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The revolutions that swept Latin America in the second half of the 20th century owe much to the participation of millions of Christians who engaged in political struggles in the name of their faith, paying a heavy toll for undermining the traditional relationship between the Church and power. Driven by Liberation theology, they challenged military regimes and oligarchies, risking their lives. Far from Marx's idea of religion as 'opium of the people', here the people fought for the advent of the Kingdom of God on Earth, rather than in Heaven.
The Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana, is a massive, flooded former open-pit copper mine, once the heart of "The Richest Hill on Earth," now a Superfund site filled with highly acidic, heavy-metal-laden water that is managed as an environmental challenge. It's a mile wide, nearly 1,800 feet deep, and serves as a site for "toxic tourism" with a viewing stand where visitors can observe the toxic lake and its ongoing water treatment
Four childhood friends go on a life-changing drive to the moon in a stolen car.
Five years after a viral apocalypse leaves the world ruled by worshipped horrors, three brothers hiding in a secluded Louisiana cabin are forced to confront the outside world when a stranger arrives at their door.
This film traces Arizona’s desert as it is reshaped into a hub for data centres and semiconductor manufacturing. Moving through altered waterways, the film exposes tensions between technoutopian visions and drought-stricken ecologies. Guided by offscreen voices and Tohono O’odham poet Ofelia Zepeda’s ‘Cloud Song’, ancestral knowledge counters the rise of industrial ‘cloud’ infrastructures.
A daughter drives her father to his regular Parkinson's support group meeting, where she is made to confront a hard reality
A try-hard academic and an aloof jock are assigned to work together in college, and bump heads due to assumptions about one another, until one of them realizes that their assumptions about one another aren’t as true as they first thought.
The subtle but persistent feeling of constantly being out of place.
Hovering between the real and the imagined, a filmmaker traces their fragmented sense of place. Moving through maps, projections, digital simulations, they explore how ways of seeing shape how we belong. A search for position that is never fixed, but always felt in relation. A journey and meditation on placelessness, image-making, perspective and the quiet politics of how we relate to our surroundings.
In the Guaraní community of Yacuy, the arete-guasu brings together harvest, gratitude, and collective memory. Through music, dance, and shared rituals, the celebration renews the bond with the land, the river, and the ancestors.
For 40 years, Ulrich Tilgner travelled throughout the Middle East as a reporter for German television. He revisits this region, devastated with the active support of Western powers.
The award-winning Swiss architect Barbara Buser saves buildings from demolition and rebuilds them with reused materials. She transforms former industrial sites into urban living spaces that symbolize a careful approach to our environment and to each other. As a woman who is successfully forging her own path in a male-dominated field, Barbara Buser is a role model for the younger generation, who are fighting for a more sustainable, fairer world.
Ben has a cat his landlord won't let him keep. Unfortunately, his landlord is at his house and he doesn't have a car. Ben and his feline friend must trek across rural Appalachia in search of her new home.
