Athens Burning

Featuring dozens of performances from the living rooms, backyards, and unconventional venues throughout Athens, GA, the first Athens Rising film takes a deep look at music, dance, food, stand-up comedy, strange theater, visual art, and the origins of AthFest.

A documentary about the singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt

When his estranged daughter Miranda tragically dies, a retired musician sets out to complete the last song she wrote.

In 1845, the first Korean to ascend to priesthood was born. His first name is Andrew Kim Tae Gon. Despite all the persecution and suffering against Catholicism, he wanted to practice equality and philanthropy. Arrested during an expedition, he chooses martyrdom after bitter torture. He was 25 years old. Kim Tae Gon, a young man who took a journey toward hope until the last moment, asks young people in 2021. "Are you a Catholic?"

The plot of the film is based on the large-scale reconstruction of the historical building of the HPP-2 power plant on Bolotnaya Embankment under the direction of architect Renzo Piano and the transformation of the power plant into a cultural institution and a cultural house of the V-A-C foundation, founded by Leonid Mikhelson. For five years, the process of fixing this reincarnation was carried out. The basis of the shooting method was the desire to show big events through the prism of the interaction of art and life of the construction site and the V-A-C foundation, through small details, through the people who are doing it all.

Avevamo nove oscillatori

A documentary journey-essay about memory and home. The film's director Daria Likhaya returns to her childhood home and her trip is followed by veracious stories. A spotted dress, a KAMAZ left in a courtyard, a woman's face in the window—every detail becomes a source of memories. The impressions of strangers are intertwined and mixed, the border between the virtual and the real becomes blurred.

Every day, regulars, students and random visitors seek refuge at the Bibliothèque publique d’information (Public Information Library), in the heart of Paris. Between the bookshelves, we meet aficionados, loners, artists…

The staging forms are constructed from the critique of religion and medicine, as the latter are a lattice of biopowers.

Women telling their erotic fantasies

A glimpse behind the scenes into the complicated process of recovering and completing Orson Welles' final film The Other Side of the Wind.

A story of three young Europeans, who fell victims to a momentary lapse of reason and currently serve their terms in prisons around South America. By following their daily lives and dissecting their deepest motivations, the film reconstructs the breaking point which turns young, optimistic, people into mere beasts of burden.

The film documents the development of hip hop culture since its inception in the 1970s. With interviews from various figures in the community such as Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Fab 5 Freddy, KRS-One, MC Hammer and Busy Bee.

In 1907, Belgian-born American chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland made one of the most transformative discoveries of the 20th century: Bakelite. It was the first wholly synthetic plastic and ushered in an explosion of new man-made materials that marked the beginnings of our modern industrial age.

An entertaining look at Clint Eastwood's storied career as a Western icon and filmmaker, featuring interviews with Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Costner, Frank Darabont, John Lee Hancock and many more.

During the American Civil War the worlds first effective machine gun. The Gatling Gun fired five bullets at a time, and while never gaining traction during the war, went on to be a major mile stone in weaponry.

An internet personality journeys to his hometown on the border between Texas and Mexico to visit family members, only to discover that his family’s immigration story parallels that of people risking everything to immigrate to the U.S. today.

Intense drama based on the 1984 hijacking of bus line 300, in which 41 passengers and a bus driver were attacked and held captive by terrorists in Israel.

De Beveiligers is a documentary which follows several security people making sure the public is safe.

A snapshot of the daily lives of three women entrenched in the continuing conflict that engulfs Palestine.