Through striking archival footage, reXistence exposes systemic violence and celebrates Black strength in Canada, reviving a buried memory to awaken our consciousness and remind us what we’re still fighting for.
The film tells the story of the beginnings of big beat and rock music in Lithuania and the times when people had to try to live a full life when everything was forbidden.
En silencio has no interviews, spotlights or contrived sagas. When an injury rules him out of the European Championships, Isco Alarcón trains away from the noise. Sara Sálamo films from the closest intimacy, while the camera listens to what isn't said. The rhythm of the wounded body also marks the narration: at first slowly, later obstinately. An independent film proposal combining the emotion of sport with the intimacy of the human portrait.
Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.
Inspired by the folktale of the boy Siljan, who, after a quarrel with his father, turns into a stork and leaves home, the film is a story about the relationship between a farmer and a white stork.
A hybrid film story, combining the form of a musical with elements of a music film and a personal documentary. The central character and narrator of the story is Quebo – a renowned artist who disappeared from the scene and now returns to speak about his struggle with bipolar disorder.
In the 1950s, Singapore’s transgender community began to settle in the Bugis street area. Attracted by the street reputation as “the Montmartre of Singapore”, tourists and sailors from all over the world came to enjoy themselves until dawn, sometimes being seduced by trans women dressed like divas. In the early 1980s, an urban renovation project planned to demolish the area.
Sweeping scenes of Chicago set to the voice messages of artist Lucas Linn's parents from back home in Myanmar. An homage to Chantal Akerman's 1976 film News from Home.
Pan lives two lives. He leads a solitary life in a traditional Hong Kong family. At night he transforms into the unapologetic drag queen Pansze Diva, building community and exploring their identity.
David Attenborough looks into the ocean's depths to discuss the coelacanth, a primeval fish hidden for 400 million years. Its mysterious movements reveal vital clues about life's journey from sea to land, as well as secrets of evolution and survival.
This compelling documentary tells the untold story of how companies with little or no track record earned UK Government contracts and made a killing from Covid.
Cacai, a Chinese farmer-turned-internet influencer, has dedicated his life to building innovative passive solar greenhouses to withstand Alberta’s unforgiving climate. Inspired by his vision, a group of Chinese fathers joins him in pursuing sustainable farming, each bringing their hopes for the future. Over the course of a year, we meet their families, who are each as distinct as the vegetables they grow, with relationships that require just as much care and attention.
March. A sudden temperature drop brings the so-called black blizzard to Norilsk – violent, bone-chilling winds that knock people off their feet. With the storm comes an unease that settles among the residents.