Hurry and constant overstimulation are more present than ever. In our search for silence, we are confronted with mental and environmental noise that invades us. Is it really possible to escape it?
As his partner lives through the chaos of war in Beirut, a young man tends to his cat and empty apartment in Brussels, caught between the safety of distance and the growing unease of conflict he experiences only through messages, videos, and silence.
Contrary to his family’s expectations and despite having lost one eye, Karol Śliwka leaves his rural home to study art in Warsaw. He decides to be a designer of graphic signs. He fills communist Poland with his works and defines the country’s visual landscape. His signs do not hang in galleries, but are present in Polish homes, in Polish streets, at institutions and workplaces. At the same time, he leads an ordinary family life, which he documents passionately over the years. This extremely gifted artist is still considered one of the greatest sign designers in the world.
National Route 6, or ‘Rokkoku,’ runs from Tokyo to Miyagi via Chiba, Ibaraki, and Fukushima prefectures. After the nuclear incident, residents were forced to evacuate from some areas. The film turns its camera on daily life and ways of living in towns along the Rokkoku—such as Okuma, Futaba, and Minamisoma—approaching the subject through the lens of food.
Founded in 1974 by Eli Lilly, Prairietown at Conner Prairie immerses guests in 19th-century Indiana life through trades, foodways, music and daily activities. In 2024, its 50-year legacy is celebrated with a documentary.
Amid the Holocaust’s unimaginable cruelty, a young boy finds hope in music. Eighty years later, Frank Grunwald shares his true story of survival and resilience, intertwined with American jazz, offering a powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit.
In a weathered corner of Ostende's industrial zone, migrant workers gather for their daily cigarette break, where shared smoke and quiet conversations reveal the poetry in their hard-worn lives.
An exploration of the mission and impact of the Internet Archive, spotlighting Brewster Kahle and Mark Graham, and their Wayback Machine as a powerful tool for preserving the ever-changing digital landscape.
We’re invited on a journey across 25 different countries, with people embracing both abundance and loss, to feel a sense of togetherness with our fellow dwellers on earth, human and non-human. Celebrating all we have and reflecting on all we have to lose, Super Nature proposes a new way of seeing.
After death, he became a black moon, entering the dream of the last person who remembered him. Unsure where he was, he followed memories to a stream near home. Water flowed, people passed, but no one saw him. This film shows my father's life after my grandmother died. He often walked to the stream or beach nearby, lost in memories. Three years ago, after her death, his cousin sent us a Super 8 film showing him as a baby, my young grandmother, and my grandfather, whom I never met.
In August 2022, a 59-year-old female truck driver set off alone from Xi'an to Aksu, to start the arduous transportation. She thought she could earn a big order as usual. But unexpectedly, the news of the destination’s lockdown began to spread on the first day on the road. Thus, she experienced an unpredictable week on the truck...
A Tayal family faces emotional and spiritual challenges after the passing of their grandfather. Their unfamiliarity with Gaga, the ancestral ethical system, reveals deeper cultural dissonance and generational gaps shaped by decades of assimilation policies and influences. Set against a postcolonial backdrop, SPI traces how one family, caught between modernity and indigenous memory, strives to carry forward the Tayal spirit left behind by their elders.
With his 1984 hit "Smalltown Boy", Jimmy Somerville hit the bigtime and became the voice of the gay movement in Britain hoping for freedom and equal rights in face of discrimination. As frontman of Bronski Beat then The Communards and finally as a solo artist, he became an icon of the 80s without ever denying his identity.