Sankofa Chicago: The Untold

Sankofa Chicago is the first in a three-part docuseries exploring the meaning of Sankofa—knowing our past to understand the present. Through personal stories and expert interviews, it highlights how this philosophy can empower communities, address injustice, and inspire cultural healing in Chicago and beyond.

Scantraxx: 15 Years of Hardstyle tells the story of the particular electronic dance music genre ‘Hardstyle’, which has grown from an underground Dutch movement to an international phenomenon in no less than 15 years. The film shows how the genre, the leading label ‘Scantraxx’ and it’s artists experienced major topics that concerned the music industry as a whole, such as the impact of digitalization from vinyl to streaming and globalization to over 20 countries. In reliving these memories, DJ’s such as Headhunterz, Duro (known as Showtek), D-Block & S-te-Fan, Brennan Heart, Noisecontrollers, Wildstylez, Frontliner, Digital Punk, E-Force and many others are featured. Their stories are topped by the experiences of Scantraxx’ founder DJ The Prophet, the genres favourite MC’s, and professionals from industry leaders Q-dance and Scantraxx.

From the Historic Anabaptists to the impact of the Independent Fundamental Churches.

As a fixture of the New York music scene for 30 years, Sonic Youth performed in New York City innumerable times, and served as ersatz cultural ambassadors for the city when traveling. As part of the 2019 Rooftop Films programming, Sonic Youth will present a New York-specific collection of film and videos from their private archives. Much of the material to be presented is completely unseen, threaded together with a few items which are out there in the public knowledge but here presented from the best source available to the band.

Apocalypse at the Little Bighorn, Custer's final battle.

Relámpago Negro is a professional wrestler who lived in his own flesh the golden age of wrestling in Guatemala. 40 years later everything has changed, except his passion for the sport. Relámpago Negro tells us how his passion leads him to keep wrestling alive after so long, building a legacy for professional wrestling until this day.

Who owns the public space? Urban Contradictions documents the State's poorly planned interventions in public spaces, segregating social strata, the neglect of the problems resulting from this social exclusion. Condomínio Selva de Pedra, Cruzada São Sebastião, both in the upscale neighborhood of Leblon, Rio de Janeiro. And the traditional neighborhood of Catumbi: Solutions, Organizations and Contradictions. Urban Contradictions is the report of an investigation on citizen identity and the use of urban spaces.

Discussion on football and citizenship.

The camera goes back through the alleys and alleys of the community, leading the viewer to compare, with simultaneous shots of 76 and 96, the little or almost nothing that was accomplished, the neglect of the State, the abandonment over the 20 years. Finishing with a virtual image of the colored facades, as part of the proposed urbanization.

Testimonial film with Eliezer Jucá Soares, president of the Mixed Cooperative of the Garimpeiros of Serra Pelada, COMGASP. Pioneers of the mining of the great tectonic breach in the region of Araguaia, southern Pará, claim their mining rights in a region that has been the center of attention of the country and the world since the beginning of the 70s, when the Guerrilla that challenged the Military Dictatorship .

Cleaning campaign for the Carioca River carried out by residents of Guararapes and the surrounding areas exposes the fragility of urban rivers in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Rescue bridge of the Tupinambá de Uruçumirim village, headquarters of the Tamoia Confederation until 1567, when it was destroyed in a genocidal operation, commanded by Portuguese led by Estácio de Sá, with the support of the Jesuits Manuel da Nóbrega and Anchieta, here founding the city of Rio de January. Testimony and contemporary point of view from Pajé Sapaim Kamayurá.

How do women, who have lived affective relationships that involved some form of violence, live and relate to the world? "Anastácias", portrays the lives of five black women from communities in the Jabaquara region, on the southern outskirts of São Paulo, from the premise of affection.

A film in Super-8 by Sérgio Péo. Documentary scenes from everyday life and performance gestures are mixed in this fast montage of images produced on the streets of Rio. Phrases written on the asphalt (or extracted from signs and newspapers) punctuate the entire film.

Desafio Fulni-ô talks with the main ethnic leaders about the paths and challenges of the people in the 21st century, challenges such as the preservation of the identity of the entire tribe

Queen Victoria's grandson, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II, was born with a permanently paralyzed arm: a disability considered shameful at the time. His mother wrote that she was 'haunted' by the idea of him 'remaining a cripple' and insisted that he hide his paralyzed arm throughout his life. Cruel and crude attempts to 'cure' him poisoned their relationship and helped turn the boy, born to unite the Royal families of Britain and Germany, into the man who tore them apart. Featuring a long-hidden cache of intimate family letters, this documentary reveals this secret story of child cruelty, secret shame and dark, incestuous desires, which begins behind palace doors and ends in the carnage of World War I.—Brian Henry Martin

Alternating Philippines and Saudi Arabia as her home, the filmmaker uses personal home videos and present footage to tell the story of her family.

Bluesman

František Josef I. – Soumrak habsburské monarchie

Stories of Filipino men and women, and other living things passing through similar objects, familiar spaces, non-linear time and dreams alike–all connected from the lens and experience of a stranger, an Alien whose language is disconnected and demands an interaction from the viewer to reconnect these stories to find their own meaning.