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Made in China
In Shenzhen, Guangdong province, Yu Liang Yuan (21 years old) and his father, Yu Ting Yong (45 years old), on the occasion of the celebration of the Chinese New Year, are getting ready to begin their annual journey from the industrial colony where they work and live to their hometown in Henan. This year, however, appears to be crucial for the future of both of them.
Behind the Fence
Documentary film set in the Dheisheh refugee camp about the First Palestinian Intifada.
Our Soil is Our Heritage
Right on our doorstep there is something that feeds us all: living soil. But this precious resource is under threat – from us humans! Our planet needs more than 2000 years to form ten centimetres of fertile soil. What does this mean for the future?
Sylvan Esso: With Love
Day three of their "From the Satellite" livestreamed concert series.
Breakdown
This work is part of the "MonkeyWrench Sessions", a series of architectural interventions and electroacoustic events carried out in collaboration with artists from different areas. In the spirit of the project, the video reflects on the transformation of image and sound, representing the emancipation of space itself.
Three Sketches of Home
This is a series of studies filmed in 8 and 16mm about how self-exile develops a familiar and foreign perception about home.
Blouma
For 30 years, Peanuts, with a bunch of roses, has been wandering in Rouen at night.Through the city, he is in search for "Memoirs", a souvenir notebook written by his deceased friend. He was born in a disappeared city, Rouen, more precisely in the area of Martainville, between poverty and knife fighting.
Light Isle
The remaining neon signs of the Bay Area stand apart from modern lighted signs in their material characteristics and the history they connote. Light Isle suggests the notion of neon as a medium by emphasizing its simplicity, vibrancy and famous luminescence and questions that if neon's distinct characteristics allow its recognition as a distinct medium, then do other formats of visual and audio mediums prominently suggest their unique differences? (Matthew Hidy)
Twenty, Forty, Sixty
Taking the viewer from the dance halls of the 1960s to the present day, the film offers a unique perspective on the evolution of dance whilst conveying its ability to connect individuals and its positive impact on mental and physical health.
We All Walk
Blondie is a Chilean street rapper who shares his work in the Santiago subway. His rhymes, traveling in wagons throughout the city, outline the reality of the capital’s slums, where drugs and violence coexist with hopes and dreams.
Sambistas
Last May, 100,000 South Americans at a BTS(K-pop superstar group)'s concert in Sao Paulo passionately sang along to the songs in Korean. In opposite parts of the world though the number is smaller, there are musicians in Korea who share a passion for Brazilian music and sing in Portugese. Now begins the story of these Korean Brazilian musicians.
Apollo 13: Home Safe
"Houston, we've had a problem." Apollo 13 has become known as “a successful failure” that saw a safe return of the crew in spite of a catastrophic explosion in the middle of their lunar journey. This 30-minute documentary features interviews with Apollo 13 Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise, as well as Flight Directors Gene Kranz and Glynn Lunney, with engineer Hank Rotter. Parts of their interviews take place in the restored Apollo mission control room. This documentary also features original NASA footage and newly synchronized audio from Mission Control. Thanks to Stephen Slater and Ben Feist/Apollo in Real-Time (apolloinrealtime.org/13) for providing additional footage and audio.
Machanic Manyeruke: The Life of Zimbabwe's Gospel Music Legend
Machanic Manyeruke is the founder of gospel music in Zimbabwe—though, his influence reaches far beyond the borders of his African country. Filmmaker James Ault places Manyeruke in his contexts and explores his influence on gospel music worldwide.
Dissipatio
The strict quarantine in the spring of 2020 reduced the living space of hundreds of millions of people down to just a few square meters. The horizon was limited to the view from the window, boredom permeated the days, and an endless stream of catastrophic rumors emanated from the radio and television. Against the backdrop of his own mental and physical discomfort, the director begins to shoot a video diary. The similarly non-existent static camera records existential monologues as well as activities serving basic bodily needs. This philosophical essay is woven from reflections on the coming transformation of the world and the images that try to capture it.
A New Spring For An Ancient Bough
In the hills of Wallonia, there lies a seemingly dormant village. While the social fabric of the village is rapidly changing, some inhabitants have to come to terms with personal losses. They find comfort in their daily routines. Come the spring, the village awakens.
Loose Fish
A boy growing up in a port town in Morocco dreams of escaping into a different life than the one in store for him.
Belgian Blue
The films tells the story of a cow and its calve in times of modern cattle farming. They’re both of the Belgian Blue breed. In a decelerant and sensitive way, the film explores our sensibility towards our animal vis-à-vis.
In the Middle of the Fire
The first press conference of Major General Soleimani, Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, along with the remarks and recommendations of the Leader of the Revolution during the 33-day war with the Zionist regime.
Dead Souls' Vacation
A once popular bass player in Tbilisi is now jobless, joyless and crammed into a shoebox-sized one-room apartment with his elderly mother.
Babylon in Hollywood
The Babylonian sets constructed in Hollywood for David W. Griffith’s 1916 film Intolerance immediately became part of cinematic folklore. They were over 40 metres high, 60 metres wide and 120 metres in depth, and the precision of the architectural details displays a maniacal attention to documentary-like accuracy.
Mentors - Tony & Santi
An intimate portrayal of two renowned photographers and their longtime personal and professional relationships.
Stories I Didn't Know
As a child from St. Paul, MN, Rita Davern was always told, with pride, how her family once owned Pike Island at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. While researching her ancestors' immigration from Ireland, she begins to explore the complicated legacy of settling on Dakota land, and her quest for reconciliation begins in this eye-opening documentary.
The Curiosity of Edward Pratt
Like many adventures, Edward Pratt dreams of traveling around the world. Preferably on a unicycle. An exploration of the motivation behind an adventurous dream.
Victoria
Yeslie is a former FARC guerrilla who tries to reintegrate into society. Given the difficulties of life, mother of a 4-year-old girl and pregnant, decides to dig up some guns hidden in the jungle to sell them and get some money.
Nostos
No experience and no fact is unique. The narrative that tells human history, collective or not, is as simple as it is complex. The beginning of every transformation is a journey through an unknown landscape. As Dante Alighieri wrote in La Divina Commedia: "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ché la diritta via era smarrit." In the movement lies the transformation. In the fire the purification. The cure lies in the virus.
Taking Back the Legislature
After a night of planning and mourning, a storm is brewing at early hours of 1 July, 2019. In face of the absurdity of the government's indoor flag ceremony, protesters question the usefulness of peaceful protest and hope to storm the Legislative Council Complex as a last-ditch effort to ignite change in the movement. As they confront pro-democracy councillors outside the complex, their pent-up anger and despair explode.
Terra Nullius
Ermina is a Haitian girl who lives in the "La Victoria" town, on the border with the "Lo Valledor norte" town. Although this seems an inhospitable place to live -Ermina and her friends- it will make it the best place in the world, a place where nothing matters: neither color, nor nationality. A place that does not belong to anyone, but which is Ermina's home.
The De Facto Martyr Suite
Ibn Kenyatta has been in prison since 1974. In 2019, he reflects on his refusal to appear before the New York State Board of Parole. The words resonate from his cell with images of the Great Migration. The invocation of a life before walls. The images' epistolary narrative takes us from Alabama, his birthplace, to the New York subway where he was arrested and beaten. Before arriving to Haiti's spiritual world, his words pass through cotton fields and factories. We encounter Bobby Seale in prison, a youth who embodies his African heritage during the Vietnam War, while his fathers are murdered in the United States.
Israel: The Forbidden Journey - Part II: Hanukkah
