The Sea Runs Thru My Veins features four protagonists who, based on their very own individual challenges and life circumstances, share different perspectives on the topic of happiness.
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The Sea Runs Thru My Veins features four protagonists who, based on their very own individual challenges and life circumstances, share different perspectives on the topic of happiness.
An illustrator discovers that one of his creations is missing and chases after it.
Exploring family, love and human resilience, we follow John and Quiandre as they pick up the pieces of their lives destroyed by Hurricane Irma the most powerful storm to ever hit the Caribbean.
The first documentary dedicated to Antonio Tabucchi. Interviews with friends, colleagues and life partners accompany a real journey through the places that welcomed and hosted him.
Digital Drama's short film about the history of suffrage banners to mark the 100 year anniversary of the Representation of the People Act and the year that some women in the UK first got the vote. Expert Elizabeth Crawford examines how these beautiful banners were used in the campaign to gain the vote.
An explosive film about a crazy woman, her ugly boyfriend and the heartbreak that tore a town apart!
After the death of Hugo Chavez, power in Venezuela passed to his successor Nicolas Maduro. He dissolved the parliament and completely deprived the opposition of power. This is a film about those who then took to the streets, fought for their rights and won.
Thomas is French and has lived in New York for the last 6 years. He feels homesick and decides to return to France with two American friends, Andrée and Adel. He helps them discover his native region, the North of France and Douai, the city where he grew up. There, the celebration of "Gayant" ("Giant" in the regional dialect) takes place. During three days of festivities, a family of giant puppets made of wicker parades in the streets of the city, inspiring the awe of spectators. Thomas and his friends are astonished by the parade, the enthusiasm of the crowd but also by the commitment of the "porteurs", the men who lift the giants. Our friends encounter one surprise after another and meet local figures who share the love of the region, its dialect and culinary recipe. They experience the excitement of parading with those puppets and feel renewed with the assurance that humanity is capable of ingenuity based on common cause and shared values.
Two invisible beings enchant and upset the life of a park: Octave, -the guide of Mr. Pilou- and Annabelle. Annabelle fascinates Octave. Mr. Pilou, unaware of the existence of Octave, walks his dog every day in the park: master and dog will be involved in funny adventures. But there is also Zoé and Lino, Mme Pauline, and Caroline the girl who sings like an angel. The Muse of music is everywhere; even the dogs are enchanted by the music. A detour leads to Paris: it is in Paris that Octave remembers tango music. This music will start to unravel his story. A scherzo of the visible and the invisible: are you alive if you are invisible?
A doc-travel log that goes through past and present of the vast Amazon region, the largest hydrographic territory on the planet, in which humid forests and ancestral cultures coexist resisting the advance of the transnational domain,
A short film following the activity of a missing persons phone. 'if you never answered x' explores themes of communication, connectivity and loss in the 21st century through the prism of notifications appearing on a phone screen.
The film shows the genesis of the Swiss Tropical Institute under the direction of Rudolf Geigy. From his employees and students he was partly admired, partly feared. His moods and outbursts were legendary. As a wealthy industrialist, he was able to afford virtually everything and generously invested in the establishment of the Tropical Institute, but also made considerable development aid in Africa. A search for traces with contemporary witnesses.
Two young people travelling 4.766 kilometers along the 24th longitude looking for cultural encounters. A documentary about people living in Europe.
In a few billion years, the sun will burn out. That's enough time to leave the inhospitable places on Earth. The flight ends with a crash in paradise, which the manufacturer has given an expiration date. The search for an angel produces a lot of stardust. Stardust is from my series of video diaries. The idea for it came to me when I was filming a sunset and heard the composer Arvo Pärt in an interview. When asked about the idea of angels, he replied slowly and gently: "It's not an idea, it's reality that surrounds us."
What happens when we reverse the logic of CCTV cameras? The Panopticon model—Foucault's sketch of a modern surveillance society in which everyone disciplines themselves—is not acceptable? Cameras record: a platform, our stage.
The colonial construct of “exotic erotica” is countered with destruction, while the mashup of a Tahitian folk song (“Nau Haka Taranga”) and a German pop song (“Schöne Maid”) is visualized. The exploitation of the exotic has shifted to the economic sphere, where it exists in the realm of music and consumption.
Videos of people in jeans playing with mud and water are posted on YouTube. Men in Jeans deals with this niche on the internet, which mixes advertising myths, ideals of masculinity, and romanticized impressions of nature, exaggerating them and subtly revealing their absurdity.
A film that gives voice to the anxiety and rage unleashed by Brexit Britain. With fire as the film’s central metaphor, artist Callum Hill welds together stories real and fictional, personal and political, to dwell on the contradictory impulse to destroy in the hope of progress.
A father and his daughter on a typical camping holiday, but something isn't right.
Message of the Forest can be heard as an ode to the Sal Forests of West Bengal, or a song for the weathering of parent rocks, or an incantation inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s vision of a world cam- pus that would become Visva-Bharati in Santineketan in West Bengal in 1921.
A woman has to make a decision on what to do whilst living through a period of Period Poverty.
Based on the experiences of young care-leavers who are isolated, marginalised and seeking employment.
Short films intervened in 35 mm, 16 mm and Super8 mm by this Argentine filmmaker
A tale of two warrior brothers, Heru and Patu, haunted by female spirits, blinded by beauty, magic and their own pride, lament the terrible consequences of the spell.
In 2015 a group of Mapuche students organized the first linguistic internship school in Mapuzugun. More than 50 students from all over the country arrived to get involved in an attempt to revitalize the Mapuche language. This documentary follows the stories of four participants in their decolonization process through the learning of their mother tongue, examining the hegemonic forces that are responsible for making their language disappear.
A documentary following ten politicans' campaigning efforts during the 2017 German national parliament election.
Four rolls of 16mm film were patiently exposed frame by frame over the course of a stay on Ouessant Island in Brittany. Observation of nature and its phenomena is paired with formal experimentation, altering our perception of the real.
Herman's quiet, colourful world is suddenly interrupted by something loud and stressy.
John and Rebecca attend a gig in town only to find the act, Nick, has some incredibly committed fans.
A mini flamenco short.
A complex, beguiling inquisition of geometry’s relationship to various types of space.
Together filmmaker Nathalie and her friend Fabienne venture into a world of memories and forgetting: Fabienne to prepare for her departure from life and Nathalie in order to face it.
The story of a youngster who wanted to become stateless… Oedipus, Marguerite Duras, Guy Hocquenghem and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak offered him words as sharp as the spears that he one day gave to Sudipta Mitra Datta, a multilingual bird capable of singing new horizons.
Light Years brings together a series of short films made on 8mm between 1968 and 1987 to create a single diary film in 25 sections with its own narrative arc as a bildungsroman or story of self-education.
Every day thresholds are crossed both literally and metaphorically. This action helps to define decisions made and, in turn, lives that are led. However, even if enticing or inevitable, there are times when crossing a threshold might be better delayed or avoided.