With his 1984 hit "Smalltown Boy", Jimmy Somerville hit the bigtime and became the voice of the gay movement in Britain hoping for freedom and equal rights in face of discrimination. As frontman of Bronski Beat then The Communards and finally as a solo artist, he became an icon of the 80s without ever denying his identity.
20 years after "Mi vida dentro," filmmaker Lucía Gajá revisits Rosa Estela Olvera Jiménez's case, a Mexican migrant accused of killing a minor. The sequel shows how her family and social groups helped restore her unjustly taken freedom.
In this bold and personal short, filmmaker Lorenz Zenleser reflects on his complicated relationship with the Victory Monument in Bolzano, an imposing fascist structure built in 1928 to mark Italy’s victory over Austria, which is still politically charged and actively appropriated by the far-right. As he sets out to film the monument’s troubled legacy, the camera itself seems to resist: double 8 mm footage begins to glitch and tremble. This formal revolt provides the opportunity to transform a personal inquiry into a haunting meditation on the endurance of fascist symbols in public space, and the difficulty of capturing them without reinforcing their presence.
Through vignettes from a recent trip to India, Harsh reflects on the last twenty years of his life as he attempts to draw a conclusion to his thesis: How long does it take to find yourself?
A family photo in the garden, a recording of my grandmother singing, a letter I wrote to her a year after her death—200 kB of data stored on a DNA molecule, the hard drive of the future.
About a collective of artists living together in a boat workshop in La Boca. While working on an exhibition, arguments break out over the work's concept.
Fifty years after his passing, the documentary covers the life of the brilliant Argentine comedian José "Pepe" Biondi, covering the highlights of his artistic journey, from his birth in Barracas to his death. The testimonies collected reveal his talent and humanity, which he always maintained, transforming his childhood hardships into generosity, honesty, and people skills.
Following a great personal tragedy, Aga feels she is now at her zero point. Her previous life ceased to exist in an instant: the past has vanished and the future is impossible to imagine. As, with time, she starts getting back in balance, fate puts her to yet another tough test. Aga’s opportunity for a new beginning might be working with Ukrainian children who have fled to Poland to escape the war. Helping others makes it easier to understand your own problems, but how many times can you start life all over again?
In the 1970s, in Emmen, Drenthe, the visionary neighbourhood Emmerhout was built. It was designed to be a revolutionary experiment, the neighbourhood of the future. Casper, 52, has been living in Emmerhout for more or less his entire life. In this short documentary, he reflects on past, present and future of the neighbourhood, but also of himself.
A search for the hidden rivers that flow beneath the streets of Montreal, forgotten and buried by the course of urbanization. When heavy rain falls, the waters rise again and flood the streets, reminding the city of its forgotten past.
Even though more than seventy years have passed, the state refuses to open the files of the investigative committees that conducted the question that haunts many: Who threw the grenade at the Shem Tov synagogue? The grenade, thrown in 1951, killed five, wounded about twenty, and is considered the major attack that led to the rapid immigration of most of Iraq's Jews in Operation "Ezra and Nehemiah." For years, a large portion of immigrants believed that the State of Israel was behind the affair, because it wanted to induce the affluent class of Jews to immigrate. But recently, a box of documents and testimonies was found at a university in the United States, intended for the "future researcher of the material," and deals with the question "Who threw the grenade?"
A couple and the husband’s mother have been living away from the town of Namie in Fukushima Prefecture since they were evacuated after the nuclear accident. As they make the decision to build a new house, their feelings as husband and wife, parent and child, and daughter-in-law and mother-in-law intersect. The film depicts their emotional struggle to live as their true selves, amidst elderly caregiving of the elderly and complex family relationships—issues brought to the surface by the disaster.