An artist who shelved his musical aspirations to raise his family has a renewed spark to find his passion once again. He sets out on a harrowing journey to navigate the pitfalls of life, the music business, and an unexpected medical condition that threatens to end his career before it can truly take off. Along the way he uncovers the persistence of passion, the strength to endure, and an unwavering thirst to attain success against all odds. This isn't just a story about AN artist - it's a story about ALL artists.
A single mother in 1953, whose story was a taboo subject within the family. There is a conversation that mother and daughter never had. This conversation is recorded on audio and the time has come for it to happen between them and they can heal the wounds of the past.
The documentary chronicles the creation of Greece's first urban food forest in Neapolis, Thessaloniki. Designed using regenerative agriculture principles and planted with over 750 food-producing trees and plants, this community-led effort transformed a grassy lot into a hub for permaculture, urban farming, environmental education, community life, and hope.
A heartfelt and humorous Documentary coming-of-age film that follows Adi as he approaches one of the most significant milestones in Jewish tradition: his Bar Mitzvah. A tribute to family, friendship, and the joyful journey of growing up.
The film tells about the Nazino tragedy — the events of 1933 in the north of Tomsk Oblast, during which about 6,000 people were exiled to an uninhabited island, most of whom died within a few days. The incident was the result of an inhumane policy of "cleansing large cities of so-called declassed elements", people were deported without any charges. There have been many documented cases of cannibalism among prisoners and abuse of power among executive branch representatives.
Duolan left Yakutia for Georgia. He turned his apartment into a small kitchen to make a living selling sushi. In Batumi, where little reminds him of home, Duolan searches for something that might bring back the feeling of his homeland - in the local landscapes, people, signs, and even animals. Sometimes, he sings Yakut songs, hoping to at least mentally transport himself back to the place he left behind.
The 22-year Siege of Candia unfolds through the struggles of the besieged and the attackers, the failed Venetian efforts, and an unfulfilled love. Personal testimonies bring to life the dramatic events of Crete's past, as memory and time collide nearly four centuries later.
After the sudden death of his wife, the film's protagonist, Mr. Jochec, must take on the responsibility of caring for his two teenage children—his daughter Vanesa and his son Petr, who has a severe autism spectrum disorder. Previously often working away from home, Mr. Jochec now has to manage everything on his own, keeping his family together.
Monroe, Aura, Marlene: Three drag queens from the Ukrainian LGBTQ+ community raise funds for the frontlines, re-defining resilience and hope between glamorous shows and wartime life.
Financially and creatively bankrupt, aspiring actor Chase Miller is sleeping on his friends' couch and increasingly desperate for fame. Deciding to record his every move, Miller documents an unorthodox Oscar campaign.
Equal parts documentary, visual essay, experimental collage narrative, and parodic homage to and of all things Barbie, this caustic and exciting visual foray embraces the complicated terrain of feminist discourse, cultural criticism, and political rhetoric, as well as insights on gender, identity, and personal experience where all roads lead back to the phenomena that is Barbie.
Between 1979 and 2016, trans people in Norway were forced to undergo sterilisation, depriving them of their right to bear children. Kris has dreamed of becoming a father since kindergarten. Anticipating a euphoric pregnancy, he exudes a sage positivity despite past and present injustices. Together with Sindre and David, and their devoted families, Kris becomes a part of the resistance forging change
A work of speculative cinematic writing, the film is about war and displacement, architecture and place-making. It tells the fragmented biography of the so-called Rock Church, an iconic building in Helsinki and its architects who were excluded from the canon of Finnish modernism. The architects' personal history of displacement due to the Finnish Winter War of 1939 and Soviet occupation is braided with the war on present-day Gaza. Past and present histories, temporalities and geographies fold into, and over one another collapsing time, place and identities narratively to consider, in the gentlest of tones, the impact of atrocities on contemporary lifeworlds.
Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. As Julie unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family she finds that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. She joins forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being tokenized and put on display