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My work explores my relationship to my own sexuality. In this particular piece, I try to come to terms with my body issues stemming from my avid pornography consumption, that started in my teenage years, and which have shaped my distorted vision of beauty and masculinity.
In 2016, Nick Skelton won first place at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio. The Englishman did so on the back of a horse bred in the Netherlands. This documentary is in search of the secret of the Dutch horse breeder and discovers that success also has a flip side. The sperm of a winning horse is invaluable and therefore it leads to painful decisions in the world of sports.
What does it mean to be self-determining in America? And what does achieving the American Dream really feel like? Not everyone gets to answer that question for themselves, and some who do may take it for granted. In Cumberland, Maryland, disappearing industry over the last 30 years has left the city economically depressed and half-deserted. The city’s new mayor has taken it upon himself to inspire a revitalization, and his plan starts with buying up homes in The Rolling Mill, a once vibrant neighborhood stricken by the same ills as the city. With every willing seller who leaves The Rolling Mill behind, the mayor’s plan to change Cumberland’s fortunes by building a new chain restaurant progresses. But as the face of the neighborhood they love changes so drastically, a steadfast group of long-time Rolling Mill residents have refused to relent to the city.
Stop the Presses chronicles the last press run and eventual demise of The Tampa Tribune on May 3, 2016. Filmmaker Deborah Kerr and her crew were filming a day in the life of a newspaper when the company unraveled and its owners sold the 121-year-old institution to a longtime local competitor, thus ending the bay area’s newspaper war and decades-long careers for hundreds of reporters, photographers, editors and pressmen. In the film, viewers will hear from former newspaper employees about the stark reality of what is happening in the newspaper industry, and its effect on the more than 600 employees whose lives were changed forever by the closing of this Tampa landmark and the readers left bereft of community news when the Tribune stopped hitting their driveways.
Director Marte Hallem takes people back to her youth in Verdal in the 1990s, and tries to understand why so many from her circle died due to overdoses, suicides and traffic accidents.
Lieutenant Colonel John Stevens served in both World War II and the Korean War. During the Korean War, he received a Bronze Star for leading his company in one of that war's harshest battles.
A gravely ill, abused three-legged stray dog, abandoned in an industrial desert at Aspropyrgos, a town near Athens; a London based charity whose mission is to help the neglected animals of Greece; a group of young volunteers who patrol Aspropyrgos and nurse the strays – these are the characters of the film, in a nightmarish place, a hellhole for many abandoned animals. Does the sick three-legged hound stand any chance of getting adopted, becoming healthy again and running across the fields of Essex? Why are the Greekies, the strays from Greece, so popular when it comes to being adopted abroad? With an unexpected ending, the film tries to discover whether there is any hope for the doomed dogs and for a doomed area outside Athens.
The story of Efek Rumah Kaca, White Shoes & Couple Company, Goodnight Electric, Sangkakala, and other bands to meet their fans and recognizing the music scene in each cities by taking a tour entitled “Radio of Rock Tour Serial 2” from the city of Purwokerto, Malang, Surabaya to Denpasar.
A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.
In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and performance legend Jack Smith, deals less with Smith’s life than with his work, analyzing Smith’s aesthetic idiosyncrasies in 21 thematic chapters. It's a film essay about the artist’s work, rather than a documentary about his life. An unmediated vision of Jack Smith, an invitation to join him in his lost paradise.
A manufactured memory.
Queer performance artist and sex worker Sadie Lune’s unique motherhood journey begins in San Francisco, California and ends in Berlin, Germany. A process of art, friendship, partnership, and love.
Truth proved stranger than fiction, when in events more extreme than those in the show, two actresses from EastEnders (1985) were murdered just 4 years apart by those closest to them.
Amidst the chaos of the Iraq and Syrian War, independent photographer and director Joey L. embeds himself with Kurdish guerrilla organizations on the frontlines against ISIS. Without the constraints typical of our mainstream media, Joey offers a deeply personal, humanizing, and controversial view of the war. This is a follow up to the 2015 film "Guerrilla Fighters of Kurdistan" vimeo.com/129935570
A documentary on alternative music scene of Novi Sad (Serbia) that covers the period between 1989 and 2017.
The global 'war on drugs' has seen countless human rights abuses and claimed many lives. In 2013, Uruguay [made history when it] became the first country to comprehensively regulate the cannabis market. Cannabis in Uruguay documents the progress and outcome of this ruling, charting our cultural understanding of marijuana, and investigating why drug policy and production has historically caused violent conflicts.
A portrait of Madrid's summer
The film centers around 8 people, from all walks of life, who thought they had bought a 'movie role' in a horror film, only to be locked inside the haunted mental asylum to test "The Lucifer Effect" experiment.
A celebration of the musical legacy of Memphis’ best-known secret – Big Star – performed by a collective featuring members of Big Star, the dB’s, Let’s Active, the Posies, R.E.M., Semisonic, Wilco and Yo La Tengo with the Kronos Quartet and more.
Advertising is inescapable. It covers public spaces, punctuates the airwaves and fills our personal screens with a sole purpose: to influence our behaviour. It has evolved and adapted to each technological wave, from print to TV and the Internet, selling everything from shampoo to politicians. From Madison Avenue to Silicon Valley, Scott Harper deconstructs advertising’s pervasive presence through a comprehensive and engaging look at the dynamic changes it has made over the past half century—shifting from “mad men” to “math men.” Every mouse click and swipe makes caveat emptor ever more urgent and difficult. As Big Data provides an exciting new frontier for industries to target their campaigns to individuals, the era of splashy billboards and catchy jingles may have given way to a much more sophisticated means of tapping into our subconscious. What happens when companies know you better than you know yourself?
Follows a young man as he travels the mountain kingdom of Lesotho showing his film in remote villages, schools and communities. Sheriff was born with a girl’s body, but as the grandmother in his film recounts, he refused to wear dresses and always wanted to play with the boys.
The war in Congo has caused more than six million deaths over the last twenty years. The population is suffering, but the offenders stay with impunity. Many people see this conflict as one of globalisation's crucial econimic distribution battles because the country has major deposits of many high-tech raw materials. Milo Rau, one of Europe's most acclaimed theatre directors, succeeds in gathering victims, perpetrators, observes and analysts of the conflict for a unique civil tribunal in eastern Congo. The documentary film brings these spectacular court trials to life on the big screen and creates an unvarnished portrait of the largest and bloodiest economic wars in human history.
A short film featuring quotes from Armenian auteur Sergei Parajanov and clips from his masterpiece The Colour of Pomegranates.
A trilogy of short documentaries (‘Fatherland’, ‘Motherland’, ‘Homeland’) mapping out the personal migration stories of the filmmaker’s family, as well as a look at a generation of young Muslims in multicultural London.
Almost every single day, Homeboy goes bottom-fishing in front of Grenada's west coast from noon until midnight, whether the fish bite that day or not.
During the 16 minutes film, we get an insight into his aesthetic vision and follow Viktor Vauthier on his everyday life. The documentary also features Virgil Abloh, his big love Ella, Alex Olson and many more.
Hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher return with an eighth installment of VHS relics they’ve salvaged from thrift stores, garage sales and garbage cans across the country. Found Footage Festival: Volume 8 highlights include a collection of satanic panic videos from the 80s, a star-studded Desert Storm parade sponsored by Taco Bell, outtakes and on-air bloopers from over ten years of North Dakota local news, and selections from David Letterman's Video Collection, inherited by the Found Footage Festival when Dave retired. Recorded live at The Bell House in Brooklyn.
A self-taught Roma musician from a village called Beska in Serbia, Dragan Petrovic, together with his three underage sons founded a band, not only to make a living out of it, but to, first and foremost, keep his family together.On the way to their dreams, from playing by ear to reading music, this unusual ensemble will have to overcome many obstacles of life, and the oldest son, Radovan, will have the hardest task - he will have to leave his village, enroll at the music school in a big city and share his knowledge with his younger brothers, so that one day, all three of them could become professional musicians.
The 94-year-old Robert Frank’s unique recordings of his fellow artists Harry Smith and Allen Ginsberg, which he had salvaged from his own archive for Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel.
Set against the backdrop of the Gold Coast of West Africa in 1876, "Abina and the Important Men" follows the harrowing true story of Abina Mansah, a young girl who is enslaved and struggles against the British colonial system that seeks to control trade and manipulate local customs for its own benefit. Despite the abolition of slavery, Abina finds herself trapped in a society where the trade in slaves, particularly children, persists under the guise of protectorate laws. After being sold and forced to marry against her will, Abina flees to seek her freedom and confronts the British legal system. Her battle for justice is a poignant narrative that exposes the hypocrisy of the colonial powers and the resilience of those who fought against their oppression. Told through stunning animation, the film is a compelling historical drama that delves into the complexity of freedom, colonialism, and the human spirit's unyielding desire for autonomy and dignity.
Who has never watched Rocky or Terminator? In the 80s and early 90s, action films were big hits, and we all remember famous scenes and lines. Industry players and experts, speak of the golden age of the genre, by highlighting the socio-political context it was thriving in. Like it or not, these «so bad it's good» movies have marked the history of cinema. This documentary pays homage to the biggest roles of our favorite beefy actors. It sheds light on the behind the scenes, pointing to the reasons of their huge success. Throughout archives and interviews we also get to know the point of view of Chuck Norris, Schwarzenegger and Stallone among others. Here come the tough guys with big guns.
In continuous motion with no end or barrier in its way.
A shot-for-shot remake of "Koyaanisqatsi" (1983) produced using the virtual environments of "Grand Theft Auto V".
Documentary about the Imperial War Museums in the centenary year of its establishment. Celebrity advocates explore ten key objects from the IWM's collection.
In the last couple of years, thousands of illegal Thai migrant workers in South Korea are deported back to Thailand, while thousands more slipped through the borders to take up both legal and illegal jobs. Calling themselves ‘ghosts’, they left their homeland for a foreign country whose language they cannot speak, work towards an uncertain future, and hide like phantoms to evade the authorities. The film observes the situation of these workers, as well as visits the other generation of Thai migrant worker in South Korea, an 80 year-old Thai veteran who once fought a Korean war.
When James Pollard is given a terminal cancer diagnosis, he sets about orchestrating his own death. Like any good theatre producer, he researches options into different modes of burial, and the best means and methodologies of preserving his body after death. This may sound slightly morbid, but the practicality, and often surprising amounts of humour, with which James contends with his situation allows for an openness and freedom in dealing with death.
Poling hay, funerals, and recording village events. A portrait of a peasant, who stopped time.
On the 90th anniversary of People's Artist, Academician Omar Eldarov. The film provides interesting information about the sculptures created by the sculptor, and unique archive footage is shown regarding the creation and opening of the monuments and statues of Natavan, Fizuli, H. Javid, Heydar Aliyev, etc.
A portrait series of Nigerian taxi drivers in Galway, Ireland.
Sikh Musical Heritage: The Untold Story is an in-depth look at the history of traditional Sikh instrumentation and its crucial role in performing the devotional singing known as Kirtan of the Sikh Scripture, Guru Granth Sahib.
Marking the 20th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris in August 1997, this documentary reveals how Diana learned to manipulate and control the photographers who pursued her ever since she started seeing the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, in the early '80s. Contributions from tabloid editors, royal photographers, Diana's friends, and former Press Attaché and her royal bodyguard.
An instructive compilation about pioneer Ottawa animator Evelyn Lambart, playfully contextualized by filmmaker Donald McWilliams.
A series of cinematic portraits shot in domestic spaces in a former gold mining town in New Zealand expand into a tapestry of glistening natural light and vaporous movement, created via a painstaking process of in-camera layering effects.
A comprehensive history of early cinema in the Philippines. Told in narration over 3D animation.
The film follows Agustina as she finds the videotapes that her father Jaime recorded before the accident that took his life. The family secrets surrounding Jaime push Agustina to get involved. Her search will reveal a story marked by sexuality and political activism.
Fox and Owl Fisher are nonbinary trans activists from the UK—and they want to share what that means for them. With help from their community and loved ones, they explore issues such as legal recognition, language, health care, and social acceptance, delineating the challenges that they and many other people like them face daily. While education and social justice are at the heart of this film, it is also a love story of two people from different backgrounds finding each other. Through romance and activism, this couple defies gender norms and resists systems of oppression.
Whitman’s manifesto for a poetry of supreme engagement – a poetry of the mind, body and soul – told though LomoKino images.
The Goodiepal Equation is the first feature documentary directed by Sami Sänpäkkilä and produced by Moderni Kanuuna. It follows the life of the hacker, renaissance man, futurist, hustler, philanthropist, Rudolph Steiner dropout, programmer and art collector Goodiepal. Meet the man for the new millennium!
20 and 18 meters long are the two industrial furnaces, which the Austrian forwarding company Felbermayr is to transport from a ship dock on the Danube to an aircraft component company. The total weight of both furnaces of a good 300 tons is only one of many problems. The steel colossus is almost seven metres high - too high to pass through most of the bridges or tunnels. An insoluble enterprise?
The film retraces the atypical journey of Gilles Clément, gardener and landscape architect, but also a writer. Marked by ecology, he questioned the art of gardens at the end of the XXth century, with the garden in movement, the planetary garden or the third landscape.
Many cultures have myths about “wolf children”, taken from their families and who grew up in the wild, either alone or with wolves, bears or other animals. How close are these stories to reality? This program looks at the "monkey boy " John Ssebunya of Uganda, and Kipling's fictional boy, Mowgli.
For decades, Europeans between Finland and Cyprus were united by a promise of peace and greater prosperity. But since the financial crisis of 2008, the European project has been in its worst state since World War II. The continent is divided by neoliberal economic concepts, corruption, and banks that operate globally. Labor rights and social standards are being increasingly eroded, fueling ethnic hatred, class struggle, and nationalism, and driving people into the arms of right-wing populists. In Christoph Schuch's documentary "Europe – A Continent as Prey," important questions are raised about the problem, foremost among them, of course: How did it come to this? And how can we get out of this dangerous situation?
A translation/treason. A film that tries to grasp the breath of poet José Kozer and return him to nothingness.
Inside the hidden world of a New Zealand funeral home.
Documentary on Okinawan resistance to American and SDF base construction
Filmmaker Paul Wolffram immerses himself in the spiritual world of the Lak people in the rainforests of southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea in this heady combination of ethnography and lyrical expressionism.
Some of the best filmmakers in skateboarding take an assorted cast of skaters around the globe to skate some of the most epic spots that have ever been seen. Featuring segments from Sour, Isle, PASS~PORT, Kyle Camarillo, and Patrik Wallner.