A sequence of bucolic black-and-white fragments of the southern Tuscan countryside opens a portrait of a peaceful daily routine, of reconciled old age spent in a sun-drenched idyll. Without a hint of emotion, Jochen, aged seventy, outlines the unsettled life of a retired drug smuggler, the life of a person with two stories – one as an outlaw, the second as the respectable head of a family.
The earth is scorched; trees are dying; species are becoming extinct; rivers are drying up. Human interventions have thrown the ecosystem off balance. The irreversible changes will have a devastating impact. A trip of a young urban couple to the country provides a base for a spontaneous poetic contemplation on dried-up landscape and mankind's environmental grief. Nature has ceased to be a relaxing place.
Although they look almost identical in black balaclavas, they have arrived at extremely right-wing views along very different paths. For six months Michał Edelman documented the activity of the National-Radical Camp brigade from Łódź ranging from propaganda events including an obligatory barbecue through attempts to disrupt the Gay Parade in Radomsko to the culmination on the Independence Day in 2019 when they marched along the streets of Warsaw. Are the nationalists really a group of friends with clear-cut views only?
Take them into the light
Video collage-essay on the theme of doubt and uncertainty. In the video, the artist uses images and sound to develop reflections on his own work and his role as an artist, asking questions about their function and meaning.
What if, in one possible version of the future, the scarce commodity was not only material objects, but also water? The film outlines a situation where water becomes a luxury commodity, and gradually awakens our fear of its possible scarcity in the near future.
Everything that seems and doesn't seem to be there is from reality. Filmed, tilted, sketched, visited in reality. Isn't it awfully beautiful? It's a teleport to a magical world that exists somewhere!
In a hybrid film, both documentary and fiction, five young women describe the feeling of grief when losing a parent at a young age. Anna returns to her father's home, a year after his death. In one weekend, she lives through a storm of emotions as these may come and go in the process of grief.
A succession of slices of life paints a general portrait of the city of Rio de Janeiro and its inhabitants; their pace of life, urban patterns, the weight of concrete, ethnic mix, body worship, religion, work, leisure.
Muladhara is the first, root chakra, which is a symbol of grounding and stability. Muladhara captures the connection between the soul and the body, the bond between humans and nature and the entire universe, the unity of being. The human being is a rainbow, completed by the individual chakras. The image accompanying the electronic composition "Dipped into Poison" by American musician Lorn depicts a person from physical birth to the demise of the body and the departure of the soul to another incarnation.
We are in an alternate reality whose collective philosophical setting is fueled by invisible authorities and civilizational shame of subordination to natural and cosmic forces. Rapid technological developments allow man to domesticate the atmospheric phenomena that have determined his daily routine for millennia.
A young man's obsession with capturing the beauty of his wooden figure gets in the way of his personal life, his passion for his art driving a wedge between himself and his best friend.
The film follows a dialogue between the filmmaker and his Saba (Hebrew for Grandpa) at the last chapter of his life. Saba Beno tells his life story in his own words while trying to find the meaning of it all.
J.C. is arrested for the assassination of Senator Baxter. J.C. insists that he's innocent and requests that cynical lawyer Joseph Able defend him in court. Pandemonium ensues after J.C. claims that he's the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
On Piggy Bank Road, dead bodies are appearing in areas where the scent of Piggy-related things, such as sosigs and beercaans and porky scratchlings, are pungent to the naked nostril hole. Declan Donnelly is dutti rah shuk as the murders seem to be coming closer to the house he shares with his flat mate, Derrick Stone. When Declan begins to take matters into his own hands, he discovers things you know lik dat. But what will he uncover ? What will he discover? Will he be shuk? Watch to find out Dyldoes xoxo
Music is everything. Tom listens to music to get by day to day, but what would happen if he had to suffer through his first world problems without his beloved earbuds?
Think your family is odd? Watch "Man Baby." You'll feel better.
A personal account of trauma processing. Feelings of loss and worthlessness are part of the reality of our everyday lives. Unprocessed emotions that need to be given space and meaning. How does a work become political from personal? What depoliticizes it? What is our relationship to pain and to our own bodies in terms of accepting ourselves?
Munich, 1968: a period of liberation, student revolts, state repression. Amidst the restlessness, chemistry student Robbie meets the Irish cello player Nancy. They feel compelled to pursue a passion in spite of their careers. But does romantic love have a place in such convoluted, contesting times?
You know, it's like having a dog, and it chooses someone else as the owner, not you. And as soon as the "other" rings the Bicycle bell, the dog, happily wagging its tail, rushes to catch up with him. And you follow her. It turns out that for him, too. But you can't say anything: just stand there and breathe in silence to the beat of the waves.