Set in the hallways of Bel Air High School in El Paso, Texas, the documentary follows an all-girl Color Guard team as they balance the pressures of adolescence with the demands of competitive performance. As they prepare for the WGI World Championships, a devastating mass shooting strikes their hometown. In response, the team creates a tribute performance, transforming their sport into an expression of collective grief, pride, and resistance.
In El Paso, Son stands in the shower, his cinnamon skin glistening, as he prepares for his father’s funeral. Memories flood into his head of the contentious relationship between a gay Latinx man and his religious Dad, as he journeys to a funeral in the times of COVID.
Along the El Paso-Juárez border, Mexican-American off-roaders forge their identity in the crimson dunes of the Chihuahuan desert. As they navigate their cultural legacy, their passion for adventure faces mounting challenges.
In El Paso, Texas, Sarah finds herself in a very bad debt to an even worse cartel. To pay it off, she will have to find some missing money with the help of a mysterious stranger.
Elijah Jamal Balbed grew up in Washington DC in the midst of one of its most difficult eras, as its identity was being tested. As the city changed around him, his budding career as a musician exposed him to the people and music providing a voice and an outlet to the people of DC. Now tasked with preserving and sharing that tradition, Balbed reflects on balancing that responsibility with creating a musical identity of his own.
Una festa per la città - Venezia 1973
This film is a view of The New Thing's history and accomplishments in the arts, architecture, concert production, politics and community organization during its lifetime in Washington.
Tails with tales to tell! In a consumerist society where everything, including man's best friend, is treated as disposable, everyday people aiding stray dogs remind us what being human(e) is all about and inspire us to make a difference.
Documentary about Nepal and its path into the 20th century.
A Puerto-Rican and an African-American woman build an unforgettable friendship that guides them and perseveres through the ordeals of racism, discrimination and disease in 1990s' Florida.
The autobiographical portrait of Theo Berger, who gained notoriety as the king of burglaries and escapes and spent most of his life in prison. His criminal career includes over 150 crimes committed since the age of 18. Theo Berger was sentenced twice to 15 years and twice to preventive detention. The film was made during his parole, which he received after contracting leukemia. But less than six months after filming was completed, Theo Berger was arrested again. Unprepared for a life in freedom, he was involved in a bank robbery. He was sentenced to a further 12 years in prison.
For many years, Joseph has travelled around the city with his trolley to gather tons of miscellaneous papers and objects of all kinds, thus filling his flat with labyrinthine chaos. He’s gifted with vertiginous erudition. I help him unclog his home.
15-minute interview with director Gus Van Sant on Elephant (2003)
A man from a Nordic country recreates Francoist times through his memory and the memory of others.
An ex gang member's love for pigs spurs him on a life-risking mission to uncover the truth behind 'bacon'. Director and Activist Joey Carbstrong goes undercover with fellow activists to infiltrate and expose the deeply ingrained corruption and heartbreaking abuse that lies at the heart of the UK’s ‘pork industry’.
At the beginning of the 1970s, in the village of Rokkasho situated at the base of the Shimokita peninsula, the prospect of sudden development and industrialization was raised. 10 years later it was decided that a giant petrochemical complex would be built, so the local people sold their land and left. Yet even now people continue to live in this "island on the mainland;" they continue to battle the forces of nature in this inhospitable climate that always leaves them with an insufficient harvest. In actuality, many of the old people who continue to work in agriculture or the fishing industry only settled here after World War II. The occurrence of both the "dollar shock" and the "oil shock" abruptly cut back the national development plans, ... Then, in 1984, almost as if it had been planned from the beginning, it was decided that a nuclear reprocessing facility would be built at Rokkasho. In consequence, the opposition movement quietly began to reform.
Archival interview
In June 1978, at his Arizona home, Welles films a series of conversations with his mentor Roger Hill, whom he has known since childhood.
The occupants of an old abandoned factory - renamed Metropoliz - decide to leave the barricades and to escape once and for all from the city that puts them on the margins of society, denying home, work, health and legality. Their plan is simple: build a rocket to go live on the moon.
Generation Z takes the floor in this year's definitive generation portrait. Twelve young people share their thoughts and feelings about love in our time.