Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a Latinx Playwrights Circle Fellow, and a three-time International Latino Book Award winner who authored Conversations With My Skin, and Homage To The Warrior Women. In this film by New York-based filmmaker Matt Haller, she recounts the grief and pain of losing her father, interwoven with her Puerto Rican heritage.
Rock paintings and photographs in our albums come from one source: death. But when does a memory become an image? How does memory work, and what is more real: a fact or our perception?
The film focuses on women from a family living in southern Russia: two sisters, their mother, and grandmother. Every summer, the younger women visit the elders, returning to their roots and embracing a traditional way of life. This household is deeply matriarchal—men are present but play secondary roles. The film’s space is filled with rituals: fortune-telling, herb gathering, and bathing. Here, the sacred is intertwined with the mundane. The daughters follow the life paths of their mother, who once traced the steps of the older women in the family.
A telephone conversation between the auteur and the man she once loved. She reads him the text of an application to enter a film finacing, and he gives her everyday advice.
A film representing a stroll through St. Petersburg. Captured by a broken frame composition, deserted streets, frozen city infrastructure, stone embankments, pigeons in parks, dandelions breaking through the pavements, aberrations of color and light evoke an increasing sense of unease. Ambient sounds—random conversations, city noises, and a track composed by Mexican sound artist Enrique Arriaga—merge with the visuals, making the film a direct speech of a human/camera/witness about what clearly audible in the actual urban space.
These days, there’s a lot of talk about outsiders in politics, but very few people can claim outsider status like Joe Keithley, punk legend turned a dedicated environmentalist and city councilor. Something Better Change follows Keithley’s absolutely fascinating life and career, showing us both his time as the front man of the formative hardcore punk band D.O.A., as well as his campaigns for city council as a Green Party candidate in his hometown of Burnaby, British Columbia. Featuring interviews with other punk luminaries like Jello Biafra and Ian MacKaye, as well as an appearance from Beto O’Rourke, whether you’re a hardcore punk fan or just a civically engaged citizen, Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine director Scott Crawford’s latest film has a little something for everyone. – Daniel Abelow
Young Nika, a daughter in a Yamal nomadic family, is about to start school for the first time. She’ll soon be taken to a boarding school, separating her from her family and homeland for an extended period. In preparation, a nomadic teacher guides her through the transition.
Few bands are more closely associated with Montreux than Deep Purple and there was simply no other contender when it came to choosing the act to headline the closing night of the 40th Montreux Festival in 2006. The band duly delivered one of their finest live performances, sprinkling songs from their latest album "Rapture Of The Deep" through a set chock full of their classic tracks. There was even a brand new song "Too Much Fun" written especially for the occasion and, of course, a show-stopping performance of "Smoke On The Water".
As World War II raged around the globe, a professor from Eastern Europe and his 17-year-old bride created an oasis just across the Southern California border in Tecate, Mexico. It became known as Rancho La Puerta, a sanctuary for people from all over the world to come and learn about health and wellness. That 17-year-old girl, Deborah Szekely, is now 102 years old and is the living embodiment of everything the Ranch aspires to be and to teach. The Ranch and its sister property, The Golden Door in San Marcos, California, continue today to serve celebrities, royalty, and anyone in search of a healthier life. Szekely is considered the founder of the modern-day spa industry, the Godmother of Fitness, and this film explores her incredible life, along with the obstacles and triumphs of being a woman entrepreneur.
Raisin hornets, chocolate cities, broccoli forests, gingerbread dragons, walking lollipops and other sweets come to life and sparkle in a hundred bright, sugary colours. Forbidden treats and activities chase each other in a playful, chaotic whirl. But why are they forbidden? Maybe the forbidding should be turned into an invitation to explore the world in an active and creative way?
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.
A great city inhabited by great people is celebrating yet another great year. Cries of joy mix with the distant rumble of fireworks and wailing of police sirens. Someone’s eyes look staringly at the passers-by. Someone’s voice addresses them quietly. But it is not heard. ‘Have you seen this one person?’
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”.
Ksenia Burdinova: “Leningrad is an experimental project that began in 1998. Back then, we used ‘Mikrat’ film to make a story about found photographs. Until 2024, the material was stored as a film copy with an optical soundtrack. After 25 years, the film was finally edited and reimagined, with young sound director Dasha Solodova re-dubbing the image. She preserved the essence of the old soundtrack while creating a new one with present-day sounds.”
At dusk, drag queen Sasha is attacked on her way to work by a burglar and when facing him, she discovers that all the decisions she makes always take her to the limit of life and death.
In a very ordinary building, in a very ordinary apartment there lives a supermom who can do anything and fears nothing – except thunder and lightning. But a little superhero comes to rescue, and all the fear disappears. A tribute to mothers who can do anything. And how lovely that your supermom will have her own song now!
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