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LOCKDOWN CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
The film LOCKDOWN CHILDREN'S RIGHTS gives a voice to children and adolescents, but also to experts who are concerned with their health, and can provide insight into the traces that dealing with the Corona crisis has already left and will continue to leave. This film was developed together with children and young people: they filmed from their point of view and thus show how the lockdown affects their very personal experience.
This is Jessica
Jessica Bair, a longtime LGBTQIA+ rights advocate with Human Rights Campaign, shares her struggle to remain in her Mormon faith despite coming out as transgender.
El Film Justifica los Medios
Through the recovery and re-montage of various film fragments and the commentary of three filmmakers - Carlos Álvarez, Marta Rodríguez, and Carlos Sánchez - a historical and aesthetic journey is proposed through a foundational moment for filmmaking in Colombia (1965-1975), whose images constitute a revolution on the screen. This documentary journey tells how, at a time when the film industry was just being consolidated, a generation of young filmmakers brought about a moment of rupture, subverting official cinema by taking the media to experiment, denounce and narrate other realities in Colombia at the end of the 1960s.
Locks & Keys, Water, Trees
Told entirely in drawings made over nearly thirty years by British Artist/Filmmaker Penny Andrea, ‘Locks & Keys, Water, Trees’ portrays the genesis of a rare brain tumour with its origins in early childhood. Diagnosed and treated in the artist’s late twenties, the film reflects an ongoing process of recovery from traumatic brain injury. Portraying drawing as both escape and embrace, a ‘shuttle between inner and outer worlds’, and video as its counterpart medium in time, the film speaks to the communicative power of art to connect, explore and heal trauma.
I'll be your mirror
The artist Johanna Faust is about to leave her children to finally devote herself to her art again. A vague memory comes to her mind: Didn't her grandmother do the same thing, with terrible consequences? The intimate road movie tells of lost mothers and abandoned children, of the temptations and the price of self-fulfilment, of the abysses of motherhood and of the deep longing for another life.
Ivan's Land
Ivan Prykhodko is one of the last folk artists in Ukraine. He is self-taught, lives in the countryside, and everything that comes from under his brushes is naive and honest art.
Uncertain Path
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira y and the film's director, with their own personal views, share that thin line that links life with cinema.
Positivə - 40 anni di Hiv in Italia
A journey by car to the sea among four strangers, all under 40, all HIV positive, to discover their lives and tell with their faces and hearts uncovered what it means to have HIV today, in an age that sees it possible to live with the virus and lead normal lives but which still sees infected people victims of an enormous social stigma.
Bottled Songs 1-4
Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee compose letters addressed to each other, narrating their encounters with videos originating from the terrorist group the Islamic State (ISIS). They use a desktop documentary approach to trace and record their investigations playing directly upon their computer screens.
Mika - Live at the Paris Philharmonic
This program features singer-songwriter Mika at the world-renowned concert space, Le Philharmonie de Paris, joined by a full orchestra, choral singers and various special guests.
Origami in the Garden Film
An Artfilm, a LoveStory, and the journey of two artists as they strive to spread Peace and Inspiration throughout the world through sculpture.
Victuals: The CRE8AMEAL Story
The highly publicized national story of an underdog event management company taking the important challenge of feeding food-insecure Americans during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
John - The Last Cowboy
92 year old John Hoiland is running his large ranch in Montana all by himself. Rich people are lining up to buy his property, but John's wealth is not in the value of the ranch. It lies in the freedom to work his own land.
Frenemies: Cuba and the U.S. Embargo
Frenemies is a full-length documentary that tells the story of the close yet conflicted relations between the United States and Cuba from the 1950s to the present. How much longer can this small Caribbean island survive the longest embargo in history? Frenemies snatched the Audience Award at its premiere at the Dunedin International Film Festival, won the Social Impact Award at the Latino & Native American Film Festival and the Award of Excellence at the Docs Without Borders Film Festival. Frenemies’ appeal comes from how it creatively weaves lively discussions of politics and history with Cuban music, art, culture and views of urban and rural scenery.
Soviet Submarine
On March 26th, 2020, seven boys locked themselves in a house for 48 hours, with only potatoes, bread, and red light for survival. Watch the chaos unfold and tension rise between the comrades as they struggle to find a cure before it's too late.
Quagliarella - The Untold Truth
The story of Fabio Quagliarella's life and his problems with a stalker.
Michelle Carter: Love, Texts & Death
When police discover 18-year-old Conrad Roy dead in a Massachusetts parking lot, they are faced with an unprecedented investigation; the discovery of troubling text messages forces them to wonder if the death is suicide or something more sinister.
This Is Francis X. Bushman
Documentary about the life of silent film star Francis X. Bushman
Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Falls of the Great British Stuntman
They created and performed the iconic action sequences of 007, Indiana Jones, Superman, Rambo, Star Wars, Conan, the Alien films and pretty much everything since. They crashed cars, jumped from burning buildings, shot, stabbed, kicked and punched their way into cinema history. This is the first feature documentary to unite the legendary community of stuntmen in telling their story and, as you'll see, there's life in the old dogs yet.
In The Red
Taken from the perspective of the Glasgow Tigers Club during their 2019 season, this exciting, fast-paced and action-packed feature about Speedway Motorcycle racing in the UK.
Britain's Favourite Sandwich
Over 11 billion sandwiches are eaten every year, but which is Britain's favourite?
Haymarket: The Bomb, the Anarchists, the Labor Struggle
The Chicago Haymarket tragedy, where a bomb thrown into the ranks of Police was followed by an eruption of panic and violence resulting in a trial and execution of presumably innocent workers' rights activists, is examined in this feature documentary film. Expert historians and professors present the history of the bomb, the anarchist movement of the 19th century, and the labor struggle of working people fighting for a shorter work day during the industrial might of America's Gilded Age.
Phil Liggett: The Voice of Cycling
A fascinating portrait of cycling royalty, the prince of the peloton, the lord of the lycra-clad. Amateur racer turned broadcaster, Phil Liggett has covered forty-seven Tours de France and fifteen Olympic Games, calling every triumph, tragedy and scandal with his inimitable wit and poetry.
The Mule Pack Train
Darío Higuera Meza, a 70-year-old saddle maker in Baja California, traveled 200 miles in 20 days by muleback, herding a pack train of donkeys all the way to La Paz. Overcoming health issues, rattlesnakes, and hot days on dusty, forgotten trails, he and his family carried a load of goat cheese, dates, sugarcane candy, and wine. They made this journey to honor the memory of los arrieros de las recuas, the muleteers of Baja’s donkey pack trains.
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.
Dementia, Dad and Me
The onset of his Lewy Body Dementia has brought a dramatic change to the relationship Hannah has with Rainer, her father. Dementia, Dad and Me follows the two of them as they navigate the delicate transition from father-daughter to caregiver and cared-for.
It's Different in Chicago
It's Different In Chicago Tells the story of how House music and Hip Hop culture complemented and competed with each other leading to deep revelations about the different segments within the Black community of Chicago.
Teachers for Life
How can school education be designed differently? Four passionate teachers show how it can be done.
At Full Throttle
Fifty-something former miner Jaroslav has always dreamt of a career as a race car driver. In a congenial and jovial manner, he represents not only the charms and struggles (especially economic) of southeastern Moravia, but also the ever more visible chasm between city and countryside. An uncommonly charismatic portrait of a man struggling with the traumas of the past who, with disarming directness, clings to the promise of good luck and a dignified life alongside a new partner.
From the Kitchen to Parliament: 2021 Edition
The road from the kitchen to parliament was long and rocky for Swiss women - four generations had to fight for the male electorate to grant women the right to political participation. Stéphane Goël's documentary traces this path with sensitivity and humor.
The Soil
A beautifully illustrated story of a contemporary village and its unconventional dwellers who are of different age but have one thing in common – their strong attachment to folk culture. In this film, music is as important as images, since it accompanies the protagonists during key events in their lives.
BMX: Turning Dirt To Gold
GCN's James Lowsley-Williams and GMBN's Blake Samson are trading in their usual bikes for ones with much smaller wheels, as they try their hand at two variations of the incredibly varied sport of bicycle motocross. We'll explore the history of BMX to learn about the rise, fall and rebirth of one of cycling's most explosive forms. From racing on the track to landing tricks in skate bowls, what does it take to make it to the top level of BMX?
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.
Welcome Back, Farewell
Parents and children are reunited after 13 years apart. This is the starting point of the film, which follows the process of affective reconstruction of director Marcos Yoshi's family, crossed by the flow of migrations between Brazil and Japan, known as the dekassegui phenomenon. The story of a family of Japanese descent torn between the need to make a living and the desire to stay together.
López
An intimate portrait of Marcos López, unique and unclassifiable figure, film director, visual artist and one of the most prominent contemporary photographers in Latin America.