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Record-breaking gamer Narcissa Wright grapples with her toxic obsession for attention and her space in the streaming community after coming out as transgender, all while attempting to set a new world record for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
AI: African Intelligence explores the contact zones between African rituals of possession within traditional fishing villages of the Atlantic coast of Senegal and the emergence of new technological frontiers known as Artificial Intelligence. Considering the confluence of tradition and modernity, Diawara questions how we could move from disembodied machines towards a more humane and spiritual control of algorithms. Could Africa be the context of emergence for such improbable algorithms?
Celebrating the 15th anniversary of SHINee’s debut, unveiling the deepest heart-to-heart story of ‘SHINee’ and ‘Us.’ Formed by SM Entertainment, SHINee is a boy band that debuted in 2008 with "Replay". The Korean idol group has made a recent comeback with its eighth album "HARD" which has made headlines by topping the iTunes Top Album Charts in 43 countries. MY SHINee WORLD will include behind-the-scenes from the concert preparation to the on-stage performances of the group’s recent concert, “SHINee WORLD VI [PERFECT ILLUMINATION]" held at the KSPO Dome. In addition, there is a variety of unreleased contents as well as heart-to-heart interviews to watch SHINee's 15 years of history at a glance. As the production crew put the most importance on the storytelling that fans can relate to, the movie follows SHINee's history in the eyes of "the fans," and gives them a chance to reflect on "My 15 Years" as well as "SHINee's 15 Years."
Follows Nadya Tolokonnikova, co-founder of the Russian art collective Pussy Riot, and other group members who oppose Russian President Vladimir Putin. Pussy Riot's recent actions focus on opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Mark Jenkin explores his fascination with the magic of film and its life-giving properties in this brand new short film, commissioned by the BFI to mark the Film on Film Festival.
Serengeti, one of the last great biodiversity oases on the planet. A place where nature still reigns supreme. But how long will this idyllic image last?
Investigation of the forty years it took the artist to complete the mausoleum of Pope Julius II against a complex background of Vatican intrigue and political tumult.
In Uganda, a new sport is driving social change. The sport is quidditch.
When the COVID-19 pandemic puts the world on lockdown, photographer Spencer Tunick reinvents his art to find a way to bring everyone together while staying apart.
Marcel Goldhammer does not want to be pigeonholed – as an openly gay model, actor and former sex worker, then a journalist who converted to Judaism and did his military service in Israel. As a millennial, this is all just fodder for his social channels. Yes, even the sex with his punters. And next? Politics!
In the late 60's a group of poets, writers, and musicians descended upon Key West to pursue their love of literature and fishing (and cocaine and acid). Initiated by Tom McGuane - the prodigal son of American Literature of the 1970s - his friends Jim Harrison, Richard Brautigan, Russell Chatham, and Jimmy Buffett soon joined, creating some of the best art of their generation.
A Penobscot Nation author grew up in a haunted house. After his mother's death, he returns home to confront the odd occurrences that took place there—from ghost stench and spirit turds to knocking inside walls and a botched exorcism—and wonders why we fear spirits and the afterlife, especially once a loved one passes and all we want is to hear from them again, no matter the form.
A short film about the director’s relationship with sewing, a craft he knew from a very young age thanks to his seamstress mother.
Farmers in the Île-de-France region, they filmed life on the farm, working in the fields, and family and village celebrations on 8 mm or Super 8 film. From the 1950s to the 1980s, these testimonies unfold a history of rural life: we move away from a peasant and family model to industrial agriculture for export. Through these family images, I attempt to answer my own questions about our agricultural future. In the 1950s, the land of Île-de-France fed us.
Thrust back into society with PTSD, we witness Ryan, Amber and Stuart trying to cope as civilians outside a war zone.
Behind the iconic Eiffel Tower lies the story of an incredible challenge to erect a thousand-foot tower that went far beyond a design competition, and marked a major turning point in engineering history. It was the beginning of radical transformation where iron was pitted against stone, engineering against architecture, and modern design against ancients. Press campaigns, lobbying, public conferences, denigration of opposing projects, bragging about big names - all participants engaged in a fierce battle without concession. Using 3D recreations, official sources (reports, letters, drawings...) and intimate archives obtained from their descendants, this film will bring to life this vertical race through a fresh and visual way to mark the centenary of Eiffel death.
Rising star Alton Thorne's Deathmatch journey continues as he faces his biggest challenge to date, The Deathmatch Kaiju BA Rose
With legislation targeting the transgender community at an all-time high, this special documentary spotlights trans stories, featuring an exclusive interview with Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page.
A 3D documentary film that chronicles the story of a marine veteran who navigated the profound traumas of war by making art, becoming a hero to generations of artists, including his friends Ed Ruscha and Frank Gehry, among others interviewed in this immersive film.
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Every Sunday, Hudson returns to see his father at Parc-Extension. On his way, he meets Baki, his childhood friend. Together, they wander the streets of their neighborhood, as they did during their youth. Nostalgic, Hudson explains how the experiences he had in this neighborhood shaped his personality.
Filippo returns to the Ticino dance school where the desire to dance was awakened in him as a child. He traces his relationship with dance, from childhood to adulthood.
Cypher is a fictional pseudo-music documentary about the artist Tierra Whack and the conspiracy theory that secret societies run the music world.
The film explores the representation of war in a territory of long-lasting peace. On the background of mass events, which primarily serve as a necessary reminder of a history, but look more like bizarre celebrations of war, we play with the viewer the imaginary Telephone Game, where the concept of war changes with variations across generations. War, as a permanent exhibition in the museum of our society.
A documentary about the life and legacy of the Marxist theorist and Soviet revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) with the current transfeminist movement in Mexico. Being a central figure among the revolutionaries of the early Soviet Union, Kollontai was the first woman to be a cabinet minister and the first woman ambassador. Among other things, she championed for women’s liberation, helped organise the first International Women’s Day, worked to advance women’s labour, welfare, and education rights, and was an advocate for sexual emancipation, abortion rights, and civil partnerships instead of traditional marriage. After working in the Bolshevik government for a few years, she became sidelined and ostracised, and narrowly avoided her expulsion from the party by serving in several diplomatic posts outside Russia, including Norway, Mexico, and Sweden.
In 1939, driven by a desire for fame and fortune English amateur Tommy Godwin cycled a world record 75,065 miles in one year setting out from home each day through bitter winters and the blackouts of World War Two. He became the fastest person to cycle 100,000 miles in just 500 days. After this epic feat of endurance, Tommy had to learn to walk again and uncurl his hands! The madcap record has only been attempted by a handful of determined souls and Tommy’s record stood for 76 years making it one of the greatest, but also most overlooked sporting achievements. Ultra endurance athlete and round the world cycling record holder Mark Beaumont is on a mission to shine a light on Tommy’s ride. He delves deeper into Tommy’s story and finds out if he has the physical and mental stamina to take on Godwin’s record.
Revisiting family archive images, Marina cannot help but wonder what would have happened if she had recorded those images. Through the modification of the footage she tries to find out if it is possible to know a person through what underlies the images. In this case, her grandmother Esther.
An intimate work made in collaboration with the filmmaker’s family, Cabbage re-frames language and explores personal agency within an ableist paradigm. It centralises her brothers' digital and rhythmic writings using eye tracking technology, and her mother’s reflections on a life lived having to prove her son’s humanity.
It's a journey to discover the story of the Mirabal Sisters and the origins of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Using as its narrative thread the tour of a group of Argentine actresses telling the Sisters' story in the Dominican Republic, the documentary uncovers and recounts the lives of the Mirabal sisters, known as "Las Mariposas" (The Butterflies).
How do you create meaning from the horrors war brings to a country and the damages it leaves behind? The Ukrainian artist Vladyslav Krasnoshchok traveling around Kharkiv on his motorcycle. Through photographing on his wide selection of analogue cameras Vlad is processing the world forever changed around him while developing his own distinct style of documenting the war in Ukraine.
Following the lives of Queer creatives behind Norwich’s queer collaborative ‘Stripped Sets’. We discover the reasoning behind the need for safe spaces, and the stories that come with them. Through live events, photoshoots and history, we see the process in creating such an important event.
A mini-documentary which depicts Marina Satti's greatest insipiration while writing her debut album (YENNA): People and what they leave behind when they come together: tradition.
A group of Sydney-based, Pacific Islander kids start recording drill raps to avoid a life of crime. Two years into their meteoric rise, a police task force shuts down their sold-out national tour due to concerns that the group's music will incite violence.
Why did we travel to Siberia for 20 years? Why did we make this film? How did we see Siberia? People who were deported as children in 1949 and 1941 searched for the places where their loved ones were buried. After 2014, we were watched more closely, we were not allowed into museums, we were followed, and the people we had met were interrogated. When we found graves, we were not allowed to take out our cameras and film. And yet... we would never have believed that Russia would attack Ukraine, threaten the Baltic states and the Western world.
This is by far the most definitive feature documentary of George Michael's amazing life, told candidly by fellow musicians and other friends who loved and respected him
Documentary and reflection about the effects of technology.
This is a video diary of the surreal lockdown made by the filmmaker couple who were trapped in a small, rented apartment in Shanghai. In the face of endless madness, the camera gradually breaks free from the window and observes a vast social isolation unprecedented in the country’s history.
Fleeing the 1980 Civil War in El Salvador, Dora Rodriguez, among a group of twenty-five asylum seekers, were abandoned by their guide and left to fend for themselves in the relentless Sonoran desert of Arizona.
Julia Gutweniger and Florian Kofler embarked on a journey into the engine room of Adriatic tourism. VISTA MARE will be a film about the people we spend our holidays with year after year without realising it – a look into the lives and work of those who work while we enjoy our holidays.
"Oranges" is the second in an ongoing portrait of collectivity. The camera pans across a group of artists - one by one in succession - as they engage in an intimate exchange. The gestures make up a new grammar, revealing something that does not make sense because of its proximity to something else, but because something new is understood.
December 2th, 2023, a group of drunk friends get together after watching a football match to discuss the recent performance of the team that just played.
"Lyon in 96 minutes" is, with a subjective camera and in a single sequence shot lasting one hour and 36 minutes, a stroll through the city of Lyon which begins on the Fourvière hill and its basilica and ends on the other Lyon hill, that of Croix-Rousse. Between these two summits, the film plunges into Old Lyon by taking the Chemin des Rosaires, the climb (in the direction of descent) of Chazeaux, crosses the Place Saint-Jean bordered by the cathedral of the same name which it visit, then runs along the Palais de Justice, the banks of the Saône which it crosses at the Feuillée bridge. The journey continues via rue d'Algérie, the famous Place des Terreaux with its town hall and the Palais Saint-Pierre, rue Puits Gaillot, the slopes of Croix-Rousse with its multitude of steps and staircases which lead us on the tray. The film ends on the esplanade of Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse and the Gros Caillou of ice house origin. - Gérard Courant
This documentary, composed of various video clips and footage, is an exploration to search for some missing jigsaw pieces in history. Something that turned someone into a hero, or an absolute jerk. Some things are hidden under the carpet, from Hiroshima to Teresa Teng to the Space Race, an Olympic and the moon.
Filmed inside California's oldest state prison, 26.2 to Life explores the transformative power of San Quentin's 1000 Mile Club, in which incarcerated men train for and run a marathon on the dirt and concrete path circling the prison yard.
The story of four kids in Afghanistan whose lives changed dramatically after US troops completed their withdrawal and the Taliban swept to power
Documentary featuring Philadelphia teenagers from HIll-Freedman World Academy engaged in a unique songwriting collaboration that captures both the hard times they're living in and the joy that music brings.
Intimate vérité, archival footage, and visually innovative treatments of poetry take us on a journey through the dreamscape of legendary queer poet Nikki Giovanni as she reflects on her life and legacy.
What is 'a mother' really? Does Google provide an unequivocal answer? Wikipedia? Friends perhaps? The latter call it 'coming home' or 'someone who’s always there for you'. Now that his sister, twenty-five years after their own mother passed, is expecting her first child, filmmaker Wieke Kapteijns decides to examine the 'mother' concept. For the first time in his life, he has to venture into unknown territory and face up to long-suppressed grief
As the Taliban claimed power in 2021 and banned women and girls from participating in sports, the members of the Afghanistan Youth Women's National Football Team needed to escape their own country or risk being captured. What happened next is an extraordinary story of survival, sisterhood and the human right to privacy. Presented by WhatsApp.
As a poetic documentary, the film is committed to focusing on the process of self-identification as black of the individual who is considered pardo in Brazil. To this end, we spoke with 5 lightskin individuals located in different sociocultural contexts about their particular processes of building a black identity, taking into account the entire whitening culture to which they were exposed.
Can love exist without madness? An ultra-intense, high-speed (self-)portrait of four women exploring the darkest corners of love without a filter. Hard, brutal and real – to a score by electro-queen Eartheater.
Made refugees by the war in Ukraine, Olga and her granddaughter Milana travel to a summer camp in the Austrian Alps to test the limits of their own bravery, and to strengthen their growing bond.
A visually stunning film on acclaimed author David Adams Richards and his connection to one of Canada’s most overlooked yet breathtaking regions.
"The Female Voice of the Arctic" is a documentary about bright and successful modern women, representatives of ethnic groups of the Sakha Republic.
The truth can no longer be contained by those duty-bound to hide it. The truth about another intelligence engaging humanity becomes undeniably clear. Witness UFO revelations from true insiders that have never been shared with the public.