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A Long March
A revealing look at how the United States conscripted Filipino American forces to defeat WWII Axis powers – then systematically denied these veterans the rights and benefits promised for honorable service. Our film follows three of these veterans as they endeavor to right the wrong. As judicial solutions hit a brick wall and all eyes turn to Congress, will America stand up for the values it claims, and will these veterans get the recognition they deserve before they are all dead?
Raw Session
The artists of the collective As Talavistas, and Gabriela Luíza, join the artists Duca Caldeira, Dyony Moura, Jô Arllen and Vidrynha and design studio and method of filming inside a house. Two years later, SESSÃO BRUTA returns to exchange and immerses itself in a filmic game with fiction and narrative, with jokes and criticism, with close-ups and intimacy, with the presence and the remote. Cinema, culture are things taken as a perspective of link, claim, painting and stage. Refounding the scene as an idea and process, and its political and plastic implications.
Prime Video
A Gamer's Journey - The Definitive History of Shenmue
This documentary film is about the video game Shenmue. It tells the story of the games history, its fans, and how it impacted the gaming industry.
Sound Off
Many deaf citizens have the ability to speak and hear thanks to developing technology and speech therapy. This film aims to explore different perspectives of deaf citizens who choose this often overlooked approach to living with their disability.
Prime Video
Stoop Kid
A deeply personal coming-of-age story which follows music artist Akeem ‘GUAP’ Hayes as he navigates a complex upbringing in Oakland, California. The music from GUAP’s album 1176, titled after his childhood home address, sets the tone for this moving story, telling the tale of a Black-Filipino artist as he explores his identity, his family, and community.
Together We Cycle
The film Together we cycle investigates the critical events that has led to the revival of the Dutch cycling culture. For most people, cycling in the Netherlands, seems a natural phenomenon. However, until the 1970s the development of mobility in the Netherlands followed trents across the globe. The bicycle had had its day, and the future belonged to the car. The only thing that had to be done was to adapt cities to the influx of cars. Then Dutch society took a different turn. Against all odds people kept on cycling. The question why this happened in the Netherlands, has not an easy answer. There are many factors, events and circumstances that worked together, both socially and policy-wise. In Together we cycle, key players tell the story of the bumpy road which led to the current state. Where cycling is an obvious choice for most citizens.
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
The writer and comedian looks at antisemitism and the progressive left. From theatre to football, Baddiel explores a political blindspot with Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes and Neil Gaiman.
Making "Mis XV"
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Mis XV. The horror slasher shortfilm directed by Sam Martínez.
The Artist and the Wall of Death
Two men from rural Ireland, who served as inspiration for the movie ‘Eat the Peach’, are tempted back to the Wall of Death by a charismatic Glasgow artist with something to prove. ‘The Artist & The Wall of Death’ is a story of second chances, of art vanquishing death, of embracing failure and of unfinished business.
Davis Out of the Unknown
Seven-year-old Davis Point grapples with a rare genetic disorder called Koolen-de Vries Syndrome. One seizure could change Davis forever, so his family pushes hard for a cure and a new kind of normal.
Smiling Jockey
The challenging daily routine of Ceará-born jockey Antonio Davielson and his family living in a foreign country on the other side of the planet.
All Was Good
Set in the backdrop of the nationwide 2019–2020 student protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in India—filmed in the city of Bangalore—Sab changa si is an intimate documentary on friendships, language, love, youth, resistance, and identity of class, caste, religion, and gender. In this film, the political is personal.
No Small Dreams
After a trip to Haiti, where he saw thousands living in unimaginable conditions, young entrepreneur Brett was shaken. Upon his return, Brett met Alexandria, an inner-city educator recovering from a devastating loss, and Matthew, a tech-savvy social impact advocate. The three bonded over a belief that the shelter crisis needed new solutions, and despite their qualifications, they set out to change the narrative for thousands of families in need. From funding their first home to constructing the world’s first 3D printed community, No Small Dreams chronicles how three underdogs built New Story – a housing nonprofit focused on solving homelessness through innovation, dignity, and transparency.
Diana: Almost a Fairytale
When Diana had her iconic wedding, she was just 20 years old. Ten years later, she had become a world-famous public figure beloved across the world for her friendly, informal approach to regular people.
A Motorcycle Saved My Life
The open road presents a point of departure for director lori lozinski to process deep-seated grief. Revisiting the formative experiences that drove her ambition, lozinski examines the influence of her parents in the present light of day.
Africa, the Jungle, Drums and Revolution
Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour’s diploma film from VGIK in Moscow, about representations of Africa in Soviet society.
Sagres
An engaging look into the life and journey of bodyboard athlete Joana Schenker, from her childhood to her rise as a world champion in 2017. The athlete is portrayed not only as an exceptional competitor who has won multiple sports titles but also as an advocate for noble causes and a true ambassador of bodyboarding.
Notes on Displacement
The news is full of images of overcrowded boats and vast tent camps. But how much do we really know about what refugees are going through? Notes on Displacement takes a deep dive by following a single family on a grueling journey, destination Germany. Their fear, disorientation, and solidarity is palpable.
My Dead Body
The extraordinary moving story of Toni Crews, a young mum with a rare terminal cancer who charted her illness online before donating her body for medical research and public dissection.
Bakırköy Underground
A personal journey into the kaleidoscopic history of a “place of salvation, Bakırköy. Berkay Şatır uses his own memories and neighborhood to draw the spectator into a musical growth by looking at the changing texture of a musical identity with unique archival footage and photos from 90’s and 2000’s.
Kathmandu Monsoon
The film offers a fascinating and hypnotic ethnographic study of the filmmaker’s hometown, punctuated by the evolution of the approaching storm.
Tracking Satyrs
This is a contemporary interpretation of The Ichneutae by Sophocles, which, along with Cyclops, is the only Euripides satire that survived to our times.
The Quiet Epidemic
A diagnosis of Chronic Lyme disease lands patients in the middle of a contentious medical debate and sparks an explosive investigation dating back to 1975 that shockingly reveals why ticks, and the diseases they carry, have been allowed to spread globally.
Fledglings
Zosia, Kinga and Oskar start their first year at school for blind and visually impaired children.
Tian Zhuangzhuang:My Relationship with Films
A Talking Documentary about ZhuangZhuang Tian
Syl Johnson: Any Way the Wind Blows
A documentary about the greatest soul singer you've ever heard--even if you've never heard of him.
The Happy Worker - Or How Work Was Sabotaged
Our premise is that work has become an act of self-sabotage. Empty corporate jargon, ever-changing management fashions and self-serving bureaucracy masquerading as efficiency hijacked the purpose of work. Creative documentary The Happy Worker will show how we got to this point and the very human behavior that led us here. We want to show how this unhealthy system is maintained and what keeps us from calling bullshit.
Static! The Rockumentary
"Static! The Rockumentary" is a film covering the history of Chicago rock radio broadcasting, and popular on-air personalities, dialing in from the late 1970's until today.
Inversion
A minimalist study of an old photograph, accidently found in an antique store. The more you look at it, the more things you see, yet you will never be able to grasp its true meaning. An exercise in looking closely.
A Long Journey Home
Back in her family home, Wenqian Zhang settles in with her camera. A Long Journey Home tells the story of this cohabitation via a relational and temporal journey that stirs up emotions while challenging contemporary China’s “making a family” from the inside. This is a brilliant quest for emancipation seeking a place among one’s own people.
L’Atelier
Kathy Tran and Agnès Gaudreau work as auto mechanics at Bâtiment 7, a collective-run space that facilitates the integration of minorities. We get to know them through this inspiring place where they’re truly able to be themselves.
Lakes of Russia. Svetloyar
About an amazing lake in the north of the Nizhny Novgorod region. They say that in the waters of Svetloyar, the legendary city of Kitezh disappeared from human eyes. Thus he preserved his pristine purity... This legend has been around for many centuries, but it still attracts people. They are looking for something on Svetloyar that has been lost over the years — the original simplicity and righteousness. The documentary is a fairy tale.
Arabesques and mouth guards
A short documentary about Brussels' roller derby team, Les Brussels Derby Pixies.
Diário Dentro da Noite
During the night lived in 2020 with denialism, an actor in rehearsal and confinement, his and the character who rehearses, one of the thousand offered by the novel “A lua vem da Asia” by Campos de Carvalho. How to circumvent the taxes imposed by space, time and bodies? Narrative and language are structuring devices in these conditions. What's the way out? A memory? The affection? The imaginary? Liberation takes place through the singular path, that of authorship, imagination and poetry.
DCI 2022: Big, Loud & Live
Drum Corps International’s 17th-annual “Big, Loud and Live” features 2022’s top 15 ensembles performing live from the DCI World Championship Prelims at Lucas Oil Stadium along with historic features and interviews in celebration of the 50th Anniversary DCI Summer Tour.
