A vibrant exploration of community and Black Trans euphoria, Hustleween chronicles an annual celebration created by EspicyNipples that transforms memory into queer resistance and joy.
August 2021: International forces withdraw from Afghanistan as the Taliban swiftly takes over, imposing Sharia Law. Four prominent Afghan women, now fugitives, put their faith in an impromptu group of activists devoted to saving their lives as world superpowers retreat.
The artist Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, who, on her return to Brazil after several years living in Europe, was confronted with the situation of violence against children, was a central figure in denouncing the massacre of minors in the Candelaria Church (1993). This is a lucid and raw interview interspersed with street footage, living with the reality of abandoned children in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro.
From within the walls of a prison, a group of inmates writes scenes about a Man. As they act out their words, their cells transform into childhood landscapes, hospital rooms, and places flooded by the outside world's light. But as the story unfolds, the lines between imagination and reality blur, and we begin to wonder who this Man is.
A short documentary about a group of open-water swimmers on Long Island who gather every summer morning in Hampton Bays. Born out of the post-pandemic era, their daily swims provide a sense of calm and a newfound community, proving that it’s never too late to find friendship, purpose, and joy in life’s simple pleasures.
George was a naughty and spoiled child, due to a congenital disability. He was born with one leg longer than the other. He spent the last two years of elementary school bedridden in the hospital, due to an experimental treatment. Returning back to his village, he began to go to church often, so he chose to become a monk. During his ordination, he goes from secular George to Father John and leaves the capital and the opportunities for professional development to return to a remote but beautiful place. At the same time, we follow the rituals of Holy Week in the community and the priest's views on the Sacrifice and the Resurrection
In Corfu, three musicians, friends, fellow students and roommates, experience life through music. The power of their musical improvisation transforms into a youthful and fresh improvisation on life itself.
The stages of Yannis Lafis's attempt to make a documentary about some people he considered remarkable, the reason he was interested in them, and ultimately the reason he was forced to give up.
This film is a critique of the patriarchal construction of history. We observe this history being deconstructed and reconstructed through human bodies, which, coexisting with the poetry of the queer woman poet Sappho, in the place where she is believed to have grown up and written, Eresos Lesvos, try to reconstruct a collective memory based on the freedom of their bodies and their environment. As the sunlight spreads across space until it sets, there is a passage from one spatio-temporal point in history to another, from the sound of cicadas to the sound of machines and then to hope.
A young girl from a good home starts dating a slightly older man, and it is not long before she starts falling out of all her other connections and relationships, swallowed up by a closed world that only has two people in it and a few big dogs tied at the front door. Without her partner ever showing violence towards her, she fears that if she leaves him, something terrible will happen. Out at Six tells the story of Livi, the filmmaker, through a timeline divided into eight stages based on research taken from hundreds of cases in which women were murdered by their partners. The film is compiled from interviews with people closest to her, reflecting how the surrounding environment witnesses the reality of such relationships.