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Joy Womack: The White Swan
Joy grew up in a typical American family. She always wanted to be a ballet dancer and moved to Russia when she was 15 to follow her dream. Without a word of Russian, not completely fit for the physical requirements of Russian ballet dancers, Joy shows her strength and dedication to ballet and accomplishing her dreams. We follow Joy’s personal and professional life: from her daily challenges, injuries, performances to becoming a ballet dancer with Bolshoi Theatre group and then prima ballerina of Kremlin Ballet, where she has performance of her lifetime - Swan Lake, before closing this chapter of her life and leaving Russia to pursue new opportunities.
Ward 11, Song Wei
By filming Song Wei himself and witnesses over 16 years, this film aims to restore the life experience of Song, a pioneer in Chinese contemporary art collection and funding.
All That Is
In September 2020, the filmmaker lost 95% of her belongings in the fires that devastated Southern Oregon. With a pandemic engulfing the world in flames of its own, she embarked on a poetic journey to make meaning of the losses and to see what emerges from the ashes
Alien Ride
A Muslim man bikes across the United States to experience true American culture andmake connections with locals.
Crossing's End
On a winter night in 2002, a couple in their early 20s is breaking up atop a bridge, when the woman falls down. Is it a suicide or accidental death? The man asks a friend to call an ambulance, but the woman dies. The man and his friend are imprisoned for murder when an eyewitness reverses her original statement and says that she saw the two men throwing the woman from the bridge. After more than a decade, director Shih Yu-Lun collaborates with the ‘Taiwan Innocence Project’, a private organization that helps innocent people who have been unjustly convicted, to re-investigate the case.
Lil Estonia
Under the direction of Soundcloud and radio DJ Siim Nestor, something is happening in Estonian music that has not been seen or heard in a long time. A new wave. New characters. New Estonia. Lil Estonia!
Les Mots de Taj
At 14, Tajamul fled from Afghanistan to Amiens, France. Now that he is 20, he wants to make the journey backwards with his adoptive father, and tell his story for all the refugees who cannot speak anymore.
Death of Darkness
The solidarity of the North Kenyan community and the way they align with nature’s rhythm moved us. In this honest film you can see the major changes brought about by the transition from darkness to electric light. We Westerners take it all for granted and don't know it any other way, but in Kenya the "death of darkness" brings lots of expectations, hope and struggles.
December, Radio Romania
The opening session of the 10th edition of Green Years marks the return of Ana Vîjdea to this section. After having won the Doc’s Kingdom Best Green Years Director Award in 2017, she now presents December, Radio Romania. The film follows the celebrations of several national holidays in a Romanian public radio station. From live shows to backstage parties, the film guides us through a space haunted by a complex history.
The Wind Will Leave Us
Through 12 testimonies, the settlers of a small city tell their experience with a devastating tornado that struck them and devoured everything in its path, leaving a wound that remains capriciously and seeks for healing among so much rubble and lost history.
Arsonist
On the same day that Notre Dame erupted in flames, a string of brutal car fires in Harlem set off a neighborhood search for the culprit. With the decrepit car's serving as a spectacle for all to see and interact with, the smoke from the metal and rubber still lingers in the air.
Les ombres du Bataclan
On November 13, 2015, terrorists killed 130 people in several locations in Paris through attacks and suicide bombings. In the Bataclan club, 90 terror victims died. ARTE once again documents the international police investigations on the occasion of the beginning of the trial against the only surviving terrorist Salah Abdeslam and 19 other suspects. The Islamist attacks of November 13, 2015 shook Paris and the rest of the world. The system's weak points that effectively enabled the attacks were investigated in 2016 by a parliamentary study group, finally summarizing its finds in a dossier. Francis Gillery's documentary "Les ombres du Bataclan" is based on this dossier. It details the investigations and the course of events.
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Hello World
We follow the lives of Runa, Viktor, Dina and Joachim through the three years they go to upper secondary school. Told through the eyes of the four young people, the film gives us a window into understanding what it is like to grow up as queer in Norway today.
There and Back Again
During the COVID-19 pandemic, at the beginning of 2021, Marília, Marcelo and Mateus travel from Rio de Janeiro to Pernambuco, their homeland. Without being able to meet as many friends and family as they wanted to, what remains in the empty places is their memories from the time they lived there. As they wander between past and present, their affection comes to light, for they know that soon the trip will come to an end and those places will remain only in their memories once again.
Ms. Diva Trucker
A long-haul trucker turns to YouTube to combat loneliness and social isolation. Under the handle “MsDivaTrucker43,” she discovers a supportive community of women who share her struggles of life in the margins. It is difficult for women in an industry that is 96% male to see themselves succeeding. Tamara's words of wisdom and encouragement offer women a model and a path forward.
Joe Buffalo
Joe Buffalo, an Indigenous skateboard legend and Indian Residential School survivor, must face his inner demons to realize his dream of turning pro.
Self-Portrait
In "Self-Portrait", Federica Foglia (re)constructs her dislocated immigrant identity through the home movies of others, enacting a search for the self and creating a work of striking filmic autopoiesis.
My Brain in Blue Light
A poetic reflection on adapting to the confined and technological way of living ushered in by Covid-19 restrictions. Filmed entirely in the director's bedroom, this film examines how the home has moved from a place of respite to a place of stagnation during Ireland's second lockdown.
Jules & I
Roos is fourteen years old and lives with her mother and her older transgender sister Jules. Jules is currently transitioning, taking hormones and experimenting with her looks. Roos, who has no interest in nail polish and the like, is irritated by all the changes. When Jules moves out, Roos begins to miss her new sister and gets closer to her again.
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The Jungle
“The Jungle” is an unconventional take on many problems that refugees in present-day Europe have to contend with. It raises issues like social exclusion, building community above divisions, and searching for a new home. The director immerses us in an unusual place called the Jungle, an immigrants’ camp in the forest bordering the Italian town of Gorizia. The forest is a refuge where they can talk, cook and pray freely. We get to know them thanks to Elisa Menon, an engaged theatre director who decides to stage a performance for the local community with the young migrants. The project becomes an opportunity for them to look deep inside themselves, venture out of their comfort zone, and break down the barrier of mistrust between the two groups. Running against the media’s common images of hostility towards refugees, the film shows that mutual understanding and acceptance are attainable against all odds.
The Maroon Bomber
Four siblings delve into the love they share for the family’s old, beat-up truck. This love gets tested.
Folk Frontera
Folk Frontera is a magical-realist portrait of life in the borderlands. The film follows two fronteriza women as they struggle to find their place in the vast Chihuahuan Desert, a region whose culture is thousands of years old, but which is bisected by the U.S.-Mexico border.
A Weirdo Never Fever Overry
Arnont Nongyao’s ‘Mekong travelogue’ combines fragments of personal history with a strange sonic world to tell the story of losing oneself to ‘unconscious colonisation’.
Kofi and Lartey
Our story follows Abdallah and his fight for survival in one of the most toxic places on earth, Agbogbloshie, Ghana. Beyond the deadly fumes of the electronic dump and scrapyard, lies a community that wins his heart. Abdallah forms a special bond with Kofi and Lartey, two boys who look to Abdallah for dreams of a life beyond the dump.
For Attention
"For Attention" is an intimate documentary about self-harm, exploring whether it's possible to redirect pain into something productive. A portrait of daily struggles for a gay, depressed Seattleite.
The Life of Pi'erre
A short documentary about the career beginnings of rapper and producer Pi'erre Bourne