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The new ruins
An amateur archaeologist obsessed with e-waste records images and sounds over ten years. His research takes the form of a personal, playful and musical diary, crossing borders and archives. One day, he arrives at an electronic recycling workshop where the ghost of a working poet manifests itself. The search takes an unexpected turn and he sets out, in the company of his cat Pendrive, to explore the links between technology and memory. In times of environmental crisis, overproduction and acceleration of consumption, he wonders: how will history be written in the future?
Yannis Spanos: Behind the marquee
A discovery of the incredible musical journey of Yannis Spanos, setting off from small-town Kiato to major collaborations in Paris, and ultimately his huge success in Greece. With rare documents and interviews and through the eyes of a devoted fan, we explore why Spanos chose to stay behind the scenes, letting his music steal the spotlight.
Méta sexe, le documentaire
Cathline, Ines and Marie have been visiting the metaverse for years. The three young women explore these virtual worlds where everything is possible: friendship, love, and sexuality. In the heart of breathtaking settings, they push the boundaries of their own body and their identity. Not without dangers. This documentary takes you on a fascinating journey to the heart of these little-known universes, questioning the boundaries between the virtual and the real, and exploring the themes of love and sexuality.
Grip
After fleeing the war in Ukraine with her family, Emilia joins a climbing camp in the Belgian Ardennes. Together with a group of teenage girls from diverse backgrounds, she must come to terms with nature and with herself.
After James Benning's YouTube
Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.
My Friend Lanre
Regan first documented his friend’s life in the 1998 film Don’t Get High on Your Own Supply. Fehintola became hooked on heroin while working on a book about a group of drug addicts. Regan caught up with him again in the 2001 film Cold Turkey, as Fehintola attempted to break his addiction by locking himself in his flat without medication. My Friend Lanre jumps two decades, to a moment when Fehintola has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Regan never set out to document someone dying, but this is what his film becomes. Drawing from over 25 years of footage, the filmmaker presents an intensely intimate portrayal of his friendship and collaboration with Fehintola. It is charming, funny, devastating and, by its close, a bravely personal, living testament to one person’s life and work.
Als ik mijn ogen sluit: leven met de Japanse kampen
What did the women and children experience in the Japanese internment camps in the Dutch East Indies? What wounds and traumas remained, and how did they cope with them throughout their lives? The camps left significant scars. Many of these have not yet healed or disappeared.
Sisters Love Forever
Wilde and Marin are sisters and best friends. Marin suffers from bipolar disorder and Wilde has been trying to save her for years. Wilde understands that Marin has decided to end her life. This presents Wilde with a major dilemma.
The Boy and the Suit of Lights
In a coastal town in Spain, young Borja is growing up as the father figure to his little brother Erik, helping out his mother Raquel as she struggles daily to pay the bills. Dreaming of fame and a better life, the family sign Borja up for the local School of Bullfighting. Borja trains hard, trying to fulfil his family’s dream that he will debut as a bullfighter at the age of 16, wearing a magnificent “suit of lights”. But the political, financial and social implications of this contentious tradition turns Borja’s hopeful coming-of-age story into a controversial and unpredictable narrative.
BULIR
All the stories told, all the memories, dreams and lost moments were left in a tank from other generations.
Lost Temples of Cambodia
We go on a journey to visit breathtaking temples and ancient sites, while charting the extraordinary rise and fall of the ancient Angkorian Empire in Cambodia.
SELASTRAGA
Through intimate conversations and backstage moments, Marcel reveals how the art of transformation becomes his daily lifeline. Glitters, makeup, and lights transform into his protective shield against the outside world. And on stage, Verónica Selastraga emerges, briefly forgetting the weight of the world that follows him.
Star’Académiciens, comédiens et animateurs : que sont-ils devenus ?
A Shepherd
Félix, a young, melancholic and secretive shepherd, leads a surprisingly timeless life. He lives alone and works along his father to raise the family herd. From autumn to spring, he looks after his animals, feeds them and keeps them in the dense forests of holm oaks of French Pre-Alps. In the summer, he travels on foot for more than two hundred kilometres, leaving his father to lead the herd to the mountains pastures, in the High Alps Ubaye valley. There, he lives far from everything for many long months, in a mineral and inaccessible world where an invisible being prowls: the wolf. Against the tide of his time, Félix has chosen a profession that isolates him and keeps him out of the world.
Timescan 2
During the filming process, a lot has changed in the world we used to know. With no idea of when borders will open up or where skateboarding was headed, I spent the last four years traveling and filming the people around me, digging deeper and deeper into the Japanese skate scene. All of the experiences from my life changing choice to live and skate in Japan have led to this movie. - Rob Taro
Embalmed Heart
A girl grows restless in a village surrounded by mountains and churches in northern Argentina. It hasn't rained for a long time and the rivers are dry. From her room, the girl fantasises about things she is not yet allowed to do. She confesses her wish to the Virgin.
A Miracle in the War
Pavel Astakhov, the presenter and author of the program "Simple Miracles", drove along the front line, collecting people's stories about their meeting with God in the war – unique first-hand accounts of saved lives, unexploded shells, survival against all odds, how shrines were protected from bullets and bombs, and minefields did not explode about how the laws of nature and the effects of explosive waves were violated, about the abundant myrrh of Donbass icons, about the power of prayer and the multiplication of battalions with the names of saints on the front line.
Threads That Tie Us: An Oshwal Odyssey
The Halari Oshwals are a small community dispersed around the world yet held together by a history of sacrifices. But times have changed. This globalization has led to many problems within the community, and their numbers are dwindling. An Oshwal woman from Canada worries about the preservation and survival of her heritage in the hands of generations to come. She sets out on a pilgrimage to visit Oshwal communities in Kenya, where she was born; the UK, where she lived for a while; and India, where her parents originated. She discovers a shared concern for the future of the community and its traditions in the face of globalization and geographical disconnect, and explores what this means for the younger generation and their Oshwal identity.
04/30/24
On April 30th, 2024, anti-war protesters occupied Hamilton Hall, an administrative building at New York City's Columbia University, and renamed it "Hind's Hall" in honor of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl killed by the Israeli military, funded and enabled by the U.S. Government and corporations. That night, police stormed the campus, escalating protests in New York, across America, and the world. Meanwhile, the IDF invasion of Rafah unfolds. This film documents one week of this conflict.
Comrade Poopy
Following the protest against the 2021 Myanmar military coup, travel blogger Naw and her husband embark on a harrowing escape through the vast jungles. Amidst the chaos and uncertainty, the couple finds comfort in an unexpected companion – a newly adopted kitten they name "POOPY."
The Tempest of Neptun
On the Croatian island of Vis, a diverse group discusses their future, reflecting on the decline of storytelling and listening cultures. Fishermen, youth, intellectuals, and others, gather in cinematic dialogue, shaping the collective protagonist. Their debates on growth versus environmental protection connect past, present, and future, bridging local and global perspectives.
Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme
Wannabe actor Zachary Horwitz was desperate to make it big as a movie star. The only thing stopping him was talent. Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme is a juicy true story about deception, denial, and the seductive promise of fame and fortune.
Meet the Roman Emperor with Mary Beard
With unique insights in epic locations and interpretations of ancient inscriptions and artefacts, Mary Beard uncovers the hidden world of the emperors of Rome.
World of Tanks and Commanders
A documentary about the significance of the tank in modern warfare and the commanders who shaped its development.
Resynator
In unearthing a revolutionary synthesizer her late father invented in the 1970s, Alison Tavel not only revives his mission to share it with the world, she unexpectedly forges a deep bond with the father she never got the chance to know.
Valentina and the MUOSters
Niscemi, Sicily. A landscape shaped by intensive farming, wildfires, and MUOS: imposing military antennae that disfigure the territory. At almost 30 years old, Valentina still lives with her parents. When her father’s health deteriorates, she is forced to take her fate into her own hands.
Nimager
In a Gaspésie long-term care facility, women gather at the hair salon, exchanging memories while embodying resilience and beauty in the face of isolation and scarce resources.
In Memoriam Biel
The poet Gabriel Ferrater – or Biel, as his friends called him – grew up during one of the most turbulent times in Spanish history. Shortly after his birth, there was a coup d’état; before he even turned 10, the king abdicated and Spain became a Republic; as he was entering adolescence, the police imprisoned his father for politically supporting an independent Catalan republic, and two years later, a terrible civil war broke out. During his childhood, Biel is barely aware of what is happening. He is a gifted child who learns to read and write at home. However, the radicalization of the political and social clashes taking place around him turns Biel into a witness of horror. The story of a teenage boy through the most violent years in the history of Spain, years that will lead to the disenchantment with which Gabriel Ferrater and other members of his generation perceive the human condition.
The Moon Also Rises
Just before the launch of artificial moons, a retired couple finds their harbor in the fading darkness. Trying to catch up with the pace of modernity, their daily life traces this forthcoming brightness back to its earthly origins.
The Circle
A short film about tattoo artist Herman Devyashin, who is trying to find a way out of a creative crisis. To get out of the crisis, he decides to get a tattoo in a way that no one has ever done.
The Dreamers
One of the world’s earliest female rock and roll bands was formed in Belgrade in the 1960s. In complex circumstances and times when “electrical” music was a nuisance to the “guardians of public morals” for spreading the rebellious spirit, teenage girls Doda, two Ljiljas and Nena founded VIS SANJALICE and conquered the music scene of Yugoslavia, on par with male bands.
Хозяин Алтайских гор
The plot takes place in the Altai Mountains, where snow leopards, rare and majestic predators, face the threat of extinction. The main character of the film is a baby snow leopard, who has just been born, whom the staff of the Sailyugemsky National Park name Tural, which means "immortal" in the Altai language. He got this name after all his fellow badgers died during the winter feeding season, and Tural turned out to be the only survivor. But when the threat to life has passed, the baby suddenly disappears from the field of view of the staff of the National Park. Will he be able to survive in the wild? And will he ever return to his native Sailugem?
Shards
With impressive visual clarity, memories, experiences, and events are interwoven with myths and dreams in a film about the search for meaning in a fragmented reality.
Podnieks On Podnieks. A Witness To History
A film about the outstanding Latvian film director Juris Podnieks, who during his lifetime gained the fame of a fighter for justice and an "eye-opener". Podnieks has created testimonies about the most important events of the twentieth century in the post-Soviet territory. He always saw a bigger picture, it was not just Latvia what interested him. His ability to cover such a wide spectrum of themes - wars, lost freedom of his own country, the Soviet regime and its collapse, young people, artists. But most importantly, he was always focusing on the human soul. Juris creates an emotional bond between the author and his characters, the characters and the viewer - he was talking to each individual. Perhaps this is why his films made such an effect on the viewer. Juris Podnieks has clearly been able to influence millions of viewers with his films. Juris himself died in the summer of 1992 in a diving accident. Did he manage to fulfill his mission in this life?
Two Trees
In the early 1900s commercial loggers cut down an old growth spruce tree growing on a small island surrounded by tide pools on the coast of Maine. Out of the trunk of this ancient tree grew two new trees, side by side.