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Running from the Red Sun
"Running from the Red Sun" is an experimental non-fiction film that covers an especially chaotic period of the filmmaker's life. This film observes layers of turmoil such as wildfire/climate change, death/loss, the Coronavirus pandemic, forced movement, and the American political climate of 2020.
The battle of La Plaine
Marseille, a European city like many others. La Plaine, a lively district, a large square, a historic and popular market. A tumultuous battle between, on the one hand, the city council's urban planning services, determined to carry out a major program of "requalification" of the district. On the other hand, a part of the residents, who refuse this gentrification operation, and demand to be associated to the decisions. This epic story lasts 3 years and ends abruptly with the incredible construction of a concrete wall of 2m50 high all around the square. The television of the district, imprinted with the stories of past uprisings, a tool of counter-propaganda throughout this battle, refuses to stop at the report of a defeat and wonders. Summoning the Free Communes of 1871, their joyful and fiery rage, a singular writing takes hold of the fiction. In order to make this collective struggle a victorious human adventure, another way of making the city and the world is envisaged.
Metal Andino: Guitarras, Bajo y Batería en los Andes
It offers in the subtitle this documentary that explores the sound and cultural intersections produced in the North of Chile between heavy-metal and Andean music. Bands from Chile, Peru and Bolivia exemplify this sound, as lively as it is little studied. It is music with a distinctive identity, both traditional and globalized.
Ficción
This is a movie about Uruguayans who want to make fiction films. We visited various filmmakers seeking to capture the enormous diversity of stories, realities, and sensibilities through the scripts they are writing. We get to know their neighborhoods and homes, and then we get closer to the ways in which each of them adapt the fantasies that have been born in their minds and hearts. In this way, we portray how they experience cinema and what would mean for them to make their film come true.
Social Murder
This short observational film by the Averklub Collective follows everyday life of Romani inhabitants of the poverty-stricken Slovak settlement of Rudňany. The images of their lives are accompanied by the readings from a text by the German philosopher Friedrich Engels, especially his 1845 description of the poor conditions of Irish workers in England by using the term social murder. Combining these two components, it arrives at a highly up-to-date study of poverty, which is often accompanied by racism and stigmatization. – Ji.hlava IDFF 2021
Borderline
Elise Guillaume's "Borderline" parallels the complementary patterns of human and nonhuman forms, from tree limbs, spines and trunks, placing untamed nature adjacent to a clinical medical setting. The film reflects on these worlds as co-dependent, connected and combined – and how this relationship can enable rebirth and overcome pain.
L’isolotto che c’è. Ieri e oggi nel quartiere 4 di Firenze
The construction of the "garden-village", the flood of '68, the urban expansion, the birth of the Don Mazzi Community, up to the challenges of the "Covid era" and the projects for the future of the neighbourhood, synonymous with solidarity and integration. An educational project that involved a group of students from ISIS Galilei in Florence.
And So We May Feel Echos
"And So We May Feel Echos" explores how particulates interact with humans, non-humans and landscapes: a meditation on pollen, neutrinos, Johannesburg mine dust and the Saharan dust plume. How do we detect these particles and what do they have to offer? How do they travel and what impact do they have on the humans and non-humans they interact with?
Anchored Out
The story of a vulnerable community known as the anchor-outs who live on boats anchored off the coast in Sausalito, just north of San Francisco.
my favorite software is being here
"Originally focused on exploring the non-content language-soup of social media (with help from programmer/researcher Achim Koh), this iteration of Andra8’s existence is more narrative, with an actual identity growing from influencer primordial data. Subsisting on shakes supplied by subscribers, performing menial tasks trapped in a setting as much to project out as live in, and constantly self-promoting in companionate couching, Andra8’s situation will feel familiar to those reliant on and resentful of the gig economy we’re trapped in." - Screen Slate
Upstage
A documentary on Goshen High School, a school in Upstate New York, and its theater program which has a vast history spanning over 60 years. The film explores Paul Wright, the founder of Goshen's theater program, and the history of the program up until the cancellation of the 2020 musical of Beauty and the Beast. This film takes a deep dive into the process of how Goshen High School musicals are produced and what makes this theater program so special
Map without Island
The film shows demonstrations against building the second airport in Jeju Island the performances of environmentalists very closely and in detail, by which it develops a desperate love story.
Zinder
Unemployed youths, many looking to leave the country for want of better options, are swelling the ranks of gangs that sow violence in Zinder, in Niger. Aïcha Macky explores the origins of the radicalization that is spreading through her hometown and the prospects for escaping it.
Charlene White: Empire's Child
Charlene White embarks on a deeply personal journey to uncover the roots of her connection to the British Empire in a bid to find out if we can ever truly emerge from its shadow. Charlene travels across Britain and Jamaica on a genealogical journey to investigate her own heritage and the relationship between the Empire and her family. By piecing together broken familial records and going back in time to the very start of the British Empire, she makes some surprising discoveries about how the British Empire has shaped her family’s lives and asks what it is to be Black and British.
Listen to the Beat of Our Images
In 1961, France established its space-center in Kourou, French Guiana, expropriating local Guianese. Field investigation meets archival video to empower a silenced population.
Roof of Leaves
Constantin, Sarah and Gregor live in a polyamorous relationship. Their intimate confession is not just a demonstration of a free relationship between three people. The lovers, who have intimate conversations, sing, tease each other, or remain silent together, give a glimpse into the life of a social unit that takes questions of trust and tolerance to extremes. A polyamorous relationship can sometimes be even more solid than a couple because it goes beyond the familiar. It represents an experimental space where safe boundaries are abandoned and a gateway is opened to a frighteningly unrestrained universe where established patterns of behavior do not apply. It is a chance to free oneself from inner demons and be renewed within. To find ourselves, we must first lose ourselves.
NoCare: An American Healthcare Story
During the winter holiday season at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Percy Malone sold his Arkansas pharmacy chain to the highest bidders, adding further disruption to the small towns served.
Within
The film unfolds in Geneva, in the district around the Vernets barracks. It delves into the spaces of life and the encounters with its inhabitants. These domestic chronicles evolve between the military barracks at the edge of the blocks of flats and the insane asylum which had occupied the space in the past. Through these chronicles and the history of the place, the question arises for each spectator: what, then, is my place within?
Pocket of Russia
The film restores the panorama of the centuries. Journalistic narration with extensive use of artistic reconstructions, computer graphics, animation shows that the business tradition in the region was not interrupted. She manifests herself in different ways in different eras. A key trick used by different types of screen technologies is animation. Monuments to great people, buildings, industrial structures, landscapes of the Volga and Oka, film and photo chronicles are transformed, change in time and space, acquire a different dimension in order to somehow interact with the present, enter into a dialogue with descendants.
The Plastic House
Constructing a solitary reality by imagining what life would be like after the passing of her parents, director Allison Chhorn's intricate docu-fiction chronicles her own process carrying on work in the family's titular 'plastic house'.
Revue Cinema: Reel Communities
The Revue Cinema, which opened in 1912 and briefly closed down for ten months in 2006, is now the oldest cinema in Toronto. By transforming itself into a not-for-profit organization and building a solid connection with its community, the Revue Cinema provides an excellent example of how indie cinemas seek to provide much more than mere entertainment: they enrich the community and anchor its history. During the lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, Roy Zheng—documentary filmmaker and culture researcher—dove into Revue Cinema’s massive archive and virtually interviewed 34 observers of its ongoing legacy. This research culminated into a 50-minute linear documentary that explores Revue’s past, present and foreseeable future. Revue Cinema: Reel Communities will guide you into this 108-year journey. - ROY ZHENG
Baracoa
In their small village in the Cuban countryside, Leonel (9) and Antuán (13) have been friends for their entire lives. But Antuán will move to Habana at the end of the summer and these holidays might be the last they ever spend together.
Transparent, I am.
In the year 2020, when the world was forced to ‘change’, I wanted to confirm what changed and what did not change in me. The white mask I wore became the screen projecting my past. My family is sometimes hurt, but support me as I suffer from schizophrenia. We live today while looking for the answer to ‘Who are we?’
Eshu Yangi
A private meeting with the Afro-Brazilian deity Eshu is symbolised through visual abstractions of home images, readings on the subject, memories of a carnival and reflections associated with quantum physics. Entirely produced in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.
Botanical
An experimental film which combines the artificial with the living, live action with animation, and explores the peculiar world of planet Botanical where pigs and camels grow from people's ears, cacti grow from people's teeth and violets from their nails. It's a creation of childish imagination which takes the form of a magic mountain landscape. It presents a space of liberty where you can escape from the dull and limited reality that resembles a greenhouse in a botanical garden.
The Family of One Hundred Years
In Kawasaki, Japan, 1st to 3rd generation of Korean-Japanese and Americans share their daily lives and wish for a symbiotic society. The inter-Korean summit in 2000 brought reconciliation and hope to the divided Korean community. Meanwhile, hundreds of hateful demonstrators are approaching Sakuramoto, the Korean residence, amid deepening tensions between Japan and Korea in 2016.
Tonight with Arlo Parks
A new "Variety Show Special" starring one of the world's most exciting new artists, plus special guests Romy (The xx), Dave Okumu and Glass Animals. Including first ever performances from Parks' acclaimed debut album 'Collapsed In Sunbeams', the film features conversations, poetry and collaborations, all existing in a magical world of iconic, stylish and gradually unravelling environments.
Gaisras Virš Mūsų
A music band was filmed in its sensitive change period before and after the creation of their second album.
Enchantment
Voice splinters recovered from different archives recall, with images entirely shot in 16mm and super8, dark and further scenarios, blots difficult to erase.
The Death of My Two Fathers
After putting it off for twenty years, filmmaker Sol Guy finally confronts the six tapes his father recorded before dying. Using those tapes as a framework, Guy recounts his family’s story—and his own—for his two teenage kids.
A Bay
The Baía de Guanabara is not just any bay: the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro has sprawled around it. Its waste water threatens the rich ecosystem, planes roar along the approach corridors above. These filmic explorations on the margins of the megacity portray various environments that are all connected to the bay in a specific way. The people here are micro-wage earners making a modest living.
Telenovela Grey-Scale in Color
Born in Belgrade and raised in Barcelona, Filip starts to ask himself one, at first sight, very simple question: where am I actually from? Together with Asha, an Ethiopian girl who has an even more complicated life story, he strays to distant places where they have flashbacks from Latino soap operas – Telenovelas.
They Answer Our Own Gaze
Spanish choreographer Lali Ayguade is unable to enter Korea and to give scheduled performances due to the spread of COVID-19. In a situation where it is impossible to meet the dancers in person, Lali creates movements one by one with the dancers in Korea through online video conferences.
The Faithful: The King, The Pope, The Princess
A lollipop officially licensed by the Vatican sparks filmmaker Annie Berman's 20-year exploration of fandom, memorabilia, and legacy within the orbits of three cultural icons: Pope John Paul II, Elvis Presley, and Diana, Princess of Wales.