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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.