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- For six young men, who could hardly be more different from one another, the fan club of the Eintracht Braunschweig football club is the center of their life and their friendship. 66/67 is the name of their club as well as the year in which Eintracht Braunschweig won the German Championship.
- Aimé Césaire was a surrealist, essayist, activist and one of the founders of the Négritude movement, a progressive artistic and political current that defended black culture, strongly tied to Marxist and anti-colonial ideals.
- A moving tribute to the Argentine film laboratory that stood as a pioneer -together with so many producers and directors- in the local film industry, and became the main film lab in Latin America. It includes the testimonial support of our cinema, unseen footage, and a moving reunion.
- Sebastián, Guzmán and Email discuss how the death of a teacher would not change things until classes are suspended due to the death of their music teacher. Feeling guilty, but not anguished, they roam around the suburbs of the city.
- A moving and joyful time capsule, Alive introduces opera singer Marilyn Minns, showing some facets of her present condition before delving into her past. Suffering from Alzheimer's, her memories are increasingly fragmented. Archive photography of Minn's childhood is narrated using a 2014 interview, in which she talks about her childhood singing, and about her brief stint in the band Jokers Wild (whose lead singer, David Gilmour, would go on to form Pink Floyd). Weaving between the past and present, Alive introduces the man who will become her husband, a disgruntled lover, notable performances she took part in, and documentation of the mobility that her musicality awarded her. Following the shared reading of a letter - in which she outlines an episode in her life that she refers to as "the Russian saga" - Marilyn surmises the roles family, friends, passion, and love have played in her life, landing the film with a trailing air of hope.
- El Quiñon is the youngest city in Spain: a brand new town which was left incomplete when the financial crisis devastated the country's economy. The first generation of children have now become teenagers, living in a ghost town that is trying to become a community. In Barataria, in the face of an uncertain future, this generation's dreams and hopes reflect the complexities of contemporary Spain during its national elections.
- Divided into three parts, Cold Stack charts the melancholic decline of the oil rig industry in the Scottish Highlands. The film uncovers the destructive effects of the collapse on those who were employed by the industry, and showcases the grand visual spectacle of the dereliction of the rigs in the Cromarty Firth. The first part documents the Kishorn fabrication yard on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, encountering those who worked there during the great boom of the 1970s and 80s, and showing the ghostly remains of the yard in its current all but abandoned state. The second part shows the Cromarty Firth, where dozens of unused oil rigs are 'cold stacked', covering the effects of economic decline on those who formerly worked constructing the platforms. The final section looks to the future, considering the otherworldly beauty of the new form of energy that is dominant in the highlands: wind farming.
- Station of the Forgotten is a story that bridges the generation gap: a story about an old sailor and a young teenager brought together by fate. Together, joined by the old sailor's granddaughter and an urn containing his wife's ashes, they will journey back to the fishing town where the old man used to live.
- In Croatia in 2005, a machine tools factory was occupied by its workers. Since then, they have operated collectively, becoming the only successful example of a worker occupation in post-socialist Europe. Today, as they seek a new model of collective ownership, the microcosmic world of the factory clashes with the forces of the globalized market economy, having an increasingly brutal impact on wages and the organization of the factory, causing rising disaffection among the workers.
- FIRST GENERATION explores the boundaries of self-expression and the experience of growing up as a first generation Asian American in the late 90's. It follows a young Asian American protagonist, My-Linh, through her challenges and eventual acceptance and embrace of her Asian features. Beauty is subjective and can be difficult for a young Asian American girl growing up where the media objectifies women and often portrays a white, tall, blonde female as the ideal woman.
- Shot in one harrowing take, Bubenec's tense handheld dispatch begins at a blown-up bridge in embattled Eastern Ukraine, before detouring into an interrogation at a makeshift base and dissipates into ornery chatter among bored and aggrieved soldiers. Her war-zone film gripped the small crowd with whom I watched it, dropping us in media res at the thoroughly dicey Russian-Ukraine conflict. The whole scenario-which could be plucked wholesale for a fictional thriller-neatly captures the frontier justice at work, but it's also an instant window into how the bloodshed of war pervades life and aggravates and enables male aggression.
- In March 2020, 25 young musicians from the Bolivian Experimental Orchestra for Indigenous Instruments (OEIN) came to Germany to play concerts in Berlin and Dresden. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the concerts were cancelled. Then, as Bolivia closed its borders, the musicians found themselves stuck in the Music Academy in Rheinsberg/Brandenburg for almost three months. Together with their German colleagues in the ensembles PHØNIX16 and noiserkroiser, they face the crisis by developing several musical projects, a large part of which involves incorporating improvisation into contemporary music.
- Cold, alone and time is running out. A young woman wakes to find herself waist deep in ice and cuffed in place. She doesn't know how she got there, but she knows she needs to get out. Fast. Struggling to break free, it becomes clear that the situation she's in is more complicated than first appears, but escape might be just within reach.
- A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.
- Using images and sounds from his own personal archive, and taking a broad approach to his subject matter - including insights into artificial intelligence, the philosophical theory of positivism, and even H.P. Lovecraft - Pablo Martin Weber builds a poetic film essay, which has as its consistent thread a genuine passion for science, and regard for the figure of Philip Henry Gosse.
- Hot Chicks is a unique omnibus collaboration that adapts several of the widely-read palm-sized religious comic book tracts that have been published by Jack T Chick since 1958. Over 400 million copies of Chick's easy-to-read work have been distributed in over 70 languages around the world, to spread his message of born again salvation.
- Laura lives with her parents in L'Alfàz del Pi, in Valencia. Three years ago, she started her transition. Laura now faces adolescence, and with it, a series of changes that will mean a new chapter for her and her family. Each decision they make could be definitive.
- In a state in the American Midwest, old friends Michael and Josh, otherwise known as the Spirit Doctors, take it upon themselves to help people who are troubled by episodes of a supernatural nature.
- Karl, a skipper on a fishing boat, longs for a son to carry on the family legacy - fishing and soccer. When his dream is finally within reach, Karl must challenge family and friends who are weary of this delicate father and son relationship.
- A botched car-jacking forces two white-collar criminals to take refuge in the home of the thugs that accosted them. Over the course of one explosive, unpredictable night, worlds collide, fortunes shift, lives are cast aside and the most unsuspecting of heroes walks away with a multimillion dollar score.
- A young office worker has fallen into a mundane existence where his happiest moments are when office supplies are delivered. His friend, a schemer and dreamer, convinces Jack to join him in a life of crime to escape his meaningless life. Jack soon learns that happiness is a choice.
- Three young men face the future with trepidation. One just out of jail, one becoming housed, and one adjusting to the separation from his girlfriend and their daughter. Loneliness, despondency and the threat of sliding into old habits looms over their tentative optimism.
- Ben Goertzel is widely acknowledged to be one of the smartest AI experts in the world. With a ragtag team in Hong Kong, he's trying to build a robot with a global brain. But as embittered ex colleagues testify, his path to fame and glory is not at all smooth.
- Madness Remixed explores the image of exoticism portrayed by Josephine Baker in a 1926 performance entitled The Madness of the Day in which Baker wore the infamous skirt, made of only bananas, that played into stereotypes of Black women as hyper-sexualised. Madness Remixed questions the conditions under which the skirt should be revived, considering that Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, and Diana Ross have all worn the same skirt more recently. 16mm film coated with latex and glitter - a fetishised medium in itself - is data-moshed with Baker in Siren of the Tropics (1927) (1927).
- Sarah, a teenage girl, is struggling with severe nightmares. The dreams are so real they are effecting her everyday life. Sarah must discover the true source of the nightmares before her mind is lost forever.
- The death of her grandmother leads the filmmaker to her birthplace, Mexico City. There the granddaughter opens her eyes for the first time to the domestic workers: the benevolent spirits who bring up the children, cook the meals and live under the same roof as familes for years and yet remain mostly unseen. Remedios, Guadalupe and Dolores - we find out how they live, where they come from and what they have experienced. And naturally we ask ourselves why they have not been asked these questions long before.
- A contemporary noir set entirely at night Nightbeats is an homage to the classic noirs of the 1940's, though told as a contemporary drama, not a gumshoe satire, Nightbeats follow the lives of five people over four nights. Over these nights there are a series of deaths, suicides at first glance. Or are they?
- Having left family and parents behind, teenagers from Afghanistan, Iran and Ethiopia find themselves caught in limbo at a Danish Asylum Center. Their everyday life is filled with waiting and uncertainty, whilst staff prepare for one of the toughest days on the job.
- About a tight group of friends living in a small, forgotten, Wisconsin town. The story revolves around Kevin and his fight to find a new life for himself after 30 years of going nowhere.
- Nosferatu. The greatest horror film ever made. A masterpiece that inspired many film makers and animators. This animated film re-make pays homage to the German 1922 film, with a contemporary animation style, and an updated sound track.
- As parents, we like to educate our children to our ideal. But what if that ideal is disturbed, sick? A story of a mother (70 years) and a son (38 years) living together, separated from the outside world. A relationship of power and manipulation, love and sexuality.
- House on the market, Beth Dunne is getting organized to move when the doorbell rings: Daniel Berman's arrived late for the Open House. Turns out Daniel was Beth's high school boyfriend 15 years ago. Through this unexpected encounter, Beth and Daniel revisit their past and the choices they've made.
- A former middle school teacher Rinko has problems with social interactions after she was bullied by her students. She finds a part time job as a content moderator, whose task is to review videos uploaded on an SNS site and delete its explicit contents. Initially she vomits in disgust of the abomination on screen, but she decides to jot down the things she sees in a journal with names of victims. The process brings her mental stability, and she becomes absorbed into her job.
- Parkour is Marc Rensing's debut drama about a young man and his group of friends in an unnamed industrial town in Germany. The film is a captivating story of friendship, love, and jealousy and deals with Parkour, the physical discipline of training in which the traceur has to overcome obstacles within his or her path.
- Restricted by her lifelong agoraphobia, Kaye has spent most of her life within the four walls of her parents' house. Told first-hand via freewheeling monologues, "Portrait of Kaye" is a bittersweet portrait of a woman forming her own unique identity while navigating the conflicting influences of her mother's bawdy humour and her father's anxieties.
- Seven female Iranian documentary filmmakers show their personal and professional worlds.
- A young boy who lives in a remote town gets curious with the appearance of a new girl in town. Growing up with supernatural and folk beliefs, he suspects that the mysterious girl is more than meets the eye. With a desire to discover the truth, he attempts to uncover the secrets behind the mystifying young lady.
- Famous orientalist Roman Somovin Krushidi is invited to speak live on the radio. The "East-West" issue is on the agenda. Listeners must vote, who are we? The program is coming to an end, and the orientalist has not had time to say a word... on the air, there are commercials, then false calls against the background of the lively bickering of the presenters. When the orientalist comes home, drunk as a chip for the first time in his life, it turns out that only his little grandson listened to the program. But even he does not know whether we are the East or the West. He doesn't really care.
- Over the course of a year, filmmaker Charlotte Ginsborg filmed the London housing co-operative that she lives in, looking to chart the residents' diverse experiences of the pandemic, across the daily life of numerous national lockdowns. Some experienced the illness itself, while others faced the stress of work on the front line. Each Saturday, the residents came together to sing with each other from their communal balconies and walkways, and these songs permeate throughout the film. Increasingly frustrated by the government, residents experienced an emotional rollercoaster that is reflected in a film wherein the personal and political interweave, to create an intimate and moving portrait of a unique community during an extraordinary time.
- A generation of disaffected young men searches for meaning in the dark corners of the internet. TFW No GF examines the subculture through the metaphor of an iconic meme.
- Martha, a single mother of four children, lets Claudia move into her home. As Claudia bonds with the family, Martha's health slowly deteriorates.
- Currently a primary focus for environmental campaigners in the UK, HS2 is a controversial new high-speed rail line being built from London to the North of England. Documenting a single day on the front line of battles against the HS2 construction, The Battle of Denham Ford tells the story of attempts by HS2 contractors to fell a tree that overhung their compound. A protest camp sits adjacent to the compound, and, hearing of the plan, the activists installed a climber in the tree. As the day unfolds, the film documents as a range of private security contractors, with support from the police and emergency services, try to regain possession of the tree. Raising questions about the relationship between private citizens, corporations, and the state, the film places the viewer on the ground, offering a perspective that is as close to the experience of being there as any film could deliver.
- Carter never left his sleepy, suburban, NYC commuter-community after finishing High School. When his friends finish college and return home for a brief visit before starting their adult lives, he is spurred to action. He cashes in his unused college fund, packs a suitcase, and leaves home determined but without direction.
- The film moves across moments like the national emergency of 1975-77, and the anti-Sikh pogrom of 1984, all while remaining anchored in the contemporary by recalling the recent police brutality across university campuses. These emergency times are evidently connected by the repression they serve, but what makes them interwoven across the historical time-forms is the structures behind which fuel the power to keep producing citizens as terrorized subjects.
- A tribute to one of the world's great filmmakers and the men of the 8th Air Force who flew mission after suicidal mission in the Second World War.
- An emu mob fights back against Australian soldiers in this unapologetically silly, ultra-low budget war epic.
- A vain Angeleno finds the woman of his dreams in a kitschy, over-saturated Los Angeles café. The problem is, he can't walk up to her while she's sitting with her mom- that's weird. He lacks too much confidence and is too desperate for approval to look foolish. Set-backs that are masked by his one-of-a-kind jacket. In a grave turn of events, Isaac is faced with the perfect excuse to walk up to the woman at the cafe. But first, he needs to shed his fears, insecurity, and his fanciful jacket. This vain Los Angelino learns a lesson of what it means to be himself.
- From a bland tract house on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Simon Geist (with occasional help from his platonic girlfriend Darla) wages war against all of modern American popular culture. Geist starts up a magazine called "The Next Big Thing", which he uses to confront and insult upcoming actors, comics, models and rock bands. As Geist's mysterious Underground Agenda escalates, will he become the "last big thing", or be co-opted by the very forces he is railing against?
- Pacing through a contemporary landscape, Schiller's Mary Stuart interrogates the camera and audience.
- Constructed during a three-year-long research period that involved visits to more than 20 centres and laboratories dedicated to the advanced research of outer space, The Quintessence considers the scientific study of outer space as a narrative, and analyses the hidden dreams and expectations of those shaping contemporary research about the universe.