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H5N1: Conservation in Crisis’ reveals the devastating impact of avian flu —not only on wildlife but on those fighting to protect it. David Steel, manager of the Isle of May, bears witness to the unfolding catastrophe, balancing conservation efforts with the emotional toll of loss. As avian flu tightens its grip, the island’s thriving bird colonies face yet another year with the virus outbreak, spreading rapidly through dense nesting grounds.The virus continues to spread and evolve, leaving one question: what does the future hold for seabirds—and for us?
An old man with a stone face, living in a land of rigid stones, has had enough of his situation and decides to get rid of himself by destroying himself with a piece of stone. His son, who serves in an army, gets the news of his father’s death. He is given a two-day break to go back home, so the stone-faced son gets back home to his fatherland.
After a local woman is murdered and martyrized for being queer, a lesbian couple discusses their own fears.
René, a lonely, insecure, and rebellious teenager, escapes her suffocating parents and the sea of doubts she is drowning in. This sets her on a 2,000-kilometer journey to Ciudad Juárez, where she senses something calling her, and which will also become a revelatory inner journey.
Emma is back in the Caribbean after being summoned by Marty (merman) and Oliver (octopus). Their friend Steve (starfish), along with all starfish are dying from a deadly disease. Emma must find a cure before it's too late.
A perspective and reflection on the work of Gabriel Ferrandini.
WWE Superstars and analysts break down the results from WrestleMania, including highlights and reactions.
The story follows Kurdish forces' 18-month fight against ISIS from 2016-2017, highlighting women's role, international volunteers, key battles like Manbij and Raqqa, and civilian life under Kurdish self-rule.
Embracing four years recorded on a digital camera to reminisce the teenage years
In 'Nirdesh,' a short fiction film exploring Child Psychology, the five-year-old Nirdesh faces a locked TV. Determined to join his friends for Moomin cartoons, he overcomes playful challenges in a delightful journey of childhood discovery and level of understanding.
Human beings have always maintained a complex pulse with nature and technology. Depending on the place that both have occupied throughout history, they have been fundamental in building our societies. Distopias Alcanzadas proposes a journey through five contemporary spaces that raise this difficult relationship. In them, technology is gradually occupying previously unknown and highly transformative terrain.
Gabriela returns to her family home in Chile, left behind after exile. Between her grandparents' tenderness and her mother's emotional distance, she begins to question how love can endure when shaped by fear, absence, and silence.
For seven days, seven unknown people live day and night in the same room, cut off from the world, under the constant gaze of the camera. Among them, the director, affected by the war in her country, ukraine, decided to realize a childhood dream: a reality show.
30-year-old Ola lives in the small Norwegian village of Vidaråsen, where the 150 residents are a fine mix of people with and without disabilities. A community living a slow-paced life in harmony with nature and values such as empathy, respect and interdependence. Ola, who has an intellectual disability, spends his days in the village, working in the workshop, pulling carrots from the ground and chatting for hours with his best friend, Lasse, who lives in the village. The conversations and cordial friendship are a highlight of Ola's daily life, but in the background, there's always the threat of Lasse getting fed up with his work or moving back to Denmark.
They are here, among us, grafted to humans. Everything goes wrong. They have seven days to leave Earth or they will be trapped here forever. Why does one of them keep delaying the moment of departure?
Canto III out of XIII
It’s 1993 and Sita has recently immigrated to California. She is desperate to make an encyclopedia sale as a first step to learning how to sell and starting her own business. Her lack of commissions have cost her family comfort and weigh heavily on her. As pressure mounts, she goes out to her 3 leads for the day and attempts to make a sale. Met with frustration, fear and humiliation, she fights every urge to give up.
The sailor's daughter Senta takes pity on the centuries-old legendary figure of the Flying Dutchman. He was condemned by Satan to sail the world's oceans until a woman frees him from this curse through her loyalty. One day, when Senta's father returns home from a long voyage with a mysterious man, Senta is the only one who recognizes the Flying Dutchman in the sinister foreign captain. At the cost of self-destruction, she decides to redeem him. Director Christine Mielitz and her set designer Stefan Mayer see Daland's and the Dutchman's ships as an image of the entire world, of life itself, in which we all have to find our way around.
