Yarn and Cloth Construction

A Weaverly Path offers an intimate portrait of Swiss-born tapestry weaver Silvia Heyden. The film captures the inner dialogue and meditations of an extraordinary artist in the moments of creation. Heyden works for over a year to create works inspired by the Eno River in Durham, North Carolina. And she shares how nature, music, her Bauhaus inspired education at the School of the Arts in Zurich and her life experiences anchor and inform her art. Heyden was a 20th century modernist whose body of work redefines the art of modern tapestry.

The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art with complex geometric patterns called kené. These patterns also have corresponding songs, called icaros, which are integral to the Shipibo way of life. This documentary explores these unique art forms, and one Shipibo family's efforts to safeguard the tradition.

A new documentary that follows master Haida weaver Delores Churchill on a journey to replicate a spruce root hat discovered with the Long Ago Person Found. The 300-year-old traveler was discovered in British Columbia and DNA testing discovered living descendants in Canada and Alaska. Her search crosses cultures and borders, and involves artists, scholars and scientists. The project raises questions about understanding and interpreting ownership, knowledge and connection.

Set in Varanasi, an ancient city of India, Tana Bana offers a rare look at the hidden world of Moslem weavers and Hindu traders and how their lives are interwoven through the production of the silk and the beauty it creates. However, as the technology advances, the trade is threatened by computerization and globalization.

Documentary about weaving and braiding

The people, the scenery and the industrial traditions of the Stroud valley and the growth of the woollen industry.

Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

This film explores the traditional crafts of Native American tribes, specifically the Hopi, Navajo, and Iroquois. It highlights the craftsmanship of Hopi basket weaving and pottery, showcasing their techniques and cultural significance. The Navajo's weaving of wool blankets and rugs, as well as their silver jewelry making process, is also detailed. Additionally, the film discusses the Iroquois tradition of carving ceremonial masks from basswood trees. Each craft reflects the unique heritage and artistic expressions of these tribes.

Set in a Burkina Faso organic cotton weaving cooperative, a cacophonous cotton-spinning apparatus eats, digests, and takes a breath. Threads become the organs of a whirling, burping, guzzling machine animated by hands, looms, vats, cogs, and feet. Where does the machine end and the body begin? The weaving cooperative promises equitable remuneration for workers in an industry beholden to its colonial predecessor: today, Burkinabè cotton farmers live in permanent debt to cotton companies financed by European capital. By focusing on the repetitive labor unfolding within a cooperative that claims to serve its workers, Everything Here Holds Its Inverse examines the tension between empowerment and evolving oppressions. Can the ties that bind and define also set free?

A Gen Z who thrives on social media and loves creating content gets fired from her job because of her excessive obsession with content creation. She then becomes a social media admin at a traditional weaving workshop, where the job only fuels her ambition to become a content creator. Driven by her impulsive ambition, she focuses heavily on increasing sales without understanding the production process behind the woven fabrics. She sees sales figures as the ultimate measure of success, and her growing numbers only inflate her ego and create tension with her coworkers. Everything changes when she witnesses the production process firsthand and sees elderly artisans patiently weaving each piece by hand. In the silence of her thoughts, she finally begins to understand the meaning of weaving and the long, painstaking process behind every piece.

How can we rethink our ways of learning and transmitting knowledge? This film answers this question through the creation of a unique bachelor’s program: the Arts and Sciences Bachelor. The origin of this bachelor lies in the uprising against the 2009 reform of the university. During three years, students explore knowledge through the intertwining of different subjects. Indeed, they discover every aspect of color in sociology, chemistry, and literature. By following four students from their first to their third year, the film explains to the spectator how this bachelor program works. Les Lumières offers a reflection on transdisciplinarity.

Made for the Sheffield and District Workers Film Society by Brian Pickersgill, this film documents anti-war protest marches through the streets of Sheffield to Endcliffe Park in 1936. The film concentrates on the Women’s, Youth, and May Day demonstrations held that week.

A documentation and celebration of 13 years of the Horror-on-Sea film festival in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, U.K.

A short film featuring quotes from Armenian auteur Sergei Parajanov and clips from his masterpiece The Colour of Pomegranates.

They, Erode, Bend, and Flow Outside

Models, calculations, samples: the facts about climate change are on the table, but politicians refuse to acknowledge them. Faced with this dilemma, three scientists decide to leave the laboratory and become activists. Maria, Sebastian, and Nana use their knowledge to maintain integrity between emotion and reason.

French documentary that explores how the third generation deals with the memory of the Holocaust. It follows grandchildren of survivors—Camille, Frankie, Théo, and Mathis—as they inherit family secrets and the responsibility of bearing witness to this trauma

Lopper

One of Adams Filmi Oy's first films, and the only one that has survived from the company's silent era documentaries. It depicts the test run and inauguration of the large bridge over the Kokemäenjoki River in Pori in September 1926. "Well, it's just a matter of time..." "Well, it should be..." The new bridge was inaugurated on September 26, 1926, and the last pedestrians can be seen crossing the old Charlotta Bridge.