Ten years after the death of her friend Lola, the filmmaker searches for a way to measure time. Through images, she traces a map of the present with echoes of the past: a tree, a dress, a group of friends.
Three biologists from the Institute of Mycology and Botany of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) travel through the Yungas region of Argentina in search of fungi. How do they conduct their work? What do they hope to find? What lines of research do their findings lead to? How important is their work? These are the questions this documentary attempts to answer.
A teacher, activist, and guardian of Amazonian knowledge, Dona Onete became a music star at 72, but her story began much earlier. In this documentary filmed among the rivers and forests of Pará, Onete sings of the banzeiros (drums), the dolphins, and the flavors of the forest with humor and wisdom in a celebration of the living Amazon that pulsates in her voice.
A documentary about sex based on the world of funk, the most powerful and popular musical genre in Brazil. Without moralizing, the film reveals how, through the body, dance, lyrics, and experiences of its artists, funk expresses resistance, desire, pleasure, and personal affirmation. Combining footage of dances, bodies in motion, key figures from this universe, everyday scenes, and a beat that makes everyone move, the film celebrates funk as a vital and cultural force in the Brazilian periphery.
Arrested five times for his activism, student leader Honestino Guimarães was kidnapped in 1973 at the age of 26 and is one of the hundreds of people who disappeared during the Brazilian military dictatorship.
The documentary portrays the collective traumas of the militarization of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas occupied by the Armed Forces during the mega sporting events. Through voices from within the favelas, the film documents the struggle for justice and reparation for victims of human rights violations.
A short documentary that follows its protagonist and artist, Polina, as she navigates the complex process of coming to terms with the experience of sexual violence. Polina moves through her grief in a fragmented, non-linear way — at times denying what she has endured, yet holding onto a sense of gratitude. Gratitude for the experience that, even in its darkness, led to finding herself.
Third World is more than a documentary about Haustor - the legendary band from Zagreb that shaped the music scene of the former Yugoslavia. It is the story of two creative opposites: Darko Rundek and Srđan Sacher.
Follow the final three years of Ozzy Osbourne's life as he and Sharon plan a return home after 25 years in LA and prepare for the ultimate farewell gig.
Mussels in Galicia have their own unique character. Consumed since the Iron Age to the present day, they marked a turning point with the arrival of the first boats in the Ría de Arousa around 1945. At this time, they went from being harvested in a rustic and primitive way to being cultivated, becoming the economic engine for many coastal towns.
Referring to the Miles Brothers' 1906 titles "A Trip Down Market Street" and "A Trip Down Market Street After the Fire," set in San Francisco before and after a major earthquake, a virtual camera reimagines Market Street of the fictional San Fierro in the classic GTA: San Andreas (2004), imagining a life where disaster is impossible — until a missile attack arrives.
Since 2014, many churches have been damaged in Donbass, as well as in the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, some have been completely destroyed. But despite the damage and the danger of shelling, services are still being held in some churches today. The documentary by Ekaterina Arkalova tells the story of the restoration of damaged churches, the invincible spirit of Orthodoxy, and the power of human faith and the desire to revive life. The film is based on the stories of churches and people from Avdiivka, Severodonetsk, shelled areas of Donetsk, Svetlodarsk, the village of Kirovo, Belaya Gora, Nikolsky Monastery near Ugledar, as well as stories from soldiers, civilian priests and volunteers of the Maksym Krivonos detachment.
The Sykora family are only four people out of millions of Venezuelans that have recently escaped their collapsing country. They land in the Czech Republic, the country where Grandpa Jan was born, but also a place utterly strange to them. In a matter of months their savings have almost gone and job seeking becomes a nightmare. Again, the dream of just having a normal life starts to vanish. Will the family manage not to crumble along the way?
What does a dance company have in common with robots? Nothing, at first sight. But what if we could transfer to artificial intelligence the heart of the human brain? Empathy, imagination, feelings... and the ability to cooperate? World-renowned artists and scientists explore the different paths artificial intelligence is taking, envisioning a collective use of this intelligence, to shape a positive future for humanity.
Trains opens with a quote from Franz Kafka: “There is plenty of hope. An infinite amount of hope. But not for us.” These words hang like a dark cloud over this found footage documentary, which creates a collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing their hopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies.
First, there is the Appenzell countryside, and the melting snow that makes the streams overflow. Then the death of his mother, and the need to spend time with his father. On top of that, a global pandemic. Peter Mettler is a rare gem of a filmmaker. Here he (re)constructs the filmed diary of his intimate relationship with the world and the beings that inhabit it, in this work of documentary goldsmithery.
The internet has become more and more sloppy and unhinged, so if you’re feeling batshit crazy….welcome to Jankspace, babes. Let Daniel Felstead and Jenn Leung’s Julia Fox avatar explain it all to you: Ozempic, AI slop, Bryan Johnson, Dress to Impress, Uber drivers, algorithms and Luigi Mangione. In 2001 Rem Koolhaas came up with the term junkspace for the spaces left unaccounted for in the bureaucratic architecture of modernity. Similarly, Jankspace is the grotesque, empty space in the digital network of technocapitalism that we fill with our slimy human bodies. Take a seat and tune in …or let your brain rot into slop itself.