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End of the Line
Explores the role of the MTA in New York City and the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic had on the vital service it provides: transporting New York’s essential workers. The film acknowledges the decline of the subway infrastructure as a political issue and captures a tumultuous time that impacted every city in America. This film poses the question: what happens when the lifeline of a city goes flat?
Janja Garnbret: The Perfect Season
We travel to Janja's hometown in Slovenia to try and learn her secrets, and paint an intimate portrait of this young champion as she tries to make history by sweeping an entire season of bouldering World Cups.
Que sirva de ejemplo
What is the heteronorm? What is the cultural canon and how is it related to this heteronorm?
All Riders
The battle for accessibility in New York City Transit told by those fighting it. Less than a quarter of stations in the city's sprawling subway system are accessible to people with disabilities and those that need elevators. This film takes you on the frontlines of the disability rights movement featuring the perspectives of activists, local and state legislators, transit advocates and MTA officials.
The Limits of Looping
The film and audio loops are played out of sync, degrading, breathing and wobbling over time. Despite the continual cycle of looping, no two viewings will be the same.
Galician Heritage
Three classmates talk about the Way of Santiago and the Galician heritage.
Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone
A decade before Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, a tiny team of renegades imagined and tried to build the modern smartphone. Nearly forgotten by history, a little startup called Handspring tried to make the future before it was ready. In Springboard: The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone, The Verge’s Dieter Bohn talks to the visionaries at Handspring and dives into their early successes and eventual failures.
Rock Beyond
The film "Rock Beyond" is dedicated to Viktor Tsoi, Boris Grebenshchikov and Sergei Kuryokhin, who became the Main Heroes of Russian rock in the 1980s and 1990s. The authors strive to show the atmosphere and energy of those years, as well as the opinion of modern young people about Rock culture before they were born.
Caveman: The Hidden Giant
It has been almost thirty years since Filippo Dobrilla started to sculpt a giant male nude inside a cave 650 metres deep in the Apuan Alps. This almost inaccessible place has jealously protected his secret: his youthful passion for a fellow climber, a passion Filippo was only able to indulge in here in the intimacy of this cave. Even after it was over and ever since then, Filippo has been returning regularly to the cave to work on the most important sculpture of his life, a masterpiece no one will see.
Chasing Childhood
In today's highly charged world of structure, stranger danger, and helicopter parenting, free play in childhood has disappeared, giving way to unprecedented anxiety and depression. This phenomenon impacts kids from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. Children's lives are consumed with wall-to-wall activities and constant monitoring-the overprotected, over-directed, over-pressured childhood is the new normal. This film takes us to schools in affluent Wilton, CT; working class Patchogue, NY; and metropolitan Manhattan. Throughout these different stories, a central question emerges: How can we eschew harmful parenting strategies and empower our kids to become their most fully realized, authentic selves? The film offers possible solutions as journalist Lenore Skenazy, evolutionary psychologist Peter Gray, former dean of freshmen at Stanford University Julie Lythcott-Haims, and leaders of the "free play" movement fight to restore a less curated childhood.
The Rumble of the World
Greece, Russia, USA, Brazil, China, Senegal. Meeting young people in these countries we heard a ‘Rumble’ foretelling an impending explosion. The fall of communism, crisis of capitalism, ecological catastrophes, migration waves, globalization. The new generation is at the forefront, exposed, helpless without being able to envision a more optimistic future. This ‘Rumble’ comes from this young generation. Their words, images, sounds and music compose the notes of an audio-visual symphony entitled: ‘The Rumble of the World’.
A Place Called Wahala
Every year the War Cemetery Memorial of Wahala in the former German colony of Togo (West Africa) hosts the 11th November Remembrance Day Ceremony in memory of the African colonial soldiers who died here in August 1914. But Wahala's history and its name point to another painful past. In 1903 the German colonial administration set up a "correctional settlement" by the Chra river where people considered to be an obstacle to colonial order were obliged to live. Wahala: a place where the voice of the ancients resonates with present day pictures.
Dare la vita - Conversazione con Francis Ford Coppola
Dumping Day
In a village at the tip of Nova Scotia, an Acadian community of 2,000 inhabitants is preparing to begin yet another lobster fishing season. The fishermen are preparing all year round for this great return to school day, on the verge of their feet, all waiting for the Atlantic wind to finally calm down, to be able to weigh anchor.
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The Power Reset
20 years ago the small town of Wunsiedel was at the edge: businesses had to close, jobs were lost, locals left for good. When a bunch of idealists decided to stop this race to the bottom. They developed a plan not only to put the region's energy supply on a completely new foundation, but also to create new prospects.
A Day After The Year
On March 11, 2020 the WHO declared the outbreak of Covid-19 as a pandemic. At the time, almost no one predicted that this pandemic would drag on and on, make us sit at 'home', reintroduce curfew or even let us partly forget how it is to hug our loved ones. During this a year, we have more or less adapted to the ‘pandemic lifestyle’. Some have been significantly affected while others have remained almost unchanged. Exactly a year later we look at ourselves - how does this adaptation look? Or - have we adapted at all? This story is told by 624 submitted videos all filmed in a single day - on March 11, 2021. Filmed in Georgia, Finland, France, Switzerland, USA, Russia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Belgium, Iceland, Spain, Vietnam and Malta.
Ikebana
Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, is explored in a delicate and ethereal manner, layering space, time, and the elements of life. This ancestral art is observed from a distance, so as to never interrupt the movements of its practitioners. Rita Ferrando’s Ikebana is a hypnotic work with somewhat esoteric narration that highlights each step in the process with animations emphasizing the meticulous and meditative deeper meaning behind the art. This hybrid structure raises questions about the art of representation, inevitably present in cinema. How can we grasp the essence of what we want to show on film? Ikebana suggests that what we seek may be hidden well beyond the visible realm.
So Long Micheal
A portrait of the unforgettable actor Michael Lonsdale, already starring in La Question humaine: one last performance, between Artaud and Plutarch, before turning into impalpable stardust.
The Jack Ruhl Show: The Movie
A documentary about a college senior and his best friends as they go throughout their last three years in film school.
46A
In the number 46A from the Bica do Sapato Street in Santa Apolónia, is HAUS, a musical all-rounder where is created what we hear on the streets. Divided into seven episodes, where each one is centered on various artists and bands.
Omara
An uplifting, entertaining profile of the grande dame of Cuban music, Omara Portuondo, the internationally beloved chanteuse best known in the States as a member of the famed Buena Vista Social Club. The filmmakers follow octogenarian Omara—feisty, charming, with a naughty sense of humor, and still in possession of her fantastic voice—on her third “final” world tour as she sings to and with those she’s inspired around the globe, demonstrating her impressive range and continued relevance as an artist.
Shadow Flowers
Ryun-hee Kim, a North Korean housewife, was forced to come to South Korea and became its citizen against her will. As her seven years of struggle to go back to her family in North Korea continues, the political absurdity hinders her journey back to her loved ones. The life of her family in the North goes on in emptiness, and she fears that she might become someone, like a shadow, who exists only in the fading memory of her family.
Catching a Serial Killer: Bruce McArthur
Bruce McArthur was many things: friend, grandfather, mall Santa, landscaper - and a ruthless serial killer. He lived a double life: his wholesome appearance and cooperative nature eluded cops for years while he engaged in a hedonistic lifestyle filled with violent sex that often went too far. Through exclusive interviews with McArthur's close friends and the homicide investigators who cracked the case and expert analyses by leading criminologists and forensic psychologists, this two-hour special uncovers how McArthur targeted, terrorized and murdered members of Toronto's LGBTQ+ community, The Village, for nearly a decade before getting caught.
Pinocchio
An fun and in-depth look at Carlo Collodi's children's novel The Adventures Of Pinocchio, and how it has endured as a literary classic for over a century.
Utopia in Babelsberg - Science Fiction aus der DDR
Songs for the River
Over the course of a year, filmmaker Charlotte Ginsborg filmed the London housing co-operative that she lives in, looking to chart the residents’ diverse experiences of the pandemic, across the daily life of numerous national lockdowns. Some experienced the illness itself, while others faced the stress of work on the front line. Each Saturday, the residents came together to sing with each other from their communal balconies and walkways, and these songs permeate throughout the film. Increasingly frustrated by the government, residents experienced an emotional rollercoaster that is reflected in a film wherein the personal and political interweave, to create an intimate and moving portrait of a unique community during an extraordinary time.
Dorados 50
50 years can be golden even though the knees hurt, even if the air isn’t the same or a layer of distress settles on one corner of the brain. The protagonist reflects on his fifty, shoots a film about endless loves and inquires, with existential humor, into the daily struggle of living.
Teacher for Russia
"Teacher for Russia" is about a community of caring people who change the Russian school for the better every day. The participants of the program-graduates and specialists from different fields-make a non-trivial choice: they move to small towns and villages in Russia to become teachers in local schools for two years. Teachers for Russia works to ensure that every child can become the author of their life, regardless of where they were born and grew up. So the program intends to equalize the chances of children for a high-quality school education, for a decent future and for the opportunity to dream for real.
Vertical
In the late 90s, after the ruin and decline of everything that was connected with hockey in the country, Kazakhstan is heading for the restoration of the industry. However, due to the withered infrastructure, the lack of players and the outflow of specialists abroad, the idea turns into a real test. How to create in the country a professional club of the international level of the KHL from the players of the Major League level? About the same as moving from socialism to capitalism. In order to nurture new Kazakhstani stars, Barys becomes the base club of the national team and enters the KHL international league. However, at the start, it becomes obvious that without reinforcement from the outside, there is nothing for Barca to do in the KHL. To gain a foothold in the league, the composition of local students is seasoned with skilled legionnaires from the NHL. However, on this basis, the entire club is overwhelmed by serious contradictions.
Cafi
It portrays the work of Carlos Filho, Cafi, a photographer from Recife, who for more than 40 years has dedicated himself to recording a large part of the events of dance, theater and Brazilian popular music. Recordings, concerts, tours and rehearsals by important artists passed through Cafi's lens.
Dear Jackie
Dear Jackie is a cinematic letter to Jackie Robinson, the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball, after a stint with the minor-league Montreal Royals, and a key contributor to the civil rights movement in the United States. The film addresses Robinson directly and recounts the current situation of the Black community in Little Burgundy, once known as the “Harlem of the North,” drawing interesting parallels between the two eras. Through eloquent interviews, the filmmaker paints a portrait of racism and racial inequality in Montreal and Quebec as a whole. Presenting a unique historical and social perspective, Henri Pardo has made an important film that deconstructs the myth of a post-racial Quebec society.
One Life. The Holocaust
80 years have passed since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. On June 22, the world again froze in a mournful minute of silence. But 2021 marks the 80th anniversary of another historical tragedy - the beginning of the Holocaust in Russia. Everyone knows the places of mass extermination of Jews: Auschwitz, Dachau, Babi Yar, ghettos in Minsk and Warsaw. But there was a Holocaust in Russia. The first mass shooting of Jews took place in the city of Nevel (near Pskov) in September 1941. The film "One Life. The Holocaust" tells not only about the past tragedy and the courage of those who saved Jews, but also about how memory is preserved today. Among the heroes of the film are the creative intelligentsia, famous public figures of Russia, journalists and just ordinary people - witnesses of history…
Decolonizing Mental Health
Like other healthcare industrial complexes, the mental health field operates around a centre defined by a whiteness of theory and practice. It’s a colonization that has rarely ever been questioned.
Highfalutin
A bar full of people talking about Volker Spengler. HIGHFALUTIN is an attempt to create such a utopia, a simple "what if."
Out of the Dark
Three stories of mental health and recovery, starring Hannah Lucas, AKeem Rollins, and Raven Saunders.