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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.
Cheating Is Good for You
A wife who has cheated on her husband for 40 years reflects on her behaviour and the benefits she has reaped.
Around Japan With a Movie Camera
Intense interest in Japan by the West made it a favourite destination for filmmakers from the earliest days of film. This selection of films from 1901 to 1913, newly restored by the BFI National Archive, takes us on a fascinating journey through Meiji Japan.
Moving, parts one and two
Same shot of my house, thinking about moving. Moving out/moving in, emptying boxes one at a time.
Moosehide Slide
Moosehide Slide (« Ëdhä dädhëchä » in the Hän language) is a well-known feature of the Dawson City area in Yukon. Tourist websites explain how the crater, which takes up a large part of the mountain, was caused by a prehistoric landslide. But, concealed by the gaping hole, another, lesser-known story exists: that of the huge scar on First Nations territory, which filmmaker Dan Sokolowski brings to light. Using techniques of painting on film and superimposed images, he juxtaposes two parallel accounts of how the feature was formed. This experimental short film highlights the impossibility of reconciliation without first recognizing the ancestral stories of Indigenous peoples.
Vending
The film consists of separate short stories, organically combined into a single documentary narration, which acquaints the viewer with the inhabitants, traditions, customs and modern realities of the Leningrad Region. The heroes of the plots are those people for whom the cities and villages where they live are the best on earth.
Elles dansent
In the corridors of the hospital between the machines and the care staff, Aude never stops dancing. For several years she has been improvising musical encounters with cancer patients. Salsa, Rock, Jazz. Every week, music and dance take hold in the chemotherapy rooms as well as in palliative care. Over the course of her interventions, Aude creates a bond with patients, she offers a kind of breath for a moment that is not really expected in a hospital and invites patients on a journey into a universe far from illness.
A list of things I love
When my 11-year relationship ended, I suddenly found myself in a new city, in an empty apartment.I only have half of my furniture and half of myself. Through observations and a list of things I love, I am trying to rediscover myself.
24 Heures du Mans 2020 - Official movie
relive the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans! As we wait for August and this year’s race, let’s look back at a very special vintage where Toyota claimed its third straight win!
Her Five Lives
Saodat Ismailova looks back at the history of female heroines over nearly a century of Uzbek cinema in order to chart the changing perception of women and the state of the film industry more widely. Commissioned as part of Asian Film Archive’s Monographs, a series of essays on Asian cinema.
27A
A documentary journey-essay about memory and home. The film's director Daria Likhaya returns to her childhood home and her trip is followed by veracious stories. A spotted dress, a KAMAZ left in a courtyard, a woman's face in the window—every detail becomes a source of memories. The impressions of strangers are intertwined and mixed, the border between the virtual and the real becomes blurred.
Nunca Me Esquecerei
The independent documentary produced and directed by fans about 15 years of the Colorado World Cup
Between Beginnings: Donna Ong
Donna Ong is an installation artist, best known for her evocative and thought-provoking and often complex environments made from furniture, found objects and original artwork.
Boukman’s Prayer
Five young Black artists in Brooklyn – the epicenter of the nation’s Covid-19 crisis,discuss their views on freedom, artistic expression and identity as the virus ravages Black and immigrant communities around them and the world watches on.
Fellini and the Shadow
A female director explores the connection between the life and work of Federico Fellini and Jungian analytical psychology. Through Fellini's The Book of Dreams and other autobiographical texts, she weaves together the fragments of a dialogue between Fellini's feminine interior voice, the Anima, and the shadow of his unconscious, documenting Fellini's inner quest through the dark parts of his psyche.
Tales From the Dark
A collection of animations, bringing to life talking heads of people recounting nightmares. In the first,
a girl escapes her school as it is invaded by monsters. In the second an account of sleep paralysis. In
the third a boy finds a warehouse of demonic pigs under his bed.
I Live in a Zoo
The story of the childhood of two dancing boys in an estate with cranes, camels and a pet wolf. A modern landowner built a little world in his native village, where there is everything. A coach comes to him to teach his adopted children Caucasian dances. However, in the eyes of a visitor, family life merges with a huge zoo that surrounds this place.
Don't Get Too Comfortable
"Don't Get Too Comfortable" is a heartfelt introspective letter to my deceased grandfather. The letter questions the continuous pattern of movement amongst Yemenis in diaspora. The film fuses archival photographs, sourced footage, parallax animation, abstract videos to create an audio visual body of work that calls attention to the collective feeling of statelessness and sense of being felt by Yemeni (or non-Yemeni) migrants.
The Militiaman
In the hills of rural Pennsylvania, the leader of a local militia must prepare his men for the turbulent political landscape of 2020 while at war with his own conscience. For over ten years, 48-year-old Iraqi War Veteran and machinist Christian Yingling has commanded a troop of private militiamen and women concerned with the government’s infringement on their constitutional rights. The group practices paramilitary drills, stockpiles food and ammo, and attends gun rights rallies in preparation for a doomsday scenario. Now that a worldwide pandemic has hit, followed by a summer of racial injustice protests and a Presidential election like no other, Christian—out of work and nearly out of money—must confront his allegiance and choose to act or not.
Under Control
Pests living wild and rampant lives taunt Tallinn’s botanical gardens. Increasingly severe actions are taken, yet the problem only seems to be worsening.
Film-Related Scrap Wood Projects
Model-making backgrounds to BILL, THE GALACTIC HERO and TOMBSTONE RASHOMON
Les nouvelles Èves
June 2020, Corona, one year after the national women's strike. Six directors dive into the everyday life of six women and explore what it means to be a woman in today's Switzerland.
Anachronic Chronicles: Voyages Inside/Out Asia
With the form of remote audio conversation for its main narrative, the essay film consists of four chapters, each of which has its own focus but is also interconnected with each other. Blending voice narratives in four languages, moving images and literary texts, the film is mainly made from home video collections created in the 1990s from both filmmakers’ families, with home videos shot in the 1960s by a Hong Kong family as interludes. The film not only unfolds how East Asian families created their own image with amateur filming devices but also tells stories of migration, travelling, growing and familial relationships.
Above Water
12-years-old Houlaye lives in Niger, and travels several kilometers each day to fetch water. The village got together to construct a well. This is the promise of a new life for people who have literally been walking on water since birth.
The Certainty of Probabilities
1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the young hippies of Hamburg are harshly criticized by Romanian students, while Nicolae Ceaușescu reads the famous defiance speech against the intervention of the Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia. Floating solemnly over all this is The Internationale, sung on a stadium by a crowd of pioneers dressed in white shirts and red ties. A certainty for each probability: the documentary is at the same time a history lesson and an ideological warning sign, the director’s endeavour permanently draws our attention to the functions of the propaganda film, yet without tarnishing the fascination that dwells in the core of the images, that of the figures that wave at us from a past buried in commonplaces and political parti pris.
Aguilucho: Dance of the Harpy Eagle
The indigenous people of the Darién Gap rainforest work with conservationists to use their heritage and traditions to protect the endangered Harpy Eagle and, in turn, protect their community.
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Morkovcha [Korean Carrot Salad]
This film tells a story of ethnic Koreans from Russia and the post-Soviet territories making their new home in New York City. The history of the diaspora is told through conversations with Lidiya Kan’s mother, personal stories, fragmented memories, and her family photo archive. An important character of the film is Morkovcha, the Korean carrot salad, an invention of the Russian Korean diaspora; its essence is symbolic of their mixed identity.
Deconstructing the Beatles' Help!
In Deconstructing Help!, Scott looks at the making of Beatles for Sale and the “I Feel Fine”/”She’s A Woman” single -- along with a look at the making of the film and album Help!. There are deep dives into the songs from those albums, including “Eight Days A Week,” “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away,” and “Yesterday.” The film includes guest appearances from acclaimed string quartet ETHEL and celebrated studio drummer Ed Bettinelli.
Makeup Artist
Mina, determined to realize her dreams, not only refuses to succumb to her husband and mother-in-law’s fierce opposition, but also paves her own path and pushes forward along it. Gradually, it looks as if the people and world around her are starting to change . . . .
The Felling of Colston
Chronicling the felling of the statue of Edward Colston-a 17th Century slave trader-during a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol, England, and how this act of rebellion made waves across the UK and the World.
Noël and His Mother
Noel and his mother Michelle form a strange couple. They cannot live without one another but as soon as they get together the atmosphere becomes highly charged. Through long conversations and moments of silence, the exploration of a mother-son relationship in its most tragical as well as its most comical details.
Ebb and Flow
Three women surf the waters off the west coast of Ireland, in a celebration of the radiant female surf community.
Danube
Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival in order to show the world its friendly face, while exercising censorship and repressing dissidence.