Shutterbug follows a troubled teenager named Thomas as he explores his passion for photography. The film portrays Thomas's journey from a confident, even arrogant, young photographer who believes himself to be a prodigy, to a humbled individual who discovers a deeper purpose in his art. This mockumentary reveals Thomas's struggles with self-doubt and his eventual understanding of what truly motivates his art.
Cinepoem about the current Palestinian tragedy, with Brazilian films from 1922 and 1932 (the indigenous catastrophe), documentaries from 2023/2024, essays by Jean-Luc Godard, Hani Jawharieh and Mustafa Abu Ali, statements by Edgar Morin and Noam Chomsky, and a poem by Mahmud Darwich.
In April 2019, a seemingly tame beluga whale approaches a Norwegian fishing boat seeking help. It is wearing a harness fitted with a camera mount. When the words 'Equipment St Petersburg' are discovered printed on the buckle, speculation breaks out that he has been engaged in some kind of sinister undercover activity. This documentary explores the mystery of the strange whale and asks where he came from, who trained him and why, and what he was doing in a critically important part of the Arctic, close to Russian waters. With exclusive interviews and access to unseen footage, the film explores the secret world of marine mammal training and international espionage, and sheds new light on the true identity of Hvaldimir, the 'Spy Whale'.
A chronicle of a Friday evening at a pasar malam (night market) in Kuala Lumpur, with thoughts from vendors facing the imminent extinction of their livelihoods.
The largest salt desert in the world – the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. But that doesn’t change the finite nature of our existence. A visual experiment in ten acts.
In 2023 Lithuanian film professionals from different cinema backgrounds took part in a survey about self-validation in their career path. Their responses were shown to film art students at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Seeing the lived experiences of the professionals, students begin to reflect on their own feelings.
When Gerda was two, her parents left her in Latvia while they went to work in Ireland. These experiences and memories still haunt Gerda, so she is looking for young people with similar childhood experiences to share, listen and have the courage to talk to their parents about a time that had an irreversible impact on their lives.
Beehives have remained unchanged for 150 years, two Pennsylvania beekeepers are about to change that. George and Nat are on a mission to make beekeeping more accessible and create a better way to manage hives. Healthier bees means a healthier planet. Filmed in Delco, PA.
“KulturBahnhof” – this title has been carried by Kassel Hauptbahnhof (Central Station) since 1995. Over the years, it has become home to many cultural workers and creatives. Galleries, studios, rehearsal rooms, music clubs, an arthouse cinema, and the Offene Kanal (Public Access TV) are all located here. Between abandoned train tracks and old industrial buildings, important venues of the city’s cultural life emerged. However, by the end of 2023, many of these alternative and subversive institutions were forced to close. Deutsche Bahn increased rents and sent out eviction notices, citing plans to build a new operations center. To make a statement against this development, a group from Piraten Kanal Kassel organized a performative takeover of the station on New Year’s Eve. The film shows live performances that took place in the station hall, at Franz Ulrich, and in Stellwerk, combining them with small portraits and clips about the now vanished creative spaces.
I found a little bird on the sidewalk, just around the corner from my house. We became roommates and close friends, connected by our shared otherness, confined within the four walls of my bedroom. Setting up the camera became a ritual, a way for us to interact and explore our relationship. As I scroll back through the memories on my iPhone, Icarus gradually transcends his avian nature. Slowly, he transforms into an image himself, inviting reflection on the nature of the human-pet relationship that we carry in our back pocket.