At the improvised stops of a migrant camp, I film the paltry shelters of nationals from Mexico, Central America, Pakistan and China. Making campfires with a few scattered desert shrubs, caught between worry and despair, they are waiting to be picked up. Through the glimmering haze I can make out their blank gazes staring into the void, their faces burdened with fatigue, sweat and dust. The calming effect produced by the volunteers who distributed water, food and blankets a short time ago is fading fast. By dawn tomorrow, the camp will be gone, the desert deserted, the crossing already in the past. In the light of dusk it is still possible to glimpse places strewn with disparate objects and abandoned clothing, leftovers from barely touched meals and a campfire still burning. A chiaroscuro of shadows and embers. I think of such little consideration and the ruined American dream. On the icy sand I find a cushion bearing an inscription: “DREAM.”
Father Alexander, a priest from Demidov in the Smolensk region, has a surprising secular passion: he never misses a ballet premiere at the Bolshoi or the Mariinsky. Although the Church doesn’t forbid such interests, his dual life raises the question of how an Orthodox spiritual life intersects with contemporary art.
The film follows the daily lives of residents of a community, made up of two favelas and a housing complex in São Paulo, which is about to undergo an urbanization process. However, possible urbanization generates resistance from residents of the most valued area of the neighborhood, in a movement known as “Not in my backyard”.
This immersive documentary uses underwater drones to investigate the impact of invasive quagga mussels on the Great Lakes ecosystem, illustrating significant ecological changes. The filmmakers spent over 150 days capturing underwater footage, resulting in a comprehensive exploration of freshwater wildlife and environments. Blending scientific inquiry with natural history, the film offers a unique perspective on this pressing ecological issue.
As Diondre Howell re-adjusts to civilian life and struggles to cope with the scars of the Iraq war, he increasingly becomes a threat to those he cares about the most – his family.
The mother and daughter face the question of whether to keep the pregnancy or terminate it. Both are under pressure from relatives, friends, and doctors. Both are going through a difficult decision-making process. Each episode of the artistic part shows the life circumstances and the path that a woman in a crisis situation goes through. In documentary inserts, representatives of various professions (psychologists, lawyers, gynecologists, clergymen) tell how they face the problem of abortion in their lives.
National Theatre Live Across the city, two young women confront an uncertain future. In Limehouse, Lizzie Hexam struggles to break free of the river and its dark secrets. On the other side of town, Bella Wilfer mourns a lost marriage. The appearance of the mysterious John Rokesmith has the potential to change their lives for ever. Will they sink or swim? This romantic and propulsive thriller is a hymn to the city and the river that runs through it. Directed by Ian Rickson (Translations) and adapted by Ben Power (The Lehman Trilogy), with original songs throughout, the genius of Dickens meets the fierce musical imagination of acclaimed singer-songwriter, PJ Harvey.
Claire travels to a Victorian Era ballroom through a magic mirror that she found in an antique shop. There she meets Edward. Edward connects the past with the present.
Leo Berkeley is a wheelchair-bound resident of an inner city suburb in Australia. Filled with ideas about existence but limited to the observations of his neighbors, Leo comes to know the depths of his awareness, while others are unbothered by their personal impact.
After a mysterious figure announces the arrival of Bad Times, a group of elderly people comes together to fight it with superstitions and popular wisdom. At the same time, Acácio, a lonely old man, deals with his memories and a personal vengeance.
Rena,Moni and Joni hitchhike on an illegal truck to travel into town far from their village with plans to buy monthly goods and to convince Rena's daughter to come home
As a serial killer with a peculiar oral disease continues to murder teenagers in a quaint town, a determined detective attempts to piece together the killer's identity and motivations. The grizzly teeth gimmick murders overshadow the normally safe opulent area, as a vulnerable young man, must revisit his unknown past and put an end to the gruesome death - dealings.—Rhys Thompson
When four young-adults from the Lakeside Orphanage get assigned as the "Nightmare Kids", it becomes their duty to battle phobias inside people's minds and save the city from nightmares, all while holding onto their own dreams.
Radicle City is a cinematic essay which imagines a future in which Bangalore’s gardens no longer exist. Narrated as a poetic address by a voice who has grown up in a city without trees, the film’s hybrid documentary and fictional narrative recovers and reinterprets footage of an unknown walker’s journey along a park that marks an old line of colonial segregation in the city. This is an old border with new lines: today the city is India’s “silicon valley,” an IT hub at the heart of a network of global capitalism, an incubator for the apparatuses of Modi’s digital technocracy and one of India’s most unequal and divided cities. Moving restlessly back and forth between past and possible future, the film is at once an investigation into the city’s complex colonial entanglements and their afterlives, and an elegy to the city’s gardens, fragile spaces of resistance in a metropolis which threatens their destruction.
In Fairy Creek, director Jen Muranetz documents the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history, creating a searing portrait of contemporary environmental activism, bearing witness to the lengths activists are willing to take to protect British Columbia’s last old growth forests.
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