A moving image captured by the director in 2025 depicts a late afternoon at a Catholic school in Thailand, as children leave for the day, mingling with teachers and parents waiting to pick them up. At a stone bench, two brothers, JAVA and JINO, are seen chatting, the elder being a friend of the director. The footage, originally shot on the director’s mobile phone, was later transformed to evoke the style of a silent film: the visuals were toned to resemble aged black-and-white film and accompanied by music from City Lights (1931) by Charlie Chaplin, enhancing the atmosphere reminiscent of the silent cinema’s final years in the early 1930s.
The film is an exploration of the world of contemporary Russian puppet animation through the prism of the experience of the famous artist Marina Kurchevskaya, director Stanislav Sokolov, VGIK students and students of the children's animation studio. The viewer will learn about the complexities and enchanting moments of creating puppets, about creative secrets and unique approaches to art that has continued to amaze with its liveliness and expressiveness for over a century. This film is about the magic of creativity, which inspires recognized masters and young enthusiasts to prefer puppets to all other techniques and delight the viewer with genuine masterpieces of "hand-made" animation.
On April 15, 1912, the Titanic's ill-fated journey ended in disaster. Explore the events leading to the tragedy, revealing the lives, choices, and the unforgettable legacy left by the ship's final voyage beneath the cold, unforgiv...
He opened his own film company in his father's garage, shot a short film that won at various Russian and international film festivals and was shown from Canada to New Zealand. Now he is the most promising young film director in Yakutia, hunted by Moscow agencies and producers. But he is not going anywhere and continues to create his own cinema in a remote Yakut village.
Their feelings remained where their homes were - in Lugansk, Donetsk, Mariupol. There are no homes, no feelings either, it's impossible to even dream. But at least they need to be made to laugh. They are children! A landing party of "fools" of the highest order from the charity fund "Doctor Clown" is traveling around temporary refugee accommodation centers in the Rostov region and . It doesn't take much to be happy!
Blind, ins Auge examines the targeted violence during the 2022–23 Iran protests and sheds light on the powerful role of images in the political context. The film shows the editing process in which the authors mix subjective and objective narratives.
Rhys Gilday, a man on the autism spectrum, and his love of AFL umpires, shine a spotlight on the game’s most misunderstood figures. No Prior Opportunity is a heartwarming, funny and powerful tribute to passion, exclusion and resilience on the fringes of fandom.
Inspired by filmmaker siblings Danielle and Lachlan Baynes’s own family story, House Divided explores the unique dynamic of intra-family footy rivalries.
In Mooroopna, boots hit the dirt long before they hit the big stage. Bush Boots celebrates the Indigenous footy kids and the community role models guiding them, on and off the field.
In 2004, Peta Searle’s playing career was cut short by a career-ending injury. Coaching was never part of the plan, until her club Darebin – a struggling club in crisis – begged her to take the reins. What followed was nothing short of revolutionary.
Sibiry Konate, a contemporary dance choreographer of African descent who wants to bring balance to an unbalanced world, seeks connection and meaning between and torn between his old and new home countries. So he decides to give a valuable gift to his village in Africa.
A film about the history of the Volga village of Krasnovidovo, where Empress Catherine I, the great writer Maxim Gorky and the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin left their traces.
A behind-the-scenes look at the music industry reveals what artists must face when chasing their passion. Eddie, a Miami-based music artist and lead singer of the international band Toke D Keda, born in Puerto Rico, is determined to achieve success at any cost. When he is denied a rightfully earned recording contract with Sony Music, he must make some tough choices. Giving up is not an option. A relentless pursuit of a lifelong dream takes Eddie on the journey of a lifetime. He will travel to the ends of the world to find himself and his purpose, but at what cost? Eddie suspects someone is stealing money, but this is the least of his problems. As the band's popularity rises, just trying to keep them together may prove impossible.
A married woman reflects on her painful past and wonders what she would say to her 15-year-old self if they ever met a quiet conversation between innocence and experience.