1. Full Circle
Faced with a traumatic injury that renders you permanently disabled; how would you reinvent yourself? Full Circle tells the story of Trevor Kennison and Barry Corbet’s shared resiliency and refusal to let their passion for life be limited by Spinal Cord Injury. It is an unblinking examination of the challenges of Spinal Cord Injury, and a celebration of the growth that such tragedy can catalyze.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
2. 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.
3. Rose Ayling-Ellis: Signs for Change
Actress and Strictly Come Dancing 2021 winner Rose Ayling-Ellis reveals the daily challenges, discrimination, and barriers which are faced by deaf individuals.
4. Cracovienne (Krakowiak)
Actors from Warsaw's garden theatres dance a traditional Polish dance, cracovienne.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
5. Stress - Das Universum des Jim Hart (Stress - Das Universum des Jim Hart)
A pseudo-documentary about the life, work and creations of trash filmmaker Jim Hart.
6. The Story of an Old Lady (Histoire d’une vieille dame)
A short piece in which Agnes Varda revisits actress Marthe Jarnias, who plays the old aunt in her 1985 film "Vagabond".
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
7. More So-called Caryatids (Les Dites Cariatides bis)
A super short film to accompany the earlier documentary of the same name. A photoplay of various caryatids to be found in Paris.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
8. The Last Key (La dernière clé)
A young immigrant arrives in Canada from France, and brings his Citroën 2CV with him. The iconic post-war car stands out on the streets of Vancouver, and before long he meets up with a group of like-minded car buffs.
9. Holocaust Denial vs. Freedom of Speech
(Holocaust Denial vs. Freedom of Speech)
10. A Case Study: Cambodia and East Timor
(A Case Study: Cambodia and East Timor)
11. Toward a Vision of a Future Society
(Toward a Vision of a Future Society)
12. Noah Chomsky: Personal Influences
(Noah Chomsky: Personal Influences)
13. Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter
Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter tells the inspiring and largely unknown story of a woman whose life was defined by her love for dance. Martha Hill emerges as dance's secret weapon, someone who fought against great odds to establish dance as a legitimate art form in America. Through archival footage, lively interviews with friends and intimates, and rare footage of the spirited subject, the film explores Hills's arduous path from a Bible Belt childhood in Ohio to the halls of academe at NYU and Bennington College to a position of power and influence as Juilliard's founding director of dance . Peppered with anecdotal material delivered by dance notables who knew her, this revelatory story depicts her struggles and successes, including the battle royal that accompanied her move to the Lincoln Center campus.
14. Happy Android
Street performer Paul Cooper has an unlikely ally in his ongoing battle with anxiety and depression - his robot, Tubby.
15. Ocana, der Engel der in der Qual singt (Ocana, der Engel der in der Qual singt)
Legendary drag performer Ocaña in performance with a cardboard Marilyn on the west side of the Berlin Wall.
16. Mild Madness, Lasting Lunacy (Folie douce, folie dure)
This walk in the daily life of several psychiatric institutions, allows us to meet extraordinary people who let us enter their privacy.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
17. Big Bill Blues (Big Bill Blues)
This is the only film about Big Bill Broonzy, you can see him playing the blues in a Brussels cellar.
18. Hard Border
Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of the Irish border in a short film written by Clare Dwyer Hogg.
19. Exhumados (Exhumados)
Exposition of two different processes of forensic identification in exhumed bodies with features of violence.
20. Modern Love: A Kiss, Deferred
Nikolina Kulidžan was twelve years old when she fell in love for the first time. Not long after, the Bosnian War changed her life forever.