Having existed for over two thousand years, the Guqin is one of China's most original string instruments. In the year 2019, the 82-year-old Guqin master, Wong Duo, reluctantly performed in his hometown of Suzhou, where his lifelong dedication to the revival of traditional silk string style has made him a minority among the predominant steel string players. To support him, Li Guo, Wong's youngest disciple whose playing strongly echoes that of her master's, invited Wong to give a truly authentic Guqin concert in the modern cosmopolitan of Shenzhen, in order to reach a larger and more diverse audience.
This is about a group of blind people during their rehabilitation in the mountains. It is based on interviews with totally blind and visually impaired people, where they talk about their lives, their desires, and dreams. Having gathered from different cities of Ukraine, they came to the rehabilitation center in the Carpathians, where they showed how they know how to live... how they do sports, go hiking in the mountains, have fun, dance at discos, travel with an excursion to another city. During their stay at the rehabilitation center, they become very close and do not want to part.
17 mischief-makers kids from different parts of Ukraine help the adult director Katya find her lost home. Katya embarks on a long journey where she meets future adults, together they seek the answer, what is home? Is home people? Or is it things? Or maybe home is our language? At the end of the journey, Katya realizes that she still doesn't know when her Crimea will be de-occupied, but she definitely understands that to find home, she needs to return to the mundane, simple, and sometimes interesting life that she has loved for 33 years.
A documentary-style program it's guided by Stewart Lane, a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the process of bringing a Broadway show from conception to opening night.
Life is metamorphosis, bounding from being to being as new ways of saying “I.” In 16mm, Ainá Xisto prints an abyssal record guided by a more-than-human relationship through dreamlike landscapes, creating a magical reality inhabited by real characters, opened up to dialogue and to others.
What did the women and children experience in the Japanese internment camps in the Dutch East Indies? What wounds and traumas remained, and how did they cope with them throughout their lives? The camps left significant scars. Many of these have not yet healed or disappeared.
"On November 28, 2023 I woke up early and drove down to the Upper Kern River. I came to film a tree. It's leaves were orange. The shot would be 87 minutes, the exact length of Godard's Breathless. My film would be non-narrative, but stuff happened" - J.B
When you see Carlijn Kingma’s impressive artwork The Waterworks of Money, that efficiently illustrates the way the financial sector runs through everyday life, it’s hard to imagine how one would even begin creating something so highly detailed and intricate. But patience seems to be the keyword of this documentary portrait that follows Kingma from the inception of The Waterworks of Money to its display at the Biennale in Venice. Filmmaker Ariane Greep shows a master at work, slowly but surely refining her work into the masterpiece it became.