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No News for Today
The film tells about the various activities of citizens in 9 regions of Indonesia during the pandemic. Starting with morning activities until the evening, where the situation in each location is very different. The issue of pandemics and the application of health protocols is the most common problem in each location, as well as in other parts of the world. The existence of the Corona virus that is not visible in front of the eyes makes some residents see it as not a dangerous threat. This film records fragments of events from various perspectives of residents with their respective activities. The story of each location is combined into visual poems, which can be related or unrelated. The most important thing about this film's story is how culturally people face a pandemic which is recorded with the simplest cameras.
Option Zero
There are countless stories of Cubans reaching their dream destination of Florida as boat refugees. A lesser known route to the United States starts with a flight in a ramshackle plane to Guyana. Then the refugees travel to Colombia where they cross the jungle to arrive in Central America, from where they hope to reach the promised land of America—a hard and dangerous journey. Cuban filmmaker Marcel Beltrán visits them in a refugee camp in Panama, where one of the residents gives him an idea. Many people here have filmed their journey, she says, and these videos tell their real story. These jerky, shocking videos are interspersed with Beltrán’s footage of the camp, tangibly illustrating the difference between the hectic pace of the journey and the insecure life at the reception center.
Au dos de nos images
Years after the suicide of my bipolar grandmother, I discover her autobiographical account in which she recounts her experience of mental illness, her sentimental disillusions and her deep loneliness. In search of the truth, I decide to compare his testimony to the family films shot by my grandfather and to the memories of those close to him. To make this film is to make your voice heard, it is to try to order the chaos of its tragic existence, it is to free speech and end the silence in order to continue living.
A House
An observational documentary that focuses on the Tentative Association, which helps young people with autism develop independence and socialization skills. Seven autistic people live in a big house and, together with their helpers, they fill their days with household tasks.
The Ungemach Experiment, a Story of Eugenics
In 1924, a garden city, called “Ungemach”, was inaugurated in Strasbourg; it was restricted to couples who bore “healthy and fertile strains”. This officially eugenicist experience was endorsed by both political and scientific authorities, and the selection system lasted until the 1980s! To understand the genesis of such a project, it is necessary to revisit the history of eugenics. We will first go to England, where the concept was born and developed in the 1880s. Then to the United States, Switzerland, the Nordic countries, Japan, where, since the 1920s, large-scale sterilization policies have been implemented to eradicate health and social "defects", long before Nazi Germany. This question of eugenics is a universal one; its implementations were numerous and it still permeates ethical debates on medically assisted procreation techniques or Transhumanism today.
The List of Ten
In 2010, a probation officer conducts a routine check on 76-year-old Joseph Naso, in Reno, Nevada. During a search of Naso’s home for probation violations, the officer finds a shocking cache of materials: thousands of pictures of women in hosiery, mannequins dressed in lingerie, and a journal recounting dozens of sexual assaults. But the most important piece of evidence found is Naso’s “List of Ten,” a handwritten list with ten cryptic entries of vague locations, but no names or dates. Investigators fear that they have stumbled upon a hidden serial killer and his list of victims completely by chance. Working against time, investigators have one year to decode the list before Naso goes free.
Queer Empathy: The Story of Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head
An in-depth look into the music of LGBTQ+ singer/songwriter Jordaan Mason.
If God Were a Woman
Laura lives with her parents in L’Alfàz del Pi, in Valencia. Three years ago, she started her transition. Laura now faces adolescence, and with it, a series of changes that will mean a new chapter for her and her family. Each decision they make could be definitive.
The Hill
In his first film, Julien Chauzit gathers four young adults in their twenties who are on holiday in Martigues, and he shows their political awakening, in the face of the environmental disaster to come.
Kalpavigyan: A Speculative Journey
What is Bangla kalpavigyan? Is there such a thing as Bangla Science Fiction? Is there such a thing as Indian SF? This is our journey with the genre, captured and presented like never before in film. Beginning with the early work of writers such as Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain (Begum Rokeya) and the speculative mode in Bengal, and ending with the pioneering webzine Kalpabiswa, the film traces the historical arc of kalpavigyan over a century of the genre. From the genre magazines of the 1960s-80s and the writers and editors who ignited the movement by giving it shape and form, the film presents a series of conversations and critical reflections from researchers and scholars who have worked with the genre both in relation to Bengal and kalpavigyan as well as the wider phenomenon of SF.
Forgotten Ingenue
Isabel Jewell was born in Shoshoni, Wyoming, but her career led her to Broadway and eventually Hollywood, where she appeared in some of the biggest films of all time, including "Lost Horizon" and "Gone With the Wind". This is her story.
The Cleaner
One ordinary citizen keeps his family out of poverty by cleaning up bloody crime scenes across Mexico City. This innovative feature, mixing documentary, surreal animations and a Mariachi chorus centres around Donovan Tavera and his struggle to continue his bloody work whilst keeping not only his wife and daughter together but also his mind. The film brings many of the haunting dead clients of Donovan back to cinematic life and thus denounces the terrible violence raging in Mexico. It thereby reveals the extraordinary balancing act between life and death needed to survive in modern Mexico.
Volcanoes of the Caribbean: The Voyage of the Sir Robert Baden Powell
Documentary filmed on a sailing voyage to the eleven volcanic islands of the Caribbean.
May B
Inspired by Samuel Beckett's work, with its ten clay-coated performers, May B stages deformed bodies that are the antithesis of all the classical and idealized representations of the dancing body. Humanity, at its most fragile and moving, continues its endless journey, persisting against all odds, obsessed by an imminent end of the world.
Holes
Two young men come running out of a dark alley, leaving behind another young man with his neck stabbed. The moment Danny received the message about the murder of Itzik, his only son, his life would never again be the same. Ten years of legal proceedings and new disclosures made during that time have slowly crumbled his faith in gaining justice. Along with the pain of his loss, he realizes that only he can find the truth of what happened that night. His journey in search of the truth reveals his complex identity for the first time: a spy who worked for the security services, an Arab who converted and became a practicing Jew, a man who felt pride, respect and sympathy for a country that has absurdly and horrifyingly betrayed him.
Coral Ghosts
Coral Ghosts is the story of marine biologist Dr. Tom Goreau, whose life-long passion is to save corals, while on a mission to preserve his family archive of more than 7,000 photographs.
No News
How is it like to be forced to wait while people are drowning just a few miles away? "No News" gives an insight into the absurdity of European migration policy.
Who Owns My Village?
The Baltic Sea resort of Göhren is scenically located on the island of Rügen. But nature and tourism do not always go hand in hand. The rich investor W. Horst from North Rhine-Westphalia is building more and more hotels and accommodation, the planning of which is approved by four men on the municipal council without any problems. The motto is growth. But when the latest project envisages building in a nature reserve, Nadine and her father Bernd no longer want to accept that "the four off the peg" interfere in the environment of their hometown and determine their village. They see an upcoming local election, in which they must win a majority, as their only chance to oppose this.
Discovering Sci Fi on Film
Ian Nathan, Neil Norman and Stephen Armstrong run through their top 25 sci-films of the last century, including The Matrix and Planet of the Apes.
Vienna Symphony - Inside the Wiener Symphoniker
Luck and tragedy call the tune. The inside of one of the worlds most acclaimed orchestras – the Wiener Symphoniker where musicians exist between climax and inner ordeal.
Mortis
The Demon Nightmare in the form of a plague doctor creates nightmarish visions that appear to people in dreams
101 Roles 102 Lifes, Bajrush Mjaku
Documentary feature film focusing on the life and career of Bajrush Mjaku, a ground-breaking actor who was active and still inspiring the Theaters in Balkans and worldwide. A superstar in the art world, but little known outside the theaters professionals and audiences, why does Bajrus Mjaku continue to excite passions? This brilliant, gifted and visionary actor, father and grandfather give us his story overlapping some half of the century of professional success and dedication to his family, through most hard times to represents his Albanian culture. Always keeping his family together, always make audiences applause, smile and cry to his performance on the scene. His mission is Acting, and his Acting is the mission.
Go Go Kosovo!
Rio 2016 was the first time athletes from the newly emergent nation of Kosovo were allowed to compete in the Olympic Games. This film captures the behind the scenes struggles, hard graft and grit of the humble Kosovo Olympic Team as they prepare to make history on the world stage. Go Go Kosovo! is about triumphing over adversity and never giving up, no matter what. It’s the ultimate underdog story about hope and fighting for what you believe in.
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Blood Scales
A documentary on the people leading the fight in Cameroon to save from extinction the world's most trafficked mammal: the pangolin.
