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A film made by Borders Additional Needs Group's Branching Out Youth Group as part of Film Town, Alchemy's year-round community filmmaking project.

'Far from our true nature', "ID Babylon" peels off the blindfold and speaks to a reconnection with one's roots and finding home inside oneself. Bringing together the voices of young people, Khevyn Ibrahim foregrounds the search for space outside of existing structures, exploring issues of extremism, nationalism, migration and the movement of people.

In "My Grandmother Sits in the Garden", Jack Guariento delightfully employs a VHS tape format to mimic the feel of old home movies, in a warm and wise essayistic rumination on the relative nature of time, the cosmic interrelatedness of people, places and things, and the making of pasta sauce.

The Backside of God is an experimental documentary utilizing archival footage, digital glitch, chemical abstraction, and direct animation to explore the intricacies of the artist’s relationship with their familial, religious, and queer identity.

World-renowned artist Beth Lipman’s latest work, House Album, is a selective portrait of the United States that explores the timely issues of agency, identity and memory. It is composed of two dimensional domestic objects that represent significant individuals and critical episodes in this country’s history, creating an allegory of our collective home.

A hypnotic, textural assemblage of human and non-human material processes. Comprising mesmeric visuals, choreographed objects and the sensual making of a clay pot in an open field, the film pairs jolting mechanical sounds and vibrations with a meditative voice guiding a cartography of being and becoming.

A unique group of fishermen living along the Adriatic coast come to terms with being the last generation.

Suzi (Suzannah Mirghani) is the voice of her generation—the virtual voice, that is.

Having received an injury to the cervical spine, a person does not just get into a wheelchair, he loses the mobility of his hands and even simple actions, like eating, become a real test. Can a person in this position become a deputy of the State Duma? Or get into the Russian national team? Hitchhiking? Skydiving? Plunge into the ice hole on the feast of the Epiphany? It turns out that in the world of limited opportunities there are a lot of absolutely healthy people, but not the guys from the Russian Paralympic team in wheelchair rugby.

Beethoven performed by a digital orchestra.

The solidarity of the North Kenyan community and the way they align with nature’s rhythm moved us. In this honest film you can see the major changes brought about by the transition from darkness to electric light. We Westerners take it all for granted and don't know it any other way, but in Kenya the "death of darkness" brings lots of expectations, hope and struggles.

Dr. Jeff Kempf from Akron Children’s Hospital (Ohio, USA), and doctors from the USA, Italy, Haiti, and France, demonstrate a new way of helping as they attempt to complete 12 complicated operations while simultaneously challenging conventional wisdom by building up the staff and facilities at St. Damien’s Hospital (Port-au-Prince, Haiti) to become self sufficient. These unprecedented efforts, spearheaded by Gift of Life and Rotary Club, have enabled St. Damien’s to become the first hospital in Haiti capable of treating children with Heart Disease, have allowed Dr. Alexandra Noisette to become the first Haitian pediatric cardiologist, and represents the only collaboration of charities providing heart surgery in Haiti. “Charity” must change, and this bold re-imagination of how charity can work paints a picture of how countries like Haiti can become self sustaining.

In the run-up to the Danish general election in 2019, a pop-up chai bar opened on a street corner in Århus. Here, you could enjoy a cup of chai tea and a chat with someone who might not resemble you in terms of opinions and appearance. Many people made use of this possibility, and when you see Shubhdeep Singh Parwana’s ‘soulitate’, which was the name of the café, you wish you could have been there yourself. In response to a political debate that rapidly turned black-and-white inside the echo chambers, soulitate (the place and the film!) is a wonderful reminder of how much we actually have in common – and how much we can learn from each other when we engage with and listen to each other.

Focusing on a community organizing for water rights, this earnest and pressing documentary uncovers entrenched racism and a climate crisis that has already arrived.

The corona year 2020 has been examined from all angles by the media. But what was it like to hold Ramadan in a year of restrictions, prohibitions and social distancing? Six young Muslims express their thoughts and feelings about a different kind of year when communal meals and prayer lines were replaced by a quarantine that pulls the individual relationship with God into focus. What can poetry and the quarantine of the heart teach us about a deeper meaning at a time when illness and fear are so predominant? And what kind of spirituality do we dare imagine in a society that moves further and further away from believing in God?

Animated short based on an eighteenth-century folktale told by French settlers in the Americas.

A short documentary about kissaten — Showa-era (1926-1989) Japanese cafe — culture. Būgen is a small kissa in a suburb south of Tokyo. It was featured in the book Kissa by Kissa. Proprietor Yamane-san has survived four bouts of cancer and has run his cafe for close to forty-five years. He makes a mean pizza toast with a unique cutting style. Pizza toast is a staple of kissa culinary culture.

All his life, working as a shepherd, Janos has been hoping for his independence. Like his sheep, wandering around the pasture carefree, he dreams of finally opening the door that limits his freedom. As he looks for a path to different worlds, we watch the life cycle, filled with magic, which takes place amid picturesque pastures, accompanied by birdsong and the rustle of leaves.

We will hear the echoes of the hot August 2020 for a long time. The first-person stories of the security forces who took part in containing the protests and exclusive episodes of operational filming were collected by the ATN team in the documentary "Confrontation".

Traversing the darkness and emerging into the light.

"A Vida em Comum" follows a period in the life of Poeta and Belinha, a couple of Cape Verdean origin who lives in a community scheduled to be dismantled: the neighbourhood of Barruncho, in Odivelas. Uncertain about the future, Poeta and Belinha take care of their animals and crops, and adjust to the daily changes.

Shot in Anduze, Villeneuve-lès-Maleguone and Porquerolles in the summers of 2019 and 2020.

The biggest investigation on Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus.

A documentary film dedicated to girls who went through detention and arrest during the Belarusian protests in August 2020. The first-person film tells how a prison cell changes a person and how long it takes to find a way out – even after being released. “The Sisters of Protest” is a series of monologues of people from different backgrounds, woven into the common experience of a Belarusian girl who is not ready to remain silent when she is deprived of her basic rights.

The dramatic story of American furniture designer, architect and early lifestyle entrepreneur Gustav Stickley and his rise, fall and eventual resurrection as an icon and founder of the first true "American style".

Incluídos is a documentary about waste pickers in Rio de Janeiro, one of the most precarious and unhealthy working conditions that exists sustaining big corporations. A lot of profit is made, but not for the own workers.

Arizona is the Grand Canyon state, but among other things, it's also the state the Sonoran Sisters Pastry Company call home. Donut connoisseur Stanislav "Stan" Jok tells you about it as he drives to different parts of the Copper State.

Daniel Kinahan has been named in court as the head of one of Europe's biggest drug cartels. So how has he been allowed to be involved in setting up the World Heavyweight Championship fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua?

A woman engages in a dialogue with death, through a journey she makes into the interior of her thoughts. Through them, she reunites with her ancestors and relates her ephemeral present with an unknown past that she will never know.

A short documentary looking at Trainspotters at Clapham Junction Station

Two sisters celebrate the range of abilities of different communities by bringing all of their stories to light through their multi-platform organization TRU FACES.

A short documentary that follows Zenzele Ojore's coming of age with the American South as its backdrop. Horizon Award Winner 2019. Sundance Ignite 2021.

the gospel according to them, is an experimental film that explores the phenomenology of faith and its relationship to the Black body.

A film tells the emotional history of socialism in the United States. Filmmaker Laura Conway enacts a cinematic seance animating FBI documents, political buttons, and appropriated scenes from Michelangelo Antonioni films to communicate with her deceased communist grandparents.

The rubber met the road in the early 1970s for Bill Costen. After being drafted by the Buffalo Bills, tragedy forces him out of his dream. Saying goodbye to a career on the turf, Bill takes to the air, becoming the first African American Hot-Air Balloon Master Pilot in the world.

"How do they roll with the punches?"

The film follows a dialogue between the filmmaker and his Saba (Hebrew for Grandpa) at the last chapter of his life. Saba Beno tells his life story in his own words while trying to find the meaning of it all.

There once was a man feeling sad and in pain, so to get some attention, he hijacks a plane! But seizing an aircraft is quite the chore, so he guzzles a beer. And another. Then a few more. What happened next might seem unbelievable to you, but make no mistake, it's all quite true. Story about the incident on a Braathens SAFE's flight 139 on June 21 1985.

An American farmer becomes an unlikely hero for mental health nearly 40 years after he was first diagnosed with depression. From his hometown of Onaga, Kansas, John Blaske has made it his personal mission to bring mental health into the open.

Most consider the NY Stonewall Riots of 1969 to be the birth of the Gay civil rights movement. But there have been activists, artists and innovators in L.A. since the turn of the 20th century. L.A. A Queer History is an educational, exciting and emotional epic saga spanning nearly a century featuring artists, scholars and first hand accounts from LGBTQ elders who lived it.

Documentary that shows the effects of cannabis on cancer patients in Peru

The severe economic crisis in Greece has given the neo-fascist party Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) a new boost. The film explores this connection between crisis and right-wing extremism. It follows the years-long legal investigation into the political crimes of violence committed by leading officials of the party, which has been classified as a criminal organization, and in doing so examines the possibilities of resistance as an issue that concerns us all.

Crux follows Harvey Wright, a recovering addict who uses rock climbing to work through his ongoing struggle with mental health.

The nights spent at grandmother’s make up Marysia’s mum’s most vivid memories – the cousins’ chatter before bedtime and many generations coming together. Fairy tales were often told in the house where mum grew up; tonight’s will be about an old man and his wife.

A documentary film honoring those who perished in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States while paying tribute to Riverside’s own Urban Search & Rescue CA Task Force 6 (CA TF6) who engaged in search and rescue efforts in New York City immediately following the tragedy.

Clint Boevers directs a documentary on the comedic past of his controversial comedian uncle Donzilla.