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Legend of the Keto People
A film about the unique culture of the Keto people living on the banks of the Yenisei. Their isolated language and peculiarity of their way of life are living evidence of ancient traditions and rituals that have survived to our times. Passed from mouth to mouth, from generation to generation, songs and poems have survived to this day in their original beauty and wisdom. The keto people live in the conditions of the North according to their own rules and laws.
Dell and His Space to Dwell
Once upon a time, a stage director with German surname Dell read from Saltykov-Shchedrin that «Skopin is such city where any person has no reason to dwell». So he decided to create a real theatre there, in Ryazan region, in a small provincial town, «where any person has no reason to dwell».
Zelim's Confession
Imagine you've never held a weapon in your hands but are forced into admitting that you were involved in a terrorist attack. This is precisely what happened to a young Chechen named Zelim. One early morning, he was arrested in his mother's house and held for five days at the police station for a crime he never committed. Despite being subjected to the most brutal forms of torture, he maintained his innocence, much to the cops' dismay. Zelim denied any wrongdoing until he was near death, and finally he can tell his story to director Natalia Mikhaylova. She accompanies him as he wanders around Oslo recalling these painful memories.
Planet Baikal
For several years, scientists studying images of our planet from space have been talking about an unusual phenomenon that periodically appears on the surface of the deepest lake in the world, at Baikal. Every year, when the lake is covered with ice, huge concentric circles of regular shape appear on it. They are not visible from the earth, but from space these huge geometric figures are clearly visible.
Jimbo
'Dream, Scheme and Self-Esteem.' Stricken, but not struck down by a slough of mental illnesses, Jimmy Leung's drive to become an action movie star becomes something of a reality as he and director Ryan Flowers train to become healthy, stable, and make a movie together.
Is the Museum a Battlefield?
Steyerl’s new lecture, produced for the 13th Istanbul Biennial, takes as its departure point her March 2013 talk ‘I Dreamed a Dream: Politics in the Age of Mass Art Production’ and focuses on the arms industry, a phenomenon constantly re-conceptualized by the media through the regular flow of images. It asks the question of how a museum and a battlefield could be related. The question emerges when Steyerl follows the trace of an empty bullet casing which she found in the area where the mass grave of Andrea Wolf and her friends were located in Van, Turkey.
Across the River ... The Last
Ust-Tsilma is only seven hills and the coast. On the one hand, there is the mighty Pechora, on the other, there are impenetrable forests and swamps. Everything in this distant land breathes death. The Old Believers honor and respect her, because the path to the grave is nothing more than a test, preparation for the eternal. By accepting death, one can learn to understand life.
Party 51
Duriban, a humble noodle restaurant visited often by lonely indie musicians in a bustling city of Seoul, Korea, was brutally evicted and demolished by greedy construction company and pro-conglomerate-only city government with mere $3,000 as a moving expense. Outraged by the situation and related to their disadvantageous performance and poor contract conditions, 51 and plus indie bands in the area join the long 500 and more days of protest till Duriban receives socio-economically reasonable and acceptable compensation and reopens its new venue in a new in the area. A striking social activism demonstrated among the young indie musicians and their growth as artists through unity in modern day in Seoul, Korea.
Dirigent z gulagu
When he was sentenced to death, he was not even 15 years old, so they had to change his sentence. He got 10 years in the gulag. There he met excellent conductors, theater directors - also political prisoners. Almost 60 years ago, Leontín Dohovič conducted the prisoners' choir for the first time. After the death of Stalin, he too was freed. Together with his mother and three sisters, he came to see his father, who as a priest fled from Ukraine during the war to Czechoslovakia. He founded choirs in Prague, Prešov and Košice. He still conducts today, because there is a force in music that helped him survive.
Fontelonga
Fontelonga is a village of Trás-os-Montes, in the interior of Portugal. A mirror of exile in the eyes of their own people. A reflexion where memory is the last object of beauty and redemption.
Nae Pasaran
The true story of a group of factory workers in Scotland who stood up to a military dictatorship in Chile.
The Flower-Drumsong
The arrogant Hua Pozi, the first-time brother who is full of joy. Even the seemingly greasy, exaggerated, and gaudy drum art seems to be unrelenting in the villages and villages.
Process Anatomy
In order to put an end to dissent at once, the Soviet secret services organized this show trial. Viktor Krasin and Petr Yakir were convicted of participating in subversive propaganda against the USSR. The liberal opposition was temporarily demoralized. It was forty years ago, but it seems that it will be tomorrow.
The Red Carpet
158 million people live in Indian slums under very extreme insalubrity. Millions of children play surrounded by rubbish, cows, rats and excrements. Garib Nagar slum, in Bandra district (Bombay, India) is Rubina's home, a 12-year old girl who aims to become an actress and change the slum into a more clean and habitable place.
My Stolen Revolution
As a student, the director managed to flee revolutionary Iran. Many who stayed behind did not survive. When there are renewed protests in Teheran 30 years later, she goes looking for a couple of other survivors who fled. An emotional, very personal documentary.
Subway Ballet
Young men perform daring aerial dances in a crowded New York City subway car.
Will Work For Free
The film explores the potential for automation in every sector of employment and questions the integrity of our methods of resource distribution going into the future.
YuMex - Yugoslav Mexico
TV documentary about the Mexican music craze in the communist Yugoslavia.
Camino Musical: 9 Days of Galician Music
9 days of musical journey in the city of Santaya de Compostela, capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in the north-west of Spain.
Ana and I
Ana and I is the story of a daughter's search for answers. As she confronts the mystery that surrounds the deaths of her sister and father, and the reasons for the sudden adoption of her two sisters, Primavera presents her enigmatic mother, Ana, a single parent who does whatever it takes to provide for her large family; the family that became the first Spanish equestrian champion vaulting team.
Before The Show Began - Theaters Of Oregon
Historic theaters capture the imagination with interesting architecture, lighting, and decorative lobbies. Award-winning videographer/ historian Darrell Jabin toured dozens of theaters, researched opera houses, vaudeville, movie palaces, and neighborhood theaters, and interviewed historians, theater owners and executive directors of community theaters to create a short film covering a unique part of Oregon history.
The Dambusters: 70 Years On
Dan Snow presents a tribute to WWII's Dambusters raid, as veterans and their families gather to remember the bravery of the 133 men who undertook it.
Father and Son on a Journey
Marcel Lozinski was born in May 1940 in Paris, and he spent part of his childhood in various children’s homes. His Jewish communist parents were members of the resistance. After the war he went with his mother to Poland, where he became a celebrated documentary maker of some 20 films. Prompted by his son Pawel, also a renowned documentarian, the pair embark on a road trip from Warsaw to Paris. Father and son point the camera at each other and themselves and take stock of one another. In the end, the two men each made their own film about this journey.
Six Day Run
A film about spiritual exercise on a one-mile paved loop in a park. The Six Day Run is one of the most extreme individual endurance sports dating back to the 1870s. The film is based loosely on The Book of Genesis in the Bible (Gen. 1:1 – 2:3).
George Manu - The Rector from Zarca Aiudului
George Manu, a brilliant Romanian physicist, is sentenced in 1948 by the communist courts to hard labour for life and imprisoned in Aiud prison. Here he becomes an inexhaustible source of knowledge for the other prisoners, whom he helps to survive the grim world of concentration camps by taking refuge in the world of the knowledge.
The Governance of Love
What if, instead of bombs, we dropped watermelons? Dreamy and hopeful, this animated short sweeps us up into a colourful world where layers of reality and creativity intersect. Our protagonist navigates through it all seamlessly, and in the process shows us the importance of imagination.
Come On, Scumbags
The lead character of the movie is modern day heroine, a girl aged 18 not yet ready to carry a burden of responsibility. She is no different from a thousand other girls either in terms of code of behavior, or style of speech, or desire to be loved. Except for one thing: in reality she is a boy.
Working Guests
Topic: "Labor migration without risks". The film was created with the financial support of UN Women