Filmmaker Kyra Owers has an infectious love for all things duck, and in this duck - documentary, she’s on a mission to give ducks the appreciation they deserve.
Home of the Brave follows the lives of Amelia and Lord, two PWC worker leaders who have experienced wage theft, human trafficking, employer abuse, and exploitation. Through the support of the Pilipino Workers Center and a caring Pilipinx community, they stood up for their rights, sought justice for themselves, and fought for a better life for their families.
Immersion in the forest ecosystem to discover the conflicts that lurk there... The silent war... Waged on a microcosmic scale, between the plant kingdom of the tree realm, the animal kingdom of the armed battle of insects and the fungus kingdom of colonial mushrooms.
"Time" takes you through the city at night, capturing fleeting moments. With dynamic visuals and an atmospheric soundtrack, this short film explores the nature of existence and memory. Narrated by David Bowie, it invites you to reflect on the passage of time.
Rafael was the outlandish mayor of a small Andalusian village until his absent-minded eccentricities caused him to draw in the village elections. Now he has a clear objective: to win in the second elections. His best idea is to organise and star in a documentary to brag about 'his people'. Through these cameras we will get to know one of the crazy traditions of the village. But also, the criticism and laughter that his dubious management arouses, and the irrefutable prudence of Victoria, his competitor. All these problems will explode back at him... literally.
Emilio Pascual, a historical figure of Andalusian cinema from the early 1900s, appears in today's Malaga with the mission of bringing the first documentary filmed in Andalusia to its first screening.
In Lisbon’s residence of The Little Sisters of the Poor Congregation, a group of 7 nuns takes care of 75 elderly people, helping them in their final years.
Inside several narrow and crowded stores with different crafts, we follow the gestures of care, the relationship between material and hand and the trained technique of renovation.
The Emerson String Quartet records their last album, Infinite voyage, in three days, after 47 years of music together. For this farewell, the string quartet invited soprano Barbara Hannigan to join them, and a film was born. Their precise, inhabited work, the moments of enthusiasm and fright, the research and the jokes, the evening meals and the morning confidences, the age limit of these men and the flamboyance of this woman nourishing each other, the admiring friendship full of irony and joyful rigor, the craft and yet the discovery, the humor as a cog towards concentration, the individual and the group… all this composes a portrait of the usually invisible making of music. Before everyone goes their own way.
A father took photos during the Chilean dictatorship. His daughter plays with him in the darkroom, developing other images. Images to resist and invent other futures.
The random encounter between two American astronauts and an indigenous inhabitant in the Colombian jungle, a starting point for a counter-history of space conquest.
‘Her triumph was the dance named Flamenco. What a tragic dance! It is, so to speak, all passion expressed in three acts: desire, seduction, and pleasure.’ (Pierre Louÿs, The Woman and the Puppet, 1898)
The main character looks for a lost dog. An existential wandering through the streets of a working-class neighbourhood in Chile as a free, musical gesture. An ode to stray dogs.
The sea, the cliffs, the boats. A couple of Russian friends come to visit the filmmaker in exile in France. Glimpsed in the distance or invading the screen – the shimmer of the waves is everywhere.
Ukraine, summer 2022: a filmmaker makes the journey. He films the ravaged country, meets refugees and writes down his impressions. From the edge, he gets to the heart of life in a country at war.
A dark and poetic portrait of Algeria. A paranoid and fragmented journey from the Black Decade to contemporary times, a journey between trauma and resistance.
Samuel Beckett, an Irish writer, and Walter Asmus, a German director, work together and become friends. Between archives and relics, fidelity and disappearance, the story of a relationship unfolds.