The film portrays the trajectory and life of the “Agudá” people today. This is a group of descendants of Africans enslaved in Brazil, who returned to their homeland with the end of slavery, and also descendants, Brazilian and Portuguese, of slave traffickers, who settled in that region of Africa in the 18th and XIX. Present in Benin and Togo, the “agudás” assimilated the surname and part of the culture of their masters.
Miguel returns to his homeland with anticipation, ready to showcase a film he stars in at a local film festival. His heart yearns for the thunderous applause of adoring fans, yet reality may paint a different picture. In this poignant essay, we delve into the nuanced shapes of loneliness, even amidst company.
Two families in Awat County, southern Xinjiang, China, the Uyghur family of Aierken and the Han family of Guan Xiaoyan, make a living by growing cotton. During the busy cotton picking season, they encountered various unexpected situations such as difficulty in finding harvesting hands, injuries, and continuous rain. But with the concerted efforts of their respective family members, the year's hard work of the two families finally paid off satisfactorily. This film uses the shooting and narrative style of real movies, with the connection of local folk songs and music, as well as the exotic audio-visual language, to show the real life texture and simple family values of Xinjiang cotton farmers in an idyllic way.
A new video work See, See, Sea, 2024 showing a small fishing community in Devon diving for scallops, fishing mackerel, weaving lobster and crab pots and trawling, will form the backdrop to a series of hand-blown glass sculptures.
Sharing is a documentary that will show the process of building a video dance performed by four female artists who have a connection not only with blood, but also with dance.
The love for the sea, Dorival Caymmi, and Iemanjá united filmmaker Carolina Rolim and musician BNegão. During the development of the project “BNegão Canta Caymmi” in 2018, the two met in Salvador (BA) to capture, by the sea, the immersion the artist experiences when interpreting this repertoire. Accompanied by Bernardo Bosisio on guitar, the intrepid vocalist of Planet Hemp transports himself to the universe of the beach songs of the Bahian composer, transforming his performances into a ritual.
My grandfather Antonio was born on the street and was a vagabond until he got married. When he was just a child, he and his father walked thousands of kilometres from Valencia to the Pyrenees in order to survive. He was writing his memoirs for a while but had to abandon them because it affected him so much to remember his life. Now, 75 years later, we're going to walk the same route together, using cinema to try to bring out the memories that are stuck in his head and try to get him to finish writing his book.
Opening in 1974, the First International building redefined the Dallas skyline and reigned above its competitors as the tallest building in the city. However, the building would face a myriad of challenges in the coming decades as it attempted to remain relevant. Ultimately, the First International would have to re-invent itself or face becoming just another Dallas-area office building.