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About a Home
Precious Sarria and her family experienced housing insecurity for over two years. After transitioning into housing, they documented their lives to raise awareness for the rising homelessness in regions surrounding Silicon Valley.
The Land
The Land is a haunted place between the two worlds; living and dead, where history and mythology converge. This territory named Krajina which means 'frontier' or ' the edge', is the land given by the Habsburg emperor in 17th century to the Serbian refugees from all over the Balkans to settle down and defend the border from the Ottoman empire. Today, formally the part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this land is still the imaginary line between the two civilizations, between east and west. It is a bewitched space, a dystopian universe where the ghosts return from all the past battles.
Republic of Evil Ants
One of the greatest pests on the planet, the evil ants destroy the forest to protect their family. Memories of the covid-19 pandemic, eroded by ignorance and negationism. What's left in this great country of worms and viruses?
From West Baltimore: Chasing Dreams
Growing up in West Baltimore, a neighborhood plagued with high unemployment, generational poverty and a 40% high school dropout rate, Princaya, Davioin, Courtney, Tyler and Shakeer live with violence at their doorsteps and fears of being killed by the police. Chasing their dreams for a better life, they focus on education, taking honors and AP classes in high school. Suddenly world events challenge their successful journeys with the pandemic and the national outrage at the George Floyd killing.
Model Scots
Documentary following the diverse lives of some of Scotland’s aspiring and most successful models, represented by one of Scotland’s longest-established model agencies. Owner Michael O’Brien and his team make all the international deals, scout for new talent and keep the models in check as they guide them through the many highs and lows of working in this fickle, challenging and glamorous profession.
the gospel according to them
the gospel according to them, is an experimental film that explores the phenomenology of faith and its relationship to the Black body.
Ellipsis
The narrator collides with animal-shaped shooting targets in the woods. She sets out to unravel a breathtaking and fascinating cultural-historical tangle of animal and human rights: the power of a gaze, the objects of exhibition, and the secondary power of being under scrutiny.
Inside Greggs: Britain's Best Bakery
Documentary revealing the secrets of the successful bakery chain, offering a behind the scenes look at the products they sell and staff who work in their stores across the country.
Earthbound
Killed by coyotes, a deer lies in the middle of a pine grove. Posted nearby, for a year, two surveillance cameras allow us to see what happens next.
Coisich, a Rùin
"Coisich, a Rùin" explores the decline of the woollen industry in the Scottish Borders through the accounts of workers of the long-abandoned Heather Mills, built on the River Tweed in 1871. Connecting with old looming traditions through oral histories, Flora Litchfield applies a tapestry of sound to images of the empty space to re-energise its dormant life.
Obedience
Andrey is 13 years old. He has been sent to a monastery for the summer for misbehaving. He knows the secret passages in the old towers, the name of each bell, and the meaning of life.
Deadly Gorgeous
Deadly Gorgeous is a documentary about the importance of beauty even after death. Mixing fiction and reality, the film explores the world of corpse makeup artists, cemeteries and a couple that need to think about how their own funerals would be like.
A Bolsa ou a Vida
In the post-pandemic future of covid-19, will the centrality be the financial casino and the accumulation of wealth by an elite or a quality life for all, with less inequality? Did the minimal state show itself capable of serving the collective? How to guarantee life without social and labor rights? What model of society do we want to live in? The film addresses the dismantling of the concept of social welfare and makes us reflect on the incompatibility of neoliberalism with a humanist project of society.
AGHDRA
With AGHDRA, Arthur Jafa takes his work in a much different direction. The film contains just a handful of cuts; all of the footage is original. It alludes to some of the concerns Jafa explored in Love Is the Message—the tenuousness of Black life, and the twinned notions of beauty and fear that can accompany it—but this new film does so in relatively oblique ways. Gone is the music video–style pacing of Jafa’s past works. In its place is a slower kind of montage that inspires introspection.
Barajas
Explores the tragic death of Angel Rama, Marta Traba, Manuel Scorza and Jorge Ibargüengoitia on an airplane crash near Madrid in 1983. Through the biographies of these four authors –each one from a different part of Latin America- the film explores this continent´s history in the second half of the 20th century, full of social unrest, revolutions and dictatorships that influenced a whole generation.
Radar Man
One man’s legacy refuses to let Covid-19 have the last word, told through the evolution of technology.
Caminho Longe
Alfonso Etxegarai, former ETA terrorist gang member, sets out on the road back home after decades of exile on the African island of Sao Tome and Principe, where he was deported by France and Spain in 1986.
Grandmother
Grandmother’s relationship with her family is complicated. Since they do not keep in touch, she resorts to “witchcraft” so that she does not feel lonely.
Macao Boxing House
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on numerous sporting activities. This film describes the hurdles company manager Cheong Wai and his assistant, boxer Cheong Lap Cheong, are facing together. With the near prospect of shutting down the boxing academy they run, how will they survive such a tough challenge?
Extra Innings from 9/11: 20 Years Later
A look back at how America's national pastime, Major League Baseball, brought the victims' families, New York City, the fans, and the entire country back to some sense of normalcy after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11. Manager of the New York Yankees, Joe Torre, and the New York Mets, Bobby Valentine, guide us through the heartfelt stories that show the resilience of the city and country, and a message of hope that people can bounce back from tragedy.
The Visitors
A close look at the domestic lives of different beings during quarantine. An experimental documentary about shared life, media consumption and lifeforms under lockdown.
Mayor, Shepherd, Widow, Dragon
Pirin is a remote village that will be extinct in 20 years. We accompany four indigenous people who deal with it in different ways. Pirin is the last village in Europe where a dragon still exists. Georgi is Pirin’s mayor and tries to fight against its extinction – he has the dream to turn the village into a tourist attraction. Maria is widowed and still lives together with her over 40 year old son. They even share a room, but he should find a wife and give birth to children as soon as possible. Iliya is a shepherd and an alcoholic. He can no longer bear the decay of the village and has decided to live in the forest, surrounded by goats and sheep, without electricity and running water. The dragon named Gincho is on everyone’s lips and is feared and honoured by the inhabitants of Pirin.
Night Nursery
In a working class neighborhood of Bobo-Dioulasso, every evening, Madame Coda welcomes the children of prostitutes into her home. The young women then wander through the "Black", a very lively alleyway in the city center, until dawn when they come to pick up their children. But Mrs. Coda, who is over 80 years old, is getting tired.
(Always) Next To Me
(Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly describing what was going on for me personally at the moment the plants were collected. I started the film at the beginning of the pandemic, just after I found out I was pregnant for the first time in April 2020 and finished it just before the birth of my baby in December of the same year.
i am doll parts
100% comprised of found footage, this is a meditation on the filmmaker's relationship with herself, others, and how she is perceived by both parties. Showing the filmmaker at various stages of her life, this short seeks to visualize the embarrassing ordeal of being known when you're at your most vulnerable.
The Living Witnesses
The Living Witnesses is a film tying the past to the present: from antisemitism, racism and the Holocaust of the Second World War to the new wave of racism emerging throughout Europe today. Following three living witnesses from the Second World War, survivors of deportation or concentration camps and three students from Luxembourg either born here or immigrated from Syria or the Ivory Coast. With the deportation and the extermination of Jews in mind, the six living witnesses discover how crimes against humanity still play a considerable role in the consciousness of our societies today. We are still living in the post Second World War era, but the “never again” statements seem to fade away.
Ada and Maxim
ADA a 23 year old girl. She was born in Nizhny Tagil, studied in Moscow at the University of Journalism and Literature, then she returned to her hometown. Maxim - a 23 year old man, He is a Polish Jew who works at the Uralvagonzavod foundry. This film takes us to the beginning of 2020 for an unusual wedding. The wedding of the young Satanists Ada and Maxim, who live on the outskirts of the city, in solitude near the forest and the cemetery. They leave the house mostly at nights to perform various rituals. This is an observation of a restless soul, seeking freedom and happiness, in a world that seems to her a dark cell.
Famous Potatoes
From the corduroy of the home hill to the peaks they've dreamed of for years, follow along with the Potato Boys on a journey into their own backyard. Filmed entirely within 75 miles of their homes, Famous Potatoes is the story of rediscovering your local landscape.
Do You Feel Nervous When I Approach You
The house, the parents, the ravaged city streets and the stream of thoughts. This is the first self-isolation that is not self-initiated. Only one apocalypse was mandatory to bring us closer.
The Final Touch
A mortician explains the embalming process while considering a family’s last moments to say goodbye to their loved one.
Just Girls
From period pains and hip dips to bullying and catcalling, five girls talk about the trials of growing up.
Soy Rocío
Rocío, a 17 year-old transgender girl in Rosario, fights for her identity amidst bullying, discrimination, and oppression. She champions LGBTQ+ rights, standing strong as a beacon of hope for those seeking acceptance and equality.
Holes
Two young men come running out of a dark alley, leaving behind another young man with his neck stabbed. The moment Danny received the message about the murder of Itzik, his only son, his life would never again be the same. Ten years of legal proceedings and new disclosures made during that time have slowly crumbled his faith in gaining justice. Along with the pain of his loss, he realizes that only he can find the truth of what happened that night. His journey in search of the truth reveals his complex identity for the first time: a spy who worked for the security services, an Arab who converted and became a practicing Jew, a man who felt pride, respect and sympathy for a country that has absurdly and horrifyingly betrayed him.
Minnesota Railroads
This documentary takes a look at Class I railroads – BNSF Railway, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and Union Pacific, short lines, Amtrak, commuter lines, and railway preservation in the “Land of 10,000 Lakes.”