From Doc Edge Superhero (2023), director Annie Goldson's film centres on life and work at a secret pet shelter, allowing victims of family violence to seek safety while knowing their animals are being cared for.
Pensive signs of life, the demolition of a historic hotel, and the hum of a nearby steel mill permeate this quietly crushing essay film on class relations, and institutional violence. Where the impersonal is pervasive, the personal is a discursive study of image and sound; dissolving narratives of progress/collapse; and the (in)compatibilities between images of refusal and their respective representations. This is the story of a protracted shipwreck that is both labyrinthine and foreclosing.
The Drachenfels, a 321-meter mountain along the Rhine, is one of Europe’s most climbed peaks and a significant symbol of technological progress and nature conservation in Germany. It became a focal point of Rhine Romanticism in the 19th century, inspiring art and legends, particularly the tale of a dragon. The nearby city of Königswinter thrives on tourism, which began with English visitors in the early 19th century and was boosted by the introduction of Germany's first cogwheel railway. The fairy-tale-like Drachenburg castle, built in 1884 and recently renovated, is a major attraction. Filmmakers Clemens Gersch and Michael Wieseler document their ascent of the Drachenfels, meeting a 90-year-old photographer and a local tour guide, while also exploring the unique "Guerilla wine" produced in the area.
In a coastal climate, surrounded by pine trees, a creature strives to return to its origins. A private house in Jūrmala is an Eden set in horror, where shadows and lights create a visual poem reminiscent of a bedtime fairy tale by Hoffmann – under direction by Pakalne, it offers hope while carrying a warning.
A performance artist, Morgan Prescott, sits atop a wooden chair at the end of Toronto's Tommy Thompson Park every month, for 40 minutes, for an entire year. In the soundtrack, you hear the park and Morgan's side of a phone call from that month. It is a long-exposure document of one person shifting through the seasons of their life. What happens when we deny ourselves the familiar comforts of narrative and editing - can our inner selves withstand their true reflections?
As a mysterious developer buys up rural land, a local lawyer hand delivers buyout offers to her clients. Inspired by real-life secretive land acquisitions in Solano County, California, by Flannery Associates, Plots withholds audible dialogue in order to underscore the mystery and confusion that residents faced during a buying spree where they purchased 50,000 acres in order to build a new city.
Alina Sánchez, Lêgerîn, internationalist doctor, anthropologist, active participant in the Kurdistan Women's Liberation Movement, researcher specialized in the relationship between medicine and ancestral knowledge, coordinator of health care systems in the Middle East wars, friend , companion. With respect as the guiding thread of the documentary, María Laura Vásquez reconstructs each of these multiple lives of the doctor from Córdoba who died at the beginning of 2018 in Syria; but she also appropriates her story to vindicate the women who, as the filmmaker points out, “have been called to action in solidarity with their people and with other peoples in the world.”
Yujin, who comes from a traditional family, has an intense trauma related to heavy rain. As an adult, he has returned home to take care of his family, and the shadow has resurfaced. By depicting his inner journey of evasion when facing pain, the story brings out the complex emotions in family relationships, along with that indescribable love.
Britain… the near future. Earth is dying and another home needs to be found. The EXO1 launch countdown has begun. Trapped in an abusive relationship, a woman makes desperate choices to escape and claim her place on the launch.
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