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Self-Quarantined for the Holidays
I was stuck inside with my parents during Chinese New Year. Here’s what we did.
A Rats Arse
Sitting at the intersection of two main arteries of traffic on Melbournes Northside is a giant yellow rat that is pointing, with a long gnarled claw, to its explicitly large bottom. This yellow rat is the mascot for the small business Glenlyon Motors. This unusual mascot and the absence of an explanation for its existence has many residents of Melbournes north side puzzled. 'A Rats Arse' finally answers the question on every Northside residents lips - “Why?!” - and along the way reveals something about identity, values, community, and the people who exist within them.
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.
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.
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.
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Ulisses
On 19 November 1980, a young orca was caught in Icelandic waters. They named him Ulisses. He began his captivity in a water park in Tarragona and became one of the stars of the Barcelona Zoo for more than 10 years. Finally, in 1994, Ulisses was transferred to Sea Word in San Diego (USA), where he continues to spin around in a swimming pool. This is the story of your odyssey.
The Walk On: The David Kapinga Story
A refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo has a dream of playing Division 1 in the NCAA. However, that dream was crushed, and he was forced to return home. Close to giving up, David is given one last opportunity. This last shot changes everything.
Eu Me Chamo Darwin
A reflection on identity from memory. Who we are, how we are seen and how small gestures can be charged with meanings and intentions, sometimes hidden, sometimes not so much.
The Cinematography that Changed Cinema
A celebration of the eye stimulating the mind, by Lewis Michael Bond and Luiza Liz Bond
Les Grands Rivaux en musique - Schönberg vs Stravinsky
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.
Mapu Kufüll
"Mapu Kufüll" was conceived as a video installation that reflects on the cosmological perspective of the Mapuche people in relation to mushroom harvesting. It is an animated ‘tale’ portraying mushrooms as a symbol of resistance for the Mapuche communities post the “Araucania Pacification” period.
Raízes
In search of his roots, Kelton rescues his family's ancestry and comes across the erasure of the history of black Brazilian people.
Bless You!
Against the backdrop of Saint Petersburg during the Corona lockdown, Recordings of the almost empty city merge with calls to a municipal hotline tasked with offering help and advice. Elderly people in particular are affected by poverty, hunger and loneliness.
The Love and Death of Yosef and Zilli
After 62 years of loving marriage, Yosef and Zilli Abrahami decide to take their lives together. The memories of their love and their planned death are brought to life through the videotapes of their youngest son Doron.
ALL HER PRECIOUS JPEGS (ON YELLOW)
This film is from a body of work that gives a textual and archival response to and documentation of perpetual discrepancies - between living and deceased, public and private, physical and virtual - found in moments of contemporary mourning.
Anatomy of Wings
Black and white, young and old, a group of women risk their personal identities to build a second family while creating a documentary-film across the inequities of their Baltimore City neighborhoods.
Quinta passeggiata - Quasi niente
“Did you have any relatives living there?” asks the lady: in a certain way… The fifth walk descends a park, where once was a street and a hairdresser’s shop, at number 24.
Tenere
Tenere tells the true story of African people who set out from Agadez, Niger, crossing the desert to reach Libya and Europe. In the film, we witness the arduous journey of Bachir from Agadez and his companions in a truck resembling Noah's ark. We see how they struggle both physically and emotionally with harsh natural conditions, thirst and many other problems.
The Hero of Goodall Park
When a car careened onto a baseball field in Sanford, Maine, during a Babe Ruth game in 2018, it set in motion a true-crime mystery 50 years in the making.
No Visible Trauma
Deftly upending the popular assertion that Canadian law enforcement agencies differ from those in the US, this provocative exposé fixes a sharp lens on the Calgary Police Service’s rampant, unchecked use of excessive force.
Through the Winter
Nikolay visits his grandmother for the first time in several years. Watching them meet, we discover the thoughts and memories that are inside each of us.
Hands in Bleach
Two middle-aged women talk while cleaning hotel rooms and contemporary art spaces. They never meet on screen, however, their conversations and secret thoughts on present working conditions bring them close. Through two parallel videos documenting the nuanced nature of working as a cleaner, cleanliness emerges as a working condition. A comment on the relationship between art and labor; the story of two women whose hands have been soaked in bleach for years.
Anti Anti Generation Tour 2019
The documentary follows RADWIMPS on their long tour from last year, which saw them play 20 shows in 11 cities across Japan. It includes rehearsal and backstage footage, as well as the band interacting with the artists that joined them across the 2019 tour. The DVD and Blu-ray will feature 23 songs which includes the guest performance from Aimyon for Nakidashisodayo, a song by RADWIMPS which she features on. It also includes a documentary of the tour, as well as guest appearances from artists who joined the band on stage including Miyachi, Titan Zombies, Taka from ONE OK ROCK, and Toko Miura. RADWIMPS are set to embark on an all-new tour starting this March. Titled “KONNICHIWA NIPPON TOUR 2020,” it will take them to seven cities in Japan for 10 showsーincluding four dome venues.
Leaves. A New Look
Investigation of the causes of death of Vladislav Listyev. 25 years passed, but the perpetrators of the highest-profile contract murder in Russia in the 1990s were not found. Or didn’t you want to? Or found, but silent? Rodion decided to conduct his investigation. He wants to know the name of the customer. Six months of work, dozens of interviews with colleagues, friends and relatives of Listyev, investigators who conducted the case. And everyone answers the main question: who killed Vlad Listyev?
Dear Esther
In 1989, a woman writes a letter to her mentor. She reminisces about a life-changing campaign they spearheaded to save a historic home, Irving Gill's Walter Luther Dodge House in Los Angeles, twenty years prior.
Somewhere in Outer Space This Might Be Happening Somehow
Inspired by the diaristic cinema of Jonas Mekas, Malafaya organises the videos he’s been shooting for the past year and half of his life. A visual poem between the nostalgia of beauty and the hunt for images, between boredom and dancing
The Billion Dollar Art Hunt
In June 2019, arts journalist John Wilson received an extraordinary tip-off – one billion dollars’ worth of stolen art may be about to be recovered. Included are a unique Rembrandt - his only seascape - and a Vermeer considered the most valuable stolen painting in the world. The art was taken from the walls of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in the early hours of 18 March 1990. It remains the world’s biggest unsolved art heist. For John, to follow the recovery of the paintings, as it happens, would be the biggest art story of the century.
Axel and the True Story of an Imaginary Illness
Little Axel’s parents filmed the story of their son’s illness. After four years moving through hospitals, he was diagnosed with Lyme disease. Axel’s life unfolds between an invisible epidemic and the imaginary pathology which is the disease. From other specialists and patients, the boy’s parents learn some information about the diagnosis which is not publicly known, which compels them to continue the double fight: against bacteria and against the medical system.
Wings of the Great War
Five airfields, each with strategic value, shaped the progress of the Great War and changed the tides of history forever – yet they remain unknown to the general public. Fearless men, strangers – arriving from the ends of the world – but also Greeks, defeated the fear of the unknown, defied death, and flew with primitive flying machines made of cloth and wood. They fought over the skies of Macedonia and the Aegean. Some of them never returned home...