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Country Abortion
Once in India, Zakhara from St. Petersburg could not forget about the war in Ukraine. Her desire to go to the front, even as a volunteer, does not meet with understanding either from her girlfriend, or from relatives, or from friends.
The Great Wall: From Beginning to End
Great Wall. 4000 miles. 1800 years. Greatest feat of civil engineering. For one year, Nat Geo photographer Michael Yamashita shot the entire Wall and the people who live in its shadow. See why this immense human feat may never be surpassed.
Line of Vision
In the steppe on the territory of the Orenburgsky State Nature Reserve, a small population of wild Przhevalsky horses lives in their natural habitat. Researchers are reintroducing the species to one day release the animals into the wild. So far, this is impossible, because without a person the species is threatened with extinction. How does a wild horse see the world? People are ready to study today and her point of view.
Plague in the Time of Love
Back in 1942, at the height of the Great Patriotic War, a major plague epidemic broke out in Mongolia. A detachment of Soviet specialists was sent to fight it, who worked selflessly, saving people, burning corpses, testing new methods of administering the vaccine, and also falling in love, getting married and having children. 70 years later, their children, now elderly themselves, set off on a journey to Mongolia, following in the footsteps of their parents.
Lotus-Eyed Girl
A haunting collage of pomegranate arils, rural and urban landscapes, family history and mandalas undulate at a crossroads between death and longing. Inspired by the love poem Caurapañcāśikā by Bilhana, Lotus-Eyed Girl unfurls the impacts of colonialism on human desire with a pulsating, ambient eeriness.
To Scale: Time
On a dry lake bed in the Mojave, a group of friends build a practical scale model of time.
Disaffection Image
The second of two two Videographic essays with critical reflections on representations of the Vietnam War. “Disaffection Image,” uses the writings of Chinua Achebe and Gilles Deleuze to interrogate racist and colonial tropes in “Apocalypse Now.”
The Home Game
This feel-good sports doc is about one man's dogged attempt to finally stage a home game on the football pitch his father created 25 years earlier. By registering the non-existent team of their small town to the Icelandic FA Cup he gives himself a 50/50 chance to fulfill his fathers dream.
Meet The Most Based NYU Student
An interview from acclaimed business youtuber Noah Kagan introduces us to the most based NYU student, Based John.
!Aitsa
The ancient knowledge of indigenous peoples challenges high-tech science in a near-cosmic tale from a South African desert where the world’s largest radio telescope is being built with antennae aimed at the far corners of the universe.
HOUSE IN THE CLOUDS: The Artistic Life of Robert Singleton
The story of Robert Singleton, a world-class artist, from trauma to triumph, from tribulation and deep loss, to equilibrium and mastery.
Our Grandmother the Inlet
Kayah George, a young Tsleil-Waututh woman and her grandmother Ta7a, daughter of the late Chief Dan George, reflect on their relationship to water, culture, and land.
Friends on the Outside
Friends on the Outside is an experimental short documentary that tells the story of Jamie, exploring how foraging for weeds and caring for birds has helped him recover from mental illness and the chronic stress of incarceration. It questions why the UK prison system is currently in its biggest expansion in more than a century, exposing the naturalising language used around this expansion.
Yes No War
From May to September 2022, an unidentified person came and wrote 55 times on three panels in a building courtyard: NO TO WAR
PEACE IN THE WORLD. These signs were each time erased by a municipal employee but never by a resident of the building. The film concludes that in 2022, approximately 20,000 people have been arrested for anti-war activism.
Old Man
Leaving his family and city comfort, Vladimir Alekseevich equips himself a house in the taiga. Unity with nature in a small hut is the joy and everyday life of an 80-year-old huntsman. What makes a person choose the path of solitude? Who is he – a loner, an egoist or a sage who has found the meaning of life?
Flying On Land
Fat tiger and Morgan are friends who skateboard together. They all share the common life choice problems faced by contemporary Chinese youth. Including: love, career, family and so on. How to balance skateboarding with life choices. Both Fat tiger and Morgan are trying to come up with their own answers.
In My Eyes
The daughter looked through the viewfinder of the camera and gazed upon her father's appearance before he passed away. Then she realized this estranged and absurd father had been influencing her all along. The one she had once run away from was also the one she missed the most.
Subway Stops
A cinematic experience of the New York subways, featuring the commuters, panhandlers, and performers passing through.
Balkan Express
The mountaineers Max Kroneck and Jochen Mesle book a one-way train ticket from Munich to Thessaloniki – and start their way back home by bike and ski. Along the route they explore the mountains of the Balkans, look for the most beautiful ski runs and get to know the local mountain communities.
Lights, Camera, Economics: Independent Film in the UK
Lights, Camera, Economics is a short documentary on the growing economic challenges faced by independent filmmakers wrapped in a love letter to the world of UK independent film. Based on research by Alma Economics, commissioned by the British Film Institute (BFI).
Rabbi on the Block
Tamar Manasseh, the charismatic rabbi and community activist from the south side of Chicago, wants African Americans and Jews to become closer allies. With one foot firmly in each of these two communities, Black Jews like Tamar are the natural bridge to help overcome decades of fear, misunderstanding, and lack of communication.
The Architects of Hope: The First Steps in Rebuilding Ukraine
As Russia wages its physical war against Ukraine, a deeper cultural revolution has been unfolding for three decades – as Ukraine's modern architects have been radically transforming Ukraine's towns & cities with each new project they build – and serving as a deliberate catalyst to accelerate the transformation of society. This film is an anthology of 6 stories of leading architects in Ukraine who are independently spearheading war-related projects.
Gregoria
She has a crooked back, strong hands, black nails. Gregoria lives bent down to the ground. Once a week she carries kilos of fruit and vegetables to feed the city. Her words echo the ancestral mischievousness of someone who needs very little: a piece of land, a few recycled plastic boxes and a friendly conversation at the end of the day. This film is for all the gregorias who manage to live as they please.
The Modrý Case
Bohumil Modrý, the best hockey goalie in the world, who significantly contributed to the first international successes of Czechoslovak hockey after World War II. In 1948, he was offered a job in the NHL, but his stellar sports career and happy family life were destroyed by a trumped-up political trial in 1950. He died prematurely in 1963 at the age of 46 from the effects of imprisonment and radiation.
I Am Because You Are
“I Am Because You Are”” follows the journey of six women of colour as they embark on their first mountaineering trip in the beautiful and rugged Bugaboos. The plan was for a summer trip with the opportunity to learn foundational mountain skills from their guides, but up until the last minute the trip was almost cancelled due to historic levels of spring snow. Despite the group having mixed levels of experience with backpacking or camping in snow, the crew decides to come together, pack their bags and take on the adventure with trust in their guides.
Tobacco Smoke
Scientists, doctors and smokers talk about the power of habit and two important questions that need to be answered before quitting this bad habit.
Bariton frakis
The film highlights the two extremes of extraordinary singer Georg Ots - his extreme modesty about his own abilities and the often exaggerated, sometimes hyperbolic opinions of others. Throughout the film, these two aspects come together to form an understanding of the personality being portrayed.
FUEGO
Kilian Bron and his team are back with a new visual spectacle! From Guatemala to Peru via Bolivia, for two months the dream team scoured the most beautiful spots to make amazing memories and bring back breathtaking images. From their arrival at the foot of the FUEGO volcano the day before its historic eruption, to the colourful facades of Barrio Chualluma in La Paz, through the geological formations of the Valle de las Animas and the contrasts of the Auzangate, without forgetting meeting with the Cholitas Escaladoras women from the Aymaras indigenous community who climb and conquer summits! Kilian has been meeting these people and experiencing the craziest spots on his COMMENCAL META SX. An ode to escape and adventure travel, FUEGO is a new masterpiece, and Kilian and his team hold the secret...
Wave 41
Kamchatka and the Kuriles are a place at the edge of the world, where the sunrise is first met, where there are countless volcanoes and an endless ocean. Researchers, seekers and pioneers have always aspired here. At the center of the story, the founders of the Kamchatka surf movement are athlete Anton Morozov and director Mikhail Moroz, who embark on an extraordinary journey to conquer previously unseen waves and discover the nature of Kamchatka in its original form. This is not a biography of one person, but of many destinies, a reflection of the state of that time. About how surfing and snowboarding covered the Far East with their wave and spread to the whole of Russia.
Grenades in Maqluba
The film documents the occupation and oppression of the local Palestinian people in the south of the West Bank.