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A teenage girl visits her grandmother to get her Afro hair done, something that takes hours and requires rituals filled with patience and care. Drawing on her own experience, filmmaker Amber Akaunu captures an intimate moment that celebrates a central part of many black women’s lives.
Migration is one of the great phenomena of the natural world. When it’s time to move some take to the skies or the oceans, but the migrants we know best are found in the awe-inspiring herds running across our planet.
Slaughterhouse workers—some of whom are still on the job—describe their work. Their accounts reveal the toll that this “world apart,” on the fringes of the human condition, takes on the workers’ health. The film captures the struggle that the men and women working in slaughterhouses must wage against their own emotions in order to “hold on” day after day. Through their fragmented accounts, the mental images that haunt them are gradually revealed, and at times we can sense all those they would prefer not to share. Filmed in the forest, a symbolic space of refuge and isolation, the documentary shows no footage shot inside a slaughterhouse.
Left to their own devices in the middle of summer, Malo and Zoe try with all their might to attract their mother's elusive attention.
Without a doubt, Angélica is having a crisis. Her mother died recently, she has to empty out her childhood home because it is going to be demolished, she doesn’t seem to have gotten over her split with her ex, and she is about to turn 40. Without any idea about how to deal with any of these things, she escapes to the past: she secretly hides in her childhood home and, while the walls fall around her, reality becomes hazy. Hidden in her house, that is both a shelter and a trap, bit by bit Angélica loses herself, fusing with her mother. Delfina Castagnino creates an elliptical and sinister tale, sowed with disturbing sounds and shadows, a film in which a framing, a musical note or a camera movement can transform peeling wallpaper into a threat, or the projection of a slide image into a ghost. And so what could be a family drama becomes a psychological thriller: Angélica turns mourning into a tale of horror.
Young psychotherapist Ernest is an expert in being normal – he even has a PhD in normalization. He’s just begun his first job, at the prestigious (if rather gloomy) Institute for Extremely Normal Behaviour. It’s immediately clear his patients need his help: the March Hare, the Mad Hatter, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the furious Queen of Hearts all claim to be from somewhere called Wonderland. But as Ernest gets to know them all, he begins to ask himself two big questions: what is ‘normal’ and what’s so great about it anyway? Digital Release 31st July 2020. Recorded: 2014 in the Linbury Studio Theatre
After several years in the wild, a hardened trapper accepts a position as sheriff in a remote village. He meets with the town mayor at the saloon to finalize the deal. Unfortunately, the current sheriff shows up, and to say the least, he has no intention of giving up his job...
No matter the cost, Yacine and his two pals want to see Fast & Furious 8 at the multiplex in the high rise suburb where they live. Unfortunately for them, they can only afford to see the cine-club session. For Yacine, what was meant to be a strategy transforms into an amazing experience.
The episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés, Crime contre le cinéma (December 25, 2006 to December 2, 2006) is divided into four parts: Colas Ricard at Centre Pompidou, Joseph Morder at La Rochelle, the Filmer à tout prix Festival in Brussels, and Michel Nedjar and Jakobois at Centre Pompidou.
A stop-motion Harryhausen tribute film.
Demba is an African who has fled an oppressive regime in his own country and is seeking asylum in Paris. One night he encounters Lucien, a policeman from the Caribbean, who speaks to him in the voice of the dominant class. But in his country Demba is a professor of History and Geography while Lucien left school early to help his mother, a cleaning lady. “YAFA Le Pardon” explores the social and economic dynamics at work in their relationship as they seek to understand each other, aided by Welcome, a Baule Komian who does not hesitate to officiate as the parties meet on the Quai de l’Oise, in the centre of Paris.
A look at the relationship between the future King and Queen.
In a cold and deserted post apocalyptic world, a man struggles to survive with his dog as only companion. One day while looking for something to get warm, he discovers a little creature made of fire…
The film documents the everyday life of people from a town in Ghana called Jamestown - also known as 'Sodom & Gomorrah’, a place that seems to have fallen by the wayside. Brief portraits of the inhabitants reveal a life marked by hopelessness and the struggle to move forward.
A portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), a genius of modern architecture, whose life passed between glory, scandal and tragedy.
In the form of a silent sunburned labourer, a mysterious creature is summoned into an old widow’s life to help out on the farm.
Feature film made by students of the 2020 course of the Realization 4 chair (DAA/FDA/UNLP) during confinement due to Covid-19 and with the support of the PAR Program (UNLP). It consists of a series of still image stories inspired by the famous short fiction film “La Jeteé”, made by Marker in 1962.
An intimate and classic journey through this wild country. We witness magical moments of nature, from a cougar mother playing tenderly with her cubs to the rare desert flowering, where different animals take advantage of the opportunity the flowers give them. From Vampire Bats to Blue Whales we see a small sample of the enormous natural beauty of this country.
Journalist and presenter Ellie Flynn brings together a group of 20 young people aged 18-25 for a social experiment, to see if they understand what constitutes coercive control.
Folil, "root" in mapunzungun, is an invitation to question the relationship of humanity with nature; the way we think about it and inhabit it. Two young Mapuche people from the communities of Pukura and Traitraico, in southern Chile, face the difficulty of protecting the forest in order to continue collecting wild mushrooms, their food and medicine. The territory itself and the affected Mapuche communities are making the world aware of their problems, where the language of nature faces the paradoxes of development.
When a woman accepts the aid of her unpredictable brother to save her strip club, things quickly get out of hand as drama leads to violence.
From the first curative sea baths to “Paris plage” to overcrowded shores and from beach pajamas to monokinis, how the invention of the seaside has transformed our customs, our imaginations and landscapes to the point of importing sand into our cities (with "Paris Plage").
After failing to commit suicide, by being rescued by Palermo, Jorge decided to live with him in an abandoned building. The place will witness how two completely opposite people that fight their way to live in a wild place, and in a society that chooses to segregate them.
Fred, unemployed graduate like many young Nigerians, is starting a new job as a taxi driver. As for Akin, he taxes commercial vehicles for the national transport union. They both operate in the rich urban landscape of Ibadan, in which Alain Kassanda’s camera choreographs the multiplicity and perpetual power relations at play.
A couple is making out on the seashore, a monster observes them from the water, a man kills two other monsters and the movie begins: a list of names, a list of friends, a list of monsters - Theend, the suicide of the underground culture.
Alice has wanted a child for a long time. Gabrielle just never thought about it. After seven years together they are finally getting started. Appointments are made, treatments are taken. After Alice suffers some disappointing results in Barcelona, the tables are turned and Gabrielle decides to go through with the artificial insemination process.
There is great sadness in the small village Everywhere. Since the Golden Thaler is no longer owned by the village, nothing grows there except cabbage and discouragement.
A hand, a bamboo. Humanity and nature. They are meeting during a dreamlike journey, from the emergence of life till our own civilization.
A vibrant portrait of Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul, who has become a symbol of freedom and power for all African American women.
The eye is the window to the soul. That is why it terrifies us.
Told through the eyes of an Australian news reporter, Eammon Ashton-Atkinson, who moved to the UK to escape depression, the documentary, follows 3 characters on their journey to overcome their struggles as the club competes against 60 other gay clubs in the Bingham Cup in Amsterdam – the World Cup of gay rugby.
Hocine was born a boy and raised in a conservative family in Algeria. Today her name is Yasmine. Adil and Albéric were born in countries where homosexuality is punishable by prison, lynching, persecution, and death… They fled to Belgium and France seeking asylum. Thomas’ Spanish father dreamt of seeing his son married in a church. Ariane, a young feminist queer, refuses to submit to men’s diktats. They all share the same ambition: to no longer be invisible. Together, they try to overcome their fear and conquer places where they’ve never felt welcome before.
Rick feels hunted, Lilo feels vulnerable. Yet blood ties are stronger than anything. An afternoon spent together, playing, eating and a night spent under the stars: everything seems perfect. Lilo wakes up the next morning, uncertain whether she is living a dream or if it's reality.
In this documentary, the France TV teams meet with Chilla in late 2019 as she begins the creation of her second album. The young woman opens up about her childhood, her appetite for music, and also addresses questions such as "how to find a way to express herself that suits her while navigating an environment as codified as rap? How to unite while being from everywhere and nowhere, in a hip-hop world where claiming an origin, a neighborhood is essential?"
Malik is a sensitive and awkward child who is teased by two older boys. He finds refuge in his home, a dark basement, where his drawings and imagination lead him to experience fairy-tale adventures alongside bizarre characters.
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…
Adel is a young aircraft co-pilot. Following a assault he may lose is eye.
When the physicist Walter moves into a new apartment in the 1970s, he tries to clear up the enigmatic disappearance of his previous tenant and realizes that the old man is haunting him in an eerie way - from the future.
Adel is a 57-year-old man. He dedicates all his time to his local soccer club, and gets by doing temporary work. Then he learns that he is no longer eligible for the government’s low income benefit.
Hamsfar with Morgh-e-Sahar is a visual narration of Mohammad Reza Shajarian's last concert tour in the United States with Shahnaz in 1391. In this one-hour documentary, we traveled with Mohammad Reza Shajarian on a trip to Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C., capturing the pure moments of his life behind the scenes of his concerts, and following his heart and his social and cultural perspectives.
The sun is reflected in an Andalusian thermo-solar power plant whose architecture reminds us of ancient alchemical engravings, like a sacred temple of the 21st century. From its radiance come the voices of an antimatter physicist and an ecofeminist evoking their reflections on collapse, time and energy.
On a bright morning, a man sends a letter to his son as a legacy and walkes away towards the future he has chosen.
Guillem Agulló y Salvador was killed by a stab in the heart by a group of neo-Nazis on April 11, 1993. Destroyed, his parents, Guillermo and Carmen, will fight so that the death of their son is not manipulated, and is not considered the fruit of of a simple gang fight. The way, full of obstacles, threats and a dirty media war, will be about to destroy the family, who must learn to mourn the death of a child while fighting for his memory, which little by little becomes the symbol of a cause they would never have thought to lead.