Aleksey Kozlov is interested in drifting and decides to build a drift car from an old rare Toyota Cresta car from 1987 with body number JZX-71 (hence the name of the film). This is a story about a simple guy who lives in Kamchatka, where there is still no infrastructure for training, where there is snow on the road 9 months a year, but he dreams of competing in the most prestigious race in Russia RDS-GP, where top pilots compete with each other from all over the world.
A quest for the truth about a hot topic: the worldwide craze for appetite suppressant drugs like Ozempic, designed to treat diabetes but popularized for weight loss. How can we explain this obsession with thinness in a society that is trying to accept the diversity of all bodies?
Baghdad, early 1990s, in a reality where humans have been replaced by cyborgs, a young couple and their newborn try to flee their country where war has just broken out.
Between poetic observation and cinematographic portrait, this film delves into the universe of the sculptor Leo Vinci. At 92 years old, Leo plays at creating and transmuting the sacrifice of daily work into the sacred office of transforming the world with his hands.
The writer Abelardo Castillo talks about the meaning of writing about the 70s, about newspapers, magazines and literary workshops, and about Sylvia, his wife. As in Blixen's story of the stork, he completes the drawing of his life.
The Luján River, the Basilica and an amusement park. Fabián, set designer and creator of horror labyrinths, builds the Ciclón Fantasma. Alejandro and Rosa walk along the riverbank looking for fossils. The characters seek to make their dreams come true in a space full of myths and beliefs.
In order for the revolution to live up to its promise, might love be the missing ingredient? Artist Dora García delves into the archives and finds in the searing writings of Alexandra Kollontaï, an early-20th-century revolutionary, a precious ally of queer and feminist movements in Latin America and elsewhere. A joyfully militant political film."
Kadir İnanır writes in order to not forget every moment of his early professional life. This process of recording is not limited to writing. He consolidates this archive first with photographs and then with images. His archive includes behind-the-scenes footage from many films, thousands of photographs, some of the costumes he used in his films and priceless diaries. Hüseyin Karabey, who has been filming Kadir İnanır at regular intervals for about 13 years, based on his yet-to-be-published autobiography, shares with us an important part of the history of Turkish cinema through the actor’s testimony.
In an inhospitable and arid town in northern Argentina called Tostado, a group of colorful bald characters inquire about their baldness and the importance of hair in their lives.
Centers around the second half of the Rams' 2023 season, when they come back from Bye Week with a 3-6 record, requiring them to win almost every remaining game.
As Sicilian journalist Giuseppe Quatriglio turns 90, his daughter starts filming him. When he dies, she keeps on filming. Boxes become archival materials, as journeys, women and post-war Europe come to the fore. And in the end, there is a father.
At the beginning Michelle Bastien-Archer shows and comments on photos of her wedding. The African-American and her childhood friend Jermaine were married in the unhospitable visitors’ hall of Sing Sing in 2007. He had been sentenced to 22 years to life for voluntary manslaughter in 1998. Ever since, she has been fighting tirelessly to prove his innocence. Now new documents have turned up that reinforce doubts about the trial’s decisive witness statement. Michelle becomes more confident. She presses even more determinedly ahead with her efforts to get Jermaine released. The camera is with her as if live, for almost a decade.
Set history free. A modern history, enclosed for more than a quarter of a century in an abandoned prison in Uherské Hradiště with unique rooms preserved from the 1950s. The authors fill the emptiness of the premises with situational encounters with the building, nature and people who are united by their experience of the place and who are often divided by their life experience. A shared past as a starting point to a shared future.
The final part of the Creativity Trilogy explores existential threats our world is facing. An inspiring film about imagination's power and a hopeful glimpse into the future.
Environmental activists Thor, Hulk, Black Panther, Captain Anarchy and Batman illegally occupy Mormont Hill. They create a utopian model of society while waging a peaceful struggle against the enemy: the cement industry. Far from any society, these activists invent, create and reclaim a threatened site. A new threat looms when the police announce that they will soon be evicted. Zadvengers offers a poetic and personal vision of the reality of activism in the "Zones to be Defended" (ZADs).
Queer people from all over the world have made Berlin what it is today. Many leave their home because they want to, others because they have to. This film follows a few of them. The queer universe of Berlin mirrors the movements of the world and is constantly evolving. In recent decades, a multitude of identities have made themselves heard. Today, gay and lesbian are only two terms among many.