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After being expelled from France for his subversive communist activities, the Senegalese Maoist activist and artist Omar Blondin Diop (1946-73) returned to Dakar, where he joined the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa and, with his incendiary speeches against colonialism, challenged the power embodied by Léopold Sédar Senghor, president of Senegal.
This poetic look at political protest in Puerto Rico offers an intimate and empowering perspective on the struggle for recognition and self-determination.
Four boys involved in ‘Ndrangheta Mafia activities are taken away from their extremely powerful and violent families in an attempt to re-educate them.In the most violent region of Italy, a brave judge fights against the prevailing ‘Ndrangheta Mafia by removing young boys from their extremely powerful and violent families. Director Sophia Luvarà, who grew up in Calabria herself, had unlimited access to the work of the judge and the life of the boys during the controversial re-education program he set up. Through him and his team we meet some of the sons of the most dangerous men in Italy. Can their destiny be altered?
It is the story of a deaf girl in Shanghai. Despite the hectic pace of the city, she still feels a strong sense of loneliness. Although there are multiple parties and opportunities to meet new faces, she still feels unique in the crowd. At the end of the film they explain that many people who suffer from deafness are diagnosed with depression or anxiety. The girl represents all those millions of beings in the world that are not included.
A handwritten note to self. A vivid memory of women which were once girls. A film about time and femininity, questioning how the erotic body gradually becomes a body that insists, how time is registered within the promise of youth which becomes marital duty.
Taking one of the world’s most popular children’s songs as a sample, this video slowly reveals the latent violence embedded in the culture addressed to kids. This is a single video take, similar to a photograph, in which a tiny instrument is left to self-unwind with so much tenderness while the song’s story of almost carnivorous nature is told.
Does the algorithm know us better than we do? How will we behave, when the access to information will become permanent and unlimited? The human is asking – Machine is replying is the test arrangement Boisseau & Westermeyer choose for their character ƒ: What happens when our access to information is optimized even more and become permanent and unlimited? Will ƒ’s personality still be recognizable? Will his self-view remain his own or become the view of an algorithm? Will his attempts incorporate the algorithm? The thoughts of the Free Man seem endlessness, but what happens if the uncertain disappears?
Writer Cédric Gras follows in the footsteps of Stalinist mountaineers in Kyrgyzstan. Pioneers of Central Asian exploration, they were first on the highest peaks of the Celestial Mountains. The film traces one of their expeditions to the Khan Tengri, which has become an amazing glacial trek.
France, summer 2019 the Japanese artist Tetsuo Harada has just turned 70 years old. He has spent his life carving works for peace and respect for nature. In his 3000 m 2 workshop, he works tirelessly on new projects. This year, an exhibition is dedicated to him in Niigata, the snow country of the famous novel by Yasunari Kawabata, his native region. But the project that occupies his thoughts is something else, he, who always carve monumental stone works to link countries with each other with his famous Earth Weaving is about to revisit all of his work and career with a new ephemeral installation project: The Peace Weaving.
Michele Ferretti is a small underworld boss in the Roman suburbs who must manage his uncle's Empire as long as it is segregated from the household. Michael is part of this malevolent world. He is a good, and pretends toughness and masculinity with little success. When his brother is beaten he must prove that he has an iron fist, but his hesitation begins to collapse the House of cards that he has created putting him in danger.
Criminal commissioner Hagen Walsken investigates the missing Anna Padberg, who fell into the hands of an insane clown. Only one woman survived this clown several years ago and has been silent in an institution since then. Hagen tries to question her anyway. But the chaos breaks out when the clown finds out where his former victim is now. Now he's more deadly than ever. But Anna remains missing.
Cochonou is going through hell at school because his classmates are harassing him.
Two people attempt to reclaim their lives after years of struggling with mental illness, while a group of leading professionals in the field rethinks the current drug-based model of psychiatric care.
A young man, sitting on a rusty hangar, playing his guitar. An abandoned wooden church, no longer needed, re-locating to the outskirts of an urban expansion area for cultural interim usage. Nursery school children in a chair circle telling each other what they are NOT doing. In his essay film THE BEST CITY IS NO CITY AT ALL, Christoph Schwarz mixes multiple perspectives on Vienna's largest urban expansion area. They share a sentimental criticism of growth and a romantic refusal to progress while facing imminent ecological collapse, which seems more credible to us than any happy ending.
The texture of memory gains bearing and its own sounds in a narrative which, stemming from image fragments (such as our memories), refuses to reiterate the expectation of violence and aggression in the bodies of Syrian men persecuted in certain territories. These bodies are managed by nothing but tenderness, fraternity. And this time narrated from the point of view of a woman, who also speaks of these cyclical processes of caring for one another.
A young woman finds herself lost and her life drifting aimlessly.
In the Port of Tilbury—a place which historically was the point of entry for migrants to the UK—filmmaker Maria Anastassiou worked collaboratively with a group of people who had recently arrived in the town to paint a portrait of life in the transient space of the Thames Estuary.
A troubled young teenager discovers he has a fascination for lights.
A small group of LGBTQI+ activists in Tbilisi, Georgia attempt to conduct the first Pride march in the country. They face overwhelming opposition from far-right groups, the government, and the Georgian Orthodox Church who have a history of inciting violent attacks on the community. With membership of the European Union, and anti-Russian sentiment firmly on the political agenda, Georgians are at a turning point in history where they must choose to fight for progress and human rights, or concede to greater Russian influence.
With The Blue Quest, Clément seeks out marine protection projects around the world to highlight their actions and the people who work there.
Short movie by Elena Bellantoni.
With a return to Scotland, Kate Foster and Pantea Shabahang's "Mending the Blanket" is a playful illustrative and animated exploration of peatbog restoration in Southern Scotland. As a step-by-step educational guide to the history and use of peat, this Scottish-Iranian collaboration promotes the importance of preserving and replenishing the wetlands around us for sustainable and fruitful futures.
Where can we get together? Set in the midst of a societal crisis, Lucid Dreams is a six-minute Greek epic from a second-person point of view about democracy, the importance of human connection, and the capability of change.
Tortured found footage for a short piano piece of Galina Ustvolskaya.
It's César's birthday and his parents expect César to wear clothes that make him feel uncomfortable. Under that pressure César has to make a decision. Continue to please his family's expectations or be true to his identity as a trans man.
Eighteen years ago, the Three Gorges Dam was in the building process. The Zhang family, who lived in the old town of Yunyang had to move elsewhere. One day, the grandfather suffered a stroke and lost his memory. The children returned to look after him. The eldest daughter even bought an apartment and new furniture for her old man. Years later, Grandpa Zhang turned better. It is time to consider how the family should go on. The topic is now focused on the eldest grandson. The relatives ought to worry about his marriage, for he is already 28 years old. Facing this urge, the grandson has then considered pretending to marry his best friend to comfort the family, while living a completely different life in Europe.
The film explores the ‘Farfallino’ language, a coded versionof Italian used by children to secretly communicate between each other. In Italian, literally, farfallino means "language of butterflies", from the animal’s noun farfalla. The work starts from the proposition of a unintelligible communication capable of transpassing species through incomprehension. While employing mechanism of exclusion and inclusion, languages creates separatisms and possible alliances.
Rodney goes on the run after losing money belonging to Bojack Horseperson in a race.
Perversion is not all together satisfied today. He cuddles his fluffy replacement object. Now, Desire appear. She removes her clothes in a static striptease and is ready to be used and spent.
Detective Harvey Price (George Everett-Button) has been transferred over to a new unit, where he is to befriend his new and intelligent partner Alexander Boston (Jonny Brookes), together, both Alex and Harvey must put their differences to the side so they can tackle a new threat, with very limited help from the corrupt police service they work for. Price is to be challenged both mentally and physically when he is face to face with his cities newest and greatest wanted criminal, known as The Arsonist.
Celebrates the "everyday beauty and strength of black existence", in which poets and political activists have their say.
It’s almost a habit. I take a story from Perrault that I love so, I put it in the blender of my dreams, and flies the stage to the lands of childhood, the ones I prefer, as well as to adulthood, also in me, to be honest. From "The Sleeping Beauty" there remains a lot, the wood, the spindle, the 100-year sleep, the fairies, good ones and evil ones, and obviously a prince who moves. But also the cauldron filled with snakes, and the very evil ogress. To be clear the title often makes us forget that the kiss that wakes from the magical sleep is but only the start of the tale. The worst, the very worst, is to come, since the Queen, mother of Prince Charming, is nothing less than an ogress who dreams only to devour everyone, but firstly her daughter-in-law and grandkids, which, evidently, is only seen in stories, she dreams only to take her son as husband to create little ogres. Long story short, a very nice momma. She'll end up in her cauldron, like in the story…
Spain, late 80's. A singer-songwriter and a TV technician find love where less expected.
Tiget, a 16-year-old black South London teenager, is worried a boy she met via social media has infected her with an STD. When trying to get a check-up she miserably fails to do the self-testing kit and ends up in the Sexual Health clinic, where the only person still there to see her is middle-aged grumpy Dr Mark Mackenzie. While her friends wind her up more and more via text about what she might have picked up, Mark is trying to get her out of the door as quickly as possible. Their consultation is interrupted by NHS messaging apps pestering Mark to get to the ward round and a test ordering system that doesn't let Tiger be checked for "everything". Anxiously awaiting the bedside test result for HIV, Tiger connects with Mark over the difficulties the digital world poses for both of them in different ways.
Dr. Chris Sinkinson presents in a thoughtful, accessible and engaging manner, demonstrating through on site location and interviews with experts, that archaeology affirms that the Bible is reliable and fits with important events that occurred in the ancient world. He cites Jerome who considered Israel the “fifth gospel” and his avid interest and expertise in the land and history is clearly evident. Indeed if we visit and study Israel, that will illumine and enrich our understanding of the Bible. Interestingly and additionally, when Blaise Pascal was asked by Louis XIV for evidence for the existence of God, he simply similarly responded, “The Jews, your majesty, the Jews.”
