Film list

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Anshan Diaries 2022 27'
    Student Directed by Xiuzhi Dong .
Director Charles Xiuzhi Dong uses real family life as its backdrop. Casting his grandpa he investigates and retraces his family saga spanning three decades of Chinese post-cultural revolution history.
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As Aye, 2022 26'
    Student Directed by Sam Kenyon .
As Aye, is a fragment of correspondence with author and storyteller, Jess Smith, and with the ‘absent presence’ of Scottish Travellers in the archive and the landscape. Drawing on the memory and
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Belle River 2022 11'
    Shorts Directed by Guillaume Fournier Samuel Matteau Yannick Nolin .
It is 2019. Spring flooding in Mississippi hits record highs. In Louisiana, the residents of Pierre-Part are preparing for the worst. Barring an unexpected turn of events, local authorities will soon
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Cara Romero: Following the Light 2022 27'
    Shorts Directed by Kaela Waldstein .
An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA and the urban sprawl of Houston, TX.
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Cornershop Beats 2022 8'
    Shorts Directed by Bassam Al-Khaled Abdel Malek Al Ali Saja Awad .
In a family run grocery shop in Saida, Lebanon a father and son try to make their dreams come true.
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Cycles 2022 9'
    Shorts Directed by Nisreen Hazineh Anas Al Sheikh Shawki Al Hallak .
We have fallen and are trying to stand. We keep on going… The world keeps spinning and we spin along with it in search for our daily bread in the current economic situation. We have become like the
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Duende 2022 27'
    Student Directed by Lucia Barrenetxea Lopez .
Duende takes us through one of the most awaited festivals in Granada, Spain: Easter week. Duende is an intimate, unexpected tale of an encounter with the afterlife, a series of miracles that can only
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The Eye Begins in The Hand 2022 16'
    Shorts Directed by Yehuda Sharim .
El Ojo Comienza En La Mano is a tribute to campesino histories in rural California through the artwork of an artist largely absent from critical conversations on Chicanx art, Ruben A. Sanchez, as
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A Family Portrait 2022 5'
    Student Directed by Shubham Sharma .
“After finding a family portrait on my phone one evening in Germany, I felt a longing for my hometown. I wanted to make a film about it. But how can you talk about your family portrait without
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Forms of Care 2022 7'
    Animation Directed by Charlotte Kühlbrandt Maayan L. Matz .
A stop-motion animation following the story of a mundane death, and the forms of care that accompany it. The script is taken verbatim from an interview conducted as part of an ethnographic research
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The Future of Work? 2022 21'
    Student Directed by Yihao Yan .
Digital nomads are a highly mobile group of people who travel while working. Digital nomadism is considered a utopian life and a liberation from sedentary society, but it can also become a privilege.
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Gambote 2022 24'
    Shorts Directed by Sofia Bensadon .
The clay mountains of the Chuquiago Valley are transformed into brick every day on the outskirts of La Paz City, Bolivia. Irineo and Rosa grind the clay, mould, dry, and burn the bricks every day, in
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I (heart) Jack Lalanne: A Cartoon Memoir 2022 14'
    Animation Directed by LeAnn Erickson .
The filmmaker, a lesbian, feminist baby boomer, shares her coming out story with the help of exercise guru Jack LaLanne. Combining animation with the written memoir, I (heart) Jack LaLanne pushes the
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I Am the World 2022 9'
    Shorts Directed by Che Applewhaite .
A speculative documentary that explores how an archive of networked moving images, featuring famed ballroom hosts Selvin “MC Debra” Mizrahi and Kelly Gorgeous Gucci, enables worldly ways of seeing.
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La Tumba Mambi 2022 28'
    Ethnomusicology Directed by Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier DJ Jigüe .
As a result of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), many French settlers travelled to Eastern Cuba with their slaves to escape the revolt. The Tumba Francesa Societies, known as a brotherhood and a
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The Lindisfarne Causeway 2022 20'
    Student Directed by Sammy-Lena Stasse .
The Lindisfarne Causeway is a road that disappears into the sea twice a day. The filmmaker uses boredom and daydreaming as a method to get to know this place. A poetic world of tarmac silence,
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Making It as Embroiderers 2022 10'
    Student Directed by Rachel Schaetzel Barber .
In the Tsotsil and Tseltal communities in Chiapas, Mexico, weaving and embroidering has traditionally been women’s work, practised in the home and made to be used by the family. As global demand
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Toang 2022 37'
    Student Directed by Rizky Maulana .
Toang is an intimate portrait of a rice paddy farmer and his family in Indramayu (Indonesia), who were in a precarious situation due to the cycle of indebtment and environmental degradation that the
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A Village with a View 2022 20'
    Shorts Directed by Joseph Inman .
In wartime Britain, a Lord permitted unused land on Cornwall’s Rame Peninsula to be built on. Tiny chalets appeared, each as individual as its owner, and the community of Freathy came to life. In