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Land rescues, which the commercial press called "invasions," multiplied in Puerto Rico from the late 1960s to the 1980s. Poor communities organized to raise a decent roof. Adolfina is the best known example of that struggle that has many stories to tell.
The young Kazan artist Nurbek, laureate of the "Golden Mask" award, participates in public events dedicated to the preservation of the Tatar language and takes part in performances that are not too popular with the conservative audience. What is more important for him – state signs of attention or the drive of youth?
This video investigates the human capacity for memory and the limits of computer capabilities, romanticizing digital realms and exploring digital intimacy.
"Akirot (Uprootings)" is a personal account which lays out a complex set of identifications and dis-identifications with the homeland, beginning with childhood memories and ending with the act of departing from the country that was called home. The videos weave together footage shot in two locations in Israel with illustrations from books of local flora. At the centre of the work is an unspoken conflict between mother and daughter considering their Israeli identity. Using hermother, anational nature trail guide, Leshem exploresthe Israeli relation to the land as a site through which identity is constructed. Through the performative and symbolic gesture of uprooting,the work deals with the personal pain of rejecting one’s motherland. As the term “motherland” suggests, land and mother are never distinguished from one another. The political objection to the land is at the same time a separation from the mother.
In "Riddle of Bakuli" Adrus shares personal experience interwoven with South Asian narrative within an East African context. The work is a montage of film, stills and sound with Adrus drawing upon his artistic research and residency with Uganda Arts Trust in Kampala, the city where he was born but forced to leave as a child 40 years ago due to the ‘political situation’. Through retracing his footsteps, Adrus revisits Kampala, and the way in which buildings and places trigger profound memories. Memories appear fragmented at first, however through ‘digitised’ archives and contemporary footage, new perspectives and stories emerge. Being displaced to Switzerland / Europe the issue of mobility, belonging and race are still very much current. This life changing event has been a key influence in much of Adrus’s work, exploring exile, communities, script / language and associations with places.
Underneath the searchlight of Amelands lighthouse, three teenage girls called Indy, Emma and Myrte are finding their way into adulthood. Nature is a familiar stranger, just like Indy’s older cousin who takes the girls fishing and takes drunken joy rides in the dunes.
Greedgeist looks at our relationship with money and the manifestation of greed in our culture, all seen through the camera lens of journalists from around the world. Greedgeist reveals how money, and the laws that govern it, is being debated by politicians, corporations, and our learning institutions and the polarizing affect of greed in the world at large and in our daily lives.
Dear Father...tells the story of Beate, who from a young age was sexually abused by her father. Beate has fought hard to take back the power of her own life and body. The film tackles an important and tabu topic, and it is a story about the hope and strength that we humans have within ourselves.
Life is a struggle. This was confirmed by journalists from Ivanovo Andrey Yevgenyevich Moscow student Nikita Mikheenko, who for several years have been trying to prove their innocence, being behind bars on dubious charges. But the presumption of guilt can and should be fought.
This documentary tells the story of the LGBTTI communities who have suffered persecution, prison and torture for their sexual condition under different military dictatorships in recent decades. The idea borns from the photographic and archival project for the recovery of the historical memory of the different LGBTTI communities in the world, a chapter of history too often hidden and forgotten. This first chapter is a journey around Spain, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, countries where the dictatorship has strongly marked the history of the LGBTTI community, oppressed by police regimes and social intolerance.
For Ona, a young woman from the small Indonesian island of Kaledupa, the struggle to receive an education and marry a decent man is hard won. Her dream is to become a marine biologist and she has the drive to do it, despite no one in her family believing in her. However, her focus on her studies is interrupted when the man she is betrothed to marry is released from prison and rapes her, leaving her no choice but to demand he marry her, so she can protect the good name of her unsupportive family.
A very special ball is stolen in a mysterious way.
This documentary exposes the wild, untold history of LGBT activism in ultra-conservative Texas and its impact on the national stage as told by the movement's ultimate outsider, Ray Hill: a labor activists' son, ex-con, and "loud-mouthed queer," whose 50 years of fearlessly protesting for LGBTQ equality energized a grassroots movement to take powerful, political action.
On July 8th, 2019, the New Democracy government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis assumed power in Greece, after campaigning on a promise to ‘clean up’ the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia, and ‘take it back’ from the anarchists. Since then, the Greek state has launched a renewed attack against the anarchist and self-organized migrant movements, targeting squats and promising future raids. Against this threat, Greek anarchists have responded with characteristic resolve and determination.
A young Cambodian poet returns to his home village where his father used to crop rice. The filmmaker, camera operator and friend, is conduced by the words and images of the poet that wants to tell his father how is life going. History that grants poetry and dignity to the political issues of land and work.
Short by Danny Carroll.
A short documentary following two freelance actresses, determined to make it online in the growing voiceover industry.
A film for A.R. Ammons, author of Garbage: A Poem (1993), and baculovirologist Lois Miller. 10 quintillion insects live on the planet—that is, 300 pounds of insects for every pound of human flesh. They drive decomposition, dissolution, and decay that makes way for the new. Specifically, darkling beetle larvae, Tenebrio molitor (roughly translated as "death spirits" and "millers"), better known as yellow mealworms, are capable of digesting Styrofoam by way of their gut microbiome, biodegrading the plastic waste into carbon and hydrogen. Their lives run counter to ours, which revolve around accumulation and accretion.
Vestige: n., a trace of something that no longer or cannot exist.
Ruth loves Carnival. Dárcio always goes with her.
After months being locked up at home, I was drawn into a harm reduction program to spend the weekend in a big house where my grandfather worked. It’s time now for the seasoned black fag with harmful life to live her dream of becoming an artist!
This short documentary follows the process of monument installation of the first Croatian president, dr. Franjo Tudjman, in Zagreb. It is an aesthetic observation of the wrapped sculpture as an overlay that reveals a new surface. By exposing it to different weather conditions it brings out the changes in sonic, visual and tactile experiences. The film combines video footage of the monument taken just few days before its unveiling, when it was still wrapped in a thick layer of nylon, and takes us through a wide range of dynamic actions performed around the statue, from construction preparations to the protests of masses of people.
The film tells about the architect Tsogik Arabian and the fate of the house she built.
Nikita eats food from the trash can, sleeps wherever he has to, and dresses in whatever kind people give him. Nikita is not a bum, he just has a dream and is ready to do everything to make it come true.
A brutal alpha male who does not respect women decides to return the location of one of his former loves for the sake of increasing self-esteem. But in the end he discovers feelings in himself that he had never thought about before.
Stories of relationships with men of two girls in love with each other.
In 2018, an agreement was signed on the transfer of the Ingush lands to the Chechen Republic. The Ingush protested and fought for justice. After regular rallies in 2019, criminal prosecution of leaders and protesters began.
The film tells about the families of innocent convicts, in particular, about two mothers, whose children are in prison. They are trying to prove the innocence of their children and the falsification of criminal case materials by law enforcement officials.
The film is about how a motorcycle trip to the island of Gotland led to reflections on the work and life of director Andrei Tarkovsky.
The film tells about military conflicts in which Russia takes part. Opinions and different points of view of ordinary Russians and people of creative professions. Vladimir, Moscow, St. Petersburg, then everywhere...
In the life of 40-year-old Dana, there was one suicide attempt, fights with homophobes, drugs and a broken heart. Living in Russia, she is not afraid to speak openly about her orientation, enduring threats and ridicule. However, Dana does not despair and finds solace in watching TV series and the big Big Tasty.
Once again ten-year-old Romy must say goodbye to her school class to travel through Europe with her family. She pitches in at home because circus life makes children grow up quickly. This film lets us share in her everyday life and the passion for the grand performance. It talks about her longing for the familiar, but also the freedom of being on the road.
Nostalgia refers to the feeling one has for a place one has left, while solastalgia expresses one's relationship to the place where one has lived one's life. Ecological philosopher Glenn Albrecht refers to the impact of environmental change on the mental health of the people who live there, and the film explores this relationship through the stories of people connected to a quarry near Maastricht, using impressive visuals consisting exclusively of drone footage of the landscape.
An exercise in introspection, a request for patience, an exploration of space both internal and external. Have you ever felt connected to someone you’ve never met?
An autobiographical portrait of a backyard from Spring to Fall 2009. This footage was revisited after a 10-year hiatus, and reveals a deeper personal story about our attempts to start a family.
A meditation on transnational adoption, identity, and colorblindness growing up in a transracial family.
A poetic coming of age documentary that follows several intertwined conversations with a multicultural film crew and their struggle with cultural identity. Introducing and combating 'Cultural Dysphoria' allows those apart of multiple cultures to find peace within themselves by rediscovering Canadian customs and the culture that has gifted them a beginning. It is essential that those individuals see, not a disadvantage, but the privilege and beauty to have been apart of both.
A gloomy filmic contribution to sea rescue and a concentrated revelation of the mechanisms of systematic flight prevention in the Mediterranean and the people responsible for it.
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
An inventive examination of the legacy of the 1990s: In his experimental short film, Ben Young portrays the figure of the then U.S. president – whom he is said to have met once in person in Louisville, Kentucky – as a foil for the questionable political developments, the beginnings of a globalised world and a society marked by collective amnesia. The director’s intelligent, witty and very personal reckoning with Bill Clinton.
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.
How can we visualise the past without perceiving it too much as a historical fact? This film uses a clever combination of archival material and oral history to bring memories of a transgenerative trauma and the associated pain to the surface.
Camps of Dependence is a short documentary looking at the COVID-19 pandemic as an instrument of eugenics against disabled people in Britain. The film looks at the political economy of disability, the nature of dependence as a relation of repression, disabled people's resistance, eugenics as an ideology and the nature of the process of barbarism today underway in the British care sector.
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.
This is a story on human desire and acrid smoke. When Myanmar opened its borders in 2010, there was an incursion of foreign capital into these unclaimed lands, with China the most aggressive of them all. Determined to also stake their claim within this fever rush of Chinese cash, Yung-heung and his comrades have set ablaze large swathes of forest alongside northern Myanmar to be turned into farmland.