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After years of fighting, the United States needed to bring an end to World War II. That came in the form of a powerful new weapon, the atomic bomb. Not only would it end the war, it would also change the course of history.

In Palestine Saleh is moving from farm to farm working on 6 month long contracts. But this is not how he grew up. He has been robbed of the land he thought he should farm and pass on to his children. As a nomad he is now trying to save what is left of the Palestinian soil through organic sustainable farming.

An essay inspired by the verses written by poets who perished in the Great Patriotic War.

A short film by Jordan James Kaye

'Secrets of Nature' was a series of short films produced by the BBC in the 20s and 30s about animals, plants and our relationship to them. In 2021, and in tandem with the 'Cinema e Razão Ecológica' conference, Teresa Castro gives it a new reading in four episodes in which she explores the world of lichens, mushrooms and ruderal plants. An unprecedented mini-video series, produced by Culturgest.

In 1813, following his disastrous invasion of Russia, Napoleon faced a desperate battle to save his empire. His enemies were gaining in strength, as Prussia and Sweden joined the Sixth Coalition against him, while Russian armies advanced across Poland and into Germany. The French Emperor worked miracles to raise a new Grande Armée of young conscripts, leading them to victory at Lützen and Bautzen. But Napoleon knew everything might ultimately depend on Austria - which side would his father-in-law, Austrian Emperor Francis I, chose to support? The matter would settled after a fateful and ill-tempered meeting in Dresden between Napoleon and Austrian foreign minister von Metternich...

Film about the process of decolonization in Kazakhstan. Search for visual solutions and film language for the author's statement on this topic.

While looking into a collection of old vinyl records, a young filmmaker ponders the ideas of mortality, legacy, connection, and family.

Chris Jiménez follows Sanae Nagashima with his camera in her journey from the crowded streets of Asakusa to the ancient castle of Tsuchiura.

A behind-the-scenes look at the Richmond Tigers' 2019 AFL season, as they battled through adversity to come out on top.

Mata Ne is about a woman tracing her roots. She travels, together with her mother, to her second home in Japan. It is about them visiting the almost one hundred years old grandmother on the remote island of Okinawa. This reunion feels like a farewell at the same time, somewhere in between being home and alienation.

A refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo has a dream of playing Division 1 in the NCAA. However, that dream was crushed, and he was forced to return home. Close to giving up, David is given one last opportunity. This last shot changes everything.

A group of Cow Protectors hunt down a truck that they believe is smuggling cows for slaughter. "Gau Premi (For the Love of Cow)" gives us a view from the frontlines of the war to protect our 'mother' from those who will stop at nothing to 'debase' her.

Anara is a nine-year old girl, who lives with her two grandmothers in Engilchek (Enilchek), a former Soviet militarized “secret city” in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. The morning news of former Radio Moscow intrude into their existence which is slowly returning to pastural life.What are Anara’s perspectives? Join her mother as a migrant worker in Russia or grow up in desolate Engilchek?

Barnie Botone was 22 years old when he got his very first job on the railroad. Nearly a hundred years prior, his great-great grandfather Guipago, a chief of the Kiowa Tribe of the Great Plains, was imprisoned by the U.S. Army and taken away by train during westward expansion. Botone looks back on the beauty and the tragedies on the American railroads, and the strength he needed to return day after day.

President Obama declared Bears Ears a national monument in December 2016. One year later, President Trump reduced the monument by 85 percent. While the political debate continues, this documentary seeks to transcend the rhetoric, following the inhabitants of San Juan County, and revealing the mutual ideals between opposing ideologies: love and awe of a beloved land.

I recorded our time around South Korea in 2020.

AY9ONA, following in the footsteps of an icon of Moroccan rap. From the heights of Ahouli to the Marrakech studio, Laklila set out to meet L'Morphine and Mehdi, two facets of an authentic and timeless artist. In short, a legend who left his mark on the national scene for 16 years. Rappers Small X, Nessyou, Raid, and Hamza 15-3 attest to this.

A documentary dedicated to the rescue of Jewish children in Pirot during the Second World War. In 1943 and 1944, citizens of Pirot risked their lives and the lives of their families to rescue numerous Jewish children, and protect them.

A documentary which chronicles the lives of an elder Palestinian generation who decided to stay in their homes in Haifa after 1948. The film's subjects are aged women and men who are over seventy, still living in Haifa, narrating their personal experience through the 1948 Nakba, when their families were exiled from their homeland.

Two years ago, I accidentally met Zhuoma, a young girl who loves to dance while shooting with a teaching team. She was worrying about entering junior high school. After spending a few days with her, I returned to my city but promised her to come back again when I parted. Two years later, I decided to go back and look for her based on the limited information in my hand. With her mother and sister going out to work, the family economy has improved, but new problems have swept across the face-the popularization of 12-year compulsory education has made her no longer worry about enrolling in middle and high schools, but because of her poor grades, she may be forced to marry Be a woman. 13-year-old Droma strives to improve her studies in a remote Chinese village. She knows that if she doesn’t, she’ll be forced into a traditional role as a housewife and mother.

The ICE operated by Deutsche Bahn is Germany's fastest train at 330 kilometers per hour. Every year, the ICE brings millions of travelers to their destinations in the shortest possible time and has been even faster since the end of 2017: Since then, the high-speed trains have been racing on the newly built Berlin-Munich high-speed axis from the federal capital to the state capital in just under four hours. Our documentary accompanies an ICE train driver in his daily work and shows the training of new ICE train drivers in the simulator.

The main characters of the film are law enforcement officers who have received an order to disperse a peaceful rally. An order which, in fact, contradicts the constitution of their country. We follow how they cope with this dilemma, what they feel and think, thanks to a combination of different techniques taken from varied genres of music videos and documentaries.

The film is about how and under what conditions the inhabitants of the territories that have experienced the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster live at present; what they hide and what they have never previously dared to speak aloud.

Maria Nieminen contracted lymphoma in 2009 when she was in fifth grade. Now, some years later, Maria recalls how illness set her apart from many of her friends and hobbies. Even when the cancer that is now gone will continue to affect her life in a different way so that there is time in my child’s life while the eggs are still there.

A hypnotic choreography filled with suggestive images of what two bodies in constant balance can do.

A reflection on the photograph.

Ghent, 2020. With Lil Sule and Sam, we move through the public places where they meet their friends. In fleeting moments, we catch glimpses of their close friendship and their shared passion for rap music. It’s a time in which everything seems possible.

avant-garde short film about an apple

In the summer of 2020, as the world looked on as yet another Black man was murdered by the police, global protests in support of Black Lives Matter took place, with the intention of calling out overt and systemic racism wherever it resided. We are honoured to show Stationary Peaceful Protest, an animated film by jazz musician and composer Xhosa Cole and Birmingham based animator Shiyi Li, as it looks at Xhosa’s experiences of attending a BLM protest in Birmingham. It inspired him to pen a monologue about his thoughts on his own personal experience of the occasion. Intertwining his own music into a recording of the monologue, he then collaborated with Birmingham-based animator Shiyi Li - the two of them then worked together to produce a beguiling, free-flowing, and absorbing short film which is both powerful and evocative.

Children will always be children. To be a kid means to love life and create, despite everything that might be happening around. This Russian documentary short is stylized as a children’s album made at the Theresienstadt concentration camp — here’s the plan of our camp, and here are the drawings made by my friends. This story carries a powerful emotional charge, similar to Anne Frank’s diary — both works are naïve but powerful thanks to their childishness.

For Alex Abbott, a winning dirt bike freestyle rider, the moment of truth came when his dirt bike landed on his head and broke his neck and became an incomplete quadriplegic. During the months he laid immobilized in hospital, the notion of ever getting back on his bike seemed so remote he barely gave it any real thought. But ten years later, with the help of friends and family, Alex is on the verge of finding his way back onto two wheels. 257 Down is a documentary film about patience, endurance and courage. It is a story that will inspire people of all abilities to follow their dreams, no matter how inaccessible they might seem.

The animated documentary deals with a new intensity of longing during the first lockdown in Germany.

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.

A documentary about the daily fight for freedom an Eritrean pirate radio station leads to dismantle the rule of the most oppressive dictatorship in Africa.

Heart of Brass is a surreal account of events surrounding a determined passion for brass music when your teeth are standing in the way. This autobiographical film reflects the bitter-sweet love of finding joy from an outside perspective.

From tree-climbing leopards to skull-crushing Jaguars, from fast-swimming fishing cats to quick-digging sand cats, watch the killer strategies that make wild cats possibly the deadliest family on the planet.

The art of calligraphy refers to the Islamic heritage, culture and tradition. At the dawn of Islam, the use of Arabic script was considered sacred, and sacred texts gave rise to a rich abundance of manuscripts and initiated the tradition of calligraphy, which for more than a thousand years was preserved and developed not only for the design of manuscripts, but also in the art of architecture, ceramics and miniatures.

According to statistics, every third Russian in the summer-autumn season becomes a real mushroom picker. And we are not looking for mushrooms for food, but because we love to do it, because for many it is a real passion called "silent hunting". At the same time, many mushroom pickers do not even know what these unique creatures of nature are, appearing and disappearing completely suddenly. This amazing, third kingdom of wildlife is still largely a mystery, even for scientists.

The short film “Destino” (2020, Minas Gerais, Brazil) comes to talk about the meeting with you, with each other and with Horizonte. Time and space mix when we are aware that we need to fight to generate future changes, after all eternity exists in the instant.

Since it was returned to China 20 years ago, Macao lived through quick change and economic development. This documentary gazes at these changes through the voice of the Millennial generation who came of age in our city.