Cash, securities and debt are based on the fact that everyone honors their obligations and gets into debt. Can we free ourselves when money becomes a shackle? Do we serve money or does it serve us?
The intimate relationship that a photographer develops with the people whose photos he’s taking is at the heart of this film. New York-based Martin Schoeller won acclaim for his ultra close-up portraits of figures like George Clooney, Barack Obama, and Taylor Swift, yet here director Josephine Links focuses on his work featuring people who are not in the public eye, including homeless people and death row exonerees. Through testimonies from everyday people he’s interested in capturing, this documentary shows how some of us survive on the margins of society.
A philosophical look into András Ambrus, an alternative musician’s mind, exploring how he creates music and positions himself between the boundary of his thoughts and the world.
44 Houses is a film that reflects the process of revisiting the 44 homes I have lived in since birth, and examines the impact of constant uprooting as one nears 50 years old. This 16mm experimental short film explores generational memory and personal experiences. It features exterior shots of 44 houses, recorded over a 3-day road trip, with family audio snippets.
Lost Treasures of Arabia: The Nabataean Kingdom In ‘the Lost Treasures of Arabia: The Nabataean Kingdom’ episode, we will look at Hegra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, that was the principal southern city of the Nabataean kingdom, famed for its spectacular monumental tombs. Although Hegra is lesser known to the general public, it’s an important place to understand this highly advanced Nabataean society.
A woman, an artist and dancer, sets out to reclaim her childhood memories shared with her late grandmother—a bond forged through their mutual passion for painting. Through the delicate recovery of her grandmother’s floral works, she engages in a silent dialogue with the gestures of an ancient practice. She conjures a fictional exchange, a spellbinding journey between dimensions. This intimate quest transcends disciplines, seeking intergenerational connection and answers.
Dark Rooms is an exploration of human psychology through the prism of sexuality. The viewer and two other participants are invited to explore four inner spaces, each one a private, intimate story told and co-created by real people. A unique, embodied experience, guiding the users step by step into the heart of human desire and the shadows it casts. Dark Rooms is a sensory, site-specific and immersive installation that confronts the audience with their own bias and boundaries, exposing our deepest longings and the forces that may shape our sexual identities.
Tulsa Terrors follows the direct-to-home-video movie boom of the late 1980s, which began in part due to some tenacious Oklahomans. "Thanks to RSU TV – northeastern Oklahoma’s public-television station – and its senior producer-director, Bryan Crain, I was recently able to co-produce and direct a documentary that I’ve been itching to do for a long time. I was on the scene as a Tulsa World entertainment writer at the time, so I was lucky enough to have witnessed firsthand the start of the whole phenomenon and how it impacted home entertainment across the country and even the world.
Vast, wild, yet extremely fragile. The coldest place on our planet is also one of the most affected by global warming and needs to be protected. The expedition focuses on exploring, documenting, and surfing in the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, in the area known as Domain 1, which is being pushed for Marine Protected Area (MPA) status. Protected areas are very important for mitigating climate change and, in this case, also for regulating human activities such as concentrated fishing. This film helps us understand the importance of this area and the threats affecting it.
This is the story of a single concert that grew into a community institution in Raleigh, North Carolina, inspiring ordinary people to become rock stars for 15 glorious minutes. After 15+ years and 500+ cover bands, the annual Great Cover Up event is an unabashedly creative, silly, DIY cover band concert that celebrates individuality amongst an increasingly uniform world.
Thirty years after the release of the album "D'eux", Céline Dion agreed to speak out and reflect on this iconic work. Between intimate confidences and surprising revelations, the singer offers us privileged access to this pivotal moment in her career and a unique moment in her life.
In The Lower Prespa region, especially in the village of Nakolec, but also in the surrounding villages, for decades (and perhaps centuries) there has been a tradition of organically created coexistence based on mutual understanding and respect. The everyday life of the protagonists there and their mutual relations is actually a kind of model in which a certain code for togetherness and social cohesion between people of different ethnic, religious and other profiles is hidden.
Created by Sister Sylvester and Nadah El Shazly, Constantinopoliad is a collective reading and audio work. A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, the story is inspired by the blank and torn out pages in “Constantinopoliad, an epic”, the journal the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing queer archives through time; and by the ghosts, both erotic and historical, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.
In the 1990s, a child grows up surrounded by deep secrets. The men in his family, including his father, die too young, but he is not yet able to understand why. When he discovers that his last name is a well-known name in the city, he feels as if he is seeing his own life reflected in the gangster and horror films he loves, a mirror of the violence that has changed his life.