What do you become a witness to?
This film follows a girl who has been living with depression for many years, and explores the concept of “I’m sick” through different points of view. Everyone has experienced low moments in their lives or been through dark times in the past that are rarely talked about. It is hoped that this film can transform these emotions into positive energy in our lives.
A documentary on WMMT-FM’s longstanding radio show that sends messages over the public airwaves to reach those incarcerated in Central Appalachia.
Short documentary essay is a goodbye film to director parents' house. As a point of departure for Anna Vasof, a survey of the damage left by a flood in her parents' house reveals a simple yet multi-layered work about memory, loss, and how we deal with the past.
Pablus Gallinazo shares with us the experience of his voluntary confinement while a large part of the population tries to get used to this new way of life, which is demanded by the spread of the pandemic. For Pablus is something normal, he had already got used to go out only once a week for the very necessary, his house is that space where he allows himself to live what interests him most; from there he writes a novel and now works with his wife and the symphony of the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, in the arrangements of several of his songs that aim to preserve his legacy and make known to other generations one of the most important artists that has had the department of Santander.
A self-reflexive, multi-portrait film following the filmmaker, Emma Barda, and other queer artists exploring queerness and gender identity through their art. The film takes a deep dive on how queer / gender non-conforming people interpret and represent body and gender identity through various facets of art and identity, with the aim to showcase the unique and wonderful world of queerness.
Almost half a century has passed since the inhabitants of the Yavesia forest, a community nestled in the highlands of Oaxaca, began the struggle to defend their forests and water. They have stopped the federal and state governments on more than one occasion and today, as the clock ticks closer and closer to day zero, Yavesia is one of the communities in the world that defends and promotes a way of life where respect and love for nature are paramount in our idiosyncrasy
A filmmaker daughter studying in a foreign country belatedly learns of her mother’s cancer. Her mother has hidden it from her, lest she worry, but the daughter feels upset. The mother has been a doctor for thirty years, and she has thought as much about death as about living well. As the hospital has been her playground, the daughter is familiar with the scene of death, but the thought of losing her mother scares her.
On a hill in the area known as the Tehuacán Biosphere Reserve, in the state of Puebla, Mexico; Leobardo Sánchez works alone in his Onix ambar quarry. It is an intimate portrait of this unique character, who refers us to mythical stories of Hephaestus, god of blacksmiths and craftsmen.
The film resonates with the constraining situations of the labour class, where it shall focus at how these people reflecting in their own ways and negotiating in life with strength.
Julieta, 57, is the only female kutsero (driver of a horse-drawn carriage) in Cebu City, Philippines. She struggles between making a living for her remaining children as her husband is already dead and his son is in jail for being allegedly involved in illegal drugs. How can she, at her age, keep up with the difficulties and risks brought about by the pandemic?
Between tourist promotions and Hollywood films lies another Vietnam, whose stunning landscape has been evocatively captured from the country's most accessible form of transport: the motorbike.
Haunted by the tragic death of his father, a young Argentinian filmmaker of Taiwanese origin returns to Taipei to film the reunion with his mother. Reality and fiction blend in a moving personal quest in which an incredible portrait of a mother stands out from the picture of a family saga marked by uprooting.
When Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the 24th of February, the world was shocked, but few could imagine the barbarity that the Kremlin regime would unleash against the Ukrainian nation. This documentary presents an insight and eyewitness accounts from the crimes.