Returning to the archives of this memorable recital, from which it presents numerous excerpts, this documentary is punctuated with testimonials from its principal performers, music critics and several big names in piano, including Lang Lang, Gabriela Montero, David Salmon and Manuel Vieillard, whose Geister Duo is considered one of the most promising duos of their generation.
The stories of people and families from Artsakh, Armenia, following the forced displacement of 120,000 Armenians in September, 2023, with intimate testimonies that display the human costs of war.
A documentary short on Ben Kamras, director of the Finnish feature length straight-to-VHS action epics Tina – Hän ei pelkää – Hän tappaa vain kostaakseen (1993) and Life on the Line (1995).
Set in Rangsot, this film unravels how memory, play, and storytelling endure through voice, gesture, and communal presence. Songs once sung to lull children, tales whispered by parents, and games played with sticks, stones, or dragonflies re-emerge as elders recount them—sometimes laughing, sometimes grieving. The film reflects on how the apparatus mediates these transmissions. Between oral history and the camera’s framing, it explores how memory is shaped, reenacted, and perhaps even transformed through the production and consumption of technical images.
This audiovisual essay dives into the complexity of the border space from three European enclaves located in African territory: Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands. The film plunges into the gap that unites and separates Africa and Europe, in search of the ruins and ghosts from the wreckage of the utopias that have grown on both sides: Europe as a promised land for the dispossessed South and Africa as a paradise for the exotic-hungry North.
After 12 years of documentary courses being absent as a form of Integrated Practicum in the Film Department at IKJ, Bikeska, Paul, Arrivo, and Raihanul chose to break the tradition. Amidst the dominance of fiction films, which are considered more prestigious, they chose documentaries due to budget constraints and a desire to respond to the world in a more honest and intimate way. Their poetic documentary film captures two layers of reality: a man who draws architectural spaces, and the laborers who build them. However, the process led to a creative crisis and the images were too structured as the treatment felt like fiction filmmaking. The question arose: were they recording reality or constructing it? The camera turned around, highlighting the team’s process and confusion. Ultimately, the film not only captures space and labor, but also reflects that documentaries, like buildings, are the result of construction and choice.
Antonello is a forty-year-old man from Irpinia who is deeply attached to his homeland despite the myriad daily problems he faces. Boredom, depression, the incivility around him and, above all, love convince him to pack his bags and leave in search of something new, a place where "people still look at the sky."
Disjointed moments from the filmmakers’ daily lives during the past year. Captured on a 1985 VHS camcorder with color and luminosity distorted by its failing color Newvicon tube. Cut with distorted tape-recorded fragments of nostalgic broadcast television ephemera. Scored by whatever was handy— from an ambient electronic song with a surprising amount of pipe organ (Oneohtrix Point Never - Boring Angel) to midi versions of your favorite SNES soundtrack (Donkey Kong Country – Aquatic Ambience, Opening, and Treetop Rock) to a not-quite-right rendition of a song that will make you want to say “Oh, Angelo, that’s tearing my heart out!” (Xiu Xiu – Falling). A voyeuristic peak at home movies that exist somewhere between soon to be forgotten and forgotten long ago. The occasional dot matrix time stamps in the corner of the footage somehow make it harder to place in time.
Filmed over four years, from Mexico City to Chicago, this documentary is a raw and intimate account of the creation of "Corazón Cicatrizado" (Scarred Heart) — an original and gut wrenching play, rooted in Mexico's deepest wounds: Ayotzinapa and Tlatelolco. With testimonies from different artists who lived the process in the flesh, this is the story behind "Corazón Cicatrizado," and the repeated attempts to bring it to life.
How do historical revisionism and negationism work today? The film examines this question using the example of the peace statues for the "comfort women" of World War II—victims of human trafficking—which are to be removed from public spaces. It is a rarely told story of decades of revisionism and worldwide resistance. The victims were mostly poor women and girls whose stories were long ignored. Can denial and erasure completely wipe out the past? Will the truth remain hidden forever, or will it be replaced by an idealized past?
Four friends whose lives have taken them in different directions meet again. United once more, they enjoy the time together, reminiscing about past adventures and talking about their current jobs, love lives, problems, and dreams. In the process, painful memories resurface, and injuries, wounds, and scars become visible. Over several years, Elsa Deshors films the meetings with her friends - a film like a road trip that shows us how difficult it is to be a female read person, and how friendship, mutual understanding, and support help us to come to terms with the past and find a way towards the future.
"What kind of times are these, when talking about trees is almost a crime? Because it implies silence about so many misdeeds!" Bertolt Brecht from the poem "To Those Born After," written in exile in Denmark between 1934 and 1938. A poetry film.