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Graham Kay: Live From A Bowling Alley
In his second comedy special, Live From a Bowling Alley, Graham Kay talks about dating in the the modern age, the downside of Google alerts, and dealing with boomer parents.
The Desert Rocker
The Desert Rocker is an intimate, witty and profound portrait of the extraordinary Hasna El Becharia, a pioneer Gnawa artist. The first musician to break through the social barrier of this culture, she empowers and inspires women of all ages by reclaiming a musical tradition reserved for men for centuries . A singularly talented artist, she leads women to redefine their roles and challenge cultural norms , one musical performance at a time.
Dust & Metal
Between tourist promotions and Hollywood films lies another Vietnam, whose stunning landscape has been evocatively captured from the country's most accessible form of transport: the motorbike.
Commune commune
In the 2014 municipal elections, at Saillans in the Drôme department, a citizen electoral list carried the day based on the project for participatory democracy. Great hopes are kindled by this “Republic of Saillans”. Five years later, as the next elections draw near, the village meets to make a first assessment of this political experiment.
Barbados the Windy Island
This documentary explores the history and geography of Barbados, the easternmost Caribbean island.
Dominican Republic: The Island of Treasures
The Dominican Republic is the second largest and most biodiverse country in the Caribbean. Known for the warmth and hospitality of its people, the Dominican Republic offers a mind-blowing nature, an exciting history and rich culture.
Cisco Kid
In the midst of a vast desert in the American West lie the abandoned ruins of a ghost town. A young person, Eileen, decided to leave the hectic hustle and bustle of modern life to live there and dedicate their life to hard work. During the day, they repair the crumbling houses in the town, at night they sleep in their trailer. They meet many locals and travelers with whom they share both their joys and doubts. The longitudinal documentary works as a double portrait: a portrait of a person defying society’s ideas and a portrait of a place living in the past, full of idiosyncratic figures and fascinating life stories.
Music of Sonny
An animated film with documentary elements. The protagonists perform repetitive tasks at a CD factory. Observation of the production line is a pretext for seeking meaning, purpose, and time within the system.
Fragile Memory
A young filmmaker Ihor finds a hidden and unpublished photo archive of his grandfather Leonid Burlaka, a famous Soviet cinematographer. Discovering a man that he never knew well enough through the damaged pictures, he gets closer to his dementing grandpa, facing the tension between memory and forgetting.
Bar do Oli
The film follows the experience of a group of young people going to Bar do Oli.
Kõverdama
I grew up in Estonia in a swamp forest called Kõverdama. At the moment Kõverdama is being prepared to be cut down by a mining company. The film consists of broken and incomplete 3D scans of beings from Kõverdama. They tell stories of the place that used to be, is and will be.
Xeon
The story of SOPHIE XEON, a hyper-pop artist that changed the genre, as told through Juniper, a hardcore fan of SOPHIE.
Where Am I From?
Filmmaker Nouf Aljowaysir found it impossible to give a clear answer to the question “where are you from?” since she was 13, when she went to live in the US. She was born in Saudi Arabia; her family originally came from Iraq. These are not just places you can point to on a map, search for on Google or look up in Wikipedia. They are also personal memories, smells, family ties and things that simply can’t be explained in a single sentence.
Unspoken Tears
Following a psychologist specializing in conflict-related trauma, Unspoken Tears pays tribute to the admirable resilience and survival strategies of these “small adults,” whose spirit the bombs and camps have not completely crushed, at a time when it is vital to raise awareness in Western societies of migration-related issues and children’s rights.
JOY: THE FEELING OF GREAT PLEASURE AND HAPPINESS
Stunning Mammals and Birds: Australia
Australia is the country with the highest percentage of endemic mammals and birds, with 67 and 45% respectively. This documentary will show some of the most stunning, filmed in their natural habitats, with great photography and unique behaviour.
The Brexit Effect: How Leaving The EU Hit The UK
The UK's recent disastrous "mini" Budget can trace its origins back to Britain's decision to leave the European Union. The economic costs of Brexit were masked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the crisis in Ukraine. But six years after the UK voted to leave, the effect has become clear. In this film, senior FT writers and British businesspeople examine how Brexit hit the UK economy, the political conspiracy of silence, and why there has not yet been a convincing case for a 'Brexit dividend'.
Sagres
An engaging look into the life and journey of bodyboard athlete Joana Schenker, from her childhood to her rise as a world champion in 2017. The athlete is portrayed not only as an exceptional competitor who has won multiple sports titles but also as an advocate for noble causes and a true ambassador of bodyboarding.
All Was Good
Set in the backdrop of the nationwide 2019–2020 student protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in India—filmed in the city of Bangalore—Sab changa si is an intimate documentary on friendships, language, love, youth, resistance, and identity of class, caste, religion, and gender. In this film, the political is personal.
Bakırköy Underground
A personal journey into the kaleidoscopic history of a “place of salvation, Bakırköy. Berkay Şatır uses his own memories and neighborhood to draw the spectator into a musical growth by looking at the changing texture of a musical identity with unique archival footage and photos from 90’s and 2000’s.
Heavenly Bites: Mexico
Welcome to a food extravaganza, a visual poem to Mexico's foodie ingenuity and the quirky and delicious flavors that are worth the stomach aches.
The DNA of Dignity
The Balkan war of the 1990s was the cause of the disappearance of thousands of people. Their mortal remains are in danger of remaining lost forever. Bereaved families and survivors place their hopes in excavations and in the work of science.
5 Dreamers and a Horse
Three Armenias are sketched out here, brilliantly and with delicacy, through four protagonists aspiring to fulfil their dream. There is the lift operator in a hospital who wants to travel into space, the farmer in search of a perfect wife, and the young queer couple who simply want to live out their love story… while awaiting the demonstrations and hopes of the revolution.
This Land
A collective portrait of a diverse group of Americans on the 2020 Election Day in nearly every state, including a Native American grappling with his past, a same-sex couple on opposite sides of the aisle, a Trump supporter fighting to bring his deported wife back home, and others. THIS LAND is a complex and deeply human examination of the political complexities of the United States in a moment of great uncertainty and deep political divisions.
Street Food: USA
Get a taste of the most beloved bites on American streets and, along the way, discover the heart, soul and wildly diverse real people behind the food.
My Hidden Skin
People of different generations and sociocultural contexts share their stories to reveal the secrets that keep their bodies, rebuilding themselves through a tour of themselves: Kany, a trans person; Julia, who has known she was a lesbian since she was a child; Erika, a woman who has dealt with being overweight; Natalia, who has survived cancer; and Rosaly, a straight woman who is recognizing the reasons for her failed relationships.
The Goats of Monesiglio
An immigrant family and Italian-born family work on a goat farm to make it a success and demonstrate the new face of Italian agriculture.
How To Be A Person: How To Get An Abortion
If Alfie hadn’t dumped her, Sanam would never have booty-called Jawad. Now Sanam needs to get an abortion. How does she even do that and what will her Baba say if he finds out?
Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp
The story of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans and the loss of civil rights.
In the Water, Behind the Lens
”In the Water, Behind the Lens" examines the world of surf photography. Shooting from the water, photographers face many dangers, ranging from being hit by a surfboard, drowning, or being attacked by sharks. This film tells the story of these passionate water photographers, located all over the world, and all in pursuit of the perfect shot.
Arequipa Ciudad Blanca
Jorge Bedoya was an amateur filmmaker from a well-to-do family in Arequipa. Starting from the 1940s, he used an unconventional format to film: Double 8mm. This project takes up of that recording format the concept of two parallel sequences of frames that interact with each other to depict, from a current perspective, the social class to which the archive belongs.
Oasis
Mai, an artist, and Rintaro, a bicycle builder. The two weave through their city on bicycles. A river under an overpass, the ivy in a ditch, the demolition of state housing . . . . The film follows the couple as they move about, taking pictures of whatever catches their eye. Mai believes that even these small stories from everyday encounters constitute the culture of a city and the film documents Mai’s process of incorporating these stories into her work. The film was produced as part of the “Cultural Narrative of a City” project, which strives to present the city Minato in all its delicate yet vibrant cultural diversity.
The Island
After 500 years of African presence in Portugal, Black people find refuge in the utopian creation of The Island [A Ilha]. A place residing in the space in-between fiction and reality, where the potentialities to rewrite histories and think futures are brought together through the characters and their journeys. The woman who escapes the memories of the past by confronting her executioners. The archaeologist who investigates memory so that similar mistakes will not be repeated on the island. The capitalist man who reflects on how he has become the oppressor. The children who energise all the other characters.