Sylvia Swayne runs for Alabama State House Representative for District 55, making her the first transgender person to run for office in the state of Alabama.
On the morning of April 28, 1958, a bag of dynamite was discovered at Temple Beth-El in Birmingham, Alabama, during a series of attacks on Jewish institutions across the South. The bomb’s fuse stopped one minute short of detonating, but it set off a ripple effect through the community that impacted how many responded to the Civil Rights Movement.
Some Indigenous people were never forced to leave what is now known as Alabama, and many across the continent are still intimately connected to their sacred homelands. Meet three Indigenous people who are answering their ancestors' prayers to reclaim traditional lifeways and protect the environment.
When we lose a loved one, each of us experiences a complex mixture of feelings and memories that must be resolved. Especially if the deceased was of great importance in our lives and had a complex character. A documentary essay about a personal attitude to the tragedy, based on the use of family chronicles and the dreams of the author.
The film explores man's desire for spiritual elevation and unity with the divine against the backdrop of the influence of modernity and digitalization on the traditional monastic way of life.
Documentary film “Shukhrat Abbasov. Close-up" is dedicated to the memory of People's Artist of the USSR, film director Shukhrat Abbasov (1931 - 2018). Friends and colleagues of the Master (Ali Khamraev, Elyer Ishmukhamedov, Valentina Gushchina, Shavkat Abdusalamov, Maxim Pavlov, Farrukh Zakirov, Odilsha Agishev, Vladimir Vorobey, Natalya Arinbasarova) share their contributions.
The film is about a unique social experiment. Will the appearance of the city change if janitors, roofers and other housing office workers are introduced to art and sent to the Russian Museum for educational instruction? “Make it beautiful” records the progress of the experiment throughout the year.
In 2019, at the international exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the Russian Pavilion hosted an exhibition by Alexander Sokurov dedicated to the parable of the Prodigal Son. In 2020, the exhibition was presented in the White Hall of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. This film tells about the exhibition's journey from creation to implementation.
A closer look into the private life of the famous Kazakh singer, former soloist of the first female vocal instrumental ensemble in the USSR "Aigul". The name of the heroine is Karlygash, translated into Russian as “swallow”. The fate of this woman is accompanied by constant luck and success, and is comparable to the swift flight and serene singing of a small bird in the sky. But this is only at first glance. A deep drama, where personal pain is connected with the difficult history of her family and the Kazakh people, often drives the actions of this bright and exceptionally gifted woman. And at one of the critical moments of her life she will have to remain silent... After a long, harsh winter, will we hear the Swallow singing again?
Actress Irina Tereshenkova lives in the M. G. Savina House of Veterans of the Stage in St. Petersburg. More than 30 years ago, her theatrical career came to an abrupt end: at the age of 48, she left the theater. The Leningrad Lensovet Theatre, where she served for almost a quarter of a century with the great theatre director Igor Vladimirov, playing in line with the great actress Alice Freundlich. Fate has prepared many blows for her, but the love of life and the ability to never give up unfold life circumstances in a completely unexpected way.
Ulsan's natural environment, once degraded by industrialization, is now being restored, resulting in the return of animals to the river, including some endangered species. As the wildlife population increases, so does the frequency of incidents involving them, highlighting the importance of reflecting on the meaning of human-animal coexistence. This is the story of the Ulsan Wildlife Rescue and Management Center, which strives to achieve this goal.
A stringed instrument workshop in Gyeongju. Dong-joon is a man who has dedicated his entire life to the violin. He has suffered from hearing loss since the age of one, and without a hearing aid he cannot even hear the sound of an airplane passing overhead. Making a sound-sensitive stringed instrument requires extraordinary effort, and Dong-joon's family is worried and concerned about his decision to pursue a career as a musical instrument maker. Meanwhile, Dong-joon prepares to enter an international violin-making competition in Mittenwald, Germany to prove his skills.
A documentary on the history of physical media and the rise of boutique specialty collector labels and the role they have played in film restoration, preservation, and elevation of underrepresented voices.
With 38 forts at stake, Verdun was highly strategic during WWI. Through rare archives, 3D animations and interviews with historians and scientists, we plunge inside the walls of these coveted fortifications.
St. Louis florist Darien Burress launches her small business while preparing to compete at Art in Bloom, the St. Louis Art Museum's annual festival celebrating floral design and the fine arts.