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How to Make a Movie.
A director (P. Chann) tries to make a movie following the guise of Joseph Campbell's framework.
The Exception of History
“Historic Exception State” originates from my visiting the pyramid of the legend at Qixing Mountain. Through the stroll and walk, the sense and memory accumulated inside and outside the body and the guidance of many linking prick points, with the images which are born with timeliness and constructiveness of reality and fantasy, the film develops with the creation of exploring memories, history and nature.
Studio is in the Firing Square
In 1933, the Technofilm film studio was located on Melnichnaya Street in house number four, which has been known as Lennauchfilm for 80 years of its creative activity. It had another name, Leningrad United Film Studio, which it received on March 30, 1942. It was then, in the square of the shelling on Melnichnaya Street, the cinematographers of the Leningrad United Film Studio were able to realize the great idea – to capture the whole truth about the blockade. In the spring of 1942, the footage of the defending city formed into the film "Leningrad in the Struggle", which showed the world an unprecedented tragedy in the history of mankind and the unparalleled steadfastness and heroism of the city-front.
Edges of Good
2023 has been declared the year of the teacher and mentor. A documentary about the Center for Social Adaptation of Youth "Gran", which is headed by Mikhail Mikhailovich Nepogodin, a graduate of the Khabarovsk Pedagogical Institute. The Gran Center is the only organization in the Khabarovsk Territory that has a successful trusting experience of working with pupils and administration of orphanages. The social, pedagogical, environmental, sports and tourism activities of the Gran Center and personally Mikhail Nepogodin are a powerful tool for educating children and adolescents. The "Edge" largely models situations and relationships between people that a child will encounter in adulthood.
Because We Exist
The LGBTTIQ+ community in Puebla, raises its voice against violence due to lack of education of efficient sexual diversity with the voices of Renatta, Dinora, Ferlylu and Diane.
Say God Bye
Fascinated by the already legendary filmmaker, as a teenager Thomas dreamed of becoming his assistant. He wrote to JLG and asked him if he could "look over his shoulder" while he is at work. JLG never answered. Rejected by the master, the teenager must now find his own way as a filmmaker until that day in 2021 when he senses JLG's end is near. Thomas decides to visit the master. On foot. A pilgrimage to pay his (last) respects.His aim is to meet JLG in person. Thomas Imbach dreams of filming not the master, but WITH the master, for which reason d, he has packed his Aaton camera in his backpack. The closer he gets to Lake Geneva, the more intense his emotions, his anxiety, his uncertainty. SAY GOD BYE is the story of an obsession; it is also a story about the universal theme of love. It is the story of a man who finally summons the courage to seek out his beloved, to tell him face to face about his lifelong love and to say, “Thank you, JLG”.
Braunau
The documentary BRAUNAU accompanies the controversial architectural transformation of Adolf Hitler’s birthplace into a police station in the form of a long-term observation. The result is a portrait of a small town on the Austrian-German border, which is exemplary to decades of history of dealing with the National Socialist legacy In Austria.
Lauchabo
A sex worker falls into a coma. Bailan's work has provided solace to many, supported her family, and cared for a group of stray cats. What happened to her and her sisters after the licensed prostitutes were banned? We go on a journey to accompany Bailan's recovery and to see the struggle of the marginalized community.
Tyler, The Creator - Breaking The Mold
Episode one of 'Rap Caviar Presents' series - Hip-hop is one of the last frontiers when it comes to erasing hyper-masculine norms. But at the forefront of a generational shift toward inclusivity is Tyler, The Creator. Can a rapper like him make it past gatekeepers and be accepted?
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Hidden Ireland
Join host Peter Greenberg as he travels through the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, exploring Dublin, Belfast, Cape Clear, the Cliffs of Moher, Ashford Castle and more.
Spark from a Falling Star
A forbidding soundtrack of horns and distorted noise sets the scene for Ross Meckfessel’s Spark from a Falling Star, where shots of grocery store parking lots and dimly lit suburban roads breed atmospheres of low-level menace. At the other extreme, smooth digital renderings promise a shiny, spectral future utopia of clean lines and mirrored grids.
Dehors dedans
For more than 2 years, the director followed a group of researchers to try to capture their dynamics, their questioning and their work. A collaborative research in a boarding house within the framework of Housing First: How to learn to live with one's housing after a journey without a home.
Darkroom
Asli Baykal’s Darkroom, created with the young participants of the Sirkhane Darkroom Workshop in a border town between Turkey and Syria, opens the screening program. In it, children roam the area, looking at the world through the viewfinders of analog cameras, in an intimate vision of the medium as a form of play and a way to forge an alternate reality in a conflict zone.
Green City Life
A city that combines the benefits of the countryside with the advantages of the urban world. Manon and François, two young city dwellers, have left everything behind to travel the world in search of concrete initiatives that put nature back at the heart of cities. Between the intoxicating green columns of Mexico, the unusual production of mushrooms in dark cellars of Brussels or a fierce Japanese composting technique without odor, they discovered positive and accessible solutions that already work. Along the way, they met these ordinary people with revolutionary ideas. By linking all these solutions, they offer us their visions of what could be the beautiful city of tomorrow.
40°24.2983’ N 79° 58.251’ N
From implosions of steel mills after the decline of the industry to the demolition of the community hospital in Braddock, filmmaker Tony Buba stitches together footage from his extensive documentation of changes taking place across Pittsburgh and the surrounding region over the last few decades. In his multichannel video installation, the artist records Braddock citizens’ struggles against different industries to deconstruct and challenge popularized narratives of energy and economic transitions.
Liraz - the Double Divorce of Static
Follows the production of Static's debut album "Liraz", as well as the events that took place in 2022 in Static's life, mainly the dissolution of the duo Static and Ben-El Tabori and the divorce from his wife Sarit Polak in 2022.
California Light
One filmmaker's exploration of natural light in California and its influence on people's lives.
The Wonder Way
From her grandmother’s garden to California via the Mojave Desert and the cosmos, Emmanuelle Antille takes us on a journey to out-of-the-ordinary places, as we meet the people who created, imagined or discovered them. The Wonder Way is a free and personal quest, an inner exploration and a journey in search of unusual—but very real—spaces.
What Remains in Me
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past”, is announced in white letters, emulating the VHS format and quoting a famous line by American writer William Faulkner on the screen before the appearance of the protagonist in an everyday situation. This quote is the introduction and declaration of principles of What remains in me, director Tamara Mesri’s debut feature film. Through several meetings, reunions and the meticulous display of archival material (including photographs and family documents), the film recreates the story of Luba Alkon de Biegún, the filmmaker’s grandmother and an Holocaust survivor.
Le château d'Hérouville, une folie rock française
Life to the Limit
From the Revolution of Dignity to full-scale war: successful Ukrainian film producers took up arms to defend the country and cameras to record the gruesome reality. From the fragments of memories and their own film archive, veterans Pavlo and Yurko assemble a mosaic of the causes and consequences of today's Russian-Ukrainian war - from the end of 2013 to today. The authors went to the front as volunteers, visited the hotspots of Donbas, created the home-made drone "Furia", which is now named after one of the best air reconnaissance units. And all this time they continued to create in order to show the world the truth about the terrible war that became possible in the 21st century.
Modern Speed
Mats Christian Rude Halvorsen takes us on a teenage tour de force in the southern Norway of the 1990s, remembering the intense experience of growing up and the feeling of alienation in one’s own body while seeking nothing but a place to belong.
The Soldier's Opinion
Over the span of fifty years, the Israeli military censorship secretly copied soldiers' personal letters, extracting their views on the most contentious issues facing Israeli society. The findings were presented to leaders in a top-secret report identified as "The Soldier's Opinion."
Mikhail Shemyakin's Imaginary Museum: 60 Years of Research
For 60 years, the artist Mikhail Shemyakin has been creating his "Imaginary Museum", where he explores the interrelationships in art of all times and peoples. About the archive, which was hidden from outside eyes in a French castle until 2023, about the project that combines art and technology, the author himself, the project managers and curators, Big Data ideologists, IT specialists and employees of the Tretyakov Gallery, where an exhibition dedicated to the "Imaginary Museum" opened at the end of June 2023.
Heavy Metal
The girls of Champ Camp are typical teenagers — eager to challenge the old ways and looking to make their mark. But there are differences. For one thing, Adla, Rahmeeh and We'am are Palestinians growing up in Jordan’s Al-Baqa’a refugee camp. For another, they can lift as much as 100 pounds and are aiming for an Olympic medal. Heavy Metal is a powerful film asking just what it means to be a strong young woman.
House of Tulip
A short film that follows two Black trans activists as they run for office and work to build Louisiana’s first housing refuge that provides residency solely for trans and gender non-conforming residents. We’ll follow the founders as they fight to use their organization to protect and build community in a state with one of the highest murder rates in the country. Their journeys will highlight the dangerous, yet beautiful reality of what it means to be Black trans women in the deep South.
Wandering
For the past three years, a young Mexican asylum seeker has been forced to put his academic career and his dream of becoming a police officer on hold due to his immigration status. Socially isolated, he clings to the daily life he shares with his family and tries, as best he can, to occupy his time while waiting for the life he dreams of.
Lionel Frantz and Pepe in the Car
Lionel Frantz and Pepe sit in the car in the parking lot
Billets and Blooms
With the high carbon footprint of aluminum production, one entrepreneur realizes he's part of the climate problem when his company booms into success. To address the issue, he creates a climate neutral certification to guide companies toward decarbonizing the economy and to help consumers identify their efforts. For one employee whose family in Puerto Rico was affected by volatile climate conditions, the issue is particularly personal.
Desert Dreaming
Sri Lankan labor migration to the Middle East, using popular culture and anecdotal, intimate recollections to challenge monolithic narratives of personal history and middle-class Muslim upbringing.
Ball People
Each year, hundreds of people apply to join the Ball Crew at the US Open tennis tournament. Through a surprisingly rigorous tryout process, only a few dozen are ultimately selected.
Dildotectonics
Ceramic dildos intended to go beyond cis-normative sex toys; the forbidden love of Josefa and Maria during the Inquisition; a singing narrator… Such are the elements that make up Dildotectonics. A masterful blend of time and place, this film gives free rein to a search for pleasure that is free from all normative constraints.
Sin Eater: The Crimes of Anthony Pellicano
This two-part film on Hollywood's dirtiest P.I. uses never-before-heard recordings to reveal the extraordinary methods Anthony Pellicano employed to hide the sins of celebrities and their lawyers when they thought no one was looking.
Dorothy Arzner: Pioneer, Queer, Feminist
Dorothy Arzner was Hollywood's most powerful director, though History has forgotten her. She began working in the film industry at 19 as a "cutter" before the advent of editors, and gradually worked her way up through the studio system. Determined and ambitious, she was accepted as a director at Paramount, as the first woman to direct a talking picture for the star Clara Bow. A true pioneer of the cinema, she was the only woman director at a major Hollywood studio in the 1930s and 1940s, openly lesbian, dressed like a man, making movies "avant-gardiste" about women's condition. She was a mentor for Francis Ford Coppola, who considers her as one of the most important woman directors of Hollywood.