Songwriter/artist Allee Willis began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. She pursued creative expression at all costs while struggling with not fitting established gender and sexual norms until she found a path to love.
This film narrates the profound changes brought about by global warming in the Mediterranean, the sea described as "Wine Dark Sea" by Homer, and its surroundings. Due to global warming, the air, the sea, and the way of life in the Mediterranean are rapidly changing. Simultaneously, individuals from all walks of society and numerous organizations are working to minimize the adverse effects of global warming in the region. However, will all these efforts prove sufficient? Wine Dark Sea leaves the audience pondering this question: will we live in the shadow of the once-beautiful dream of the Mediterranean, unable to find solutions to environmental issues? Or will we create a new story together?
A mockumentary film in which Bedouin girls are taught to swim in a waterless “pool”, Swimming Lesson aims to stimulate thought about the lack of swimming pools accessible to Bedouins in Israel, actually denying them swimming lessons and causing frequent cases of drowning in the sea. There are over 200,000 Arab-Bedouins living in the Negev region of Israel today, with access to one single swimming pool that was inaugurated in the Bedouin town of Rahat in 2017. Bedouins are not allowed to enter swimming pools in Jewish localities. The work deals with the lack of swimming pools due to discrimination, but in a future world, in a few years or a little more, there may be a shortage of water due to global warming, drought and evaporation as well.
The late Fred Dewey’s essay "What Is Power?" rendered on film becomes something like a Greek chorus of very different voices, rising to affirm what we find hardest to believe at this moment: that power does not in fact reside among the powerful but is always there for we, the people, to reclaim. This film adds a new dimension to a text which asks many questions: What is the real nature of power? Where does it actually reside? How do we respond to, and understand, powerlessness? Why is protest utterly inadequate? What happens when people read philosophy out loud to each other? Inspired by Godard, people read the essay "What Is Power?" out loud to the film viewer as if across the table at one of Fred Dewey's table readings of Hannah Arendt's works.
Rethinking the Anthropocene was developed over a period of six years and originally was described as Cinema for the Anthropocene. Each section (1. You Decide, 2. While We Sleep, 3. The Unraveling of Time and 4. This Old World) was created with different materials, locations, editorial strategies and sound design experiments and all have been screened individually both in the USA and internationally. Rethinking the Anthropocene (2023) is the final rendition which was completed in April 2023. Shot in the USA, French Polynesia, Canada, Bangladesh, and Malaysia.
A performative poetry film about what nobody will want to have seen. Childish paper dolls and tableaus, collage aestheticsm juxtaposed with symbols of war, politics, and religion. Ideologies and opinions tried on as one would try on clothes. A poem hinting at the Leningrad siege. The colors of the suffragettes, Aileen Wuornos’ glorification, and glorious landscapes combined with Nazi uniforms. Nothing is innocent.
Yu Liangsheng (Bao Beier) is forced by his mother to go to western Sichuan to look for his younger sister Yu Xiao (He Lanjiao), who is on her way to teach, but learns that she has been kidnapped by human traffickers, and he embarks on a perilous journey to rescue her. On the way, he accidentally encounters Gu Xiaoman (Li Meng), who is also a drifter, not realizing that the two are about to be involved in a bigger conspiracy. Each party has its own agenda, and a series of hilarious farces are staged. What awaits them at the end of their journey?
After an embarrassing encounter with his crush, socially awkward Boy Scout Brody finds his life uprooted when an old west cowboy mysteriously appears in the wilderness. Although an unlikely pairing, Brody and the cowboy find themselves learning things about each other, as well as themselves.
Introverted lawyer Mel Dale is devastated to learn of her adventurous younger sister's sudden death. But when she travels to collect her sister's body, she soon becomes suspicious of foul play. She could be next.
Shaun, a 16-year-old surfer has it all living in Southern California but when his dad announces they’re moving to the mountains of Montana, he is crushed. That is, until he meets a dog who can snowboard. With the help of his new canine friend, Shaun is set to make a run for the annual snowboarding championship; however, rough terrain awaits.
Follow the extraordinary life story of 7-time Mr. Olympia, Phil Heath, as he rises through the ranks, battles the scrutiny of the media and takes on body building’s scariest foes in an attempt to reclaim the throne of Mr. Olympia and cement his legacy as one of the greatest bodybuilders to ever walk the earth.
Steph, a sixteen year old altar server, dutifully puts away the collection money after mass. But when a fellow altar server tries to pocket some of the money, Steph attempts to stop her. What starts as an innocent attempt to prevent thievery looks an awful lot like something else to the priest who interrupts them...Suddenly Steph is followed by symbols of the Virgin Mary, a warning around her sexual desires. Steph must navigate the intimidation of her fellow altar server, a crush on her movie theater coworker, and her own feelings around the comfort of her queer identity.
Stella, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. She dreams of a career as a jazz singer, despite all the repressive measures she is forced to go into hiding with her parents in 1944, her life turns into a culpable tragedy.
After terrorists hijack a passenger plane, an off-duty soldier aboard devises a strategy to defeat the hijackers and ensure the passengers' survival when the engine fails.
When French painter Pierre Bonnard met Marthe de Méligny, he didn’t know this self-proclaimed aristocrat would become the cornerstone of his life and work. From this moment, she became more than just a muse for the “painter of happiness”, appearing in more than a third of his work. Together, they reached their artistic fulfillment thanks to a colourful love, different from the standards of their time, nurturing the great mystery around their relationship. Based on a true story.
Beauty from the heavens comes crashing to Earth in this collection of salacious sci-fi cinema from your favorite B-movie producers. When a student of intergalactic anthropology is assigned to study our planet, she takes a keen interest in the cosmic cuties and heroic hotties battling beyond the stars and invading our fertile, green orb.
Masa hires rental actress and aspiring dancer, Kanako, to pose as his fiancée to impress his estranged, terminally-ill father. But as his father's death delays, Masa is forced to confront the spiraling web of lies and to learn to follow his heart.
