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The Rise and Fall Of the Ancient Egyptians
Egypt is home to one of the world's earliest civilizations, with its earliest settlements in northern Africa dating to 17000 BC. Ancient Egypt was a powerful, influential, and expansionist empire that grew from the Nile River Valley to include much of the eastern Mediterranean. The civilization brought many inventions and advancements, including agriculture, art, architecture, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, religion, writing, and so much more.
The Trials of Robert Durst
From the suspicious disappearance of his wife to the brutal dismemberment of his neighbor and the murder of his best friend, this true-crime special tells the bizarre story of the life and criminal trials of the infamous real estate heir, Robert Durst.
Nach der Arbeit
A reflection on retirement, the transition into this particular new phase of life and the significance and insignificance of work.
Andromeda
Evocation of the artistic and cinematic expression of 1960s and 1970s’ public television in Italy. It is the early age of public broadcasting, during which cinema also questions its relation to reality and video art emerges as an experimental answer. The character, a young female viewer, committed to exploring and trying out a new medium, carries us through time. Blurring the lines between document and creation, the film places the viewer between the early age period of television and the period of time she spends in the room, between memory and imagination, utopia and experimentation.
El Reencuentro: 500 años
The descendants of Moctezuma and Cortés reunite for the 500th aniversary of the Spanish Conquest of México
I'll wait until they call my name
A theatrical work that talks about the disappeared in the years of political violence in Peru, is taken to present Andean communities. In each place of presentation, the fiction will be confronted with reality.
Vor mir der Süden
3,700 km of coastline, a Fiat 1100, and an old travel diary, those are the ingredients for Pepe Danquart’s documentary. Following the footsteps of the great Italian thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini, the filmmaker gains a deep insight into the social reality of present-day Italy. The country is massively affected by globalization, migration and the phenomenon of mass tourism, which, more than ever, is characterised by the same hedonistic conformity that Pasolini lamented more than fifty years ago. Ahead of me the South is a poetic contemporary document, a kaleidoscopic picture of the Italy of today.
Song Hae 1927
Song Hae 1927 is a documentary about the character all Koreans know. Song Hae is the oldest active celebrity at 94 and the longest-running host of the ‘National Singing Contest.’ He has been a singer, comedian, actor, and radio DJ, but never a star. Song Hae 1927 shows a backstage face we’ve never seen. His closed eyes and serious look seem like a good place to hide sadness and pain. Song Hae is a man of few words. To the death of his wife, he only said, ‘I wish I had had a chance to say goodbye to him.’
Wild Horses - A Tale From The Puszta
Meet Dot, the little wild horse foal. She is a Przewalski's horse: the only true wild horse species of the world. Although the origin of this endangered species is in Mongolia, Dot lives in the heart of Europe, on the grassy plains of Hungary called the "Puszta". 25 years ago some were introduced here and the horses instantly formed an organic connection with this magical land with rich and unique wildlife. Today this is one of the largest Przewalski's horse herds on the planet. This is their story.
The Herald
A small, local paper fights to keep its doors open after serving the community for decades.
Shadow Codex
The graffiti on the grey concrete walls of the disused prison in Turku are like cave paintings from a lost civilisation in the Finnish artist Saara Ekström’s ‘Shadow Codex’, which, with a simple but overwhelmingly suggestive approach, lets text, drawings and the shabby pinup posters speak their own language about incarceration and institutionalised punishment. Each cell is a gallery, an indexical imprint of the anonymous inmates’ minds, from a past conjured forth by the film’s timeless black and white 16mm images, with a gloomy melancholy that borders on madness. But, at the same time, the surveillance machinery, the architecture and the many layers of engravings tell us about a society which, in its attempt to maintain law and order, creates monuments of its own shadow – set against John Cage’s ‘Perilous Night’.
Shea, by NASRA
A family displaced by greed searches for a new home in a foreign place. As they explore they discover pieces of themselves; old and new. "Shea" celebrates what has always remained in Black/African peoples, an innate sense of home, luxury and interconnectedness.
Shadows of Tomorrow
Searching and digging through the different resolutions that composes Brazilian cinema.
Seasick
Mal di mare is a gasp of air, a shout sung in waves moving through a body nauseated by the confrontation with the violence of the ever swirling world. This improvised singing tries to break the invisible glass that separates the gaze and the realities of those who can observe from afar and those who are observed, but who are mostly prevented from returning such gaze. Who/what’s missing in the room? The film was shot during the 2019 Venice Biennale and built around a performing action carried out by the filmmaker himself in the exhibition space.
My Brain in Blue Light
A poetic reflection on adapting to the confined and technological way of living ushered in by Covid-19 restrictions. Filmed entirely in the director's bedroom, this film examines how the home has moved from a place of respite to a place of stagnation during Ireland's second lockdown.
Nasir
Musician Nasir calls several family members by phone to discuss the decision to transition.
My Friend Yeti
The film focuses on an extraordinary person called Igor Burtsev. He has traveled half the world in the search for Yeti. And though his friends and colleagues look at his hobby with irony he is not planning to give up. He is sure that Bigfoot is somewhere near, and they are bound to meet some day. In fact? it doesn’t really matter whether the long awaited meeting is to happen, or not. What matters is that Burtsev’s loyal friend called Yeti prompts him every day to keep moving forward.
Mūtātiōnem
A mother's lunar reverie channels anxieties of life on Earth into a grainy, cosmic awareness of organic perseverance amongst the stars.
My Brother’s Keeper
A poetic meditation on family and its interaction with incarceration.
Mysteries
Computer sounds and programmed movements erase the boundary between document and fiction. A constructed, almost magical environment is superimposed onto everyday images, imbuing them with an elusive sense of the otherworldly. Mysteries exists in murky dialogue with Signal to Noise, whose subjects appear here ten years later.
Jules & I
Roos is fourteen years old and lives with her mother and her older transgender sister Jules. Jules is currently transitioning, taking hormones and experimenting with her looks. Roos, who has no interest in nail polish and the like, is irritated by all the changes. When Jules moves out, Roos begins to miss her new sister and gets closer to her again.
18 Years from Moscow
In the depths of Russia and on its outskirts, among the endless forests and fields, among abandoned factories and villages, as if in a long serene dream, there are portraits of young people from different parts of the Russian province, connected to the rest of the country only by a thin line of the railway track, along which they will all leave one day, so as not to return. Or have they already left…
My Friend Sashka
Sashka lives in Kostroma, in a dormitory. He doesn’t have a permanent job, but he has alcohol and drug addiction instead. He is 30 years old, and he is completely lost. He tried to enter the monastery, but returned for a new romantic interest. A year later, Sashka's life is different. He now lives in another city with that girl and her son, together they had a daughter. He has a flat mortgaged, he works as a baker and from time to time goes to Kostroma to make some extra money. Life has changed. Has Sashka changed?
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The heroes of this story are residents of the village of Purnema, located on the shore of the White Sea. The events of their lives take place in the rhythm of the sea: the tides change, and nothing can change this order of things.
Fort
Two boyfriends wander beaches near New York City, finding shade under crude shelters they build from driftwood. FORT is a short, experimental process film documenting beach trips taken by co-directors Craig Hunter and Ryan Harman. They build forts with sheets, rubber bands, and materials (like driftwood) scavenged from the shore. These temporary shelters become an oasis for sunbathing, relaxing, and listening to music together. FORT deliberately subverts and disregards both chronology and geography to focus on the very process of constructing a beach fort.
The Lockdown Tapes
A short documentary about the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic in the UK. Only by listening to the stories of front line doctors, students, civil servants, business owners and people who have lost their loved ones throughout this time, will we truly be able to understand what matters the most.
Nothing to Declare
Two men laugh about their days of mischief and wonder as they remember their most iconic adventure: hopping on a one-way plane to New York.
Night & Day
A tender look at three generations of motherhood and music in a bittersweet recollection of filmmaker Paolo Bitanga’s last Christmas with his grandmother.
À la source de la tyrannie
Through the youthful portraits of some of the most terrible dictators of the 20th and 21st centuries, this documentary examines the origins of tyranny. Is a dictator the product of a family, social and historical context?
Kite Kite
A propaganda documentary on Sino-France Diplomatic Relations, started from the stories behind 1958 film “The Magic of the Kite”.
A Custom of the Sea
Porto Maurizio, where the director, who lives in France today, grew up, is located on the Ligurian coast. The village is the starting point for a cinematic journey into the past that spans a surprisingly wide arc to a time when Muslim pirates, the corsairs, haunted the Mediterranean and took Europeans as slaves. To this end, the film light-handedly draws from the rich fund of film history and its iconography.
Shaba
Shaba is a personal story filled with absolute joy about a group of women and an elephant named Shaba who changed each other’s lives.