In China, over 69 million children have been left behind by their parents in their home villages while they migrate to big cities to survive. Qui Che (14) was left by his mother with his grandparents. He was 4 years old when his father tragically took his own life due to their financial situation. He grew up lonely with unbearable burdens to help his grandparents with farm work. He vents his difficulties by writing diaries that provide a glimpse into his inner world. His story reveals a personal journey filled with emotional, familial, and societal challenges, especially the absence of his mother, who returns home once in three years. The film is a microcosm of the universal migration tendencies around the world.
Đorđe Kadijević is an art historian, art critic, professor and one of the most important Yugoslav and Serbian film directors. He is a member of the "Black Wave", the most important film direction in Yugoslav cinematography. The film "Butterfly" is considered the first and most important horror film in Eastern Europe. And the TV series "Vuk Karadžić" received the highest award of European film directors, which was awarded to Kadijević by Umberto Eco
A vibrant exploration of community and Black Trans euphoria, Hustleween chronicles an annual celebration created by EspicyNipples that transforms memory into queer resistance and joy.
August 2021: International forces withdraw from Afghanistan as the Taliban swiftly takes over, imposing Sharia Law. Four prominent Afghan women, now fugitives, put their faith in an impromptu group of activists devoted to saving their lives as world superpowers retreat.
The artist Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, who, on her return to Brazil after several years living in Europe, was confronted with the situation of violence against children, was a central figure in denouncing the massacre of minors in the Candelaria Church (1993). This is a lucid and raw interview interspersed with street footage, living with the reality of abandoned children in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro.
From within the walls of a prison, a group of inmates writes scenes about a Man. As they act out their words, their cells transform into childhood landscapes, hospital rooms, and places flooded by the outside world's light. But as the story unfolds, the lines between imagination and reality blur, and we begin to wonder who this Man is.
A short documentary about a group of open-water swimmers on Long Island who gather every summer morning in Hampton Bays. Born out of the post-pandemic era, their daily swims provide a sense of calm and a newfound community, proving that it’s never too late to find friendship, purpose, and joy in life’s simple pleasures.
George was a naughty and spoiled child, due to a congenital disability. He was born with one leg longer than the other. He spent the last two years of elementary school bedridden in the hospital, due to an experimental treatment. Returning back to his village, he began to go to church often, so he chose to become a monk. During his ordination, he goes from secular George to Father John and leaves the capital and the opportunities for professional development to return to a remote but beautiful place. At the same time, we follow the rituals of Holy Week in the community and the priest's views on the Sacrifice and the Resurrection
In Corfu, three musicians, friends, fellow students and roommates, experience life through music. The power of their musical improvisation transforms into a youthful and fresh improvisation on life itself.
The stages of Yannis Lafis's attempt to make a documentary about some people he considered remarkable, the reason he was interested in them, and ultimately the reason he was forced to give up.
This film is a critique of the patriarchal construction of history. We observe this history being deconstructed and reconstructed through human bodies, which, coexisting with the poetry of the queer woman poet Sappho, in the place where she is believed to have grown up and written, Eresos Lesvos, try to reconstruct a collective memory based on the freedom of their bodies and their environment. As the sunlight spreads across space until it sets, there is a passage from one spatio-temporal point in history to another, from the sound of cicadas to the sound of machines and then to hope.