Katelijne suffers a spinal cord injury in a boating accident. They refuse to accept life in a wheelchair. Katelijne does everything she can to regain control over her body and life and begins a long and complex rehabilitation process with perseverance.
NO BAD TAKES is a raw, offbeat documentary nearly a decade in the making, following the longest—and possibly last—literary journey of legendary cult writer William T. Vollmann. Capturing both the mind of the artist and a fractured portrait of America, the film is a meditation on impermanence, friendship, and the possibilities of the creative process when one is open to the world.
The film is about the legendary Ukrainian volunteer, officer, and public figure Taras Bobanych "Hammer". Taras started his fight on the Maidan. Since 2016, he has been a member of the 1st Separate Assault Company of the Right Sector and, at the same time, a friend and associate of Dmytro "Da Vinci" Kotsyubaylo. With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, "Hammer" led the battalion and defended first Kyiv and then Kharkiv regions from the enemy. The film about Taras is a collection of stories of the Ukrainian people's ten-year struggle for their freedom. The legendary "Hammer" has always played a prominent role in this struggle.
Anthology of dreams of people who had to leave their homes. And who found in Europe a Tower of Babel where no one speaks the same language and no one understands each other. Here, people walk as if lost, meeting in dreams and searching for ways to return home.
Over the course of ten years, the participants of the Surf Siberia project have visited the most remote shores on the planet, from the cold waters of Russia to the tropical waves of Indonesia. “Culture Code: Fragments” collects these years into a visual chronicle full of adventures, film grain, and personal stories. Here, surfing and skateboarding are not just sports, but a language for talking about growing up, finding yourself, and the power of community.
An intimate portrait of editor Agnieszka Bojanowska, a longtime collaborator of Bogdan Dziworski. The film captures their friendship and offers a final glimpse into her creative craft.
A film essay that intertwines the director's gaze with that of her late mother. Beyond exploring mourning and absence as exclusively painful experiences, the film pays tribute to her mother through memories embodied by places and objects that evidence the traces of her existence. The filmmaker asks herself: What does she owe her mother for who she is and how she films? To what extent does her film belong to her?
“You got to try to live your own life,” Arzu, one of the football players from the Turkish-Kreuzberg girls’ team Ağrı Spor, demanded in a 1995 film by Aysun Bademsoy. Today she is in her late forties and leads her own life, like her former teammates Türkan, Nalan and Nazan. Bademsoy visited the four of them for the fourth time, following their lives, recalling their visions for the future from back then. And this time she also talked to their daughters, some of whom on the brink of adulthood, who also think about adaptation, tradition, religion and culture. Little has changed between then and now, being German remains a difficult question to answer for every generation.
Committed to unearthing her ancestors' silenced history, Margarita embarks on a profound journey, guided by the diary of Katrulaf, an indigenous Mapuche prisoner of war. She retraces the Mapuches’ deportation route, and in unearthing these pasts, gives voice to a displaced people and the genocide inflicted upon them during the military invasions that founded Argentina and Chile.
17 troublemaking kids from different parts of Ukraine help the adult director Katya find her lost home. Katya embarks on a long journey where she meets future adults, together they seek the answer, what is home? Is home people? Or is it things? Or maybe home is our language? At the end of the journey, Katya realizes that she still doesn't know when her Crimea will be de-occupied, but she definitely understands that to find home, she needs to return to the mundane, simple, and sometimes interesting life that she has loved for 33 years.
The Frisians: they come from diverse backgrounds, with roots in the same soil. In a world where identity is becoming increasingly colorful and experimental, your heritage serves as an important compass to know where you are heading. Some long for a safe home, while others seek the freedom to differentiate themselves. Each with their own version of what could be considered typically Frisian. Does the true Frisian exist? How do the current generations shape our future ‘heitelân’? These and more questions are posed in the dialogical film Kriich, a hybrid film that blends documentary and fiction, showcasing the Frisian of today in all their facets.
A behind the scenes look at the making of "The Fearless Flyers V" showcasing the recording and filming progress. The Flyers attempt to only use up to three takes on each song, as Dart insists on it…
A Racing Mind follows National Hunt jockey Lilly Pinchin during the 2023/24 horse racing season, as she strives to ride out her claim while managing the challenges of ADHD in both her personal and professional life.
Luigi, a cat rescued from the streets, lives in an animal shelter alongside other felines with troubled pasts. When he's adopted by a family, he believes he’s finally found a place to call home. But the unstable environment of the new household soon makes it clear that living with humans isn’t always a promise of happiness. Forced back to the streets, Luigi must once again face the harsh realities of survival — and discover where he truly belongs.