Inspired by the remarkable life journey of software engineer Charles Anderson, the film illuminates the challenges of his life before, during, and after incarceration.
The story of two people going through crises coincides with the reality of the last sanatorium of its kind. For over 100 years, people have come to this place in the hope of being cured. So do Nina and Henri, both in mid-life, burnt out, and from different backgrounds. Their paths cross between the dining room and therapy, at a time when they are struggling to find their inner peace. Then the place is snowed in and everything becomes slow and quiet. The ghosts and stories from the long corridors become their companions. While the two read each other the riot act and try to forget their loneliness, a historian digs through the house archives for documents from the early days of the sanatorium. She researches the sanatorium as a focal point of the modern history of exhaustion and traces a narrative from neurasthenia to the inner restlessness of the present for her dissertation. The house becomes a setting for an archaeology of exhaustion.
With heart & ‘sole’ and unflinching determination, global fashion icon/social activist Kenneth Cole has put ’cause’ before ‘commerce’ for 40 years. Kenneth’s commitment to HIV AIDS, homelessness, LGBTQIA+ rights, social justice and mental health, has shattered stigmas, ignited social awareness, given voice to the voiceless, built coalitions and inspired action for good.
Fernanda Montenegro opens the doors of her home and recalls remarkable stories, from more modest productions to the Oscar ceremony, in the company of her daughter, actress Fernanda Torres.
Ali decides to move to a small town in the mountains with her little daughter Sofía after her devastating separation from her husband. Weeks later, she will be immersed in the mysterious atmosphere of the place and then have an accident and realize that her daughter has disappeared. As a consequence, she will undertake a tireless search to find her daughter's whereabouts.
Unlike what adventure or disaster movies show, storm chasers are not adventurers who drive trucks at full speed through rain and lightning, but simply doctors in Meteorological Sciences. But that does not mean that its activity should be considered less spectacular or cinematic. These silent workers, essential for understanding the behavior of the climate and its consequences in daily life, always had a model to follow in their careers: Dr. María Luisa Altinger de Schwarzkopf, the first student and graduate in Meteorology at the UBA.
Away for years, what is the unit for alienation? The saxophone at the intersection eleven years ago, the Korean music on the street four years ago, the flight broadcasts after the epidemic, the voices of family members, the days and nights when Taipei and Hong Kong were at a standstill, some moments linger.
Shot in real time during a blistering performance at venerable Chicago music venue the Metro, Lifers depicts a typical night out in the city as an energetic, discursive, and borderline psychedelic cinematic experience. Using a fractured narrative, Lifers blends together elements of a documentary and a concert film.
When a teenage boy begins to have a negative visceral reaction to discussions with users online, he decides to go on a drive in an attempt to calm himself down.
Jonathan has always admired his big brother, David, and wants to be just like him. David is Jonathan’s best friend, maybe even his only one, and the one he constantly looks up to.
In 2035, Kleven, an employee at an electronics recycling center, is commanded by his tyrannical colleague Draco to destroy a robot labeled “dangerous” because she’s developed a conscience.
Henry Hills’ most recent film consists of footage recorded from a moving train during his trips from his home in Vienna to his work as a professor at FAMU in Prague. Over ten years of commutes are condensed in dozens of shots of railway tracks, each set to diferent pieces of music ranging from Eduard Artemyev to Kraftwerk. In line with Hills’ decades-spanning investigations of rhythm in film, the mundane Vienna-Prague line is transformed through rapid montage into a musical reverie of geometries in motion; a joyous, personal rif on that cinematic motif par excellence: the train.
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