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- Unsuccessful radio host Rasa has a small party in his alcoholic father's run-down apartment, and one of his guests is his neighbor Ivan who takes antipsychotics.
- A documentary that tells the stories of Turkish workers who went from Turkey to Germany since 1950. It generally tells the stories of musicians of Turkish origin in Germany.
- Gerel sees her gang falls apart and gradually renounces her violent methods while confronts her past traumas and secrets with Temuulen.
- A cinematographic essay that centers around the region of the Bosnian-Croatian border near Velika Kladusa, and explores questions of displacement, violence and also everyday life and coincidence. It is about scars that break open, war memories that are awakened, profound encounters between people. A kaleidoscope of landscape and fury.
- Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city's sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. Until one morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo takes a different exit on the highway.
- On 11 August 1999, most of Europe was engrossed in the total solar eclipse, which momentarily enveloped the Earth in darkness. But in Serbia, people were busy barricading themselves in their homes and shelters for fear of the dark. Filmmaker Natasa Urban returns to the eclipse as motif and metaphor in her paradoxically evocative and thoughtful film about her own upbringing during the war in the former Yugoslavia, to which she travels back in THE ECLIPSE to collect stories and anecdotes from her family and acquaintances. A cotton curtain in the wind on a spring day, a lush forest floor. The war is far away - or is it? Shot on analogue 16mm film with an artist's eye for how traces of the past remain deposited in the present - both physically and mentally - Urban creates a rich, existential work of imagery with a quiet, philosophical weight that is rare and precious. As when her father wanders the lush landscapes while you hear him reading from his journals about the wanderings he took while the war was still going on.
- Deep in the forests of Uganda, millions of grasshoppers gather to mate in devastating swarms. A group of young men set up a strange contraption at the edge of the crop fields to harvest the prized delicacy among city dwellers.
- A film constructed using the opposition of what a huge collection of recently discovered glass-plate photographs from the 30's and 40's tell us about Romania and what they do not show.
- 'Olmo and the Seagull' is a poetic and existential dive into an actress's mind during the nine months of her pregnancy as she must confront her most fiery inner demons while trying to rewrite a new philosophy of life, identity and love. Underlying this hybrid film is mounting tension over what is real and what is enacted when one is performing one's own life.
- The Seasons in Quincy' is the result of a five-year project by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe and Christopher Roth to produce a portrait of the intellectual and storyteller John Berger. It was produced by the Derek Jarman Lab, an audio-visual hub for graduate filmmaking based at Birkbeck, University of London, in collaboration with the composer Simon Fisher Turner.
- Two students from the Czech Film Academy commission a leading advertising agency to organize a huge campaign for the opening of a new supermarket named Czech Dream. The supermarket however does not exist and is not meant to. The advertising campaign includes radio and television ads, posters, flyers with photos of fake Czech Dream products, a promotional song, an internet site, and ads in newspapers and magazines. Will people believe in it and show up for the grand opening?
- "Mother married a photo of Father," says director Firouzeh Khosrovani in the opening of this deeply personal documentary. She's not speaking metaphorically though. Her mother Tayi literally married a portrait of Hossein in Teheran -he was in Switzerland studying radiology and was unable to travel back to his homeland for the wedding. The event illustrates the abyss that still exists in their marriage: Hossein is a secular progressive and Tayi a devout, traditional Muslim. But this family history is also a sort of x-ray, laying bare the conflicts of Iranian society in the run-up to, and aftermath of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Besides Khosrovani's commentary, we hear letters being read aloud and recollections of conversations between her parents. At the same time, we see photographs and videos from the family archive. These fragments of intimacy are interspersed with stylized shots of the filmmaker's parental home, its decor and furnishings subtly reflecting each new phase in her parents' marriage-and in Iranian society. Credit: IDFA 2020.
- The ancient knowledge of indigenous peoples challenges high-tech science in a near-cosmic tale from a South African desert where the world's largest radio telescope is being built with antennae aimed at the far corners of the universe.
- Uisdean wants forgiveness. After 16 years in prison, released to to the Highlands, he wrestles ambition with caring for his father. When the law catches up, a fraught love story intervenes, pitting euphoric reinvention against inevitability.
- "I have already lived my death and now all that is left is to make a film about it." So said the filmmaker Hector Babenco to Bárbara Paz when he realized he did not have much time left. She accepted the challenge to fulfill the last wish of her late partner: to be the main protagonist in his own death. In this tender immersion into the life of one of the greatest filmmakers from South America, Babenco himself consciously bares his soul in intimate and painful situations. He expresses fears and anxieties, and also memories, reflections, and fantasies, in this face-off between his intellectual vigor and physical frailty, which were the hallmarks of his career. From the onset of cancer at the age of 38 until his death at 70, Babenco made of the cinema his medicine and the nourishment that kept him alive. "Babenco - Tell me when I Die" is Barbara Paz's first feature film, but is also in a way Hector's last work: a film about filming so never to die.
- A sleepy village in Hungarian speaking Transylvania, the occupants well past eighty years old. The last place you would expect for scandal. Except here the last men left are desperately wooing the 25 widows, the process of which leads to many stories told both shocking and sweet...
- The young Demir dreams of a wedding. But his Roma tower block at the outskirts of a provincial town in Bulgaria is no place for romance. 25 years ago it had all it takes for panel socialist heaven: from parquet floors to intercom, the coveted hot water central, street lamps, benches under murmuring apple trees. Someone called the place Paradise Hotel - and the name stuck. But now? The parquet disappeared. The water stopped. The lights went off. And if you cross the field behind Paradise Hotel, you will see Bozhidar "The God Given" who protects everyone from evil and excessive happiness in a documentary about panel integration, love, misery, a lot of dreams, a little lyrics and one Gypsy wedding.
- Trapped in a digital blackmail labyrinth after her computer is stolen, director Pati documents the real-time persecution as a way of survival.
- Outside Kolkata a few jute mills crank on, virtually unchanged since the industrial revolution. Powered by steam and sweat, work is a dance to the dictate of profit and century-old machines. The Golden Thread follows the weft and warp of jute work alongside the creative labour of the film's own making. In this near dystopian industrial town can there be a potential for a collective re-imagination?
- In the midst of the harsh Californian desert and on the shores of a toxic lake lies a land that time forgot. This once abandoned town is now home to a small community where art heals people in the most unexpected ways.
- Teenage immigrant pursues Muay Thai dream, combating injustice beyond the ring.
- A documentary about Christian Courtship, an alternative to dating that seeks to ensure physical and emotional purity until marriage. Kelly, a 33 year old virgin, renounces dating believing that her parents along with God should find her husband. Problem is, her parents think she is crazy. Enter the Wright family who become her spiritual parents. They finally discover a promising suitor, but when his religious beliefs conflict with theirs, they wonder whether he is really the man God has chosen.
- In a forest outside Barcelona, a sick old shepherd lives alongside a high-tech laboratory for animal experimentation. While the shepherd witnesses his job disappearing, scientists are busier than ever researching the Covid vaccine.
- A vast, snow-covered forest, untouched by human presence. Two men cross it, bags on their backs, cross a frozen river and finally arrive at the peatland, a vast white expanse. For years, Yves the painter and Olivier the photographer, have traveled the world, meeting wildlife from one pole to the other, privileged and concerned witnesses to the fragile beauty of the planet. But the two men share a common dream: to see a wolf pack live, grow, and spread out. One day, their search leads them to a hideout in no-man's-land between Iceland and Russia, a place conducive to a different temporality. The wait begins. Over the seasons, they will stand there in these eight square meters of wood, silent amid an unchanging scenery, until they gradually become part of the "picture" and immerse themselves in the life of the wolves. A motionless adventure.
- On the island of Ostrov in the Caspian Sea the inhabitants, left alone by the Russian state after the collapse of the Soviet Union, survive through poaching.
- Bombed-out streets, destroyed Russian tanks, evening meals in an Underground repurposed into a shelter. Image by image, the directors push beyond easily reproducible images of war to enter the reality the country has experienced since February 24, 2022.
- Turn Your Body to the Sun tells the incredible story of a Soviet prisoner of war. Sixty years later his daughter Sana is tracing the path of her silent father.
- A documentary of three people in three different cities, Istanbul, Los Angeles, and Mexico City, sharing their experiences on commuting - a sacrifice of half their lives for the sake of supporting themselves and their families.
- Being a parent simply means giving love. Period. In her new documentary film "papa&dada," the award-winning Swiss director Daniela Ambrosoli shows what it means to raise children as a homosexual couple. Four couples, including the famous ballet dancer John Lam and his husband John Ruggieri, talk about of the tough challenges and inspiring joys they experienced in becoming a family. The classic image of the family is fundamentally changing. More and more same-sex couples are fulfilling their dream of having their own children. For her documentary film "papa&dada," the Swiss (canton Ticino) director Daniela Ambrosoli followed four homosexual couples for several years, filming in the USA, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. The couples, among them the famous ballet dancer John Lam and his husband John Ruggieri, talk openly and touchingly about how the desire for a family developed, the struggles they faced on the way to becoming a happy family, and how everyday life with their children looks today. The film paints a loving portrait of ordinary family life, and it impressively proves that two fathers experience the same worries, hardships, joys, and challenges as a father and mother do. As parents, papa and dada help their children brush their teeth, tell them bedtime stories, and take them on family outings. The unconditional love that the couples show their children runs like a thread through the film - unobtrusive, but always present. It is summed up in Christian and Mimmo's statement: "Sexual orientation has nothing to do with raising a child. Being a parent simply means giving love. Period." The 90-minute film includes conversations with the surrogate mothers who gave the couples the greatest gift of their lives and with Demis Volpi. The Argentinean is choreographing a ballet piece based on the children's picture book "King & King," in which two princes fall in love. "It's not about homosexuality but simply about universal love," Demis Volpi explains. Stefan Haupt is also featured in the film. The Swiss director caused a sensation in 2014 with "The Circle," a film that tells the love story of Ernst Ostertag and Röbi Rapp, two pioneers in the battle for gay rights. Daniela Ambrosoli is a specialist for sensitive film portraits. In 2011 she won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in Los Angeles for "HN Hermann Nitsch," and in 2018 "The Making of a Dream" was awarded first prize at two renowned festivals. How is everyday family life different when the parents are not father & mother but father & father? Is there any difference at all? And what makes a family? These are questions the renowned Swiss (canton Ticino) filmmaker Daniela Ambrosoli explores in "papa&dada." She filmed in the USA, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, following four same-sex couples over several years: John & John, Mimmo & Christian, Brian & Ferd, and Tim & Josh. The couples share intimate insights into their everyday family life. And what is it like? At the end of the day, exactly the same as that of the conventional family unit with father, mother, and child. They eat together, go on family outings, and the fathers help their children brush their teeth and tell them bedtime stories. Getting children is different: Homosexual men are dependent on adoption or surrogate-mother agencies. Mimmo & Christian followed their surrogate mother's two pregnancies fastidiously - mainly via smartphone because of the pandemic. Kelly sent them ultrasound pictures or audio messages with the heartbeat of the unborn child. During the birth, the two fathers paced the floor nervously and restlessly. Tim & Josh decided to privately adopt, and they tell how they first came home with their baby: "It was strange to suddenly have a baby without having witnessed the pregnancy. We asked ourselves, are we allowed to have a child?" Brian & Ferd scoured the internet for tips and advice. Unlike heterosexual couples, however, what they found was less than meager, so they founded their own platform in 2014. It is now one of the world's only places to go for gay, bisexual, and transgender fathers and those who want to be. John & John were amazed that surrogate-mother agencies offer a wide range of characteristics a child can have: "You can choose the level of IQ, for example - but all we wanted was to have a happy, healthy child," says John Ruggieri. The common thread that runs through the one-and-a-half-hour documentary can be described in a single word: love. The film documents not only the love that the partners feel for each other but also the love they show their children. It is unconditional and completely independent of the parents' sexual orientation. Or as Christian & Mimmo say, "Being a parent simply means giving love. Period." The surrogate mothers are also given a voice. They talk about how it feels to carry someone else's child and thus fulfill a couple's most fervent wish. Daniela Ambrosoli also visited Demis Volpi. The Argentinean is choreographing a ballet piece based on the children's picture book "King & King," in which two princes fall in love. "It's not about homosexuality, but simply about universal love," Demis Volpi explains. Stefan Haupt is also featured in the film. The Swiss director made waves in 2014 with "The Circle," a film about Ernst Ostertag and Röbi Rapp. The couple fought for gay rights in Switzerland for decades. "The traditional family image, consisting of man, woman, and child, is still very much with us - but it is undergoing profound change," says Stefan Haupt. Daniela Ambrosoli is a specialist for sensitive film portraits. In 2011 she won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in Los Angeles for "HN Hermann Nitsch," and in 2018 "The Making of a Dream" was awarded first prize at two renowned festivals.
- Documentary on Northern Irish photographers who captured iconic images during the Troubles while pursuing ordinary careers, unintentionally becoming war photographers documenting a global conflict in their hometowns.
- Mr. Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refugees who are trying to rebuild their lives. Husein is a barber in Istanbul, living a double life between his conservative family and his gay identity. Mahmoud is the founder of Syria's LGBTI movement and is a refugee in Berlin. What brings them together is a dream: to participate in an international beauty contest as an escape from their trapped lives and an answer to their invisibility. Will the dream come true or will the refugee crisis and the harsh consequences of being gay in the Muslim world shatter it to pieces?
- Actor Javier Bardem explores the underwater life of the Arctic by joining a two-man submarine that's launched from a Greenpeace boat just off of the Antarctic Peninsula.
- Another spring is a medical thriller that takes place in the spring of 1972, when the deadly smallpox virus was brought into Yugoslavia from the bazaars in Iraq. The disease was spreading for a whole month before it was discovered in Kosovo, while in Belgrade, it continued spreading undetected. Smallpox is the deadliest disease in human history that killed almost 500 million people in the 20th century alone, and it is the only deadly virus eradicated by humans, which is regarded as the biggest achievement of our civilization. In the story that united the entire world, the Yugoslavian epidemic, the final outbreak of smallpox in Europe, is still remembered as one of its most horrifying and inspiring chapters. Reconstructed from the 50 years old archive film footage, the film offers the experience of another time and the society very different to the one today, which never felt more relevant.
- The film follows a young anthropologist, Zdenka, who moves with her family to Svalbard, Norway, to study how life is changing in the polar regions. After falling in love with her new home, she discovers that more than icebergs and permafrost are vanishing in the Arctic. She has to work out to what extent she can get involved in the local community that she only originally intended to observe.
- Aya grows up with her mother on the island of Lahou. Joyful and carefree, she likes to pick coconuts and sleep on the sand. However, her paradise is doomed to disappear under the waters. As the waves threaten her house, Aya makes a choice: the sea can rise, but she will not leave her island.
- Follows the disorders that touristic excesses have generated in the erstwhile idyllic location of Magaluf in the Balearic islands.
- The film traces possible alliances with the fungal reign. As if in an uprising of spores, the encounters of the film explore the theme of renewal, and question what connects us when the world seems to be falling apart.
- Helena Trestikova is the author of 10 episodes from the series Women on the Brink of the New Millennium, intimate portraits of both successful women and women on the social periphery. The tragic story of a girl named Katka who believes that joy and happiness can be applied through a hypodermic needle. All she is left with is despair. We first meet Katka at a rehab clinic in Nemcice, still full of optimism and faith in a drug-free future. The film tries to draw attention to the drug problem from a somewhat different point of view.
- The Gold Spinners is a story about the birth, glory, and disappearance of a peculiar, invisible, and mighty business empire, the film studio Eesti Reklaamfilm, the only company producing commercials in the Soviet Union.
- This is 'a road movie' encapsulated in the Moscow metro system and filmed over the course of one year: a documentary film that observes cultural and social issues in modern Russia.
- The soulless atmosphere of a women's penitentiary destroys the prisoners' personality, kills all femininity in them. The film looks at the rationality of the long prison terms for mothers separated from their children.
- In Alexandra, South Africa, where two thirds of the women are abuse survivors, a group of mothers are on a mission to change the fate of their neighbourhood, right from the beginning. Through a series of inimate, and at times, uncomfortable, conversations, 1001 DAYS takes the audience on a journey. Through the chaotic and narrow streets of Alexandra, we follow the fearless and charismatic health-workers Zanele, Thandiwe and Khosi. They are three mothers from the heart of the community, who doggedly support hundreds of new mothers, during some of their happiest-and lowest-moments. Their aim: to help new mothers during the first 1001 days of their babies' lives, which are the most critical in any human's life.
- A young Himalayan boy Veeru withstands prejudice from his village for his Indian-Nepalese background. Though rejected for his mixed identity, Veeru resiliently confronts the frequent indifference.
- We follow three year old refugee Lean on her flight through Europe, for 69 minutes of a 86 days flight.
- Leila Mustapha is Kurdish and Syrian. Her fight is Raqqa, the former capital of the Islamic state of three hundred thousand inhabitants, reduced to a field of ruin after the war. An engineer by training, mayor at just 30 years old, immersed in a human world, her mission is to rebuild her city, to reconcile, and to establish democracy there. An extraordinary mission. A French writer crosses Iraq and Syria to meet her. In this still dangerous city, she has 9 days to live with Leila and tell her story in a book.
- Exploring the parallels between artists' work and a gift economy, GIFT is a reflection on the creative process, and the beauty and challenges of fearlessly giving and receiving.
- Through unique artistic approach, the director reveals the world of autism - bringing the audience closer to the main characters - talented and creative children with a fascinating way of thinking.
- Stories written by three men in prison ,for their children, are turned into episodes in this feature length film.
- Trestikova led a 20 year survey of 6 couples from the time they were newlyweds. The filmmaker makes a fifth segment.