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Sri Ramana Center, Houston: Michael James discusses Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu verse 11
In a Zoom meeting with Sri Ramana Center, Houston, on 4th February 2023 Michael James discusses verse 11 of Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu:
Stams
The Schigymnasium Stams is one of the most successful ski schools in the world. This is where young athletes grow up, who live out their passions without compromise. STAMS is a film that wants to understand the enthusiasm for competitive sports and the dream of success.
The 1975 - A Theatrical Performance Of An Intimate Moment
A theatrical performance of an intimate moment
Mein Rachmaninow – Sergey Tanin in der Villa Senar
Sorrow
Dialoguing and coexisting with a Kallawaya family, their interpersonal relationships and relationships with nature are portrayed. The spectator can witness how ritual medicine, textiles, music, oral tradition and their different relationships come into contact with globalization, thus preserving the memory of this community.
Post Office Social Club
Time, decay and death. This short documentary tells us about one of the oldest sports and community clubs in the northern English city of Leeds.
Pero
This film is a homage to the life, career and fears of Slovenian actor Peter Musevski. He was always Pero for me, not Peter.
Espi
Gender transition is no different than any other human change. It has its ups and downs, scary, funny, strange, surprising, and frustrating little moments that are rarely talked about. This short film visually explores these moments through the eyes of Espi - a 24-year-old protagonist that just went through the transition.
The Black Album
The Black Album places scrutiny on the notion of "Black Excellence" in a revisionist take.
Long Live Somaliland
Somaliland Ha Nolato (Long Live Somaliland) takes an experimental approach in exploring and reflecting on the complex history of Somaliland from 1960 to 2021.
From All the Power
As the sun of the New Wave was setting, a new music scene was being born which passed under the large record companies’ radar. The underground scene in Croatia was incoherent, many tried to find their way through different subspecies of post art rock and new wave. Zdenko Franjić, a former employee of the National Bank of Croatia, a passionate lover of underground, psychobilly, garage rock and indie music, decided to establish an independent record label. The label was independent in every sense of the word, he financed it himself and copied the tapes he issued, he made his own covers and revealed new bands. The peak was the vinyl edition called "Bombardiranje New Yorka", a compilation that turned everything upside down…
Screenagers Under The Influence: Vaping, Drugs, and Alcohol in the Digital Age
Join Screenagers’ filmmaker, Delaney Ruston, as she picks up her camera once more to examine the impact of our digital age on teens' decision-making in relation to substances such as vaping, drugs, and alcohol.
Stoker
This first-person film is a letter to my sister that I have never met, as well as an act of reconciliation with my father and the inevitability of death. Three different formats in five decades of life compose a cinematographic mosaic that walks the tightrope of the interplay between the joy of life and the contemplation of existence.
Locus Cordis
Occupied by Israel in 1967, the Syrian Golan has a military border running through it, which families “cross” by shouting to their loved ones. From his European exile, anxiety-ridden Alhasan Yousef attempts to break free from his inner isolation with this exploration of the power of sound, in an effort to reconnect with his lost country from afar.
The Sounds of 7am
This short film follows an intoxicated character's journey through the mystery, beauty and eeriness of his environment.
Wechselspiel – Wenn Peter Stamm schreibt
Two documentary filmmakers become the plaything of writer Peter Stamm and subject of the novel whose creation they actually wanted to document.
Love Handles: The Lost Interview
This 1984 interview documents some of the last remaining footage of drag legend, Love Handles. It touches on the creation of her name, her recently deceased husband, and her fellow drag friends from back in her performing days.
Mother of the Station
The documentary follows the lives of Greek women immigrants who came to Germany during 1960–1973 and worked in hard jobs. The Second Word War was a landmark both in European and Greek history. Since then, one million people immigrated to Germany. Some decades later, the scenario remains the same.
One Man Village
Kandaswamy stands alone in his village of Meenakshipuram after the water becomes contaminated.
The Cowboy and the Queen
Monty Roberts, a California horse trainer nearing 90 and showing no signs of slowing down, recounts his life with horses, starting from his earliest days working in Hollywood westerns of the 1940s. Repelled by the accepted style of “breaking a horse’s spirit,” Roberts developed his own gentle approach to human interaction with horses in the hopes of someday transforming horse training standards worldwide. When his technique comes to the attention of Queen Elizabeth II, a friendship is sparked between the cowboy and the Queen that lasts until the end of her life, a friendship that inspires horse trainers around the world.
Éviction
Since 2010, Parthenais has held within its walls the life of a whole queer community. They are gay, lesbian, trans, and they live together in Centre-Sud in the heart of Montreal, in a triplex that is falling apart. Between the parties that sometimes welcome more than two hundred people until the wee hours of the morning, the collective dinners, the great joys and the small despairs, this old flat has transformed the lives of its tenants. Twelve years later, the building is bought by a wealthy family who wants to live there, gentrification being the order of the day. This marks the end of a mythical space that has transformed Montreal's queer scene for a decade. The boxes are too small to contain all the stories that have taken place within these walls. EVICTION is the story of this turning page, as the distraught residents search for a new place to call home in the midst of a housing crisis and land speculation.
Love, Leymo
Leymo Mohammed, a young autistic Black man, reads a letter to his late mother, updating her on his struggles, achievements and dreams, as he comes to understand the world around him and his place in it.
Renaissance
Fadhel, a 54-year-old Tunisian oud master, is hit by a car in the street. In the afterlife, he is told that a part of him is still alive on earth. Fadhel protests, but has no choice: a virtual reality headset is placed before his eyes. Back on earth, Fadhel has forgotten everything and has become Abu Huraira.
Crossing Baikal
A unique event in the country's sports life – crossing Lake Baikal in one of its widest parts on a windsurfing board. Dmitry Shumilov, a seasoned windsurfer and brave romantic, dared to take such a risky step.
Gyütö
To hear the sound of the ocean in the Himalayas... This unlikely wish takes a film director and her three girls to Gyütö, where a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, perched high, echoes day and night the sound of sacred tantric chants of meditation, «which sound like the waves of the ocean». Wandering freely about wherever their curiosity leads them, they discover the daily life of 400 monks living there. Over time, a dialogue develops and a growing complicity emerges. From this intimate immersion, a film takes form, unfolding like a wave both visually and in sound. The reality of Buddhism is revealed in a way that is unprecedented, in the spontaneity of the questions asked, as well as with the sensitive understanding of a child's point of view and with no proselytization at all.
Tumba Mambi
As a result of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), many French settlers travelled to Eastern Cuba with African enslaved people to escape the revolt. The Tumba Francesa Societies, which were known as a brotherhood and a mutual aid network, emerged from these waves of slave migrations. Eventually, they became integral constituents of Cuban culture. La Tumba Mambi is a docu-fiction film based on the Tumba Francesa, La Caridad de Oriente, which is located in the city of Santiago de Cuba. Through the Society's youngest member, Flavio, who is collecting information about the Tumba Francesa for a school project, we meet his grand-mother Andrea and mother Queli, two charismatic knowledge keepers of their rich cultural traditions. The original film soundtrack composed and produced by Cuban based DJ Jigüe, in collaboration with Tumba Francesa members, is a rhythmic and striking reminder that the present is grounded in a history of struggles for freedom.
Diagnosis: Life
The profession of a military doctor is an everyday feat. This is self-denial. It's when you risk your own life to save thousands of others. The heroes of the film, the doctors of Donbass, stayed in their native land in order to bring peace closer with their work.
The Rules of Life in a Human House. Zinoviev
The conceptual basis of the film, created for the centenary of philosopher Alexander Zinoviev, is the famous dystopian novel "Global Human", the story "Go to Golgotha" and "Live". These works are united by the theme of finding a way out of the impasse of modern civilization.
Wise Donkeys
Puglia, May 2021. A group of folk music artists decide to make a 200-km journey on foot from Torre Guaceto (Brindisi) to Santa Maria di Leuca (Lecce) along the ancient roads of the Via Francigena. A young farmer and his donkey named Bartolo join the group, creating the "Company of Wise Donkeys." The documentary is the story of a musical journey into the memory, traditions and popular culture of Salento.
The Russian North. Return to Yourself
The work of the Soviet writer, a villager, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Fyodor Abramov, is riddled with pain for a dying village, thoughts about the Russian North and the fate of Russia.
8 Billions: We are all responsible
Ailton Krenak, indigenous leader and thinker, talks about the pain of the Watú (or Rio Doce in the Krenak language). Sick with the biggest environmental disaster in Brazilian history, the Mariana Dam disaster, the river asks for help. From the impacts on his village on the banks of the river, he makes an overview of the current Anthropocene period and invites all human beings to a journey of reflection and self-criticism, aiming at urgent but necessary paradigm shifts.
Prayer
As more and more elderly become sick in the pandemic as a result of the virus, they resort to prayer as a means of healing.
First of May
The documentary First of May explores the more than a century-long evolution of the celebration and the meaning of this day. The structure is composed of memories, newspaper excerpts, testimonies found in archives, etc. - all these passages are brought to life by the actors' voices, taking on the roles of journalists, factory workers, policemen, workers and ordinary people who watch May Day, sometimes with interest and verve, sometimes with distance or irony.
Hace tiempo anda el río
There is a journey, down the river of my veins, down my dry forehead and my lips, I have long wanted to tell the river that one day I will be dust and one day the wind itself will be my new voice and my new color
Rahčan – Ella’s Riot
Love, music, Sami identity and environmental activism go hand in hand in this inspiring tale of young singer Ella and her fight against the mining company that threatens her Sami heritage.
