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Life Unrehearsed
Thirty-six years ago, Lee Soohyun met Kim In-sun at a Korean Christian Women’s Association retreat in Germany and gifted her flowers. Despite threats from her then-husband and the disapproval of Korean society, In-sun found love and chose to be with Soohyun. Now, the two of them—who came to work as nurses in a foreign country where they knew nothing of the language—are still there and already in their 70s. For 30 years, they have lived together in Berlin and shared in all the joys and sorrows of life. Soohyun and In-sun have stood in solidarity with other foreigners like themselves while also looking after one another. They are two people who overcame boundaries. This is their love story.
Sunshine State
Steve McQueen’s first new artwork since his major commission Year 3 at Tate Britain in 2019, Sunshine State is a two-channel video projection shown on both sides of two screens placed one next to the other. Opening with footage of a burning sun, the work unfolds exploring images from the musical drama The Jazz Singer (1927), starring the famous singer Al Jolson. The film is known as the first "talkie" in the history of cinema that uses synchronised dialogue.
One of us
A transmission from an alternate reality documents the war between the Forward Few and the Backward Many.
The Mirror
Nine Black women recount a series of confrontational and misinformed interactions with white people, showing that stereotyping is alive and well in the United States. This revealing animation demonstrates that there is still much work to be done to combat institutionalized racism.
Calvinia
25 years after the end of apartheid, an Afrikaner man returns to the small town and haunting landscapes he grew up in in rural South Africa. Confronted with the failing health of his father and ghosts from the past, he remembers and seeks out the town's dogs, gays and people fallen by the wayside of the 'rainbow nation'. The town simmers with unresolved histories compounded with fresh challenges in a climate-changing world, preoccupied by questions of life and death, meaning and survival.
The Welles Raft
The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It's All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the dictatorship of the Estado Novo, of World War II, of Ceará fishermen's struggle for labor rights and housing in their traditional space - target of real estate speculation.
Mall Stories
A documentary-style short introducing the endearing staff of the food court eatery Atilla the Grilla.
Home
Home is the story of four generations of a family of Russian Americans, descendants of the Golitsyns, a distinguished princely family. After fleeing Russia, they made their way to France, and from there to the United States. For more than two decades now they have lived in Alaska. This former Russian territory in some mysterious way provides a link if not to their native country, then to their Fatherland, which none of them has ever seen. In its wanderings this large family has not preserved material treasures, but rather their nobility and dignity—the foundation upon with their Home was built.
El Bastón
Two filmmakers, one mother and one son, find answers and strength in the struggles of Indigenous Nasa in Cauca, Colombia as they document their journeys decades apart.
From the Bottom
Even before the pandemic, there were almost 24,000 homeless people in the Czech Republic. In the following months, many more Czechs faced housing crisis due to the increase in the unemployment rate. Filip, a social work student from Prague experiences their reality first hand. The protagonist of a video journal was shooting in the streets of Ústí nad Labem. In the hot summer days, his existence shrank to finding a mere place to sleep and a meal to eat. Growing tiredness and apathy are temporarily brightened by joyful moments of human solidarity and warm meals. In such circumstances, things like that are not at all common; they represent a means of survival.
Great White Serial Killer: Fatal Christmas
After a surfer dies off Morro Bay, Calif., on Christmas Eve, shark attack investigators Ralph Collier and Brandon McMillan use forensic evidence and eyewitness accounts to identify the suspected killer: an 18-foot great white.
Don't Come Searching
Every spring for the last 13 years, Delroy has left his partner Sophia and their kids behind in the small hamlet of Top Hill, Jamaica, to do seasonal work on a farm in Canada. Sophia plays the lottery daily in hopes of changing their economic future, but above all, she dreams of escape. This year, after cutting his contract short, Delroy returns to his family with an engagement ring for Sophia—and an unexpected diagnosis of terminal cancer. Through a composed, empathetic lens, Andrew Moir chronicles the last days of Sophia and Delroy's relationship as she cares for her new spouse. The film quietly observes Sophia rise to the many challenges presented by her unknown future, in a rural society where women traditionally have little independence. Beautifully observed, Don't Come Searching presents a moving portrait of a resilient, contemporary Jamaican woman, determined to find her own way in life.
Ayoungman
On March 17, 2019, Kristian Ayoungman was fatally shot in a racially motivated murder that shocked the Siksika Nation. In two Alberta, Canada, communities, a movement arose demanding Kristian’s murderers be brought to justice.
The Strong Sex
Director Jonas Rothlaender confronts nine men, including one gay and one bisexual interviewee, with anonymous statements of other men in his documentary experimental set-up. The topics: sexual (borderline) experiences, traditional role models and the current understanding of male sexuality. The result is that the interviewees themselves subsequently begin to speak openly and frankly about their own experiences. And to reflect on their sexuality. To which social ideals does the male sex see itself committed, and do "typical male traditions" still exist at all today?
Human with three legs
Two bored mans talking about an interesting topic while everyone is condolences for a family who mourns the death of a loved one.
Fight or Flight
Colorado Parks and Wildlife first female pilot takes to the sky and leaves her troubles on the ground beneath her.
My Name is Bai Sanming
Bai Sanming, a Chinese farmer, plays Mao Zedong for a living. This strange and absurd phenomenon has formed a unique and complete industrial chain in China. This documentary depicts this absurd and realistic behavior. At the same time, the documentary also brings out the special ideological trend that has existed since the last century, based on the crazy personality cult of Mao Zedong.
Total Thrash - The Teutonic Story
In his documentary, filmmaker Daniel Hofmann deals with the history of German thrash metal. He reports on the fans, bands and organizers and offers an insight into the scene.
The Blue Inmates
Follows inmates from Roumieh Prison in Lebanon who produce a play about their fellow prisoners who suffer from mental illness and are thus filed under 'Mad and Possessed' by the Penal Code and forgotten behind bars for life.
The Open View
The film presents artists from the Sinti and Roma minority who shape the trauma of persecution and very personal experiences in their works.
Heels Over Wheels
The coexistence of a family of drag queens and a trans woman who travel by motor-home to Murcia to show their support for a child who was assaulted by another minor at the gates of his school.
Factory to the Workers
In Croatia in 2005, a machine tools factory was occupied by its workers. Since then, they have operated collectively, becoming the only successful example of a worker occupation in post-socialist Europe. Today, as they seek a new model of collective ownership, the microcosmic world of the factory clashes with the forces of the globalized market economy, having an increasingly brutal impact on wages and the organization of the factory, causing rising disaffection among the workers. Filmmaker Srđan Kovačević returns regularly over a five year period to make a film that charts the evolution of this communal enterprise. Factory to the Workers tells the inside story of the workers who challenged the dominant economic narrative with their actions. After a decade, the same question remains: can a factory in the hands of workers survive at the periphery of capitalism, or do we need a bigger dream?
Home
For the people of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides, life changed dramatically in the latter part of the last century. Traditional ways of life eroded, and many families were forced to move away. Drawing on rare 8mm colour film of Berneray, directors Andy MacKinnon and Kirsty MacDonald offer a bridge between the contemporary citizens and their not-so-distant past. The result is a film of great emotion that speaks to the importance of place and the resilience of culture through language, song and memories.
Deserters
“I had many friends before the war; many of them are dead now”, one of the narrators comments, looking at a photo of her classmates. “We had a perfect life, but we were never satisfied,” she adds laconically. The secondary school in Mostar united them, the War of Independence divided them. This mosaic of memories of the early 1990s is composed of contemporary postcards and silent shots of places where wars were once fought. Their calmness today contrasts with the emotional excerpts from the letters of the Croatian students. They describe their flight across the border, their experiences in refugee camps, and their lingering hatred of the enemies who robbed them of their home and youth.
Dorpie
Koekie, Fluksie, Sanna and Jo-Marie live together in a safehouse in Bredasdorp, a small town in South Africa. This community of around 15,000 has been shaken by a series of rapes and murders of women. Community worker Lana O’Neill felt compelled to create a safe place for the most vulnerable women, so that what happened to Anene, Kayde, Sulnita and Jodene doesn’t happen to them too.
Just an Alien
Chinese photographer Weicheng Hua meets the vagabond Zhighuo Sun in 2015 at an amusement park just outside Chongqing. Hua’s first film is an affectionate portrait of the drug-using, possibly psychotic, sensitive and always cheerful Sun, who moves through the amusement park like a kind of shaman, holding forth about mystical concepts such as “the principle of zero” and “understanding the self.” The central figure seems to fit perfectly into this odd environment.
The Man Who Took Shannon Matthews
With access to family, neighbours and professionals who knew Michael Donovan, this is the story of the man who abducted 9-year-old Shannon Matthews in 2008 and kept her in his flat for 24 days before she was found in a dramatic rescue by the police.
Not All of Me Will Die
Reviving the traces, yellowed by time, of a life carefully filed away in archives; giving body to one of 20th century Poland’s most beautiful poetic voices; building a memorial and a vibrant tribute in the most rigorous and masterful documentary tradition… These are the promises kept by Not all of me will die. Zuzanna Ginczanka was shot in 1944, at the age of 27, just as she was gaining recognition in Polish literary circles.
The Souvenir: Reality / Fiction / Confusion / Inspiration
Making of documentary on The Souvenir & The Souvenir Part II.
Libby, Are You Home Yet?
January, 2019. Hull student Libby Squire heads home from a night out, but when her friends realise that she hasn't made it back, a huge police search begins.
Trans - Uniques en leur genre
More than 15,000 people in France feel born in a gender that does not correspond to them. For one year, three people called "transgender" have confided about this feeling and its influence on their daily life: Emma, 63 years old, Aéla, 34 years old, and Zach, 18 years old. Accompanied - or not - in their struggle by their loved ones, each one shares a part of their reality. The program also meets with prosecutors, associations and surgeons to assess the situation, and also gathers the opinions of the relatives of the main witnesses who have agreed to talk on camera.
Good Grief?
Reverend Richard Coles opens up the conversation around bereavement, as he goes on a personal grief voyage and tries some unconventional activities that have helped others to live with loss
Theory of Light
Theory of Light is a documentary centred on the climate emergency through a climate justice lens. It's committed to uplifting the perspectives of communities already being impacted by climate change and representing those who feel excluded from the climate movement.
Purple Bells
30 years after their emigration, Danni interviews his family and tries to learn their story to reconcile with the past.
Go Heal Yourself
Director Yasmin C. Rams invites us on her journey to try and heal from epilepsy through several forms of therapy that are frowned upon by her own family. A first-person account that brims with charm and hope but is deeply rooted in skepticism, Yasmin’s film portrays people from all around the world who tell her about how they deal with their chronic illnesses using the tools of natural medicine. Will she stop having seizures?
Here to Stay
A 23-year-old, first-generation, Mexican American woman runs for office in one of the most dangerous cities in America.