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Shadowboxing builds on Abdi Osman’s ongoing research surrounding the gaps between experiences and representations of queer cruising, space-making, and place-making in the city of Toronto. A projection of lush green park environments documented by Osman from sites across the city appears. Osman’s holdings and records of queer, locational fortitude speak to the countless compounded sites around us where bodies have forged connections in time and space in spite of the continued realities of homophobia, racism, and white supremacy that exist in Toronto, and beyond. The projection is augmented by an online audio work that features oral histories about cruising from the perspectives and experiences of Black, queer, and trans community members, as recorded by the artist in the city.

A fusion of theater, dance, soundscape, and documentary exploring the aftermath of patriarchal oppression in Elvas, a small town in Southern Portugal. It aims to address the psychological and sociological implications of patriarchal oppression within the community and the family unit.

New 2021 version of the classic. One of Tchaikovsky's three major ballets, The Nutcracker, a heartwarming story of Christmas. The Maki Asami Ballet Company started a regular performance of "The Nutcracker" in 1963. And it has been performing for about 60 years until today.

A song to the fading of memories. Cameraless techniques on 8mm film, 35mm negative film and slides.

Composed entirely of phone video, the film is a travelogue of time spent in Kansas City, MO and Denver, CO, in 2016. As with his singular "flash memoir" writing technique (see "Sparse Black Whimsy: A Memoir") msw's filmmaking invites the viewer into intimate, unexpected fragments of friendship and music, redefining the memoir in the process.

Wolf Blitzer anchors a special look exploring the origins and execution of the coup attempt Donald Trump inspired - to prevent his successor from taking office.

Each week, people visit the Brooklyn Public Library to video call incarcerated loved ones. A story of two mothers and their sons, and the librarians who keep the families connected.

An animated essay about a long-distance love story.

A personal expression of transformation, as a mother turns her grief and silence around a miscarriage into an expression of remembrance.

A filmmaker struggles with a profound loss after her father's sudden death, who dies while visiting his homeland of India. Hena wrestles with coming to terms with their strained relationship, by the only way she knows how: making a film.

Multiple residents of the ancient city express their grievances with respect to the imminent destruction of their ancestral homes.

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.

As lawmakers gathered to certify the election of Joe Biden, an angry mob encouraged by Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building, leading to the deaths of several people. Congressman Ruben Gallego describes the fear he felt as the rioters searched for lawmakers: 'In my opinion, there's nothing scarier than a white mob, especially in the United States'. The riot shocked many, including former members of the Trump administration. ‘None of us signed up for insurrection. We signed up for lower taxes and deregulation, and fewer involvements overseas... I think it's going to colour his legacy forever,’ says former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.

Gifted girl Darina, who lives out in the sticks on the island of Sakhalin wants to move to Moscow. She longs for love and recognition, but so far she can’t even find a job. Parents believe that their 40-year-old daughter has her head in the clouds, but Darina pays no attention.The island girl brightens up her routine with a unique vision of beauty and an active social networking, while she continues to stay in her personal Wonderland.

Hailstorm is based in the Narmada valley in central India, an area with extremely low levels of groundwater. Farmers here battle for survival, pitched against the vagaries of climate change. Following the events of a freak hailstorm over four seasons, the film unfolds the vulnerability and precarity of those that are at the sharpest end of global capitalism’s rapacious greed and the furthest from its benefits.

A documentary about a college senior and his best friends as they go throughout their last three years in film school.

I experience conflict everytime I stand towards a landscape. I am always suspicious of the established relationship of seduction that takes into account the current acceleration of time through technology towards the body. An erotics of speed. While on location, I try to understand how these invisible relationships between history of speed, capital, libidinal economies, technological evolution, landscape photography and cinema in itself can create moments of disruption around terms like territory, land belonging, race and citizenship.

Adversarial Infrastructure is an investigation into the volumetric history of the Crimean annexation that employs deepfake technology as a research method. Dissecting the Crimean Bridge, the crystallised artefact of Russian colonial violence that spans through cyberspace no less than an offline landscape, this film aims to assemble the new image of logistical infrastructures as a type of hybrid warfare.

Authority, autonomy and one’s own complicity are elements in the transgressive situations that the artist Christian Falsnaes establishes in ‘Look at Me’, where he, in collaboration with the actress Minni Katrina Mertens, directs different groups of people at a night club, a gallery and an open-air festival. The boundary between subject and object – and between spectator and participant – is fleeting until you are finally invited on stage yourself. Throughout the entire proceedings, however, there is only one director. When Falsnaes and Mertens take turns to give both the others and each other instructions, it happens in an interplay where dominance and submission are the constants. ‘Look at Me’ embodies the kinds of soft and hard authority that we more or less consciously are subjected to everywhere in modern Western society, and it is made as both a documentary and a video work in its own right.

Within the walls of a call center, a feeling of being in limbo pervades. Homesickness floods the phone receiver as deported call center agents make calls across the US-Mexico border.

In the summer of 2020, a Tennessee public art program launched their month-long mural initiative with one goal in mind: to transform walls in rural towns with just a coat of paint. The catch? These walls were for women.

A heavily processed video document depicting a public “die in” staged in 2013 by The Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones & End the Wars is excavated and posed against a failed attempt at emulating an expert systems’ emulation of human decision making.

In September 2016 five ‘Peace Pilgrims’ trekked overnight through the central Australian bush into the secretive military facility Pine Gap, 18 kms east of Alice Springs. Their plan of action, according to the police recording of the interview, was to “pray for a miracle”. They were spotted by surveillance CCTV around 3.30 a.m. as they approached the ‘prohibited area’ and were arrested about an hour before sunrise. When the sun came up on September 29, 2016 Margaret Pestorius, Jim Dowling, Jim’s son Franz, Timothy Webb and Andy Paine were to be charged under the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act, a law originally designed to protect 1950s British atom bomb tests on Montebello Island, Emu Fields and Maralinga. They faced 7 years jail.

Francisco lives alone in an apartment in Rio de Janeiro. A collector of antique wooden furniture – for which he has a great fondness – he brings with him great stories, from his childhood and youth to a brief journey into the past, gifting us with accounts and historical recollections of a life full of struggle and resilience.

The short documentary film tells the story of the Scotland Endemic Nursery Team saving the She Cabbage from extinction, and shows Prince Andrew School’s Eco-Schools class learning about conservation and helping to plant seedlings.

The 247-day hunt to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to justice.

Xiaoxin, an 18-year-old Burmese girl, married a Chinese husband who was more than a dozen years older than her. The camera followed her life for four years, including the sudden birth of a child, her husband's betrayal, washing clothes, cooking, harvesting and planting - the normal life wrapped up like raising silkworms and spinning silk. When an epidemic broke out, where should the Burmese women in the village who had no identity like her go? As fate changes, this film also discusses how a group of girls who left their hometowns can have a home and how to be women.

In the United States, some 10% of people who wish to have children struggle with infertility. NOVA explores barriers to fertility, from the social to the biological, and the state of assisted reproductive technologies. Follow the journeys of people navigating challenges from structural inequalities and racism to falling sperm counts, egg freezing, and IVF.

Made to commemorate Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi on his birth centenary, this documentary by FTII faculty has its focus on learning and presentation of music. Gems of advice in own voice of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi is bound to inspire those engaged in music education, because he was not only a legendary artiste, but also a legendary teacher who has given eminent disciples to the world. Simplicity of his spoken words and euphony of his singing, including a rare Kumar Vyasa verse in Kannada, create a collage of education, inspiration and biography in this no frills short documentary that suits fast life of the day.

A poetic journey through the breathtaking and culturally-significant landscapes of the Dasiqox watershed, with reflections and stories shared by Tsilhqot'in in Nenqayni Ch'ih.

Thousands of people from all over the city attack the Tenekeli Neighborhood, which no one wants to enter, 364 days a year, just one day a year. This only day when the walls between Roma and other segments of society disappear is Ederlezi, the most important for the Roma people, where the arrival of spring is celebrated.

Peng Ruan filmed himself obsessively from the moment he arrived in Europe from China. The camera became his best friend as he shot a total of 60 hours of amateur footage that captures his life over a period of six years. Film students in Barcelona edited this raw material to create a candid portrait of a man who doesn't act as if his situation is better than it is.

The Wanderlust Women is a short film exploring the connections about outdoor leader, Amira Patel, has with nature and outdoors, and documents the start of her journey founding a Muslim hiking group for women, and the impact her mother, Aysha, had on her journey.

"This treatment of the insurrection recreates the attack moment by moment, tracking the protesters mounting agitation and rage, and some rioters breaking into various fronts of the U.S. Capitol, eventually marching the Confederate flag into the building and occupying the halls of Congress. It also reveals the diverse and competing ideologies that coalesced on Jan. 6: angry Trump voters marched alongside sovereign citizens, Three Percenters, Proud Boys, and Christian Nationalists. Some rioters demonstrated solidarity with the police as others brutally assaulted officers."

Miriam O' Callaghan hears the stories of people living on either side of the UK-Irish border, one hundred years on from Partition.

Learn more about a heritage of Rio culture, the kite. Connecting social relationships, the kites maintain the ethics of friendships and unity among residents and visitors of the Água Santa neighborhood, North Zone of Rio de Janeiro.

Celebrating 25 years since the first episode of "Forensic Files," experts and specialists discuss the importance of forensic science.

This fascinating documentary presented by historian and presenter of the Three Castles Burning Podcast, Donal Fallon explores the past and future of Dalymount Park, an iconic football stadium in the heart of a community

A Tibetan refugee woman is looking back on her life in India through the heartbreaking conversation with The 14th Dalai Lama about the fate of the nation in exile.

The subject of the film is the cultural phenomenon of Muškatle (Pelargoniums) music, which flourished in 1986 and continued until 1991, originating from Vojvodina. Archival footage and narration from musicians, professionals and fans of the genre reveal how Hungary's fun style of folk music was transformed into a form of muscat and, despite cultural resistance, why the trend is still so popular today.

Lies, spies, and betrayal led to the defining political scandal of modern Ireland, the Arms Crisis.

A young woman talks about her journey, which took her from her original community to an urban environment. After experiencing a culture shock in the city, this is where she wants to live from now on. Iskwew-ishkueu: a gentle film born from a strength of resilience.

During 1935 to 1950, a number of films were made of Sri Ramana Maharshi, recording some of the Sage’s daily activities and the environment of Sri Ramanasramam. These films afford us a remarkable opportunity of viewing a fully-enlightened sage, who in the 20th century, lived like an ancient Maharshi. This compiled archival film is a collection of all the known films of the Maharshi, restored, edited and arranged in chronological order. The description of each timing in the film is provided in the link below.

An experimental documentary, centered around a drag performer’s debut. This autobiographical film follows a gender-non conforming artist as they prepare for their first performance, while exploring the personal journey that shaped who they are today.

Inside this mountain, a mysterious emperor is said to be waiting for his resurrection. At the northern end of the Alps, near Salzburg, the Untersberg rises majestically. Hardly any other massif is the subject of so many miraculous stories.

This documentary chronicles German pharmaceutical giant Bayer's installation of a lighthearted mural about bees in a quaint corner of Decatur, Georgia, and the community's rowdy response and allegations of corporate 'greenwashing.'