Michael Galasso

Just a man wandering around the streets of Hyderabad at nighttime

Started in 2018, the project – comprised of 11 segments by filmmakers from all around the world – reflects on the intertwined relationship between human society and nature that is aggravated by climate change on multiple scales, hinting at possible solutions.

How do you start an investigation into chance? By a late journey. The narrator tells how the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjalla stopped the plane he should have taken for Prague in 2010 from taking off. Meditating on the powerful images of the “Earth’s anger”, Kleinjan remembered another flight that never arrived: the aircraft crashed in northern Czechoslovakia in 1972, before reaching Belgrade. Only a Serbian stewardess miraculously survived the crash. She was included in the Guinness Book of Records and got to meet the Beatles, when John Lennon was considered like “Lenin” by the young Czech anti-communists.

20 short films about human rights.

The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of Great Depression and World War II.

Uma nova sociedade está se desenvolvendo, uma sociedade onde não há espaço para os social e mentalmente fracos. Gertrud (Julia Högberg) é uma garota de 17 anos de uma família muito pobre. Contra sua vontade, ela fica comprometida com uma casa de trabalho para mulheres jovens. Gertrud descobre que a única saída é concordar com a esterilização "voluntária". Gertrud se apaixona pelo zelador, Axel (Christoffer Svensson) e logo fica grávida. Ela sonha com uma vida familiar normal com Axel e a criança, e não percebe que para levar a cabo a operação, o médico extrairá a criança. Gertrud muda de ideia sobre a operação, mas ela já não tem opção. Será que Gertrud vai enganar o sistema?

French drama, the debut film from writer-director Eléonore Faucher. Teenager Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers she is pregnant and decides to keep it a secret. Abandoning her dead-end supermarket job, she is taken on as an apprentice by couturiere Madame Mélikian (Ariane Ascaride), who is grieving over the death of her own child. As the two women work together, they soon develop a supportive and fam

A young woman tries to understand the real circumstances of the death of her mother.

A member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her youth. However, events cause her to face her own past.

A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of nefarious connections reflecting, somewhat, his own life.

Shrek é um monstrinho feio, verde e mal-disposto que recebe no pântano onde vive uma visita inesperada de personagens de contos de fadas, expulsos pelo malvado Lord Farquaad do reino onde viviam. Shrek faz um acordo com Lord Farquaad, compromete-se a convencer a princesa Fiona a tornar-se Lady Farquaad. Como amigos o montro verde conta ainda com um burro, que fala pelos cotovelos!

Kong Kong, 1962. Chau, o editor dum jornal local, muda-se para um novo edifício, juntamente com a sua esposa. Aí conhece Li-Chun, que vive na casa ao lado e que se muda para o prédio no mesmo dia de Chau. É também uma coincidência, o facto de ambos estarem a mudar sem a ajuda dos respectivos esposos que, mais uma coincidência, se encontram fora em trabalho. Com os esposos fora, Chau e Li-Chun passam cada vez mais tempo juntos. Até que um dia ambos se dão conta que estão a ser traídos pelos respectivos cônjuges. E esta descoberta chocante aproxima-os ainda mais...

Through Whit’s new invention, the Micro-stimulator, Eugene takes a fantastic voyage through his own circulatory system and makes an alarming discovery. Forced to reevaluate how he’ll spend the remaining days of his life, he sets in motion a chain of events that includes a bank heist, a ticking bomb, and a strangely familiar window washer!

Documentary on physicist Albert Einstein which chronicles the experiences that lead him to become a great advocate for world peace.

Andy De Groat dances inside "The Four Armed Cloud"--A sculpture by Leonore Tawney. Poetry by Christopher Knowles and "Sun Music" by Michael Galasso accompany the piece. 1979.

Shot at the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY and Fishbach Gallery, New York City. The dancers talk about spinning as a dance form.