A slow panning experiment in video-composited landscape uncannily stitches together foggy mountain footage and digitally altered mid-century UFO photographs to generate a tableau of wildlife in eerie motion.
Despite displacement and living under occupation, young Ukrainians cling to hope for a brighter future, embodying the resilience of their generation. Some are DJs of the famous Shum Rave, while others are artists fostering unity amidst chaos.
The third school year begins in Ukraine under the shadow of a full-scale war. Natalia, a teacher in a seemingly peaceful Ukrainian city, is about to welcome a new class. She creates an island of safety and joy for her fifth-graders, which helps her to abstract from worries about her own son, who serves on the front line.
Authorities have prohibited access to a forest on the outskirts of the city. Strange vegetation has infested the area, and those who have been questioned report sightings of rare species, human-sized birds, or figures that appear and disappear. Despite the restrictions, several people decide to visit the place. Once there, they coexist and play without fear of the warnings. Little by little, reality begins to distort, blending with their memories, dreams, and fantasies.
Once upon a time in a Polish village in Romania, Hanka and Bronka, left behind by their deceased husbands and their children who have emigrated for work, face everyday life with humour and persistence. Fighting to stay independent, they will soon need to make a life-changing decision.
An artistic journey into memory, trauma, healing, and reconciliation. Visual artist Artemis Alcalay presents her works, narrates the story of her family, and unfolds how she - consciously or subconsciously - processed untold family stories, collective trauma, and the memory of the Holocaust.
Daniel and Samuel are two brothers: one is European, the other is Cuban, the first now a man, the second just a boy. They share the same father, a man who fled Germany, the collective memory of Nazism, during the Years of Lead. Reinhold Stockburger has lived for many years in Cuba, an island from which he has never returned. Three generations face stormy family ties and a fundamental passage of life: death.
The story was born from the pen of debutante Callie Khouri: Thelma, married to a macho man, and Louise, an independent waitress, go on a girls' getaway that turns into a runaway when the latter, during a stopover in a bar, shoots a man who was trying to rape her friend. But at the dawn of the 1990s, screens were dominated by testosterone-fueled opuses, and Hollywood studios were reluctant to entrust the steering wheel to a female duo. Seduced by the script, forwarded by his associate Mimi Polk, Ridley Scott agreed to produce the film and decided, against all odds, to direct it himself. Under the British director's watch, the two accidental outlaws, fabulously portrayed by Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, flee across the vastness of the Far West on an emancipatory epic that sees them defy male oppression and reveal themselves to themselves.
Sidka, a filmmaker in the process of gender transition, explores the vibrant nightlife of Buenos Aires, capturing the essence of underground culture and the deep connections that celebrate acceptance and self-expression.
Alejandro, a space enthusiast, creates small scale planets by hand. One day he receives some unexpected mail: the European Space Agency orders him 227 miniature moons as souvenirs of a mission to Jupiter that is about to be launched. Infinity, in the palm of a hand.
After surviving ISIS prisons as a child, Rashid has been reunited with his family in Sinjar, northwestern Iraq. Now a teenager, the young Yazidi dreams of a brighter future. But peace is fragile, and hatred against his community is resurfacing.
In south-eastern Spain, there is a wall separating two worlds: a healthy world, and a sick world, once deemed contagious. The sanatorium of Les Fontilles used to be a sanctuary for people suffering from leprosy. Callisto Mc Nulty criss-crosses this border seeking out witnesses from the past and present, who through their stories become the keepers of a disappearing world.
A daughter searches for a film script, driven by her father's last words: "I can't die because I didn't make a movie." The film is the incomplete and obscured unfolding of that man, that mystery: an unusual family man, with a variety of jobs and no success, who uses a camera like an obsessive, someone who lives his life observing others.
Amid persistent drought and a water conflict intensified by Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, Iran’s once-thriving Hamun Lake region has become a desolate wasteland. Its sole resident, an elderly woman, survives by collecting dead fish from the dried-up lakebed.
Boca Chica, Texas. Hemmed in by the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio Grande, the village is defined by the rhythmic sound of the waves. But this wild country is in the midst of irreversible change. For the swamps have been drained, the beaches closed and the homes bought out: the shadow looming over the beach is that of a 50-story rocket, being readied for launch into space.
A Pub Story is a journey through pubs that came into British South Asian ownership against a backdrop of the social unrest and systemic racism of the 1960's and 1970's. Through the common language of beer, food and a strong sense of community spirit, Desi pubs continue to thrive in the UK. These landlords open up about their lives.