Documentary about the beginning of stand up comedy in Argentina. It tells through its protagonists how it all started, and how it grew until it became part of the culture of this country.
A group of artists carry out a creative residency at a recording studio located in the middle of the mountains of Córdoba. As a result of the collaborative and exploratory work, they achieve some musical material that expands the borders of musical genres.
Kamatsu is an 80 year old Japanese man who came to Buenos Aires more than five decades ago because he heard that there was a hen that lay green eggs. In a game of expectation and reality, this documentary continually stumbles over its own preconceptions. The initial idea of understanding the migration, identity and tradition of a Japanese migrant derives in the story of some eggs, some notebooks and the authors' search for vision and meaning.
A young woman from a Russian small town is writing a frank book about all her many loves. Living in a touching search for a new love and facing constant failures in relationships, she tries to answer the question whether her happiness depends on having a man next to her. the tragicomedy about relationships, deception, betrayal, fears and the endless search for true love.
LGBTQ+ activist Qiuyan Chen became an unexpected celebrity due to her courageous legal battle against homophobic university textbooks in the 2010s. However, this newfound fame came at a price: she was outed by her tutor, subjected to conversion therapy by her parents, and monitored by the Chinese government. To escape these pressures, Qiuyan left for the UK, where she met her partner Bling: but her struggles were far from over. Interweaving reflections on Qiuyan’s sexuality and relationships, Shanshan Chen’s documentary examines this inspiring activist’s commitmentto building a close-knit community designed to support queer East Asian people in the UK: a solo endeavour that evolves into a movement with a growing support base.
Wherever Bumba-boi exists, there is devotion. In the Nossa Senhora Aparecida Tent it is no different, there is an Ox called Estrela, a toy of the enchanted João de Una. Located in the rural area of São Luís, the terreiro has been headed for 22 years by Joseph Joan, affectionately known as Pai Joan. Among all the festivals that mark the calendar of obligations, the “Death of the Boi de João de Una” takes on a prominent role. Place where boxes, drums, radios, rattles and tambourines come together in one territory.
The Year of Return is an initiative of the government of Ghana that is intended to encourage African diasporans to come to Africa to settle and invest in the continent. This film documents one diasporan family as they return to Africa.
Filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad documents the state of nature at his home country Norway, where he has photographed all his life. From the lives of bees at his farm, to wild reindeer on the high mountains, and puffins at the ocean's edge, he shows the beauty of threatened nature and tracks down human actions responsible for its decline. This is a personal story on our connection with the non-human world, the relations between the small and the big, and a reminder of nature's strength and vulnerability.
Listening All Night To The Rain continues John Akomfrah’s abiding interest in post-colonialism, ecology and the politics of aesthetics with a renewed focus on the sonic. Drawing its title from Chinese writer and artist Su Dongpo’s (1037 - 1101) poetry that meditates upon the transitory nature of life during a period of political exile, the exhibition is seen as a manifesto that encourages the act of listening as a form of activism. Conceived as a single landscape or artwork organised into song-like movements or ‘cantos’ that are inspired by American poet Ezra Pound’s (1885 - 1972) journey through history in The Cantos (1925), the exhibition brings together eight multimedia and sound installations.
A documentary about the complex character of Moshe Badash, the man who brought industrial salads to Israel and founded the "Picanti" retail chain, all the while fighting the elites, food monopolies, and the Israeli IRS. Was he a righteous fighter or an opportunist?