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Who was Helene Weigel? Using impressive archive material, the film follows the convinced communist, acting icon, and free spirit from her early days in theater to her escape from the Nazi regime to the founding and management of the Berliner Ensemble. The result is a powerful portrait that finally puts the “woman at Brecht's side” in the spotlight.
Bunkers—whether they are piles of rubble from a war that is gradually fading into oblivion, or spruced-up local history museums—the monuments to Germany’s wartime past still stand. A cautious and evocative exploration on the edge of Europe. J.S.
How can we live sustainably, and are there any initiatives already in place? Eco-activist and filmmaker Mickel Rentsch sets out on a journey by bicycle and travel trailer. He meets inspiring people who are testing out a different way of life. A charming road movie about openness, exchange, and the ideas we need for the future.
Long before the term “diversity” was on everyone's mind, the DIN A 13 tanzcompany in Cologne, under the artistic direction of Gerda König, was developing mixed-abled performances with dancers with and without disabilities. To this day, their pieces remain political, provocative, and constantly searching for new forms of expression in contemporary dance.
Mumford & Sons invite the camera onto the train for one of the most purely pleasurable concert docs in years. Featuring Noah Kahan, Darius Rucker, Lainey Wilson, Maggie Rogers, and several other special guests along for the ride, the journey captures the intimacy and camaraderie between all the performers both onstage and off.
A nimble-fingered pickpocket has one more day to pay back his ex, whose trust he has betrayed. With no accomplice, he turns to his cousin Pinpin, left in his care by his aunt until the next day.
A college student’s life is turned upside down when he wakes up to discover he has swapped places with an alternate version of himself from another universe
A Conductor of Ann Arbor's Underground Railroad Tour and a sole survivor of the greatest generation that ever lived, Scott F. McFadden's graphic description of history tells it like it was, and still is. A voice, so clear and with such passion, it speaks for an era without bitterness or self-pity among the dying and already dead. take a tour with us as we share Our Backyard Hist'ry.
Emiliano is preparing to confess his love to Bárbara through a letter, but an unexpected accident forces him to express what he feels in a more courageous way.
When the low-key Alkis follows his much more outgoing best friend Sofia to a university dance party, it seems like this might be the night their relationship will develop into something more than friendship. Until, at least, Alkis' unexpected encounter with the enigmatic, provocative Sini puts an end to these expectations and leads the two friends to a rift. But what seems like a bitter ending is only the first step towards a hedonistic, psychedelic and violent evening...
Seeking escape from the walls that keep her trapped, Aliki turns to the hidden and dangerous world of music. A story taken from the half-forgotten remains of a film that was never released.
Alabama Steel Magnolias chase and challenge the line where life begins in this tour de force through the heart of IVF healthcare. When Alabama's Supreme Court declares embryos are legally children, reproductive justice journalist and IVF patient Abbey Crain begins a quest to honor the sanctity and personhood of Southern women through art. Reckoning with shame, grief, and marvel, she introduces a community stage for unheard stories of everyday Alabamians.
In Gabon, within the Congo Basin, a young aspiring filmmaker forced into his father’s logging empire uncovers a plan to destroy a sacred forest—and a buried colonial-era family secret.
Nwanne M Nwaanyi is a visual journey tracing the intangible roots two sisters share, tethered by something far stronger than blood and deeper than soil. They meet again at the first place they ever called home, the womb, to cry out the songs of their mother’s mother, a tune known only to an Igbo woman.
Heartbreaks & Ocean Waves is an experimental short film that follows a young woman in the aftermath of emotional loss as she journeys toward rediscovery. Through the symbolic interplay of hair plaiting, dance, and spiritual reflection, the film explores the tension and harmony between the head, heart, and spirit. With a distinctive three-frame visual style and sound design inspired by ocean tides, the film invites viewers into an intimate, sensory meditation on healing, womanhood, and becoming.
Thirtysomething Dom is undergoing therapy. As the Christmas holidays come to an end, he is granted, for the first time in years, the right to spend a day alone with his daughters. A precious day… that he dreads seeing come to an end.
In a Kinshasa house, a visit unfolds between two couples where everything seems in place, yet something is slightly off. At the center, Pamela navigates the expectations of love and the roles imposed on her. Fragments of a recent event begin to surface, unsettling the present.
