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At Eye Level
Six people. Six countries. Experience at eye level one of their days from sunrise to sunset and be put in their chair.
David Garrett - Ein Weltstar ganz privat
Portrait of the flamboyant violonist David Garrett, from his childhood as a virtuoso to his renditions of Michael Jackson, Nirvana or Eminem's hits.
The unexpected tales of small ads
An empty room in a new city, the first apartment together – milestones everyone encounters sooner or later. Usually, these stories start, where others leave something behind: On online marketplaces. After scrolling through an ocean of small ads you find yourself in the apartment of a stranger buying a random object. Who are these people and what can they tell us about life?
Faith
The Virgin appeared to Sofía. Then she travelled to Lourdes and was cured of something incurable. In another time and another place, a group of doctors meet to discuss her case. What happens when science and religion meet?
Halmoni
Halmoni (Grandma) is a documentary essay that talks about the identity of the children of immigrants. It is the letter that a young Mexican / Korean woman wrote to her grandmother after her death, confessing to her the things that she could not tell her when she was alive because they did not share the same language.
Gold Mining and Violence in the Amazon Rainforest
Since Jair Bolsonaro assumed the presidency of Brazil in 2019, vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous communities that live in and care for it have been subjected to increasing violence and a rapid increase in illegal gold mining, encouraged by his administration's rhetoric and policies. The research had three interrelated dimensions: the policies adopted by the Bolsonaro administration, the violent attacks against Yanomami villages, and the destruction of the environment. The evidence strongly suggested that the policies and rhetoric of the Bolsonaro administration before and during his presidential term correspond with the rapid increase in environmental destruction and violence against indigenous peoples throughout the Amazon.
Fatima
Fatima has become an activist to challenge sex trade in her community. Married off to a pimp as a child-bride and expected to become a sex-worker by her in-laws, she has a genuine knowledge of and access to the women in her community. Fatima tries desperately hard to prevent her children going into the sex trade. She divorces her husband and as we follow her personal ups and downs: falling in love again, trying to start a new family, we find out more about why she chose to fight against the abuse and exploitation that has become systemic in her community. Despite the forces of police corruption and community ties hampering her efforts, Fatima appears to be rewarded both as an activist and in her personal life. But there is growing resentment and Fatima's hopes appear to be constantly overwhelmed by the challenges facing her and her new family.
Eli For Real
Shot over the course of three days, Eli For Real is a video diary/documentary about getting older and self-expectations.
La memoria del vuelo
Somehow we are all birders and birds at the same time. We capture moments, but don't we live caged in our memories?
The Power of Stone
A documentary by David and Barbarella Fokos about master stone artist Lew French. Though Lew French first appears as unyielding and imposing as the granite he works with, beneath this artist’s rigid exterior is a naturalist who has spent two decades building his dream home in the Brazilian rainforest, a father mourning the loss of his son, and a deeply spiritual man committed to the concept of karma. Despite waking up at 4am to meditate every day, Lew struggles to quiet his mind. In stone, Lew finds that which he longs for: stillness. As one of Lew’s friends puts it, “Don’t be tricked by the idea that he’s a stone mason. He’s sort of a philosopher, artist, spiritual guide who’s working with stone.”
The Phantom Touch
A user enters the virtual reality platform "VRChat", a space that allows socialization through avatars. With a bird avatar, he travels through diverse and beautiful landscapes, from a Buddhist temple in the mountains to the ruins of a post-apocalyptic hotel. In each world, he meets a different user with whom he will have quiet conversations, gradually revealing some of the conflicts that younger generations go through, such as uncertainty about the future and doubts about the purpose of their lives.
Max Holzheu: Un Legado De Brutalismo Guatemalteco
Max, a retired architect, recounts his tender story of discovering the passion for architecture from a young age and his journey to becoming one of the most important leading figures of brutalist architecture in Guatemala.
Lost Races: Bordeaux-Paris
Bordeaux-Paris was the best bike race you’ve never heard of: a midnight start, 550km-long, and ridden behind motorised ‘dernys’, with winners including Jacques Anquetil and Tom Simpson. More than thirty years since Bordeaux-Paris was last raced, pro cyclists Mitch Docker and Sam Bewley are aiming to recreate the infamous 1965 edition. How will they fare at the ‘Derby of the Road’?
Seven o'clock Strikes
Combining folk music and traditional ways of singing with a full orchestral sound, Bilja Krstić and the Bistrik Orchestra give a fresh lease of life to the old songs. This music, with its feelings, atmosphere and flavours represent traditions from the entire Balkan region.
Shock Treatment
An exhibition of the STOP GENOCIDE organization has sprung up in front of a secondary school in Brno. The demonstrators, Jan and Vladimír, use drastic photographs to discourage secondary school students from living irresponsible lives – and to collect signatures for a petition to ban abortion in the Czech Republic. The story follows their efforts during one school day.
Lebenslänglich Politik: Der ewige Schäuble
He has always been there. No one has been in German politics as long as Wolfgang Schäuble. He looked back on 50 years as a member of the German Bundestag. Schäuble was a man who helped shape the fate of the Republic for decades. He shaped politics - as the manager of German unity, for example. In 1990, he was the victim of an assassination attempt and fought his way back to life. He died in December 2023.
I'm Afraid Of Planes
I'm afraid of planes and even living next to an airport, I couldn't film almost any flying around here. I have to fly in a few months and the film is a kind of tool to pretend that I have control over whatever happens. I'm already talking about myself, I'm sorry.
They Saw Stalin
Meditative, an experimental and at the same time universal utterance about the nature of tyranny and totalitarianism.
The Analogy of Space
Due to long-term observation of the NPCs (Non-Playable Characters) the player witnesses certain documentary events that take place in different parts of the in-game world. However, these events are permeated by common cross-cutting themes: excessive cruelty and human indifference. To some extent the constant movement (which also accompanies the player-observer throughout the in-game space) is the only salvation from arbitrariness on the streets, but not always.
Munich 72
Munich 72 is a documentary experience created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Munich Olympics and the 1972 Munich Massacre.
Marianne
In 2016, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist Marianne Wiggins suffers a sudden stroke and must move in with her daughter, Lara Porzak, an artist herself. Lara undertakes to support her mother, helping her to complete her new literary work while filming. This intimate and painful huis clos sketches out the gentle intricacy of family relationships.
What Travelers Are Saying About Jornada del Muerto
Visitors and residents of New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin, site of the first detonation of an atomic bomb, contribute to the production of public memory as they offer reckonings and advice about making “the journey of the dead.”
Expiration Date
For several months, the director has been talking to people who find their food in the garbage. Having won their trust, he tries to understand their philosophy, the organization of the garbage dump society, the motivation for leading such a life. The author tries to understand the main reason for their situation and deplorable state. His interlocutors are happy to talk about their difficulties. While hidden from the eyes of other people, they talk about human destiny, politics and God.
The future of travel - is sustainable possible?
Exotic destinations, or staycations? As we make choices like these, we ask ourselves: Will we ever be able to fly without feeling guilty again? This film examines the tourism business today, and asks how the industry envisages the future.
Anatomy of a Scene: The Plant
This masterclass featuring writer-director Andrew Stanton was produced for the Criterion Collection in 2022.
Shouting at the Walls
Mental health may be invisible to some people, but for many people, it plays a large role in their college experience. This documentary film highlights the impacts of mental health on students at Keene State College.
Forward
Twelve strangers share their feelings of isolation, grasp of reality and eventual hope.
A Live Delas
In the outskirts of Recife, something that has always accompanied us is “being together”: Parties, dances, weekend meetings. It is an essential need to cope with everything we face in everyday life.
A Film Called: Bummer
A surreal concert movie that documents Cleopatrick’s historic headline performance at the Danforth Music Hall in December of 2021
The National High School
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires must elect a new school principal, and the students want to be a part of the decision. The school, in a state of permanent conflict, tries to resolve its disputes while a new wave of feminism percolates through the cracks of the building.
Katya's Path
Katya walks through the old snow-covered cemetery. Her legs get stuck in the snowdrifts. The girl is looking for her mother's grave, digging up slabs from the snow. The search for her mother makes Katya deeply immerse herself in traumatic childhood memories, relive them and walk the path of her own life. But where does this trail lead?
#KidsOnTech
Parents and teachers around the world struggle with their kids’ dependence on devices today. As Covid has forced our kids to rely on technology more than ever, “#KidsOnTech” looks at the impact on children’s developing bodies and brains, and asks: “How can we better prepare our kids for this digital world?” Voices from India to the U.S., France to China, Mexico to Japan explore what children need to truly excel in a future dominated by tech, including a Google designer, a German brain scientist, and New York Times journalist, Matt Richtel, whose story on a Silicon Valley school created an international media frenzy. THIS FILM PRESENTED IN HONOR OF JIM BOYCE.