Egg Timer follows Daphne and Reza on a walk through Brooklyn's Prospect Park as they reckon with all of their fears and fantasies about parenting, which come to life around them.
"Mudanza" (Removal) came to be made after the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist was asked for involvement in a project in the Huerta de San Vicente, the home and museum of the García-Lorca family in Granada. The film records the removal of furniture and objects from the building, leaving visitors able to move freely amongst its empty spaces and a silence charged with feeling and resonance and the take from the experience whatever they demand from it - thus making poet Federico García Lorca's emotive and historic absence even more powerful, evident and heartfelt.
Fifty years after 25 April 1974, Luciana Fina revisits the images of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, drawing on the archives of the Cinemateca Portuguesa and RTP. Starting from the films of the era, SEMPRE rethinks the transition from fascism to liberation and the process of building a new country, crafting its emancipation and future. It is a tribute to cinema that has interfered in history and breathes new life into an extraordinary moment in time.
Guerrilla gardening is not for the faint hearted. Or at least, that’s what these two rebels tell us, as we follow them on an eye-opening journey around London - throwing seeds everywhere and anywhere, planting spider plants, and planning their ‘Big Project’. But when they finally track down the Original Guerrilla Gardeners (OGGs), and learn what guerrilla gardening really entails and how it's helping our communities, their beliefs and friendship are put to the test. In this humorous mockumentary, we meet the people who are doing their bit to bring ‘botanarchy’ to our urban spaces.
Monica runs and trains alone every day. She was born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. In her early teens she started running and participating in sport competitions. It become her life purpose. When Monica loses at World Championships, she returns to her hometown and waits for some change in life.
During the summer holidays of 1994, an act of sexual violence took place in the Austrian alps. Nineteen years later, Philip Treschan confronts his mother with his trauma in a documentary essay. The family album is a nostalgic illusion, a gateway to an unspoken reality and a tool for an intimate conversation with the past and for piecing together the fragments of memory into a comprehensible whole.
Manta Okamoto is a strange young man. He is prone to spontaneous tantrums. On the verge of hikikomori, he faces reality through numbers and with a brain full of crisp ideas. He’s also the most creative editor in the magazine where he works, even if he’s always late. One day, one of his seniors at the publishing house offers him a job: he could earn a lot of money just by taking care of a cardboard box for a few days. On the other side of town, a group of gangsters are missing something and will do anything to get it back.
A speculative road film that unfolds through cultural memory of the US war in Vietnam, the work follows three women, recently reprogrammed by an artificial intelligence that has wiped all traces of their previous lives, as they journey through an uncanny desert landscape to a nearby metropolis.
The documentary is a loose continuation of the Czechs Rescue series from 2018. This time it will touch on ethical and practical issues of our relationship to the landscape that is physically closest to us. It will therefore look at its current state, modern conservation, the position of wildlife in our value ranking and visions of sustainable landscapes that relate both to traditional farming methods and the need to respond to contemporary changes.
Set in a quaint Marathwada village of Maharashtra, a man tired of relentless droughts decides to take matters in his own hands by encouraging the villagers to finally put an end to the dreary odyssey of their sufferance.
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of CLERKS, “We Never Smiled in the 90’s” is a short film cut from never-before-seen footage showing - for the first time ever - the making of the black and white cult comedy classic! The music is by Bear McCreary, from his score for The 4:30 Movie. Edited by Kevin Smith. Restoration by Stephen Frezza.
Lena is 43 and dreams of becoming a mother, often glancing at the calendar with this hope in mind. On “that very day” when things could work out, she is unexpectedly forced to travel miles away from the capital with her husband. However, they have rather different ideas about “that very day”, leaving Lena alone on the deserted winter roads of the Russian province.
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