Comedian PJ Gallagher turns mental health warrior in a raw dive into Ireland's fight for mental wellness, with ground-breaking therapies, humour, and heart.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog hosts his game show "Let's Make a Poop" live from the Castro Theatre at SF Sketchfest. With announcer Michael Winslow, guest panelists Weird Al Yankovic, Adam Savage, and Rob Schneider, and special appearances by Thomas Lennon, Amber Ruffin, and Dave Hill. Plus a very special tribute to Blackwolf the Dragonmaster. Recorded live on January 21, 2024.
Artificial intelligence, capable of analyzing images from the cameras saturating public spaces, is transforming surveillance. This technology will secure the Paris Olympics this summer, but legislation lags behind its limitless potential. Facial recognition software, already used to identify war criminals in Ukraine and Capitol attackers in the U.S., raises concerns about privacy as powerful algorithms and questionable companies push boundaries.
As Vladimir Putin continues his gritty reboot of the Soviet Union, he's getting a surprising amount of help from the party once led by Reagan. In this new special, "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Moscow Tools," Klepper speaks to foreign affairs experts, possible Russian assets, and the Prime Minister of Russia's neighbor, Estonia, to find out whether Republicans have become the Kremlin's most useful idiots.
If I said, name a cultural institution where a community goes to stare in one direction to have a transformative experience.
You could say that was a theatre,
you could say that was a church,
or you could say it was a nightclub.”
ΜΆ Phillip McMahon
every dove is a pigeon and every pigeon is a dove is a film about the defiance of pigeons to our contradictory, and ultimately exploitative, relationship with the natural world. In cities in particular this separation of humans and the environment can only exist if mentally maintained and socially practiced. Through the past and present relations with pigeons this film forces the audience to confront our indifference, hatred and domination of environment as it peeks through the cracks of the urban. Because despite building ourselves into this isolation we will always be a part of the nature we attempt to eradicate.
Stien den Hollander, stage name S10, a candid and vulnerable insight into her life. In the documentary, directors Linda Hakeboom and Rolf Hartogensis follow the life of the young singer for two years. S10 shares stories from her early childhood and about her psychological problems with unprecedented openness through her music. S10's career gains momentum due to her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, but her past continues to haunt her. Doubt, fear and uncertainty arise in the whirlwind of her artist life.
Athens. Nothing seems to move. The locals seem as still as statues. While at the same time, somewhere, a caryatid is escaping from a museum and a small group of people demands the destruction of all antiques. Would film be the only way to avoid stone-cold indifference?
Tax Wars takes viewers behind-the-scenes of a global effort to put people before profits, hold multinationals accountable, and demand the world’s most powerful corporations pay their fair share of tax.
Chris Worthington sets out to document what the future of evangelism looks like. He invites you to get stranded in a West African dust storm, get shot at on the way to a 400,000 person Gospel event, and ultimately discover that it’s no longer about a select few famous evangelists, but about an entire generation of people just like YOU.
With the opportunity to end his career where it began in Dallas, Texas, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin is lured out of retirement to compete in one last match, against Kevin Owens in the main event of WrestleMania 38 from AT&T Stadium. Surrounded by uncertainty and the fear of tarnishing his Hall of Fame legacy, Steve Austin prepares for one final performance, more than 19 years after retiring from active in-ring competition.
The creation of an artwork done by GJ Kinsunken. This short film takes you in a quick journey of each step GJ Kimsunken's art-piece makes to become an art-piece to be admired.
Gossip, identity, politics, and romance. Following a group of friends to a club, this film waits with them, eavesdropping on the voice of a queer club queue. Exploring the idea that queer people, by nature of being marginalised, exist on the borders, this docufiction is a tentative invitation to the fantasy of the London queer club scene. It poses the queue as a liminal space where queerness is visible and vulnerable to the eyes of the general public.