René (2002)

Late summer, a small lake, teenage rascals. Mia, 11 and too wise for her age, asks Hugo, 15 and blasé, to tell her about Chaïnes – a girl he spent evenings with at the lake, trying to seduce her. He felt the fear of declaring his love and the torment provoked by the exuberant but secretive Chaïnes, who never shows her emotions. Mia and her siblings surround them, like a choir. A slow, dark, documentary in which time doesn't seem to exist.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o USS Haynes, um destroyer americano de escolta descobre um U-Boat (Submarino) alemão no Atlântico Sul. Um duelo mortal entre os dois começa, e o Capitão Murrell (Robert Mitchum) deve usar toda sua experiência para derrotar o Comandante alemão Von Stolberg (Curd Jürgens) igualmente experiente.

In Dulce - New Mexico, Leon Reval loses the tribal elections and his position as councilman. The uncertainty of his future echoes with the one of Jicarillas tribe. Today, they try - in vain - to keep on the fight that began with Geronimo against Mexico and United States, in order to preserve the Native American's rights.

Jacob, an elderly man living in a luxurious villa near Geneva called Rosebud, has just changed his name for the third time and become a Swiss citizen. His granddaughter comes to visit to make a portrait of him. As she searches for a way to bring his story to life, Jacob abandons the project…

An oneiric journey through Alex’s life as a former FARC guerrilla leads to a reckoning with the devil inside of him. Alex tells his story of war and its legacy inside of a truck transformed into a camera obscura, a space where dreams suffuse with reality and a life in limbo is illuminated.

A young man wanders through the ruins of what may or may not be his childhood home, where each crumbling doorway opens up onto the past. Memories accost him-memories of his school days, of loved ones long gone, of wonder, callousness, and defeat. The painful invasion gives rise to a series reflections on the limits of cinema and the poverty, and inescapability, of the life of the mind. No matter how much he has tried to change, the young man-who may or may not be the filmmaker himself-always returns to the same places, same questions, same faces, same recollections-the same nails in his brain.

French poet Thierry Metz killed himself in 1997. He'd moved to the country with his wife and 3 kids but after the youngest is struck dead by a car, the sensitive artist sinks into depression and alcohol, leading to time in a facility.

One image, in particular, is likely to haunt viewers: that of many men huddled together on the back of a truck. The men are headed northward, from Niger to the coast of Algeria. Just how long they will be travelling depends on countless unknowns. And once they’ve reached the African coast of the Mediterranean, they’ll still be far from their goal, for it is only then that their dangerous attempt to cross the sea to Europe begins. Theirs is a journey in hopes of a better life – one that frequently ends in death.

Constructed from the audio archive of the 1961 Harvard Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea: In the encounter with the Hubula people, this work reflects a parallaxing image of the histories of field recording, ethnographic film, and colonialism.

Images of crowd simulation are faced with testimonies from Liverpool Football Club’s supporters who recall their experience marked by a tragic event: the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989, which changed the nature of the game of football.

On the island of Amorgos, during summer. Small monuments were erected at the scene of a fatal accident: a photograph, a few words, flowers, religious or pagan objects. The deceased "stayed there": dead in transit, on a road, frozen forever.

Comer, esperar, cortar o cabelo, limpar, telefonar e dormir. A rotina diária perene de um centro de detenção juvenil traz uma coagulação de tempo. Corpos são transformados em veículos, movidos de forma letárgica de oficinas para células de pessoas solitárias, corredores para áreas externas, de poltrona para sofá. Nada faz diferença. Respirando, caminhando, sentando, deitando novamente. Existência em estado de coma. O filme observa esse cosmos heterotópico, imaginando uma dissolução perpétua. Conta uma história de corpos deixados para trás, de um desejo indefinido. Um anseio por algo diferente. Por um lado tão distante que até os sonhadores não sabem mais, se é que já existiram como tais.

Elvis Sabin’s assured debut follows Albert and André, two Central African Aka Pygmies, as they attempt to establish a new education system in their forest community. The last in their village still attending school, they are determined to pass their knowledge on, holding classes for other Aka children every afternoon. But their project requires funding and they are counting on the year’s caterpillar (known as “Makongo”) harvest to provide much needed income. Evocatively capturing the visual and sonic textures of the forest, Makongo is a layered ethnographic study of two men working to build a sustainable future for their community.

An observational documentary that focuses on the Tentative Association, which helps young people with autism develop independence and socialization skills. Seven autistic people live in a big house and, together with their helpers, they fill their days with household tasks.

While an exodus of migrants waits to cross the deadly Altar Desert towards the US, the last Natives of the desert survive a diaspora that has them on the verge of vanishing.

The wolf no longer inhabits the land that once formed part of its territory, and only through its outlines can we get closer to it; remnants of wolf traps, predator urine imported from the US, a dung-hill used to feed scavenger birds and archers that shoot at replicas of animals. Reserve constructs a story about the fragile balance of a territory after the disappearance of the predator, where the complex co-existence between humans and non-humans presents a distinctly marked anthropogenic ecosystem.

Explora o papel das grandes corporações na ajuda aos massacres perpetrados pela Junta Militar Argentina contra os dissidentes, durante a chamada Guerra Suja na Argentina ou Guerra Suja (em espanhol: Guerra Sucia) (1976-1983) e também autonomeado como Processo de Reorganização Nacional, tudo isto fazendo parte da "A Operação Condor" (em inglês: Operation Condor; em castelhano: Operación Cóndor, também conhecida como Plan Cóndor) foi uma campanha promovida pelos Estados Unidos de repressão política e terror de Estado envolvendo operações de inteligência e assassinato de opositores. Foi oficial e formalmente implementada em novembro de 1975 pelas ditaduras de direita do Cone Sul. O governo dos Estados Unidos forneceu planeamento, coordenação, formação em formas de tortura e apoio técnico, e forneceu também ajuda militar às Juntas durante as administrações de L. B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, James Carter e Ronald Reagan, tais apoios era frequentemente encaminhado através da CIA.

Jangarh Singh Shyam, a famous Indian artist born in an isolated tribal village, committed suicide in a Japanese museum in 2001. I found on an old MiniDV tape the images of a trip I had undertaken in 2008, when I had gone looking for him in his native region.

Em 1992, Cartagena, as Olimpíadas apresentaram a Espanha como uma nova democracia emergente.

Um homem (John Cusack) consegue um novo emprego no 7º ½ andar de um edifício comercial, onde todos os funcionários devem andar curvados. Lá encontra uma porta, escondida, que leva quem ultrapassá-la até a mente do ator John Malkovich, onde pode permanecer durante 15 minutos, até ser cuspido numa estrada na saída de Nova Jersey. Impressionado com a descoberta, resolve alugar a passagem para outras pessoas, dentre elas o próprio John Malkovich.