Gabriel Drolet-Maguire, a designer living in Montreal, takes us into their artistic world to discuss their HIV diagnosis. This is a timely and hopeful look at past and present day HIV/AIDS activism in Quebec.
Bakari was born a slave in Gambia and found himself at age 18 on a boat in the middle of the Mediterranean. Like his, 14 other voices recount what they went through to get to Europe.
In a rural village in Cuba, Rocío lives with pain as part of her daily life. Her body, marked by medical interventions, holds memory in the form of scars, as she faces the humid climate that foretells each approaching storm. Rocío doesn’t need to look to the sky to know what’s coming: her body already senses it.
Narrated by Eastbourne's resident pier tarot reader Jennifer, this film is a visual exploration of the cycles of life and death in a town that is both the sunniest place in the UK and one of the top 3 suicide spots in the world.
Constantly online, never at home: A film about the crew of a cargo ship, their loneliness, and their attempt to escape it. For months at a time, far from home and family, they live in cramped quarters. An allegory for the homelessness of modern humanity, caught in the monotony between machine, sea, work, and sleep.
While hoping for an advanced prosthesis, Nina faces the limits of her device — a journey between human and technology, ending in groundbreaking surgery.
Three incredible true-life stories. Art was drowning in the broken life of alcohol abuse. Collette, a wild child from the 60's nearly fell into an early grave. Kevi struggled to rise above the strife of the inner-city. Hear their stories of life, faith and the powerful way they have been changed.
The Waste Commons reveals the intricate lifeworlds and recycling networks built by waste pickers since 1968 at Dakar’s dump, Mbeubeuss. Adja and Zidane, two waste pickers who are emerging as leaders contesting the erasure of their community, guide us through the dump’s material, social, and spiritual worlds.
The documentary explores the curative knowledge and resistance by african-rooted religion leaders in the Amazon, highlighting the connection between humans, nature, and spirituality. In Manaus, forested areas become spaces of healing, while the film fosters a dialogue between traditional knowledge and the need to rethink our relationship with the environment.
In the dilapidated industrial buildings in Upper Ladadika or in the wider area of Valaoritou in Thessaloniki, bands and creators flourished for over four decades. Rooftops, music studios and rehearsal halls with the decibels turned up created the space and time for a continuous explosion of cultural action, personal and collective expression. Through the eyes of the musicians and individuals who continue to shape the city's underground music scene, we see how all this creative expression is increasingly threatened by the ongoing process of displacement due to gentrification. We discuss Thessaloniki, music, the future and the resistance that can be born.