A Rite of Passage

In his most personal documentary yet, Chris Hemsworth turns the camera on his own family after his dad’s recent Alzheimer’s diagnosis. They embark on a road trip into their past, exploring the science of social connection and how it can support memory function. They revisit meaningful places and faces, capturing it all as a home movie, and reviving treasured recollections.

A German couple and their dog travel across North America in a school bus searching for a state of pure bliss.

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

U.S. Route 101, de Seattle à la Californie

Formosa

Filmmakers Sam and Amy journey into rural Australia to explore how the legacy of an American legend has transmitted and warped itself over time, and across the globe, resulting in the 30th annual Parkes Elvis Festival.

MORENA tells the uplifting story of the Philippine National Surf Athlete Ikit Agudo, who overcame the pressure to blend into a society obsessed with skin whitening. Within the ocean, she found happiness, strength, and pride in her roots. Inspiring young girls around the world to embrace who they truly are. In the Philippines, skin-whitening remains a billion-peso industry, a legacy of colonial beauty ideals that for generations have led many to neglect their true identity and natural beauty.

Jagoda and Zuzia giggle in the opening scenes in the way that only 11-year-old girls can. Together they are the center of their own changing world. On the face of it, not much happens in the lives of these Polish best friends, but big changes are on the way. The end of primary school is in sight, and the girls are impatiently awaiting first love, budding breasts and first periods.

The music they make gives us joy and comfort. Now they will get something back. Christine Dancke brings pop stars on the road trip with surprises and delicious music. This time with the famous Norwegian singer AURORA

VALKYRIES

Narrations of 3 women about their experiences, their inner fight with being feminine and masculine, and their acceptance journeys.

RAPE PLAY is an experimental documentary that explores fanfiction writing amongst teenage girls online and the learned narrativization of sexual experiences. Through interviews, lyrical essays, and fantastical reenactment, it touches on internet history, sexual assault discourse, and the magical cultural production happening in the bedrooms of teenage girls worldwide every day.

With an experimental treatment looming to cure her aggressive cancer, Jamie ventures to the lake where her and her girlfriend, Grace, fell in love, fearful it will be the last time she ever sees it.

Two girls in their early 20s explore topics of femininity, girlhood, and normalized violence perpetrated on women.

An international team of 4 friends undertake the Plymouth to Dakar Challenge a ‘banger rally’ which annually shadows the route of the Paris Dakar Rally. They acquire two old Mercedes vans and take a 3 week route through Spain, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia. They arrange to transport prosthetic limbs for a Bristol based charity to a clinic in Gambia providing help to amputees. Interviewing a number of experts on the 30 year conflict between Morocco and the Saharawi natives, they arrange to meet with Saharawi ‘dissidents’ in the Western Sahara to expose their oppression by Moroccan authorities who they claim are occupying their land and profiting from their national resources.

Johnny Hallyday, à nos promesses

SOAR

7 cool kids head up north to the biggest automotive festival in Portugal also known as Caramulo Motorfestival in 2 modified cars from the 80´s. This is a journey they had envisioned since they had their drivers license, and after all these years, they made it. This is a small film from escáfiamáxima* poorly recorded with a shitty ass Panasonic handycam from the 2010´s, and some parts with a Sony Hi-8 handycam.

Three friends use their last summer as teenagers to rediscover Bulgaria like they have never seen it before by going on a big road trip and getting lost on purpose.

GRRRL STYLE YYC is a collage of the femme punk scene in Calgary. Experience the scene like never before, through the eyes of the young girls that push it forward.