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A documentary about opioid deaths in Canada.

The life of Mikhail Sarin is not easy. As always, there is not enough money. His grandson Timur's mom goes on two-week drinking sprees. To somehow survive Misha collects metal at local dumps. At the same time, he, as an inexhaustible sourse of energy, charges everyone around with his optimism.

This is a personal documentary that confronts my racism, especially as a white cisgender male. It’s approximately 16 minutes long. This video follows and explains my racist behaviors as a teenager and young adult and my transition into having anti-racist values. It explores the location in which I was raised, and how my relationship with Traverse City, Michigan played a role in developing my racist behaviors. This is not meant to be an excuse for my racism, nor a justification of it, but rather it’s an exploration of the journey it took for me to let go of old behaviors and embrace new values. The video is woven together through an open letter to my younger self, and supplemented by videos and stills that reflect how my relationship with the environments I’m in and have been in, have influenced me.

Under the forced isolation in 2020, Dina Karaman began to keep a video diary, filming from the window of her apartment in St. Petersburg. The deserted urban landscape opening up to the eyes, which seemed to her an eerie dream, pushed Dina to find out what other people dream about while going through the lockdown. Recordings of people recounting their dreams and audio notes contributed by strangers are woven in this piece into a motley web of fears, memories, and hopes.

Experimental short film with animation and appropriation of amateur footage shot during the war in the Donbass region of Ukraine, recombined into a surreal anti-war film-poem.

Life of an editor who works for Islamic Republic of IRAN Broadcasting and feels like Frankenstein, creating a monster. Imaging of all movie sequences have been done with a cell phone.

Meditations in an emergency. A short film by David Humphreys

A film about extortion, brutality, and death caused by police as they enforced Covid-19 restrictions in Nairobi’s informal settlements. “Cops and Corpses; Victim’s Cry for Justice” follows up with families and victims of police brutality during the enforcement of coronavirus restrictions; highlighting their grief and quest for justice, which for many seems so elusive at the moment. The documentary is told through a mix of characters. Among them are two survivors of police brutality who are both still suffering from the effects of their encounter with the police, and also the families of three victims who were killed, including that of a 13-year-old boy who was standing on the balcony of his parent’s home. The story revolves around the quest for justice, grief and the economic burden on the survivors who have been incapacitated and have mounting hospital bills.

Saving the Great Lakes. Fighting for the future of the largest fresh water system on Earth. The Great Lakes are among North America’s most valuable resources. Not only are they a source of recreation, the lakes are a trillion dollar economic powerhouse. This series partners with National Geographic to dive into some of the issues impacting the Great Lakes.

Follow a group of all-American families on their clandestine quest to acquire and use medical cannabis illegally to help their extremely sick children.

Wander is a film primarily experimenting with the effects of superimpositions to play with surreal sensations, as a poetic dialogue floats along the way. No incarnation of the subjects exists inside, only the two's voices hovering over the dynamics like extraterrestrial creatures drifting away from the Earth. The atmosphere is dangerous. And the fluid exhibition of sceneries spans from Asia to North America with chaotic velocity, which may relive a spiritual diaspora after fragmentary experiences here and there. In this visual space, the past is unrelentingly flooded away in the fading memory.

Learn from real-life Top Guns, who have flown as the Navy's best aviators in the iconic F-14 Tomcat, and are ready to discuss their experiences.

Experimental documentary that portrays life living with anxiety from the experience of its three filmmakers. Daily life around this disorder and affective state is shown from experimentation and attentive observation of the environment.

Palestinian teenagers share how it feels to live under occupation while overlooking the West Bank.

The finale of the "Catalogue" series: A cockroach, a woman, a dramatic encounter in a closet— from the roach's point of view. Inspired by "The Passion According to G.H." (1964) by Clarice Lispector. Chicago sound artist A.J. McClenon was commissioned to “play” the empty house by knocking, pounding, scraping different surfaces.

This film is an articulation of the confusion felt around "getting better." Language around illness creates a linear binary of existence, between feeling "better" or "worse"- words which are also connected to notions of "good" and "bad." This piece documents the harrowing process of accepting lifelong sickness.

Close-up on the story of a dream of actors, of a village of die-hards, of a breeding ground for talents: the Café de la Gare, founded the day after May-68.

Despite all the many things Black folks have experienced throughout the centuries, we’ve still managed to keep our spirit alive and moving through time and space. There’s debate (including in the Black community as a whole) about what is appropriate and are traditional practices. Regardless of what negative connotations are placed, these rituals remain generation after generation.

Following a set of traumatic experiences - best friends, Fletcher Barnes and Henry Davis, drop out of college in search of meaning. After months of adventure, they find themselves living with a traveling love wizard in a bizarre Los Angeles home. Inspired by his story and determined to dig deeper - they team up and head to Africa to discover how "love" is perceived in the world today.

The Linesman is the story of one man’s mission to end human-elephant conflict in his homeland. With an unprecedented view of the plight of threatened villagers and their massive, majestic foes, the Asian Elephant, we come to truly understand both sides of this deadly struggle.

During August 2019, 8 students and workers between 19 and 21 years old participated in a missionary experience in Tanzania. They discovered that the journey is not only physical but above all emotional and mental.

While working on her recent film commission for Kettle’s Yard, Here is Elsewhere , Sarah Wood became curious about what the exhibition of art means at this time. In one part of Kettle’s Yard Alfred Wallis Rediscovered is installed and in another part of the gallery, Wood’s film. How do they relate to one another? How does art enable connection? The answer was Correspondence ­– a short essay film constructed from archive footage taken around the Cornish coastline. Correspondence speaks across time to fellow artist Alfred Wallis about the role the site of art plays in a time of social isolation. The scripted voiceover in the new film takes the form of a letter written by Wood to Wallis.

“Light has no tongue but it is all eye.” – John Donne. A series of short films about how the night immerses us in a world where the deepest thoughts emerge. Shot frame-by-frame with long exposure times and developed by hand before dawn.

"Schroon Lake" adapts performance artists Matty Davis and Ben Gould's work "Carriage" to the nine-mile-long frozen lake in the Adirondacks. Shot on expired 16mm film over ice, the film offers a gritty intimacy and sightline of the unstable space between masculinities refracted through the winter and mutually activated syndromes, perceived and rearranged through a queer, female gaze.

Covid-19 has taken over the world. The winter of 2020 is Sápmi snow bounded, a woman has to digg free her water spring.

Manual scavenging is a term used in India for the manual removal of untreated human excreta from sewers, bucket toilets or pit latrines by hand with buckets and shovels. In complete Violation of basic human rights and dignity. Incredibly they belong to one specific community now known as the Valmikis who have been engaged in this occupation for hundreds of years. India has succeeded in sending its mission to the Mars with technological and engineering advancements, but India’s caste-based social system has failed to stop sending human beings into the pit full of muck, poisonous gases and infectious diseases. ‘The Last Man’ aims to show the ground reality through everyday life of manual scavengers engaged in different types of manual scavenging, endangering and losing their lives in cleaning the choked sewers, and manholes.

A 53-year-old man arrives at the voting booth for the first time in his life, to vote for an election of the country that he holds dear to him. He crosses the ballot card with a fervent hope and resolve that his country deserves an overall transformation, including a new constitution, new leadership that drives the country towards progress and a fresh political culture that unites the people towards progress. Upon casting his maiden vote, he goes for a stroll to discover an area he had not hitherto seen in his own neighborhood and of himself. He wonders if the vote he just casted is by chance or choice. Perplexed by this question and lost in a labyrinth of newly discovered neighborhood and his own thoughts on democracy, motherland and patriotism, he fumbles to find his way back home. A story of one man's self-discovery and his quest to find his political self in a climate of uncertainty amidst forces of misfortune and misery created by the recent pandemic.

Documentary animation "It's just space..." is a story about scientists who explore the mysterious processes of space, with the help of a huge field full of antennas, which are located in the Kharkiv region. The discoveries that scientists make may be needed only after decades, but understanding the laws by which nature exists will help create technologies for everyday life.

The heroes of the film are two families who bring up children with autism spectrum disorders. In the center of the plot are two mothers, with their sons (10 and 15 years old). Women are friends, share difficulties and joys, support each other, although they live in different countries. The film about autism addresses not only the community whose families it has touched, but society as a whole. It is an invitation to each spectator to understand, tolerance and expand the outlook.

Participants in the Belarusian protests talk about imprisonment, the role of girls in the Belarusian resistance and a moral test for men.

An age-old ethnic group is known to the world as “Mosuo” inhabits the region around Lugu Lake, which borders Sichuan and Yunnan. While they called themselves “Na” since ancient times. Our documentary team went deep into the Mosuo settlements such as Lugu Lake in Yunnan, Yongning, and Muli in Sichuan, and the camera focused on the ordinary Mosuo people.

A documentary film that tells the story of Ivy as she reveals her dark past as a former rebel in the New People’s Army (NPA). It begins from her recruitment to the NPA, to her rise as one of NPA’s leaders, to her heightened exposure to atrocious practices within the organization.

Take a sneak peek at 'DEVIATE,' the first backcountry project from legendary shredders Torin Yater-Wallace and Jossi Wells, featuring the duo alongside some of the heaviest hitting rippers in the industry.

Trails in Motion is an international segment racing film tour offering an approximately 90-minute selection of the best short and mid-length trail running films from around the world.

A quirky businessman in his 40s was looking for a creative outlet and stumbled upon an archaic form of photography that changed his life's path. 8 years later, his Native American wet plate photos are being archived around the globe, and his recent portrait session with Greta Thunberg at Standing Rock Indian Reservation has been seen by millions and is in the vaults of the Library of Congress.- From Amazon

Bobbie Blood is a short documentary series shot on 16mm film chronicling the love life of a newlywed octogenarian couple and the story that brought them together.

In a small car full of things, where he eats, sleeps and dreams, Massimiliano is immersed in a book. Collections of photographs weave together his everyday life living on the street with his inner one.

Step into the driving seat for a blistering ride deep into the contemporary Brooklyn punk scene. A day in the life of female punk band Flasyd. This fly-on-the wall style documentary examines a subculture with roots in the past while exploring the evolution of this thriving scene. Their story is depicted through music and the eccentric characters that inhabit their world.

Exploring the highs and lows of an esteemed career in professional boxing, This documentary is truly enthralling and packed with wonderful insight and anecdotes about Frank Maloney. But this is a story with another dimension - an identity kept secret for decades. With honesty and integrity, this is the story of how Frank Maloney overcame his inner turmoil to stop living as Frank and become Kellie.

News about new flayers and crippled animals in Russia occurs with enviable regularity. In January 2020, amendments to Federal Law No. 498 "On Responsible Treatment of Animals" came into force, which provide for tougher punishment for cruelty to animals and irresponsible attitude towards them, but the laws remain only on paper.

An ordinary old herdsman living in the pastoral area in tibet who became a vegetarian in his twenties. He never got married,while he used to live with his brother who died later. He usually treats domestic animals like life's best friends. Many people even think that reincarnation into his house to be a yak is the result of a good deed in his life.

Soil-Flowers is a portrait film of a woman getting ready to go on a trip to China to take care of her elderly mother. She lives alone in a house in Toulouse (France) filled with tones of objects and belongings after her partner passed away. Even though the filmmaker stays behind the camera he is also an actor and spectator inside his own films. By following the woman who goes back and forth between China and France, he starts questioning about his own living coditions.

A documentry piece revolving Mohammad Sadegh -a gifted student in Sharif University of Technology- and his search for a future path to follow.

In 1962 Ernesto De Martino travelled to the South of Italy for his ethnographic research and shot "La Taranta". A study around women who were poisoned by a Trantula bite while harvesting in the fields. The remedy against the deadly poison was a folk dance called Taranta. The women danced the poison out of their bodies with the help of local musicians and priests. Studies around this phenomenon have highlighted that, in the majority of cases, these women were suffering severe mental illness and hysteria due to sexual abuse and poverty. In present-day Italy a similar dynamic has resurfaced, uncovering the stories of groups of immigrant women (mostly from Romania) who were victims of agricultural and sexual exploitation in Ragusa, Sicly. I reapprorpiated the 1962 archival footage to propose a different angle of the story surrounding these women. Not from the point of view of a man who has undertaken to observe them, but from the point of view of a woman from the South of Italy. (FF)

Farnham wanted to capture the craziness of the last few months of juggling home life, working and home-schooling, whilst staying alert! He 3D-scanned his children taking part in the various banal activities he hadset up for them.