An iconic presence in the landscape of Irish socialism and republicanism, the name of James Connolly looms large in the trade union movement, and wherever radical left-wing politics are espoused. This film tries to bring Connolly’s many achievements in the field of workers’ and women’s rights into the fore, alongside his role in the 1916 Easter uprising.
The lives of Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle were torn apart when they were wrongly convicted of killing police officers—Sunny in the U.S, Peter in Ireland. Each were jailed for crimes they did not commit, only be exonerated after more than a decade each behind bar. In the aftermath of unimaginable hardship, by chance, they found one another and became the world’s only wrongfully convicted, death sentenced, cop-killer accused, exonerated and married couple!
A 10-hour, 'slow TV' film, documenting 10 days spent travelling the length of England on public buses, exploring the issues faced with service quality and the disabled bus pass.
From a montage of visual archives gathered from YouTube emerges the social and cultural landscape of an American high school, along with a story centered on Eva, a typical cheerleader at the heart of a strange collective episode.
A dreamlike, fantastical drift around a fractured identity, with dazzling visual inventions. Like a diary that visually conveys a state of being between two worlds.
Based on the contemporary exploitation of coltan, a strategic mineral, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a testimonial and reflexive weaving between the archives of the colonial past and the present of its consequences and resurgences.
“Disaster ruins everything while leaving everything as it is,wrote Maurice Blanchot. Everything.” - Ghassan Salhab. From the southern districts of Beirut to southern Lebanon, a car winds its way through the devastated country. No title for such desolation.
The mourning for a father and the absences, intertwined with what remains. Letters, written by birds that used to visit the filmmaker when she was a child, now reveal secrets to her son, whom she watches grow up.
The filmmaker decides to make a film in an attempt to remember a dream from his notes: at the crossroads of essay and diary, the film offers a sensitive investigation into the relationship between dreams, animals and the city.
What would it be like to film the 6,852 islands of the Japanese archipelago? A refuge film in two parts. The first is a manifesto, a reflection of the catastrophe. The second gathers the film-islands, last traces before the disappearance.
An observation of post-colonial economic relations through the intersecting trajectories of two Filipino women: one preparing to leave her native island to work as a domestic in Europe, the other to return for good.
A writer, a filmmaker, a trip to Italy: a diary in two voices, where the desire and the difficulty of love are intertwined with literature, cinema, landscapes and the pink stones of the spaces to inhabit.
What do you tell your dead parents? Combining family archives and glimpses of today, the filmmaker weaves together fifty years of his life and the socio-political history of Chile. The montage wanders through the ages, between light and shadow, without ever leaving the joy.
Twenty years ago, believing she was doomed, Irma took a trip to Greece. Today, she retraces that journey, accompanied by three young men. From island to island, between sky and sea, the travelers read, listen and live, carried by a longing for beauty and clarity.
Germany, September 2014. A Syrian refugee camp has opened on the outskirts of Berlin. Visual artist and filmmaker Ammar al-Beik has a cubicle assigned to him for seven months and, in order to survive here, he has to film, document, and rebel against the conditions of life in exile, and also against the established rules of documentaries and features. His phone camera is always switched on; he transforms his tiny room and the entire dismal compound into a universe with its own laws.
Franta and Ondra, eternal children and inseparable twins, live in a quietly magical world with their beloved animals. They share every moment, every thought, every routine. Outwardly they appear identical, yet inside they are two entirely different souls. Over time, their closeness begins to suffocate. Franta yearns for freedom, for flight, for life beyond the walls they share. Ondra remains rooted, content in the familiar, closed to change. Their bond begins to fray. Can they ever truly separate? How do you escape a world that wears your face? In the end, will love endure or will only death set them apart?
In his film, Johann Betz focuses on architect Franz Joseph Ruf, who designed more than 300 buildings during his career. These include the Chancellor's Bungalow in Bonn, Maxburg Castle in Munich, and the German pavilion at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.
Three women turn the camera into a tool for expression and play: from the VHS recordings of the ‘80s to the rise of TikTok, the documentary explores how their videos transcend the everyday, reinventing worlds and sharing creativity.