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Lights On
The documentary portrays five people trying to recover from alcoholism or substance abuse. The different narratives present different aspects of addiction: there is an artist who stopped drinking without the help of Alcoholics Anonymous; a sober man for 23 years who helps anyone trying to overcome drug addiction; a woman who has been hospitalized; a retiree who has yet to overcome his addiction; and a recovered man who lives on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
Me Chama Que Eu Vou
The documentary tells the story of Sidney Magal's 50-year career. The most significant moments in the life of the singer, dancer, actor and voice actor who has become an icon of Brazilian popular music. The man behind the idol, from the point of view of the participants in the story.
Naked World
Jay Katz & Miss Death have been the king and queen of Sydneys underground cinema scene for over 30 years. This 2 hour compilation highlights their final quest to survive the 2020 pandemic by producing original content from The Mu Meson Archives
Mrs. F.
Ifeoma Fafunwa, Mrs. F., takes up the challenge of staging her play HEAR WORD! about the abuse of women in male-dominated Makoko, a slum with houses on stilts in the lagoon of Lagos. Besides the original cast of Nigeria’s most acclaimed actresses, Ifeoma will cast young women in Makoko who are subject to the same fate as many of the women in Nigeria. Ifeoma connects with them through her personal struggle with her background. Can Ifeoma set a transformation in motion in the heart of the fastest growing city in the world that breaks with the silence culture in Nigeria?
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After an apocalypse eradicates almost all life, an entity finds a film highlighting some good humanity has done.
Whakaari – A Heroes' Story
On December 9, 2019, New Zealand's most active volcano erupted, engulfing 47 day trippers in a toxic ash cloud. 21 lost their lives that day and in the following weeks. Whakaari: A Heroes' Story paints a picture of the chaos and the bravery, and the complex rescue mission to save those stranded on the island.
A Compendium of Brief Encounters with People I Might Be, Vol. 1
An exploration on being and becoming. Fleeting moments of a Filipino queer filmmaker filmed over six years.
Ninety First
Nikita eats food from the trash can, sleeps wherever he has to, and dresses in whatever kind people give him. Nikita is not a bum, he just has a dream and is ready to do everything to make it come true.
Nice to Meet You
A documentary that looks over the contemporary LGBTQIA+ sexuality. The recent arrival in Brazil of two new forms of prevention – PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) and PEP (Post-Exposure Prophylaxis), drugs that promise greater efficacy against HIV/Aids transmission and contagion – enable an intense exercise of sexual practices, bringing new forms of care beyond the use of condoms. Through an intimate and observational record, the film strips of all moral judgement to dive into the user’s daily lives of PrEP, bringing up reflections about desire, sex and protection.
ANTENA3DOCS Apresenta Implantação da Rapública #2 Pintar o Hip-Hop
“Implantação da Rapública” is a documental series with Antena3Docs label, dedicated to Hip-Hop’s history in Portugal. The series, divided into four chapters, focuses on the culture’s four pillars: breakdance, graffiti, DJ and rap. “Painting Hip-Hop” is the series second chapter and focuses on graffiti, with interviews with some of the pioneers of portuguese street art scene: Nomen, Youthone, Uber, Vhils, DJ Glue, Odeith, Nurea, Maze, Third and Keso.
Supercell
A storm is forming over the Nueva Córdoba neighborhood, while the statements of a former Canadian defense minister invite us on a journey into the unknown.
Big Happiness
A meditation on transnational adoption, identity, and colorblindness growing up in a transracial family.
Princess Alice: The Royals’ Greatest Secret
The life of Princess Alice of Battenberg, Queen Victoria's great-granddaughter, Prince Andrew of Greece's wife and Queen Elizabeth II's mother-in-law. Born deaf, she faced tremendous hardships but found solace in faith and charity work.
Not So Genetically
The young Kazan artist Nurbek, laureate of the "Golden Mask" award, participates in public events dedicated to the preservation of the Tatar language and takes part in performances that are not too popular with the conservative audience. What is more important for him – state signs of attention or the drive of youth?
The Virus is Capitalism: Extract
How has cinema changed with the experience of the pandemic experienced by the whole planet? The camera is no longer a "screen" to hide behind but a weapon to fight with.
Only The Winds
A Lebanese filmmaker (Karim) travels from New York to Beirut to conduct research for a film that he wants to make about blind children in the mountains of Lebanon. He arrives to Beirut with a condition that had been affecting his eyes and causes him to go straight into surgery, temporarily blinding him with patches covering his eyes. He uses the healing time to reflect, write and spend time with his family. The filmmaker then begins to visit the blind institute where he will conduct his research and attempts to cast someone to play himself in parallel, which doesn't go as planned. Little does the institute know that Karim has no treatment to pitch but continues to visit the classrooms and attend in order to find his characters.
Escape the Corset
During the Joseon Dynasty, hair that was black and rich, like mud, was a prerequisite for a beauty, while the hair of a woman who was short and stiff was described as negative and ugly. In 1920, the new woman was called Modan (毛斷). Short hair had a strong meaning for women to challenge the established system. Now in 2019, women also cut their hair. It is a movement that rejects the social definition of “feminine”, escaping “Corset” movement.
Camera Sick
Grain size criteria. Pixels in space. The earth spins while bodies and cameras wind and rotate on its surface. Sand particles infest recording devices scratching unravelling celluloid. The camera and its operator transform from seers to ecstatic performers.
Letter From Your Far-Off Country
Drawing upon a rich repository of images—from digital renderings of Kashmir’s mountains to the textured materiality of 16mm hand-processing and direct animation techniques—Letter From Your Far-Off Country maps a hidden vein of shared political commitment and diasporic creative expression, linking a poem by the Kashmiri American writer Agha Shahid Ali, interviews with the filmmaker’s father, and a letter addressed to Prabhakar Sanzgiri, a leader of India’s Communist party and a distant relative of the filmmaker.
Aleluia, the Infinite Song
Component of the vocal trio “Os Tincoãs”, the singer and composer Mateus Aleluia developed his musical career between Brazil and Angola. Back in Brazil around the 2000s he retakes his artistic production in an acclaimed solo career. Following the process of composition of his second album, the documentary “Aleluia, The Infinite Song” addresses in the construction of the imagery around the artist’s life and work.
Fire in the Nile
A major shift of political power in Sudan started with street protests throughout Sudan on 16 December 2018 That resulted in the overthrow of the dictator Omar Al-Basheer. The Sudanese Revolution took over 38 weeks to achieve its demands with over 300 casualties and +1200 arrests. Fire in the Nile is a documentary about how the people dealt with the government and how to protest until their demands have been granted.
Cook Islands Maori Medicine
Nooroa Baker goes out to collect a few ingredients to create a traditional Māori medicine that holds great Mana within and is at risk of being forgotten forever.
A Northern Irish Christmas
Families, friends and couples reminisce about their own Christmas memories in this one-off special with festive fun, nostalgia and heart-warming stories of Northern Ireland's favourite Christmas moments.
Other Voices: Fontaines D.C. Live At Kilmainham Gaol
During the peak of lockdown in July 2020 Fontaines D.C. performed an electric live set in the iconic location of Kilmainham Gaol as part of Other Voices Courage 2020. That celebrated performance has since been released as a limited edition LP for Record Store Day 2021 which reached number 7 in the charts and was nominated for best Livestream at the prestigious Libera Awards in 2021 where they took how the Best Rock Record award.
Race Antenna
In 1979, while Brazil was going through the troubled moment of the Amnesty Law, Glauber Rocha directed the program Abertura for TV Tupi, in which he interrogated a contradictory and boiling Brazil head-on, full of utopias but always under the weight of secular wounds.
Nature's hunters
Who are the hunters out there in the wild? It is not only the large predators that hunt. Almost everyone is hunting in one form or another. Now we will get to know more of them.
Corpi liberi
'Nothing is normal, everything is different'. A historical event takes place in Rome in May 2018. The first ever Pride parade unfolds in the campus of La Sapienza, the largest university in Europe. This is the story of the LGBTQI+ student collective that organized it: their lives, their ideals, their politics, their fight for a different, better world.
Flowers Blooming In Our Throats
A group of women perform small actions following the artist's instructions that can become a simulation of a violent act. The film is part of the program Mascarilla 19 commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film.
Informed Consent
Are Vaccines Proven Safe and Effective? Its Time for an Adult Conversation about this Topic and it starts here.
Raise Your Voice
This moving documentary follows the passionate reporters of The Eagle Eye (the student run newspaper at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School) and their fight to report freely on issues as diverse as gun culture, global warming, and civil rights.
Chromoflex Workshop
Footage from a workshop in early 2019 led by Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, founders of nanolab, a small gauge film lab based in Australia. (BHCFL)
Untappd: The Drinkumentary
Untappd: The Drinkumentary, a documentary that tells the tale of the launch, growth, and success of building a community of beer lovers on the platform over the last 10 years. The documentary shows life behind the scenes of Untappd, a small idea that turned into a community of close to 9 million users strong. The film features interviews with Founder Greg Avola, his family and close friends, and key players in the growth of Untappd.