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Fundamental: Defenders of Justice

Brazilian law permits abortion only in cases of rape and danger to the woman’s life. Sexual and reproductive health and rights are severely limited, and there are deep racial prejudices against Black Brazilians. In “Defenders of Justice,” we meet Lucia Xavier, who is part of a movement of powerful women activists who are reframing reproductive rights as an issue of women’s rights and racial justice, as she and others work to address security threats against activists fighting for reproductive rights. We also meet Daniele Duarte, an Afro-Brazilian lesbian activist who participates in protests and marches against the rise of the extremist president Jair Bolsonaro. Lucia, Daniele, and others are part of a vibrant and intersectional feminist movement in Brazil, mobilizing what some are calling a “Feminist Spring” in Brazil as the Supreme Court considers decriminalizing abortion.

Fundamental: Defenders of Justice

NR 2020
You Don't Even Know What I Been Through

YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I BEEN THROUGH is a hybrid, experimental documentary short film loosely based on the short story Jack-O by James Franco (part of the collection of short stories entitled Palo Alto). It is told through stream-of-consciousness storytelling (inspired by filmmakers like Joel Potrkyus + Matt Johnson) with no real rhyme or reason. It's all over the place. But that's kinda the point. It is told with a millennial eye, but somehow universal. "A thing that we lack as humans is showing how vulnerable we are. Everybody's so afraid of people finding the demons under their bed. And it's like, 'Just show it. Turn it into something beautiful.'" - Noelia Towers.

You Don't Even Know What I Been Through

NR 2020
Behind The 1975’s 'Notes on a Conditional Form'

“Let’s describe it as a desire to be outward followed by a fear of being seen,” The 1975’s Matty Healy tells Apple Music. “I think that is the conversation that happens in this record.” This short film finds Healy reflecting on his motivations and complexities as he and his bandmates reveal the ideas that fuelled their fourth album, Notes on a Conditional Form. It’s a unique and unguarded look at one of Britain’s most venturous bands.

Behind The 1975’s 'Notes on a Conditional Form'

10.0 2020
Concrete Forms of Resistance

Filmed in Tripoli, Lebanon, Concrete Forms of Resistance is a documentary centred upon the city’s abandoned ‘Permanent International Fair’, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the mid-1960s. Progress and crisis, labour and capital, material and memory, are reflected through a very intelligent rhyme between image and sound. The touching voice and words of Niemeyer as a call for life, and the beautiful camerawork as a weaving of ghosts in the present landscapes.

Concrete Forms of Resistance

NR 2020
Parts of a Circle: History of the Karabakh Conflict

Chronicles the disputed history of the decades old conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis over the territory of Nagorno Karabakh, drawing upon precious original interviews with eyewitnesses and participants in the events of 1988-94, from presidents to military field commanders, to ordinary people whose lives were turned upside down by the fighting. Produced and created by a joint group of Armenian and Azerbaijani journalists and documentary filmmakers, it examines how and why the conflict originated; the hard, bloody years of war; and the process of negotiations and attempts to resolve the conflict that continue to this day.

Parts of a Circle: History of the Karabakh Conflict

NR 2020
Black & Welsh

When filmmaker Liana Stewart (director of Black & Welsh) was growing up in Butetown, Cardiff, there were very few black and Welsh role models on TV. She has long wanted to make a film that brings together people from across Wales to share their experiences of what it means to be black and Welsh. Now she has done just that. Weaving together a collection of engaging stories, she meets people from Newport in the south to Snowdonia in the north, and from a 19-year-old model storming to international runway success to a 92-year-old whose arrival in Wales predates the Empire Windrush.

Black & Welsh

NR 2020
In Place of Monuments

With somatic knowledge, Naima Ramos-Chapman sculpts a kinetic monument on the same rooftop in the name of healing and freedom-- where they were arrested at gunpoint as a teen in 2005. Filmed during the pandemic and in the midst of the BLM movement, they intend to liberate their own body through the process of rupturing memory with collective recall and dreaming in response to the state violence and the only virus that has truly plagued their family for generations: white supremacy. May this be a balm.

In Place of Monuments

NR 2020
Azazel Against It

Lucio and Raven are a gay couple who have been together for over 11 years. Lucio is a very bright, calm, and cheerful person, always seeing the good in everything. Raven is his opposite. Not a single week goes by without some drama or another at their house. After a few unsuccessful suicide attempts, Raven has been prescribed daily medication to help him become more emotionally stable. The memory of being a highly successful and sought-after stage actor, as well as being loved by a very handsome and wealthy man who played such a supportive part in their relationship, is still very strong for Raven. As for Lucio, everything is going well; he has a good job which sometimes keeps him very busy, but it provides a generous and steady income for his relationship in which he plays such a significant role. However, when Raven turns 45, something will happen, something to explode their superficially maintained relationship. What will happen, and who will survive the blast?

Azazel Against It

1.0 2020