Allyson Felix is the most decorated track and field athlete of all time. At the peak of her career, she faced a life-threatening pregnancy and saw her sponsorships slashed by 70% by companies with no maternal protections. But Felix, ever the champion, turned her battles into a movement.
Ane, daughter of two members of the terrorist gang ETA, born in prison, and a film student, embarks on a search for her own identity, lost between collective memory and personal experience.
Set against the backdrop of 1980s Britain, four young men – Boy George, Roy Hay, Mikey Craig, and Jon Moss – formed a multi-racial, ethnically diverse, and sexually liberated band with a style and sound that challenged the status quo during the era of New Romantics and Margaret Thatcher’s Britain.
A feature-length documentary offering a behind-the-scenes look into the rarer seen facets of life on the road during The Dear Hunter's 2023 North American Tour. Things take a turn when The Dear Hunter's lead singer (Casey Crescenzo) demands that a new crew member is brought on to the tour.
Facing one of humanity’s biggest questions, ‘what is left of us after our death?’, this haunting documentary covers the author’s thought process on the idea of what might remains of us after we die, supported by the vision of an artist who decided to come back in Italy after spending forty-seven years in New York and turn his little apartment into a mausoleom where his death-filled artworks will lay along with his ashes. Raising questions like ‘are the things we create in our lifetime the mark of our existance?’ and ‘can the artist escape death trough the art objects?’ the documentary touches a vast variety of themes and ideas as well as paying a visit to one of the oldest mausoleums in ancient mythology, the Acheron River.
Following a road trip alongside the Mississippi River, everyday Americans are asked to talk about what’s on their minds right now - with their only prompt being to listen to what the person before them has shared.
In 2013, the young journalist Eric Lembembe was murdered in Cameroon. He was tortured and beaten to death because he was gay and had fought for gay rights. Shocked by this gruesome murder in his home country, filmmaker Appolain Siewe sets off for Cameroon to find out more about the situation of LGBTQ people there. He soon realizes that Lembembe's murder is no isolated case. Why is homophobia so firmly anchored in Cameroon society? What role does colonization have to play in this? Siewe’s own experiences, moving encounters with activists who fight for tolerance in their country despite all the risks, and his conversations with Cameroon scientists, sociologists, and human rights activists offer a comprehensive insight into society in Cameroon.
Surviving childhood abuse during his upbringing in Baltimore, Archbishop Carl Bean forged a path to New York and Hollywood to do the one thing he knew he was put on earth to do: sing. Making his mark first as a gospel singer, Bean got the break of his life when Motown tapped him in 1977 to record the disco song “I Was Born This Way,” which quickly became the first gay anthem at a time when it was uncommon to be out and proud. When the AIDS crisis hit, however, Bean soon found himself drawn to a different calling: compassionate activism. Instead of pursuing the momentum of his promising music career, he founded the Minority AIDS Project and the Unity Fellowship Church — the first LGBTQ+ church for people of color.
Patagonia is one of the most fascinating and at the same time toughest places on our planet. The region at the tip of South America offers a landscape of extremes, as the ice masses of Patagonia are among the thickest on earth. Anyone who lives here has to brave the cold and the constant wind. Paulina Escobar proves that living in harmony with nature can be attractive. The fashion designer lives in Puerto Natales and processes Merino wool from traditional sheep farms into handmade regional products. The connection to the nature and culture of Patagonia is particularly important to her. On behalf of the Rewilding Chile Foundation, Arcilio Sepúlveda sets out to find the largest cat in South America, the puma.
In the most common family of four in China, we eat the New Year’s Eve dinner on the 30th of December, watch the Spring Festival Gala of the the Year of the dragon, all the splendor that once experienced in life must be paid back with loneliness.
Golden autumn landscape on the pictorial level, sheep graze through the high field, logs are artfully arranged at the entrance to the house. On the audio level, a woman talks about the challenges of living in Chicago and starting a family on the remote German prairie. A journey to herself, in which she describes her experiences of integration as a Person of Color. One thing is certain: she already has the local Nazi under control.
A glorified childhood memory: a crispy dessert with a hole in the middle, seen in a Japanese cartoon. The mother corrects: It was a soft doughnut. This cognitive distortion inspired this film, which challenges the boundaries of subjective perception. Images and sounds mix and overlap. Street noise, excerpts of faces, snippets of interviews. Only the people's answers are visible, the questions remain hidden. Once you think about it, consciousness piles up.
An old woman lives alone in her house in a Turkish village. The camera accompanies her in her daily rituals, and even though the gaze is focused on her, she does not return it. Her hands, marked by life, work routinely as she talks about the latest marriages. An attempt at dialog and making contact. An examination of family structures, unspoken worries, and empty spaces between the generations.
Anne sews protective clothing for rescued chickens. Not only does she provide refuge for rejected laying hens, but she also gives them the opportunity to recover in a safe environment. While their feathers grow back, Anne accompanies them with patience and care on their way to recovery.