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Unwind 2
After a year of intense social distancing, a group of friends get together for one last big vacation to commemorate the near end of their high school careers and the futures they are quickly approaching.
Cause of Life: Angela
Angela Chaddlesone McCarthy was a teenage mother raised on a Native American reservation who overcame great odds to become a Kiowa tribe legislator in Oklahoma.
Lost Diamonds
Phil Breslin embarks on an adventure to unlock the hidden secrets of the Dutch Dakota and its fortune of lost diamonds.
The Edge of the Earth, or Lived 12 Robbers
Gena Chudnenko was born in prison. He also returned there as a teenager-an orphanage worker. And the guy would have had a typical fate for an orphanage: "He stole, drank, went to prison..." if he hadn't started building a temple in the Gene colony. And a miracle happened: a guy with no secondary education built a huge temple according to all the canons of ancient Russian architecture! Since then, Hieromonk Gerontius has built two wooden monasteries of rare beauty and several amazing wooden temples. And most importantly, he brought dozens of ex-cons to God. The author of the film tries to answer the question "how is this possible?", revealing the character of the hero.
The Beast of Brushy Creek
This doc investigates the odd occurrences that have happened for decades at a creek in Texas, which was an Ancient Native American burial ground.
Da Humbug
A heartwarming tale about a grumpy old man who dislikes Christmas but receives an unexpected gift that opens his eyes to the true importance of the festive period.
The Silent Pulse of the Universe
Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she pushed through the skepticism from her superiors to make one of the greatest astrophysical discoveries of the twentieth century. While Jocelyn was belittled and sexually harassed by the media, the Nobel Prize was awarded to her professor and his boss.
Only if Possible
As long as Xiong Chunwei doesn’t take one day off, he is one of the busiest delivery men from ZTO Express in Jiuxianqiao area, Chaoyang, Beijing. Every Saturday or Sunday, his wife and son take a bus from the “urban village” Picun, to meet him up for one hour during his lunch break. One afternoon, he made his mind to go home on his second hand electronic motor.
The Pig War - Oversimplified
A comedic documentary about a bizarre conflict fought in 1859.
Het Laatste Interview Met Peter R.
On June 24, 2021, only 3 weeks his assassination, Peter R. de Vries was interviewed for a podcast by Kees van der Spek. It became a conversation between two friends who look back on the adventures they've experienced. Little did the two know that this would be their last time together, and that this would be Peter's last interview.
Our Father,
On April 10th, 2020, Father Fred Mazzarella died from Cancer. He was a man with a powerful heart. He touched the hearts of many, including my own. This documentary will explore a glimpse into his life and the people he inspired.
The Sand Eating Shark
In Fernando do Noronha, offshore Brazil, lemon sharks have mastered the art of catching sardines in the surf zone… with the help of unexpected allies!
Examination of David Dinan
"Examination of David Dinan is a documentary short I made in order to examine the different ways that people can be perceived, as well as providing a character study of my best friend."
Deadliest Bite Force
Which predator has the strongest bite in the animal kingdom? Realistic graphics break down the bite of some of the world’s fiercest and deadliest—lions, crocs, sharks, gators, jaguars and more.
Five Scenes from the War in Afghanistan as They Appear in East Sussex
In a greenhouse in England, a military veteran talks about his experiences as a soldier in Afghanistan. Clement Boland served with the British Army in Helmand Province for more than ten years and has suffered from PTSD since his return. His therapy now consists of gardening. In five insightful scenes, he talks about how the landscapes of East Sussex and Afghanistan keep intertwining because of his repeated reliving of memories of the war. One image he can’t get out of his mind is of an Afghan man who “looked like Jesus.” Clement wasn’t the one who fired the shot, but he feels guilt nonetheless.
When You Are Close to Me
A world of silence and darkness. A world of things unspoken and unseen. It is the world in which deaf, blind and deafblind people spend their entire lives. But it is also a world full of fantasy, joy and an excited sensitivity towards outside stimuli, touches and vibration. The immense power of physical contact with and the closeness of caregivers is an energizing element in this humanist documentary exploration of the world of people with vision and hearing impairments. The filmmaker patiently observes the lives of patients living in the specific conditions of institutional existence and opens up her observations to a wide range of possible forms of communication and sharing, while also showing an understanding for the hard work and absolute exhaustion of the caregiving personnel.
We Came
“I was 7 years old when I crossed the border on January 23, 1965, into Hendaye. I have no memory of arriving in France. How can one give an account of an event of which one has no memory, if not by seeking one’s story in that of others?” José Vieira
Who Am I to Stop it
Who Am I To Stop (WAITSI) is a semi-observational exploration of isolation, art, and transformation after traumatic brain injury. We follow a young, mixed-race woman, a young, white man, and a middle-aged, white woman from the Pacific Northwest with brain injury. Despite vastly different experiences, all are beginning to test the waters of public performance and re-define a new life path as artists. Rather than define brain injury survivors by their deficits and limit their narratives to crash and recovery stories, we allow them to examine their lives, struggles, triumphs, self-doubt, goals, and personal agency. The film reveals art-making not as rehabilitation but a way to reconnect to a sense of purpose and pride, to protest disability stigma and social isolation, and to contribute to society. Brain injury survivors are not individuals on a private journey of healing; they are rooted in society, one that is often inaccessible and not understanding or accommodating.
A Beautiful Day
The film is focusing on two self organized pedagogical preschool projects in Greece based on the values of libertarian education and experiential learning.
Filme Hõkrepöj
A deep dive into contemporary Brazilian music. Guided by the composer, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist Kilza Setti and the Hésperides Música das Américas nucleus, the documentary takes us to a world where contemporary music, the Guarani and Timbira peoples, the colonization of America and poetic professions meet.
The Mirror and the Window
Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez knows that he is soon to lose two loved ones: his mother Gina Coppe and his best friend Danniel Danniel. Both ask him to film them during this final phase of their lives—Gina in her apartment in Mexico City, Danniel in a Dutch restaurant where he feels at home. What stories do they want to leave behind?
Objects
A fifty-year-old clump of grass, a sweater that once belonged to a French actress, and a forty-year-old sugar egg have become emotional treasures for the unique characters in Vincent Liota’s endearing, entertaining, and existential film. An NPR correspondent, a literary author, and a graphic designer let us in on the secret life of the special objects they keep as a way to preserve memories, conjure experiences, and find meaning in their lives.
Yoon
YOON follows the regular round trip taken by Senegalese routier Mbaye Sow, in an old Peugeot 504, along the 4000 kilometres that separate the two places he calls home – Portugal and Senegal. It’s a perilous and lonesome journey south, filled with (mis)encounters and all kinds of challenges and compromises, where a complex network of relationships and grey areas must be navigated.
Noh
In 2017, playwright Marco Canale staged a play called La velocidad de la luz (“The Speed of Light”) in the Villa 31 slum. There, a group of indigenous elderly ladies recovered their traditions in order to explore their bonds with modern culture, religion, politics and their own memories. Three years later, Canale replicated the idea in Japan and structured this film, together with Juan Fernández Gebauer and Ignacio Ragone, that revolves around that experience.
Unseen
Women from widely different cultures speak out about giving birth, and about the traumas they have experienced when the birth does not go as expected.
The Truth Has Changed
The Truth Has Changed is a solo monologue which traces the arc of American propaganda and misinformation from 9/11 to Trump from the perspective of the front lines.
The Best of Salieri
It is time to get out of the closet and show the world your teeth. The director, who considers himself to be Mozart, has been tootling with his films in the festival circuit for years, waiting for a big breakthrough. For an inexplicable reason, the world has not recognised his talent. Still only Salieris have garnered the fame and the fortune. There is a simple conclusion. The world has not learned anything in 200 years and keeps repeating the same mistake.
Slowly Here Below. Four Monologues
Raymond Renaud, a retired postman in rural France; Zahava Stessel, a former librarian in New York; Ivan Ivanji, a Serbian writer, theatre director, and diplomat; Alexander Bychok, a lifelong factory worker in Kyiv. They all have one thing in common – they are former prisoners of German concentration camps and survivors of the Holocaust.