Filmmaker Regan Latimer takes an insightful, immersive, and deeply personal look at Queer representation in television, and the power of the media to shape how we see ourselves. Witty, fast-paced, and laced with pop culture references, Regan journeys across North America and beyond in her quest to understand the forces that influence the stories we see on our screens. Original animation and personal anecdotes are interwoven with wide-ranging conversations with television insiders, LGBTQ+ community advocates, and people who just love to watch TV. As Latimer navigates an ever-evolving media landscape, the filmmaker learns firsthand that representation done well has the power to transform.
Nikos, a low-key man, works as an assistant accountant in an insurance company that is facing financial problems. The main accountant of the company and his superior, Mr. Alexandridis, is a demanding and rude man, who takes advantage of Nikos and his slavery. When one night, Nikos accidentally sees two men threatening Mr. Alexandrides on the street, the balance in Nikos' life changes.
Hong Kong barrister, labour and democratic movement activist and feminist human rights defender Chow Hang Tung was awarded five international prizes in 2023 in recognition of her steadfast spirit and sacrifice in safeguarding democracy and human rights of Hong Kong and China. Since 2021, Chow was repeatedly arrested due to her Hong Kong Alliance leadership as well as June 4th commemorative activities.
The documentary began as an observational documentary of the urban landscape, but soon this changed and was influenced by the people "in" it. For this reason, there follows a group of students who set up a film festival at the premises of the A,U,Th and PAMAK with the aim of open universities and free and accessible film screenings on the premises of the universities. Strangers who became friends because they shared a great love for cinema and the will to make the world a better place, one film at a time!
The film conveys the theme of love through the life story of a blind-deaf couple. Facing all kinds of dilemma, the couple maintain each other between light and darkness.
The Sorbs are a national minority in Saxony, Germany. While there were still living approximately 50,000 Sorbs in the 1990s, today there are only 5,000 left who can speak the language. The core settlement area was destroyed by coal mining and the language is now threatened with extinction. But the community of Crostwitz sticks together, traditions are cherished and community is lived. Despite limited resources, the football club, which forms the centre of one Sorbian village, has bravely held its own in the regional league, Saxony's second-highest division, for years. Footballer Franc (15) takes us into his world.
The Gran Chaco is a dry woodland covering more than one million square kilometers across Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina. It is among the regions experiencing the highest global rates of deforestation for large-scale agriculture. What they are experiencing is the not-so-slow rise of the soybean tide. It is coming in from all sides, squeezing communities onto ever smaller patches of forest - green islands in a sea of monoculture. They are the primary causalities, and often targets, of land speculators, agribusiness conglomerates, and political leaders. People are being fenced in and fumigated like the soybean that surrounds them, many ultimately having to move towards towns and cities.
At the end of 2023, I returned home for my grandmother's funeral . The film documents the funeral in its entirety and is interspersed with images from my grandmother's life.
Compromised by a finger injury, Xiao grapples with intricacies in her sexual life, provoking a profound sense of remorse towards her girlfriend. Driven by an earnest desire to ameliorate their shared experiences, she diligently seeks to redress the situation through meticulous preparations. Despite her assiduous efforts, the intricate of pleasing and appeasing takes an unexpected backfire.
In Paraguay, during the regime of dictator Alfredo Stroessner, almost 400 people disappeared without a trace, and several hundred thousand were sent to prisons where they were tortured. One of these people was Emilio Barreto, an aspiring actor who spent a total of thirteen years in prison despite never being tried for any crime.
Sleep in the same state as before. A wonderful and magical economic experiment where one's head changes and one's head falls. Finally, the appearance of the image is reduced.
After having killed someone, hit-man Thomas runs into the most beautiful woman he's ever met and completely falls in love. What he doesn't know yet, she is the wife of the guy he has just killed.
