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USA PROJECT
4 friends, 1 car, 10,000 kilometers. A real road movie.
The Sailor's Anchor
In the heart of Salvador, we follow the party preparations in honor of the Sailor, a religious entity, patron of the last drag bar of the city.
Last Folio
the documentary follows the Slovak Canadian photographer Yuri Dojc on his journey through Slovakia, his home prior to the Soviet invasion of Czchoslovakia in 1968; a country with a tragic history for the Jewish population, including his own family. In the process of capturing the stories and faces, he and his producer, film maker Katya Krausova, stumble upon an abandoned Jewish school in the far corner of Slovakia, where Central Europe meets Poland and Ukraine- where time has stood still since all three thousand inhabitants of the small town were deported to Auschwitz. The books on the shelves are disintegrating, the notebooks are full of stories of what the children hoped would be their life, the dust envelopes all. Dojc meets survivors, uncovers his story and photographs each book as a portrait of the person who never returned to open it again. In an unexpected coda to the film, Dojc finds his grandfather's prayer book and finally takes his experience to Rwanda- teaching the local photographers how to capture the fragments of cultural memory
ANNOYING
Grant, his girlfriend Lucie and his band-mate Chad live a vagabond life. They have 'itchy feet', sleep under bridges, hop on freight trains and deal with their issues and addictions. Through their songs we get to know Grant, who is a talented song-writer with past of trauma and a struggling drug addict, but above all - a proud Native American.
Poverty Inc.
The Great Recession of 2008 proved that Wall Street and Washington’s promises of rising wages, upward mobility and job security were little more than empty rhetoric that paved the way to broken dreams, soup kitchens and homelessness for millions of American citizens. Six years later, the ranks of economically disenfranchised Americans continue to swell. Currently, the US ranks fourth highest in wealth inequality among 140 nations. Fifty million Americans live below the poverty line and 17 million live on less than $2 a day. These staggering figures bring into sharp focus the fact that the War on Poverty, declared 50 years ago by President Lyndon Johnson, has been a dismal failure.
Great White Lies
Focusing on the Western Australian Government’s decision in January of 2014 to hunt and kill the white shark, a protected species in Australia, filmmaker Skyler Thomas visits Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand to learn more about the shark culling practices in each of those locations.
Interviewing scientists, politicians, surfers, and activists, Great White Lies thoroughly examines the history of shark culling and ultimately asks the question, “Is this really about human safety or is something else taking place here?”
A lifetime poem
This documentary, full of metaphor, was filmed in one of the most mysterious place in the world------Sichuan Serthar Buddhist Institute of China. Because the government's restriction, this place was not accessible to foreigners. Sonam Darge, a Lama poet born exactly the day after Tsangyang Gyatso, lives here and as a romantic soul, he is fond of composing poems, even fantasizing being reincarnation of Tsangyang Gyatso.Due to the government's suppress.He learned that if something can't speak out,then write poems.With sorrow over death of his cousin and great concern over Tibetan culture, he went to cities to learn Han culture, calligraphy and visual design. However, he was not able to feel sense of belonging to Han society due to press’s rejection to publish his anthology and cold reception from Han. As a result, he resort to illegal publication, and give up communicating with Han,in this way,he found his inner peace.Soon after then, his beloved oldest little sister had the same disease with his cousin had, and Sonam Darge, during her treatment, prayed for her. The miracle happened that his sister fully recovered from the power of modern medicine and his spiritual strength, and he himself regained inspiration for poems from separation and death of beloved ones. The relationship between Chinese and Tibetan were never easy.He writes poems because China has no freedom of speech.His poetry has witnessed the change of the Tibetan area in China.
I Know where the money is Mum
Spurred by the economic crisis, with no job, with no projects in sight and unable to afford the due payments on my mortgage, I leave my house in the city and go back to the village where I was born, to my octogenarian parents’ home. My mother does not understand what is happening and is looking for answers that I must find, even if I need to tramp half of the world.
Grado Mission
Missione Grado is a 2015 Italian documentary film directed by Carlo Christian Spano. The film chronicles some military activities carried out by the Italian contingent in Herat and Bala Morghab, Afghanistan. The title of the movie is taken from a secret code assigned to a group of journalist, a name pronounced by a sergeant of the "San Marco" Battalion whose gaze is the protagonist of the first chapter. As seen through the sergeant eyes, we can absorb the very true feelings that will lead him on his return to be an enlightened person and overall all of his reality.
Breaking 7
In 2011, Alison Chow participated in 38th BMW Berlin Marathon. She finished the marathon in 2 hours 49 minutes and 57 seconds, 7 minutes slower than the Olympics entry requirement, thus the name of this documentary, Breaking 7.
TROYANAS
More than two thousand and four hundred years after Euripides' death, in the spring of  the European economic crisis, a heterogeneous amateur theatre company from Spain, is playing the dress rehearsal of The Trojan Women. They do not pretend to feel emotions on the stage; on the contrary, they transfer their own emotions to the character that they are playing. It is not the character who cries or laughs, but the actor under the mask. The Trojan Women is a film about freedom and about rights: our right of following our dreams and the freedom of been whoever we want to be.
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