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Because I Choose Freedom
Matthew Leung Ming-hong had been working as a breaking-news reporter for six years in Hong Kong but recently emigrated to the United Kingdom because of concerns about growing restrictions on journalists working in the city. Three Hong Kong media outlets popular with the opposition have folded in just six months, following the introduction of a controversial national security law in Hong Kong on June 30, 2020, raising fears about the future of press freedom in the city. The 29-year-old is starting a new life in Britain’s northern city of Manchester and plans to eventually resume his journalism career in Europe.
Spring, Seeing Hong Kong Again
A documentary about Hong Kong after the pandemic. It focuses on an opera singer and his journey.
To Wander So Many Miles In Vain
A “filmic ballad” in the heart of the city of Rio de Janeiro in which Angelica De Paula shares her daily life during the first lockdown. Her story and her songs evoke the domination and power relationships which materialize in bodies. It is in this form which they call “documentary dance” that Sacha Rey chooses to respond to the mutism of “necro-liberal” society which produces and makes invisible “sacrificable bodies” (F. Vergès).
El Rio Grind 20 Years
El Rio Grind 20 year retrospective. ERG is a skate crew from Tampere, Finland. Over 20 years, they have been filming and making skate movies year after year. This is the director’s visual overview of these days.
Pure Land
Builds a loose narrative around a long distance conversation between a young Tibetan-American man and his Tibetan-born mother. The character wanders through a natural landscape resembling the exiled homeland of his mother, taking photographs in an attempt to “find a frame that evokes a sense of belonging.” The camera in these works is used as an instrument to reveal the impossibility for displaced Tibetan individuals to be seen in actual Tibetan landscapes.
Demétrios
Performative and expository documentary, which highlights the contrast of experience among transgender men in Brazil. The short film brings five characters - Kenai, Caetano, Augusto, Pietro and Daniel -, each one reflecting a different reality.
Asiatischer Crash, die Lehren aus einer Finanzkrise
Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma
Why did Simenon, a novelist who contributed so much to the seventh art, like to say that he hated the cinema? Because he could never become a director? Because, claustrophobic, he was unable to lock himself in a projection room? Clearly, there is an affair between the writer and the cinema and Georges Simenon is the main protagonist. An investigation that is more than ever topical as Patrice Leconte has announced his plan to adapt an investigation by the famous Inspector Maigret.
The Mind Polluters
The efforts of grass roots volunteers, legislators and Christian academics to expose and stop the efforts of corrupt organizations and groups to infiltrate the nation's school systems with pornographic and pedophilia materials.
We Are Spartacus
On April 22, 2022, Spartak, one of the most famous football clubs in the world, will turn 100 years old. This is an important date not only for the history of the club, but for the entire national football as a whole. Popular love that goes far beyond Moscow and even Russia is something that no club in our country can boast of. Golden times are replaced by trophy drought, great coaches are replaced by mediocre ones, great victories alternate with the most offensive and even shameful defeats. But the love of the fans and the passion of the fans is the foundation on which the club stands.
A History of the World According to Getty Images
How can something in the public domain not be publicly available? A critical investigation of public domain—a legal term that has nothing to do with free access or public availability—that uses powerhouse commercial archive Getty Images as its example. If the world's visual history remains locked behind a paywall, who will ever see it?
Jokes About War
Alexey Suhanok, a Belarusian stand up comedian, lives through the horror of a next-door war by making edgy jokes on the subject. Alas, this self-defence mechanism doesn’t stop him from having a nervous breakdown on his own.
Where Have All the Lesbians Gone?
Lesbian director Brigid McFall and lesbian photographer Vic Lentaigne create a series of intimate, revealing portraits of what it means to be lesbian in 2022, exploring why it is that so many young women who are sexually attracted to other women now prefer to identify as queer.
Les appelés de la guerre d’Algérie, un si long silence
Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70
A Wind Grazes Your Door
In "un viento roza tu puerta", tradition mixes with the songs and voices of the past and present, which begin to rise from the earth like little dusty reminders, speaking of a violence perhaps premonitory, perhaps forgotten.
Cuddle
A massive link-up of 17 alpine summits pushes a famed climbing duo to the brink - and into each others' arms.
No Sex
Never before in Western history have our sex lives been so free. And yet one taboo remains: Abstinence, individuals who have no sex at all. Seven men and women talk about why they have no sexual relationships in frank and emotional accounts of their existence and deepest desires.
One Hundred Years Older
What happens in the eyes of a 100-year-old filmmaker? Rolands Kalniņš, one of the great masters of Latvian cinema, sits down to have his photo taken and looks straight in the lens. Kalniņš’ life has spanned an authoritarian regime, a world war, long years under Soviet occupation and censorship, and retirement in independent Latvia. His films have been censored, destroyed, found and restored. But here, like Herz Frank once did with a child, for ten minutes we shall observe the micro-emotions of a man who has dedicated his life to film. Confronted directly by the tool of his trade, the camera. As we face Kalniņš eye to eye, we hear the sounds of his present, and the memories of his past.
To Repaint your Life
Alexander Torbica was raised in a dysfunctional family where both alcohol and violence were present. Today he's 23 years old and has gotten an opportunity to create an installation about his life. His mother hasn't visited him in 5 year. Now He presents his life to her.
When I Get Grown - Reflections of a Freedom Rider
Trauma experienced by a seven-year-old sets him on a course to become a civil rights legend and change the course of a nation.
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.
The Painting That Dries
The experimental film "Painting That Dries" is a remake of the 2016. film Paint Drying. A 45 minutes unbroken shot of white paint drying on a cardboard.
Reflexos da Cheia
In 2021, the biggest flood of the Rio Negro occurred, director Jimmy Christian's gaze captured images of the city of Manaus reflected in the waters and documented this curious phenomenon in an unusual way.
The Sticklet Weaver
Outsider artist Brent Brown reveals a lifetime of mental health challenges and his ability to overcome them by creating a world of cardboard puppets.
Died Suddenly
5 billion vaccinated worldwide, and many are dying suddenly. Is this the greatest orchestrated die-off in the history of the world?
The Mississippi
The Mississippi is an interactive documentary that explores the relationship between the river and the lives and livelihoods of those living along its shores.