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Xondaros - Guarani Resistance
The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They suffer from the proximity to the city, which brings lack of resources, pollution of rivers and springs, racism, police violence, fires, lack of infrastructure and sanitation, among others. Unable to live like their ancestors, their millenary culture is lost as it merges with the urban culture.
New Eye on the Universe
In July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released its first images, looking further back in time than ever before to show our universe in stunningly beautiful detail. But that was just the beginning. With tons of new data and spectacular images flooding in, Webb is allowing scientists to peer deep in time to try to answer some of astronomy’s biggest questions. When – and how – did the first stars and galaxies form? And can we see the fingerprints of life in the atmospheres of distant worlds – or even within our own solar system?
RACING TAHOE
Sally McRae took on her second 200 mile race with the goal to get the best out of herself, and to put herself out there for a podium position. This film follows the whole story of what it means to commit to finishing what you set out to do, and refusing to give up too early.
Shelter
What is a home? Can a body become a home? This short film tries to answer these questions about the construction of our identities through the intimate portrait of Galician transgender people.
Making Transatlantic
The cast, crew and creators of "Transatlantic" reveal how they crafted an adventure inspired by history that balances darkness with humor and beauty.
Cornerstone of Melbourne
A child discovers a timeless building while searching for her father, meeting vibrant creatives protecting their studios from an impending threat.
The Field
A forester living alone in the depths of Northern Poland knows every rock, notices every smallest anomaly in his forest. After many years of observing nature with great detail he discovers an unusual physical force. He measures it with his unique handmade instruments. For twenty years he’s been creating his own field of physics. The truth seems to be within reach, but with each answer, dozens of new questions arise.
Life is Climbing
Visually impaired climber Koichiro Kobayashi, also known as Koba, relies on the voice of his site guide, Naoya Suzuki, as if it were his own eyes. In 2021, the pair travels to the United States with the aim of standing on the spire of the bright red sandstone Fisher Towers in Utah
Estas imágenes fueron hechas para no mirarse
Images are more than what they show, it is only necessary to look at them again. Essay that deals with images that were made not to be looked at and that, behind their appearance, reveal a dark truth.
Incas: The New Story
Where did the Inca people come from, how were they organised, and why did they disappear so suddenly? Recent archeological exploration has allowed researchers to uncover another truth that contradicts the generally accepted history based on the texts of the Conquistadors - who viewed the Incas as bloodthirsty warriors. The patient work of a new breed of Peruvian, Belgian, Argentinian and American archaeologists is today revealing a new face of the pre-Columbian giants.
The King of Cormorants
Little Andrey grows up in a family of ornithologists and dreams of studying birds and their language. But one day he finds out that the birds on Lake Baikal are in danger.
Jakob Chugs a 4Loko 2
Jakob returns to his white whale in an attempt to rectify his past failures, ultimately realizing the powerful depths of what human beings are capable of.
As I Was
As I Was (2023) is a Diary Film encompassing footage spanning over 15 years, with a special ode to Kirsten Johnson and Jonas Mekas.
One Pill Can Kill
ONE PILL CAN KILL is a warning about the increasing dangers of deadly fentanyl aimed at an audience of middle and high school students in West Virginia, a state with the most significant substance abuse issues in the country. Hosted by former WVU basketball star Meg Bulger, the film features actual students who share experiences and ask questions. Meg ventures out to get answers for them - to a DEA Chemist, a family who lost a child to fentanyl, police officers who bust drug dealers, EMT’s who respond to overdoses, and a convicted drug dealer in prison - the kids learn that all it takes is one fatal dose.
Where the Forest Ends
In June 2022, British journalist Dom Phillips was murdered while working with the indigenist Bruno Pereira in the Javari Valley, one of the remotest regions of the Brazilian Amazon. The brutal deaths of Dom and Bruno shocked the world and exposed the unprecedented attack against indigenous communities and those fighting to preserve the environment. Where the Forest Ends is a personal essay in which filmmaker Otavio Cury reflects on the loss of his friend Dom, revisiting the first journey they made to the Amazon and the films they made together.
In the Midst of Chaos There Was Shape
In a forest, three elderly sisters are playing hide-and-seek. As the play goes on, time starts to lose its linearity, and past selves merge with present ones. What follows is an odyssey through dreams and memories, a hallucinatory exploration of time and collective imagination.
Fantastic Matt Parey
It is hard to imagine Polish science fiction without Maciej Parowski. He was the editor-in-chief of the Polish iconic monthly Fantastyka who stood behind the success of several generations of authors. People from across Poland were sending their texts to him. If it had not been for him, no one knows what would have happened to "The Witcher" or "The Cathedral", an Oscar-nominated film by Tomasz Bagiński.
Beyond the Straight and Narrow
How did the rise of LGBTQ visibility, political progress, and digital technologies in the 2000s come together to offer the abundance of complex queer and transgender representations we see today? Media scholar Katherine Sender shows how LGBTQ visibility and political progress have combined with new digital media technologies and television platforms to produce an increasingly complex range of queer and transgender representations.
Beautiful Poison
John Sabraw is a renowned artist who goes caving in waders to extract pollution from rivers and turn chemicals into pigments in a former coal town. Not only does he create artworks exploding with colour, he's building a multi-million dollar, carbon-neutral factory that will expand this process to create paint for industrial use, restoring miles of waterways and cutting carbon in one stroke.
One Aloe, One Ficus, One Avocado and Six Dracaenas
What to take, what to leave? How important are material possessions when you’re trying to save your life? Packages from Ukraine – filled with everything and nothing – wait patiently under a bridge to be found, while a voice stirs memories of frivolous and treasured personal effects, in an apparent heart-breaking farewell letter to Kyiv.
Goldie
By night Tim Goldrainer (Goldie) fronts a raucous rock group for thousands of fans. By day he plays for a different crowd and sings a different tune.
Milisuthando
Set in past, present, and future South Africa — an invitation into a poetic, memory-driven exploration of love, intimacy, race, and belonging by the filmmaker, who grew up during apartheid but didn't know it was happening until it was over.
Grandpa Wang's New Year
Documenting Grandpa Wang's life in the preceding days of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Ingresso animali vivi
Animals from Eastern Europe for the Italian food/meat industry used to be transported to the towns along the state border in Northeast Italy. From those conveyor-belt spaces of death, only one animal managed to come in and out alive.
A Good Doctor
According to the state program, a young paramedic is sent to the village of Novenke Konstantin Kolpakov. It is hard to work, there are not enough medicines, there is no necessary equipment. However, the young paramedic remains not only to treat people, but also to try to bring life back to the gradually fading village.
August Pace 1989-2019
Thirty years after the world premiere of legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham's August Pace, the original cast members gather in a New York City studio for the first time to teach their roles to a younger generation. Their reunion is a grand experiment in group transmission where the older dancers rediscover the work only to let it go and see it anew as observers.
The Last Clowning
Many laugh with the clown, but who makes the clown laugh? Maybe the clowns laugh to themselves. Maybe they'll just drink the clown juice and have fun clowning around all night. What is clown juice made of?
American Pot Story: Oaksterdam
American Pot Story: Oaksterdam tells the unknown origin story of how a handful of underdogs risked everything to spark the current worldwide revolution in cannabis policy. Reflecting Oakland, California’s rich history of civil resistance, they opened the first ever cannabis college, Oaksterdam University, and got Prop 19 - a measure to legalize cannabis - on the ballot in California, thus bringing this taboo topic to the mainstream and opening a conversation on its social justice impact.
And Miles to Go Before I Sleep
Nguyen was reported for a car theft and ended up being shot nine times by police officer Chen Chung-wen. Nguyen bled to death on the way to the hospital. The public supported Chen's use of firearms against the runaway migrant who resisted arrest. Were the nine shots the only cause of Nguyen's death? When the perpetrator isn't necessarily the true perpetrator, is the imperfect victim the one to blame?
Fatality
Pasha and his mischievous friend Dan arrive from their provincial hometown to Moscow. Chasing a dream of a whole new adult life, they get to meet the city crew of graffiti writers. Being inspired by the coolest street artist of the city, Pasha starts naively dreaming of becoming a part of his crew. For the sake of achieving the goal, he's ready to make it as far as possible.
Poison(s)
Vladimir Putin has literally poisoned Russian democracy. From Litvinenko through to Navalny, this stunning investigative series exposes Putin’s lethal criminality, while insiders like Browder, Panetta and Bolton attest to the ruthlessness through which he maintains power.
Choose Me
In Boutelfil, on the edge of the Chadian desert, a community gather to discuss the recent drought. For the first time in 30 years, they decide to organise ‘Amchilini’, a tradition that obliges unmarried women in the community to choose husbands in the belief that it will ward off misfortunes.
Description Found Years Later
A multi-dimensional portrait of one of the most distinctive artists in the history of Polish cinematography. Wojciech Jerzy Has always hovered over the line where the mainstream met the avant-garde and his biography was marked by moments of artistic triumphs and personal tragedies.
Station of the Butterflies
What should the old Baden marshalling yard in Basel be in the future: a gateway for goods and containers or a gateway for animals and plants? The story of a place where two networks of paths get in each other's way. An enigmatic film that explores how we deal with habitats on a case-by-case basis, from the perspective of a wide variety of people and animals.