Layered in the grain of Super 8, in the streets of june captures the vivid contradictions of a Seattle Pride parade: a kaleidoscope of joy and resistance, fractured and reframed through layers of multiple exposure. The film's textured imagery merges the vibrant defiance of the parade with the imposing presence of police lines, their shadows cast across the glitter-strewn streets. Scenes of dancers and banners dissolve into one another, overlapping with sharp flashes of riot gear, creating a haunting interplay between celebration and surveillance. The camera lingers on fleeting moments while the weight of unseen power hovers, ever present.
Seven years ago, I was raped by a boy I really liked. Three years ago, he wrote me a letter to take responsibility for his actions. This film is our open letter to rape culture.
A documentary exposing the sexual violence euphemistically termed "entertainment" inflicted on women of the Kurokawa settler group during Japan’s imperialist expansion in Manchuria. Under state-led colonization in the 1930s–40s, Japanese settlers occupied Chinese lands. In August 1945, facing the Soviet invasion, the group offered 15 women to enemy troops in a desperate act of survival. Decades later, the survivors confront the silenced legacy of imperial violence, discrimination, and trauma. Directed by Fumie Matsubara, with narration by Shinobu Otake.
A gripping documentary about the life of Margaret Ann Taylor Hines—the iconic matriarch of the Hines family—told in her own words and rendered by her adoring granddaughters.
Documentary film "O(P)STANAK", a story about music, resistance and the power of togetherness during the 1201 days of the siege of Bihać. The film follows the group Okus Meda and Bihać musicians who, in the hardest days of the war - amidst shells and ruins - created music that brought hope, laughter and humanity. Through archival footage, honest interviews and testimonies, the film reveals how music became the mainstay of a city that did not have much, but had a soul. This film is more than a document of a time. This is Duratović's personal dedication to his father and the band Okus Meda, the people who shaped his life with their example, deeds and songs.
Featuring unheard songs and exclusive archive footage, The Essence of Eva is a portrait of legendary singer Eva Cassidy from the perspective of her parents, family and friends.
A portrait of avant-garde artist Aurelio Caminati (1922–2008), whose prophetic vision spanned six turbulent decades through a determined compulsion to create. Set against the baroque intensity of Ireland's wild Atlantic coast and local heritage, the film fuses the raw power of nature with this resistance master's defiant, ever-evolving body of work. Aurelio Caminati channels nature's fury – declaring nature as the ultimate power source. Rejecting artistic and ideological conformity, Caminati plunges the viewer into subconscious undercurrents arising when storm-force nature trumps conventional ideologies.
Immrám is a lyrical, experimental journey through Ireland's land and language, following a family's path of cultural revival, spiritual pilgrimage, and everyday resistance guided by myth, community, and the enduring voice of philosopher John Moriarty.
Listen to the Land Speak sees Manchán Magan – one of our most acclaimed writers on landscapes and language – reveal the profound knowledge and wisdom contained in our landscape and myths. Filmed over four seasons, the film unfolds from Winter Solstice to Bealtaine through Reek Sunday to Samhain, exploring how the stories and myths associated with the rivers, mountains, and lands around us are crucial to unlocking aspects of how we need to rebuild our relationship with nature today. It also becomes an unexpectedly personal story – as he seeks to help heal society's relationship with nature. Manchán also realises that there is a serious illness within himself that makes him see these ancient sites and beliefs in a whole new light.
From Riverdance star to pioneering choreographer, Breandán de Gallai charts one man's artistic and personal journey through five decades of Irish cultural transformation, blending tradition, identity, and grief into groundbreaking new forms of Irish dance.
At 98, Hollywood's barrier-breaking Chinese American icon tells her own story—from James Stewart's leading lady to Golden Horse triumph, revealing how one woman transformed cinema across continents.
A filmmaker seeking financial freedom dives into the world of online marketing under the mentorship of Akbar Sheikh, a former homeless man turned digital millionaire. But as the cash rolls in and the stakes rise, cracks begin to show. Is this a dream come true or a dangerous illusion?
A BASE jumper from New Zealand returns to the Norwegian mountain where her husband, also a BASE jumper, had a fatal accident. She carries his ashes, their newborn baby, and their memories on her journey of life after death.