A short documentary profiling the London skate scene through interviews with skaters Ant Bean, Daphne Greca, and Louie Jones. 'Shreds' explores the redemptive and communal aspects of the skate community through personal stories told by those well placed in the scene.
In late winter, raft guide hopefuls join an intensive training program to learn to navigate the nation’s only Class III/IV urban whitewater in Richmond, Virginia. Through trials, tough lessons, and sometimes dangerous adventures, a handful of the group become guides in time for the summer season, only for their journey to be interrupted by an environmental disaster affecting one of the featured rapids.
In 1973, Maria José Bernardino and António Rosa fled from poverty in rural Alentejo to live in industrialized Setúbal. 51 years later, they recall childhood memories, life struggles and family life, while also discussing hobbies and aspirations with their grandson.
For over 50 years, Dallas County Heritage Society managed Old City Park. But its contract is up and is not going to be renewed. As such, 20,000 antique items from the park — ranging from dolls to quilts to office equipment — are put in an estate sale in Dallas.
There is a tradition in Paredes do Bairro that is unparalleled in the region, and perhaps even in Portugal: the digging up of the Pedra da Sesta on 25th March, the feast day of Maria Malandrona, and then burying it on 25th September, thus marking the beginning and end of the rural workers' sesta (nap).
Street posters are visible in every corner of the city. But who are the invisible people who put them up? A documentary story, told by the filmmaker, himself a member of a collective responsible for the poster paste-ups in Lisbon.
Intermittent fasting, autophagy, "metabolic switch": ten years after their first successful documentary on fasting, Sylvie Gilman and Thierry de Lestrade delve back into promising research on a booming practice.
A video essay that seeks to represent, study and pay homage to the North American filmmaker Cecelia Condit, covering all of her film work and video installation, portraying her through devices of semiotics, aesthetics and cinematographic language.
A documentary about Laurika Rauch's exceptional contribution to the Afrikaans musical landscape. Laurika se Tuiskoms was produced specially now that she has finally said goodbye to the stage, but seen as a retrospective of her career, it is indeed where she has been at home for the past 50 years.
A chance encounter, followed by some persuasion, prompts Kennet to revive his film career—a decision that leads to something far greater and more transformative.
Taquari, a small city in the Rio Grande do Sul, is the birthplace of dictator Arthur da Costa e Silva. In 1976, a bronze bust in his honor was unveiled in Lagoa Armênia, the city's main tourist attraction.
Ozualdo Candeias was a grumpy truck driver. He never lost the verve of this strange form of freedom, trapped in the cab and facing the varied itineraries of the world. Among the many jobs he held, he was also that of a filmmaker in Boca do Lixo, at a time when making films lacked pride and friends. He had both in abundance. His complexity can now be revisited in a process of image and sound collages, guided by a frank and reflective conversation, recorded at the end of 1997, about the cinema of yesterday, but also about today.
The film “Mistérios do Nixipae” portrays the emergence of the Nixipae drink (ayahuasca) in the worldview of the Huni Kuî people. In a hybrid language between fiction and documentary, indigenous leader Isaka Ruy guides us through a story that permeates the world of the enchanted. This short film is the result of a sociocultural audiovisual training project in the Katukina-kaxinawa Indigenous Territory, in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.
The image of a body that is not in front of the camera. The absence of an image. The presence of a body. The materiality of a dream that is impossible to remember when one wakes up. Someone falls in love. Someone searches for words. Someone moves. Someone falls, or flies. Everyone dances.