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Whale Island
Taiwan is an island country. Although it is surrounded by the sea, its people fear the sea since the politics, the history and the religious beliefs held on this island make people turn their backs to the sea. Oceanic literature author Liao Hung-chi and underwater photographer Ray Chin lead the audience out to the sea and into the water. They prompt us to understand the sea and to think about the possibility that the ocean might become our lives and the future of our country.
October 27th, 2020
October 27, 2020 was the second night of protests in Philadelphia over the killing of Walter Wallace, Jr.
Imprints of Absence
Inna Dmitrieva's "Imprints of Absence" is, in the filmmaker's own words, 'an attempt to reconcile a love of one's city with the impossibility of returning there as home'. With a sense of distance, nostalgia and care, a city washed in blue develops, its corners turning into cyanotype photographs. Preserving image to preserve memory, the film explores the complicated relationship between where you are from and how much of it you carry with you.
Wooplash
A film made by Borders Additional Needs Group's Branching Out Youth Group as part of Film Town, Alchemy's year-round community filmmaking project.
Thanks For Watching
"Zhongsen Theatre" opened in 1968. At that time, the theaters competed with each other. The Zhongsen Theatre still managed its own characteristics in many theaters. However, after 2000, the old city was down, and it was closed to the changes of the times. The company was closed down and idle. As the old city began to recover, the theaters also changed hands, but most of them did not present the cinema, and the Zhongsen Theatre was sold to the construction company in 2016. The film records the demolition of the old theater and the rescue of two antique projectors, hoping to find a more suitable place for them to preserve and continue the spirit of the times. After the demolition is completed, the site is intended to be used as a new residential construction site.
Vitrines
People and mannequins are confused in the reflections of the showcases of a shopping mall.
Iron and Oil
In a small village in eastern France, the same gestures are carried on daily. Chopping wood, milking cows, sewing a garment, growing vegetables from the earth... These are all actions repeated from generation to generation, day after day, until bodies are exhausted.
Solo
Over a warbling electric soundtrack are dancing paper dolls, branches and trees, women made of clay - there once was a girl who lived in the woods, she climbed a tree and then she became.
IRA
A documentary-short on the life of Ira Sanders, a commodity trader turned educator whose first-hand experiences on 9/11 greatly influence his life.
Se Siembran Flores
In the midst of the social unrest caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Calpan, Puebla, there is a small corner where hope is harvested daily: the people's asylum.
The Filthiest People Alive
Sextia N'Eight is an alternative drag performer and artist in Baltimore. N'Eight's drag includes sticking syringes through her cheeks, stapling herself until she bleeds, and eating dead rats. Outside of drag, she works as a mortician and taxidermist. Her drag incorporates and confronts much of the death she sees in her line of work, and evokes many difficult experiences she had growing up in Baltimore. Two years ago, N'Eight’s mother died of cancer, and she is forced to face the reality that despite her celebration of filth, death, and rot, she is not immune to life and death's inevitable sufferings.
Godfather, Your Bag Is Burning
A group of LGBT people in committed relationships fantasize about their wedding day in a country where same-sex marriage is banned by the constitution.
Random Patrol
Law and order are Matt’s duties. Every morning, this US police officer in the suburb of Oklahoma City takes his car to patrol in town. Every morning, he worries about the arrests of the day. Every morning, he wonders how much this job has changed him.
Murmurs of the Jungle
As whispering trees pass on stories of gods and ancestors, various inhabitants of a small village in Western Ghats speak. Gradually, a story unfolds that encompasses all of humanity and its symbiotic relationship to nature. Woods turn out to form a bridge between present and past.
Inner Freedom
A man tries to get a group of young people trapped in drugs out through philosophy.
Incluídos
Incluídos is a documentary about waste pickers in Rio de Janeiro, one of the most precarious and unhealthy working conditions that exists sustaining big corporations. A lot of profit is made, but not for the own workers.
Mothers of Invention
The story of Newcastle's dyke-led queer club scene of the late 80s and early 90s that gave birth to Pride on Tyne.
Ur
Ur is a film about the disappearance of Europe’s last primeval forest. The future of this natural environment is under pressure, because of conflicting political interests. Ur shows how political decision making influences the formation of landscapes. The film gives a voice to the people who have been involved in the disappearance and the future of this forest, from the Polish government to lawyers of Client Earth as well as the European Commission. Ultimately, it brings into view what the death of a living organism means.
Bob @ 100
May 2021 will mark the centenary of the birth of British animator Bob Godfrey. To celebrate, The Bob Godfrey Collection is making a new documentary looking at the life and career of this Oscar & BAFTA legend of British animation. Featuring archive footage, interviews of Bob himself and new contemporary interviews, the documentary will look at all aspects of Bob’s life, from his beginnings as a background artist through to becoming an Oscar winning filmmaker , as well as his career as a Royal Marine Commando.
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.
The King Snow Movie
Watch the best snowboarders raise the bar at legendary street spots and backcountry jumps, producing pinnacle parts that package groundbreaking riding and stunning visuals to a fire soundtrack. Strap in. This is The King Snow Movie.
The Reuben
Gus kicks off another certified Bronze full-length, with Trahan, Rizzo, Shanahan and crew delivering the goods. This is what we’ve been waiting for...
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.
Koto: The Last Service
After nearly 40 years in operation, the family-run Koto Japanese Restaurant is closing down. Over the course of its final service, the small Vancouver Island community bids farewell.
CLOSE TO THE EDGE
A unique documentary about a guy who tries to find his way while struggling with mental health
Her Five Lives
Saodat Ismailova looks back at the history of female heroines over nearly a century of Uzbek cinema in order to chart the changing perception of women and the state of the film industry more widely. Commissioned as part of Asian Film Archive’s Monographs, a series of essays on Asian cinema.
Milk Factory
A short film inside a lactation room in the U.S. Congress Longworth House Building reveals the hidden labor of working mothers. In the Capitol lounge, women from across the aisle mingle and bond, a rare opportunity in an era of intense divisiveness. Coincidentally, the week Botz was filming, Congress adopted the Federal Employee Paid Leave Act, which now offers 12 weeks of paid parental leave to approximately 2.1 million federal workers.