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A Letter to My Wife
A short documentary about a husband’s longing for his wife, presented through the longing rhymes that adorn his bland life.
The Glitterstorm
A documentary that chronicles the twenty years of Pride parading in Iceland. Filmmaker Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir has shot the parade from the beginning, with all its pride and power, beauty and sometimes ugliness. She mixes old material and new interviews with activists who reminisce about their participation in the parade, it’s impact on society in general, and what Pride means for the LGBTQ+ community.
Stars on the Earth
A documentary-observation of 16 children creating their own fairy tale during a 15-day inclusive film art workshop at the "Dzherelo" Rehabilitation Center.
Se il cielo è tradito - La storia di Claudio Galuzzi
The Color of My Shoes
Dance Theater of Harlem's Lindsey Donnell reflects on the obstacles she and other ballet dancers face in ballet and society.
Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue
In 1959, expatriate American writer Paul Bowles published Their Heads Are Green, Their Hands are Blue, a collection of travel essays largely drawn from a three-year journey through Morocco to meet the country’s tribes and record their music. Fifty years later, directors Karim Debbagh and Jay Bulgur retrace his steps, capturing many of the same pieces of music – which are handed down from one generation to the next – on film. A mysterious soundscape of musical rituals, dealing with fertility, birth, circumcision, grief, coming of age, marriage, divorce, life, death and art, it is both a historical record and, thanks to the elevating nature of the music, food for the soul.
As I Want
Motivated by the public rape of her best friend in the streets of Cairo, the Director uses her camera as her weapon against sexual harassment and embarks on a journey of self-awakening as she confronts her own haunting past.
Fragments to Céline
Between the first and second waves of COVID-19, Nikolas Candido "wrote" an audiovisual letter to his friend. In a series of obscured fragments, he captures the changing mood of Rio de Janeiro with a digital 8mm camera. Although on the surface, life goes on as normal, the city is slowly sinking into darkness. Just like the whole country, where up to 4,000 people died every day during the most critical stage of the fight against the virus.
Paulo César Pinheiro - Letra e Alma
A prolific composer and one of the most celebrated poets in Brazilian music, Paulo César Pinheiro is the author of Canto das Três Raças and O Poder da Criação, among other samba, samba-enredo and song classics. Partner of Baden Powell, Tom Jobim and Edu Lobo, was created by Elis Regina, Clara Nunes and Maria Bethânia. Here, sitting on his couch, he reflects on human nature and leads a journey that evokes and involves big names in MPB, covering half a century of music, from the height of the festival era to the period of protest songs against the military dictatorship.
Covid Cowboys
In the summer of 2021, the Finnish men's national football team played in the World Cup for the first time. Two of Finland's matches were played in St Petersburg, which was simultaneously ravaged by a virulent new variant of Covid19 disease. Despite the advice from the government to stay at home, thousands of fans made the trip to the city. Covid Cowboys documentary tells the story of these supporters and the aftermath of what happened, when on one side of the scale were the historic dream of generations and the health of themselves and their loved ones in the other.
Little Singer
The curtain is up, the stage is clear, the microphone on: Let the show begin. The little singer steps forward and everyone is waiting with bated breath what singing talents are about to be heard. She clears her throat one more time and then it starts. But what is this? She’s not really going to lick the microphone like a popsicle, is she? Surely an idea we’ve all had at one time or another!
New Jack
Dealing with the repercussions of an extreme & dangerous career, faded professional wrestler New Jack navigates his way through life after the spotlight.
OK Good, Pinega
The vast territories beside the Pinega river in northwest Russia are covered by woods and inhabited by more wild animals than people, besides a few villages who live mostly from the forests, fishing, and gardening. Society here can only be described as a matriarchy, where beliefs, spells, and traditional rituals are passed down the female line. Musical contributions from village residents serve as a leitmotif for the film: unsteady renditions of old songs that reveal performances belonging to a distant past. The population of these communities has aged considerably — but the place itself is timeless.
Road to Siberia, 1941
On June 14, 1941, 15,424 Latvians were deported from their country, including about 4,000 infants, children and adolescents. Many of the youngest died on the way, others died later from starvation, disease and over work in the Soviet camps. Some of the deported children survived and returned to Latvia, others remained in Siberia for their whole lives. Dzintra Geka's latest documentary "Road to Siberia, 1941" is an emotional account about those deportees who grew up in Siberia, far from their homeland.
Earth: Muted
Three farming families in Hanyuan, China, strive to give their children a good life in the midst of an ecological crisis, as widespread use of pesticides leads to a dramatic decline in bees and other pollinating insects in the valley.
Conversations with Siro
Lebanese filmmaker Dima El-Horr moved to Paris several years ago. Among the friends who stayed at home is the artist Sirvat Fazlian, whom she regularly visits in Beirut until the failed revolution of 2019, the COVID lockdown, the devastating port explosion and finally the dramatic economic crisis put a temporary end to their meetings. So the director decides to give her conversations with Siro a cinematic form.
History of Shrouded Screen
A chapter from the cycle of experimental films called If I Ever Lose My Eyes follows representatives of the Movement of Linen Film. Ladislav Valeš sees the film media as the Shroud of Turin which imprints not only the surface, but also what extends beyond us. In the same way, the author of the film imprints Valeš’s face and figure into the black-white countryside surrounding Klapý. The shapes of the bridge and gravestones represent the architectonic morphology of human mind, which merges reality and fiction, consciousness and subconsciousness.
First Cinema
Experimental short film that proposes the discussion and deconstruction of the cinematographic form. It brings new dialogues between films by different directors, including classic, modern, experimental and contemporary.
Teach Me
Children at UK schools with individual special educational needs (SEN) make up 14.9% of the student population (a figure that is predicted to rise). So it raises questions to why the education system isn’t adapting to meet these needs? And, how does it feel to be one of these kids stuck in an institution which isn’t accommodating you? Teach Me as a documentary sets out to understand these experiences in the present moment from children who are at the age when school makes up a large portion of their daily experiences. The documentary interviews four children all ages 12 and 13 and each of them with individual and overlapping SEN. Using childlike paper cut-outs and school supplies to form a stylish stop motion that transports you into the world/mind of Dan, Lydia, Martha and Annie.
L' innu du futur
As Montreal rolls by in reverse, a man walks through the city, his mind a portal to the far-off land where his roots lie. An inspiring short film in which the poetry of words and the poetry of images intertwine with great eloquence.
Le silence de la mer, une édition dans la Résistance
Hal and Minter
Hal Sirowitz has Parkinson’s disease. At one time one of the most popular poets in the United States, he was a regular on MTV and one of the original performers at the Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe. Hal and his partner, the writer Minter Krotzer, have become advocates for people with Parkinson’s disease and their families. A funny and uplifting story about being a creative couple and finding your voice.
Another Horizon
The horizon, where the sky and the earth meet, is always elsewhere, a promised place where these two elements come together. a metaphor, an orienting, a promise of transition, change, transcendence. a place where the corporeal and spiritual meet, or are cleaved apart. Also, here, the space between narrative and documentary, fact and fiction, is scratched between two voices. Jayne love reads a text i wrote for her, short sentences on the concept of the horizon and the briefest suggestion of narrative collide with pieces of Richard (Oswan) Williams' beautiful, rum-fueled living room sermons to me.
Halawod
Amidst modernization and development, the indigenous people of the Tumandok of Panay region are struggling to preserve their culture and their rights to ancestral land. Belonging to the Tumandok tribe, couples Berna and Romeo Castor are being sued by NIA for expropriation. This documentary explores the sentiments of the Tümandok facing dispossession of land and the waning of cultural tradition brought on by the pretext of development.
Picture Stories
Documentary about the life and legacy of Picture Post, the revolutionary magazine which shaped perceptions of British life during and after the Second World War.
Let Go
The most difficult moment in parents’ lives is when their children leave home. Valentina and her long-awaited and selflessly raised son Ruslan, live in a small Latvian town. Ruslan is now a teenager and a talented young pianist. The town they live in is too small for him to develop his talent, so he should head to Riga to continue his studies. Through this film we follow along the experience and the feelings of the mother who should let her son go - and leave her.
Debaixo do Guarda-chuva Pra Ser Resistência
A documentary that features 7 young LGBTQIA+ artists who talk about their realities, dreams and how art influences their journey of acceptance and transformation.
The summit is the way
A documentary about three handicapped people that try to climb the Everest.
The Things We Hide in Silence
After a self-exploratory workshop called “Primitive Voice”, Mihai and Octavia decide to embark on a painful and uncomfortable journey within themselves. Using their voices in unconventional ways along this transformative process, they both confront memories, emotions and patterns of behaviour which have kept them stuck into their past. Guided by the voice therapist Jean-René Toussaint and by a strong desire to find their inner freedom, they come to realize that meeting themselves brings them closer to the ones they love.
Princesa
Princesa is a young Nigerian woman who arrived in Sardinia as a victim of human trafficking. There is a syncretism on the island, between the beliefs of a primitive animism, traditional Christianity and the more recent faith of the Nigerian Evangelical church. Princesa's face reflects an inner world dominated by fear, the break with her own land, and the desire to make good in a new one. Footage shot during a Nigerian funeral rite and a sequence from a Nollywood drama both contain biographical traces of the lead character. Princesa has made a choice, but she is not yet free.
Ho Ngoc Ha Documentary: Let's Talk About Love
From her pregnancy with twins to her romance with actor Kim Lý, singer Hồ Ngọc Hà chronicles her life as she records a new album in this documentary.
Total Screen
Driven by the murder of an anthropologist by a native group, a flâneur travels with his video-camera to different cities around the world, where different types of image technologies are used. Without realising it, the traveller will be documenting the days leading up to the pandemic and many of his observations will end up being an allegory of our upcoming lockdown in front of screens.
Japan – Big Lagoon Village
Within the dichotomy of plan versus reality, the film portrays Ogata-mura (Big Lagoon Village) that was once planned within a huge reclamation project as a “model farming village” to grant food security by the government – and would later become the place of what some would call a “secret revolution of farmers”.
Story of a Steering Wheel
A forced disappearance doesn't only end with the life of the person who has disappeared, but generates, like the ripples of a stone thrown into water, an enormous emotional scar in their families and in society. In the early 80s, José Miguel Etxeberria Álvarez, alias 'Naparra', a member of the Autonomous Anti-capitalist Commandos, was disappeared. Between crossed statements, numerous vindications and judicial indifference, his family will try to find an answer for his disappearance. More than forty years later, Eneko has taken up the baton of the search for his brother to close the wound that has remained open for so many years.
Cut-Outs
This film is the fifth in a series of documentaries “The history of Perm cinema in faces.” The history of Perm animation began approximately in 1965, when Svetlana Mozhaeva created the first hand-drawn cartoon "Seven I". Gradually the animation workshop got time-lapse filming equipment and a staff of artists. The collective portrait of Perm animation is built with the participants’ stories from the “Permtelefilm” period of the distant 60-80s of the last century.
