"My bed is a prison" is an autobiographical documentary about my agoraphobia and mental illness, seen through the lens of a CCTV camera that constantly filmed my bed between October and December 2024.
The film tells the story of Blood Incantation’s time in Berlin during the summer of 2023, recording “Absolute Elsewhere” at the legendary Hansa Studios.
This short doccie accompanies pianist Nina Schumann as she prepares to perform Rachmaninoff’s “Piano Concerto No. 2”. It’s a piece that she’s performed many times before, but this time it’s different.
The Hour After Midnight investigates the contested death of Dr Neil Aggett under apartheid detention, uncovering state surveillance, torture, and decades-long struggles for truth, justice, and accountability in South Africa.
The life of a faucet, sometimes it drips, flows. Sometimes it's empty, and lonely. It has become a cycle. Will someone understand what it really feels?
Mama’ku: During a trip to Indonesia, dancer Cheroney Pelupessy and her taciturn mother find a way together to come to terms with the mother’s repressed past, marked by migration, domestic violence, and intergenerational trauma. The new documentary by Sven Peetoom (Tussen Wal en Schip – Geruisloos Indisch).
Within this labyrinth of US highways, 4 million trucks traverse vast landscapes, carrying 10.5 billion tons of freight annually. A substantial proportion of these drivers are immigrants, including both legal and undocumented individuals. Confined to truck cabins for years, they face limited prospects of deeper integration into American society, often remaining within their ethnic bubbles. When envisioning a trucker burning rubber up and down the US highways, our three protagonists are far from the typical image that might come to mind. Still in the prime of life, an actress, a painter, and an engineer left everything behind to spend their lives behind the wheel of a truck in search of the elusive American dream.
With the arrival of major international movie theater chains in the late 1990s, the era of the old-fashioned movie theaters in Quito came to an end. For more than 80 years, the city was dominated by iconic movie theaters that captivated audiences like no other. The Bolívar, Variedades, Atahualpa, Alhambra, Capitol, and Fénix theaters, among others, were the gods of cinema that, in their heyday, projected illusions, desires, and fantasies onto the big screen for viewers. This documentary is a journey through time, a reconstruction of that cinematic memory through testimonies, vestiges, and memories.
In the Isthmus of Oaxaca, Binnizá: Guardians of the Clouds celebrates Indigenous creativity and storytelling, revealing how these traditions preserve cultural heritage for future generations.
Two rough, inseparable brothers living on the outskirts of Buenos Aires have their fierce, violent bond shattered when one brings a woman to live with them. As a silent, jealous rivalry threatens to destroy their loyalty, they commit an unthinkable act to preserve their brotherhood.