1. Centro cultural Santo Domingo (Centro cultural Santo Domingo)
(Centro cultural Santo Domingo)
2. Red & Blue Make Purple
A Local Reno Artist and DJ discusses the many inspirations behind her work and how it impacts herself and others.
3. Arabian Coffee (Coffea arábiga)
'Coffea arábiga' was sponsored as a propaganda documentary to show how to sow coffee around Havana. In fact, Guillén Landrián made a film critical of Castro, exhibited but banned as soon as the coffee plan collapsed.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
4. Tangled Roots
An intimate look into Demers family's experience raising children while dealing with the societal stigmas around disabilities and the consequences of Alberta's forgotten experiment in eugenics.
5. Three Parallel Reflections on the Past (Tres reflexiones paralelas sobre el antes)
Three women from Hatillo, Puerto Rico talk about their past and present lives on the island.
6. Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits (Natpwe (le festin des esprits))
In Natpwe, the feast of the spirits, co-directors Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel have produced an immersive, seemingly timeless document of an annual Burmese trance ritual that dates back to the eleventh century. Shot in Super 8 and 16mm in sooty black and white, the film conveys the astonishing sense of liberation of tens of thousands of bodies and minds — a mass expression of faith, but also a rapturous respite from societal intolerance.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
7. Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus
Investigative journalist Joshua Philipp examines the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, covering events from late December 2019 to early April 2020.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
8. Guilty of Loving: The Ordeal of Gays in Tunisia (Coupables d'aimer : le calvaire des gays en Tunisie)
The director meets Amir and Ramzi in a café in a small Tunisian town. They don't want to be seen there. They have to find a discreet place to talk. Like many other gay couples in Tunisia, Amir and Ramzi are living a nightmare since the Tunisian Revolution. With them, the director will discover the daily life of the Tunisian homosexual couples, even in the discrete parties organized in hotels of the country.
9. Um Vírus em mim (Um Vírus em mim)
(Um Vírus em mim)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
10. Sergei Parajanov, The Exile (Sergei Parajanov, o exoristos)
Sergei Paradjanov, the great Soviet filmmaker of Armenian origin who was born and grew up in Tbilisi, Georgia, studied film in Moscow and worked for many years in Ukraine, talks on camera to Fotos Lamprinos about his life, his films, and events in the USSR under Gorbachev’s Perestroika, a few short months before he died and while the state of his health was already deteriorating. The film includes rare footage of the massacre of Georgian civilians by the Soviet Army in April 1989 and unpublished material from the Ukrainian prison in which Paradjanov served his sentence.
It has an average vote of 4.6 on TMDB.
11. Death Day
During his adventure in Mexico, Sergei Eisenstein made footage of a Mexican "Death Day" celebration for inclusion in his "Que Viva Mexico!" film project. When the 200,000-plus feet of film he eventually exposed in Mexico was first attempted to be made into a feature film, "Thunder Over Mexico", the producers excluded the Death Day material for subsequent compilation as an independent short subject. Silent with music track and explanatory English intertitles.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
12. Log in Belgium (로그 인 벨지움)
“To me films are an imaginary world where emotion comes into play.” YOO Teo traveled to Belgium to make his movie but he ended up being locked down due to COVID-19. This film is about his 15-days of quarantine in Antwerp Hotel fighting for his movie and loneliness. He also depicted his most personal story. This is the debut film of YOO Teo both as the star and the director.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
13. Dissonant (Dissonant)
Manon de Boer films the dancer Cynthia Loemij, who improvises to Eugène Ysaÿe’s 3 Sonates for Violin Solo.
14. Devil in the Room
Have you ever woken in the night unable to move, certain that you are not alone? This is an experimental documentary examining what happens when dreams leak into waking life. It is about what is real, what is not, and if it even matters.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
15. Lapsus (Lapsus)
The relationship between the city and a car, through a dialogue where a common reality and "making a city" are disputed and revealed.
16. Hugo Mills Solves Your World
Big shot presenter Hugo mills embarks on a journey to uncover the dark underworld of amateur detectives and finds more than what he bargained for in this mockumentary short.
17. Kortknäpp (Kortknäpp)
Behind the scenes of Knäppupp's 1957 tour
18. Visions of Europe
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
It has an average vote of 4.882 on TMDB.
19. Queer Bodies
A self-reflexive, multi-portrait film following the filmmaker, Emma Barda, and other queer artists exploring queerness and gender identity through their art. The film takes a deep dive on how queer / gender non-conforming people interpret and represent body and gender identity through various facets of art and identity, with the aim to showcase the unique and wonderful world of queerness.
20. Shadows (Schatten)
Hansjürgen Pohland's short documentary is an audiovisual study that captures events and people on the streets on film. The special feature of the work is that the people and objects are portrayed exclusively through their shadows.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.