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Pia and her husband, Adul, are the spouses of former people with mental disorders who are married living in a rehabilitation center. Their love began when they became patients at the rehabilitation center. Their stories are full of struggles, anxiety, hopes and the desire to live like normal human beings in general. Considering there is a lot of bad stigma against people like Pia and Adul as well as people with other mental disorders.
Through the family story of a journalist, descendant of slave traders, this documentary explores the lasting consequences of colonialism in Portuguese society today.
A reader for the Orthodox Church delivers a sermon in snowy northern Saskatchewan.
A short film created as a spontaneous action of inclusion of a local taxi driver into the conversation of foreign passengers, three friends. Although we didn’t speak the same language as him, in this short moment in time we let the music he likes become our way of silent communication with him.
In March 2022, my mother died. After her leaving, the thread connected me with my past life, with the feeling of home, seemed to tear. Despite the fact I had a little daughter and a husband, I still felt very lonely. To overcome the longing for my mother I decided to take a trip through the memories of her. The things remained from her became guides on this path. Old photos ceased to be tied to time. Although mom is not around, she has left traces by which I can find her in myself, in the environment. This is a film about accepting loss, about accepting legacy.
Set in Argentina during the aftermath of the 1983 return to democracy, this film depicts the historic Trial of the Juntas, where military leaders responsible for crimes against humanity during the dictatorship (1976-1983) face justice.
'The Unheard Tunes' is a mesmerizing documentary that delves into the enchanting lives of our talented 'Wedding Band-Walaas.' Embark on this extraordinary journey alongside Vicky Chauhan and his band, immersing yourself in the untold tales that breathe life into our vibrant Indian Weddings.
13-year-old Enzo is usually a cheerful boy. But he has been struggling with feelings of anger since his parents’ divorce. Emotions that get so intense that things sometimes get out of hand. The arrival of a special little winged friend should bring change. Could it help him get in touch with his sweet side?
Felicitas is the voice of an intimate memory that faces pain, injustice and transformation. Through her memories, she guides us through a journey where death is the beginning, and sadness, a form of resistance. Her story opens a dialogue about the duality of existence, the search for meaning and hope in the midst of chaos.
J.R. Harris is an explorer, psychologist, and self proclaimed "curious dude." Always has been, always will be. Even now at "like, a hundred and twenty years old" he's not really a sit on the beach sipping margaritas kind of guy. He unwinds by getting WAY out there. Which is a little unusual for Queens kid from the projects, he knows. Filmed in J.R's beloved New York City, BORN CURIOUS explorers the life of the explorer. It is in turns comedic and lyrical, tense and heartwarming and will inspire even the most timid among us to live braver and bolder every day.
A precocious sculptor, famous at the age of 15, Joachim Badindamana was born in Congo Brazzaville in 1950. He began by working in wood in the style of Muta Mayola and very quickly won a first sculpture prize and then a scholarship. allowing him to study fine arts in Germany. He made his life between Berlin and Dusseldorf in the 1970s and then turned to creating monumental bronzes before returning to Congo at the invitation of President Sassou Ngesso in the early 1980s. Author of monumental bronze sculptures erected in the public squares of Brazzaville from the 1980s, his emblematic works of the Congolese capital disappeared during the events of 1997. The population recovered the bronze to make pots. For Gastineau Massamba, Les Demoiselles de Brazzaville is an important work for the history of contemporary Congolese sculpture.
Walls of Faith is a captivating rock-climbing film that explores various aspects of climbing while drawing parallels to the Christian faith. The film chronicles the journey of Zach LeClerc, an outdoor enthusiast, as he scales some of Chattanooga’s most breathtaking sites.
One day in the life of Kukushka village in Kochyovsky District of Perm Krai. This day marks the ritual holiday of Strocha, the Komi-Permyak Trinity. The rituals and traditions that the Komi-Permyaks follow on this day – from gathering special food for deceased relatives and visiting the cemetery to round dances, kissing games, and rituals with birch twigs – immerse you in the authentic culture of this small village in the northern part of the region.
Gala and Viktor are searching for their Heaven on earth. Even during the war. That's why they buy an abandoned house in the Carpathian Mountains and start repairing it. It's a place of peace and calmness, where they can grow their own food, be silent, be defenseless, and drink coffee overlooking the mountains and a stork's nest. But winter comes, the apple tree in the yard freezes, and the War reaches Heaven.
While the Philippine government strives to ensure access to electricity nationwide, a far-flung community in the Northern Cordillera region has enjoyed clean and sustainable energy for over 20 years thanks to community effort and collaboration.
The documentary film "Cinematic Language of the Era: Marlen Khutsiev" is timed to coincide with the upcoming centenary of the master. In our film, talking about the life, work and dreams of Marlen Khutsiev, we focus the viewer's attention on the master's unique film language. And through cinematic language we reveal the director's personality.
Yorkshire Vets Peter Wright and Shona Searson visit the set of the hit drama.
The portraits of the smiling young people on the photo wall could give you the impression that everyone is having a great time, but the South African artist Aluta Null doesn’t go along with all that pretense.
The story follows Arena GDL during a weekend, from the event planning until it ends. While we learn its story and origin during the pandemic, we get to know Arturo’s and Misael’s job.
The Electric Circus nightclub was a drug-fueled, multicultural oasis of dance and creativity in 1960’s NYC, frequented by icons like Jimi Hendrix, Timothy Leary, and Sly & the Family Stone. Against a hallucinogenic backdrop of hippies, Hell’s Angels, and circus performers, club founders Stan Freeman and Jerry Brandt share memories of the club's rise and spectacular demise. Dynamic editing, a groovy soundtrack, and psychedelic vibes make this an entertaining trip through a slice of NYC history.
IN THE WHALE is a feature-length documentary film about arguably the greatest fish story ever told, though this one is true. It’s the account of Michael Packard, a Cape Cod fisherman, who survived to tell the tale of being swallowed by a whale, and what happened after he was spit out.
Documentary following the band Wednesday and their lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
An increasing number of Irish people are travelling to Turkey for cosmetic procedures. This documentary examines why they are going and who is responsible when it all goes wrong.
“The three hours we spend down here – it’s almost like not being in prison,” says Zeb, a prison inmate in rural Eastern Oregon. Zeb and his fellow cast members are putting on a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Most have never even considered acting, and were simply drawn in by the opportunity to break up the monotony of incarceration. In rehearsals, as they work together and learn more about each other, the men find unexpected new perspectives about their lives – past, present, and future. As their dramatic odyssey unfolds, themes of gender identity and the challenges faced by BIPOC prisoners are deftly explored, and the power of the arts to challenge and heal, even under the most difficult circumstances, is affirmed and celebrated.
Director Ben Joseph Andrews suffers from a chronic vestibular condition characterised by destabilising episodes of dizziness or imbalance, whose symptoms can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few days (or longer).
Film animation explores the collaboration between an artist and artificial intelligence during political unrest.
The desert is often mobilised in science fiction films to simulate worlds ravaged by resource depletion and climate change or outer worlds hostile to life. A visual filter applied to the landscape intensifies the conventional perception of the desert, accentuates that technological representation of nature and nature itself are inseparable from man-made transformation. Ghostly entanglement of deep time, unsettling present and imagined future haunt the landscape, the film unfolds into a bizarre interplanetary journey that oscillates between documentary and climate fiction, nature and artificial, life and non-life.
An exploration through interviews with survivors and investigators of the 2017 bomb attack against German soccer team Borussia Dortmund, produced just before their Champions League quarter-final match against Monaco.
Too Much Democracy is based on the year-long farmer's protest at Delhi borders against the recently repealed farm laws.
Care work, awareness-raising, waste reduction. Thieboudienne, chaufa, paella. What do these recipes have in common? Who cooks them? Where?
Red Creek is the elusive Class V+ whitewater gem flowing from the Dolly Sods Wilderness in the West Virginia highlands. Join Dr. Philip Prince, an expert in Appalachian geology, as he takes an in depth look at the rock structures of this region through the rare descent of Red Creek by a group of local whitewater kayakers on Cheatfest Weekend 2022. The film then explores the entire Cheat River Watershed, showcasing the world class whitewater offered in this area as a result of the unique geology of Northern West Virginia. The Red Creek Sessions is an educational documentary comparing the timeline of humanity with the timeline of geology, highlighting the rare opportunities presented to whitewater kayakers thanks to millions of years of geologic evolution.
In China, beekeeping is an ancient and traditional profession. Every spring, beekeepers migrate huge distances with their bees in search of the best nectar to harvest the highest quality honey. Relying on the changing seasons and fluctuating temperatures, making a living is becoming increasingly difficult in this traditional industry. Flower Chasers follows the journey of young beekeeper Xiaolong and his family as they travel across China in search of flowers and honey, witnessing the precarious living conditions beekeepers face, along with the threat of an ecological crisis.
Stand-up show by Pedja Bajovic.
Being a mother makes one stronger than they could ever be. To fight for a living, Lau, Mei, and Jane illegally landed in Macau from Mainland China in the 1970s and 80s, at the cost of being separated from their families. Now in their elderlies, they once again fight for their families, to protest for the reunion with their children in Macau. This documentary follows the three old ladies as they unregrettably bet on the remainder of their lifetime, to rebuild what they have lost for the past 30 years—a home.
Mainly through the voice of family patriarch Joe Judice, Sugar in Their Blood follows a family of 7th generation Louisiana sugarcane farmers as they struggle with all of the challenges inherit in staying in business. It's a story of pride and resilience in the face of constantly changing conditions, both in terms of business and climate.
Filmmaker Davina Maria and illustrator Dominique Goblet share a fascination for the beach in Ostend. Made up of photographs and illustrations, the film subtly interweaves their respective artistic practices. With a delicate and melancholic tone, Souvenirs d'une journée parfaite celebrates friendship, memory and the fleeting nature of shared moments.
Food influencer Coleman Green gives a documentary filmmaker a rare look into the making of Cocos Create.
Two British artists: the lesbian portrait painter Sadie Lee and the non-binary writer Libro Levi Bridgeman happen to have been born on the same day. They meet to collaborate on a portrait of Libro and discuss their lives from the 1980s onwards. Now, after 3 years, Sadie is ready to uncover the painting. This short documentary follows Sadie and Libro's friendship and the collaboration's surprising reveal. The portrait is a first for art, important for queer politics and sensational to see. Showing a queerer side of queer we've never seen before.
HOW DOES IT END AND WHERE DOES IT BEGIN? Ethics and moral issues by melancholy cinema. A patriotic person wants to break the barriers of Indian Society
The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered the most experimental among the 20th-century British writer's literary works, from which the young filmmaker took inspiration for his film, borrowing passages and visions to explain his own understanding of what cinema is. A film that plays with water - precisely - and light, and yet in a very dark b&w lit up by rare flashes of colour, making a journey in the night in which the shadow of a man gradually acquires substance.
After sustaining a serious major brain injury alpinist Barry Blanchard reflects on his adventures and reconciles his life in the mountains.
A small but sturdy farmer called Sanghee Ahn and passionate young farmers surrounded me, farming. When even I am having a hard time here, will the farmers be able to protect the seeds and take care of the small plant lives?
The story is about the daily labor of an artist that is often hidden from the viewer. The student from the Imperial Academy of Arts works on his diploma painting 'Alarm bell' and continuing the traditions of the Russian painting school. The protagonist of the film is Ivan Loginov, who leads a monologue that immerses the viewer into the process of creating the painting.
Anna... She doesn't know if that's her real name. Because apart from the vague memory of the sound of this name, she only associates one thing with her early childhood: horrible fear. Of doctors, of injections and the bitter-sweet taste of a piece of sugar on liberation day. Anna Strishkowa is a toddler when she stands on the ramp of Auschwitz on 4 December 1943. She neither knows the names of her parents nor where she was born. For Luigi Toscano, Anna Strishkowa is the first Auschwitz survivor he portrays for the exhibition of his project "Against Forgetting" in Kyiv.
What I Want You To Know is a gripping, intimate documentary film about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. With searing candor, veterans share personal stories from their deployments and explore the epic tragedy of their wars. A courageous and unblinking look at the cost and consequences of war, and the moral tragedy of sending America’s young men and women to fight wars their country has no need to fight.
Sierra Leonian artist Julianknxx uses his personal history as a prism to deconstruct dominant perspectives on African art, history, and culture. Rich with symbolism, his work conveys the Black experience of defining and redefining the self, rejecting labels to form new collective narratives. Offering song and music as forms of resistance, the exhibition invokes new understandings of what it means to be caught between, and to be of, multiple places. Choirs and musicians from cities across Europe give voice to a single refrain: ‘We are what’s left of us’, transforming the Curve into a collaborative space of communication. As the philosopher Édouard Glissant has written: ‘you can change with the Other while being yourself, you are not one, you are multiple, and you are yourself.’
Farmer, family man, and—unlikely leftist organiser. Bill Youren gave up a career as a lawyer to live a traditional farmer life in the back-blocks of the Hawke's Bay. He was also a zealous supporter of freedom of speech in a political environment, with the backdrop of the Cold War and the 1951 Waterfront Strike, where anyone labelled a Communist was seen as an existential threat.
Andre Ward's journey from the streets of Oakland to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Facing an all-too familiar series of obstacles including substance abuse, the loss of a parent, drug dealing and teen pregnancy, how Ward faced that adversity is what separates him from the rest. Fight after fight he defied the odds and silenced his critics. And then, guided by faith and devotion, he walked away - choosing his role as a father and a husband over his boxing career.
Janelle Niles is a Black, Mi'kmaw, two-spirited woman from Sipekne'katik First Nation in Nova Scotia and a stand-up comedian. Despite a tumultuous upbringing, Janelle embraces her biracial experience and queer identity, using stand-up to usher in a new era of inclusive, Canadian comedy.