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La Madrina
Film stock documentary on repression and violence against women, and how this violence is represented and replicated in film and television since its inception. From the burning of witches to the femicides of today, through the repression and control of the church and society in our bodies and in our way of existing as women. Through a compilation of films, television programs and manipulated dialogue we see how these stereotypes and violence against women continue to be replicated in real life and today.
Wellington's First Line
The historical events of the french invasions that took place in the three portuguese municipalities of Mealhada, Penacova and Mortágua.
Glass Life
A dynamic configuration of images and videos overlaid with musings on human existence.
Mrs. Deborah Corde
Using archival footage and the melodrama outlined in an email from a junk inbox, worlds of isolation and desperation collide in an ultra short film that brings to life a tale designed to scam someone.
Cheating Is Good for You
A wife who has cheated on her husband for 40 years reflects on her behaviour and the benefits she has reaped.
Party at Weesperflat
Two generations of residents of a student accommodation in Amsterdam take a trip down memory lane and talk about an infamous party that took place there in 1999.
Worthless
Worthless Tells The Story Of Steve Walker's Journey Through Lockdown, How He Coped & How He Sees The Future Of The World.
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.
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.
Spirit Film
Tracing the figure of the spirit through Philippine film, Raya Martin enlists archives, apps and AI to work against the colonial gaze, and wonders, amid the restrictions of lockdown, ‘how do we watch movies without cinema?’
Perennial Pilot
Perennial Pilot tells the story of lifelong pilot, Walt Bates, and his love of flying.
Applying Pressure: The Off-Season Documentary
J. Cole shares his struggles with overcoming creative limitations between album releases.
Reality Must Be Addressed
“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” Even though Sky and Johanna definitely did not have this quote by Mark Twain in mind, it’s written in the stars of the two young women’s journey through South Africa. A chance acquaintance turns into a relationship that shimmers in all the colours of love. Between Marmite toasts, joints, selfies and music they explore each other inside out. But what happens when the journey ends?
Blinded by the Light
"Blinded by the Light" is a two-channel video installation commissioned by Thai Film Archive in celebration of 124th anniversary of the birth of Thai cinema. The film aims to interrogate double- sided effects of how cinema itself has changed and developed through time, and how it affected both workers in film productions and its audiences along its journey.
The Black Cop
The Black Cop follows a former police officer’s experience of being both the victim and perpetrator of racism within the police. It’s a riveting confessional about compromise, fortitude and self-discovery - to find a way through systemic racism and homophobia, by pioneering and championing rights within the force and wider society.
Yours to Bury
On the morning before her older brother’s Confirmation, a young girl learns what it takes to keep her sister close.
Free as a Bird
Twelve-year-old Ariana dances her way through life. With her long hair swirling around her, she’s a ball of energy. But there’s something almost nobody knows about Ariana: her kidneys don’t work properly. She’d rather not talk about that, because she doesn’t want pity. But she’s going to have to, because they keep getting worse. What if she’s not able to dance anymore?
Cercanias / Gatos
Within the walls of a middle-class condo, three stray cats seek shelter, food and joy. Meanwhile, the daily lives of the residents become a mixture of affections and disagreements.
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.
Al Amari, temporary residence
Al Amari is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the West Bank. It has been here for more than seventy years and during this time its original appearance has been replaced by concrete buildings resembling a regular city. This is the Czech director’s second visit to this distinctive community, and despite many residents’ wariness of her, she forms friendships with the locals. The film consists of several portraits of refugees living in Al Amari and provides a report on the difficult everyday life of people surrounded by fear, war and violence. Taken as a whole, these portraits form the story of the filmmaker and her protagonists.
The Whisper of the Leaves
A poetic and contemplative journey of harmony between different forms of life that coexist on the earth. This film is a meditation on the effect of time, movement of the human spirit, and passage to new forms of life, through the eyes, ears, and bodies of three elderly land workers living in a small community in the outskirts of Bauta, Cuba.
life, like water, flows to greater bodies
Using footage gathered over the last decade, the work is a mediation on nature and greater perspective. Through the images and soundtrack, modern society’s chaos of stresses in control and information give way to the natural rhythm of the surrounding culture—an exhalation toward a power in collective cohabitation.
Other Tidal Effects
"And there are other tidal effects, mysterious and intangible."-Rachel Carson, "The Edge of the Sea" (1955). An attempt to communicate my lived experience of epilepsy through form. Mimicking mind-body dissociation and disorientation, while gesturing towards how relational entanglements sustain us. A riddle composed of fragments–cyanotype postcard exchanges with friends, an effusive letter read aloud by someone who didn’t write it, my EEG readout as a score, and my mother half-translating a song memorized in childhood.
Ma Nishma Manitoba
From challah to immigration to the wandering Jew, Ma Nishma Manitoba is a mid-length documentary that explores Manitoban Jewish stories of identity and history. Filmmakers Johanna and Sara put their own experiences in local context by chatting with several Jewish Manitobans, including a rabbi, politician, artist, Israeli immigrant, and others. Archival materials, illustrations, and stop animations connect history with present-day opinions and stories, as Sara and Johanna explore what being Jewish in Manitoba means to them and others.
partitions
Partitions draws on photographs, state documents, audio recordings and footage of domestic spaces and routines, to tell a story of Sindhi migration following the Partition of India in 1947. Inspired by the life of a woman who was born in Hyderabad, Sindh, grew up in Madras (Chennai) and lived the rest of her life as a Singaporean, the film juxtaposes fragmented recollections of the past with enduring practices of the present.
The Simplicity of Two Lives Between the Riot of the World
Strong Spirits
Indigenous peoples’ identity, language, culture, and value systems have been persistently under attack due to ongoing systemic racism embedded in Canada’s colonial laws, which ruptured the family unit. This story tells of the strength and resiliency of Indigenous peoples to retain their identity.
Unheard Sounds
A documentary detailing a small section of the Avant Garde music scene in Perth, Western Australia.
Stories from the Second Floor
From the second floor of his coincidental new home, the filmmaker observes his surroundings; a vast green marshland with birds, animals, a pond and people. The filmmaker wonders whether there could be a space in the absence of stories or whether the camera forces spaces to create stories for its own survival.
Three Venus
Love and admiration in 16mm. The fusion a beauty that exists throughout three generations; my three Venus.
Poleng
Naina Sen (The Song Keepers, MIFF 2017) explores the relationship between biracial identity and generational belonging through traditional Balinese dance. A revealing, deeply personal account of artist Jocelyn Tribe’s life, Poleng utilises contemporary movement, Balinese dance, and archival and family photographs to delve into the complicated tangle of mixed-race identity, growing up with an absent parent and intergenerational relationships. Layered, luminous and presented with at times excruciating honesty, this dance documentary duets presence with absence in chronicling a life only half-understood.