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Mata Ne
Mata Ne is about a woman tracing her roots. She travels, together with her mother, to her second home in Japan. It is about them visiting the almost one hundred years old grandmother on the remote island of Okinawa. This reunion feels like a farewell at the same time, somewhere in between being home and alienation.
Kiruna - A Brand New World
What if you got the chance to build a new society from scratch, what would it look like? Located more than 200 km above the polar circle, the Swedish mining town Kiruna is built on the world's largest and most modern iron ore mining tunnel, which created a significant income for the Swedish government. However, due to the mining the city has started to collapse and in order to save the industry, the city council together with the mining company LKAB have decided to move the town and its citizens 3 kilometres to the east. In doing so, the town has turned a potential disaster into a great opportunity. The new Kiruna will be an even more progressive, even better society for the future. But is it even possible to plan an ideal world?
God was Here!
In a rural community full of religious certainty, right on the place where God came, young shepherd Lucian seems to be stranded between belief and disbelief.
Libelu: Down With The Dictatorship
In the 1970s, they were championing the fight against Brazil’s military dictatorship. Forty years later, what’s left of Libelu? What does adult life have in store for you after the revolutionary youth?
The Rise and Fall of Blackcraft Wrestling
The story of Blackcraft Wrestling is a story of limitless creativity and trying to run before you can walk. Through the testimonials of the people who helped build and perform in it, hear about the good, the bad, the chaotic and blood soaked madness that was a true oddity of the 2010s.
The Session
In some of Cleveland, Ohio’s most dangerous neighborhoods, a unique subculture uses the powerful expression of Krump dance to combat trauma. Aaron, Paul and Conrad, along with their fellow Krumpers find mental, and emotional support via public and private dance convenings called "The Sessions."
Free Flying
How and for what reason do our beloved children turn into difficult teens? At what point does maturity come to them and respect for their parents returns? To answer these questions, you have to live your life. Only cinema can make a simple conversation between father and son overcome time and turn into a dialogue between generations.
Silent Voice
Young and promising Chechen MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighter Khavaj must flee from Chechnya to Brussels when his brother discovers his homosexuality and promises to kill him. In an episode of silence, the young man finds comfort in the Planetarium, among the silence of the stars. In this documentary, which traces his first months of life in Belgium, Khavaj slowly observes how the last link that ties him to Chechnya disintegrates. The life of yesterday is in past, but the future is not clear yet.
Africa's Big Five
Africa's most iconic animals battle the elements and each other to survive.
Under the Same Sun
For more than a century, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, an autonomous region in Azerbaijan with an ethnic Armenian majority. With an empathetic ear to both sides, this film delicately unpacks the sensitive subject of ethnic nationalism in the South Caucasus. Using poetic visuals and a mesmerizing, immersive soundscape, Under the Same Sun introduces us to the viewpoints of writers, activists and everyday citizens. Through these interviews, the film raises an urgent and timely question: How does one retain a belief in universal human rights in the face of aggressive propaganda and increasing ethnic nationalism?
Death and the Dragon
There's a dreadful dragon in Persian mythology, who is immortal and responsible for drought. Water crisis in Tehran contemporary history is a major problem; and a dry land is a sign of the return of the dragon.
Kodokushi
Norihito works for a company that cleans the homes of the deceased alone. The lonely deaths he encounters push him to confront his own past, but this effort also leads to unexpected new problems. Elder Muramatsu, on the other hand, lives his life in silence in social isolation. The upcoming Sakura Festival creates hope to change his destiny. Will he find a reason to exist in the world?
O Nosso Amor Vai Embora
When a love leaves, what piece does it take from us that we will never find again?
Quantum Creole
An experimental documentary film of collective research into creolization, addressing its historical, ontological and cultural forces.
Hiatus
An atmospheric cinema poem about humanity, triggered by the worldwide pandemic, lockdown and social distancing. Although the activity of people in the city is on hold, time continues to move on at a calm yet gallant pace. Welcome to the artificial world built for us, by us, standing without us.
Enlightened
Two people are related due to their unconventional vision and way of life: Pedro Miranda, a young blind visual artist, and Iris Palau, a seer.
Transatlantic Storytelling
The story of 7 athletes affiliated with Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Tupaia’s Endeavour
Lala Rolls’ fascinating quest to examine what happens to a Tahitian high priest and navigator when he travels across the pacific – and further on towards England as a translator and guest (or is it as a living trophy?) – aboard Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour.
Dub Magnificente
Accident or inspiration, Dub inserted the experiments of Jamaican producers and sound engineers into urban popular music made in any part of the world from the 1970s.
Runaway
Buffalo-based filmmaker Meg Knowles retraces the steps of her sister, who in the summer of '73 ran away from an upscale New England summer camp, hitchhiking cross-country to California. Weaving a tale of teen angst gone off the rails, a mother’s patient desperation and a sister’s disbelief, Knowles’ warm, personal documentary begs the question: does retracing your steps heal old wounds or make new ones?
Ritratto di Mara Blasetti
Mara Blasetti became one of the first Italian women to take on the role of production supervisor. In 2012, almost by chance, evidence of her exceptional career begin to emerge.
India Obscura
The film follows the inhabitants of a small village in North-Eastern India whose livelihood depends on coal theft from a vast open-pit mine. From dawn to dusk, children and adults alike rummage for the black gold whilst the local mafia consolidate their arsenal to fight off police raids.
We Are Desert Bus
Desert Bus for Hope is the longest running annual community fundraiser benefiting Child's Play Charity. This wonderful video by Bionic Trousers Media and Flying Saucer Media helps explain why driving a virtual bus from Tucson to Vegas every year means so much to not only the patients it benefits, but also is so important to the people that drive the bus and those that watch and contribute along the way.
Of the Observatory I Saw
Nigim is an ufologist from the city of Passa Tempo in MG who recorded numerous appearances of et’s from the Planet of Jov. But now, it seems like who is being watched is him.
Día de la Madre
A band of juveniles embark on a 24-hour spree of breaking into houses and causing a ruckus.
What Remains
The very personal inner process of mourning is shown in the way stragglers clean the house of their deceased parents. That house is the most personal domain, loaded with touchable memories of an accomplished human life. A documentary about dismantling and grieving.
Bullet-laced Dreams
Bullet-laced Dreams follows the Lumad children in Mindanao as they escape from military rule due to the incessant armed conflicts between the government & communist rebels. Rising tensions pushed these kids to transfer from place to place just to continue their schooling. The conflicts separated 14-year old Chricelyn Empong from her family, but she vows to fight for her right. In the evacuation site, Chricelyn & her classmates continue studying and protest for the end of martial law so they could go to back to their homeland. She says the only way to regain their way of life is to defend their right to education.
Quarry
Chronicle of the life of shift workers in a mining pit in Eastern Siberia. Workers spend a significant part of their lives away from home and loved ones, doing physical labor for 12 hours a day for the only decent income in their region.
Operation Moonbird
A gloomy filmic contribution to sea rescue and a concentrated revelation of the mechanisms of systematic flight prevention in the Mediterranean and the people responsible for it.
Nous sommes les nouvelles chimères
To celebrate the coming summer and say goodbye to the dark days of winter, they leave their cities in droves to worship forgotten gods in the heart of Brittany. This documentary recounts the last edition of the Feux de Beltane (Beltane Fire Festival), a secret celebration meant for Black Metal fans, through a portrait of 6 festival-goers.
In Good Company
In Good Company is a tale of passion, people, posters and a pandemic. This short documentary showcases the strength of creativity, colour and togetherness in a time of crisis, and the power of art in showing appreciation and thanks to our frontline and essential workers.