Desktop images, letters, text messages, interviews and CCTV footage, this aesthetically eclectic, politically daring collection of films by Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema stresses the need for criticality in times of censorship and repression.
A group of young people from Father Oberlin's Moving Mountains Foundation are undergoing a therapeutic process for substance use issues, and they share their journeys of search and empowerment from various perspectives. They describe social contexts and realities that hinder many young people from disadvantaged neighborhoods from having the opportunity for a life project.
How did society fall so far? It wasn’t an accident. The 1916 Project blows open the hidden history of the secular moral revolution that began over a century ago. This biblically-anchored film connects the dots to expose the destructive ideas that shape our progressive cultural landscape.
Ahead of the first MLB game to be played at Rickwood Field on June 20th, 2024 (between the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals), SFG Productions traveled down to Birmingham, Alabama to learn more about the history of the Negro Leagues and the impact of baseball on the community, including its legendary players like Willie Mays.
One of Brazil's leading classical pianists, Caio Pagano has lived abroad for decades. In "Pagano," he is filmed during a visit to the Teatro Cultura Artística, which was destroyed by a fire in 2008. The film explores his album "Últimos Pensamentos Musicais," which features the final compositions of greats like Liszt, Beethoven, Schumann, and Camargo Guarnieri, among others.
Bluesman André Christovam is one of the most prominent names in the genre in Brazil, and his debut album, "Mandinga" (1989), is regarded as the best-selling blues album in the country. In this film, André and others involved in the album's production share how it was conceived, produced, and recorded, as well as its impact at the time.
Joy, Crumb, and Sweetie spend their summers outdoors, eating leaves and rubbing themselves on tree trunks. The caretakers of the cow trio, Heli, Anu, and Satu, look after them and give them scratches – if they are allowed. Come winter, these fabulous cow ladies are faced with grief, but when spring returns, the cycle of nature may continue.
First film documentary of the atrocious genocide. Without statistics or specialized voices, only "wild anthropology" from the bowels of the Gaza Strip; the cruel experience at the moment of the facts, bombardment, destruction, and the heartbreaking pleas of the children for the ceasefire. The inhuman suffering of the wounded, mostly children and women; the massive displacement to the shelter in Rafah, a place that Netanyahu promised would be safe, but in a crime against humanity was bombed, despite this, on the ruins is celebrated the Ramadan. As humanitarian aid arrives and as a symbol of the unwavering spirit of the Gazan people, the beautiful and sweet Nour (16 years old) performs a song of love for Palestine, dedicated to the victims of all wars and all genocides.
2024 is likely to be a decisive year for Sahra Wagenknecht's political future. In the arena of power, she might assume a role that she is already very familiar with. In the early years following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Sahra Wagenknecht became the "most famous face" of the PDS, the successor party to the SED. Yet, even as the youngest member of the party's executive board, she was considered a "disruptive factor." She is unyielding and swims against the tide. Sahra Wagenknecht does not distance herself from Stalinism, nor from the Berlin Wall, and wishes for a reformed GDR.