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The Tunes
A café in the north of Brussels. Days are punctuated by the songs that the customers sing at all hours, to amuse themselves, to remember or to pass the time. Those songs transform the place little by little, making the film a strange musical.
Busina
A documentary that explores the life of a jeepney driver—his dreams, livelihood, struggles, and future existence. The story of Gerald Cagasan from Brgy. Sto. Domingo, Biñan Laguna reflects the ongoing challenges faced by jeepney drivers in the Philippines as they fight for their right to earn a living using traditional jeepneys. 'Busina' showcases the diverse perspectives and beliefs of ordinary citizens, drivers, and operators regarding the government's Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP).
Karin Boye: Kunde jag följa dig
Karin Boye (1900-1941) is one of Sweden's most beloved poets and writers. She constantly finds new readers and gives hearts comfort and strength. But who was she? Like no one else, she described the unhappy heart in love and she dared to live and long and break norms. One April evening, she went out into nature alone with sleeping pills, never to return. A film about Boye's life, works and times, from the debut until the all-too-early end, in the middle of a burning world war.
Radiating Joy: The Michelle Duppong Story
The story of Servant of God Michelle Duppong, who bore witness to Christ through heroic suffering and a passion for inviting others to be transformed by His love. In June 2022, Bishop David Kagan of Bismarck, North Dakota, announced the opening of the diocesan phase of investigation into Michelle’s life and reputation for holiness, which could lead to her beatification and canonization. On December 25, 2015, Duppong died of cancer at the age of 31
Hothouse Flowers: Stick Around and Laugh a While
A look back at the band in 1988, and their sold-out UK tour in 2023, while investigating why and how the group still stays together
The Eleusinians
The portrait of a specific and historical Eleusina, which is also the portrait of a symbolic and visionary Eleusina.
Dahjan Al-Ward
The furnace used to extract rose water in the Sultanate of Oman is known as "Dahjan Al-Ward" (The Rose Distillation). Director Mohammed Al-Ajmi presents his film about the history and details of the rose industry in the Sultanate of Oman.
Where My Memory Began
Four hundred years ago, freed Black folks braved the Atlantic Ocean to travel to Africa. On arrival, they walked from the shore to a tall cotton tree, where they took respite from their journey. When they awoke with renewed strength, they decided to name this place Freedom Town, then Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. Elder Ballu tries to remember this history and legacy.
Lesvia
Since the 1970s, lesbians from around the world have been drawn to the island of Lesvos, the birthplace of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. When they find paradise in a local village and carve out their own queer lesbian community, tensions simmer with the local residents. With both groups claiming ownership of lesbian identity, filmmaker Tzeli Hadjidimitriou—a native and lesbian herself—is caught in the middle and chronicles 40+ years of love, community, conflict, and what it means to feel accepted.
uba
Movie made from random cell phone recordings. Fictional but also autobiographical. A path of self-discovery.
Monumental
The director's affection for the Londrina Esporte Clubeb (LEC) and his grandfather is transmitted through this short documentary that shows an important match for the championship. During a trip the director managed to kill the longing of the two...
Taking Venice
At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government is determined to fight Communism with culture. The Venice Biennale, the world's most influential art exhibition, becomes a proving ground in 1964. Alice Denney, Washington insider and friend of the Kennedys, recommends Alan Solomon, an ambitious curator making waves with trailblazing art, to organize the U.S. entry. Together with Leo Castelli, a powerful New York art dealer, they embark on a daring plan to make Robert Rauschenberg the winner of the Grand Prize.
age; taken advantage
The director discusses her childhood recollection, which leads to a traumatic narrative that she does not tell many.
Gekaufte Politik? Europa in der Korruptionskrise
Everything/Nothing
With the motivation of exposing what family is for the director, the importance and impact of family in his life is symbolically presented through footage. Wholeness and absence in one place.
Bimsa
Bimsa: A basement, a cellar where we store the things we want to preserve over time. Kalarrites (a place where the waters flow seamlessly), a mountainous area on the peaks of the Pindos trail, remained proud and prosperous during the years of the Ottoman occupation. The few remaining residents still practice professions that will soon extinct, lacking any prospect of succession; they speak to the camera and take us on a journey through the history of the place.
Please Keep This Copy
Across a white void, old documents and items come to life, set to a cacophony of archival sounds and voices of youth growing up in an elite all-boys' private Catholic high school in the Philippines as the country undergoes great change at the hands of a vulgar and violent leader. Navigating these systems of influence, power, and control, both the documents and voices seek their own means of liberation.
Alcoléa & cie Documentary
Upon a visit to UVM's Lane Series in the Spring of 2022, Jean-Francois Alcolea offered to conduct a workshop to UVM film students and others on his piece, "Right in the Eye". A group of students from FTS 141 Video Production, teamed up to document the day and Jean-Francios' magical performance. They all left with a smile.
Reel Rock 18
Immerse yourself in four gripping new climbing films from across the globe: a visionary first ascent on Japan’s mythical Mt. Mizugaki; a climbing community held together in war-torn Ukraine; a treacherous free ascent of Jirishanca in the Peruvian Andes; and an exploration of Mallorca’s deep-water soloing.
Yopougon - Way Back Home
Swiss musician Dodo travels the world in a container that serves as a mobile production studio, but his dream project runs into trouble along the way
Would Have Been
Above the home of the director's grandparents in Italy there’s an apartment that has been started to be built. (If there was a window right here, you would be able to see the sea). What would have happened if the director had grown up there instead of in Switzerland? The director deals with their own South Italian roots, being queer, longings and losses.
Fascist Machinery
Underneath a coffee shop and a bar, stories from victims and activists will unfold.
Efforts of Nature
Combining low resolution footage, 16mm film and satellite imagery, Efforts of Nature considers the passage of time, processes of change and dissolution from two distant perspectives: the existential level of the body and the planetary level of shifting geological conditions.
Always Believe: The Ozzie Albies Story
Atlanta Braves 2nd basemen takes fans on a visual journey detailing his upbringing and pride in his native country, Curaçao, his love for animals and the conception of the Ozzie Albies Foundation, and why Albies has become one of the most beloved and successful second basemen in Atlanta Braves history.
L'homosexualité au cinéma, les chemins de la victoire
(Revolution, Fulfil Your Promise) Red Love
In order for the revolution to live up to its promise, might love be the missing ingredient? Artist Dora García delves into the archives and finds in the searing writings of Alexandra Kollontaï, an early-20th-century revolutionary, a precious ally of queer and feminist movements in Latin America and elsewhere. A joyfully militant political film."
Sehnsucht nach Rom - Auf den Spuren von Maarten van Heemskerck
Women of the mangrove
Women of the Mangrove is the story of the Mudecoop Cooperative. Manzanillo is a small fishing town on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica that struggles with poverty and government neglect. In response to this adversity, the women of Manzanillo joined forces to found the Mudecop cooperative.
Moving
Evgenia is an idealistic young woman who is angry at the entire world. She keeps a diary, referring to herself in the third person singular, imagining herself as a heroine who returns to the embrace of nature intending to record its reality. Her goal is to penetrate the lives of a couple of nomadic shepherds and understand their way of interpreting the world.
Titi – In Cyclone’s Wake
Madagascar has been badly hit by successive cyclones. Titi, a nurse from Niger, joins medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières and reaches inaccessible rural communities to confront the alarmingly rising rates of child malnutrition.