Teresa is a black woman who suffers a racist insult from her boss, affected by the comment, she is unable to go to work. While Teresa remembers her past, a cockroach emerges from the bottom of her closet. From that moment on, Teresa will rethink her decisions and the things she left behind.
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door on it. But the sight of the dying insect provokes a mystical crisis.
Scenes of the childhood of a girl, living in a small Brazilian town.
In this videoart, the creator uses mixed media animation as they read a Clarice Lispector short story. Drawing a comparison with her own life experiences, she questions what it means to be a lesbian. Excluded from every aspect of the patriarchal life, she creates her own identity through her loved ones, relying on the precursors of the lesbofeminist movement.
In one of his letters, the writer Fernando Sabino tries to describe the complexity of his friend Clarice Lispector. During the process, Fernando rambles in his imagination, blurring the line between reality and fantasy in his creative process.
Putin had been preparing his country for the big war long before it started. A group of independent Russian journalists and activists face severe punishment and end up facing personal and political dilemmas in Askold Kurov’s couragous and critical film.
A quirky hybrid film that employs understated humour and spontaneous encounters to explore the healing power of conversation and its ability to break down both internal and external boundaries.
A gentle, personal story about a filmmaker who has lost his older brother and decides to explore the culture of grief with a group of experts in psychology.
A young man struggles to break free from the demons of his past that still haunt him years after the sexual abuse he survived as a child.
Sigurdur Thordarson, known as Siggi, becomes a hacker at 12, exposing Icelandic bank corruption at 14. Branded the "teenage whistleblower," he joins WikiLeaks in 2010, mentored by Julian Assange. Siggi leaks globally, but clashes with Assange, prompting him to spy for the FBI at 18. This tale weaves paranoia, hacking, and friendship, portraying Siggi's turbulent journey from trust to betrayal, revealing a heart-wrenching coming-of-age narrative.
It's a paradox that the world's population is getting fatter and fatter when many dream of being thin. Why can't weight be controlled?
A young woman on the run encounters a man who seems willing to help.
A Danish family travels to Brazil to say goodbye to their mother, who passed away six years ago. But things don't quite go according to plan. Can the father and the two adult sisters reach each other and talk about loss, life and death?
The “one block town” of Fishtail, Montana, showcases the resilience of a small community in both moments of happiness and hardship. With only one general store, 60 people, and a lot of quirks, Fishtail has a little bit of everything.
The Lost Notebook is an ode to cinema and a celebration of escapism. A filmmaker stumbles upon a notebook belonging to a Hungarian man who meticulously documented his 2158 visits to the cinema. Who was this man, and what drove him to chronicle his cinematic experiences? As the filmmaker delves deeper into the mystery, she reaches out to the deceased man's family, setting the stage for an unfolding family drama. With each revelation, long-buried secrets resurface, exposing a gaping chasm between the filmmaker and the family. While one embraces documentaries that delve into the rawness of reality, the other finds solace in action-packed films that provide an escape from it. Can these two disparate worlds ever converge?
Large format film photographer James Florio explores the radical landscape of Tippet Rise, a 15,000 acre tract in the Montana wilderness. Home to large scale sculptural installations, Florio originally began to photograph the art pieces but gradually became more and more transfixed with the land itself. Like a cartographer in a silent dream, Florio moves through a stunning landscape, shaped by primeval oceans and eons of time, struggling against the elements to create images of deep expressive power.
A documentary film set against the culturally historical backdrop of one of America's oldest Black boarding schools. The film provides a window into the ever-evolving, complex layers of the school and its students.
Step inside the minds of 16 international masters of photography. They share stories behind their most iconic images and techniques whilst learning their impressions of our world as seen through their lenses.
Welcome to Gospel Legends! Spend some time with the true Legends of Gospel as they perform their history-making hits from the last 60 years of Gospel Music. Sit back and enjoy.
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