Kensington Market: Heart of the City” tells the story of the many generations of immigrants who have made Kensington home for over 160 years, the personalities in the market today, and the forces that are threatening the market’s survival. Today, Kensington is still a delightfully human and colourful alternative to the skyscraper-draped Toronto metropolis shooting up around it. The times are changing, and quickly. The market has managed to hold onto its unique, eclectic charm for over a century. But will Kensington be able to survive?
In the heart of Mumbai, a middle- aged Maharashtrian housewife, endures her husband's chauvinism and the tedium of her relentless chores. She finds solace in her rich fantasies. Her husband's departure for work allows her to reduce the pace of her work a little, but his return with misogynistic colleagues shatters her peace. After a particularly demeaning remark from her husband, she fantasizes about serving them " Brain pakoras" made from her brain. These flights of fancy are her only escape from the monotonous rhythm of her domestic life. These breaks are unfortunately all too brief as she has to quickly return to her daily grind, akin to the city's lifeline, the local train, enduring and unnoticed.
This short documentary goes behind the scenes at Lifeline, an organisation dedicated to saving lives in Australia, profiling the people who work and volunteer for the service.
Is this the final chapter of democracy as we know it? Join the legendary Colin Quinn as he tackles the chaos of the 2024 election, a showdown between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. From red states to blue, Colin dissects America's love-hate relationship with politics, the rise of memes over manifestos, and why we might just be on the brink of becoming our own punchline.
A documentary looking back at the life and career of Dursley McLinden (Mike Smith in the 1988 Doctor Who serial Remembrance of the Daleks), who sadly died of AIDS in 1995 aged just 30.
A documentary film by Martin Dušek on the topic of taste as it manifests itself in our settlements, dwellings and how we are changing the cultural landscape of the Czech Republic. The documentary is structured as a travelogue through the Czech Republic with stops and documentary situations, supplemented by testimonies of local people, well-known personalities of design, architecture, experts on social geography and history. Each place will have its own theme that defines the situation of Czech taste (the role of tradition, money, the state of crafts, the role of chains with their unified products).
A long-suffering janitor, mistreated by his merciless and sadistic boss for years, finally seeks dark and twisted revenge and breaks into his house, resulting in a destructive act of vengeance.
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑠! A parody trailer for a trash 50s science fiction movie. Filmed in Super 8 for the 19th International Film Festival Super 8 in Curitiba, Brazil.
“If a house is like our body, where is its heart located?” asks the narrator of the film, who is also one of the residents of the house in question. As we observe her and her partner going about their daily activities, the violent history of the place is revealed in hints as it comes back to life years later.
A documentary film about an old man handing out free 200 books a day through his initiative "Reading Club 2000", determined to bring back the joy of reading in a world lost to screens.
Based on an age-old saying in India, DABBO is a story that shows how the saying is still relevant and helps the building's garbage collector's daughter.
Four elderly LGBTQ+ individuals come together in a bright pink space. In this space, which is as much a living room as it is an archive, they share their life stories with each other. The short film is a hopeful, imaginative documentary about reclaiming spaces where the identity of older LGBTQ+ individuals is not accepted.
A subtle glimpse in the every day life of kids in Borodyanka, Ukraine, one year after the Russian invasion. We follow 3 young boys, and get to know the intimate perspective of each. They are all very different but with a joint background of fear and pain. The public will get to see the strength of the Ukrainian spirit through the eyes of these kids. It will also reveal the real impact war had on children and most importantly the emotional consequences and damage it caused.
Oscar Renou, a 76-year-old citizen of Buenos Aires, updates his memories of his childhood home, and Natalia Kerbabian, the architect and activist behind the project “Ilustro para no ovidar”, draws it. Through this memory exercise, the documentary rescues the identity that is lost with the demolition of emblematic architecture of the City of Buenos Aires.
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