A romp through an iconic decade of the Eurovision Song Contest, featuring classic archive performances from Abba, Brotherhood of Man, Dana, Cliff Richard, alongside more notorious offerings.
Follows three American women navigating hard choices about their biological clocks, and questioning what “choice” actually means in this era of eggs on ice.
Over 40 years has passed and a son embarks on a journey to take his first picture with his father. Heightened emotions that have blockaded the opportunity for personal freedom and growth are surfaced as a sit down conversation ensues between father and son.
A season of triumphs and trials pushes the Lock Haven University wrestling team to their limits as they fight for greatness, revealing who they are both on and off the mat.
Can AI play music like a human being? Can it improvise or perform complicated music with sensitivity and style? This documentary explores what happens when machines simulate creativity with two pianists, Kit Armstrong and Michael Wollny, who are both undertaking research with artificial intelligence.
A documentary exploring two student artists and their unfinished projects, discussing why certain projects are abandoned and the personal connections that the creator may have to them.
Thanks to some dumb luck and a couple “ah, fuck its”, Sincere Engineer has had a pretty wild ten years. This documentary is a look back on how it all came to be, recognizing the village that helped raise it, and a sincere thank you to all of the kind fans and friends we’ve met along the way. Credits: Filmed, directed, edited, and produced by: Deanna Belos Starring: Nick Arvanitis, Adam Beck, Kyle Geib, Tobias Jeg, Matt Jordan, and Eric Mott
People leave (and return) from a church after Sunday Mass more than 120 years ago. The creaking of time and the darkness behind the ancient ritual of praying for our existence dance eternally, like a river of souls. Liz Taylor's visualy noisy reinterpretation of the film "Congregation Leaving St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin" (1901) by the Edwardian filmmaking duo James Kenyon and Sagar Mitchell.
From a forgotten photo of a group of clandestine Cape-Verdean guerrillas in the mountains of Cuba, Elson, a young filmmaker, searches for the silenced heroes of this daring and little-known military operation, whose main objective was to fulfill Amílcar Cabral’s dream of liberating the country from the clutches of colonialism. In a back-and-forth between the past and the present, the film establishes a conversation with the heroes of the country’s Independence. With them, it travels through the years of struggle in Guinea and post-independence Cape Verde, reflecting on dreams, nightmares, and what the country is today, between utopia and oblivion.
Torajan People of South Sulawesi, Indonesia are deeply rooted in a culture where death is not seen as an end but as extension of life itself. This ethnographic film explores the unique approached to death among adherents of Aluk to Dolo belief system who have recently converted to Christianity. It contrasts the funerary practices of two families - one middle class and one upper class - both deeply devoted to honoring the deceased fathers. While the upper-class family held an elaborate funeral with sacrificing 170 buffaloes, the middle-class family struggles to gather enough buffaloes for their ceremony.
The years 1941 and 1949 became a fateful turning point for thousands of Latvians who were taken away without warning to an unknown destination. In a foreign land and harsh conditions, they tried to preserve their humanity, create a new life, and raise their children. These children grew up far from their homeland, in a foreign environment where they felt like outsiders. They learned a foreign language, lived among strangers, and asked questions that even adults were afraid to answer. One of these children is actor Mārtiņš Vilsons, who was born in exile in the Magadan region of Russia to the family of Zenta Vilsone and Rolands Čehovičs. In this documentary, director Dzintra Geka portrays his life story as a personal testimony to the fate of the exiled Latvians, their search for identity, and their return to a contradictory reality.
Shot across the better part of the last decade, Seth Pomeroy’s long-gestating portrait of Nashville-based comedian, writer, podcaster and political candidate Chris Crofton emerges from the shadows — covering its subject from ascent, descent, and to ascent again. The film intersperses archival footage from the 1990s-2010s, following Crofton from Nashville to pre-COVID exile in Los Angeles — including a pivotal roller skating injury — and features commentary/appearances by departed local luminaries Dave Cloud and David Berman. Plenty of living luminaries show up as well, including Neil Hamburger and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James in a crucial “save.”
The narrative of police violence in the United States is shaped by viral videos, hashtags, and a cycle of profiling and abuse, followed by law enforcement immunity. The killing of Racine"s Ty’rese West pushes this narrative forward, exposing the truth behind unchecked police reports when incidents aren’t captured for the world to see. CYCLE investigates this systemic whitewashing and gives a voice to the countless victims whose names have yet to be heard.