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Hitchhiking the Length of the Land of Israel | Okimta Band

What happens when the Okimata band goes on a hitchhiking trip from Metula to Eilat? A video was born that is both an adventure, a human encounter, and a small lesson in love for Israel. Through our encounters of all kinds, we heard moving stories, laughed, got excited – and most of all, we rediscovered the best in the people of Israel: the kindness, openness, and broad-heartedness found everywhere in the land. This is an educational and entertaining video, suitable for those who love the country, the people in it, and the path shared among them.

Hitchhiking the Length of the Land of Israel | Okimta Band

NR 2025
Wagner Among Us

Over the years of the war, thousands of Russian prisoners have been released. Until autumn 2024, they could sign six-month military contracts and receive a presidential pardon. Some of them had been convicted of serious crimes and thus avoided decades in prison. Among those released was the murderer of Kemerovo student Vera Pekhteleva — her parents learned about his freedom only six months later. We filmed the stories of victims whose mothers lost track of the convicted killers and still do not know where they are. We also spoke with two former offenders who returned from the front and are now trying to live as ordinary citizens.

Wagner Among Us

NR 2025
Hunting the Rainbow

Documentary about how, in today’s Russia, love and private life have become grounds for harassment, persecution, and criminal prosecution. The film begins with ordinary situations that, in a different political context, would have remained part of everyday life: two lovers walking home hand in hand, flirting in a private chat, sharing a kiss on the street. In contemporary Russia, however, these simple acts trigger a chain of violence — because the lovers are of the same sex. And that has now become a crime. Flyers with photographs, curses, and threats appear in apartment buildings. A kiss in public leads to detention and beatings. Private messages in a closed group result in abduction straight from a university classroom and hours of police torture. Through the stories of Lyosha, two men named Sergey, and August, the film systematically reveals how this system operates — from everyday homophobia and workplace pressure to the actions of law enforcement agencies.

Hunting the Rainbow

NR 2025
The New Life

Travelling the French Alps at 17 while coming to terms with losing my dad. Exploring ideas of faith through difficult situations, and how bad times can bring out the good in our lives, documenting the journey after losing a parent to cancer and the importance of art and creativity in our lives. Using "The New Life" as a new way of defining grief, serving as the name given to the life we are forced to live after losing a loved one, and a christian name given to Heaven. It’s the similarity in all of our lives and the life that we go out of our way to live, in search of experiences, after it feels like all hope is lost. Why do we fall? It does, in fact, get better.

The New Life

NR 2025
The Amateur Cinema of Luis Roig d’Alós

A collection of amateur films shot in the 1940s by the Valencian art restorer Luis Roig d'Alós (1904-1968). These 16mm silent black-and-white films capture everyday life in postwar València. The anthology includes historically and sociologically significant footage: the restoration of the Church of St John of the Market, the 25th anniversary of the Pontifical Coronation of Our Lady of the Forsaken, with previously unseen images of political and ecclesiastical figures, and sailing regattas at Natzaret Beach, set against the now-ruined Benimar sports and leisure complex.

The Amateur Cinema of Luis Roig d’Alós

NR 2025
Pep Banned

For nearly thirty years, the University of Virginia Pep Band was one of the University’s most revered (and irreverent) institutions. With a penchant for silliness and mockery, their performances jabbed at everything from rival teams and political figures to the University itself. Ultimately, it was this anything-goes approach to antics and jokes that led to their permanent barring from all university events in 2003. Years in the making, co-directors Chris Farina (World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements) and Bill Reifenberger’s documentary tracks the rise and fall of the Pep Band, piecing together its madcap legacy through the accounts of former members, administrators, and fans. Traversing decades of controversy and comedy, the film is full of heart and spirit, and even offers one final performance from the irrepressible ensemble that refused to play by the rules.

Pep Banned

NR 2025
In the Name of Memory

When Ariel was in elementary school, she often lied in her mother's arms and listened to her recounting memories about Ariel. In 2024, at the age of 26, Ariel invited her mother to share her experiences about her pregnancy, but she declined. So Ariel interviewed her close friend and her mother instead. If Everyone is just an observer of memories, what is the meaning of retelling them once again? Are children and their mother bonded by blood, by relationship, or by an invisible gap within the streams of memories?

In the Name of Memory

5.0 2025
de natura tenebrarum – about the nature of darkness

The moral self-assurance of fairy tales is lost in the depths of the dark forest haunted by Manuel Knapp with his projection and recording equipment. He casts filigree white light, the strange calligraphic signals of a digital abstraction, into the existential darkness of a wintry forest landscape under a new moon; and by flashing a kind of writing on branches and tree trunks, he creates a cryptic choreography, a game of concealing and revealing.

de natura tenebrarum – about the nature of darkness

NR 2025
Music In A Village Named 1PB

In a landscape of shifting sands, a community enclosed into grids with no name, rehearses its music in villages like 1 PB, a dot at the Indian side of the India-Pakistan border. Mirs are the custodians and practitioners of a timeless poetry not bound to 'quam' or 'desh'. But the land has now degraded, boundaries have hardened and the music has become a whisper. This film gleans songs and poems to stitch a portrait of musicians struggling to keep their inheritance of Sufi and Bhakti music alive.

Music In A Village Named 1PB

5.0 2025
Voces de la Selva Maya: Una Batalla por la Vida

Wilma, a defender of the Mayan territory, and Carlos, a Greenpeace activist, set off on a small plane flight over the majestic Mayan Jungle, discovering from above a heartbreaking contrast: amazing natural beauty facing the devastation caused by deforestation, mega farms and tourist developments. Throughout the journey, his reflections are intertwined with powerful testimonies from affected communities and environmental experts, revealing the alarming fragility of this green lung in Mexico. With shocking images and urgent questions, the documentary seeks to answer: How can we protect the jungle before it is too late?

Voces de la Selva Maya: Una Batalla por la Vida

NR 2025
an observance of absence

A documentary that blends interior and exterior spaces left vacant and dilapidated by the abandonment of Central and Eastern Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region, with similarly neglected interior and exterior sites in postindustrial Central and Eastern Europe. The score, composed by Adam Parks (Lightning White Bison), is comprised of manipulated field recordings from both regions of the world, layered with ambient organ and synth instrumentals. Visual and sound contributions by Dan Stauffer.

an observance of absence

NR 2025