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J'aimerais qu'il reste quelque chose
The Shoah's memorial, Paris. Every thursday, volunteers provide a photographic permanence to collect the testimonies and the family archives of people wishing to transmit and protect their history.
Meet In The Unknown...
When I was fifteen, I witnessed the creation of the legendary science fiction film of the Soviet Union. The director was my father. I loved taking pictures and took hundreds of shots during filming. Forty years later, based on them, I managed to create a film, as Richard Viktorov makes the film “Through thorns to the stars”.
Emigrant Blues: a road movie in 2 ½ chapters
A 55 hours journey, from Bucharest to Madrid, in a bus packed with Romanians sleeping on the floor, spending time in empty parkways or eating in small restaurants from the highways. A collective portrait of the children of Romanian emigrants in Spain, through the short clips they have in their mobile phones and their stories of nostalgia. The final trip of a Romanian to his native country, in the back of a hearse, with two Romanian undertakers who make all the mistakes they could have made. Three fragments from the lives of people who are dreaming about the day they will return home, but are too scared to completely reset, once again, their whole lives.
The Dispossessed
Hazari is a traditional faith healer, exorcising patients who've been possessed by jinn. But in Kashmir amidst the world’s longest-running conflict, nothing is as it seems.
Minor History
Minor History is a portrait of Wahid, the 90-year-old uncle of the director. This true storyteller was born in India in the 1920s, fled to Pakistan, joined the army there and came to the US in the 1980s. He now lives in a cold, snowy city and is a well-known eccentric in the pool halls. The film tries to map out the radical changes in consciousness that the world has gone through in one human life. Shots of Wahid in his everyday life are juxtaposed with footage in which he tells the camera about his past.
Umar-ako
Umarali Sattorov is a noble man who was born and lives in Konibodom city. Duringthe time of the Soviet Union he lived a life according to the human values of love and loyalty.And now he wants to establish himself in the new era of today’s economics. But…
Rite
The young businessman Ilya is trying to start the production of inexpensive, but high-quality coffins and establish a legal client-oriented approach in his small ritual company in the Kaluga region, despite the corruption and criminalization of this market sector.
Marcy Made
Marcy Made details the story of DeHaven Irby and his former relationship with Jay-Z. This documentary answers all of the unanswered questions and it also reveals the true reason behind their split.
The Amber Light
The story of whisky has been told many times. But this film takes a different view, showing how it has been shaped by geology and climate, by tales told on the side of the road and in the corners of pubs. Whisky is a product of folklore and myth, of music and alchemy, of chance rather than design. This is the twisting, shifting and multi-layered tale. In this journey through the lesser-known parts of Scottish whisky culture, we follow spirits writer Dave Broom on his quest to gain a deeper understanding of his national drink. While whisky has never been as popular, it is often seen in the context of being a brand which sits outside people’s lives. It’s often thought of as a drink which speaks of the past rather than engaged with a dynamic present.
Vinde Como Estais
November 2018. In a post-election climate, Kit Redstone lands in the devastated Olympic City, Rio de Janeiro. Writer, director and theater performer based in London, Kit is a transgender man and comes to Brazil with the aim of producing a play with transsexual actors in the country that kills the most transvestites in the world. During the process, we meet these artists and their perspectives on what it's like to be LGBTQI + and artist in an apocalyptic setting for social minorities and culture producers in the country.
Queer Genius
Queer Genius is a cinematic exploration of four visionary queer artists breaking down barriers in their creative fields as they confront fame, failure, censorship, family, gender, and sexuality. The film embraces the communal possibilities of "genius" from a particularly queer perspective crossing genre and generational perspective. It features intertwined portraits of Eileen Myles, Barbara Hammer, Jibz Cameron, and Black Quantum Futurism.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus: The Final Farewell
This 90-minute documentary chronicles the making of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s 146th Edition of The Greatest Show On Earth including heartfelt moments from the performers as they prepared to take their final bow.
Superheroes without Superpowers
The main (super)hero of Beatrice Baldacci’s documentary is a person depicted as the sum of her memories. The story of the director and her family is told in the first person, with home VHS recordings that show both Beatrice’s mother and Beatrice as a child taking on the role of an agent of memory. Outdated technology transforms the events of twenty years ago into an archaeological object.
The Breathing of the Fire
The documentary of a potter who struggled with fire for his entire life to make a singular piece of crockery and his daughter who developed her own power to inherit the fire from her father. The potter wishes to meet the misfortunate bowl “Maksabal,” which became a national treasure of Japan. On the other hand, his daughter wants the father’s fire. Would their desire be fulfilled?
The First Motion of the Immovable
It all begins with a childhood memory: that day when the father of the future filmmaker Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva forces him to listen to certain music that initially terrifies him; a distant echo from the past that leads him to follow the trail of his mysterious ancestor, the Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), who claimed that his music was directly inspired by the gods.
Unskinned
Portrait of a tannery in Beira Alta and of its workers. The film follows the lives of Carla and Lúcia, the only female workers left after the departure of Patrícia, whose disappearance is the subject of much talk among the workers and serves as a metaphor for the future of the factory after the economic crisis that stormed the country.
Girls Can Do Anything
rina is disabled at 11 years old. Her parents died in a car accident, and she had serious damage to her bone marrow. Doctors say that children with such a diagnosis do not live long. She lives with her grandmother and dreams of becoming an Olympic champion in sport dancing in wheelchairs. Despite everything, she confidently goes to her dream.
Letter to Theo
The filmmaker Théo Angelopoulos died on January 24th, 2012, knocked down by a motorbike on the set of his final film. In his unfinished film, he was telling the destinies of the victims of the Greek crisis. The list of victims of the crisis has only grown longer, this destitution echoing another that Théo had sensed was coming: that of the massive arrival of refugees who find themselves trapped in Greece by the closure of the borders. Yet citizen resistance is being organized and fights every day to bring those in danger of obliteration out of the shadows. Ironically, the ambulance supposed to come to his rescue broke down because budgetary restrictions had made it impossible to maintain the vehicle. The crisis itself killed Théo. This is a letter addressed to him in the form of a film.
Mice
A loft is the space between yesterday’s party and tomorrow’s exhibition. Today, it seems as though time has stopped. Anything can happen. Any incident could become an artistic or near-artistic statement. A rave, an event, an exhibition, even a party, for example for a birthday, can have the spirit of an artistic event if properly decorated and advertised in social networks. Even the absence of events, just hanging out in the creative space, can also be classed as some kind of «creative procrastination» or critical of the world of doing nothing. Modern art — performance, installation, video, becomes part of fashionable leisure time, part of a lifestyle. A kind of «psychedelic» pastime, in which the boundaries between everyday reality and artistic gesture are blurred, becomes commonplace.
I Die of Sadness Crying for You
Spanish popular copla songs and their mighty female singers are the focus of this evocative film.
Three Men Who Made A Movie Named Guanyin Also Make Movies Also Made A Movie
In Hainan, there is a Guanyin Temple. The Guanyin in the temple decided to make a movie based on her personal experience. Two friends and I planned to make a documentary Guanyin Also Make Movies built from this event. Gradually, the act of us shooting the documentary, starting to echo with the act of Guanyin making the movie. To every single person, the image has its own unique significance. Therefore, we also turned the camera to ourselves, deriving Three Men Who Made a Movie Named Guanyin Also Make Movies Also Made a Movie from Guanyin Also Make Movies.
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Daddy and the Warlord
In postwar Liberia Clarice Gargard searches the truth concerning her father's dubious connection to warlord Charles Taylor.
La dictature du bonheur
The pursuit of happiness (and the display of happiness on social media!) has become a veritable cult. Happiness has become a social imperative, just like slimness, beauty and success. To better understand this obsessive quest for happiness, journalist Marie-Claude Élie-Morin takes an in-depth and personal look into this seemingly pervasive trend that sometimes leads to painful consequences.
Letter to the Editor
Independent filmmaker Alan Berliner considers the power of photography and what may be lost as daily newspapers face extinction, in this documentary exploring his near-lifelong obsession with clipping and indexing photos.
Registration Limit
A young actress, a graduate of the Perm Institute of Culture, goes to Moscow to build an acting career and play in a big movie.
Near and Elsewhere
In fictional sequences inserted into this documentary about economic, social and political perspectives on possible upcoming developments, the filmmakers portray a utopian future as a foreign territory. Six public figures from various cultural and social circles reflect on the future as a matter of time, people and the world.
The View From The Window
Ruslana Abrosimova, 17 years old, lives in Mariinka, Donetsk region. Now Ruslana is in an unconditional state of war and is struggling every day with her desire to go out on the street or to stay at home, safe, in her room. War in Ukraine rages for more than five years already. Still, teens never cease to think about studying, discovering new cities and their bright future. Conflict occurs at every step as soon as the children open their room doors. That`s why Ruslana decided to take her camera and start to film her reality.
A Lifetime of Sundays
Celebrating the league's 100th season and championing the women who have played an integral role in its history, NFL Films presents an unprecedented look at the history of professional football through the eyes of four iconic female owners: Chicago Bears' Virginia McCaskey, Detroit Lions' Martha Firestone Ford, Kansas City Chiefs' Norma Hunt and Pittsburgh Steelers' Patricia Rooney. Narrated by Academy Award winner, Regina King.
Mensch Maschine or Putting Parts Together
A playful take on gendered technology and the mechanisation of society. Adina Camhy traces spiralling stories both personal and societal, mapping out the entangled development of musical and militaristic machines.
One Taxi Ride
Erick's life changed forever when he got into a taxi. The driver and two accomplices sexually assaulted him. The then 17-year-old never went to the police, never saw a doctor and never told his family or friends. After feeling broken for 10 years, he goes on a journey to reclaim his life - changing the world around him along the way.
Never Locked
Sixteen-year-old Eitan wants to live in Amona where he was born, but that territory is still disputed. The most persevering squatter, he builds a house out of stones there together with his friends, which without any fuss gets destroyed by the police. "Never Locked" - a film with that name eloquently describes Eitan’s dream house - explores the question of whether people can live where they want and are able to live in their own country, of what makes places home, and talks about the feeling of being at home itself.