Against the backdrop of the thriving Croatian ballroom scene, Teo - a young trans man searching for his place, finds support and inspiration in Valentina, a seasoned voguer and veteran of the scene.
“I am love.” These verses from a poem by the Emir Abdelkader open this study of love led by Izgar, a young activist stunned by the magnitude of the issue as they wander through life, seeking their place. Violent love, love of God, or self-love? An urgent gesture, and a delicate snapshot of LGBTQIA+ love in Morocco today.
After a fifteen-year absence, Farah returns to Lebanon to live with her ageing father. There, the two try to find a common language that will allow them to have one last conversation. Ultimately, that language will turn out to be the only one he understands: poetry.
Billy is a film buff who films himself non-stop. During a film shoot, he meets Lawrence Côté-Collins and the two become friends. One night, he assaults her. Years later, in prison for the deaths of two people, Billy is diagnosed with schizophrenia. With the help of the filmmaker, his only remaining relationship apart from his family, his personal archives become an invaluable resource for understanding his illness. A formal deconstruction of schizophrenia through a remarkably open-minded gaze.
What makes a body human? This science-fiction fable shot in China foreshows the rise of AI. Time behaves fluidly as we travel into the near future in the company of an unusual pair: Blue and her friend, a mannequin named Lucy.
In a laboratory, a child is the object of a mysterious experiment. Aided by a robotic prosthesis – or is it the other way round? – the child receives sense data from our world. What does an AI need to feed on to push the limits of human abilities?
In an attempt to reclaim pasture for their cattle, the inhabitants of an ecovillage in Navarre decide to cut down a pine grove planted as part of a state-funded reforesting initiative. In this fierce and sensory work, the filmmakers capture an adversarial process which uses deforestation techniques to transform a territory.
In the Argentine Pampas, life seems to be on hold. A prolonged drought is killing off the livestock and threatening the existence of Omar, a farmer, his nonagenarian mother and Libertad, his 4-year-old granddaughter.
Somewhere on the coast of the Bering Sea, a father and son make a living fishing in a community that seems almost outside of time. Aliaksandr Tsymbaliuk’s camera takes us in close to the subjects, recording both the harshness of their condition and the rigour of education, softened by paternal love and the universal insouciance of childhood.
After a premonition of an unusual bird, a father loses his voice. His daughter undertakes a search to rediscover him, through an intimate narrative that explores the past, the new facets and the silences of a man who is no longer the same.
When the state of Washington made it illegal for tribes to fish for salmon in their usual and accustomed places, it was a declaration of war. A landmark court case in 1974 would affirm the tribes’ treaty right to fish and establish them as managers of the resource, but the fate of salmon in the Pacific Northwest still hangs in the balance.
The Diary of a Sky unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and the hum of generators during blackouts. This 45-minute video essay plunges viewers into a chilling chronicle of daily life transformed by the weaponization of the air, where the terror of repeated incursions becomes a disconcertingly banal backdrop.
A rare window into a conservative community reputed to be the most closed in the world, where the old remains the absolute reference in the face of modernity. Three generations of Amish make a rare decision to tell their stories after months of reflection and debate with their pastors. This documentary raises questions about the notion of individual freedom, belonging to a minority, economic and social norms, as well as the place of women.
There are people in charge of managing someone’s front yard or the tomb, the branches of Han River, Seonyudo Park, and even restoring the damaged environment due to the forest fire in Goseong, Gangwon-do. They are landscape architects. Among those who offer a scenic and natural landscape to our life full of adversities, Jeong Yeong Seon, 82 years old, works today again as if she writes poetry on the ground for the next generation.