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Cabin Music
When a spiritual crisis spurs him to leave the constraints of the conservatory, pianist and filmmaker James Carson embarks on a journey of evolution, discovering new connections between music and the natural world. His travels culminate in a cabin he builds in the Canadian wild where his experiences meld into a new form. A lyrical, genre-defying feast for the senses, Cabin Music is a testament to the twin transcendent powers of music and nature.
I Must Keep Singing
Chu Chen, the 27-year-old lead singer of the indie band "The Land Reborn", is always performing and practicing. He doesn't want to waste any moment of his life since the misfortune inherited from his family is lurking in his restless blood.
Chris & Eli's Porn Revolution
Gay comedians Chris Parker and Eli Matthewson are on a crusade to get the country talking about pornography. Join Chris Parker and Eli Matthewson as they launch a campaign to shake the stigma from porn, helped by experts, creators and consumers across the country. But as they get deeper into their quest, will it even be possible to sum up the complex world of porn into one snappy slogan?
Cheap Thrills: Those Drive-in Horror Flicks
Action packed film clips from 47 horror films.
Triptych
Big Clay #4, a 12-meter sculpture by Swiss artist Urs Fischer, was installed in Moscow in August 2021 and caused a mixed reaction. Gradually, the Russian context supplemented the work with two new parts – thus, from a single work, Big Clay turned into a triptych.
First Saké Brewery in New York
Witness the passionate artform of saké making at Brooklyn Kura, the first saké brewery in New York.
Mothers
Four mothers explain how their sons ended up in trouble with the law because they fell in with the wrong crowd, experienced trauma or were intimidated by a gang. The offenses are minor, and their involvement was not always proven—sometimes they were only witnesses to a crime. But once Amsterdam’s Top400 crime prevention program has them in its sights, things just get worse for them.
First Months Of Freedom
Cat, a transgender woman in Tennessee who has been institutionalized since she was four years old, got off parole in 2020. This film documents her first months of freedom. The piece was composed from phone videos sent to the filmmaker, Skype calls, archival material, and some footage that a friend had shot a few years before. Cat shares stories from her childhood and her life inside men's prisons, including her relationship with her husband and former cellmate Doc who remains incarcerated.
The Consultant - Arthur Finkelstein
Although the late Republican Party consultant Arthur J. Finkelstein was little known in his native US, his kingmaking powers had played a major role in the rise of right-wing populism around the world over the last two decades. In 1968, aged just 23, he helped Nixon get elected, and later masterminded the stunning victories of Reagan in 1980, Orbán in 2010 and Netanyahu in 1996, a mere few months after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Finkelstein’s ability to manipulate public opinion and the media – using it to advance his clients’ careers while zealously protecting his privacy – however, could not stop the leaks about his long term same-sex relationship. Attempting to square Finkelstein’s gay, urban and Jewish identity with the views of the politicians he worked with, this fascinating film sheds light on a life full of mind-boggling, moral contradictions.
Estella Cancels Cancer
One day in the life of Estella, an extraordinarily inspiring and stylish girl who was diagnosed with cancer a year ago. How does she live with it? What is it facing? What does he expect and what does he feel?
Studio 2
Film student Patrick Atallah has a problem on his hands: his graduation documentary was cancelled at the last moment, so he has just one day in a studio to make an entire, fully realised film. What’s the film going to be about now? He doesn’t know, but he’s hoping to find it along the way. To do this, he invites five of his closest friends to the studio to help him come up with some interesting ideas.
Querida Resistencia
With the fall of communism, the rules of the eternal chess game between right and left changed drastically. Since then, the ideological battle in certain countries has been fought more in the cultural arena than in the economic one. Argentinean political scientist Agustín Laje accounts his day-to-day life in the heart of the struggle.
Time: The Unexplainable Journey
In this short experimental documentary, Jediah Currie tries to wrap his head around the idea of time. In three segments focused on the present, past and future. You see how time effects objects, people and memories leaving you just as confused about time as you were going into the film.
S'altra banda
What's on the other side of Fornells bay? Pepe el Malo is an urban legend or he really existed? This documentary doesn't try to shed light on the dark; it rather plays deftly with the ambiguities of a character that is part of the Menorcan imaginary.
Un bon début
They are old enough to enter the third grade and already have a reputation of being irredeemable. For months, they have lived far from school, almost completely cut off from school life. In Grenoble, a unique class in France called "Starter" opened its doors to them. During this particular year, Un bon début filmed their adolescence, which was difficult and rough - but whose course can still change.
Skymaster Down
On January 26, 1950, a US Airforce troop plane left Anchorage for Montana with 44 people on board. The crew of the Douglas C-54 Skymaster #2469 was supposed to check in every half hour along the route. As the aircraft crossed into Yukon, they radioed the tiny outpost of Snag to say that there was ice forming on the wings, but otherwise all was well. After that, the Skymaster disappeared. And to this day no sign of the aircraft or its passengers has ever been found. This fascinating Yukon-shot documentary tells the stories of the victim’s families and an intrepid group of Yukoners striving to give those families closure by searching every summer in hopes that the Skymaster will finally turn up.
Mi reino
An elderly hoarder seeks to overcome time and memory to find closure and redemption in the twilight of his life.
Marco inedito: Dagli ultimi 100 giorni di Pannella
The last days of Marco Pannella’s life - indomitable and disruptive protagonist over 60 years of Italian political life - shown through never before seen repertory materials, as well as unpublished interviews and illustrious interventions. A deserved portrait, dedicated to one of the most independent figures of the 900 Italian.
One for the River: The Sava Story
Flowing from the heart of the Julian Alps all the way to Belgrade, crossing four countries and many landscapes before reaching the Danube, the Sava is the home river for most of the team behind and in front of the camera of this film. But despite living next to it, many never use the chance to really get to know it. Join four kayakers for an exciting, 11-day journey across the entire Slovenian part of the river.
Amber Schulz: A Journey Toward Finding Inner Strength
Earlier this year, Schulz shared how she faced one of her biggest fears with the help of those around her: Family, friends, teammates and the online community. From there, as she details in this film, she took steps toward recovery from her eating disorder.
Chris Danger: Creating a Superstar
In 2014, YouTuber DenkOps (Chris Denker) created a fictional version of himself inside of a pro wrestling video game. 8 years and 1.5 million fans later, it's time to turn fiction into reality. This documentary follows Chris's odyssey into the very real world of professional wrestling, with every bump, botch, & breakdown that occurs along the way. Can he make it through training and prove he has what it takes to do this for real? Or will he find himself... in danger? It’s definitely not a game anymore.
Apinán: We The Lenca
APINÁN (We The Lenca) is an introspective artistic vision of one of the remnant tribes of Mesoamerican in Honduras ethnicities that is still alive among the 600 thousand people that constitute it. APINÁN lives among cultivated vegetable meadows, wild flowers, tile houses and colonial remains with a palpable dignity in each of its constituents.
3 Blickwinkel - Königsklasse im Herzen von Europa
From the relegation battle to winning the Europa League to the Champions League anthem for the first time - Eintracht Frankfurt has experienced turbulent times with incredible moments. We have accompanied the SGE on their journey to the Champions League so far - and we were in the heart of Europe.
Going Alone
Every year, five to ten percent of all deceased Berliners are buried by the authorities because no relatives are found. Most of them are put into the ground by mortician Bernd Simon going alone. But sometimes companions do turn up and say goodbye in their very own way. An observational documentary about an undertaker who actually wanted to become an entertainer, a bizarre city portrait and a mirror of how we deal with death, mourning and commemoration.
¿A qué suenan tus ojos?
Juan Pablo was born without the ability to see. With great enthusiasm and an adventurous spirit he travels from Sao Paulo (Brazil) to the Colombian Amazon to encounter the unknown and unusual; without fear of anything he faces great challenges.
How to Watch Pornography
A movie essay using theory fragments from porn studies pioneer Linda Williams, radical gender theorist Paul Preciado, feminist theorists Hortense Spillers, Karen Barad and more. A variety of hazy, lo fi clips rub up against an isolated digerati immersed in temporary pornutopias. Why not name it a small collection, a modest archive of sexual imageries and pleasures? The relationship between monopoly capitalism and sexual imaging is laid bare, along with the production of a gendered subject, the question of post-pornography and its new identity formations.
The Visible Spectrum
On a film reel electrified by static charges, we meet five people who survived the impact of lightning.
Horizon
Have you ever told the new generation what future you’re going to leave them? The world is struggling with a climate crisis and other critical issues; what will it look like in 30 years’ time? This one-to-one performance gives you the chance to get into a conversation with a teenager who’s about 16 years old.
Recents
Employing the use of a copy machine to degrade images and video from her personal archive, the filmmaker takes viewers through fading recollections of the past. Memory is an unreliable reproduction – a copy of a copy.
Alegria Séfarade
Country of egality, France is a dream to my sephardic-not-turkish family. In 1914, Joseph, the eldest of four brothers, leaves Istanbul to France. But he will have to wait until 1924 to fulfil his dream with his entire family. They will have to come to terms between fantasy and reality. How could they imagine what they will experience in the « human rights country » ?
At Eye Level
Six people. Six countries. Experience at eye level one of their days from sunrise to sunset and be put in their chair.
A Caballo
Carla, a young rider from Hidalgo, shows us the symbiosis between her and her horse Faraón, based on her experience as a charro skirmish and the challenges that this represents.
#Colombiaresiste
#ColombiaResiste is a short documentary featuring Deeper, a Colombian visual artist who through his collages transports us to the epicenter of the latest social uprising in his country. In the midst of a pandemic and with the many kilometers that separate Mexico from Colombia, social networks such as Tiktok, become the best archive and means of information.