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An Algerian Game
It is 1995. In a district in the suburbs of Algiers, 12-year-olds Samia and Nouara enjoy a happy friendship until violence suddenly appears in their life and tests their bond. With a background in documentaries, Amal Blidi creates an intense first fictional short film that uses the prism of adolescence to sensitively allude to the “Black Decade” and the end of innocence.
Sensitive Data
Spaces of terror, produced by massacre or disappearance, do not belong to far away galaxies, or to some kind of no one’s land, but are inserted in our everyday geographies. We coexist with them, often without seeing or perceiving. They have a voice and things to tell, so let’s start listening.
Wind Song and Rain - a short documentary
Hone Tuwhare, New Zealand’s most famous Māori poet, leaves a legacy to the granddaughter he left behind. To reconnect, she writes a love letter to the world. A national treasure whose poetry spanned over 40 years, the world knew Hone Tuwhare. His mokopuna Manaia never did. Now 18 years old, Manaia feels her koro calling her, triggering an emotional journey of connection in te reo Māori to prove there’s another Tuwhare who writes poetry.
Jamaika
On the outskirts of Lisbon, in Seixal, Jamaica is an extremely deprived neighbourhood of unfinished buildings, inhabited by migrants from Africa or African descendants from Angola, São Tomé and Principe and Guinea Bissau. The pandemic has been deepening the poverty and the feeling of isolation of this community, segregated and stigmatised for years. The inhabitants have mostly non-qualified jobs, which makes their economic situation even much more fragile during the pandemic, and given their housing conditions they are much more exposed to the COVID-19 health crisis.
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.
Navras
An essay on memory that explores the vision of life and death in the Far East. Shot in five Asian countries over three years, it recounts the director's real experiences.
One-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface
Ghanaian artist Hakeem Adam and Zimbabwean architect Maxwell Mutanda approach transatlantic waters, from the Atlantic Ocean itself to the major rivers that flow into it, such as the Congo and Mississippi, as a constantly moving source of strength. These waters were and still are influential to power structures and many lives, for instance in merchandise trading as well as in human trafficking.
Nunca Me Esquecerei
The independent documentary produced and directed by fans about 15 years of the Colorado World Cup
Entreaberta
A documentary that investigates the challenges of growing old in Brazil being a woman who loves women. In a scenario of uncertainty regarding LGBTQ rights, the young bisexual filmmaker, Bruna Amorim, meets the founder of the lesbian movement in the country, Yone Lindgren, now 63 years old. Amidst exchange, resistance, and the building of affection, Bruna reflects on her own ties based on Yone's experiences.
Misty Picture
The television images of the collapse of the World Trade Center were preceded by manifold stagings of the building, either as a highly symbolic icon, a speculative destruction fantasy or merely as a spectacular backdrop. In Misty Picture, city symphony, disaster movie and media trauma therapy become one.
The Stillness Syndrome
In 2018, a group of filmmakers calling themselves "Los Quietos" set out to make a film essay on a hypothetical syndrome of stillness in the Republic of Colombia. To this end, they invite Colombian documentary master Luis Ospina, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez to give them clues to delve into the history, geography and idiosyncrasy of Colombia, a country that, paradoxically, has very little of stillness. For unknown reasons, the project remained unfinished.
The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly cinematographic, long before the revolutionary invention of the Lumière brothers and the arrival of December 28, 1895, the historic day on which the first cinema performance took place.
Le occasioni
A photogram is what remains of the dream experience: an image that goes beyond an image. From the submerged region we recover residues that we do not understand yet. Borges wrote: «I will be all or none. I will be the other I don't know I am, the one who contemplated that other dream, my wakefulness. He judges it, resigned and smiling.»
Zhauzhee Xiong
A compilation of all the love and support that surrounds a little Hmong girl's journey with epilepsy along with her hopes and dreams.
Nile Crocodile
The film follows several stages in the life of the world-class Egyptian swimmer, Abdel Latif Abu Heif, on both athletic and humanitarian levels.
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 cry of the Suquía River
THE CRY OF THE SUQUÍA RIVER is a documentary that runs through the Suquía River, a river that is part of the identity of the city of córdoba, in argentina. We decided to embark on a boat trip crossing a 32 km path that allows us at each stop, to connect with life experiences on various socio-environmental realities.
Disgrace
In a wintry day of January 1977, Israel's minister of construction commited sucide on Tel Baruch beach in Tel Aviv. In the preceeding months a corruption affair involving two Mapai seniors. Asher Yadlin who was the designated governor of the Bank of Israel, and his good friend Avraham Offer were suspected to have accepted bribe in real estate deals. The affair, that broke out after an investigation by Yigal Laviv, a determined and persistent journalist, was taken care of by police officer Biniamin Ziggel, and Israel's young attorney genral, Aharon Barack. The two, who wanted to eradicate government corruption, initiated an investigation. The results had serious implications: Offer lost his life, Yadlin ended up behind bars, and Mapai had to hand over their power after three decades of governing Israel. The movie Disgrace raises questions about government corruption, that is as relevant as ever.
Red Coral
Can love outlive death? Director Ningning's grandpa Zhao is an 85-year old man, who has faced not only extreme hardship during the second war but also the serious illness of his wife Lu that left her almost paralysed. Even though Zhao is a scientist, he believes that "love is a real kind of natural power" that can overcome any hardship, and he proves it. The film explores a unique world of the elderly who are deeply in love.
Recreation
This short film investigates the cult of image making surrounding one of the most iconic American landscapes. Through a barrage of home movies and social videos this film examines the extensive archive of amateur images that have been created in and around Grand Canyon National Park, provoking questions about the relationships between tourism, photography, land use and memory in the American southwest.
Ranh Giới
This critically acclaimed Vietnamese documentary portrays the claustrophobic struggles against COVID-19, led by a group of doctors and nurses, in an effort to save the lives of COVID infected pregnant women. Produced by national news channel VTV, "Ranh Giới", meaning "borderline", refers to the line between life and death.
Historias de Esquina
Raised in the town of Las Canchas de Talcahuano, Gonzalo Tudela walks the streets that saw him grow up and where he learned everything that made him become a renowned rapper.
Machine Age
"Machine Age" is a visceral experience of the mechanized world of industrial egg production. Using investigative material, this short film immerses us into the sights and sounds of life behind the walls of a factory farm.
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’.
Women of the Earth, Melany & Freya
How can hemp help heal and restore land? Two sisters in upstate New York seek to blaze a new trail in regenerative farming through the cultivation of this controversial plant.
Now Let Us Sing
An interfaith, interracial choir in Durham, North Carolina, is forced to take a new direction during the pandemic.
Friends of Dorothy
Displaced LGBTQ New Yorkers return to their parents’ homes during quarantine and reflect on the cultures of where they grew up.
The Invisible
What does excluding someone mean to us? Why is it wrong to exclude someone? It is easy to perform exclusion and elimination. But taking the easy way out, it always brings problems. Those who are considered "non-existent." Among them, children are the most easily discriminated against. A story about a No-Kids Zone that prohibits children from entering, and about children that society wants to consider as "non-existence."