Our Film

The bleached palette and home-movie aesthetics of Super 8 footage provide the image track for this testimonial about an illegal abortion in Mexico City in the 1960s, delivered in voiceover by the filmmaker’s mother. In its account of this intimate and disorienting memory, Lesser Choices summons a time of profound uncertainty—a moment from an era without rights—and offers a warning to the present.

The latest installment of "The Happy Birthday Project" takes REVOLT to the Bay for Mario Woods Remembrance Day, in honor of the 26-year-old shot 21 times by police.

Food is a unifying force across our communities. In this short film, we share the stories of three Latinos - each from a different country but now living in the same American city - who come together to share flavors of their homeland, all of which include one central ingredient.

A jungle travelogue looking for monkeys.

"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray Studios New York, which was the dominant animation studio based in the United States in the years surrounding World War I.

A metacinematic reflection on the nature of representation and the ongoing drug war in Mexico, Nicolás Pereda’s Flora revisits locations and scenes from the mainstream 2010 narco-comedy El Infierno, exploring the paradoxes of depicting narco-trafficking on film—its tendency both to romanticize and to obscure. To screen is both to project and to conceal.

Documentary featuring interviews with several of legendary Spanish director Luis Buñuel’s close friends and collaborators.

Short film about the career opportunities at the highest training institution of the NVA, the Friedrich Engels Military Academy

The close ties and cooperation between the border troops of the GDR and the people of Thuringia are shown

The East German Volksmarine Academy "Karl Liebknecht" introduces itself.

Short film about the naval training in the GDR.

The East German Navy's newest submarine hunter is presented. Also, a historical excursus about older anti-submarine ships and the hunt for enemy submarines is shown.

A short behind the scenes documentary showing the creation of the short claymation film The Genie in a Ravioli Can (Le génie de la boîte de raviolis).

Heroes from the GDR's past are presented. Heroes will also be needed in the future.

Ava

Sigmund Jähn, (East) Germany's first man in space, and the preparations for the space flight are portrayed.

Shortly after the construction of the wall in August 1961, many guests visit the East German army troops who protect the wall.

Sodium Nights

Short film documenting the San Francisco Youth for Service program.

This short cautionary training film examines dangers associated with earthmoving equipment operation, showing many simulated accidents on construction sites.