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One for the River: The Sava Story
Flowing from the heart of the Julian Alps all the way to Belgrade, crossing four countries and many landscapes before reaching the Danube, the Sava is the home river for most of the team behind and in front of the camera of this film. But despite living next to it, many never use the chance to really get to know it. Join four kayakers for an exciting, 11-day journey across the entire Slovenian part of the river.
Amber Schulz: A Journey Toward Finding Inner Strength
Earlier this year, Schulz shared how she faced one of her biggest fears with the help of those around her: Family, friends, teammates and the online community. From there, as she details in this film, she took steps toward recovery from her eating disorder.
Chris Danger: Creating a Superstar
In 2014, YouTuber DenkOps (Chris Denker) created a fictional version of himself inside of a pro wrestling video game. 8 years and 1.5 million fans later, it's time to turn fiction into reality. This documentary follows Chris's odyssey into the very real world of professional wrestling, with every bump, botch, & breakdown that occurs along the way. Can he make it through training and prove he has what it takes to do this for real? Or will he find himself... in danger? It’s definitely not a game anymore.
Apinán: We The Lenca
APINÁN (We The Lenca) is an introspective artistic vision of one of the remnant tribes of Mesoamerican in Honduras ethnicities that is still alive among the 600 thousand people that constitute it. APINÁN lives among cultivated vegetable meadows, wild flowers, tile houses and colonial remains with a palpable dignity in each of its constituents.
3 Blickwinkel - Königsklasse im Herzen von Europa
From the relegation battle to winning the Europa League to the Champions League anthem for the first time - Eintracht Frankfurt has experienced turbulent times with incredible moments. We have accompanied the SGE on their journey to the Champions League so far - and we were in the heart of Europe.
Going Alone
Every year, five to ten percent of all deceased Berliners are buried by the authorities because no relatives are found. Most of them are put into the ground by mortician Bernd Simon going alone. But sometimes companions do turn up and say goodbye in their very own way. An observational documentary about an undertaker who actually wanted to become an entertainer, a bizarre city portrait and a mirror of how we deal with death, mourning and commemoration.
¿A qué suenan tus ojos?
Juan Pablo was born without the ability to see. With great enthusiasm and an adventurous spirit he travels from Sao Paulo (Brazil) to the Colombian Amazon to encounter the unknown and unusual; without fear of anything he faces great challenges.
How to Watch Pornography
A movie essay using theory fragments from porn studies pioneer Linda Williams, radical gender theorist Paul Preciado, feminist theorists Hortense Spillers, Karen Barad and more. A variety of hazy, lo fi clips rub up against an isolated digerati immersed in temporary pornutopias. Why not name it a small collection, a modest archive of sexual imageries and pleasures? The relationship between monopoly capitalism and sexual imaging is laid bare, along with the production of a gendered subject, the question of post-pornography and its new identity formations.
The Visible Spectrum
On a film reel electrified by static charges, we meet five people who survived the impact of lightning.
Horizon
Have you ever told the new generation what future you’re going to leave them? The world is struggling with a climate crisis and other critical issues; what will it look like in 30 years’ time? This one-to-one performance gives you the chance to get into a conversation with a teenager who’s about 16 years old.
Recents
Employing the use of a copy machine to degrade images and video from her personal archive, the filmmaker takes viewers through fading recollections of the past. Memory is an unreliable reproduction – a copy of a copy.
Alegria Séfarade
Country of egality, France is a dream to my sephardic-not-turkish family. In 1914, Joseph, the eldest of four brothers, leaves Istanbul to France. But he will have to wait until 1924 to fulfil his dream with his entire family. They will have to come to terms between fantasy and reality. How could they imagine what they will experience in the « human rights country » ?
At Eye Level
Six people. Six countries. Experience at eye level one of their days from sunrise to sunset and be put in their chair.
A Caballo
Carla, a young rider from Hidalgo, shows us the symbiosis between her and her horse Faraón, based on her experience as a charro skirmish and the challenges that this represents.
#Colombiaresiste
#ColombiaResiste is a short documentary featuring Deeper, a Colombian visual artist who through his collages transports us to the epicenter of the latest social uprising in his country. In the midst of a pandemic and with the many kilometers that separate Mexico from Colombia, social networks such as Tiktok, become the best archive and means of information.
The Servant Paul
From servants of men to servants of the Lord!
The servant Kim Chang Sik becomes the Paul of Joseon. Outraged by the rumor that Westerners abduct and boil Joseon children, Kim Chang Sik enters Ohlinger missionary's house as a servant to find evidence. However, contrary to expectations, he begins to be moved by the kindness and gift of the Ohlinger missionary couple, and his life changes when he encounters the phrase "the Simon on the Mount" in the Bible they handed over. In the same year, Kim Chang Sik, who received the world from Appenzeller missionary and became an official member, later joined the missionary work in Pyongyang with James Hall missionary, and difficult hardships await him… Meet the story of Kim Chang Sik, the 'Paul of Joseon' who became the first Korean pastor in 1901!
The Third Point
I’m on the island, thinking of you, trying to find something familiar that will make you feel less far away. For centuries, a surveying method using triangulation has been used to find the location of a point too far away to measure. By determining the relative angles between near points of a triangle, one only has to be able to see the distant third point in order to plot where it is on a map. Using this method, complicated coastlines have been mapped, arcs of longitude established, and the shape of the earth itself discovered.
The End Is Not What I Thought It Would Be
In December 2020, the pandemic caused the cancellation of all performances the filmmaker had arranged for a small experimental theatre in Queens, New York City. She and her partner, a composer, decided to move into the theatre for two weeks and perform every night for an absent audience. The film consists of a mixture of genres and forms, from stand-up performances, to monologues about art and life, to musical installations. Combined with documentary footage of everyday actions, the film reveals the tragicomic fate of an artist in quarantine, whose work is meaningless without a live audience.
Who Needs Banksy
An extraordinary organic explosion of street art in Port Talbot, inspired by Banksy, sees the creation of over 40 new murals that transform the town.
Validation: isolados por 7 dias para criar um álbum
Second Wind
Nikita taught clarinet, saxophone and conducting at the Chernihiv Music College. When the Russians started shelling his native Chernihiv, he stopped playing music and instead became a volunteer delivering targeted humanitarian aid. Volunteering and traditional Chinese tea drinking - helps him keep his psyche in balance. But is something capable of bringing music back into his life?
Leo & Nymphia
The film focuses on Cao Liou, a 25-year-old drag queen. The explosive creative energy he delivers is stunning, but at the same time, he also displays his egotistical nature and wanton lifestyle. Director Pan Hsin An is the same age as Liou. He peeps into Liou’s life through a camera lens, questioning and exploring. During the filming process, the two often fail to understand each other, and each has his doubts about the other. But in the end, at opposite ends of the scale, they find the same desires behind huge differences.
Watandar, My Countryman
After former Afghan refugee and photographer, Muzafar Ali, discovers that Afghans have been an integral part of Australia for over 160 years, he begins to photograph their descendants in a search to define his own Afghan-Australian identity. The Cameleer Descendants are a mix of Aboriginal, Afghan and Colonial Australian and as Muzafar meets and connects with the resilient but traumatised community he learns about his new country’s complicated history. His journey is interrupted when Afghanistan is handed back to the Taliban by the US and International Forces, and he races to help his friends and colleagues left behind.
I Just Turned 20 And I Feel Alive.
After turning 20, Natalie conquers her fear of the inevitability of death
Atlantic Ragagar
The Sidi Bouzid beach near the Moroccan port city of El Jadida is famed for its crystal-clear sear and extraordinary biodiversity. There are dozens of species of algae. However, some of them are used by pharmaceutic and food companies to produce agar powder. The nearby factories producing canned fish and phosphate fertilizer pollute water and air. This documentary uses performative interventions which erase the distinction between the human and the natural to explore the multilayered relationship of the locals to the ecosystem which is a source of both awe and their livelihood.
I was looking for you
A short film about trying to find a way to connect to possible queer ancestors in my own family.
Bedlam At The Bank: The 2022 Phillies Yearbook
2022 brought postseason baseball and a National League pennant back to South Philly. Enjoy "Bedlam At The Bank", the 2022 Phillies Video Yearbook, narrated by Phillies outfielder Kyle Schwarber.
Lend Me Your Voice
Akili, a young refugee in Rwanda who has endured a long and painful journey, sits with strangers and invites them to read her story.
INTO THE MORK
After winning the drag contest “La Mas Draga” the drag queen Rebel Mork give us the behind of cameras in all the creative process for her final look and the journey in her reign year struggling with her mental health.
Savi the Cat
Happy newlyweds Ken and Kaila adopt an adorable kitten, but neither is prepared for the destruction the feline wreaks on their couches, life and, ultimately, their relationship. An incredible Trojan horse story about marriage, communication and Kenyan-American cultural differences, the film is as much about a cat as a couple who learn that understanding each other and working well as a team is part of love.