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In Praise of Slowness
Due to economic and technological forces reshaping the city of Tangier, the profession of the bleach street salesmen, along with their insistent chanting, is disappearing. The film explores modes of resistance against the relentless pace of capitalism.
The King
When Rauli Badding Somerjoki wrote the song “Lights” in 1975, he sent it to Elvis, the king of rock’n’roll. Badding waited for an answer from the King, whom he hoped would perform his wistful tune. Strange things started happening in Somero when potatoes started popping up in curious shapes.
Morning Has Broken, Yet It Is Night
Painter Henry Wuorila-Stenberg (b. 1949) shares his wisdom once again. Having had a long career and a large impact on contemporary Finnish art, he expresses his innermost feelings in Iivo Korhonen’s poetic work. Having experienced ups and downs in his life, the painter describes the transience of life wistfully. Wuorila-Stenberg ponders on aging, death, and loneliness, but also the greatest joys of his life, like love. “I know that life is a big secret,” he says.
The Menstrual Cycle - Ending the Taboo
There is a glaring lack of basic knowledge about the menstrual cycle. However, various areas of research are beginning to take an interest, ask questions, and break the taboo surrounding it. Freed from myths and prejudices, the menstrual cycle is being re-evaluated and no longer seen a weakness, but rather as a strength.
Além do Muro
"Além do Muro" is a short documentary that provides a glimpse into the culture of pixo in the city of Curitiba, Brazil.
Crutchfield: A Basketball Documentary
The life and legacy of legendary men’s basketball coach Jim Crutchfield and the story of the 36-0 Nova Southeastern Sharks National Championship victory in 2022-23.
Why we are all DOOMED...
Today we react to Eddie Abbew and his unorthodox approach to getting us to eat real and natural foods!
Meeting Cris
Cris is a mid-20's aerospace engineer who is just moving out into a new place for a new job and has your average hardships of coming into adulthood and despite having pretentious ambitions his ways don’t line up with his story.
Wild Wild Space
Wild Wild Space focuses on the intense rivalry between two visionaries and founders of contesting rocket companies, Chris Kemp and Peter Beck. Their mission transcends mere competition; it’s a strategic bid to outdo each other, disrupt Elon Musk’s cosmic dominance, and claim significant shares in the burgeoning space industry.
There Was, There Was Not
A richly textured tapestry telling the story of Artsakh through the daily lives of four women fighting to save their homeland.
Johnny & Me - A Journey through Time with John Heartfield
At an exhibition, graphic designer Stefanie is thrilled by the work of John Heartfield, the inventor of political photomontage 100 years ago. While trying to understand his life on the run, she suddenly finds herself in Heartfield's studio.
Towards Eurosong - Baby Lasagna
A television documentary showing the life of Baby Lasagna, the Croatian representative at the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest.
We Vogue
Kiki Houses emerged alongside voguing culture, historically as adoptive families where queer youth could go when rejected by their birth families. Since then, the movement as a whole has largely been appropriated in the West, particularly by White cis women in Spain. But today a growing group of Black trans folks have emerged to reclaim that space. Jayce started the Kiki House of Bodega and Ballroom Encounters to offer safe spaces for the Black queer community, often people whose own families rejected them for who they are.
Will You Remember Me?
Colleen Cove has been caring for people with Alzheimer's all her life. Now in the 45th year of her career, the demands of her job are pulled into sharp focus at the bedside of her oldest patient, a 100-year-old opera singer named Lucille. In this deeply emotional witness to Lucille's final moments, Colleen reflects on her uniquely intimate relationship with death, and Lucille shares her gift with the world for the last time.
The Cambridgeshire Crucifixion
In 2017, a routine archaeological dig is taking place on the site of a proposed housing development in the village of Fenstanton in the Cambridgeshire Fens. When human remains are found alongside a variety of Roman artefacts, none of the team at Albion Archaeology see anything out of the ordinary. But once the bones are washed back at HQ, something highly unusual is uncovered: a nail through the heelbone of one of the individuals. Could this be evidence of a Roman crucifixion? When they do some research, they find that only one confirmed example has ever been unearthed before, discovered in the 1960s in Jerusalem. To find out more, they call in renowned Osteoarchaeologist Dr Corinne Duhig to investigate.
Disaster Theories: Our Planet in Flames
Greek climate tends to become warmer and drier, with an increased risk of desertification. Heat waves with increased frequency and duration, tropical nights with temperatures exceeding 20 degrees celcius, water scarcity and droughts that create favorable conditions for devastating forest fires have now become the norm.
Bimsa
Bimsa: A basement, a cellar where we store the things we want to preserve over time. Kalarrites (a place where the waters flow seamlessly), a mountainous area on the peaks of the Pindos trail, remained proud and prosperous during the years of the Ottoman occupation. The few remaining residents still practice professions that will soon extinct, lacking any prospect of succession; they speak to the camera and take us on a journey through the history of the place.
Help me find my water bottle
There are no trash cans or recycling bins at the Tres Rios Wetlands. I set my water bottle down and can't tell which one is mine anymore.
The In Between
Following the death of her brother, filmmaker Robie Flores returns to her hometown Eagle Pass on the Texas/Mexico border, wanting to turn back time. She collides with unruly experiences of adolescence – quinceañeras, Rio Grande river excursions, teen makeovers and beyond – that invite her to soak up the details of the home her brother adored and she ignored. What emerges is a playful dance between a personal and collective coming-of-age portrait of kids on the border and Robie herself as she rediscovers the possibilities of joy in the aftermath of grief.
The Missing Piece
They were 27 and 35 years old. They were both killed in the same spot, within the same month. The same botched work killed them. Eighteen people are called to provide an answer to a simple question: Why don’t we do what we should? The answer might lie in the missing piece – the unknown story of the pothole, a trademark of Greek roads infrastructure.
Formicidae Sinfonia: The Music and Sounds of 'Phase IV'
Composer Brian Gascoigne and electronic music artist David Vorhaus discuss the music of 'Phase IV' (1974).
The Story of: Die Innere 1
When the world is in huge danger and health crisis only the impeccable Pflege Wonka can save them all
Mina and the Radio Bandits
There's more than cops and robber stories at stake in this heartbreaking and dramatic film about Norwegian Mina with the kind heart who starts a radio station for (and with) prison inmates. Can she find the line between life and work when an unexpected tragedy strikes?
flaring memories.
A film made using home videos and scrapped projects, inspired by rapidly blinking on a sunny day.
Moving
Evgenia is an idealistic young woman who is angry at the entire world. She keeps a diary, referring to herself in the third person singular, imagining herself as a heroine who returns to the embrace of nature intending to record its reality. Her goal is to penetrate the lives of a couple of nomadic shepherds and understand their way of interpreting the world.
Pirates of Gramvousa
Gramvousa. A stronghold of conquerors, a pirates’ den or a charging point for freedom fighters? How can a small, barren islet keep so many secrets? Dimitris Gotsopoulos takes us on a fascinating journey of discovery in the backdrop of the Aegean, where nothing is as it seems and roles keep shifting. Just like in any good story.
The Gym
For the last 27 years, 72-year-old Pantelis, a refugee from Pontus, an athlete and distinguished coach in Kazakhstan, has been coaching the children of the Pontic community in Aspropyrgos. He himself continues to practice with them.
Runaways
The Marem Group is a team of volunteers helping victims of domestic violence in the North Caucasus, Russia. It was created in 2020 by Dagestani journalist Svetlana Anokhina. After their shelter was raided by a joined team of Chechen and Dagestani cops, they had to leave Russia. But Svetlana continues to evacuate girls. The documentary traces these runaways on different phases of evacuation – from their republics to the long process of rehabilitation in other countries. But abusers threaten not only girls. Members of the Marem Group are not safe even outside Russia. They can also become runaways at any moment.
The Experiencers
A documentary about people who claim to have had contact with non-human beings.
Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense
The film gives voice to the growing trend of Afro-descendants moving back to the continent of Africa to live. It highlights the life of a professional educator and their journey through the Texas school system to find freedom amid issues surrounding school equity, racism, and miseducation. This is juxtaposed against the life and legacy of the founding father of Tanzania, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, who enacted empowering policies such as Ujamaa and Education for Self-Reliance, and the life and times of Dr. John Pombe Magufuli, the president who denounced COVID-19.
Shadow of War
When Russian armed forces invaded Ukraine, Moldovans raced to the borders to assist refugees, offering warm food, rides, and shelter. At the same time, a group of Moldovan filmmakers formed an ad-hoc film collective to document the unwavering efforts of volunteers and the fate of refugees through multifaceted lenses. Despite these acts of solidarity, a segment of the population's Soviet nostalgia fuels a growing fear that the country could be drawn into the war.
Untitled Simon van Collem Documentary
A documentary about the late Simon van Collem, the person who introduced the Netherlands to Hollywood through his TV shows and interviews with the biggest celebrities. In the film, his granddaughter Senna van Collem, born after his death, searches for the story of Simon, and learns what kind of a person he actually was.