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Quilted
An elderly couple and their experience with dementia; one living with the condition and the other witnessing its effects and learning how to accept it.
Maharaja's Children. Brave Bunch in India
The true story of 10-year-old Wiesio, one of a thousand Polish children who were saved from the hell of World War II by an Indian Maharaja, Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji.
Vienna Hallways
Darko, Milenko and Goran, Serb taxi drivers in Vienna, want to lead happy working-class lives. After the government raises taxes on mostly immigrant taxi drivers, they attempt to prosper through the machinations of the tarot reader Vladica.
Alice Street
At the intersection of Alice and 14th Streets in the heart of downtown Oakland, California, tension is brewing between real estate developers and artists around the best present and future uses of a coveted historic space. Following the proposal, creation, and final result of a mural, this documentary shows how art can work as a tool for grassroots activism and underscores the power of coalition-building to disrupt the displacing forces of privilege.
Don Stanislao
Marcin Gutowski, the reporter of “Black and White” TVN24 showed in his report the unknown face of Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz. He appears in it as a powerful hierarch, a gray eminence who can take care of the interests of the Church – understood in a specific way. Also when it comes to cases involving victims of pedophilia.
Natours Grocery
Filmmaker Nadine Natour turns her lens on her parents and her hometown, Appomattox, VA, to capture the story of her parents' emigration from Palestine to the United States.
Not a Star
A monologue revealing the inner world of a young girl, a talented violinist, playing in a provincial chamber orchestra. It is far from that glamorous constellation of divas who daily pour their cold light from the sky of modern Russian television. It is an amazing combination of beauty, intelligence and talent. That is why she is not a star.
Self-Quarantined for the Holidays
I was stuck inside with my parents during Chinese New Year. Here’s what we did.
Images From Stone
In Caucasus, men and women tell stories about their fascination with prehistoric monuments. Offering a hallucinatory perspective on ecstatic effects and ancestral powers, the film is also about how stone activates children's paranormal capacities. Bodies and minds are put to the test and question our relationship with the visible and the invisible.
The King Sized "Big Tasty"
In the life of 40-year-old Dana, there was one suicide attempt, fights with homophobes, drugs and a broken heart. Living in Russia, she is not afraid to speak openly about her orientation, enduring threats and ridicule. However, Dana does not despair and finds solace in watching TV series and the big Big Tasty.
Sueños de Pedro
Locked in a building under construction, Pedro, an old cyclist who has become a night watchman, remembers his youth.
The Eagles of Carthage
February 14, 2004, Radès Olympic Stadium, Tunis. The whole nation stands behind The Eagles of Carthage in the Africa Cup Final against Morocco. After many defeats they are just one step away from glory. Fifteen years after the match, Tunisians still recall the emotion of a day that deeply affected the History of the country.
Cavalo
Gathered in an artistic process, seven young dancers are ushered to a dive into their ancestral ties.
The New West and the Politics of the Environment
This film explores how iconic Nevada Senator Harry Reid set the foundations for a green new deal.
Hands Off Exarchia: New Democracy's War on Anarchists
On July 8th, 2019, the New Democracy government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis assumed power in Greece, after campaigning on a promise to ‘clean up’ the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia, and ‘take it back’ from the anarchists. Since then, the Greek state has launched a renewed attack against the anarchist and self-organized migrant movements, targeting squats and promising future raids. Against this threat, Greek anarchists have responded with characteristic resolve and determination.
Les Grands Rivaux en musique - Schönberg vs Stravinsky
The White Beach
At first calm, even dreamy, the film takes the viewer into the quiet of the seaside and undersea landscape somewhere in Italy. They are soon shaken awake from these blissful images by footage of traces of today's global industrial world, as an increasing part of the sea is polluted by wastewater from factories, destroying the natural beauty.
The Last Autumn
If the world has an edge, then it is almost certainly visible from Iceland. On the outermost cape, beyond which there is only the inhospitable Arctic Ocean, lies a farm belonging to Úlfar and his wife. This autumn will be the last time their grandchildren come from the city to drive the sheep back down from the hills. An almost tangible cinematic fabric that weaves a tale of an abandoned place where the mist clings to the steel-blue surface of the sea and where the occasional human visitor is sometimes welcome.
The Notes of Anna Azzori / A Mirror that Travels through Time
Shot from 1972-75, Anna observed a young drug addict expecting a child. Ruhm’s essay film draws on this previous work and asks about the place of women in a world that was full of discrimination back in the 70s and remains so today.
Scars
Alex Anna’s body is a canvas: her scars come to life to tell a new story of self-harming.
Pingouin & Goéland et leurs 500 petits
It is the story of a couple who could not have children and who had hundreds.
This is the story of Yvonne and Roger Hagnauer, whom everyone called Goéland et Pingouin.
It is the story of intellectuals, anarchists, pacifists, trade unionists, feminists.
This is the story of a couple of resistance fighters that some wanted to believe were collaborators.
This is the story of the Sèvres children's home, a unique experience of freedom, education and openness to the world. And that's a bit of my story, since my mother, saved by this couple, spent in this house all her childhood.
50 - Santarcangelo Festival
The film recounts the glorious half a century of an important festival not only in the history of the Italian theatre, but also cultural policy, public goods, instances of participation, management in the cultural sense of the public space.
Chico Rei Among Us
Chico Rei was an enslaved Congolese king who freed himself and his subjects during the Gold Cycle in Minas Gerais. His story is the starting point to explore the various echoes of Brazilian slavery in the lives of black people today, understanding their movement of self-affirmation and freedom from a collective perspective.
The Busk - A Decade of Christmas on Grafton Street
Glen Hansard takes a look back at the most memorable moments from the Grafton Street busk over the years with powerful new live performances from Dermot Kennedy and Irish Women in Harmony, all to raise awareness and funds to address homelessness.
Eksperiment Katja
Russian-speaking Katja was born in 1992 in the Estonian city of Narva, not far from the Russian border. She represents the entire generation of the 1990s, which sees itself as a house with no address or railway tracks leading nowhere. In the ruins of the Soviet Union, she searches for her national identity and learns to breathe freedom.
Oh, to Realize
A short experimental film that explores the loss of identity that can occur when one submits oneself completely to technology. Made as a contribution to "Greetings from Isolation", a collection of short films made during lock-down with limited resources, curated by Canadian Programmer Stacey Donen.
Arves-En-Ciel
This film tells the story of Camille and Antoine, two French highliners and alpinists. They dream to walk between two iconic rock towers of Aiguilles d’Arves. This story documents an amazing adventure that required help from a huge and dedicated team of people.
Podesta Island
Podesta Island exists according to Google Earth. Podesta Island does not exist according to Wikipedia. Does it really exist? In a hyperconnected and mapped world, are there still unknown areas? The film Podesta Island paints the portrait of a controversial phantom island by confronting documentary sources with the narratives and legends inspired by this island. This exploration, where satellite imagery and live action intertwine, brings us closer to Terra Incognita and celebrates the imaginary geography.
Our Cat
Born on the street, Lenny was forced to part with her mother by an ignorant human being. Soon after she was abandoned and taken back to the road. Fortunately, she was saved, and lived in temporary shelters til she met her present butler. Lenny's butler and documentary film director, Hee-seop, who was tired of city life, decides to take the camera to tell the story of various cat butlers who are practicing "coexistence" in their own ways, different from his own.
Santos Vive
Santos Vive is a documentary about the community of Little Mexico in Dallas as well as the murder of Santos Rodriguez at the hands of a police officer in 1973.
