Engenhos e Usinas

A morning in the farm shown with a beautiful musical background.

A cinematographic interpretation of a Casimiro de Abreu poem.

A Velha a Fiar illustrates a Brazilian folk song in which a being or entity is always predating another being, but is in its turn predated by some other animal, until the circle closes. It begins like this: an old woman is quietly weaving and a fly disturbs her; a spider eats the fly; a mouse eats the spider; a cat chases the mouse and so on...

Musical rhythms inspired by work activities. Between 1974 and 1976, Leon Hirszman held three documentaries produced by the MEC about the songs of the rural workers in northeastern Brazil. In the trilogy, there is the documentation of the work songs of sugar cane, in Feira de Santana, the growers of cocoa, in Itabuna, and team workers in Chã Preta.

A cowboy uses songs to tame and gather his animals.

The popular song Chuá Chuá, illustrated with scenes of rural life. Girl observes in window. A fountain drains water. A flower. The cattle grazing. River waters. Man seen from window of wattle and daub house. Girl hangs cage with bird. Man walks towards the gate. Ducks in river drink water. The popular song A Casinha Pequenina, illustrated with scenes from rural life. Hut surrounded by banana trees and a coconut tree. Children walk hand in hand, sit on the riverbank. Birds in cages. Again the little house and the vegetation that surrounds it, especially the coconut tree.

A visual interpretation of Brazilian popular songs "Azulão" and "Pinhal".

A film crew follows two leopard cubs as they make the fascinating journey from infancy into adulthood in this up-close-and-personal nature documentary.

This film is unique educational video course which basis on a long-term experience of practical work and teaching activity of the leading masters of Russian animation: Feodor Hitruk, Jury Norshteyn, Edward Nazarov, Andrey Khrzhanovsky.

Les Outre-mer, des terroirs en or

A young journalist is looking to learn and talk with the Lebanese legend, Fairuz.

After having suffered two strokes, and ending up ill and half-blind, Ricardo is now seeking euthanasia. However, before he dies, he wants to reconcile with his two sons because throughout the years he allowed their relationship to fade. Adrian decides to help him achieve it, capturing in the meantime the journey of different people towards a commonplace, and speaking emotionally yet humorously, and lightly yet profoundly about mistakes and forgiveness, the passing of the times, choices and their impact, as well as the unseen ties that bind together a family

"Saxophonist, artist and Whitehot Magazine publisher Noah Becker visited music legend Ornette Coleman at his music studio in New York City. The following film is the result of that interaction."

A family with five children flees the war raging in their home village on the Russian border. They end up in Mshanets, a farming village on the other side of the country, remote and unknown. Here the family starts building a new home. At the same time, two documentary makers come to the village, looking for a story. In the Lymar family they find the ideal characters for their film. But one day, when the renovation of their house is almost finished, the family disappears. The filmmakers go in search of their characters and along the way they try to find an answer to the question: what does a person need to feel at home?

A visually stunning film on acclaimed author David Adams Richards and his connection to one of Canada’s most overlooked yet breathtaking regions.

What does it mean to lose a colour? Losing Blue is a cinematic poem about losing the otherworldly blues of ancient mountain lakes, now fading due to climate change. With stunning cinematography, this short doc immerses the viewer in the magnificence of these rare lakes, pulling us in to stand on their rocky shores, witness their power and understand what their loss would mean—both for ourselves and for the Earth.

Ice has always moved. When glaciation took hold some 34 million years ago, interconnected rivers of ice combined to produce the Earth's vast ice sheets. As temperatures slowly warmed glaciers developed a unique balancing act; advancing and retreating to calibrate their annual winter accumulation against summer melt. Sometimes calving colossal icebergs into the sea. A positive feedback loop that has regulated the movement of ice for millions of years.

At 68 years old and due to the depression and anguish that partly come with being an old man in exile in Sweden, Igor and his memories will decide where to go next.

Continuing the series started with Intervened Events (2014), the Buenos Aires Film Museum presents the second feature film made entirely with material from its archives and by fourteen outstanding Argentine filmmakers. These are nine issues of Cine Escuela Argentino, a project created in 1948 by the Argentine Ministry of Education during the first government of Juan Domingo Perón. The latter promoted “the use of the cinematographer as a didactic assistant destined to complete the educational and cultural work, mainly in what concerns exalting the feelings of the nationality, with the heroic example of the heroes, Christian morality and the multiple civil duties, great and small”. Hence, most of the films produced by Cine Escuela Argentino were aimed at scientific dissemination and tourism promotion of the various regions of the country. (Museum of Cinema)