Moscow Holidays. Home Video

In this featurette, ART + COM members join the cast and crew of the show to discuss its factual basis and the development of the court case.

Short documentary written, directed and edited by Aleksandar Ilić. It won the Special Jury Prize at the Krakow Film Festival.

On November 4th, 2008, three states - California, Florida and Arizona - voted to amend their constitutions, denying and revoking the rights of same-sex couples to marry. On May 26, 2009, with Canadian allies, gay American families rally at a Vancouver demonstration to protest these amendments that persecute the LGBTQ community. Demonstration organizer Roger Chin relays the California Supreme Court's infamous decision on Prop 8. Subsequent speakers talk about couples living in exile. Weaving elements of public protest and intimate interviews, four families share their stories of how they met, their decision to escape to freedom in Canada, their Canadian experience and their dreams of returning to their home country, family and friends. In the end, the organizer celebrates the freedoms to marry that exists in Canada.

Captures the violence and tenderness, alongside the dominance and submission, that is found in a single, intimate embrace.

A five-year-old boy is completely uninterested in food, which results in conflicts with his mother. The effort she invests in feeding him is equal to the boy’s effort not to eat the offered food. The longer the lunch, the clumsier is their balance on the verge of fight. The duel between the boy’s resourcefulness and the spoon, the tears and mother’s love, ends with the victory of the more persistent. The last bites are either left on the plate, or leave with the boy to bed in his mouth.

This short documentary focuses on traditional wood-working skills in the Cree community of Chipewyan Lake, Alberta. This second part of the film focuses on the construction of a canoe.

In the heart of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, there's a grocery store unlike any other. A down-to-earth, high-energy, family-run institution where the deals are as legendary as the lineups, Gateway Meat Market isn't just a place to shop: it's a community lifeline. At a time when grocery prices are soaring, Gateway dares to do things differently. This documentary takes viewers inside the fast-paced world of Gateway Meat Market, a small business that's showing that, with the right approach, keeping food affordable isn't just possible - it's a mission worth fighting for.

What does it mean to belong to a place, a country? In a south Tel Aviv elementary school, that question is addressed head-on by a fourth-grade class and their teacher. The children are asylum seekers whose families mostly do not have a legal status in Israel, yet learn, sing and play in Hebrew all the while examining their identity and sense of belonging.

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Candomblé in Togo

The sea is the epitome of freedom for the Palestinians. But due to the restrictions on their freedom of movement, a majority of Palestinians have for decades been denied access to the coast. In a simple but original and meaningful way, Martin Johannsen lets his protagonists recount their memories and ideas of the sea with their eyes closed, as if they had fallen into a trance-like dream. The sea becomes a mirror for reflection, where they talk about their relationship to water through living imagery. Some have never forgotten their only encounter with the sea, while others can only fantasise about what it looks like in reality.

The film follows famous Icelandic bodybuilder and internet personality Gummi Emil as he navigates his daily life. Between extreme stunts like running a marathon barefoot two weeks in a row and quiet and personal moments at home. Gummi opens up beyond his public image.

A window into the work of cat rescue volunteers in Baltimore, Maryland.

From the slow waitings for opening of the big top to the loneliness in the dressing room backstage, Abuhadba follows the life of a small circus in Chile run entirely by a traditional circus family.

« A mother is in a psychiatric ward. Today, she is discharged for a few hours and is met by her son. Through fleeting moments – as if suspended in time – the bond between mother and son resurfaces, even as her illness stands in the way. »

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels through Italy in 1967, this short captures scenes from the country’s cities and countryside. The footage was later included in his 2003 compilation film Travel Songs (1967–1981).

A short documentary about a group of open-water swimmers on Long Island who gather every summer morning in Hampton Bays. Born out of the post-pandemic era, their daily swims provide a sense of calm and a newfound community, proving that it’s never too late to find friendship, purpose, and joy in life’s simple pleasures.

"If all these cameras start talking to you.." A short documentary on a vintage camera museum, established by an archivist and photographer Mr. Aditya Arya

Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.

The Working Cat’s Guide to the Klondike by Veronica Verkley, is a short documentary film recalling the traditional practice of Cat Sledding, which was unique to the area of Dawson City, Yukon, in Canada’s far north. The film combines archival photographs and super 8 footage along with contemporary interviews, set to the rollicking sounds of local musicians Barnacle Bob, Willie Gordon, and Harmonica George. Old timers, First Nation storytellers, historians, colourful local characters, and modern mushers offer up a rare glimpse of a unique, nearly forgotten method of transportation and way of life. The greatest story never told about the wild and wonderful history of the Klondike: a land full of storytellers, magical landscapes and strange things done.