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Clodagh
This unique documentary celebrates the work of one of Ireland's greatest living female designers. Clodagh has been an International design icon for over half of the 20th century. She continues to defy all barriers of gender, age and race to forge a critically acclaimed global career. We explore what drives this single-minded designer.
The Image You Can't Submit to Journals Anymore
The most widely-used image in academic history is no longer accepted in journals. So what happened?
Work Girl Play
"Home videos from my childhood and teens, archive and found footage sampled with with new material make up this personal documentary that reflects on how women experience themselves as objectified beings affected by media and social constraints. The work is a response to old material, some of which I did not have control over, yet it has still defined me." A poetic narrative, full of contradictions, about a girl who has an awakening to these effects that lead her to contemplate control over her own identity, ideology and political awareness.
Från Strandvägen till Rigagatan
Christer was once a successful real estate agent and restaurant owner, but became homeless after having lived for 36 years in a nice apartment. A short documentary of reflection.
Pass the Mic: A Movement Generations in the Making
Lizzo, Lil Nas X and Kendrick Lamar use their music as a launch pad to inspire others, shatter stereotypes and empower through their art.
The Real Story of January 6
The "Real Story of January 6", a feature documentary by the Epoch Times reveals the truth that has been hidden from the American people.
Cannabis Sets You Free
A documentary essay about activists from Slovenia, former Yugoslavia and other EU and world wide countries who have dedicated their lives to cannabis use. While some have fallen foul of the law, all of them have somehow gone down the road of the cannabis revolution.
Living Wine
Merging sweeping wine country footage with insightful interviews, filmmaker Lori Miller showcases the dynamic natural wine movement that is transforming a growing number of Northern California vineyards.
The Dreamer
Chishang Township is known for its superior rice quality, golden rice waves, and unique cultural ambiance. From its initial struggles to the historic achievement of cultivating the highest-priced rice, the film traces the town's rich history and profound humanistic depth.
Never Coming Back
A reformatory for teenage girls in the Polish province. Many will be single mothers. The camera follows them gently and at a (not too close) distance. A gaze that does not judge and reveals painful truths.
Cosmic Chant. Niño de Elche
The film aims to answer two questions: What is flamenco? Who is the singer Niño de Elche? This child prodigy, who inspired artists such as C. Tangana, started challenging the rules of flamenco in his adolescence, which led to a violent confrontation with his family and flamenco fans that continues today.
Newsreel 4517 – Across the Water into Freedom
The film presents a portrait of Zied Abdellaoui who – seeking a better life – came to Austria through the Balkan route. He walked 4517km, experienced 26 illegal push-backs, several violent abuses and now resides without documents in Austria.
The Mysteries of Cosquer Cave
Over 35 meters below sea in France’s Calanque National Park hides the entry to one of cave art’s greatest masterpieces: the Cosquer Cave. Only accessible underwater, this incredible cave adorned with paintings more than 27 000 years old is little known, yet threatened by rising sea levels. In order for its preservation and to make it accessible to the largest number of people, the Southern Region (Provence-Alps-Cote d’Azur) is creating a full-sized replica of this hidden gem and its incredible paintings.
Intentional Crime
A documentary about the last days of Baktash Abtin’s life, who was murdered by the Iranian regime. He got infected with covid in prison and the authoriti simply refused to do a myth about it until it was already too late.
Shirampari: Legacies of the River
In one of the most remote places in the Peruvian Amazon, an Ashéninka boy must overcome his fears and catch a giant catfish using only a hook to start his journey as an adult.
Life (Short 2022)
This short film invites viewers to take a moment to embrace the everyday things we take for granted, and celebrate the miracle of life itself.
Every Time I Die
An hybrid feature film between documentary and fiction that approaches cinema as a ritual of symbolic transformation of death in the experience of 7 trans women. In this film, testimonies are combined with scenes that plunge into the surreal and the fantastic to narrate death from different angles, death related to transfeminicides, only in the year 2021, 36 trans women were murdered in Colombia; social death that seeks to annul in exclusion and silencing the life that makes it uncomfortable; and the multiple deaths that we experience in life, which speak of renunciations, forgetfulness, separations, changes.
The Sound of Time
Is it possible to use sound to travel through time and experience the fate of other people? This story of a sound engineer studying recordings of war conflicts from the past transports viewers smack dab in the middle of a ravenous rampage where the horrors of the past come to the fore. The film also presents a philosophical reflection on the role that sound plays in our world. The film was developed on the program of the AAMOD Premio Zavattini.
Monsters of the Wild: Creepy Crawlers
The natural world is full of beauty, but it can also be quite weird. Witness a world of cunning assassins, strange parenting and nautical oddballs.
Monsters of the Wild: Wonderfully Weird
Mother Nature...creator of breathtaking beauty. And it seems there’s no end to her evolutionary inspirations…or perhaps? Twisted imagination. From unexpected killing machines and freaky fliers to cheeky masters of disguise. Welcome to the wonderfully weird world of creatures so bizarre…so frightening…and so strange that sometimes, they even scare each other.
My age, yours, and the age of the world
After the earthquake, my grandmother is facing the loss of her apartment.
Alonso 2021, el origen del plan
In this documentary, the Asturian rescues for Dazn some of the key moments of the season. When Noemí de Miguel asks him what he felt after getting back behind the wheel of a Formula 1, the Alpine driver does not hesitate: «It has been fun to feel the adrenaline of racing again, of competition. I think I'm going to experience many things again and I look forward to doing so. Everything was exciting, those first laps and being in the fight with the other cars has been a bit of adrenaline that continues to rise. Even though the two cars in front of you are fighting, you already have a little excitement and your heart beats a little faster.
Beauty of the Beast
Csonka, Yvette, Eszter and Noemi are middle-aged women who transform themselves into a sculpted mass of muscle. Their physique is both a temple and a tool – outer and inner strength manifested as one. Unlike previous documentaries about individuals who pump iron, Nemes avoids a kitsch portrait of a subculture. Instead, she is fascinated by these women’s lives out of the spotlight and beyond the gym, exploring the reasons that made them choose this singular and often punishing lifestyle. What emerges is a determination to face down stereotyping and ridicule as each dedicates themselves to achieving their dream.
Tokyo Giant: The Legend of Victor Starffin
As a child, Victor Starffin fled the Russian Revolution and settled in Japan, where he grew up to find success as a baseball superstar. However, he constantly battled to overcome many hardships such as poverty, xenophobia, and a world war. Starffin is survived by his two daughters who take us on a wild ride of shifting identities, international rivalries, tragic love, and one heck of a fastball.
The Rocking Horses
Ewa, a woman with intellectual disability, creates handmade dolls and toys. Through them, she talks to the people around her and communicates her emotions. We also see fragments of animation based on Ewa’s tale inspired by her life.
Another Spring
In 1972 Yugoslavia became the site of Europe’s last smallpox epidemic. This gripping archival documentary, aptly described by its creators as a medical thriller, reconstructs the dramatic events of those spring months, and viewers will find it difficult not to draw comparisons with the worldwide events of the past two years.
Final Year
Sophia, Lhord, Alexandros and Nikos have a hard time finding their place in a school that ignores their needs. They have to cope with the pressure of the Panhellenic exams when their lives are put on hold because of a student occupation that imposes a school lockdown…
The Kaiser of Atlantis
The true story of composer Viktor Ullmann's chamber opera, completed by him in Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt and rediscovered, thanks to a miraculous chain of events.
Mestre-espenya
"Mestre-espenya" is a self-portrait of Guillermo Amengual where he talks and thinks about his childhood and all the themes that have always been present in his life and films: death, family and innocence.
Mom
In this deeply moving dialogue between mother and son, Mexican Tzotzil director Xun Sero confronts his past with honesty, understanding and forgiveness. Growing up without a father, he blamed his mother for the paternal absence in his life; this, for him, became his first act of violence against the feminine and his own mother. Societal pressure and shame prevented his mother from speaking about the realities of violence in her childhood and within her partnership with the director's father. Guided by the desire to understand who his mother is, Sero has created an extraordinarily sensitive first film where both mother and son open a dialogue in an attempt at self-discovery. Bravely, together, they open the door to a room of darkness and unknowns and begin to walk down a path of healing.
Newsreel 2021 – Here I Have Picture
It presents a fragmented glimpse into the life of people on the move hiding in the unofficial camps in the forests on the EU border.