Dierdre Wolownick is the oldest woman to ascend El Capitan in Yosemite. Never an athlete, she excelled in languages, art, music and other intellectual pursuits. In her 60's she began running and climbing out of curiosity. Her son, Alex Honnold of the film FREE SOLO was her mentor. Dierdre proves that we are never too old to try something new.
An experimental documentary engaging with decades of DIY activist media, two death bed/legacy videos, and the wisdom of many living AIDS workers, as we all sit together in one (changing) format, video—VHS, hi-8, digital, Zoom—to address these and other questions: How do neighborhoods, sweaters and scarves, videotapes and queer bars hold ghosts? How do we let them go?
Microhistories of people who were taken on board of Tanais and tragically lost their lives as prisoners of war, after the steamship was torpedoed in 1944, highlights the common fate of people coming from different religious and cultural backgrounds. The film explores historical events of the past more than eight decades later.
A middle-aged man reflects back on his tumultuous adolescent phase while sitting in his childhood bedroom. Through intricate and deeply personal musings somehow all tied to his hair - hair growing or hair receding - we, over time accumulate meaning into the larger journey of his life.
Among Athenian balconies, fragmented images, sounds, and fleeting and incomplete stories emerge. The seasons change, the significant intertwines with the insignificant, and beauty and ugliness coexist. Weather phenomena, absurd circumstances, events, human gestures, and other fragments of life weave together the spectrum of an urban ecosystem.
Babasaheb Ambedkar visited Karnataka on several occasions. But his each visits had a purpose and consequence. This film records each of his visit in context and provides a historical perspective of his journey
The dark cabaret of The Tiger Lillies and the provocative mind of Martyn Jacques, through a haunting performance filmed at the emblematic Olympion Theater in Thes- saloniki and during one night with Martyn Jacques in the city. Alone with the Moon.
After his documentary 'Once upon a time Libreville' made in 1972, director Simon Auge recalls the memories of his city dating and what it has become in modern times. "You have to live with your time," he concludes.
An intimate and moving short documentary where a young Franco-Lebanese director has a heartfelt exchange with her mother, Kawssar, as they spend time together in her late grandmother's house. In a space now filled with nostalgia and emptiness, Kawssar recounts how Lebanon's civil war drove her into exile and how she had to cope with the loss of family members, all the while poring over her mother's diaries. A transgenerational story, Mon Raison d'Être explores grief, loneliness and motherhood, lifting the veil on things left unsaid. A delicate journey of a filmmaker and her mother, struggling within their own relationship and ultimately trying to heal together.
Inspired by the phrase of the American activist Angela Davis – “When the black woman moves, the whole structure of society moves with her” -, the documentary tells the story of three black women whose personal trajectories are intertwined with laws that transformed their lives and those of countless Brazilian citizens.