A Brazilian development project, initiated during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, encouraged the “exploration” of northern Brazil by settlers from Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul. Based on a German-inspired festival held in Sinop, Mato Grosso, where an anonymous, fictional, and suspicious character wanders through forests and plantations, the narrative offers a free-form account of an immigration process that caused, and continues to cause, cultural, environmental, and political changes in a region once inhabited by diverse Indigenous peoples.
WOMEN WHO DIG showcases Canadian women on a journey to combat food insecurity and the industrial farm system by utilizing traditional farming techniques rooted in ancestral history. The small family farm is often perceived to be an occupation of the past that is being overtaken by large-scale industrial farming practices. Big Ag wreaks havoc on our global climate, all the while creating a GMO monoculture that contributes to an enormous loss of our planet’s biodiversity.
Boris (38) is an unemployed film critic. Benoît (36) is an entrepreneur and supporter of a very active life who decides to film his childhood friend for 12 months. "Be Boris" reveals a tragicomic fresco about friendship, cinema, and the fundamental right to be lazy.
Leni and Mandemba are two fishermen from the island of Bubaque, in Guinea-Bissau. The filmmaker follows them for a whole day as they prepare their tools, gather bait and go fishing. A filmmaker and two fishermen who shape and form a landscape and a choreography of gestures on an afternoon of fishing.
When Ariel was in elementary school, she often lied in her mother's arms and listened to her recounting memories about Ariel. In 2024, at the age of 26, Ariel invited her mother to share her experiences about her pregnancy, but she declined. So Ariel interviewed her close friend and her mother instead. If Everyone is just an observer of memories, what is the meaning of retelling them once again? Are children and their mother bonded by blood, by relationship, or by an invisible gap within the streams of memories?
Ngatiyem and her grandson Okta live at Lentera, an orphanage in Solo for children with HIV. After the orphanage is relocated to a secluded cemetery, Okta and friends are expelled from school. As Okta's health declines, Ngatiyem becomes overwhelmed, struggling to provide the care and attention he desperately needs.