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2023

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Back to Our Homeland
Back to Our Homeland
A group of older Cabécares from Talamanca rediscover their past when they visit for the first time since they left the indigenous territory of China Kichá, in Pérez Zeledón, where they were born, grew up and left. In the process, they get to know the generations that did remain in the territory and that are currently in the process of fighting for the recovery of the land. "Returning to the land where we were born" is a documentary that deals with the memory of dispossession and the current struggle for the recovery of lands of the indigenous community of China Kichá.
Back to Our Homeland 2023
Chamán
Chamán
The old Shaman makes his last trip to the Amazon jungle in search of a special beeswax for arrows that he learned to make when he had not yet been contacted by Western culture
Chamán 2023
El declive de los supermercados. Un modelo en extinción
El declive de los supermercados. Un modelo en extinción
El declive de los supermercados. Un modelo en extinción 2023
The Last 5 Minutes
The Last 5 Minutes
Its about a runner who hasn't any country to live.
The Last 5 Minutes 2023
Maisons et hôtels de légende : Auberge du Père Bise
Maisons et hôtels de légende : Auberge du Père Bise
Maisons et hôtels de légende : Auberge du Père Bise 2023
Night Audit
Night Audit
Empty hallways, check-in desks, and liminal spaces are the background for hotel employees to reflect on the ups and downs of working the night shift.
Night Audit 2023
Obsolete
Obsolete
In the bustling city of Mumbai where life never stops, a couple decide to end their life, becoming India’s first couple to appeal for Euthanasia. Living together for over 53 years in a tiny space, in a 100-year-old Chawl, they are ordinary citizens seeking to get their voice heard in a world that doesn’t see them. We delve into their inner and emotional worlds to explore what lies beneath this profound choice, one that challenges societal beliefs in karma, afterlife. The film intimately follows their daily life as they await official response. Framed within immediate spaces, inside their room and the vibrant community outside their door, with its non-stop motions of life makes them feel trapped. This ethnic microcosm, reveals universal themes of love, loss, freedom, dignity, ageing. An unexpected crisis brings the couple to a crucial crossroad. Will they succeed in their quest?
Obsolete 2023
Tip/Alli
Tip/Alli
The documentary Tip/Alli explores the work, life, and influence of feminist science fiction author James Tiptree, Jr. (aka Alice B. Sheldon, 1915-87).
Tip/Alli 2023
Ohio Walnuts
Ohio Walnuts
A feature documentary about Ohio-based artist Sparks McFly and his friends as they attempt to conceptualize, write, record, and produce a rap album over the course of just 7 days.
Ohio Walnuts 2023
The Bravery to Blossom in Darkness
The Bravery to Blossom in Darkness
A group of extraordinary children, a school lost in the Tanzanian mountains and many legends. How are they intertwined and what might their stories have in common? But above all, where does the courage to blossom in the dark lie?
The Bravery to Blossom in Darkness 2023
Inside the BoduMas
Inside the BoduMas
Eid al-Adha is the "feast of sacrifice", it commemorates the end of Haji, an annual muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. Muslims all over the world celebrate the feast by sacrificing an animal, usually a goat. In the Maldives, the celebration and the sacrifice is related to a Big Fish, the "BoduMas", and takes place through various cultural, sporting and religious moments, that unite the island communities.
Inside the BoduMas 2023
Time in the Garden
Time in the Garden
A documentary that explores the relationship between three families in Suzhou and their private gardens. Each family invested considerably in creating serene and classic gardens, seeking ancestral tranquility. However, they face challenges when trying to maintain a poetic relationship between people and their gardens in an ever-changing modern world.
Time in the Garden 2023
Vulgar Things
Vulgar Things
Angelina lives with two cats, a dog and a collection of vibrators. The career of a porn actress is in the past, now her life is a constant shooting for OnlyFans. For complete happiness, Gela lacks only one thing — to find true love. Will the girl's new chosen one be able to accept her as she is?
Vulgar Things 2023
Clouds Are Like People
Clouds Are Like People
Zhenya Myshkin is almost an ordinary teenager. He lives in Kamchatka in a foster family. Summer is in full swing, you can lie on the river, compose poems, do whatever you want. Life seems endless, but autumn is ahead, which means a trip to a correctional boarding school, which should become a new home for Zhenya.
Clouds Are Like People 2023
En tren
En tren
En tren 2023
Grow Outside
Grow Outside
A documentary on Grow Outside C.I.C and the positive work it does to support the local community
Grow Outside 2023
Holding Back the Tide
Holding Back the Tide
This impressionist hybrid documentary traces the oyster through its many life cycles in New York, once the world's oyster capital. Now their specter haunts the city through queer characters embodying ancient myth, discovering the overlooked history and biology of the bivalve that built the city. As environmentalists restore them to the harbor, Holding Back the Tide looks to the oyster as a queer icon, entangled with nature, with much to teach about our continued survival.
Holding Back the Tide 2023
Nietzsche’s Doctors
Nietzsche’s Doctors
In a Buenos Aires hospital, Dr. Esteban Rubinstein tackles general medicine from an extramoral viewpoint. Basing himself on Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical oeuvre, in his office he builds with his patients a space of reflection on the body, health and sickness.
Nietzsche’s Doctors 2023
O'SOLE MIO or
O'SOLE MIO or "We're gonna loose our way going home"
Wind blew and almost knocked me over, but if I hadn't been there I wouldn't have remembered that day.
O'SOLE MIO or "We're gonna loose our way going home" 2023
Tras un Manto de Neblinas
Tras un Manto de Neblinas
Tras un Manto de Neblinas 2023
The Passion of Mahmoud
The Passion of Mahmoud
The Passion of Mahmoud 2023
Porcherie, la volonté d'être dévoré
Porcherie, la volonté d'être dévoré
Porcherie, la volonté d'être dévoré 2023
An Elegant Weapon
An Elegant Weapon
In the early 2000s, a group of friends from East Texas made a pair of short films exploring a scenario where they ended up with real lightsabers. After teasing a third short, they disappeared from the spotlight for 15 years.
An Elegant Weapon 2023
13 de septiembre de 1936
13 de septiembre de 1936
San Sebastian, October 2023.
13 de septiembre de 1936 2023
The making of Sassy the Sasquatch
The making of Sassy the Sasquatch
A short video of some behind the scenes footage recorded during the making of Sassy the Sasquatch.
The making of Sassy the Sasquatch 2023
Hivemind Bits Bracket
Hivemind Bits Bracket
In this genre-bending epic nearly half a decade in the making, two young men look back at their extensive catalogue of jokes, one-liners, and skits to complete a labyrinth of challenges made to definitively prove which moment is the best.
Hivemind Bits Bracket 2023
A Diary of Sexual Solitude
A Diary of Sexual Solitude
Full of desire, I accumulate sexual encounters with men. But between my desires and the reality of these nights, there is a gap. Thus, I write and film.
A Diary of Sexual Solitude 2023
Page Deleted
Page Deleted
Questions about celebrating 200 years of independence from Brazil with 300 years of slavery.
Page Deleted 2023
Ned, Tassot, Yossot
Ned, Tassot, Yossot
About five years after her film, Hana, dul, sed ... (2009), filmmaker Brigitte Weich returns to North Korea to ask four women on the national football team how their lives have evolved. In a friendly and congenial cooperation between the filmmaker and her protagonists, a work arises that not only tells about the concrete life of a professional athlete in North Korea, but also poses the question of the images that we all make of ourselves to give meaning to our lives and the world.
Ned, Tassot, Yossot 2023
Ever Since, I Have Been Flying
Ever Since, I Have Been Flying
Vakıf, a 60-year-old Kurdish man who grew up in a nomadic tribe in the mountains of southeast Turkey, recalls moments from his youth that have shaped his life. He takes us back to his idyllic childhood with his mother, his first love found in a cotton field and lost in the woods, and the mistreatment suffered at the hands of the police, in a cold and dark place.
Ever Since, I Have Been Flying 2023
Vad'd'a. Ordeal
Vad'd'a. Ordeal
The film was shot in the period from spring to winter 2021 in the vicinity of the village of Luzhitsy, which is located in the west of the Leningrad region. It was during this period that the natural and social landscape of these places began to change catastrophically due to the grandiose industrial development. The situation especially affects the Volga region, a small people with a thousand-year history who survived wars, revolutions and the Stalinist era.
Vad'd'a. Ordeal 2023
Clinch
Clinch
A hearing-impaired coach conducts classes in sports knife fighting. For the coach, this is not only martial arts. He walks the path of learning the limit of his abilities in order to understand how to fight on an equal footing with a superior opponent. Not to let them anywhere near to avoid them hurting you, or to allow rapprochement. Does this mean making vulnerable not only the opponent, but also yourself?
Clinch 2023
In Motion
In Motion
An exploration of the emotional experience of autism, normalising and celebrating different forms of stimming.
In Motion 2023
Mira
Mira
A portrait of 90-year-old Mira Perlov, the widow of the Israel Prize-winning film director David Perlov, through her granddaughter's point of view and their close relationship which is gradually crumbling.
Mira 2023
The Arrest of C.
The Arrest of C.
C. is about to be arrested. Something to do with a motorbike. Estranged from his family, he finds refuge in the evenings at his friend Ramzi’s house, where he discovers a new aspect of family relationships. During the day, he wanders the streets of Geneva, selling musk on the sly, while suffering from a worrying injury to his face.
The Arrest of C. 2023
Being Heraclitus
Being Heraclitus
Heraclitus was born gifted. He has a high level of intellect and tremendous memory, he is extremely imaginative and emotionally mature. His first year at school was a big disappointment. However, Heraclitus doesn’t give up. He learns to fall and rise again. At the age of six, he has two key weapons: his sense of humor and an adorable sense of audacity.
Being Heraclitus 2023
Blue roots
Blue roots
In the midst of the global environmental crisis, Jamie, a young Caribbean girl relocated to the city, must return to her native island, a world biosphere reserve, to take care of family property left behind by her father, including a mythical passageway said to connect the hill to the sea. Uprooted, Jamie intends to sell everything to pay for expensive medical treatment, however, her plans are postponed when her suitcase is temporarily misplaced with ownership documents. This incident buys her time to reconnect with the ways and customs of her people and eventually reconnects her with the sea, where swimming through plastic debris she is confronted with the dramatic global reality. Discovering her mythical maternal heritage, Jamie turns her actions into an example for the islanders' children and, rekindled by this small gesture of optimism, she finds the strength to challenge her fears, embrace her culture and fulfill her destiny.
Blue roots 2023
Horses Are Destiny
Horses Are Destiny
The film is about Mikhail Kozlov, a master rider of international class, a living legend of the Moscow hippodrome and about his famous horses.
Horses Are Destiny 2023
Andrey Konchalovsky’s Cinema Odyssey
Andrey Konchalovsky’s Cinema Odyssey
The film “Andrey Konchalovsky’s Cinema Odyssey” is a tribute to the creative path of one of our outstanding contemporaries, Andrey Konchalovsky, spanning from his debut film, “The Boy and the Dove”, which was immediately invited to the Venice International Film Festival, to the present day. The documentary features notable figures who starred in the master’s films, from Sergei Shakurov to Tom Holtz, from Inna Churikova to Irina Kupchenko. Dividing his work into ‘periods’ — classical, American, and the perestroika era — Konchalovsky, with the help of the cinema, embarks on a cinematic journey akin to Odysseus, ultimately returning to his own ‘Penelope’: Moscow.
Andrey Konchalovsky’s Cinema Odyssey 2023
Anezia dos Santos – Diaries of a Votorantim Factory Worker
Anezia dos Santos – Diaries of a Votorantim Factory Worker
Anezia dos Santos talks about her childhood in the Vila de Operários da Sociedade Anônima Fábrica Votorantim, in the interior of São Paulo.
Anezia dos Santos – Diaries of a Votorantim Factory Worker 2023