"You always cling to what you see, when you should seek to see the invisible. You stay on the surface of things. You should travel, dive back to the Stone Age. Can't you see anything ?"
With stars of the screen, it is often only the Edgar Morin-like myth that remains; but viewed close up, an actress’s lifetime has more to do with destiny, and in Marina Vlady’s case, that destiny is unclassifiable, with over eighty classic films and more that were never released. It is across France, Italy, and chiefly Russia that this documentary, chock-full of rare archive material, takes us as it traces the journey of a free woman, making this not simply a documentary but a political film.
It’s a short documentary, supported by Ithra and the Cultural Fund, about Saudi diver Ahmed Al-Jaber, who undertakes one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. The film details Ahmed's daily work at a marine maintenance company, where he dives to great depths to repair and maintain oil pipelines. It also highlights the daily dangers he faces and the intense work pressure.
A hardened young man battling with gang complications finds the strength to shelter his younger brother battling with his true identity. Both are forced to confront their masculinity through the gritty experience of their working class lively hoods.
In the mountains, where the river sings its resistance, Ixquic walks amidst the shadows of an uncertain future. She rejects the stories her mother weaves as threads of life, until the river weeps blood, and the fire of truth awakens.
A young girl discovers she is not welcome at a birthday party. As they learn the value of true friendship, children offer a lesson in empathy and inclusion.
Landscapes are permeable, impermanent. They are hallucinations of literature, manifestations of human manipulation. Like the pixel, they are degraded, rearranged, forgotten. “Eclogues” is an expression of landscape in the purest principles of digital image-making: duration, practicality, limitation. Shot in 2020 in Strafford, Vermont.
Beyond those never-ending fields where there's nothing but blazing sun and quiet nights, only thing reliable is the sky is blue, the grass is green and eyes are red.
This documentary follows vegan animal rights activists who have led the Korean animal rights movement for the past decade. Beyond advocating for pets, they fight for the rights of farmed and captive animals, striving for a world where all beings coexist. From rescuing pigs and dolphins to challenging the system, they have built a movement.
NAZAR is a psychological horror set within a confined space, where a man wakes up restrained and is confronted by a woman who refuses silence. As their interaction unfolds, shifting power dynamics expose entitlement, perception, and suppressed tension, creating an unsettling exploration of control, gaze, and the emotional weight of confrontation.
Anxious about an air raid siren in the middle of the night, a young woman drags her boyfriend to a shelter by force - while he would rather die just to get some sleep.
After staging a shocking act of protest in Tel Aviv, Sasha ignites the "269Life" movement, which quickly becomes a symbol of radical activism. At the height of the struggle, he meets Maria, a fellow immigrant and outsider who carries the same sense of displacement within Israeli society. Their shared alienation fuels both a fierce global movement and an intimate love story. But as their actions spread across continents and inspire thousands, they find themselves unable to escape the heavy costs of living on the front lines of revolution.