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The film, written by Roman Super and Ivan Proskuryakov, tells about the only circus in the world where difficult teenagers learn circus art and become real artists. Using its example, the Uppsala Circus project shows how creativity can give children the opportunity to live more interesting and successful lives. The film makes it clear to teenagers that there are places where they will be welcomed, and people who are ready to understand and help.
Sorties
A pandemic diary filmed mostly in NYC, incorporating Super 8 and digital video recorded with Street's unique experimental eye. "From the uncertain first months when every foray felt perilous to various re openings, outings are recorded and reflections shared. Stills punctuate abstract and documentary footage, offering a collage of mediums in the face of the unknowable. "Sorties" is a military term-- a mission launched from a defensive position. That's sort of what a walk felt like in March 2020 in NYC. And then of course things changed; cases went up and down, the science evolved, fear waxed and waned. Of course, the pandemic continues; but I had to limit myself in making the film; March 2020-August 2021."
Outbreak: How Australia Lost Control
Jeremy Fernandez has a forensic look at Australia's Delta outbreak. We trace back through the data and decision-making to see how the virus spread across Sydney and the nation.
Letters from Saint Petersburg
Several different, but equally heartfelt and honest stories of queer people who share with the director thoughts about their gender identity, body, hormone therapy, relationships and freedom.
Dear Aki
Presented in the form of a series of fictional letters sent from Nina Kurtela to Aki Kaurismäki read against a backdrop of atmospheric exterior shots, Dear Aki is an experimental visual-narrative essay on the nature of identity, nationality and belonging in the globalized world.
Life As a Chudu
The film is about a Dagestani entrepreneur who feeds guests a miracle and is not afraid to be known as an eccentric. Murad Kazhlaev managed to marry two cultures: Dagestan and Moscow. At first, he and his partners developed a network of "Dagestan shops" in the capital. Then Murad returned to his homeland to open a cafe with a Moscow atmosphere in Makhachkala. He is on the move all the time and creates his own world wherever he finds himself. Right before our eyes, he is building a tourist camp on the mountain, which he fell in love with so much that he rented it for 49 years.
Parenthesis
The increasingly louder breathing of the sea, becomes the stage for the past and the future to perform.
Les Otres: A History of the LGBT+ Movement in Colombia
This documentary shows us that getting to where the rights of LGBT + people are today has been a long road full of adversity and unimaginable achievements. Until just a few decades ago: getting married, adopting children, teaching in a school as a transgender person, was impossible. Historical figures, who could be seen as heroes and heroines, supported by archive material, narrate the evolution of a powerful social movement.
Planet Earth about to be Recycled
In March of 1997, 39 members of the Heavens Gate cult committed ritualist suicide. This is their story.
About You
Forty-year-old Olya is a doctor with an ambulance crew. For a long time her life has been lacking in drama. But then comes the pandemic. It brings new anxiety, new risks, new worries about her sick colleagues, and it also brings… love.
Ningún lugar para morir
"Ningún Lugar Para Morir begins from an unexpected change of place. Everyday images in a territory with memories of war in southern Chile coexist with those of a childbirth. Light and darkness meet in colors, blacks and whites. The film portrays a forest, a death, and glimmers of light. Dedicated to Lena." - Lightcone
The Last Rhododendron
In a small village in the mountains of Uttarakhand, a daughter is lured by the possibilities of city life, while her mother is haunted by the prospect of their land’s desolation.
Ob Scene
A personal and sexual diary. A fake user’s manual whose sophistication and audaciousness free it from the traps of what has to be said and the agenda of commonplace. A discourse with disconcert and without instructions, with an exploring spirit and without restrictions.
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"The prevailing stigmatization of the 'villero' universe is fed back by the images. In order to dismantle this stigmatization, other images must be presented or we need to reveal what the existing ones seek to cover up. The slum is usually represented from a limited and deceitful visual panorama. This representation has an intention. Cinema and television are two image-producing devices that strengthen the stereotypes that we have about the people who inhabit these spaces. And what happens in the field of painting? Do clichés reign there too? This visual essay seeks to confront various works by national painters and sculptors, belonging to the Palais collection, with the kinetic images of current cinema and television, to reflect on both the differences and the similarities in the meanings and discourses that both regimes of images can produce." César González
Haut an Haut - Eine kurze Kulturgeschichte der Berührung
Helen With The Gold Teeth
Helen Harris, former systems engineer, epitomizes unabashed self expression and the radical act of self-acceptance through her journey to become NYC’s premier grillz jeweler.
Hello World
We follow the lives of Runa, Viktor, Dina and Joachim through the three years they go to upper secondary school. Told through the eyes of the four young people, the film gives us a window into understanding what it is like to grow up as queer in Norway today.
HE SAID / SHE SAID
Made during COVID-19 lockdown with limited resources, "HE SAID / SHE SAID" incorporates a series of reaction shots repurposed from the artist's collection of 16mm found footage to create a reflection on the world at large during a time of introspection, concern, and anxiety. The exchange of gazes evoke a gendered and racialized undercurrent. The footage was optically printed and hand processed into a single film print using expired hi-con film stock.
Heydenreich in White, in Red, in Blue
Film about the life of the founder and the first art director of the Perm Choreographic College, Ekaterina Heydenreich. Ekaterina Heydenreich stood at the start of Perm ballet school traditions. The title of the film refers to three portraits that foresaw tragic periods in the fate of a talented ballerina and thoughtful ballet mistress.
Lucina Annulata
Sunny. Semantic sequences guide the gaze, a gaze that is sometimes raised, propelled downwards, then too high or motionless in front of an unrecognizable and yet so familiar vision. The images, linked by echoes of chromatic palettes and linear layers, scroll to the rhythm of a voice, reminiscent of an incantation. Sacred.
Arizona's Dead Mall Gold
A retrospective of Arizona's lost retail history hosted by Retail Archaeology
Aruna Vasudev – Mother of Asian Cinema
Aruna Vasudev, Founder of Netpac, Cinemaya & Cinefan Film festival has touched the lives of many in the world of Cinema. This documentary traces her roots from her humble origins in an undivided British India, to corridors of cinematic universe. It brings together her journey as a film critic, cinema activist and an impresario, weaving a tapestry that connects the dots that make the large canvas that we know as Asian Cinema Renaissance. This film explores her dynamism painted through a narrative unfolding lives of critics, filmmakers, curators and programmers – who are hidden maestros that largely make the cinephilia culture and by large remain unsung in histories of Cinema.
Rat Tail
Director Chad Sogas reflects on his juvenile rat tail and unravels an unexpected journey of self-healing from depression.
Ditat Deus Donuts
Arizona is the Grand Canyon state, but among other things, it's also the state the Sonoran Sisters Pastry Company call home. Donut connoisseur Stanislav "Stan" Jok tells you about it as he drives to different parts of the Copper State.
Babushka
Twenty-five years after she moved away, Canadian filmmaker Kristina Wagenbauer (a participant in the 2019 Talent Lab) returns to her native Russia to visit her grandmother – her Babushka – with whom she spent part of her childhood, in this film brimming with tenderness and humour. The two women reflected in the mirror bear an undeniable resemblance, and each seeks to recognize herself in the other. Plumbing her memories, Wagenbauer hopes to re-establish a lost bond of intimacy and to confront the wounds of the past. Babushka has survived the Second World War, the break-up of the Soviet Union, the void that her daughter and granddaughter left behind when they moved abroad, and, more recently, the death of the love of her life. Despite all of this, she holds to life with a strong spirit of resilience.
Rangers: How the League Was Won
A look back at Rangers’ title-winning 2020/21 season with action and reaction from all the crucial moments of their historic Premiership campaign.