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Fedor Chalyapin. Exile
The film is about why Fedor Chalyapin was actually expelled from his native country and left Russia forever.
When You Are Close to Me
A world of silence and darkness. A world of things unspoken and unseen. It is the world in which deaf, blind and deafblind people spend their entire lives. But it is also a world full of fantasy, joy and an excited sensitivity towards outside stimuli, touches and vibration. The immense power of physical contact with and the closeness of caregivers is an energizing element in this humanist documentary exploration of the world of people with vision and hearing impairments. The filmmaker patiently observes the lives of patients living in the specific conditions of institutional existence and opens up her observations to a wide range of possible forms of communication and sharing, while also showing an understanding for the hard work and absolute exhaustion of the caregiving personnel.
We Others Will Not
The film “We Others Will Not” emerged as a direct continuation of numerous meetings and conversations with Sergei Bodrov Jr. and Alexei Balabanov. The idea to reflect again on the phenomenon of Sergei Bodrov Jr.’s identity belongs to Evgeniy Nikishov and Valeriy Fedorovich. Together we decided to go on this difficult journey. Close friends and colleagues talk about Sergei: the producer Sergei Selyanov, the designer Nadezhda Vasilyeva, the composer Vyacheslav Butusov, the cinematographer Sergei Astakhov, and also… Sergei Bodrov Jr. and the director Alexei Balabanov, whose films “Brother” and “Brother 2” acquired popular fame at the threshold of the 2000s.
Famille FC
France has more than 200 football clubs of Portuguese origin in its amateur leagues. Famille FC reveals aspects of their origin(s), the relationship with the country left behind and the host country, and the inexplicable stubbornness of being Portuguese.
The History of the First Film Festival in Podilia
A documentary film dedicated to the 5th anniversary of the BRUKIVKA Kamianets-Podilskyi International Film Festival, which has become one of the iconic film events in Podilia, Ukraine.
The Infinite Ninth
This documentary shows a historic moment in the life of the dancers and creators that form part of this play based on the legendary masterpiece by Beethoven during one of the major health crisis of modern times.
My Invisible Illness
The Invisible Illness is an in-depth study on life with Endometriosis. Endometriosis is a disease where tissue similar to uterine lining grows in other parts of the body causing many issues such as intense pain, fertility complications and organ dysfunction. It isn’t a unique illness. In fact, endo affects one in nine Australian women - and it’s a disease most people have never heard of.
My Dick Smells like Cheese and fish
A meditation on the French new wave film movement, MA BITE SENT LE FROMAGE ET LE POISSON stylistically pays homage to the icons of the movement, including its head figure, Jean Luc Godard, and Jean Pierre Leaud, one of the most popular actors of the movement.
Fearless
In small-town Texas, a non-profit boxing gym is the location where Nancy Wagoner and James Reyna provide a space where participants “have a safe, educational and encouraging place to learn their skills.” Dispelling the myth of lifting oneself up by one’s bootstraps, FEARLESS is an observational documentary focused on the difficulties facing people of colour and immigrants in the United States today by unpacking the concept of American optimism and the unrealistic expectations that accompany it.
Expo Film (this film is my memory)
Using anonymous home movie footage of Expo '67 in Montreal, the artist sets out to recreate a memory that perhaps never existed. Celluloid manipulation and sound decay techniques coalesce to transform a mythic landscape into a sublime expanse of disintegrated memory
Just a Movement
Juste un Mouvement is a free take on La Chinoise, a Jean-Luc Godard movie shot in 1967 in Paris. Reallocating its roles and characters fifty years later in Dakar, and updating its plot, this new version offers a meditation on the relationship between politics, justice and memory. Although not anymore alive, Omar Blondin Diop, the only actual Maoist student in the original movie, now becomes the key character.
Buried News
Frequent Kronos collaborator Bill Morrison uses rare, early-20th century news footage to uncover ways that narratives about race have been used in the U.S. to divide people and maintain power.
Shadows of Tomorrow
Searching and digging through the different resolutions that composes Brazilian cinema.
Shadow Codex
The graffiti on the grey concrete walls of the disused prison in Turku are like cave paintings from a lost civilisation in the Finnish artist Saara Ekström’s ‘Shadow Codex’, which, with a simple but overwhelmingly suggestive approach, lets text, drawings and the shabby pinup posters speak their own language about incarceration and institutionalised punishment. Each cell is a gallery, an indexical imprint of the anonymous inmates’ minds, from a past conjured forth by the film’s timeless black and white 16mm images, with a gloomy melancholy that borders on madness. But, at the same time, the surveillance machinery, the architecture and the many layers of engravings tell us about a society which, in its attempt to maintain law and order, creates monuments of its own shadow – set against John Cage’s ‘Perilous Night’.
My Friend Sashka
Sashka lives in Kostroma, in a dormitory. He doesn’t have a permanent job, but he has alcohol and drug addiction instead. He is 30 years old, and he is completely lost. He tried to enter the monastery, but returned for a new romantic interest. A year later, Sashka's life is different. He now lives in another city with that girl and her son, together they had a daughter. He has a flat mortgaged, he works as a baker and from time to time goes to Kostroma to make some extra money. Life has changed. Has Sashka changed?
164880
The heroes of this story are residents of the village of Purnema, located on the shore of the White Sea. The events of their lives take place in the rhythm of the sea: the tides change, and nothing can change this order of things.
1964
1964 is a documentary following events that exist in the consciousness of the year 1964. Events may or may not exist within the context of the year but reverberate both backwards and forwards in time.
The Great Divide
Focusing on a community organizing for water rights, this earnest and pressing documentary uncovers entrenched racism and a climate crisis that has already arrived.
25 Jaar Foute Vrienden
Documentary about four criminal friends from Amsterdam spanning 25 years. Verbrande Herman, Rooie Jos and Jantje van Amsterdam look back on their lives.
Jack Arnold Remembers The Incredible Shrinking Man
From footage filmed in 1983, this documentary presents an interview with director Jack Arnold and his reminiscences of the making of the 1957 film THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN.
Frozen Out
An immigrant artist in Iowa retreats to frozen prairies, forests, and swamps, trying to find a meaningful story and escape from the anxieties of dislocation. Delivered as a film-letter to the protagonist’s little sister in rural China, the film considers his self-exile as well as mental health struggles that were too shameful to address back home.
Beth Lipman's "House Album"
World-renowned artist Beth Lipman’s latest work, House Album, is a selective portrait of the United States that explores the timely issues of agency, identity and memory. It is composed of two dimensional domestic objects that represent significant individuals and critical episodes in this country’s history, creating an allegory of our collective home.
Nine Hills One Valley
In this bilingual Manipuri film the desire for ethnic supremacy and emergence of politics of identity had put the people of Manipur to an unceasing violence, amplifying further mistrust and animosity amongst its population. Yet, in the face of distressed memories, hope thrives.
The Flame
In the forests of Borneo, Iber Djamal has been fighting large-scale deforestation around his village for decades. But at 77, and despite unwavering devotion, the struggle becomes more and more illusory in the face of the voracity of the agribusiness monsters. An urgent and tragically universal ecological fable.
Border
In the middle of the strait between Kinmen and Xiamen, China, there are patches of sea filled with floating styrofoam and endless sand pilfering across the border. Huge business opportunities, and even greater land reclamations have scarred the beauty of the original rural landscapes for the sake of “ The Chinese Dream"—a dream that places economic achievements above all else.
Borderline. Where the World Ends
One hour’s drive away from Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, all those leaving the “free West” towards Belarus, “the last dictatorship in Europe”, must pass through strict border control. Crossing this border is a time-consuming and almost absurd performance. However, there are people who are confronted with this border on a daily basis as it literally cuts right through their backyard. What used to be a daily routine of visiting relatives or friends, going to church or to the cemetery, has now become a complicated process involving cross point schedules, visas and other complex bureaucratic procedures.
Under The Sleeping Mountain
One summer, many years after his mother confided in him about her emotional difficulties with his father, a filmmaker questions his parents, curious about the state of their relationship. At first glance, their situation does not seem to have changed. Curious, he decides to inquire about it. Their activities and discussions both revive nostalgic and fearful emotions. He sees that his mother does not feel the same. From this moment that he realizes the magnitude of the subject and that some things are not accessible to him.
A Decade and Eight
Thesalonica Sia gets ready to celebrate her 18th birthday in this short film by Zed Ramos.
Proof
Two years ago Guyon Espiner stopped drinking. Now, the award-winning journalist and podcast-maker has made a documentary about New Zealand's drinking culture and the alcohol industry.
Being Someone Else
As Imogen (13) designs and sews a new outfit for a cosplay convention, we discover why dressing up as someone else is more then just a fun hobby for the autistic teenager.
Adjusting
What does freedom mean? And in some cases, could it be better to be locked up, with a roof over your head and food to eat, even if you have to work for it? Dejan Petrović poses these questions indirectly in his distinctively framed impressions of an overcrowded dog shelter in Serbia, where the dogs are kept behind wire mesh in dismal pens.