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A short film about the forever stagnant versions of ourselves that exist in the hearts and minds of the people we've left behind as we grow and move on with our lives.
In Stanislaw Lem's book of the same title, a paper-destroying blight obliterated much of Earth's written history—except for what's in the book. In this film, we look at a similar but unmarked future, perhaps one less distant than Lem's 3140s. Amid the rubble of an uncertain setting, the narrated soundtrack reads from the last surviving parts of some bound pages, perhaps a reporter's notebook, a dream diary, or a book manuscript.
During the hottest days in England's history, lonely teenager Ray falls in love with a beautiful young woman. As they spend the summer together, they come to learn how love can be stronger than anything.
Young Said and Yasmina swore eternal love to each other on a symbolic mountain for them. However, fate separated them for many years.
The history of the "multi-generational house" community and its founder. DOM WISŁA is more of a squat, an enclave of normality, values and local folklore, a lonely and wild island on the map of a hostile district of a large city. And Kuba, who runs it, is the same. This house is his whole world, his only family. He built it on secrecy and now it's all falling apart.
On a still morning by a lake, a fading poet reflects on a world that celebrates stories yet forgets the ones who write them. As memory and disillusionment begin to blur, he finds himself at a fragile crossroads to continue writing despite being unheard, or to slowly disappear into the silence he fears. This is a film about loneliness, creation, and the quiet cost of being a storyteller.
Among old books and forgotten papers emerge the "guts" of Mrs. Tagle: clippings, letters, notes and diary fragments that survive as remnants of a life.
A timid man has a horrible night at a tattoo shop after a cryptic premonition
A great-nephew of Lumumba exposes corruption in the Congo. US drone pilot reveals that innocent people are systematically being killed in attacks. Marc Bauder profiles people who expose widespread injustices—accompanied by Panama Papers authors Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, as well as whistleblower advocate Delphine Halgand-Mishra. S.B.
Over coffee at La Biela, an Argentine filmmaker evokes her relationship with cinema: the now-vanished theaters that marked her youth, the adaptation of an Adolfo Bioy Casares short story, and the epistolary relationship she maintained with François Truffaut.
Jamie falls through traumatic memories that inform her present.
When an incomplete artwork opens up a gateway into an alternate reality, an artist is forced to confront her own artistic process and life choices.
Vera goes through a series of dreams in which she struggles to reach Cancun, a destination that everyone seems to reach easily, but which for her becomes unattainable.
Nowhere else does the experimental kitchen of digital democracy simmer as intensely as in the geopolitically threatened island republic of Taiwan. The "recipes" for these menus were created by activist students from the open-source community. Visionary Digital Minister Audrey Tang is spreading the concept internationally. At the heart of the film, however, are the creative cooks of the LGBTQI+ community and the emerging environmental movement.
A poetic documentary showing what sustainable space travel could look like.
