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Sally Lindsay: In Her Own Words
A warm, feelgood tribute celebrates the career of Sally Lindsay - stage and TV acting legend for over twenty years. Sally herself anchors the documentary.
Familienlos
The story of Thun Chay, a Cambodian who was left behind by his mother in a refugee camp during their escape from the Red Khmer and the civil war in their home country.
Fleshwork
At a butcher shop in Jeromesville, Ohio, four meat processors situate their labor within their own minds and bodies.
Fragment of a Patagonia landscape
A Super 8 film found in the street and labeled, “Journey to Port Stanley, 1981”; through cuts, Baca divides the Malvinas landscape more and more, until making the different achieve the category of thing.
Paperboy Love Prince for Mayor!
A documentary following the 2021 campaign of Paperboy Love Prince, a rapper and activist, for Mayor of New York
Women According to Men
Before the Islamic Revolution in Iran, women's lives were strongly determined by two contradictory factors: the traditional patriarchy and the shah's modernisation policies. This film-excerpt collage starts in 1932 – the year the first Iranian film with sound was made – and ends in 1979 revealing how, during this period, women were depicted by generally male film directors.
Alliance
The unique story of the first successful Jewish farming community in the United States, the Alliance Colony. Founded in 1882, the Alliance Colony was a first-time social experiment, bringing persecuted Russian Jews to the United States to form an agricultural-based community.
The Lost Media of Aaron Aaron Byrne
The making of the next Aaron Aaron Byrne Movie takes a turn for the worst.
Home of the Brave
The story of a girl, her father, a house, a forgotten box of letters, and all those left behind when someone gives their life.
Hama no Don
Yukio Fujiki is a 91 years old prominent conservative figure in Yokohama, who organizes the distribution of the port and is well-connected with the people of the local political and business world. However, in 2019, Fujiki voiced his opposition to the administration's attempts to bring casinos to Yokohama and embarked on the last fight of his life to protect his own city from the expansion of the gambling industry.
Vista mare
Julia Gutweniger and Florian Kofler embarked on a journey into the engine room of Adriatic tourism. VISTA MARE will be a film about the people we spend our holidays with year after year without realising it – a look into the lives and work of those who work while we enjoy our holidays.
Blix Not Bombs
When the world was on fire, they called Hans Blix. This is how the Swedish diplomat is introduced in ‘Blix Not Bombs’. And if there is one fire he is particularly associated with, it is the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Prior to the invasion, Blix led the delegation of UN officials to find out whether weapons of mass destruction were present in Iraq. And it is the invasion and its consequences that we get Blix’s formidably insightful analysis of in a thorough and honest conversation with director Greta Stocklassa. Few others understand the complexities of international politics on the world stage like Blix, and none can explain it with his intellectual elegance. But Stocklassa’s film is also a portrait of the man himself, now an elderly gentleman, writing his memoirs, walking with a cane and watching birds through the window of his apartment. His outlook and commitment is as urgent as ever, as Blix takes stock of the invasion of Iraq and the state of the world today.
Askarov
The film is devoted to Azimjon Askarov, an ethnic Uzbek, artist and Kyrgyz human rights defender, who had investigated and documented crimes of Kyrgyz law enforcement agencies. In 2010 during interethnic conflicts in the South of Kyrgyzstan (the city of Osh), Askarov was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. In 2020 Askarov died in prison under unclear circumstances. Askarov’s family and friends are trying to restore justice to him.
Skuld
A young couple risks their financial situation and relationship, when they follow in the footsteps of their ancestors and start working as independent fishermen on their small fishing boat, Skuld. Does Iceland's oldest industry have a future or will it disappear with the coming generation?
Bitter Sweet Ballad
This is a story about youth with music. It all happens at the Dandelion School, Beijing’s first middle school specifically established for the children of migrant workers. Every year when new pupils arrive, Ms. Yuan Xiaoyan, who has worked in the school choir for eight years, would choose a group of music-loving first-years with solid musical foundations to join the choir. A new group of children join the choir while those who have advanced to the second year have to discuss with their families their future choices. For choir members, their music career in middle school will eventually stop due to the pressure of high school entrance examinations and the inevitable parting. But along this journey accompanied by music, they have been savoring the joys and sorrows of their youth, burying them deep in their hearts, and transforming them into growth-promoting nutrients.
Sugung-The Underwater Palace
Jung Ei-jin (79), the last transferee of the four Gukchang families, is looking for a transferee of the Dongpyeonje "Sugungga". Jung Ei-jin has many disciples, but everyone is unsuitable as a transferee due to circumstances. Jung Ei-jin is suffering because he can't find a successor as he ages. Students who continue their dreams narrowly between art and livelihood say they are happy when they sing.
A Seed for the Future
This is the story of the White River Land Collaborative (WRLC) -- a farmer-led, women-led community-driven initiative to increase land access and farm viability in Tunbridge, Vermont. Their mission and challenge is to transform a former organic dairy farm into a community hub that will support sustainable agricultural enterprises, forest stewardship, and community activities, while reducing barriers to land access for young farmers and local Abenaki land stewards. They intend to build a resilient land-based economy rooted in equitable land access -- a model that can be replicated on farms across Vermont and beyond!
I Live Here and Breathe There
A full-length documentary of 80 mins duration, shot intermittently over 12 years, observational in style and experimental in form, explores life on two residential streets in London and Baghdad.
The Great Aversion of the City of Clams (or) Why do Clams Not Open When the Time Comes to Breathe?
Documentarians cover the present people and condition of the New York City neighborhood City Island. Student film at Parsons School of Design.
Slave
Madina, Botha and Vova are victims of labor slavery. Despite the fact that the reasons for their enslavement and rescue are different, it is not easy for each of them to find themselves free again.
Deceive Me
Cybercrimes are among the most difficult to solve. Every day, dozens of Kazakhstanis fall for the bait of scammers who easily empty their cards. Why are we so gullible and what are the police doing to combat this?
Kicking Up a Racket
"Kicking Up a Racket" is a short documentary about Dublin's young punk community, exploring it's history and the people who keep it alive. Narrated by Pete Briquette of The Boomtown Rats.
Cross of Justice
In the backdrop of a spiraling economic crisis in Sri Lanka, angry and tired citizens who felt that the government was mismanaging their country took to the streets organizing anti- government protests from April to July 2022. These protests grew into what is called the 'Aragalaya' movement and thousands of people joined, expressing their frustration over many suppressed issues. One of their demands was transparency in the investigations of the Easter Sunday attacks which took place on 21st April, 2019 when a series of bombs went off across the island including at three churches claiming nearly 300 lives. Jehan Srikantha Appuhamy, a well-known Sri Lankan actor was also among the protesters. As someone who grew up having a close relationship with the church, Jehan felt traumatized after the Easter Sunday attacks. He began a walk for justice 3 years after the attacks, in a setting where the people were still not given answers as to what happened that day.
Musikmakarna
Monica & Carl-Axel Dominique have been married for over 60 years and have played music for as long as they can remember. They have worked with some of Sweden's biggest names. Tom Alandh finally gets the chance to make his documentary about them, something he has wanted to do for two decades.
Bulunkul
High in the mountains of the Pamirs lies Lake Bulunkul and the village of the same name, one of the coldest inhabited places in the former Soviet Union. Mountains, a plain, a herd of yaks. Time has seemingly stood still here. Survival in this inhospitable landscape indeed depends on sensitivity to weather fluctuations and changes in nature.
The Prison Mother of Us All
Ira left the general regime women's colony near St. Petersburg 2 years ago. Is Ira free if she returns there every month?
Study for Three Streams
Study for Three Streams was shot at Hongjecheon in Seoul, Mokgamcheon in Gwangmyeong, and Gulpocheon in Incheon. It captures the impressions of three streams in three different cities. Each of the three streams intersects and overlaps with images of the filmmaker’s own body.
Range Rider
As wolves repopulate Washington, conflict is heating up with rural ranching communities. Daniel Curry’s job is to patrol wild areas on horseback, creating a buffer between wolves and the cattle herds that graze on public lands. Whenever these wild carnivores are suspected of killing livestock, the consequences can be fatal. As illegal poaching and state-sponsored kills take a heavy toll, can Daniel prove that coexistence between ranchers and wolves is possible?
Sea of My Father
When he is at sea, he remembers his little daughter, and then, after many months of separation, he goes to her across the country and remembers the sea.
The Roll
After a few months of of continuous stay at sea, from frequent overexertion fatigue and something else, I feel the limit of my capabilities and the capabilities of my colleagues.
Madre Mar
The local people have worked the waters of the Sado Estuary Natural Reserve in Portugal for hundreds of years, coexisting with the dolphins, fish and shellfish, supported by the region’s rich seagrass meadows. The practice of bottom trawling, which bulldozes the ocean floor, has wiped out nearly one-third of the world's seagrass meadows. Raquel Gaspar, marine biologist, mother and cofounder of the Portuguese NGO Ocean Alive, is on a journey to protect and re-meadow Sado’s seagrass habitat. In Patagonia Films’ Madre Mar, Raquel partners with a group of local fisherwomen to restore this crucial piece of the ocean’s ecosystem–one that provides habitats for sea life and 10 percent of the carbon captured in the ocean. Learn more at patagonia.com/oceans.
Have A Word: Bonged Up Abroad (The Amsterdam Special)
The Have A Word lads go to Amsterdam and get potted. May contain a goatee.
Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia
With his mafia wiseguy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helped John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. But it all came to a bitter end.
