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there was never any love to begin with
Originally a TikTok compilation, sculpted into a psychedelic documentary on the loneliness and dark beauty of Los Angeles, California. Slow and meditative, mostly composed of silent shots of street lamps, moving cars and rain, which are occasionally broken up with bursts of music and a climactic digital appearance by Kanye West.
Jacques Tati, tombé de la lune
The crazy rise and fall of Jacques Tati, comedy genius, actor, director and athlete of laughter. Or how the inventor of the mythical Mr. Hulot made France laugh, then the world, flying from success to success, rising higher and higher, until he came a little too close to the sun.
Mother Theodosia. Evidence
The documentary tells about the last years of the life of the Elder Feodosia Skopinskaya, who had an impact on thousands of lives and destinies of people both in Russia and abroad.
Dark Blossom
Armed with skulls, black makeup, wild outfits and high mohawks, this gothic trinity fights to gain control of and thus free themselves from their loneliness and inner demons as well as pressure from authorities, which they feel disturbed and controlled by. But one day, Josephine meets the beautiful guy, Jan, on Instagram and falls head over heels in love with him and the precious trio friendship is put to the test.
An Other City
The turn of the twenty-first century was a golden age in Swedish urban planning. Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm became a model around the world for how to design an attractive and eco-friendly urban environment. At the forefront of the new planning stood the architect Jan Inghe. Now there's a new film that describes his work and considers how our cities have been developing since that time. The awarded film follows Jan Inghe's career, beginning with the development of the Minneberg district in Stockholm during the 1970s, continuing with Södra Station in the 80s, and culminating with Hammaby Sjöstad in the 90s.
Ak(o)initoi
I hear! An active verb but rare at the time us. What if all these voices were heard? What would happen if you were really listening too? And if they told you they would listen to you would you speak up or stay silent?
The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.
Father of the Cyborgs
Phil Kennedy made history and headlines when he connected the brain of a paralysed man to a computer in the 1990s. He became known as The Father of the Cyborgs - but the neurologist’s quest for knowledge didn’t end there. In 2014, he stunned his peers and his family when he agreed to have his own brain implanted to continue his research. This Irish production follows his remarkable and unprecedented journey.
Sky, Forest, Village City
An experimental documentary composed of photos taken by the director on a trip to Japan in July 2019.
Chernobyl: The Invisible Enemy
In Ukraine, on the 26th of April 1986, a catastrophe shook the whole of Europe, and the world experienced a fatal day that became engraved in its history – A major nuclear accident at Chernobyl turned an entire city into a post-apocalyptic ghost town. Tens of thousands of lives were ruined. Today, nature has begun reclaiming the area of the exclusion zone surrounding the old power plant. But the consequences and the suffering are still felt today. Chernobyl is a lesson for the present. It warns us about the risks of our ever-evolving modern society. But Chernobyl taught us more importantly about the cost of lies. By highlighting the flaws in the Soviet Union system, it revealed how they can lead to disaster, and how the way we tell information about what really happened can cause harm. The past cannot be undone, but we can learn from it.
Sacha: A Child of Chernobyl
The story of Olexandr Savchenko (“Sacha”) - one of 26,000 children treated in Cuba after the Chernobyl disaster.
The Bogdanoff Odyssey
What started as a forum post snowballed into a national news story. This is BOG.TXT. For the longest time, the Bogdanoff brothers were most well known for getting nonsense Ph.Ds. But recently, they've become well know for something entirely different...and much more sinister...
Första fem - pionjärerna som tog plats i riksdagen
The film portrays the first five female members of the Swedish Riksdag, Kerstin Hesselgren, Elisabeth Tamm, Agda Östlund, Nelly Thüring and Bertha Wellin.
The Killing Chain
Closed New Zealand’s freezing plants have become ruins with wildlife growing through them. Once they were used by the country’s dominant industry processing livestock into meat and other products, but the industry has been in decline since Britain joined the EEC. Animation permeates the documentary film, with workers arising from archive footages.
Partiledaren som klev ut ur kylan
Håkan Juholt came from the reserve bench and became captain of the whole team. A high-stakes bet that hardly anyone had dared to bet on. But after only 303 days, Håkan Juholt's time as party leader for the Social Democrats was over.
Landscape as Landscape
Part of a series of found landscapes, filmed on a single 8mm roll.
Gonzalo
In 2007, Gonzalo was commissioned by his father to make "La Giulianada", a film about family origins. During the shooting, Gonzalo's vision changed. Mandates, guilt, love and pain are revisited throughout the work.
EL FALS DOCUMENTAL: Una metàfora de la realitat
The central idea of the report EL FALS DOCUMENTAL is to raise awareness and reflect on this documentary genre. It deals with aspects such as the social construction of reality, the critique of the discourse of the media and the artistic reflection of language and audiovisual codes.
Bilan's Planet
A live fantasy show, which took place in February 2019 in Moscow in the VTB Arena Hall. This show is in a new and unusual format for Russia at the junction of music, performance, cinema and heroic comics and is more reminiscent of a fantasy film played by the artist live on scene. Especially for this show, Dima Bilan is filming episodes of confessions about his life. The show, conceived as a fantastic biopic, is based on real feelings, where the main theme is finding yourself. There are no facts of biography, there are only sensations, experiences and emotions through which the inner world of the hero opens before the viewer.
Quarter Past Two
Tora is an out lesbian who spends her time driving around with her male friend group. When her best friend Jakob tells her that he is leaving to go to university, Tora grapples with unexpected emotions and has to confront this before it’s too late.
Vinyl Whisperer
Ahto, armed with encyclopaedic knowledge and unbound love for obscure music, embarks on a journey to find the rarest vinyl records of the Soviet era.
Railway Men
On a road trip, Ahmed a train conductor is torn between his loyalty to the old Tunisian railway company and his personal aspirations, while Fitati, his colleague, chooses to become a whistleblower on train accidents.
To Know Her
A poetic exploration of the camera's gaze and a family's relationship with the filmmaker's mother.
Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle
The AssimiNation is a political pamphlet portraying the indigenous Sámi people fighting for their existence. The film follows the on going cultural genocide of the Sámi which the current Governmental politics allow. This film is a cry for help for the last indigenous people living in the EU.
Almost Famous: The First Report
Nearly 20 years ago, an investigation by The Boston Globe into sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests ignited a firestorm of scandal that has traveled around the world. For many Americans, these shocking revelations — especially of the related cover-ups by the church — came out of nowhere, almost like a bolt of lightning. But the sobering reality is that this bolt of lightning had been striking for at least 15 years.
Safe Space
Safe Space is pieced together from numerous YouTube clips of ballroom events from the early 1990s. Ballroom culture is created by trans and queer people of colour in response to a society that marginalised their presence.
Terra Libre
Forests, oceans, biodiversity, climate: 20 years after the Rio Earth Summit, hope is in the air. As the countdown begins, the legendary chief Raoni and other emblematic leaders of the Amazon reappears.
Deliverance: A Women's Revolt
Following Palestinian, Lebanese, Saudi, Jordanian, Egyptian and Iraqi women; the film is about Arab women and it investigates the problems that they face on their daily lives and the film brings them together through a momentous political movement.
Nice Garry: The Nathan Lyon Story
Mark Howard sits down with Nathan Lyon to discuss the Australian Test spinner's career and reflect upon his 100th Test match and 400th Test wicket.
辽阔之痛
The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1958 to 1962. Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes.
The Fantastic
In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch illegal films in a closed society. In addition to the 'waste videos', South Korean films were also smuggled into the country via China.
Girls Gotta Eat Dirt
Three of Colorado's shreddiest ladies show us what they're made of in this short film, presented by jorts. Avra Saslow, Delilah Cupp, and Clare Hamilton are best friends, roommates, and riding partners who make the most of every berm.