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A collection of films that have been found, or remain, on the Ocean's floor.

This cinematic search for traces takes us from silkworm breeding in a Leipzig allotment garden to the island of Crete. Idyll and war begin to converge – historical, scenic, complex, surprising.

The film tells the story of the Russian Navy officer Vasily Boisman, who, seriously wounded after the Battle of Port Arthur, was taken prisoner by Japan. According to the laws of that time, Vasily, as an officer, had the right to return to his homeland, but he chose captivity — together with the crew of his ship, remaining faithful to the duty of the Human and the Office

Set theory, one of the cornerstones of mathematics, serves as a metaphor for “social structures as spatial arrangement”, as the first sequence of the film reveals. The visual playfulness first becomes an exploration of two- and three-dimensionality and then turns out to be a well-founded reflection of social power relations. The search for a supposedly correct “order of things” triggers the compulsive element in many viewers. Who’s (not) afraid of being different?

A cinematic family constellation in which the audience is guided through a seemingly random conglomeration of private photos, video recordings, notes, thoughts, sounds and texts. Narrative strands crystallise, only to be discarded, taken up again and finally left standing in their ambiguity. A film about the big questions of life, love, family, relationships, death and good food. No more, and certainly no less.

There is a farmhouse, isolated in the woods of the Tuscan hills. Inside, a disturbing form of psychotherapy is practiced. As if under a spell, the young participants follow the instructions of Elena, their guide. They get agitated, confess, sometimes lose themselves. Where is the line between truth and artifice?

The documentary follows Honduran Dariella and Mirna in their quest for a better life in the United States. Fleeing the extortion of Honduran organized crime, the two women, along with their children and relatives, join the "Caravan of migrants" in November 2018. Originating in Honduras, the exodus gathers thousands of people who, on foot or by makeshift means, cross Central America in an attempt to reach Tijuana, Mexico, and from there cross the border with the USA. “American Chimera” does not just tell the difficulties of entering the United States. On the contrary, it goes beyond the wall. There, among detention centers for irregular immigrants and electronic bracelets, there is also Mrs. Vonnette, a wealthy Republican supporter and senior army officer, who wishes to help migrants by supporting them in their asylum requests and opening her front door to them.

In a rural community full of religious certainty, right on the place where God came, young shepherd Lucian seems to be stranded between belief and disbelief.

For Christopher Hunte, drag is a business, not a lifestyle. Christopher lets us watch as he transitions into Symone Says, and lets us in on stage life.

In northern India, an ancient, holy peepul tree is being cut down by seven loggers using handsaws and axes.

The city is leaning towards the sunset and its characters are lost among failed layers of old family records. Lima is a hostile place and the words dedicated to it by Peruvian poets are mixed here to draw, from their involuntary communion, a deep disenchantment.

In this short film, six Syrian women living in Jordan recount their personal stories of survival – from displacement, child-marriage, and trauma, to their resilience and hope to rebuild a better future for their children.

Blondie is a Chilean street rapper who shares his work in the Santiago subway. His rhymes, traveling in wagons throughout the city, outline the reality of the capital’s slums, where drugs and violence coexist with hopes and dreams.

Can you trust your own memory? When all the photos are destroyed, only linden blossom will preserve the memory of a beloved.

How to return to what is lost? to what is not? It seems that we can only recover fragments and assemble pieces. But how can we know that what comes back is what has been disappeared?

Taina Lopez films her colleague Martina shooting a documentary in a Swiss ski resort.

Born, Unborn and Born Again revolves around my struggle to embody the White Horse, a zodiac sign which occurs every 60-year cycle in East Asian Countries. This film explores the transnational nature of governmental control over reproductive systems, and how this oppression manifests in our bodies and perceptions of self. I use the structure of my mother tongue, Korean, and my second language, English, to contemplate ruptures, repetition of time, and violence against women. An untold history resurfaces in the present, and re-orients us towards the future.

Basque musician Kepa Junkera travels to Évora for a musical dip. Without giving up his roots, he meets the Alentejo singing and reveals 7 different Évoras to us.

Accident or inspiration, Dub inserted the experiments of Jamaican producers and sound engineers into urban popular music made in any part of the world from the 1970s.

A monologue revealing the inner world of a young girl, a talented violinist, playing in a provincial chamber orchestra. It is far from that glamorous constellation of divas who daily pour their cold light from the sky of modern Russian television. It is an amazing combination of beauty, intelligence and talent. That is why she is not a star.

An intimate portrayal of the Zawose family, a lineage of Tanzanian artists from the Wagogo people. Set in a secluded village near Bagamoyo, the film explores how music is deeply interwoven with daily life, identity, and ancestral tradition. The documentary highlights the family’s dedication to preserving their unique musical heritage, including handcrafted instruments like the ilimba (a type of thumb piano) and the zeze (a bowed string instrument), both of which are central to Gogo musical expression.

"Rocha Matriz" is a documentary short examining the production chain of ornamental rocks from the perspective of an alien consciousness, which understands matter as information. Navigating across trade fairs, harbors, and marble quarries, it traces connections between labor, the global commodities market, interior design trends, and the deep time of Earth.

Amor Tropicana presents one of the most iconic dance halls in Mexico City, the one that has suspended in time and space in a chaotic city. With the son of cumbia and the rhythm of salsa, the inhabitants full of urban hustle can be free themselves from the evil that haunts them and the dance steps will be the best way of being who they really are.

ZONG explores the phenomenon of the swamp from different perspectives: as a locus of fears in the folklore of agricultural societies; as an exploited landscape in the industrial age; as a complex system of ties between species within the posthumanist paradigm.

Thousands of Central American migrants head north each year with a single objective: escape violence and poverty. What awaits them on the journey will be nothing but their enemy and time itself becomes relative. Their surroundings will not be in their favor, as organized crime groups and members of the drug trade are on their prowl watch. Their dreams, are the only thing that keeps them standing.

Transgender human rights activist aiming to get a refugee status is struggling with biased bureaucratic authorities in a post-soviet country. His psychological condition is getting worse. He experiences panic attacks and suicidal thoughts.

The film follows the inhabitants of a small village in North-Eastern India whose livelihood depends on coal theft from a vast open-pit mine. From dawn to dusk, children and adults alike rummage for the black gold whilst the local mafia consolidate their arsenal to fight off police raids.

Davide and Lucio live bondage as a discipline, a research, an obsession. Rarely they get out because their home is a kind of universe where they can be themselves, forgetting what expects them outside.

A Kurdish family is being recorded on camera, are we sure they are not aware of it?

During the 1984/85 miners’ strike, Lesbians and Gays from London visited the Dulias Valley in South Wales to offer financial support to striking miners and their families.

Experience the terrifying air and sea war of WWII as it was fought in Europe and the Pacific. Digitally remastered close-up uncensored footage and sound puts you behind the shoot-to-kill gun sights of American and Nazi fighters. See P-51s, P-47s, P-38s and P-40s as they charge into battle. Watch air-to-air pursuits, aerial shootdowns, factory, train and ammo dumps strafing.

This work is part of the "MonkeyWrench Sessions", a series of architectural interventions and electroacoustic events carried out in collaboration with artists from different areas. In the spirit of the project, the video reflects on the transformation of image and sound, representing the emancipation of space itself.

During the 2020 global pandemic, filmmaker Lynne Sachs and her daughter Noa collaborated with Anne Lesley Selcer to create Girl is Presence. The work is a form of reading and listening in response to disquieting words from Selcer’s poem “Sun Cycle.” The film’s disparate objects reflect a disharmonious and tense list of voiced nouns. The poem’s original tone, contextualized by a book that deals with gender and power, takes on an expanded sense here. Against the uncertain and anxious pandemic atmosphere, inside domestic space, the “girl” arranges and rearranges a collection of small and mysterious things. Commissioned by Small Press Traffic for Bay Area Shorts during the national shelter-in-place order caused by the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020.

This film explores an absence that characterizes spaces during social distancing. I wanted to emphasize the scenes impacted by social distancing in my neighborhood and to challenge the normalcy that some of these changes have taken on. I hope it’s a reminder to people about what is missing and what will continue to be missed if we aren’t careful.

An unlikely partnership between a Veteran's Non-profit group and a Commercial Artist leads them to discover an untold story of pain and loss from the Viet Nam war in the wreckage of an old Huey helicopter which leads to unexpected results.

"This is not a test" is made from bits and pieces of rotten 35 mm film. The stains and marks left by a natural decomposition process resemble the inkblots used in the Rorschach test. While this is not a test, the viewer is invited to engage with the flow of the images and make their associations.

A film about Chris Kennedy’s Watching the Detectives (2018), a detective comedy appropriating for its own purposes the principle of its model: inquiring about the inquirer.

The tourist town of Lignano Pineta was designed in the form of a spiral by the architect Marcello D’Olivo in the post-war period. Between the 1950s and 70s, it became a site for architectural experimentation, with several buildings imitating organic and rationalist forms. The phenomenon remains unknown today.

"Come Together" is a story of an encounter between two people who haven't seen each other for 65 years, during which they've constantly exchanged letters.

Back to the Simulation is a 1h18 documentary retracing the story of Muse's Simulation Theory - its songs, music videos and world tour, and how they were made - using over 100 videos and interviews!

American Carnage is a short documentary looking at the renewal of the Black Lives Matter movement in particularly the United States following the murder of George Floyd on 25 May, 2020. It briefly discuss the background of this murder and the nature of the oppression brought by the US state against its black population, fascism and the Donald Trump Presidency, and the role of the liberal bourgeoisie in attempting to drive the movement into a dead end.

We need sports, now more than ever. Von Miller, DeAndre Jordan, Ronda Rousey, F2 and more will face off for the title of Greatest Stay-At-Home Athlete, hosted by Stephen Curry. It’s time to unleash the Ultimate Home Championship and crown the world’s greatest stay-at-home athlete.

The special features the first interview with Bach after the announcement, plus Hirshland discussing why the USOPC supported the postponement. NBC Olympics swimming analyst Rowdy Gaines offers his perspective as an athlete who missed the 1980 Moscow Games due to the U.S. boycott, then earned gold four years later.

A philosophical exploration of turbulence and its relationship to the emotional human experience.

A documentary telling the story of Jeff Pifher and his band Socrates’ Trial and their idea of what jazz can be today.

As deforestation and climate change disturb Belize’s critical rainy season, one organization works to educate children using butterflies!

"Lost In Her Hair (Monday)" starts with an excited young Iranian girl getting ready for her first day of school. As her mother is brushing her hair and dressing her, she has varied conversations with off-frame family members that reflect cultural specificities.

Long hallways, an orchestrated auction, and acts of disappearance, Spaceland, travels through the mysterious American landscape of storage units. Space that captures the line between necessity and amenity; between an interim life event and the more permanent obscured.

Collapse is a short documentary examining the crisis shocked into motion by the COVID-19 pandemic as the final breakdown of capitalist society. The film looks at a number of topics, including great power competition, the lockdown, the collapse of social dependence, unemployment and automation to present an understanding of our historical moment as, simply, "the beginning of an end". This film is the first of three planned on the present crisis. The next will look at the murder of George Floyd and the processes it has set in motion

One in six orders placed online is returned. The free returns policy that used to be the big selling point of e-commerce sites is now causing them enormous difficulties. But one man's misfortune is another man's gain, as in the case of Dinco Muhic, which specializes in the resale of these items. "ARTE Regards" takes a look at the winners and losers of this "returns" phenomenon.