1. Das mit dem Älterwerden (Das mit dem Älterwerden)
Facebook is for “old people” and baggy pants are almost vintage. We are the generation that now has to learn to fit in the shoes of grown-ups. We are the generation "not-as-young-as-we-thought-we-were" - Y. This documentary tells our journey through the different generations and which milestones our lives hold from the viewpoint of a modern "social and connected" society. We met people of the generations before and after us, to find out what matters to them, what unites them and also divides them. We talked about communication, family, work and aging. We learned about ways of life, dreams and goals. This isn’t just a movie about generations. This is a movie about finding one’s place. This is a movie about growing up, growing old and everything in between. This is a movie about life.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
2. China Dolls
Aussie boys of Asian descent candidly discuss their status as a "minority within a minority".
It has an average vote of 3.5 on TMDB.
3. Video Album 5: The Thursday People
The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with him—are the themes that run through this existential diary of daily life. McDowell was dying from AIDS-related illnesses during the production of the diary. “An elegy for McDowell, the videowork captures Kuchar’s mournful remembrances of his long-lasting friendship with the young filmmaker. But it also has the inquisitive charm, perverse humor, and quirky candor that places Kuchar’s visual expressions in a gritty niche all their own.”
4. La deuxième femme (La deuxième femme)
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a piece by Marc’O, concerts by Bob Marley and Patti Smith ... It’s like a maelstrom of psychedelic images that are passed through a particle accelerator.
5. DER KERN, DER DICH ZUSAMMENHÄLT (DER KERN, DER DICH ZUSAMMENHÄLT)
(DER KERN, DER DICH ZUSAMMENHÄLT)
6. Maria
Maria Lang is my very close filmmaker friend who lives in the southern german countryside. We see her gardening and visiting an exhibition of female impressionist painters.
7. Clear years (Les années claires)
I wasn’t told. I wasn’t told it would be so difficult to live together. To keep a family together. To maintain love and happiness. I wasn’t told, and if someone had told me I wouldn’t have listened. I chose to live with my camera in my hand, filming the trajectory of feelings, from the golden age to the lost paradise, from being born to being reborn.
8. And in shallow waters, then i learned not to swim but to lie (And in shallow waters, then i learned not to swim but to lie)
Footage from summer of 2018 that explores the passing of time regarding the little things in life.
9. It’s so fucking empty (It's so fucking empty)
A Different point from the eyss of Yuval Shamshins's life, in the modern days of the Covid-19. The movie is built upon the small moments of life, full of Metaphors and Images in order to built a cinemathic perspective.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
10. You Just Need a Walk.
Five subjects from Gen-Z take the PHQ-9 - a survey to assess the degree of one's depression severity. They -also- have a lot to say.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
11. Birth of a Nation
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
12. In the Land of Giants and Pygmies
IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, preserves a long-gone-Colonial-era wonder at natural resources, "primitive" tribes, customs and costumes in Europe's cast African possessions, and implies that the "dark continent" could benefit from the "civilizing" influences of home.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
13. Fale Comigo Verão: O diário de um cineasta amador (Fale Comigo Verão: O diário de um cineasta amador)
For years, together with his partners from the production company O Quadro, he has been betting on cinema as a tool to explore the typical issues of youth. In this film, Evandro Scorsin turns the cameras on himself as he deals with the dilemmas of the passing of time and the imposition of adulthood. In an exercise in autofiction where cinema and life merge, the film is also a cinematic love letter to the beloved masters . Coming and going between two countries and times, it records the vertigo of displacement and the reinventions inherent to an immigrant experience.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
14. Synonymous With
A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.
15. Corrupt Colour
Corrupt Colour follows childhood friends and self-proclaimed internet pop-stars, Emily and Gia as they set up their first live concert but their delusions of grandeur are compromised when the live show of their dreams becomes a nightmare. The show must go on and with the help of their closest friends, irreverent leads Emily and Gia are forced to reckon with their true place in the public eye. With poignant lyrics, loud personalities, and unique creative decisions, Emily and Gia take us on a hilarious and melancholy journey through identity in the digital age that leaves us all asking "who am I trying to be?"
16. beer cans under my bed
This short, started early on into sobriety, finished about nine months in, is a collage of diaries and notes, collected from within addiction and into recovery.
17. Heart of a Tiger (Cœur de tigre)
Somewhere between a diary and a filmed letter made while Caroline Champetier was shooting Benoît Jacquot's film L'Intouchable in India.
18. Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
19. Gen Z Unravelled
Born between 1997-2012, Generation Z are known as the generation that grew up online. But how did this constant consumption of media impact their fashion sense and expression? GenZ Unravelled asks and answers questions about Generation Z, gaining insight from a stylist within the age bracket, Marisa Suen, and an academic consultant, Kirsten Lee. It is a look into the human/teenage psyche.
20. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.