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The students of the University of Guanajuato also known as the bees, carried out a state strike due to the lack of commitment that their institution has in matters of security. They managed to create a movement that asserted its voice and struggle in society; This event generated a complete change in the way of seeing and making student protests.

This film is an imprint on the film strip, an imprint in the mind just like a memory of my father’s garden where a child is playing; an imprint of the father on the garden as a reflection of his character; an imprint of the garden on the father; an imprint of him on a person. As if the seeds were falling from his beard, skin, or hair and become the garden, roots, sprouting and growing, just like a child.

A chapter from the cycle of experimental films called If I Ever Lose My Eyes follows representatives of the Movement of Linen Film. Ladislav Valeš sees the film media as the Shroud of Turin which imprints not only the surface, but also what extends beyond us. In the same way, the author of the film imprints Valeš’s face and figure into the black-white countryside surrounding Klapý. The shapes of the bridge and gravestones represent the architectonic morphology of human mind, which merges reality and fiction, consciousness and subconsciousness.

In her film, the director juxtaposes Lithuanian mythology on household deities and the current situation in the Netherlands, where the housing crisis has pushed people to live in camping vans. The stories of the inhabitants of the camping village about their destinies and life philosophies, contrasting with the footage of their vans, are a testimony of the effects of late capitalism on everyday life, from which the old deities have been disappearing.

Despite forming a natural part of the life of half the world’s population, menstruation is still a taboo in many countries. The film A Bloody Taboo shows just how stigmatized it is in Japan. The intimate testimonies of a large sample of women reveal that the unwillingness of the patriarchal society to lead an open dialogue about the monthly menstruation is just a symptom of a bigger problem that is gender discrimination.

An introduction to the maritime lifestyle of the Crimean peninsula in the summer of 2020 using freely available streams from webcams installed in public places for the purpose of local tourism promotion.

In a wintry day of January 1977, Israel's minister of construction commited sucide on Tel Baruch beach in Tel Aviv. In the preceeding months a corruption affair involving two Mapai seniors. Asher Yadlin who was the designated governor of the Bank of Israel, and his good friend Avraham Offer were suspected to have accepted bribe in real estate deals. The affair, that broke out after an investigation by Yigal Laviv, a determined and persistent journalist, was taken care of by police officer Biniamin Ziggel, and Israel's young attorney genral, Aharon Barack. The two, who wanted to eradicate government corruption, initiated an investigation. The results had serious implications: Offer lost his life, Yadlin ended up behind bars, and Mapai had to hand over their power after three decades of governing Israel. The movie Disgrace raises questions about government corruption, that is as relevant as ever.

The first year of União Audiovisual. Learning how to do new things, the mistakes, the changes, how everything started and how so many people endorsed it. Stories of assistance, strength, tenderness. The União Audiovisual is all of us. No one is left behind! Session followed by a debate in the presence of Inês Sales and Nuno Pereira (União Audiovisual).

From the perspective of youth in 13 towns across Argentina, this article recounts the changes the pandemic brought about in terms of school, socializing, and the virtualization of all gatherings, as well as how all of this impacted youth emotionally.

Drawing on Autism is an investigation into the ethics of creating animated documentaries. As a non-autistic filmmaker, representing an autistic participant, I needed to be mindful of the well-rehearsed and problematic tropes about autism. These tropes seem to say more about the desires and needs of neurotypical audiences than they do about their autistic subjects. Moreover, animation presents a distinct set of ethical dilemmas.

Grandmother’s relationship with her family is complicated. Since they do not keep in touch, she resorts to “witchcraft” so that she does not feel lonely.

Between the first and second waves of COVID-19, Nikolas Candido "wrote" an audiovisual letter to his friend. In a series of obscured fragments, he captures the changing mood of Rio de Janeiro with a digital 8mm camera. Although on the surface, life goes on as normal, the city is slowly sinking into darkness. Just like the whole country, where up to 4,000 people died every day during the most critical stage of the fight against the virus.

The film is a portrait of Marlon, after being the victim of a great socio-environmental tragedy: his city was buried by the collapse of a dam. “The safest place in the world” is how he refers to his original place, today surrounded by cameras and security.

An exploration into effects of gentrification, COVID -19, and other issues The Culture faces in New Orleans, through the eyes of the youngest Black Masking Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in the city.

A short animated documentary that starts from the allegations of Moroccan women who pick strawberries in Huelva to build a polyphonic story that takes us to the focus of a larger conflict, making us reflect on its complexity and forms of representation: migration policies, struggles against extractivism from the North to the global South, racial capitalism, situated alliances.

Yenny is a trans woman from a town in the interior of Buenos Aires. In their childhood they had to deal with the prejudices and discrimination of the people. They lived in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship and in Mar del Plata, where they worked in theaters and cabarets. Recently, they underwent sex change surgery.

Several different, but equally heartfelt and honest stories of queer people who share with the director thoughts about their gender identity, body, hormone therapy, relationships and freedom.

Songs, stories and voices resonate in Dheisheh camp, Palestine, accompanying a group of young men on their way to fetch their friend who is just getting out of prison.

A visual artist all her life, Luchita Hurtado only reluctantly experienced her breakthrough at the age of 97. “Green Turns Brown” is a minimalist eulogy to the publicity-shy painter. Shot on Super 8 film stock during the last months of her life, this film, which revels in autumn colours, paints the portrait of a woman in tune with nature who sees death not as the end but as the crossing of a border. “Life goes on.”

Since the end of the civil war in the early 1990s, the region of Abkhazia has been acting independently of Georgia. This has turned a massive dam into a border. But the hydroelectric power station also connects the two political entities: Because over a distance of fifteen kilometres the water flows freely, underground, from one side to the other. When a young journalist gets stranded here, stories of division emerge.

Porto Maurizio, where the director, who lives in France today, grew up, is located on the Ligurian coast. The village is the starting point for a cinematic journey into the past that spans a surprisingly wide arc to a time when Muslim pirates, the corsairs, haunted the Mediterranean and took Europeans as slaves. To this end, the film light-handedly draws from the rich fund of film history and its iconography.

Koni and David met in Skopje. Several months later, Koni comes to Croatia to visit David.

It is 1995. In a district in the suburbs of Algiers, 12-year-olds Samia and Nouara enjoy a happy friendship until violence suddenly appears in their life and tests their bond. With a background in documentaries, Amal Blidi creates an intense first fictional short film that uses the prism of adolescence to sensitively allude to the “Black Decade” and the end of innocence.

Biographical and intimate short docufilm from experiences of several visits to the city of Porto and to the people, places, and paths that are portrayed. A hymn of love for a city that has become a port of shelter.

In December 2018, after Jair Bolsonaro's election, a team of journalists, anthropologists, and photographers toured the areas occupied by the Guarani people in southern Mato Grosso do Sul. This film is the result of dozens of testimonies recorded during this period. A plural portrait of the historical struggle of a people seeking to recover their lives in their traditional lands.

Nature’s wonders not visible to the naked eye are revealed in a documentary shot through a microscope lens. It shows to the viewer various kinds of plankton, a ubiquitous form of life, without which life on Earth wouldn’t exist. The vivacious movements of the water microorganisms are accompanied by the music of Jana Winderen, a Norweigan artist, composed using the sounds of water organisms, waves and icebergs.

“This film is my attempt to learn about my father from his diaries. From the 1970s to the 1990s he, Yura Diversant, a well-known figure in the Moscow hippy community, published a samizdat magazine called Svoboda and created the political art group Svobodnaya Initsiativa (Free Initiative), trying to fight the Soviet system. But this is not the most important thing in my film. For me he is, above all, my father, and I never had the opportunity to get to know him before.”

US China relations are at its worst in modern history, how did the two countries get to this point? Understand the historical forces driving the conflict - from China’s Century of Shame to the slow decay of deindustrialisation in the US. Further adding to tensions is China’s perspective that US meddled in Hong Kong’s internal politics, and the American perspective that China is in part to blame for the coronavirus pandemic. After 4 years of escalating conflict under a Trump administration, what will Biden’s approach to China be?

It's been a weird year.

Shot during the lock down in the spring of 2020, Missing Commas combines images of our daily family life confined to the small garden and the empty train station with the sounds from 50’s Sci-Fi film and songs from old nursery rhymes that resonate other pandemics in human history. A capsule of worries and concerns about humans and animal kingdom inferences, power of nature, an extinction looming closer and parenting in times when force of nature challenges the sense of safety you are supposed to create.

With the help of recently unearthed diaries, explore how the notorious Pharaoh Khufu completed his great pyramid - and what happened when he died.

Voices echo through sewer tunnels in Munich. They tell fragments of stories about vanished people, violence and memory loss while the camera moves above ground, scanning the city’s façades. Munich appears as a body winding its way through time.

"The story of cows who didn't become meat." In 2002, people called bullfight a tradition and defined it as legal. At the same time, various bullfighting competitions were held and a huge gambling house was built. They dragged the cows into a huge amphitheater and made them fight. The gambling tickets were sold like hotcakes and fanfare burst everywhere. In the midst of it, something that is not a human being is bleeding, crying, and shedding tears. However, no one seems to be interested. On the endless truck, bulls shyly sticking out their heads speak to the camera. "By the way, can you listen to my story?“

Plucked from the ground, we flew over the landscape. In the blink of an eye everything has changed. A hundred-meter chasm extends below us. We suddenly fall into a vortex. The machines, which appear to us as prehistoric creatures, have taken control. We are transported, pulled, cut and deposited by rusty shovels choreographed by hydraulic rods, under the vibration of the engines that impose the rhythm and accelerate the time.

American 11, United 175, American 77, and United 93 tells the riveting and emotional human stories of those aboard each doomed jetliner.

Follows former top officials and elite operatives inside the CIA as they share accounts of their efforts to stop Osama bin Laden and the catastrophic attack they knew was coming.

The year is 1968. Nowa Cumig, Better known by his English name Dennis Banks, has started a movement with a few friends that would soon make ripples through history: the American Indian Movement. This film endeavors to look at the bigger picture by opening the door into the life of one of the most influential men in Native American history, using archival footage from films, as well as photographs by Richard Erdoes and excerpts from his and Dennis' book The Ojibwa Warrior.

Film about the life of the founder and the first art director of the Perm Choreographic College, Ekaterina Heydenreich. Ekaterina Heydenreich stood at the start of Perm ballet school traditions. The title of the film refers to three portraits that foresaw tragic periods in the fate of a talented ballerina and thoughtful ballet mistress.

Malgorzata (Maggie) is 50 years old. She was born with a condition called muscular dystrophy. A few years ago she stopped even moving her fingers altogether. Teamed up with Krystian (Chris), her life partner and a motorbikes lover, she sets out on a journey of a lifetime during which they try their best to slowly tame the inevitably oncoming death.

Masterful traps set by humpback whales in the straits of Alaska. An ingenious partnership between dolphins and gannets by Bird Island, South Africa. A killing school where orcas teach their young to hunt sea lions on the shores of Punta Norte. For ages, the oceans have hidden the true depth and breadth of their hunters' inventiveness. But now, wildlife photographers below and above the water's surface are capturing images that show off their remarkable prowess. Discover their secrets as we travel the world to see the ocean's predators at work.

In 1996, the market encouraged teachers to use the newly released simulation game, SimPark, as a means to educate children about ecology and biodiversity. A 77-page manual was produced as a guide on how to successfully use the program for education. However, the deeper one delves into the system of the game the flaws emerge one by one.

Our Hearts Aren't Disabled examines the romantic lives and trials of six people living with mobility challenges. Its characters are people of different ages, genders, orientations, and ethnicities. Multi-disciplinary artist Josh Dunn features as both subject and interviewer as he endeavors to shed light on the difficulties he and others face. Sometimes a painful journey filled with heartbreak, Our Hearts Aren't Disabled also features a healthy dose of wit, humour, and perseverance, helping the viewer to see that disability places no barrier on the power and beauty of one's humanity.