As Lou prepares for her first art showing at a prestigious gallery, she notices a man staring at her most recent painting. As the man turns around, Lou realizes the man is her father, whom she hasn’t spoken to in ten years since he left his wife and daughter. Confused by his sudden and unwelcome appearance, she pushes herself to let the night progress unbothered. As they pace through the gallery, they stop at various art pieces Lou has created throughout the year: Paintings that represent her journey in recognizing the struggles and emotional emptiness she experienced growing up without a father.
“Woven into the film are attempts to understand the docklands as a meeting place between different ecologies, enclosures and epochs, as a point of entanglement of the city and world. The film looks at ways to describe and embody these enmeshed histories from the legacy of police persecution of seaman boarding houses and Indian dockworkers known as lascars to the traces of early Chinatown in Limehouse and the experiences of London by Ayahs and Amahs, predominantly Chinese or Indian nannies brought back from the colonies and abandoned in the city after the voyage.” (George Clark)
Alexander is a failed photographer who decided that he had found the bluebird when he started photographing suicides jumping off a bridge. The infamous bridge became a suicide pilgrimage some time ago.
In Nigerian Pidgin, okada refers to the informal motorcycle taxi service in Lagos. Karimah Ashadu paints the explosive portrait of a gang of bikers revving up for business, despite the official ban. This wild, performative ride draws connections between the representation of masculinity and the vulnerability of this precarious working class.
This film portrays the life of Osvaldo, the screenwriter behind the most delirious presidential speech in Argentine history. Fiction is combined with real historical events that occurred in the Argentine Republic during 1996.
A three part meditation on the vastness of the Great Basin landscape of Northern Nevada, Utah, and California. Cloudburst juxtaposes the digital manipulations of slow motion and time lapse against the timeless seduction of the horizon.
In an office, two coworkers are eating together. Until one piece of food is left, both are reluctant to take the last piece and offer it to each other until a conflict arises between them.
Three deaf professionals—a photographer, a pizza chef, and a teacher—explore the beauty of American Sign Language and how it empowers, connects, and inspires the deaf community.
Seven-year-old Masha wants to spend every second of a long-awaited date with her mother. Accidentally overhearing that grandma is planning to deprive her mother of parental rights, Masha decides to hide and stay with her mother in prison.
