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Are You Here?
Oryna, an 18-year-old Ukrainian girl, fled her homeland during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, while all her family, including her 7-year-old sister Ksiusha, decided to remain there. The film observes the daily remote communication between Oryna and her younger sister, and reveals their close bonds of sisterhood, which remain strong despite their separation, the constant presence of the war, and the natural process of growing apart.
Dreamers: A New Age Poker Documentary
“Dreamers” is a new-age poker documentary that takes viewers on a journey through the modern world of professional poker. The film follows the industry's best and brightest poker players and influencers as they compete in the first-ever WPT World Championship poker festival. Through interviews with the players themselves, “Dreamers” peels back the curtain of the often mis-understood poker community, revealing the highs and lows of the game and the people who play it. From the intense pressure of high-stakes tournaments to the camaraderie and friendship that develops among players, the film captures the essence of what it means to be part of the passionate poker community and the Above the Felt team.
Domingo Domingo
Domingo Domingo, a witty Valencian orange farmer, tries to stand up to the multinational companies that oppress the humble workers of the land.
Queer Exile Berlin
Queer people from all over the world have made Berlin what it is today. Many leave their home because they want to, others because they have to. This film follows a few of them. The queer universe of Berlin mirrors the movements of the world and is constantly evolving. In recent decades, a multitude of identities have made themselves heard. Today, gay and lesbian are only two terms among many.
You Can Go Now!
The life and provocative work and writings of First Nations artist, Richard Bell. The film reveals the "two Richards" – "Richie" the provocateur and enfant terrible of the art world who challenges its whiteness, and the Richard who spent his childhood living in a tin shed, learnt his politics on the streets of Redfern and is known in his own community as an "activist".
Squeeker: The Mouse Coach
You’ve heard of a running coach, someone to keep your motivation high. Now, imagine this: what if the coach is a mouse?
Their Story Documentary: Riley Kernick
An independent short film documentary directed by and starring high school students that focuses on life passions, music, childhood, and the shaping of a modern teen (Riley Kernick).
Despelote
In Ecuador’s capital Quito, football fever is everywhere in the run-up to the 2002 Football World Cup. So, also in the home of eight-year-old Julián, where his parents watch football and talk about it. At school, too, where everyone looks forward to the break so they can kick a ball around—and again after school. Playfully, without a care in the world, every free moment seems to revolve around football.
Hi Mister Comolli
A few months before he died, Jean-Louis Comolli meets up with Dominique Cabrera for some free conversations with Isabelle Le Corff. They talk about cinema, life, love, death and Chassagne-Montrachet wine. There is laughter and smiles. One is not really serious at the age of eighty.
Mother Saigon
In Saigon, family culture carries on as it has for centuries, even when blood ties are broken. Through a mosaic of intimate portraits, Má Sài Gòn explores humanity’s universal desire for love, acceptance, connection and belonging through an LGBTQ+ lens. The film is a love letter – a bittersweet ode to a comforting yet disturbing mother, to a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.
Dancing Pina
Two of Pina Bausch’s most famous works are rehearsed in Germany and Senegal, championing the choreographer’s legacy through a younger generation of dancers.
Epic Animal Migrations: Patagonia
For thousands of animals every year, migrating across Patagonia is the only chance of survival as they return to give birth and raise their young or come home to feed.
Vale dos Isolados: O Assassinato de Bruno e Dom
Celebrating Carol: The Gift of Laughter
Shout. Factory program that streamed as a prelude to an NBC special.
Real life
"The quarantine of 2020 was a big surprise for everyone. Milena, a film student is locked in her parents' house. She is not allowed to travel, so she is forced to spend the quarantine and the Easter holidays alone. The situation with the corona virus makes her feel alone and imprisoned, while her dreams, goals and life are postponed along with the end of the lock down, so she chooses to spend her time, continuing her life inside a video game, while time around her he passes, without her. It is a documentary-self-portrait that has characteristics of a quarantine diary. In the film we see Milena learning to cook, continuing her distance learning and the resurrection from her balcony. The two realities: that of the game and the quarantine get confused and one seems more real than the other. "
74 Messages Sent & Recieved
A covert exchange of text messages is artfully edited into a story of caregiving and unlikely alliances.
William Quail’s Pyramid
Will an Artificial Intelligence ever be capable of creating a genuine, original work of art? Some would argue that, while AI systems have become exponentially better at imitating all human forms of expression, creating art requires a soul. But what is that soul? Is it really in the work of art? Or is it in the meaning that we as viewers automatically ascribe to it?
Slice of Goodness
Hakki Akdeniz, an immigrant from Turkey, went from rags to riches with his passion for making pizza for New Yorkers.
Our Mother was an Actress
Maria José Novais Oliveira, a black woman, resident on the outskirts of Contagem, already in her 60s, has become a film actress, with an award-winning career in Brazil and internationally. This documentary recalls the image of a unique woman who marked Brazilian cinema in the 2010s.
Darlo todo
"Drag is pure politics", says one of the artists who star in this documentary about drag art in Argentina, based on the "Miss Lipsync Battle" contest, which takes place at the Peuteo bar in the Palermo neighborhood. The competition is a landmark of the Buenos Aires nightlife since many artists take their first steps there, having the opportunity to share the stage with established figures in front of a fierce audience and a jury of notables. At the same time that the different stages of the contest are recorded, following the emotional pulse of each participant, the film reflects and narrates a brief history of local drag, invoking and summoning figures that built myths in the night.
Brilliant A
The piano is an instrument without which it is impossible to imagine the musical world. But how did it first make its way from Western civilization to areas where it was traditionally unavailable, and what were the consequences? In her short film poem, the author becomes an archaeologist of sorts through evocative images of the piano amidst natural scenery and questions about the Korean adoption of the chamber note A, which is a tuning standard in music, as she uncovers historical, social, and cultural layers in relation to sound.
Redemption
In 1911, during the Universal Races Congress in London, the representative from Brazil presented a painting titled “Ham’s Redemption” (A redenção de Cam).
Freedom Waders: The Struggle to Integrate Chicago’s Rainbow Beach
Velma Norman Hill, married more than 60 years, recount their experience braving mob violence at the height of the civil rights movement.
Black Godfather of Scuba
Marine biologist and diver Dr. Albert Jose “Doc” Jones dove into the first lost slave ship ever to be recovered, and co-founded the National Association of Black Scuba Divers.
La ravissante
In the form of a poetic love letter to its nation, this short film reveals a strong community and the anchoring of the new generation in this rich culture.
Radio Bingo
A popular bingo game broadcast on a reservation radio station helps to revitalize the Mohawk language.
Borderline Visible (collective experience)
As soon as you open the photo book and the soundscape and narration begin, you are transported into a story that flows in many directions, only to emerge 77 minutes later. This tender and urgent experience, fueled with music by Oren Ambarchi and Perila, takes you on an unlikely path from Lausanne to Izmir in what gradually becomes a moving and troubled psychogeography.
Four Holes
Pepe, an old Spaniard, has improvised his own golf course on the outskirts of Madrid. Daniela, a young Cuban filmmaker, discovers his routine as she tries to portray him. Both have hearing disabilities.
Bear Land
In the steppes and forests of northern Asia, several species of bear coexist and fight for their survival, in a nature that has been put to the test by climate change.
The Voices of the Silenced
Director Park Soo-nam, a second-generation Korean resident in Japan who is losing his eyesight, decides to digitally restore 16mm film she shot a long time ago, relying on her daughter Park Ma-eui's eyesight. The blood, tears, and numerous corpses of Koreans living in Japan are clearly engraved in the film filmed over 50 years.
People from the Heart of the Earth
The collective Guahu’i Guyra spent three years filming their people, the Guarani-Kaiowá, original inhabitants of a piece of land in Brazil. Much of of their ancestral lands have been destroyed by monoculture and deforestation. In the small territory they managed to retake, a few families try to live according to their traditional way of life, devoting a lot of attention to each other and their environment.
Small Stories of a Large Factory
An animation in which children tell the stories of their relatives who worked at the Satka Refractory Materials plant.
All Inclusive
Four athletes from different countries live with mental disabilities. But being "special" doesn't seem to be the real challenge for them, because they also have to deal with the difficulties of growing up, find true friends and decide what they want out of life. The stories of Timo, Toivo, Uyangaa and Mary Stella show us how inclusive sport can positively change the lives of people with disabilities and those around them. All four have a common goal: Participation in the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin in the summer of 2023. How do you master this path?
In Search of Antonio Inoki
A look into the life and career of the legendary wrestler Antonio Inoki
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