A son triggers a dispute situation at a family dinner.
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A son triggers a dispute situation at a family dinner.
As a child, Marie-Pascale began to make a raucous sound. As a young adult, she discovers that this voice can be the instrument of katajjaq, or Inuit throat singing. This discovery propels her on a quest and jostle her life. She learns to practice throat singing with the Inuk singer, Charlotte Qamaniq. She meets the Inuit people of today. By listening to their stories and History, she senses parts of her own, intimate, and collective story.
Dead bodies have washed up on the banks of the river. When Abraham finds out that one of them was his friend, he embarks on a journey to fulfill a promise that will take him to the Guacari tree.
Corps-Selle is a two-part film set in a sunny, peaceful, wintery Burgundian forest.
In 2003, during a trip to Japan, I filmed about ten hours of rushes with a Mini DV camcorder, thinking of making a film that I never managed to finish. The work of time opens the mind: I dive back into the images, digitize them and by looking at them I finally find a form, bathed by the writings of Chris Marker and Nicolas Bouvier on Tokyo. “Faces” was born sixteen years later. It is an invitation to immerse yourself in the heart of a city and its inhabitants. A form of audio and visual narrative, punctuated by only three intertitles, takes the viewer into an ecstatic state between dream and reality.
The action of a firefighter in the port, by refusing to participate in a shipment to massacre the Yemeni population, initiates a movement that will reveal the interests of this trade.
One man's fight to break out of his father's shadow. Focusing on mental heath in sport, this exciting and exhilarating sports drama takes place through one unbroken take in real time.
‘The Memor’ is exploring the future of memory. Enter a memory archive containing replicas from Earth’s deep past through to its post-anthropocene future.
At the age of 12 Maya lost all of her hair. Within a couple of weeks she turned completely bald. The diagnosis: Alopecia areata. It causes Maya's body to reject every single hair like a foreign object. Two years later she has gotten used to her baldness. But summer is a brutal time for her. It's too hot to hide under a wig or a hat. Then, Maya feels naked, and she asks herself: How do others perceive me? Am I alright the way I am? Am I beautiful? Almost like a way to provide the answers, Maya takes lots of selfies, just like her friends. And somewhere in between swiping, liking and sharing, the girls are growing into young women. MySelfie is a documentary that observes the levels of self-perception and external perception that Maya and her friends are experiencing. It is not about narcissism but about searching and finding one's inner self, and eventually self-love. A coming-of-age film that portrays the self-exploration of a whole generation by looking at Maya's story.
The Sunstill brings together in the same space-time the twilight moments of the city of Rome filmed throughout three months. Over the course of 6 hours of film, Rome becomes the terrain of a strange, almost infinite evening.
Two alien arts administrators discuss the gentrification of Walthamstow in a cafe interupting theatre director William Galinsky who has been asked to re-animate the corpse of William Morris for Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture.
Documentary short shot in the apartment of a suicide victim.
At the dawn of the Datacosm, data is planted, harvested, transported, stored and processed as data-feed for consumption by the data eaters. The infiltration of the data storage facility by a hacker leads to contamination by a thought virus which alters the Datacosm forever. Set in apuppet theatre, data scientists (as puppeteers) control puppets, objects and analogue data to create the narrative on the stage above. Code scrolls between the ‘real’ world of the puppeteers and the micro dramas enacted by the puppets. The film was derived from an original collaborative version of "Datacosm" which combined artificial intelligence and animation and was presented as a live performance.
Two sisters accompany their father, a Kawesqar artisan fisherman, to return to the navigation route along which their ancestors fished, hunted and lived. As they go into the depths of the Jautok they find beauty and mystery, symbols of this territory and their ancestors . This journey is a call to protect the Kawesqar territory and the life that inhabits it
There are approximately 60 million evangelicals in the United States. They represent by far the largest religious group and should not be underestimated politically as voters. They take the Bible literally and believe that God created the world in six days, that the world only existed for 6,000 years, and they dismiss scientific knowledge as lies. They fear Muslims and atheists, homosexuality and permissive life. Alcohol, abortion and sex before marriage are taboo. In large parts of the United States, secularism, the separation of church and state, are being removed more and more. The filmmakers of the documentary give a frightening insight into a strange world and show a supposedly modern country, in which large parts of the population have a level of intellectual development as in the Middle Ages and are as reactionary in their worldview as in Islamist theocracies.
Fango Rosso (red mud), is the toxic waste of the mining extraction. It covers up the hills of Sulcis, land where the astonishing beauty of the landscape collides with a history betrayed promises, progress as a mirage, politic as deceit.
Yann, 11, with a unique personality, lives with his two parents in the south-west of France, near Bayonne. Yann has autism, his schedule is busy and well orchestrated to give him the opportunity to have as much autonomy as possible. Supervised by specialized educators, he navigates between speech therapy, occupational therapy and surfing sessions ...
An overview of the evolution of torture techniques used by the United States since the Second World War.
Documentary short about the stage play "Wessis in Weimar"
Conceived in relation to both the rapid decline of flying insects and the high recurrence of animation, Not (a) part is handmade or contact film that works with the subject and/or material of flying insects. Numerous dead bees found on walks were positioned directly onto negative film and contact printed. Occupying approximately 24 frames they run at a rate of one bee per second. The length of the film is determined by how many specimens are found over a specified period of time.
Following the rise of the #NiUnaMenos and #MeToo movements, Maxi Manuttupa decides to confront her past through an epic journey in the Peruvian Andes.
Two uniformed guards keep watch over a cave as animals carry on philosophical dialogues about important existential issues. Is it time to passionately devote yourself to reality? What about the perpetual reoccurrence of sameness? Meanwhile, the solution to one of the most essential problems is apparent: you just have to wash, peel, cut, and mash it. The apple. The serious practices of reality are calling.
Europe Lost. America Lost. Everything Lost.
An erotic and pornographic nonfiction movie shot in five days aboard a camper. Two couples, one in their twenties and one in their forties, travel to perform a porno-aesthetic performance at a post-porn festival in Rome. They take the opportunity to shoot “a sex film” and, in addition to making a lot of it, they become aware of their erotic bond and how much this goes beyond social stereotypes.
A commissioned music video for Emmit Fenn’s instrumental track, Wind.
From the war-torn Ukraine to Milan's catwalks. This is a story of beauty and struggle. This is the story of young girls longing for a better life. A story of hope, fail, success. And of a man who can determine it.
An animated discussion about the ‘ideal’ respectable queer person. How would they look, act, and let people know that they’re not “that kind of gay”? Based on a series of interviews with LGBTQ+ people, this experimental charcoal animation explores the pressure to be a ‘good example’, and the joy of refusing to conform.
One man faces off against the world’s worst coffee round.
The artist Mateo Vilagrasa from Castelló, one of the greatests creators of the end of the twentieth century, who was quadriplegic for 15 years fter an accident, prepares the trip to his departure. This is his last chance to make a difference about the direction of his work and his life. A thinker that paints about the “self” and about the sense of existence.
Documentary exploring the lives of two victims of domestic abuse, Hazel and Kelly, and the events that unfolded as they reported their abuse to the police.
Life is no picnic, especially not for Kurdish bachelors in Istanbul. Seven seasonal workers live in an unusual flat share in a dilapidated house.
A violent supermarket incident involving a refugee in East Germany is reenacted in a film studio. Ten citizens observe and comment on the case, which highlights the blurred distinction between civil courage and vigilante justice.
A year ago, Julie’s parents died in a car crash. She moves and meets new people, argues, plays sports, goes to an amusement park… As she wanders through the sunny summer of 1996, she grows, changes and blossoms.
In Montreal, Canada, an association of first- and second-generation Italian immigrants is organizing a celebration for the patron saint of their hometown: Larino, in Molise. Vincent is the association's president and has been working for years to keep the tradition alive. Claire recently discovered she is originally from Larino and is conducting genealogical research on her family. Franco and Pina live in a residential neighborhood and dream of one day returning to Italy. Meanwhile, in Larino, preparations for the feast of San Pardo are in step with the rhythms of nature.
This is the story of a small foil man, made of foil who gets made from a piece of foil.
Satis House is a multiple screen-based, videographic study. A kind of mini-puzzle film, it discovers or invents a spatio-temporal strategy for an audio-visual collection and juxtaposition of the eight sequences in David Lean’s 1946 film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ 1861 novel Great Expectations that depict protagonist Pip’s visits to the shadowy candlelit dwelling of Miss Havisham.
The film Gwacoulou relates the legend of how peace was kept by the transformation of three pairs of twins and their mother into the three stones of a traditional home and its cauldron “the canari”. Nowadays, these stones are still one of the pillars of Bambara tradition in Africa. Their symbolism speaks to us of marriage and discretion, fraternity and solidarity, friendship and support.
A couple breaks up. It's a moment when everything is suspended, immobilized in the night, when the breakup happens.