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Baobabs between Land and Sea
By their sheer size and original shapes, baobabs are among the most remarkable trees on the planet. Relatively unknown in Madagascar, these giants are currently threatened by deforestation. To study them, in the heart of their forests, Cyrille Cornu and Wilfried Ramahafaly travel by pirogue, exploring 400 km of wild and isolated coastline in the south-west of Madagascar.
Emergency Rehabilitation - Nepal Earthquake
Since the first earthquake struck on 25th April Handicap International teams in Nepal have been providing frontline emergency rehabilitation to injured people. The physiotherapists are supporting injured people in hospitals in Kathmandu, Bidur, Trisuli and Chautara. Sunil Pokhrel is one of the Handicap International physiotherapists at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital. In this short film Sunil talks about his work and we meet 18-year-old Ramesh who was having lunch when the earthquake struck and was was buried under rubble.
Dyab
12-year-old Dyab is a Kurdish Yazidi boy living at Arbat refuge camp, after the horrendous attacks by the Islamic States on their villages at Shingal Mountains (Sinjar). However, Dyab’s dream is, to become a filmmaker and actor and tell the stories and sufferings of his people to the outside world.
Danny Wylde
Inspired by an essay by former porn star “Danny Wylde”, this film explores the darker, less talked about side of the porn industry and the consequences of working in it.
Journey to the Homeland
A poignant 30-minute documentary about a group of descendants of the Armenian Genocide as they travel through their ancestral homeland in Western Armenia (present-day Eastern Turkey) and discover all that was lost 100 years ago.
Do You?
A man's journey in New York city looking for a spontaneous and truthful answer from his community.
Jenny Fandel: From Behind the Desk
For as long as she could remember, Jenny Fandel has always wanted to impact the world through music. As most people experience, the childhood dream faded as life moved past her in the blink of an eye. Now 42 years old and taking attendance in a Midwestern high school, Jenny feels stuck behind the desk. After a talented art student takes her own life, Jenny Fandel is struck with grief and sadness, not understanding how she could have missed the signs. Now, she is faced with one unexpected night in the office as two former students deliver a message of hope that ultimately brings her childhood dream of becoming a singer back to life!
Tokyo Timelapse
"Tokyo Landscape" made by more than twelve thousand photographs of the original file (raw) composed of more than 30 check points 330gb composed photographs, and more than 42 timelapse clip. It is presented in UHD (2160p, 4K) format .
"A Story of the Remainders"
Chou Hsin-Kuei, who was the third daughter of Chou’s family lived in No.185, Chong-Shih village, returned to Taiwan to visit relatives with her daughter Christina Chou. We have never seen each other for nine years since them immigrated to Netherland. A story of the remainders has begun.
The film narrated the process of a possible family collapse. Documented the life through experience of Chou’s Family who lived in No.185, Chong-Shih village from 2008 to 2013. As the destruction of the Military Dependent Villages, the connection and the relationship of the family seemed to disappear like ashes that gone with the winds.
A Brief Understanding of A Clockwork Orange
A brief look into the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film, A Clockwork Orange. Selected into the Blaquefyre Independent Film Festival in the fall of 2015.
Feast Coast
In the summer of 2015, 11 people were attacked by sharks along the North Carolina and South Carolina coasts. All attacks occurred within a 3 week period. This documentary focuses on how the media over-hyped the situation and an experts' view about it.
Made Good in the Woods: Runnin' with Mike and Tyler
This is a film documenting a full moonshine run with Moonshiners Mike and Tyler's Georgia Hi-Proof. They give some good information and general moonshine tips during their run and also provide the audience with some comic relief.
Catboat
"Catboat" examines the only floating cat sanctuary in the world-- the Catboat of Amsterdam, as well as the lives of its volunteers, the cats, and the boat's relation to the community.
Armenian-American
Ron Chopoorian, a first generation Armenian-American living in Rhode Island, explores what being Armenian means to him on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
Overwhelmingly Ok: the Music and Art of Joey Hines
Musician and artist Joey Hines discusses how he uses his art to understand the weirdness of life.
PUPS
PUPS is the story about the well known Spanish boxer Javier García Roche and his struggles to help three young men to become better persons in life through boxing. It is not a story about epic wins or victories but the story of people who have to overcome some serious difficulties in their lives because of the families they were born into, the poverty and the marginalization.
Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes On the World
Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes On the World is a short documentary that follows students at a New York City summer program for children seeking asylum from the world’s most volatile conflicts. The film presents an intimate, emotionally gripping account of the students’ stories of escaping war and conflict and resettling in America, chronicling their triumphs and setbacks as their lives unfold over the course of one formative summer. Refugee Kids humanizes complex geopolitics and depict the challenges and urgency of immigration to America in an increasingly dangerous – and interconnected – world.
Seeking Asylum
This documentary is about race, inequality, and escaping American tyranny in the wake of the American Government's inability to protect all its citizens. This documentary is about hope.
In April 2015, Darnell Lamont Walker grabbed his camera, a couple of friends, and a notebook and headed for Norway to begin his pursuit for a new space in which he could live without fear of being killed. That quest took Darnell to Oslo, London, Amsterdam, and Paris, unexpectedly running into revolutions, struggles, and the empathy of others.
Seeking Asylum is about leaving America because every other possibility for reform has been exhausted.
Queen of the Road
“Queen of the Road,” a film by Laura P. Valtorta, is a glimpse into the life of an independent female truck driver – Milica Virag.
From Milica, age 58, we learn about the difficulties and triumphs of a driver – how she got started, her problems with brokers, scheduling hassles, loads that fall through, break-downs, unscheduled stops at the mercy of Walmart, and personal relationships. Many times, Milica has thought about quitting the profession, but the freedom of the job and the beauty of travel keep her going. Nothing stops Milica!
We are looking for production funds to include additional drivers and make this into a 45-minute television special.
REUSE! Because You Can't Recycle The Planet.
This film isn't about our waste problem. It's about solutions. And they are everywhere!
We live in a challenging time. Climate change and mass consumption is threatening our planet's existence. Excessive extraction of natural resources has created immeasurable waste and pollution. This issue is complicated and imminent. While recognition and awareness is important, direct action is by far the most effective. But traditional recycling is not enough. The reuse mission offers a more sustainable solution that everyone can be a part of. REUSE! Because You Can't Recycle The Planet follows Reuse Pro Alex Eaves' cross-country adventure to the 48 contiguous U.S. states. On his journey, he finds endless reuse solutions for our waste problem that are not only sustainable, but many of which are easy and fun! And he learns just how reuse truly benefits "people, planet, and wallet."
The End
Epitaph on old cinema through the memories of Alberto Bruno
Northern Acres
A documentary exploring the times of 82 year old farmer John Honan on his property between Hallett and Jamestown, South Australia.
KIM
Kim is a very special and colourful man. A man who live his life through his big interest for knitting and especially his sexuality. He was born 3 month earlier, and has been handicapped his whole life. Today, an electric wheelchair is his best knitting friend and several times a year, he decorates the whole chair, by knitting on to it. We follow him for a year, and tries to find out if it's all fun and knitting, or does he hide something behind the colourful facade. Watch his own inspiring story. A story of a man you've never met before!
The Vision Within
'The Vision Within' tells the story of a group of college students who travel deep into the heart of the Amazon rainforest to meet an ancient ‘dream culture’ living today in much the same way that they have lived for thousands of years. As they return home from their journey they must find ways to integrate their profound experiences into meaningful, engaged lives in service of their own inner visions and the future of our planet. The film is an exploration of the critical role that our inner visions can play in our lives, in education, and in awakening a socially just, environmentally sustainable future.
Faith, Hope and Gloves
The Hoppers, a family of five from Mackay, Australia are motorbike enthusiasts with a heart for children living in poverty. After sponsoring Juan David from when he was a young boy, the family travel all the way to the Dominican Republic to meet their now grown Compassion sponsored child.
This film will be part of Compassion Australia's Father's Day campaign and then used ongoing.
#UnitedWeWin.
Four university students travel 2,300 miles from London to the frontlines of Iraq to see what the international community is doing in the fight against ISIS. They come across several of challenges while attempting to identify possible solutions to combat religious extremism and terrorism.
The Guardians
53-year-old Konstantin, ex-private Robbe and the young mother Ana are fighting with anxieties triggered by their past. The documentary "THE GUARDIANS" accompanies them during their training toward being a Bodyguard. A portrait on the quest for security.
Sixteen
Sixteen is my mother’s coming of age story. In a family with a history of Alzheimer's, it is an exploration in memory and what time can change. The sound and image form a marriage between the past and the present in three layers: the story of a difficult childhood, the photos of a beautiful adulthood and the fragile cracking audio of a voice recounting these fading memories. These juxtapositions work simultaneously to tell the story of a coming of age that happened over the course of many years, but many years too late.
Our Environment
This Documentary show the evolution of earth. How plant of grows and how the population grows and also the effect of our pollution & the solution of all there problem.
Tasmina: The Horse Girl
Tasmina, an eleven years old girl of a remote village in Northern Bangladesh is known as ‘Horse Girl’ in her neighborhood. Where more than sixty percent of the girls are married off before their 15th birthday, Tasmina aspires to ride horse and join horse races at least for another five years. In this rural society outdoor games are not allowed for the ‘grown up’ women and horse race is unthinkable.
State Of Mind
An experimental process film about the individuality and expression of underground dancers in New York City.
Crazy Wheels
“What do you want from life?” “Everything” “What can you do?” “Anything” This is the human being, precisely, this is Mimmo Caldaro. 32 year old guy from Bari, who’d rather be called “Moron Caldaro” “Because life” he says “if taken too seriously, it’s bad for you” He who is living, and co-living, since he was little, with SMA2 (proximal spinal muscolar atrophy of type 2), a disease which brings the degeneration of lower motor neurons, neuronal cells situated in anterior horn of spinal cord), subsequent atrophy and (usually) earl infant death. The result is a thin body, atrophied, paralyzed, but just a shell, because, inside, there is a guy who never stops, who never stay still, and while he reads and writes books, he even dance on the moon and solves other people problems, easly, smiling.
Nimantran
At the heart of every city, are its people. But what about their city do the people love? What are the things that give them true happiness, warmth, and memories, which they carry with them through every moment of their lives? Is it always the grand architecture, the rich history, the vibrant culture? Or is it the little things? That boat ride with a lover, the tingling taste of their favourite sweet, that rush of emotion when they open an old wardrobe? Or is it a bit of both? We thought about it long and hard, and realised, that only one who had the answer was the city herself. So we asked her. In this short film, written by Rohini Joseph and directed by Arjun Chatterjee, we hear from the city herself, and get her take on what makes her residents love her so much
DISCOVERING SURFING
This documentary, reflects the initiation on surf in one of the most known and surprising beaches of Portugal, Praia Do Amado. From a double perspective, we can observe worries, reflections and experiences from the owner of the surf school, Funride and, in the other side from two young actors who want to learn this exciting sport.
Leykin
The documentary film "Leykin" is a story of three days of life of one of the most famous Russia`s clowns Leonid Leykin. While watching, the viewer turns out in a space of a so called "dramatic clownery", in which all the difference in an actor and a role, a viewer and a performer, clowning and a real life comes down.
Welcome to The Last Bookstore
An exploration of LA's quirkiest bookstore, and the man who brought it into existence.
Our Conversation
This is the story of a former boxer, who lost his hearing in his youth in the ring. The hero had never heard the sound of his son's voice. After three years of hassles and tribulations, the man receives a new hearing aid and goes with his grown son for a walk to test out the long-awaited equipment. The man works every day in a noisy factory, but as a person who can not hear, is the right person in the right place.
Disaster Echoes
While human civilization is approaching a whole new era of progress and development, the ghosts of disasters linger in the dark, biding their time. The moment human civilization is no longer under control, these ghosts strike back without reservation. The benefit of civilization and consequences of disasters are, therefore, forever distributed according to the central or peripheral positions in politics and economy that people occupy. This documentary aims to observe the civilization in contemporary Taiwan and attempts to tell an allegory through images.
PÊCHEUR DU TARN
"Fly fishing is an art and art is difficult" Norman Maclean
Pretérito Imperfecto
"The documentary shows how an artist lives to build wheelchairs for dogs and use their technical and conceptual knowledge to design an autobiographical work that transforms the life of an animal and his same".
Home away from Home
This is a project focusing on the dilemma of a group of old people who immigrate to America for helping take care of their grandchildren who born there.
MEMBRANE
"Membrane" is a short documentary musical encounters, with which it aims to reach a reflection on the music itself. For this we have had several generations of musicians: Arizona Baby, La Habitación Roja, Polock, Sidonie, Sóledad Vélez, Tórtel...
LETTERS FROM A MOTHER
A Cuban mother, 83, wrote to his son in Miami, a weekly letter for 15 years.
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