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Gravity and Radiance
Former gangsters, former homeless people, abuse victims, people struggling with the meaning of life... these hurt and lovable "sinners" gather at a Christian church in Kitakyushu that supports the needy. A documentary that intersects the passion play of Christ performed by them, the hardships they went through, and their current stories.
Iron Sharpens Iron
Competitors and rivals in the Paralympics, but teammates at home, these two athletes share their love of sport and admiration for each other.
We must put away the summer...
An experimental short film dedicated to the Mother of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda. Highly inspired by Agnès Varda's Along the Coast (1958).
The Arts at the University of Mississippi
A documentary highlighting the support of the University of Mississippi's outstanding departments of Art and Art History, Music, and Theatre and Film, and showcasing UM as the paramount place to study and explore the arts in the state.
The Iron Man
The protagonist of the film works at a metallurgical plant, lives in a small town. Allowing him to spy on his routine life, he talks about his career in large-scale production, the difficulties and responsibilities, the combination of work and family life. From an ordinary story, his words turn into reflections on various problems of survival in modern realities. But he does not lose optimism and ends everything with an inspiring phrase.
The Last City
In 1924 Alexandropol received the name Leninakan. On October 22, 1926, the first earthquake occurred. In the same year, the first cinema was opened in the city, which was named "October" in honor of the Great October Revolution. On December 7, 1988, the second earthquake occurred. Two years later, the Soviet Union was gone. And only the cinema withstood two earthquakes, remaining a symbol of the era.
Last Known Interview With Zachary Weinstein (100 Years Old)
I had the chance to interview a revered independent filmmaker four years after his death.
Horny Kid - A film essay
The filmmaker's mother describes stories of his lustful youth over the phone, causing them to reflect on his current love life at the age of 30.
An Excavation
In 2014, 45 crates of looted antiquities were discovered at Geneva Freeport in a warehouse belonging to disgraced antiquities dealer Robin Symes. They contained tens of thousands of archaeological remnants worth around £7 million. Three of the crates were sent to forensic archaeologists Dr Christos Tsirogiannis and Dr Vinnie Norskov for research. An Excavation documents Tsirogiannis and Norskov’s investigation into a series of vases from the Geneva Freeport crates. Made in the 4th century BC by Apulian artisans, these vases remained buried in tombs for 2500 years before they were clandestinely excavated from their now irrecoverable contexts. The objects’ journeys through the hands of looters, smugglers, restorers and dealers are counterpointed by the hand-painted stories that adorn them. Made for burials, the vases depict scenes from the underworld – forensic and mythological narratives start to intertwine.
No Man is an Island
An unlikely triangle, with a magnetic homeless Siberian in the center, and partner in surviving (his family) and a home girl by its sides. Everything is hopeless, like Petersburg ruins, the hero is leaving for a while.
Long Way Home
After the disputed 2020 presidential elections in Belarus, a group of new exiles led by the winning candidate use their network to help Ukrainians fight the war with Russia.
Finding 'appiness
After 70 years of keeping a devastating secret, eccentric fashionista Allan Bradbury is on a journey to recovery. By opening up about his childhood trauma can he find true ‘appiness in later life?
29 Hour Long Birthday
British filmmaker Mark Jenkin (whose latest feature Enys Men is part of this year’s Main Slate) mails this postcard from a melancholic holiday in New York and its environs, rendering the city in grainy monochrome Super 8 and a familiar urban soundtrack of jackhammers and traffic hum. In voiceover, the filmmaker relates his experiences of celeb-spotting and visiting movie locales, buying overpriced essentials, and counting MAGA bumper stickers on Long Island.
3 Promises
After leaving home as a teenager, Mohamed made three promises to his mother. The moment he arrived he broke one — and here began his tumultuous coming of age abroad.
Theo Anthony Makes a Stool
A documentary filmmaker talks us through the steps of his latest project — a wooden stool.
From Mexico to Vietnam: a Chicano story
This film tells the story of Jesus Duran, who immigrated from Mexico at a young age, and did his military service in Vietnam where, through a heroic act, he saved his platoon, and was awarded a posthumous medal of honor in 2014.
Sebastian Vettel: For One Last Time
For One Last Time. The final chapter of a remarkable story. #DankeSeb
The Garden of Fauns
Nazario, founder of the Spanish underground comics movement and pioneer of the gay graphic novel, looks back on his eventful life, his flamboyant and explicit works. 16mm films, photos, illustrations and paintings document the spirit of departure of a counter culture, but also recount Nazario’s great love for Alejandro with whom he was together until the latter’s death. Profession and passion merge in this artist.
Shireen Abu Akleh: The Extrajudicial Killing of a Journalist
In this short documentary, the Forensic Architecture research group reconstructs the death of the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. While reporting on an Israeli military raid on a refugee camp in the West Bank in May 2022, she and her colleagues came under fire, allegedly from a military convoy 200 meters away.
People's Park
A detailed collection of the voices, struggles, and events at People’s Park in Berkeley, California. The footage, recorded between February and October of 2022, highlights a transitional period of the park and its historically marginalized community. The observed human experiences illustrate a grounded portrait of a larger tendency in the West.
Zona
Using the method of pure observation, Viktor Németh focuses on depicting the life in ZONA (one of the last ghettos in Amadora, Lisbon), raising a lot of questions: is it an art group, community, or simply a lifestyle? Fragments of visually inventive pictures, shattering sounds of electronic music mercilessly flowing from loudspeakers and blurred frames of interactions, inaccessible to us, only intensify the mythicized character of ZONA.
Full Moon Serenade
Behind the all-seeing eyes of surveillance cameras, there is always someone watching the Latvian capital. "Full Moon Serenade" offers the viewer a unique opportunity to get to the other side of the surveillance cameras on the nights of the full moon to see Rīga's night life in all its quirky forms. The film is a tribute or a serenade to the nocturnal city, night dwellers and night watchers.
When The Pleasure Stops
Nine straight months of comedy shows across the U.S. and Canada have left Stav burned out and fat as hell. Follow along on the last two stops of The Prince of Pleasure Tour and enjoy this little sneak peak of life on the road plus some of the best unreleased crowd work moments from the entire tour.
#4 Mangifera
A book is buried under a mango tree in a backyard in Cape Verde, initiating a journey to reconstruct a fictional, geographic, emotional, and identitary cartography of loss, based on the five stages of grief.
A Pretty Little Party
The documentary depicts passionate and diverse people who decided to create a dance group during the Covid-19 pandemic in order to start learning folk dances ahead of the 2023 Latvian Song and Dance Festival. What starts as a joke in a WhatsApp group turns into a serious commitment and soon plans are being hatched and rehearsal rooms are being booked. Will the dream of the dance troupe come true? The film also highlights the problem that many amateur art collectives have experienced during the two years spent in the pandemic.
APOPHENIA
Apophenia is a horror film, a video essay and a travel documentary in which an urban legend becomes the starting point of a Lovecraftian tale in search of a disturbing unknown. The images emerge from the web intertwining and overlapping, showing themselves as symptoms of a collective schizophrenia to which the user slowly succumbs.
The (Other) 700 Club
On a corner in Brooklyn, a community of delivery drivers gather to share advice and experiences.
When We Dance
On February 24, 2022 Vladimir Putin and his Russian army invaded Ukraine, beginning an ongoing conflict that has cost thousands of lives and created ripple effects throughout the world - particularly in the international competitive ballroom dancing community. Composed significantly of Ukrainian and Russian dancers, the world of top elite dancers has been thrown into turmoil from the war. Told through interviews and a narrative dance piece that highlights the shared humanity that connects us all, When We Dance explores the personal, often heartbreaking, stories of the war from a handful of the world's top ranked Ukrainian and Russian ballroom dancers.
MUNZIGER
Cycling down the streets of São Paulo's West Zone, Munziger blindly follows his instincts.
Triptych
Big Clay #4, a 12-meter sculpture by Swiss artist Urs Fischer, was installed in Moscow in August 2021 and caused a mixed reaction. Gradually, the Russian context supplemented the work with two new parts – thus, from a single work, Big Clay turned into a triptych.
Doctor on Display: Llangollen
This time we’re off to North Wales and the historic mill town of Llangollen – home to a Doctor Who exhibition with that little bit more to offer. Llangollen sits alongside the River Dee in Denbighshire and is a popular tourist attraction, not least for its steam railway and awe-inspiring aqueduct. In this film we’ll be travelling back in time to visit the exhibition, enjoy the scenery, see the props and monsters, visit the DAPOL factory and hear the stories of those who worked there … and those who have happy memories of visiting one of the biggest Doctor Who exhibitions ever mounted!