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FAREWELL
To index my position in popular culture, existing in scenes of Taiwanese indie youth and migrating to New York and we all exist under the umbrella of confederacy/ white supremacy/ Eurocentricism/ and patriarchy. FAREWELL asks questions about internet labor and surveillance, comments on Eastern and Western cultures and local communities, what it means to self-document through motion images, and the urge to archive (Hal Foster wrote about the archive impulse.) It is another video that will ultimately end up in the vast sea of YouTube shorts but it is a way to pass down a momentary legacy.
One with the Whale
Modern technology confronts ancient ritual in this profound and moving documentary. Teenager Chris Apassingok and his Yupik family live in Gambell, Alaska, a tiny village on St. Lawrence island in the Bering Sea. Life there differs vastly from the rest of the US – for one, hunting whales holds the key to the islanders’ survival. Conflict emerges after Chris kills a whale that will feed Gambell’s townspeople for months – and news of the successful hunt reaches the outside world. Facebook trolls and animal-rights activists attack from afar, captured in Pete Chelkowski and environmental journalist Jim Wickens’ captivating film that delves into environmental issues, cultural and generational challenges, and cyberspace hysteria
Here's to the Absent Ladies!
The most numerous subculture is a nameless one: it’s the boys’ subculture. Mindlessly at first, they mimic the rituals and habits of adult men. Boys curse, boys raise glasses “for ladies not present here”, until they gradually evolve into men, becoming role models for the next generation of boys. The character of this montage film crafted from discovered tapes makes such full circle: through his childhood, a winter dacha with vodka shots, a picture-perfect 2000s vacation in Turkey and Egypt with his parents, and into adulthood and his own family.
Macula
If we were to imagine a space where the imprints of human existence are stored, what would that space look like? What would those ‘imprints’ be?
Uruttu Tech
A Narcissist Neighbor who is known for his fake reviews unable to accept his mistake releases a video thinking he might get support. Things take turn when a common man decides to make a roast ultimately ending the career of neighbor.
Lunch Break: Leave Your Screen Behind
It's easy to fall victim to the daily, and sedentary, routine. This film aims to motivate you to take full advantage of your lunch break. Plan a Lunch Break with your friends in you neck of the woods, and we guarantee you'll want to go back for seconds.
Canopy Climbers
A group of friends in the Costa Rican jungle are spearheading the exciting new sport of tree climbing by using traditional rock climbing techniques to scale giant strangler fig trees. As climbers living in the jungle without rocks around, they began climbing the trees.
Can't Stop, Won't Stop
There’s magic in realizing you can do something you didn’t think was possible. The Richmond Cycling Corps is using bikes to tap into this magic by helping kids to see that if they can get better at cycling, they can get better at anything they put their mind to.
Trailbound Alaska
On a mission to rediscover trails in his Alaskan backyard, dyslexic filmmaker and painter Max Romey explores a historic trail, and its wild history. With a sketchbook and a pair of shoes, he makes the first likely attempt in decades to connect the once well-traveled trails of the Southern Trek of the Historic Iditarod route from Seward back home to Anchorage.
Life is But a Wheel of Justice
The Plastic People of the Universe was formed in 1968. The trial of the band members in 1976 initiated the creation of Charter 77. During the so-called normalisation period, the band was banned. The musicians started performing together again in 1997. The last concert of The Plastic People of the Universe together with the Brno Philharmonic took place on 20 November 2021 in Broumov. How did the members of the legendary band The Plastic People of the Universe experience the last concert of their career?
Tracing Imperfection
As master conservator Naoko Fukumaru demonstrates Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing pottery using gold, she recalls how learning the practice has taught her to embrace her own imperfections as it has mended her own life.
postmodernism for beginners
after the unfortunate crash landing of one drone a pair of film students set out to investigate mother nature's harsh methods of revenge.
Riverboom
In the year following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, young journalist Claude Baechtold finds himself in the war zone of Afghanistan. Not entirely voluntarily, the avowed anti-militarist is dragged by two fearless reporters on a round trip through the entire country.
The Beauty of Film and T.V.
A documentary about the subject of 'Film and T.V.' in schools and the students that study it.
Art of Darkness: Making the Lighthouse
In-depth documentary on The Lighthouse, its production, themes and influences.
Un_Touched
Danya is a charismatic and eccentric young man who is having difficulties communicating with the opposite sex. At 24, he is still a virgin and dreams of finding real love. At a dance class, our hero meets a girl who shows a mutual interest in him. They come very close to having a sexual encounter, but overexcitement prevents Danya from parting with his innocence.
Other Worlds Child
The father of Russian futurism, Velimir Viktorovich Khlebnikov, wants to publish his book "Boards of Fate", with the help of which people will be able to avoid wars by predicting future events.
Punchdrunk: Behind the Mask
Discover the story of Punchdrunk, the pioneering and hugely secretive theatre company whose productions have reinvented an art form and changed the rules of theatre.
The Pit
Once, long ago, gold was found in the Chelyabinsk region. Today the village of Shershny stands on the site of the former gold mines. A local resident, Galina Georgievna, decides to install a sewage pipe and digs a hole near her house – a simple idea that results in unexpected discoveries.
Väinö
The old hermit, settled in the forests of Karelia, like an ancient sage from local myths, lives in harmony with nature, away from civilization, and maintains an active lifestyle.
The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations of communist ideology.
Barbie: The Perfect Woman?
More than sixty years after her birth, the Barbie doll is still as seductive as ever. Between stereotypes and emancipatory discourse, we explore an iconic toy that has changed with the times.
Gudow Nord
The motorway roars in the background, darkness lies over the service area. One truck driver smokes; another turns on the light in his sleeper cab. A summer Sunday is dawning, everything is standing still. Precisely designed detail shots induce in us a state of waiting. This is what life on the road can also look like. Cooking, dozing, staring into space. Hair is shorn short, words are exchanged. Polish pop songs resound from one of the cabs.
Multicellular
Our world exists only thanks to the possibility of a simple cell to evolve through continuous movement. What will happen if we set it above all else in nature and give it power?
Small Exchanges, Great Destiny
An attempt at dialogue and a philosophical approach to the companion dog and, more generally, to all living things…
Bergen, Norway
Yesterday, I found the address of my abuser in the memory of my phone. I have no name, I have no face, I only have his address.
The Kill List
Documentary special that investigates the 25-year-long case of what happened to Julie Jensen that just concluded last week.
What's wrong with you? Nothing.
Child psychiatry is in a phase of clinical death. Yet there are facilities and doctors who can return children back to their families cured and healthy. That is the path that needs to be taken. The documentary mapping the state of child psychiatric care in the Czech Republic was made by director Jiří Podlipný, Czech Television cooperated with the Vendula Pizingerová Foundation Kapka naděje. Artificial intelligence visualization under the guidance of cinematographer Jiří Studnička allows us to look into the depths of a child's aching soul.
Emma in the Sky
An unconventional portrait of Emma Srncová, a painter, artist and occasional actress.
Watercolors
Watercolors is an omnibus documentary that highlights indie musicians who are seeking new paths and creating their own musical world.
The Unlucky Rabbit
A group of animators pitch “The Unlucky Rabbit” to Walt Disney, a documentary about how his earliest creation, Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, was forgotten to time.
The Elk Calf
Katya is an employee of the Sumarokovskaya Elk Farm; she has been delivering births to elk cows for 20 years and telling tourists about the benefits of elk milk. Katya’s duties sometimes include very cruel things, but she loves her job and her son, for whom she wants a better future like any mother.
Krush The Wrestler
Exploring the innate intimacy of submission wrestling, a lifelong wrestler turns his talents into an on-demand fetish video service.
Interpreters Wanted
A documentary 14 years in the making that follows the story of two Afghan interpreters as they journey through years of Russian occupation, then Taliban rule and then attempt to help the U.S. after the attacks on 9/11.
Death of Cinema
Rain does not caress the skin, the wind resists blowing, a soul is like a doll forgotten in the house of glass. Tikhon Pendurin’s piece “Death of Cinema” is a dream of a film, the process of falling asleep, a frozen cosmos, the liturgy of a sigh. Fotogénie, a return to the forgotten magic of magician Segundo de Chomon, the mystery of Val del Omar, Alain Resnais surreal theatricality “Death of Cinema” seems to absorb all the magic of cinema and confesses its own forgetfulness. The characters of “Death of Cinema” stand before the justice of truth, naive children turned with pride away from the audience. Here, the main thing is the hallucination of light, a whisper, a prayer, the bewildered physiognomy of cinema, which allowed itself to laugh at its own seriousness. (by Karina Karaeva)
Planet D
Could another form of life be waiting for us? Somewhere out there, on a distant Planet D? The film is composed of footage captured in a teenage prison camp, where the author led classes for inmates in 2018, as well as from family video chronicles made in the 1990s. Olesya Rudyka reflects: “When my dad was released from incarceration, we believed we had our whole life ahead of us. He seemed to understand that leaving prison isn’t the end – it stays with you indefinitely and, sooner or later, catches up with you unexpectedly, like a bullet”.