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The Gnawa inhabit ordinary and non-ordinary worlds, their music and song creating spaces passageways between the two. This experimental non-fiction video gives a glimpse of such a passage through a brief encounter with Mustafa, a musician who lives in Rabat, Morocco.
In the seventeenth century a favorite form of entertainment among French Jesuits was a religious instructional tool taking an appearance of a board game. The game is played on a two-dimensional field arranged as a monocursal labyrinth...
Follow the abstract journey of Sharon Goodman as she gets kidnapped by a mysterious entity nicknamed “the cave”.
'Pictures of Us' examines the importance of the people in our lives, and their role in shaping who we are and what we do. When a rule-following photographer's skills are put to the test on a bet to prove himself, an unexpected collaboration with a stranger gives him a glimpse of how real art, and the best parts of us, come from connection and authenticity.
What next after secondary school? Before they finish school, Sven, Florina and Mara need to figure out what’s right for them. It’s not that easy. In the 2021 SRF DOK documentary “Mein Leben und der Notenschnitt”, they were grappling with their school grades in Year 6. Today, they are no longer children and face new questions: What do I want? What am I capable of? What do my parents think? An emotional rollercoaster ride in search of their own path.
As usual, four women meet on the same bus on their commute to work. During this daily ten-minute journey they share experiences to let off steam from their suffocating routines, becoming a microcosm of society. Though each woman bears a distinct burden, their collective journey serves to diminish the struggle, ultimately showing us that the meaning is found along the way, and not at the last stop of our odysseys.
Band Suplexx and their singer are within Bioskop Zvezda, hijinx and insanity ensue.A two part mini film promoting tracks Necrosis and Fuck Life.
An eighties rock veteran and a twenty-something queer performer collide in 'Fama y Guita', an intergenerational electro-punk duo setting the Buenos Aires night ablaze amidst karaoke tracks, leather fetishism, and a 'Yoga and Drugs' philosophy.
Through the detours of a correspondence project, we accompany young indigenous and non-indigenous people in a patient crisscrossing, at their level, between childhood and adolescence, until real bonds are created between them.
A man tries to come to terms with a crime he committed
Stealing her from the present and her love—petrichor—triggers the shower of nostalgia, overwhelming the rhythm of her dance. Rain, a contemporary dancer, is dedicated to competing in her school’s contest; she preserves her memories by writing them on stones ritually—yet they only come alive when she rereads them. As her past and present blur, will she remember who she truly danced with?
Annelie, an anthropologist dedicated to mortuary rites, investigates her grandfather's suicide during the dictatorship. In a mansion that was once a production facility and later a torture center, she joins forces with a journalist and a mathematician to search for a fragment of film that her grandfather hid, which documents a crime.
When her humanized version of Anxiety invites her crush over behind her back, an introverted college student decides to trap her true emotions inside, causing chaos inside and outside her mind.
