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The Ground Where We Stand

In the interior of the island of Brač, a group of women lives in an unusual off grid community. They do not believe in private property or hierarchy, they manage the community by direct democracy, share the land, they grow and forge plants trying to be autonomous as much as they can. They are plagued by drought, lack of water and resources, as well as climatic changes. Each of the members of the community has escaped from a past life and together they are trying to build their own small self-sustaining oasis. But when the question of registering ownership in the land register is raised, the very survival of the community comes into question.

The Ground Where We Stand

NR 2024
The Digital Divide: could you live without the internet?

"Could you live without the internet? Doctors' appointments, travel directions, job applications, benefits forms, school scheduling and key services are today managed online. "While the UK government details its plans for a digital future to transform public services, one in seven Britons are forced to live without the internet. This film is voiced by three individuals experiencing digital exclusion, revealing how varied and complex the repercussions can be. Through enacted scenes from their lives, it makes visible the expanding digital divide – an issue too often unseen or ignored."

The Digital Divide: could you live without the internet?

NR 2024
IVG, le droit d'en parler

In France, one in three women has an abortion during her lifetime. Although this medical procedure has been a legal right since 1975, the subject remains sensitive. Those who talk about it expose themselves to ambiguous comments and sometimes judgment. This film documents the freedom of speech and awareness needed to break the silence surrounding abortion. It recounts the personal and social upheaval that abortion can still cause today. Léa Bordier has collected the stories of those who have experienced it in order to break the taboo that has surrounded abortion in France since its legalization.

IVG, le droit d'en parler

7.0 2024
València, t'estime

A look at the LGBT history of Valencia (Spain) from the 1970s to the early 2000s, a crucial era where a explosion of desire for freedom and the exploration of sexuality marked the beginning of the egalitarian struggle for queer rights. The film showcases testimonies that marked a before and after in the Valencian struggle, and unites activists, historical figures, drag queens, businesspeople and historians to shape a unique yet still unknown history, as well as countless of unpublished archival footage that will get us into a city that proved to be open and plural — The first demonstrations, homophobic assaults, the Brigada 26, the origins of Moviment d'Alliberament Gai del Pais Valencià and Lambda, nightlife venues and cabarets, the trans struggle, the HIV/AIDS outbreak, the first gay bookstore in the city, the first regional lesbian collective; these are some of the topics that tell a universal struggle: to be able to be free and love whoever you want without fear.

València, t'estime

NR 2024
After Lasik

This meditative exploration of vision – both literal and metaphorical – finds symbolic ways to convey the traumatic loss of Shannon Liang’s then-partner. The film opens with unflinching footage of Liang’s own laser eye surgery, which leaves her with a persistent ‘halo’ distortion in her left eye. In this sensitive short film about the transformative power of grief, the ‘halo’ becomes both a symbol of impaired vision and an enigmatic marker of loss, subtly shifting the way we perceive the world around us.

After Lasik

NR 2024
They Are Siufung

Law Siufung is a professional bodybuilder, a passionate advocate for queer rights in Hong Kong, and a PhD candidate who has dedicated their life to challenging societal norms and binaries. This documentary follows Siufung's journey as they reflect on their experiences in Hong Kong and embark on a new chapter in the United States, continuing their fight to build a more inclusive and accepting society for all. As a genderfluid individual, poet, and intellectual with a deep interest in Buddhist philosophy, Siufung’s story is one of resilience and defiance. Director Jean-Luc, who has spent 15 years in Asia producing commercials and TV shows for major international clients, uses his expertise to explore the complexities of identity and the ongoing struggle for acceptance in this compelling and deeply personal narrative.

They Are Siufung

NR 2024
Losing Grace Finding Hope

Grace Caroline Loncar was striking, brilliant, sarcastically funny, insanely talented, and popular. She came from a prominent family in Dallas. To anyone looking from the outside, she was the girl who had it all. The one you hoped to know. The one you dreamt to be. Grace was sixteen when she took her own life on November 26, 2016. Suicide does not discriminate, and the after-effects are just as earth-shattering as the tragedy itself. This documentary seeks to spread awareness by shining a light on the loved ones left behind. It is our heartfelt hope that anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide will be inspired by this family's remarkable journey and realize that there is purpose in their pain, & the possibility of healing & happiness after suffering devastating loss. Surviving and thriving after the death of a loved one to suicide is possible.

Losing Grace Finding Hope

NR 2024
Another Night

A documentary about the life of a Ukrainian family from Kharkiv through the eyes of a participant in the events. From a family evening to “another night” – the night the full-scale invasion began. The residents face the Russian invasion at home with children, dogs, and elderly parents. They create a “new routine,” hearing explosions, gunfire, and military aircraft, while playing chess, drinking wine, arguing, and rushing to the store during brief lulls. This is a story about people forcibly torn from their homeland.

Another Night

NR 2024
Mokum

Mokum is a film that explores the feeling of home experienced walking through the streets of Amsterdam during the filmmaker’s multiple trips to Holland. Utilizing 16mm and digital footage filmed over the past twenty years plus recently acquired, early 20th century, silent, b/w archival footage of Amsterdam, Mokum is response to that feeling of a home experienced in the present and perhaps, experienced by the filmmaker’s "“Crypto-Jewish” ancestors that found refuge in Amsterdam from the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions.

Mokum

NR 2024
Mother

Bayaman, a young documentarian, becomes intrigued for the first time in his life by how his mother Rakhat manages to work at the maternity ward as an obstetrician-gynecologist. Taking a small camera with him, the young man rushes to capture the night shift, where difficult births, cesarean sections, and even household conversations take place. Sometimes, Bayaman feels like all the hustle and bustle inside the maternity ward is a separate world with its own rules and behind-the-scenes heroes.

Mother

NR 2024
Noble Houses of Lake Constance

The Habsburgs, noble knightly families up to the last emperor of France - they all settled around Lake Constance and many of their descendants still live in palaces, castles and fortresses around the so-called "Swabian Sea". This documentary by offers a journey through historical noble houses in the four states of the Lake Constance region: Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein. The film shows noble families and provides insights into their lives, images of fairytale palaces and castles as well as turbulent stories of great noble families from a historical perspective.

Noble Houses of Lake Constance

NR 2024
Vladimir Carvalho, Cinema e Memória

An affectionate conversation about the life and work of one of Brazil's greatest documentarians. Vladimir Carvalho opens the doors of Cinememória to Marcia Zarur's crew. Generously, he shares every detail of the Cinema Museum: pieces and equipment carefully collected over more than half a century. These objects tell the story of cinema in Brasília, Brazil, and the world, and, above all, reflect a lifelong passion for the art of filmmaking. The short film offers a joyful and lighthearted account, which turned out to be the filmmaker's final interview. Vladimir Carvalho suffered a heart attack an hour after the team left the site and passed away two weeks later.

Vladimir Carvalho, Cinema e Memória

NR 2024
The Spies Who Ruined Our Lives

For over 40 years, a secret organization spied on British citizens. This secret organization infiltrated over 1000 groups they wanted to spy on. To achieve this, they created new personas by stealing the identities of dead children. They used these new personalities to start relationships with women. They also used their new identities to have sex with women and In some cases, they even had children. Then once they had what they wanted, they abandoned the women and vanished without trace. The women wouldn't find out the truth until decades later. The men were in fact, undercover police officers who were infiltrating completely lawful groups.

The Spies Who Ruined Our Lives

NR 2024