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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.
Vidisova
Mr. Tasos, a 68 year old, rebuilt the house of his childhood memories, in a small village that was destroyed collectively by its own residents in the late ‘60s. A short documentary about memory, the passage of time and regret.
Vorrei sparire senza morire
About love and death: starting from the small cemetery in San Leo, where many of his loved ones are buried, Pupi Avati opens his heart. It's a heady mix of a little cinema, a little music, and a lot of living; a journey across time; and a backward glance at a master Italian filmmaker's closest ties, his ghosts and memories snatches of an autobiography interwoven with our collective memory.
Beth Lipman's "House Album"
World-renowned artist Beth Lipman’s latest work, House Album, is a selective portrait of the United States that explores the timely issues of agency, identity and memory. It is composed of two dimensional domestic objects that represent significant individuals and critical episodes in this country’s history, creating an allegory of our collective home.
Frozen Out
An immigrant artist in Iowa retreats to frozen prairies, forests, and swamps, trying to find a meaningful story and escape from the anxieties of dislocation. Delivered as a film-letter to the protagonist’s little sister in rural China, the film considers his self-exile as well as mental health struggles that were too shameful to address back home.
Border
In the middle of the strait between Kinmen and Xiamen, China, there are patches of sea filled with floating styrofoam and endless sand pilfering across the border. Huge business opportunities, and even greater land reclamations have scarred the beauty of the original rural landscapes for the sake of “ The Chinese Dream"—a dream that places economic achievements above all else.
Abyssal
Raudel has been haunted since childhood by the sight of a strange light. Now, at the age of 27, he dedicates himself to scrapping ships in Bahia Honda, Cuba, a place where the line that separates the living from the dead is almost invisible.
Mancacioasa
A film presenting the evolution of a child who likes to eat and the way family and friends speak to her over the years. Mancacioasa is a very personal found footage student film that explores the psychological effects of "Fat Shaming".
Chet Larson
A documentary following the rise, fall and continued tribulations of former internet personality Chet Larson and those associated with him.
Promenade
Diverse days of one provincial embankment. In a remote area of the provincial town, there is an unremarkable old embankment. It was built in Soviet times. At first glance, it may seem that nothing has been happening here for a long time. But observing the same place from the same survey points throughout the year, important changes are discovered, associated not only with natural phenomena, but also with people coming to the embankment. Some of the townspeople appear several times throughout the film. And it becomes clear that these walks along the river are a daily ritual for them.
Is It Me
Body dysmorphia takes centre stage in this highly visual examination of the selves we invent to navigate the world.
Will
Will is a kind of verbal symbolic balance sheet for life, in which we reconcile our material and immaterial possessions and pass on our message to the next generation. The poetic last words form the outline of the film composed of four segments reflecting in different ways on life against inevitable finality – whether it is a couple of young people walking through a Parisian cemetery, a video installation poetically pointing out the manifestations of mortality around us, a family filmed from the position of the grave while performing cemetery rituals, or the film director as the passive recipient of a farewell to life.
Film Never Die
Film. A subject that has been produced for ages. This documentary is to show how beauty of film in can be and still not forgotten towards the modernization nowadays. In this documentary, it shows the connection between film developer and those who shoots film is utterly strong and constantly exist.
The Antidote
Mónica Müller, a former copywriter, unmasks the sinister methods of drugs and medicine advertising.
A Decade and Eight
Thesalonica Sia gets ready to celebrate her 18th birthday in this short film by Zed Ramos.
Water in a Sieve. Merle Karusoo
The film about Merle Karusoo, the Estonian stage director and collector of local biographies, takes a look at the stories of her own life, reflecting on her personal beliefs and the role of remembering throughout life.
Elegia meticcia
The story about a theater company and a cosmopolitan and migrant art forge.
The Dream in the Mirror
A documentary which features interviews with collaborators and family members of director Andrei Tarkovsky's, along with scholars of his work. Special attention is paid to his 1975 film "Mirror."
Mr. Zhang
Zhang Yonghong is a papercutting artist with osteogenesis imperfecta. His daughter also inherited the disease. A family of three came to Beijing in 2008 for her daughter's treatment. From then on, they stayed in Beijing by selling handmade papercutting for a living. After divorcing his wife, Mr. Zhang struggled alone in Beijing. In recent years, because business is not good and Beijing's cleanup of "Holes in the Wall", Mr. Zhang has difficulties finding a house and frequent move. Despite the enormous pressure to survive in Beijing, Mr. Zhang is reluctant to return to his hometown. To stay in Beijing, he dated a Beijing girl and hoped to marry her and have children with her. But the road to becoming a Beijinger is fraught with difficulties…
Social Murder
This short observational film by the Averklub Collective follows everyday life of Romani inhabitants of the poverty-stricken Slovak settlement of Rudňany. The images of their lives are accompanied by the readings from a text by the German philosopher Friedrich Engels, especially his 1845 description of the poor conditions of Irish workers in England by using the term social murder. Combining these two components, it arrives at a highly up-to-date study of poverty, which is often accompanied by racism and stigmatization. – Ji.hlava IDFF 2021
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.
La Colorina
Olimpia Lagos hides her past as a popular singer, whose development was interrupted by her husband's ban. Her grandson decides to go after that trail.
Martyr: One Step Away From the Dead
In a small village in the interior of Portugal, living one step away from the dead holds unimaginable secrets. The film tells us the story of an old couple who saw the whole neighbourhood turn into a cemetery.
Dear Chantal
Pereda returns with a small, mysterious and moving tribute to Chantal Akerman, conceived as a series of joyful impossible letters addressed to the great disappeared from the cinema, to answer her fictional question about renting her bright apartment in Coyoacán.
Nudo Inagotable
An invisible narrator speaks (without temporal notion) about the reminiscences that evoke in him an introspective journey through memory, therefore, through pain. A short film about romance, and like every romantic piece, written from remembrence. A tear. My cinematic self portrait.
Bullied
Examines the causes and consequences of bullying, along with proposed solutions from experts around the nation; includes intimate interviews with victims of bullying, including family members who have lost children to suicide in the wake of bullying, filmmaker.
Adjusting
What does freedom mean? And in some cases, could it be better to be locked up, with a roof over your head and food to eat, even if you have to work for it? Dejan Petrović poses these questions indirectly in his distinctively framed impressions of an overcrowded dog shelter in Serbia, where the dogs are kept behind wire mesh in dismal pens.
Gaisras Virš Mūsų
A music band was filmed in its sensitive change period before and after the creation of their second album.
The Lost Urzecze
The Olęders were innovators and skillful drainage engineers reclaiming wastelands on the banks of the Vistula river n Warsaw, who arrived here from the Netherlands in the 17th century. They were living in Urzecze - a region lost to human memory, in perfect symbiosis with nature, only a few kilometers from the city centre. The Olęders used fertile alluvial soils the Vistula river brought along with floods. Theirfields yielded spectacular crops: delicious vegetables, fruit, cereal with abundant sheaves and grains. Today you will not meet them anymore during a walk or bike trip. Their traditional farms no longer exist here. They abandoned them in 1945 before the Red Army’s offensive, never to return to Urzecze again…
Until There Is No Space
From contact to distance, how do bodily perceptions vary? The body and space feel blurred. The sensation remains, almost ghostly of our bodies moving. Dancing or just being together seems like a distant memory.
Nsenene
In this poetic portrait of a Ugandan tradition, Masaka’s grasshopper catchers light up the sky.
Hailstorm
Hailstorm is based in the Narmada valley in central India, an area with extremely low levels of groundwater. Farmers here battle for survival, pitched against the vagaries of climate change. Following the events of a freak hailstorm over four seasons, the film unfolds the vulnerability and precarity of those that are at the sharpest end of global capitalism’s rapacious greed and the furthest from its benefits.
Naïs au pays des loups
For more than two years, a father and his one-year-old daughter embark on a crazy adventure in the heart of the Mercantour, the wildest national park in France. Between an initiatory journey and nature education before school education, Naïs will live until she is three years old of real magic moments. She will be able to get closer to the fauna and cross the path of the most elusive of all animals .... the wolf!
Tupac Shakur A Life in Ten Pictures
Tupac Shakur’s image is known around the world. He was one of hip-hop’s most photographed figures. But could just a handful of photos uncover new truths about someone we think we already know? This episode throws a unique lens onto an extraordinary life, focusing on ten defining pictures, from iconic shots to private snaps. Their secrets are revealed by those who were there and those who knew Tupac best.
Triboro
A trip behind and beneath the street-level skin of the city on the hidden paths of industrial history and once-and-future transit.