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Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardians of the Rainforest
With a hybrid style blending political essay and road movie, this documentary by Santiago Bertolino takes us into the heart of the Amazonian reality. Following Marie-Josée Béliveau, an ecologist and ethnogeographer, they journey together along the 4000 km from the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil to one of its sources in Ecuador where they meet with the guardians of the forest. As a result, we witness powerful and spontaneous testimonies from local communities who are doing everything to preserve what remains of their lands, which are disappearing due to the inexorable advance of Western modernity.
Midwood Movie
An exploration of the site of the first purpose-built modern film studio in the US (American Vitagraph Company) which operated from 1907 through the silent era, was repurposed into a yeshiva school for girls in the early 1980s, and rebuilt in 2000s for residential use with the original 70-foot smokestack still intact. The film includes interviews with film historians and descendants of the studio founders; re-photographed nitrate fragments of films that were produced at the Brooklyn studios over 100 years ago; and original footage shot inside the yeshiva school and of the building during and after demolition. The film explores both profound resistances and persistent echoes of national and local cultural histories, the archeology of the American film industry, local neighborhood demographics, gentrification, and politics.
The Traveling Novel
YEOM Ki-jung has owned the same bar for the past 34 years. In its heyday, it was a popular cultural salon where directors, actors, and writers gathered as regular customers. Now, at 62, her bar is on the verge of closing. She decided to take her bar on the road in a series of pop-up locations to find new customers and say hello to some familiar faces.
God Between Us
Rebecca Hirneise’s film centers around the uncles and aunts of her Protestant family engaging in a conversation about their faith for the first time. This reveals an unexpectedly intense and personal world of Christianity. A dialogue unfolds, revealing a broad spectrum of absolute devotion to the Bible, charismatic ecstasy, and a deep-seated fear of God.
Colmillos
In the stark black-and-white images and clamour of the bells, an ecstatic reverie emerges. The simplicity of the premise is deceptive – fanged teeth, in stark and reversed composition – it's in the rhythm of the edit that a new language pulsates. The spirits of these beasts live through their enduring dentata, here resurrected.
Tbilisi. Mental Maps
Personal maps of Tbilisi, created by its recent inhabitants – emigrants from Russia. The urban landscape transforms from being unfamiliar and occasionally intimidating to becoming intimate and recognizable. A shared environment for living, working, and creating is slowly taking shape.
Saving the Animals of Ukraine
In the midst of violence and war, Ukrainian citizens are coming together to rescue animals that have been left behind by those forced to flee. Witness a moving view into the effects of war on animals, and the humans who help them. Directed by travel YouTube vlogger turned war correspondent Anton Ptushkin, the documentary chronicles stories of survival, love and resilience from the heart of war-torn Ukraine. See those rescuing cats and dogs in abandoned buildings as well as lions and tigers in the nation’s zoos, and the extraordinary efforts to bring them to safety. Hear from volunteers of the nation’s animal shelters, who are risking their own lives to care for their charges during bombardment. Meet Patron, the bomb-detecting Jack Russell Terrier who has saved countless lives, as well as Shafa, a cat in Borodyanka who becomes a symbol of hope.
Amma's Pride
Srija, a transgender woman from a small town in southern India, is seeking legal recognition of her marriage. Unfortunately, the fight for justice, media attention and the unfavorable attitude of many people cast a shadow over her relationship. But even when problems begin to pile up, Srija can count on her mother's endless support.
Testerep
A team of scientists search for the lost island of Testerep in front of the Belgian coast, venturing into artificial landscapes and virtual realities.
Voices at the End of the Line
A group of authentic voicemail messages to Alex over the past 5 years from various friends and family members. It is a poetic lattice weaved with mesmeric audiovisuals, presenting the isolating effects of an ever growing digital world.
Crystal
A poignant documentary about the ideological conflict of generations. The artist Diana opposes the war, but lives with her grandmother, who hates America and proves that Crimea is ours, and special services are on duty at the entrance.
Jon Henrik Fjällgren – mina världar
Behind the artist Jon Henrik Fjällgren's success hides a life edged by darkness, vulnerability and bullying. As a child he was adopted from Colombia to Mittådalen's Sami village and for the first time he is now traveling back to his hometown of Cali in Colombia. In the program he talks openly about his life and history. There will also be guerilla recordings with Greta Thunberg, a look behind the scenes at Melodifestivalen and everyday life among reindeer and mountains.
1:36 - Aaron Pennywell's Life & Legacy
1:36 is a film about the life and legacy of Aaron Pennywell who was killed June 25, 2011 at the age of 20, after a drunk driver struck his vehicle. Aaron was a loved son, brother and friend, and has been greatly missed since that summer night only a year-and-a-half ago. 1:36 aims to expose the aftermath of such a tragedy and the effect it has had on an entire community in hopes of decreasing drinking and driving accidents.
How to Become a Poet
The film is about a young poet who left the war for Turkey. Unlike many emigrants, no one is waiting for him at home. Double orphanhood makes Slava wonder: How does a person become a poet?
The Bluffs
Set in late June of 2022, Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Bluffs is a cruise turned day trip of realizations of all kinds, from our lives as we've grown up, our hometown as it's changed, and the communities that coexist or don't, that make this place what it is. This experimental documentary covers a day in the life of every day people just trying to find some footing and a bigger purpose in a place they call home.
Youth (Hard Times)
In this enveloping second part of the Youth trilogy, shot between 2015 and 2019, Wang Bing deepens his vérité portrait of a generation struggling to survive on meager wages amidst a nation’s economic expansion, emphasizing the distrustful, increasingly combative relationship between workers and management.
Sonntagskind - Die Schriftstellerin Helga Schubert
The remarkable 83-year-old Helga Schubert lives in the remote landscape between Schwerin and Wismar. Her days are filled with the loving care of her sick 95-year-old husband, Johannes Helm, once a professor of psychology and passionate painter. But amidst this rural tranquility, Helga is anything but idle. Every day she dedicates herself to her passion, writing.
The Violinmaker
A stringed instrument workshop in Gyeongju. Dong-joon is a man who has dedicated his entire life to the violin. He has suffered from hearing loss since the age of one, and without a hearing aid he cannot even hear the sound of an airplane passing overhead. Making a sound-sensitive stringed instrument requires extraordinary effort, and Dong-joon's family is worried and concerned about his decision to pursue a career as a musical instrument maker. Meanwhile, Dong-joon prepares to enter an international violin-making competition in Mittenwald, Germany to prove his skills.
History of the Present
An experimental feminist opera-film about class and conflict, History of the Present has been made collaboratively by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon, featuring new compositions by Annea Lockwood, libretto by Maria Fusco and improvisational vocal work by Héloïse Werner. This intersectional, intergenerational feminist work layers sociological, cultural, and political themes from the recent history of Northern Ireland, foregrounding working-class women’s voices to ask: who has the right to speak, and in what way?
Always
Fifty years after 25 April 1974, Luciana Fina revisits the images of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, drawing on the archives of the Cinemateca Portuguesa and RTP. Starting from the films of the era, SEMPRE rethinks the transition from fascism to liberation and the process of building a new country, crafting its emancipation and future. It is a tribute to cinema that has interfered in history and breathes new life into an extraordinary moment in time.
Les Maîtres de Rome : Michel-Ange, Raphaël et Léonard de Vinci
Yaa Ye'e: Quartz Deities
Mixtec-Zapotec antiquity reverberates in an instant. Their ancient voices whisper the memory of time and invoke deities that reveal deep secrets etched in stone. Quartz Deities is a look at the ungraspable, a liminal window that leads to mineral memories where the apparent univocal directionality of time is interrupted, diluted with the forces of nature and the cosmos.
La Nuit la plus longue - Édition Spéciale
On the night of June 5 to 6, 1944, the Allies were preparing to land on the French coast. France Télévisions is mobilizing to bring this event to life, in the present.
I forced an Ai to play a kids adventure game (SUNDANCE OFFICAL VERSION)
This NEW version of the acclaimed YouTube video is SUNDANCE COMPLIANT.
The Nature of Grief
A gentle, personal story about a filmmaker who has lost his older brother and decides to explore the culture of grief with a group of experts in psychology.
Smokeys dröm - när Formel 1 kom till byn
The story of how Formula 1 came to Anderstorp and Sweden between 1973 and 1978.