COMPETITION

"CUBANA 455: Chronicle of October 6"

Synopsis:

Based on recent declassified documents, “CUBANA 455” analyzes the sabotage of a Cuban civilian airliner, off the coast of Barbados on October 6th, 1976. The feature-length documentary shows the point of view of the families of the victims and how they have survived for more than forty-five years waiting for a seed of justice. Interviews include: relatives of the victims; an ex-CIA agent; a Venezuelan journalist; a CARICOM ambassador; a Cuban historian; the lawyer who represented Cuba against Posada Carriles and three of the perpetrators of the crime. 

Chapter 1 (TRT: 50:00).

Chapter 2 (TRT: 35:20).

Chapter 3 (TRT: 36:30).

Intermezzo: 9 minutes.

Epilogue (TRT: 30:43).

Total: 162 minutes.

Directors:

-

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Enrique Berumen, Javier González, Ramón Samada

Other Credits:

Director / Writer: Enrique Berumen; Executive Producer: David Sandoval; Producer: Enrique Berumen, Javier González, Ramón Samada; Associate Producer: Patricia Valencia, Virginia González, Rafael González; Editor: Rodolfo Barros, Michael Mendoza, Jeff Fust

Duration:

2:42:00

Country of Origin:

Cuba

Language:

English, Spanish

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2022-07-26

A festival for the city - Venice 1973

Synopsis:

Venice, June 24th 1973. Over 200.000 people await the speech of Enrico Berlinguer, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party. It's the largest demonstration ever organized by any Venetian left-wing party. The culmination of the most peculiar Festival Nazionale de "l'Unità" ever organized. Through photographs, documents, archive materials and interviews to the protagonists of this event, the documentary attempts to reconstruct the history of this forgotten festival. A journey into a Venice that no longer exists, made of politics, debates, popular culture, intellectuals, art, students and workers. In 1973, the foundations were laid for a change that would involve not only the Venetian communists, but the entire country. Another world seems possible.

Directors:

Alice Russo, Alessio Barbazza

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Alice Russo, Alessio Barbazza

Producers:

Barnaba Lupo, Alice Russo

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:10:31

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2023-06-14

Blur - El día que me callé

Synopsis:

Filmmaker Víctor Arregui explores a traumatic event he experienced in his youth, when he was a leftist political activist in Ecuador in 1987. As if they were two currents that converge in the same narrative thread, the documentary gaze of Isabel Dávalos, who invites him to speak, first in front of the camera and then in front of his militant friends and his children, is linked to the gaze of Víctor himself, who stages, in an exercise of catharsis, the episode that marked him. The films that Victor has written and filmed in the past, also appear as traces of his silence. The authoritarianism embodied in male bodies that obey the social mandate of virility, with all the taboos it entails, is just one of the themes that this brave, precise and heartbreaking film brings to the stage.

Directors:

Isabel Davalos, Victor Manuel Arregui

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

isabel davalos, Victor Arregui

Producers:

Isabel Davalos, Victor Arregui

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:13:00

Country of Origin:

Ecuador

Language:

Spanish

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2022-10-01

Cheers To Iranian Women

Synopsis:

Cheers to Iranian Women portrays the lives, struggles and political and social activism of six influential Iranian women activists, now living in exile. The film challenges the dominant patriarchal and misogynistic portrayals of Iranian women, primarily in Iran’s official cinema, but also the postmodernist and cultural-relativist representations prevalent in many mainstream films in the West. The film explores women's bodies, voice, dance, music and use of colour through cinematic forms and devices that allow an actually existing, empowered image of the Iranian women to emerge.

Directors:

Pune Parsafar

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Pune Parsafar

Producers:

Pune Parsafar

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:32:54

Country of Origin:

Iran, Islamic Republic of

Language:

English, Persian

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature, Student

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2022-09-30

Climate Emergency

Synopsis:

On September 14, 2022, UN secretary-general, António Guterres, told world leaders gathered in New York: “The fossil fuel industry is killing us, and leaders are out of step with their people, who are crying out for urgent climate action.” TD Bank is the 8th worst bank in the United States when it comes to funding climate destruction; the worst banks are Chase, Wells Fargo, Citi, and Bank of America. We chose to protest TD Bank, “America’s Most Convenient Bank®,” because it was most convenient. This film shows ordinary people acting locally by taking to the streets of New Haven to demand that TD Bank stop funding fossil fuels. The climate crisis is an ongoing existential threat; the people’s efforts to fight climate catastrophe deserve recognition. I hope this film will inspire more people to join protests and express outrage.

Directors:

Robert Menefee

Key Cast:

Melinda Tuhus, Norman Clement

Writers:

-

Producers:

Robert Menefee

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:05:51

Country of Origin:

United States

Language:

English

Project Type:

Documentary, Short, Web / New Media

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2023-06-09

Cost of Living

Synopsis:

6th May 2023, King Charles Ill and Queen Camilla are crowned in a ceremony with no legal meaning, estimated to have cost over £250 Million, paid for by the government and tax payers. Meanwhile the same government leaves many working class people to struggle to survive with little to no help.

Directors:

Andrew Creak

Key Cast:

Ruby Atlanta Boland, Kaci Kerwick, Ashleigh Carter

Writers:

Andrew Creak

Producers:

Andrew Creak

Other Credits:

Music: Alex Rooney; Sound Design: Ross Maneely

Duration:

0:03:02

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Social realism, Drama

Completion Date:

2023-05-06

Dissent

Synopsis:

The story of David Cody, who refused the American project, dodged the military draft in the 1960’s, and took the ultimate step in living out his values by fleeing the country and becoming a stateless person.

Directors:

Chris Boyd

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Director of Photography: Athan Merrick

Duration:

0:16:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Language:

English

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

Documentary, History, War

Completion Date:

2023-10-02

Fear Death by Water

Synopsis:

In Fear Death by Water, we enter the world of Dead Stirnerman and Solid Mercury who run an artist's television programme. Gravely affected by economic, cultural, and ecological crisis, the state makes a grand survey of what work is most essential to see what should be forbidden, and artists are found to be bottom of the pile in public opinion. When Solid Mercury pivots towards ecology in order to secure financial support for exploiting former office workers as farming interns, she soon discovers that achieving a bountiful harvest is more difficult than it seems and begins scheming to escape her predicament.

Presuming a connection between magic and nature, Dead Stirnerman and Solid Mercury invite Arsenal Magus, Amsterdam's most famous art witch, to appear on their show with the aim of deceiving her in to helping them cheat their way to a harvest that will satisfy their commitments. However, when their ill intent causes the rituals to go awry will it be the hosts of the show, their guest, or their overexploited interns who ultimately pay the price for messing with cosmic forces?

Continuing the themes of Leslie Lawrence and Sophia Simensky's 'The Fire Sermon', this short film addresses the idea of 'essential' work and its relation to the economic effects of the global pandemic and climate change, focusing on the disconnect between economic hierarchy and sensible social ecology.

Directors:

Leslie Lawrence, Sophia Simensky

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:27:17

Country of Origin:

Netherlands

Language:

English

Project Type:

Experimental, Short, Other

Genres:

Art, Sci-fi, Experimental

Completion Date:

2023-02-14

FORGOTTEN SONG

Synopsis:

A young boy comes to the Friendship Settlement, where the Soviet builders of the Palace of Culture and Science lived in the 1950s, in search of accommodation for his grandparents from Ukraine. Here he meets a girl singing in the choir, who becomes his guide. Seemingly, it is a story about love that cannot happen because of the war in Ukraine, but more deeply it is a story about finding your identity.

Music is an integral part of the film. It is not only the background of the events narrated in the film, but its equal protagonist.

Directors:

Monika Grzybowska

Key Cast:

Maja Kosko, Krzysztof Paździora

Writers:

Monika Grzybowska

Producers:

Bemowskie Centrum Kultury

Other Credits:

Cinematography: Weronika Bednarczyk; Music: Monika Grzybowska, Marcin Cyronek

Duration:

0:39:59

Country of Origin:

Poland

Language:

Polish

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2022-09-16

FULL YELLOW JACKET

Synopsis:

2018. French people take to the streets when faced with a new tax. The yellow jacket becomes the rallying symbol. 12 men and women tell us about the reasons behind their rebellion. “We found a meaning to our lives again” one of the people states.

Directors:

Marc Khanne

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Marc Khanne

Producers:

Patrice Forget

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:30:00

Country of Origin:

France

Language:

French

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2022-09-22

Goldplay

Synopsis:

Three dysfunctional yet potentially effective Revolutionaries are drawn by presumably their own secret informers in 1907 New Mexico to an overlook through which a train overloaded with gold stolen from the people and slaves by powerful business moguls will pass. They plan to rob the gold to fund their OWN revolutions and liberate the captives. They are…a failed Bolshevik from Russia seeking to redeem himself from his own failures in the 1905 revolution back home, a feminist who wants to arm women against men to take over America, and a Mexican Yaqui Indian who wants to throw all White people out of North America. Shifting alliances abound, secrets revealed when those holding them do not want them known, and are most vulnerable. Such are catalyzed by the failed Bolshevik’s slow-witted, ‘refuses to be liberated’ servant. 60 min. Based on published novel of same title.

Directors:

MJ Politis

Key Cast:

MJ Politis, Valarie Laughlin, Greg Dueck, Frank Kohlberger, Monique Gallez, Arwen Schulte, Todd Sullivan, Claude WInston

Writers:

MJ Politis

Producers:

MJ Politis

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:59:00

Country of Origin:

Canada

Language:

English

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2022-02-14

How May I Help You

Synopsis:

Through a series of vignettes scripted from real phone conversations between call center workers and customers, How May I Help You reimagines fleeting personal encounters between strangers.

Directors:

Ella Harmon

Key Cast:

Christina Stearns, Rasheed Peters, Joshua Seeger

Writers:

Ella Harmon

Producers:

Ella Harmon, Naomi Zidon

Other Credits:

Director Of Photography: Zaki Alabdullah

Duration:

0:15:27

Country of Origin:

United States

Language:

-

Project Type:

Short, Student

Genres:

hybrid, documentary, drama

Completion Date:

2023-06-24

Legend of the Cornpone Kid

Synopsis:

Rural Texas, 1914: a five-year-old boy and his father find themselves transformed forever by the winds of historical destiny. Based on the life of Lyndon B. Johnson (US President 1963-1969).

Directors:

Charlie Walden

Key Cast:

Charlie Walden, Annie Donley

Writers:

Charlie Walden

Producers:

Charlie Walden

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:16:16

Country of Origin:

United States

Language:

English

Project Type:

Animation, Short

Genres:

Comedy, Animation, Historical, Western

Completion Date:

2023-09-18

MIMMO LUCANO - USED TO PULLING - NOT PUSHING BACK

Synopsis:

The film is a political and personal contribution to the topic of migration and asylum, at the centre of which we find Mimmo Lucano, the former mayor of the municipality of Riace. The Riace integration model was seen as a territorially limited phenomenon in its initial years and was therefore not a focal issue for the restrictive Italian and European immigration policy. From 2015 onwards, Riace began to attract growing international attention, as it was regarded as an effective system for the integration of refugees and migrants that could and should be copied and imported. In the year 2017, the Italian judicial system took legal action against Mimmo Lucano because of a number of purported serious violations in connection with his activities in office and in the management of projects in the municipality of Riace. If the preliminary judgement ultimately us confirmed this summer in the appeal proceedings, Mimmo Lucano will go to prison. The regional court in Locri sentenced him in the first instance to a prison term of thirteen years and two months as well as a compensation payment of five hundred thousand euros. The charges and the extent of the punishment meted out have led to severe criticism among those in the political arena, in the public opinion, and even among legal experts, as well as intellectuals who are particularly sensitive to and informed about the issue the law and integration. Costantino Ciervo has known Mimmo Lucano since 2013, and they both share the same world outlook and ethical understanding. Ciervo also very much understands the way Lucano does politics. The film is structured into ten chapters. By switching between landscape images, dialogues, poetic texts by Marco Mantello and Erri De Luca, all underscored by background music, Ciervo highlights the contrast between two contrary – conceived of and practiced – models of human coexistence. On the one hand there is the model of a selective culture that aims to be a consumption-oriented society in which people are only interested in defence, drawing lines in the sand, ethnic purity as well as technical and economic functionality; on the other hand there is an open model in which people attempt with great effort to (re-)create an open-minded, communicative, supportive as well as ecologically and humanly sustainable society in everyday life. The final chapter of the film, in which the story of “Ciccio, Rosa and Toni” is told by Mimmo Lucano with a moving simplicity, is of particular importance. It expresses the aim of his human and political actions, that is, to help those who get left behind by society. The narrative journey ends in a final sequence that moves from an apparent pessimism to an “optimism of the conscience” – the concrete and irrevocable goal to revive the region condemned to being abandoned. 

Directors:

Costantino Ciervo

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Costantino Ciervo

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:12:38

Country of Origin:

Germany

Language:

Italian

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2023-04-19

Storming Caesars Palace

Synopsis:

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas — until now. When Ruby Duncan loses her Las Vegas hotel job due to a workplace accident and accepts public assistance, she discovers firsthand the stigma and harassment by an over-zealous, fraud-obsessed welfare department. With Mary Wesley and Alversa Beals, Ruby creates a welfare rights group to fight for an adequate income, dignity, and justice. They, along with low-income mothers across the country, form the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) with the support of George Wiley, a chemistry professor-turned-activist and Frances Fox Piven, a radical social-scientist. Together, the mothers of the NWRO introduce a Universal Basic Income campaign with feminist Gloria Steinem at their side, at the Democratic National Convention in Miami in 1972.

STORMING CAESARS PALACE shares the story of how a group of ordinary low-income mothers launched an extraordinary grassroots movement for economic justice and Black women’s empowerment in the 1960s and 1970s. This film reveals the roots of today’s movements, highlighting the experiences of Black women organizers from one of the most challenging and forgotten feminist, anti-poverty movements in our history, and places it in the limelight, where it will inspire, embolden and honor the women whose courage, tenacity and dreams could not be quashed, against all odds.

Directors:

Hazel Gurland-Pooler

Key Cast:

Ruby Duncan, Gloria Steinem

Writers:

-

Producers:

Hazel Gurland-Pooler, Nazenet Habtezghi

Other Credits:

Consulting Producer: Jamila Wignot, Yoruba Richen; Editor: Sunita Prasad

Duration:

1:25:22

Country of Origin:

United States

Language:

English

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

Black History, Women's Rights, Social Justice, Economic Justice, 1960s, 1970s, Las Vegas

Completion Date:

2022-02-28

The Man Who Was Thursday

Synopsis:

The Man Who Was Thursday (2021) is a collaborative film that uses context of shared art production to produce an additional fantasy narrative about a wild anarchist plot to destroy the world. Under the cover of ‘art practice’, an esoteric cabal publicly flaunts their dangerous activity while moving forward with a deadly plan. At the heart of their scheme is a mysterious briefcase that one undercover operative must find before the mysterious figure known only as ‘Sunday’ has the chance to use it.

Based on G.K. Chesterton’s reactionary early 20th century novella, and echoing contemporary conservative fears about a nebulous conspiracy of ‘Antifa’ activists, the film imagines what it would look like if the postmodern values of ‘bohemian’ artists really did turn them into enemies of the state.

An experimental art project, the film is made in a collaborative style, incorporating a series of encounters with other artists that were progressively worked into the edit from 2019 - 2021.

Directors:

Leslie Lawrence

Key Cast:

Jason Harvey, Andrea López Bernal, David Haack Monberg, Walter Götsch, Selma Köran, Tom K. Kemp

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:50:45

Country of Origin:

Netherlands

Language:

English

Project Type:

Experimental, Feature, Short, Other

Genres:

Sci-fi, Art

Completion Date:

2022-03-30

W

Synopsis:

Europe is a mortally sick woman who is killing time with her Chinese Man Machine. They are at their last post. Outside lies a snow covered wasteland. 

Elsewhere, on a glacier is an institute, where a group of nurses are faithfully playing their regressive part in the execution of a new world order. Their trance is disrupted by a stranger. All is lost. The final act is about to begin.

Directors:

Anna Eriksson

Key Cast:

Anna Eriksson

Writers:

Anna Eriksson

Producers:

Matti Pyykkö

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:41:00

Country of Origin:

Finland

Language:

French, Yue Chinese (Cantonese)

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2022-08-14

With a Gun in Their Hands

Synopsis:

A testimony about the hard life in Asturias in the years after the end of the Spanish Civil War, were many

republican soldiers kept fighting as guerrillas, refusing to surrender and keeping alive the flame of

resistance.

Directors:

Tuero Uncal Omar

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Piñeiro García Ramón

Producers:

Tuero Uncal Omar

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:44:00

Country of Origin:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

Historic, Politics, Human Rights, War, Social Issues

Completion Date:

2022-01-24

Women dreaming a nation

Synopsis:

Three Cuban activists, at the center of the civic protests of recent years, tell their stories of blackmail, forced exile and repression. Women, mothers, artists, they describe today's Cuba from the San Isidro hunger strike to the mass protests across thee island of July 11th , 2021.

Directors:

Fernando Fraguela Fosado

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Fernando Fraguela Fosado

Producers:

Fernando Fraguela Fosado

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:50:00

Country of Origin:

Cuba

Language:

Spanish

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2023-01-01

ARTS & MULTIMEDIA

Achtung Banditen?! [VR]

Synopsis:

During the Liberation War from Nazi-Fascism, spanning from September 3, 1943, to May 2, 1945, following the Cassibile armistice between Italy and the Allied forces until the surrender of German troops in the Italian theater of war, approximately 11,400 Italian military personnel, 44,720 partisans, and 9,180 civilians, including children, women, and men, were killed by the retreating German armed forces. This virtual installation serves as a symbolic and digital memorial for the Italian victims of Nazi-Fascist reprisals, who have yet to receive proper justice, particularly from the German side. This lack of justice stems from the failure to acknowledge Italian court verdicts beyond the Alps, denying both criminals due process and victims full human justice.

The memorial metaphorically and digitally reimagines Berlin's "Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe," incorporating various Italian landscapes devastated by war, including mountains, valleys, and urban areas, reminiscent of the Apuan Alps. The sky, once vibrant, now reflects a reddish glow, symbolizing the violence of war. Through an interactive electronic timeline, visitors can explore the atrocities committed against Italian civilians, province by province, using smartphones, tablets, or PCs. Motion sensors guide visitors through the desolate landscape, marked by gravestones and plaques of massacres.

The once green mountains now appear as scorched earth, a testament to the devastation wrought by conflict. Against a sky devoid of its usual brightness, symbols like the "Ro-Ber-To" and "Schwarze Sonne" evoke the darkness of war. Amidst this bleakness, the hope of resistance and renewal persists, embodied by references to General Winter and the eventual return of spring.

The cowardly attempts by invaders to justify their brutality with propaganda slogans like "gang fight" are condemned, as they sought to terrorize the population and enforce racial ideologies. Collaborators, including former fascists, aided in these atrocities, leading to massacres like Sant'Anna di Stazzema. The memorial stands as a rebuke to these atrocities, challenging the audacity of the real perpetrators to label others as bandits.

They used to write 'Achtung! Banditen!' on walls, marking targeted village houses in flagrant disregard for criminal and international law norms. This act served the sole purpose of terrorizing the population and seeking revenge for what the German side perceived as a betrayal. It was driven by the deadly logic of race ideology, aiming to secure living space for the believed Aryan race and to eradicate everything deemed non-Germanic.

Despite the passage of time, disbelief and indignation remain at the forefront, particularly in the face of denialism. This denialism, fueled by the banality of evil, seeks to distort historical truths and perpetuate the horrors of Nazifascism.

Artists:

ARTOLDO – Sara Ferro & Chris Weil

Development:

RedMagicBlue

Duration:

0:03:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

English, German, Italian

Project Type:

Virtual Reality

Genres:

Art installation

Completion Date:

2022-01-22

A Chant for the Bees

Synopsis:

A Chant for the Bees is a short film about my daily life. It contains a series of ordinary events as well as a visit to the amusement park. Original music is in the form of a Georgian Chant of the names of the 100 largest companies in the world.

Directors:

Bill Burns

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Bill Burns

Other Credits:

Music: Alan Gasser; Chanters: Emma So, Alan Gasser

Duration:

0:07:27

Country of Origin:

Canada

Language:

English, French

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

Art

Completion Date:

2022-08-30

AKRONPOLIS D7

Synopsis:

A member of a Neo-Marxist underground group finds herself in a life crisis when the core members of the group get arrested and her lover and comrade mysteriously dies.

Directors:

Paulos Katsàros

Key Cast:

Anna Winterleitner, Christoph Profanter, Caroline Mirkes, Artem Belov

Writers:

Paulos Katsàros

Producers:

Paulos Katsàros, Simos Batzakis, Costa Konstantinou

Other Credits:

Cinematography: Simos Batzakis, Costa Konstantinou; Music: Caroline Mirkes, Irinaios Sapounas

Duration:

0:15:20

Country of Origin:

Austria

Language:

German

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Drama, Film Noir, Political Thriller

Completion Date:

2022-04-30

An Enchanted Fight

Synopsis:

An Argentinian activist remembers old melodies, while a choir in Marseille is organising itself to support resistance movements.

Why fight while singing? What do these songs convey?

The director explores on a personal level the relationships between music, politics and emotions.

Directors:

Maya Perusin Mysorekar

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Maya Perusin Mysorekar

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:30:00

Country of Origin:

France

Language:

French, German, Spanish

Project Type:

Documentary, Short, Student

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2021-01-31

Between the lines

Synopsis:

A little street rose seller attempts to change her own destiny by erasing the lines of her palms.

BETWEEN THE LINES is the tale of Bella, a little girl who lives in a folkloristic town at the brink of a presidential election with a nationalist party that seems to be the favorite. Isolated and neglected in a context that is repetitive, uniform, emotionally disconnected and narrow-minded, Bella's sixth sense and youthful imagination make the magic happen. In spite of the monotony of her life, the little girl still grasps an original solution to her problems through her own interpretation of a publicity poster hung on the pharmacy's door that she crosses daily. With a little help from 'supernatural' characters, who unknowingly assist her perform her own poetic act of empowerment, Bella figures out her destiny is quite literally in her hands and can have a decisive turnaround.

Directors:

Faraz Alam

Key Cast:

Aisha Viola Diagne, Nunzia Mita, Letizia Porcari, Guglielmo Bartoli

Writers:

Laura Di Nitto, Karolina Malinowska

Producers:

Laura Di Nitto

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:15:00

Country of Origin:

Czech Republic

Language:

-

Project Type:

Short, Student, Other

Genres:

children, magic realism

Completion Date:

2020-01-01

Dear Rosa

Synopsis:

To Rosa Luxemburg and the many other woman comrades who have fought and are fighting for a just world.

Directors:

Gaele Sobott

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Gaele Sobott

Producers:

Gaele Sobott

Other Credits:

Animation: Daria Oks; Sound Design: Latif Rabhi; Editor: Miriana Marusic

Duration:

0:02:06

Country of Origin:

Australia

Language:

English

Project Type:

Animation

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

-

DYSTOPIA

Synopsis:

DYSTOPIA is a film about gentrification in Oporto. Over 13 years the film depicts that fast process of change in the city.

The expulsion of the poor and the outcasts opens the way to rampant real estate speculation, intensive gentrification, the death of traditional commerce. DYSTOPIA is a portrait of some of those changes.

Directors:

Tiago Afonso

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Tiago Afonso

Producers:

Tiago Afonso, Rodrigo Areias

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:01:07

Country of Origin:

Portugal

Language:

Portuguese

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2021-10-01

Eat The Rich

Synopsis:

You are what you eat.

Directors:

Niven Wilson

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:10:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Language:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Short

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2022-04-27

Free Your Body!

Synopsis:

Nothing is normal, everything is different' A historical event takes place in Rome in May 2018. The first ever university Pride unfolds in La Sapienza, the largest university in Europe, organised by Prisma, its resident LGBTQIA+ student collective. Free Your Body! tells their lives, their ideals, their politics, their fight for a queer revolution and a different, better world. “Queer communism not rainbow capitalism.”

Directors:

Fabiomassimo Lozzi

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Fabiomassimo Lozzi

Producers:

Fabiomassimo Lozzi, Marco Aquilanti, Giampietro Preziosa

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:37:22

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2021-05-08

HOMECOMING OF THE ASPARAGUS CUTTERS

Synopsis:

The film project “Homecoming of the Asparagus Cutters”, which consists of 12 different images, leads through metaphorical, surreal and black humor-oriented worlds of association. In parts explicit, when Günter Schabowski quotes the opening of the wall at the grill or champagne socialists wait for the never-coming bus, as in Bekett's “Waiting for Godot”, in parts surreal, when the Loreley splashes in the whirlpool or a lobster in a church ruin from Neue Femininity World is brought. In “The Homecoming of the Asparagus Cutters” the unconscious, the dreamlike emerges from the shadows into the light and unfolds an emotional image of a turning generation that wants to forget a lot and mourns others.

Directors:

Lara Scherpinski

Key Cast:

Susanne Bredehöft, Manolo Bertling, Anna-Sophie Schindler

Writers:

Sasha Nikita Waserhahn

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

DOP: Rebecca Meining

Duration:

0:15:28

Country of Origin:

Germany

Language:

German

Project Type:

Experimental

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2021-10-28

IL MAI NATO

Synopsis:

The incredible story of Sarò Messina, the baby who refused to be born, barricading himself inside the maternal womb as a form of protest, igniting a global revolution and becoming a Worldwide symbol. This mockumentary tackles the contradictions of today's society through the use of magical naturalism, in a way similar to Woody Allen and Italo Calvino.

Directors:

Tania Innamorati, Gregory J. Rossi

Key Cast:

AURORA PERES, GUIDO TORLAI, GIORGIO MELETTI, EVA ALLENBACH, ALESSANDRO MANTOVANI

Writers:

Tania Innamorati, Gregory J. Rossi

Producers:

Tania Innamorati, Le Bestevem

Other Credits:

DOP: ILYA SAPHEA; EDIT: SUSANNA LATTANZI; SOUND: LORENZO CORVI; MUSIC: RICCARDO AMORESE

Duration:

0:20:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Mockumentary

Completion Date:

2021-12-02

Defeated But Not Conquered.

Synopsis:

Defeated But Not Conquered is a documentary that denounces violence against women before, during and after the Franco dictatorship.

Directors:

Mau Cardoso

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Mau Cardoso

Producers:

María Augusta Cardoso

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:53:00

Country of Origin:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

Feminista, Derechos Humanos, Mujer, Independiente

Completion Date:

2021-10-31

Lasting Formation

Synopsis:

In his film "Heimatkunde" (The lasting formation), the director returns to the school building of his childhood. For almost 25 years it lay empty, seemingly waiting to be revived. The remains of socialist education are pasted over, hidden, forgotten.

In tentative interviews with contemporary witnesses we are gradually coming nearer to the systematic manipulation of the child's mind. In this way, it becomes understandable how the dictatorship functioned and turned into the commonplace "that's just the way it is", which still exists today and thwarts any criticism of and debate about history.

However, overcoming the German "duality" remains impossible without looking back and reappraising this form of education that generated the authoritarian mind.

Directors:

Christian Bäucker

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Christian Bäucker

Other Credits:

Camera: Joanna Piechotta; Montage: Michelle Barbin

Duration:

1:28:00

Country of Origin:

Germany

Language:

German

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

History

Completion Date:

2021-05-05

Of Wood

Synopsis:

"Of Wood" is a unique experimental stop motion film created by progressively carving images in a large round of wood, enhanced with wooden objects coming out of the wood. It examines the role of wood in daily life through the ages and comments on the impact of consumerism on our lives.

Directors:

Owen Klatte

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:06:59

Country of Origin:

United States

Language:

-

Project Type:

Animation, Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2022-02-07

Resisters

Synopsis:

Located in Berlin and framed by a personal voiced address to the revolutionary Marxist Rosa Luxemburg, the film brings the largely silenced stories of ordinary individuals who resisted fascism during the Third Reich, often at the cost of their own lives, into the present. In contrast to large state memorials to the victims of the Holocaust many of the individual resisters to the Nazis are memorialised by Stolpersteine, small stumbling blocks in the pavements outside the buildings where they lived. Their stories are put in conversation with contemporary resistance against the right-wing nationalist party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) through the activities of the Berlin branch of the group Omas Gegen Rechts (Grandmothers Against the Right).

Directors:

Jill Daniels

Key Cast:

Gertrud Graf, Walter Peterson

Writers:

Jill Daniels

Producers:

Jill Daniels

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:59:00

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Language:

English, German

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Feature

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2021-10-31

RUA DO PRIOR 41

Synopsis:

Lisboa, 1974.

Franco Lorenzoni, a militant in his twenties of Lotta Continua, the most important Italian extra-parliamentary group of the 70s, occupies a house in Rua do Prior 41.

Over the following months, that house will become the headquarters of the Associação de Amizade Revolucionária Portugal-Italia, that will bring hundreds of young people from all over the world see with their own eyes the freest country in Europe.

A journey into one of the lesser known chapters in the history of the Carnation Revolution, to relive the dreams, hopes and disappointments of a generation of boys and girls who for a short, exciting moment believed they would change the world.

A glaze to the past to understand the present, and start imagining a different future again.

Directors:

LORENZO D'AMICO CARVALHO

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

LORENZO D'AMICOD'AMICO CARVALHO

Producers:

ISABEL CHAVES

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:17:35

Country of Origin:

Portugal

Language:

English, Italian, Portuguese

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2021-03-01

Spirit Workers Union

Synopsis:

A short film by the co-writer of The Forbidden Room, Spirit Workers Union features a cast made up of numerous Winnipeg rail workers (including the director's father, who worked as a railroad electrician for 37 years) to tell the story of group of ghost workers who decide to form a union.

Directors:

Bob Kotyk

Key Cast:

Matt Phelps, Mike Kotyk, Marisa Berry Méndez

Writers:

Bob Kotyk

Producers:

Bob Kotyk

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:13:00

Country of Origin:

Canada

Language:

English

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Drama, Comedy, Adventure

Completion Date:

2017-08-23

Tank 17

Synopsis:

An enthusiastic AI robot tank is sent to a war he does not understand.

Directors:

Brian Larrimer

Key Cast:

Brian Larrimer

Writers:

Brian Larrimer

Producers:

Brian Larrimer

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:02:07

Country of Origin:

United States

Language:

English

Project Type:

Animation

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2022-02-11

THE COURT JESTER

Synopsis:

A Court Jester, "Public Official" of a warlike and decadent empire, wistful recounts his thoughts and questions about the power, while your king is sleeping. Accompanied by a throne, a skull, a bird of death, called Urubu and a soundscape that dialogs with the text, this epic monologue-comical a silly distills sarcastic discource against a government inept, corrupt and violent.

Directors:

LUIZ ROSEMBERG FILHO

Key Cast:

ALEXANDRE DACOSTA, ALEXANDRE DACOSTA

Writers:

LUIZ ROSEMBERG FILHO

Producers:

JOÃO LANARI, LUIZ ROSEMBERG FILHO e ALEXANDRE DACOSTA

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:10:00

Country of Origin:

Brazil

Language:

Portuguese

Project Type:

Experimental, Feature, Other

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2020-01-10

The Loud Spring

Synopsis:

Since the beginning of the UN climate conferences in 1992, annual CO2 emissions have not decreased, but increased by 60%. Why? What could a society look like that would be able to curb climate change?

In the climate movement, there is a growing realisation that capitalism and climate protection are incompatible, but there is no idea of how we can bring about a change in the system. The Loud Spring outlines what the profound change that we need might look like.

In a situation where public awareness of the drastic consequences of climate change is growing rapidly, the film draws attention to the elephant in the room: where does the political power to actually change things come from?

In THE LOUD SPRING, director and producer Johanna Schellhagen asks what needs to be done to curb barbarism, chaos and mass hunger in the unfolding climate catastrophe. The film was realised by labournet.tv.

On the visual level, THE LOUD SPRING works with an exciting style mix of documentary footage and animation. The latter are penned by the successful "graphic novel" artist Lee Lai.

Directors:

Johanna Schellhagen

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Johanna Schellhagen

Producers:

Johanna Schellhagen

Other Credits:

Camera: Micaela Masetto, Paoloa Calvo, Ariane Timea Wagner, Aline Juárez Contreras, Rocío Rodriquez; Sound: Ariane Timea Wagner, Julien Bach; Illustrations: Lee Lai; Music: Tomi Simatupang; Production assistant: Ariane Timea Wagner, Carla Hartmann

Duration:

1:02:00

Country of Origin:

Germany

Language:

English, German

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2022-08-04

The Village Detective: a song cycle

Synopsis:

In July 2016, four reels of "Derevensy Detektiv", a 1969 Russian film starring the Soviet-era character actor Mikhail Zharov (1899-1981), were found in a fisherman's net trawling the bottom of the Atlantic, 20 miles off the Icelandic coast. The recovered footage is combined with interviews and clips from Zharov's lengthy filmography to reflect the ways in which life, history, and art intersect and endure on celluloid.

Directors:

Bill Morrison

Key Cast:

Mikhail Zharov, Peter Bagrov, Erlendur Sveinsson

Writers:

Bill Morrison

Producers:

Bill Morrison, Maria Vinogradova, Madeleine Molyneaux

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:17:23

Country of Origin:

United States

Language:

English, Icelandic, Russian

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2020-07-01

Under the Shadow of the Wall

Synopsis:

This video essay focuses on the landscapes of the Sonoran Desert—and the project of a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico—as a way of investigating the manner in which something as seemingly generic as a wall can take on particular political and affective forms. This short provocation explores the ways that violent and distasteful objects create, and subsequently come to characterize, malevolent spectacles.

Directors:

Taylor Genovese

Key Cast:

Laiken Jordahl

Writers:

Taylor Genovese

Producers:

Taylor Genovese, Dick Powis

Other Credits:

Director of Photography: Taylor Genovese; Editor: Taylor Genovese; Original Score: Dick Powis

Duration:

0:09:29

Country of Origin:

United States

Language:

English

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2022-01-10

voices and locks

Synopsis:

The friendship of two children, one Armenian and the other Kurdish, is negatively affected by the suppression of the state on the Armenians. Will Gaspar be able to find what he hopes to find, by returning to his village in pursuit of his childhood memories 40 years after immigrating to the USA?

Directors:

ilham Bakır

Key Cast:

Kalender Macit, Hasan Macit

Writers:

ilham Bakır

Producers:

Zinar Karabaş, Nesrin Brandwagt-bORAN, Dilzar Arif Hassan

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:20:00

Country of Origin:

Turkey

Language:

Armenian, Kurdish

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2022-01-05

Albanian Cinema Paradiso

Synopsis:

The Albanian cinema of the 1950-1990s has played a significant role in forming the collective historical memory of those who watched it. Gllava’s film shines a light on the heritage, hidden meanings and visual beauty of the Albanian cinema of the 1950-1990s, this mysterious and largely unknown subject from Albania’s Communist regime, one of the most securely closed-off regimes in Eastern Europe, comparable only to today’s North Korea.

What we are looking at is the dreams and hopes of the Albanians through films from that era in the context of the significant influence from the Soviet propaganda machine and the classic tradition of the European and especially Italian and French cinema.

Directors:

Elton Gllava

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Andrea Arena, Liza Faktor

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:15:57

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Short, Television

Genres:

Art, History

Completion Date:

2019-06-30

Amori

Synopsis:

The documentary opens with a tribute to Pasolini and his Comizi D’amore (1965). The authors start from that brief homage and take us on a new journey, more intimate and less political, to investigate love in its various forms. It is the feeling par excellence, but also the most unfathomable, to the point that a single voice is not enough to describe it. Amori collects the testimonies of needs, detachments, losses, compromises, explorations, purity, tenacity, salvation and consolation. A documentary about love, but, above all, about those who love. A small open window on a vast and often superficially addressed topic. As the authors themselves write, it is "a small film stirring among sharks in the open sea".

Directors:

Stefano Ceccarelli, Gabriele Anastasio

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Laborario cinema Gabriele Anastasio - Perugia, Regione Umbria, Stefano Ceccarelli

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:00:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2020-03-10

ARCHEOLOGY OF ERROR

Synopsis:

a man and a woman cross the rubble of their history while voiceovers bring out glimpses of the history of a city in constant transformation. Only Poetry clarifies the mystery of its words

Directors:

marco perri

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

marco perri

Producers:

marco perri

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:26:01

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

French

Project Type:

Experimental

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2020-09-11

BATACLAN

Synopsis:

A French girl, daughter of second-generation immigrants, walks into a police station to report her brother Jamil's involvement in the imminent terrorist attacks at the Stade de France and Bataclan, but the policewoman she encounters has an unexpected reaction.

-

ITALIAN: Una ragazza francese va in un commissariato per denunciare che il fratello Jamil è coinvolto nell’organizzazione degli imminenti attentati allo Stade de France e al Bataclan, ma l’atteggiamento della poliziotta non è quello che lei si aspetta.

Partendo da un fatto di cronaca che tutti conoscono e che si è indelebilmente segnato nella storia recente e sulla nostra pelle, le due protagoniste del film portano gli spettatori all’interno di una riflessione archetipica sui fondamenti della nostra società.

ITALIAN SUBTITLES HERE: https://vimeo.com/444163081 (premiere72)

Directors:

Emanuele Aldrovandi

Key Cast:

Astrid Meloni, Olivia Corsini, Ugo Fiore, Alberto Malanchino, Idrissia Ferich

Writers:

Emanuele Aldrovandi

Producers:

Mike Pagliarulo

Other Credits:

DOP: Alessandro Vezzani; Editor: Davide Vizzini; Costumer: Costanza Maramotti; Production Designer: Silvia Negri; Hair and Makeup: Matilde Davolio; Sound: Andrea Morselli, Matteo Bendinelli

Duration:

0:15:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

French

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2020-08-02

Deliver You

Synopsis:

After being fired, a man decides to find a job as a delivery rider, but the day he brings some pizzas to Alice, he understands that the world is not as good as he always dreamed of.

Directors:

Massimiliano Reina

Key Cast:

Nicolò Smerilli, Alice Violaine Saletta

Writers:

Massimiliano Reina

Producers:

Massimiliano Reina

Other Credits:

Editor: Massimiliano Reina; Director of Photography: Carlo Beniamino Madoglio; Associate Producer: Davide De Bernardi; Score Composer: Carlo Elia Praderio; Piano Composer: Giorgio Reina; Make Up Artist: Gaia Vasquez

Duration:

0:17:28

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

English

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Drama, Action

Completion Date:

2021-07-23

Dove hai messo Cappuccetto Rosso

Synopsis:

-

Directors:

Francesco Cabras

Key Cast:

Marco Graziosi

Writers:

Francesco Cabras

Producers:

Marco Graziosi

Other Credits:

Authors: Marco Graziosi; Name of Band or Artist: Marco Graziosi

Duration:

0:04:02

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Project Type:

Music Video

Genres:

pop, indie, songwriter

Completion Date:

2021-01-22

Dragon's chair

Synopsis:

São Paulo, 1971. During the military dictatorship, Yara and Luiz are arrested for the murder of a businessman close to the regime. In the basement of the Department of Social and Political Order (DOPS), questioning runs differently. Inspired in true stories.

Directors:

Gabriel S. Mendes

Key Cast:

Stephanie Degreas, Fernando Possani, Joca Sanches, Daniel Sapiência

Writers:

Gabriel S. Mendes

Producers:

Ariel Lebensztajn

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:09:55

Country of Origin:

Brazil

Language:

Portuguese

Project Type:

Short, Student

Genres:

Drama, Thriller

Completion Date:

2021-08-30

Father, daughter and old woman

Synopsis:

In a near future, society has become divided into two clearly differentiated and demarcated blocks within each one of the cities and towns all over the world: the rich neighbourhood and the poor neighbourhood. Carmen is a teenager who lives with her father in an old house of the poor area. The Father, due to an accident, can no longer walk, which he tries to conceal from the rest of the people, as he thinks that, if it became known, everybody would regard his daughter as unprotected. It is therefore Carmen who leaves home every day to find work and/or something to eat. Both when she leaves and when she returns, Carmen holds conversations with Cloti, the impoverished old woman who lives on the square in front of her house. Cloti helps Carmen as much as she can and gives her the same advice as her father: “Don’t ever go to the rich neighbourhood.” Former friends of the father discover his State of disability and threaten the daughter. The father faces the two men with deadly consequences that are to irreversibly change Carmen’s already precarious, miserable life.

Directors:

Alfredo Gómez

Key Cast:

Teresa Gómez, Miguel Lorente, Andrea Luque

Writers:

Alfredo Gómez

Producers:

Alfredo Gómez

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:24:46

Country of Origin:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Drama, DDHH

Completion Date:

2020-11-15

Feet of Earth

Synopsis:

The history created classes, generations and genders in itself meanwhile progressing on human-nature contradiction. Yet there was political economy in the cup of people carried on their foot while taking steps through time and space infinity. This documentary aims to probe on our century’s main issues through Middle East along with getting structured on this political economy. While the humankind steps forward, shoes and shoe prints maintain to get form in the hands of humanity with all sorts of language and colors.

Directors:

Ümit Güç

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Ümit Güç

Producers:

Süleyman Bolat

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:22:00

Country of Origin:

Turkey

Language:

Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish

Project Type:

Documentary, Short, Student

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2020-08-05

Franco Fortini - Memories for after tomorrow

Synopsis:

Franco Fortini was one of the most important voices of the 20th century.

Poet, essayist, literary critic, translator and teacher, he had a great influence on the generations and movements of '68, especially among young people. An independent voice, a highly critical spirit, animated by an ethical and moral strenght with few precedents, always striving to find 'truths'. Today his name is almost forgotten, just as many of the ideals for which he fought and lived seem to have faded. The documentary traces Fortini's poetic, political and human formation, recovering from the "rubble of the past" what can still be precious for our present and useful for our future. This is not just a personal project, it is the result of a series of experiences and encounters, the fruit of many voices coming together to create a collective image of Franco Fortini. This film was made thanks to the support of 225 crowdfunders and has been developed with the collaboration of the Fortini's Archive in Siena.

Directors:

Lorenzo Pallini

Key Cast:

Cecilia Mangini, Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo, Luca Lenzini

Writers:

Elisabetta Galgani, Lorenzo Pallini

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:07:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

Biopic, Poetry, Culture, Literature, Politics

Completion Date:

2020-11-28

Genocide

Synopsis:

In the square of Trocadero, em Paris, a video-art GÉNOCIDE appears as a potent form of resistance.

In the memory of all the victims of the Brazilian genocide.

Brazil dies a little more each day when its people are cut short by the pandemic, it is the second most affected country, with a real number of victims ten times more than announced. Great part of its precarious and exploited population is once again sacrificed at the altar of profits by an insatiable minority, willing to endorse all forms of crime in order to preserve their privileges.

Brazil dies a little more everyday when its fragile democracy is attacked by a gang of mobsters, who arrived in the presidency through rigged elections, and implicitly authorize all forms of racist and homophobic violence against opposing politicians, environmentalists, native peoples and media professionals. They encourage the destruction of forests and natural reservations, delivered by the unlimited appetite of agrobusiness giants and unscrupulous exploiters.

With Brazil a bit of the beauty of the world, of human and environmental diversity and magic are attacked every day. Under the deafening silence of democracies, in particular of European countries, that pretend that nothing serious is happening, they continue their business with a cynical and mortal government, which overrides all principles.

However, another Brazil is still possible.

Directors:

Liliane Mutti

Key Cast:

Silvia Capanema, Marcia Tiburi, Gabriella Scheer

Writers:

Liliane Mutti

Producers:

Daniel Zarvos

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:04:21

Country of Origin:

Brazil

Language:

French, Portuguese

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2020-06-22

GEORGE FLOYD: SAY THEIR NAMES (VIDEO)

Synopsis:

When will the "last" time be the LAST time? Chris Oledude's single "George Floyd" has now been re-presented in the powerful video, "George Floyd: Say Their Names." America's struggle for equality and fairness throughout law enforcement parallels those struggles faced by minority groups in every society where the majority feels empowered to disregard civil and human rights. The powerful protests that erupted worldwide after George Floyd's murder in May, 2020, are celebrated here. The enduring power of Black women as determined healers of a torn community is celebrated here. The victims had names. We honor their lives by saying their names.

The pressure for change must continue. No justice? No peace!

Directors:

Christopher R. Owens, Alyssa Dann (Student)

Key Cast:

Wendy Ward, The Angels of Transformation Dancers, Chris Oledude

Writers:

Christopher R. Owens, Music & Lyrics

Producers:

CESO ENTERPRISES, INC.

Other Credits:

Editors: Alyssa Dann (Student); Videographer: Matthew Bernard

Duration:

0:06:59

Country of Origin:

United States

Language:

English

Project Type:

Experimental, Music Video, Short, Student, Other

Genres:

social justice, civil rights, human rights, black, African-American

Completion Date:

2020-10-19

Goodbye, Susana

Synopsis:

Marcela, a Colombian girl has just arrived in Spain after the recent death of her daughter. He needs to overcome the drama lived and accept it psychologically. She thinks she’s already done it, but she doesn’t. Spain will bring bitter moments but beautiful surprises as well.

Directors:

Rubén Pascual Tardío, Chando Luna

Key Cast:

Laura Arjona, Cristina Piaget, Chando Luna, Leni Rico, Beatriz Rico

Writers:

Rubén Pascual Tardío

Producers:

Rubén Pascual Tardío, Chando Luna, Victor Maria Camposeo, Mamen Mosteiro, Alina Nastase, Daniel Rimon, Leni Rico, Tony Soto

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:22:06

Country of Origin:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Drama, Social, Human Rights, Inmigration

Completion Date:

2020-01-31

Indonesia’s 1965 Genocide: 

Germany’s Unknown War Against Communism

Synopsis:

In 1965, the Western-backed Indonesian Army and paramilitary groups used an attempt-ed coup as a pretext to murder between 500,000 and three million people accused of be-ing affiliated with the communist party or supporting leftist politics.

But the Army did not act alone. Redfish dug through Germany’s archives and found never-revealed incriminating evidence of the country’s involvement in the Genocide at the height of the Cold War and just 20 years following the defeat of fascism in WWII.

Directors:

Souleyman Messalti, Hüseyin Dogru

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Souleyman Messalti, Emrah Cilasun

Producers:

Souleyman Messalti, Hüseyin Dogru

Other Credits:

Executive Producer: Hüseyin Dogru

Duration:

0:45:04

Country of Origin:

Germany

Language:

English, German

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2021-06-30

Liberation Drills

Synopsis:

"Liberation Drills" is the untold story of the Puerto Rican protest wave of 2016-2019, which culminated with the resignation of governor Ricardo Rosselló. The poor Caribbean colony has a massive economic crisis, and unpayable debt to Wall Street bondholders, which triggered an anti-austerity movement where young people take to the streets to demand the cancellation of the country's public debt, and organized community centers in urban and rural areas to address hunger in the aftermath of climate disasters. This documentary follows “Jornada: Se Acabaron las Promesas” movement as they face a Fiscal Control Board appointed by the US Congress that pressures the Puerto Rican government to make cuts to public services to pay the bondholders. In this struggle young generations are fighting for their basic rights, as they also reimagine the liberation and future of their country. This documentary is a portrait of Puerto Rico's new fight against US Colonialism.

Directors:

Juan C. Dávila Santiago

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Music: Aníbal S. Vidal Quintero; Graphic Arts: BEMBA

Duration:

2:00:30

Country of Origin:

Puerto Rico

Language:

English, Spanish

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2022-01-01

Marzo. Cronache di una vita

Synopsis:

-

Directors:

Diego Venezia

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Diego Venezia

Producers:

Italo Poma, Aicvas, Associazione italiana combattenti antifascisti di Spagna, Anppia, Associazione nazionale perseguitati politici italiani antifascisti

Other Credits:

Director of photography: Marco Ronchi; Film editor: Marco Ronchi, Diego Venezia

Duration:

1:06:24

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2020-09-15

Poison

Synopsis:

In a world where the working system is falling appart, Poison is a porn performer and actress. Away from the monetary and working sytem, she uses the stage to express her fears, her doubts, her anger, and to empower herself.

Directors:

Louve Dubuc Babinet

Key Cast:

Maria Veneno

Writers:

Louve Dubuc Babinet

Producers:

Atelier Jeunes Cinéastes

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:19:10

Country of Origin:

Belgium

Language:

French

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Short

Genres:

Queer, LBGTQ, Feminism, Work

Completion Date:

2020-02-03

Portrait of a missionary

Synopsis:

Father Charbonnier has spent 60 years of his life announcing the Gospel of Christ to Asia, China. his reflexion and research, Christian Faith melts into Chinese culture where it flourishes. he enters deeply into the Buddhist and Taoist ways as well as into the spiritual background of Chinese Marxism.

Film was produced and directed by Yin Xin, It is his first feature film.

Directors:

YIN xin

Key Cast:

John Charbonnier

Writers:

John Charbonnier

Producers:

YIN xin

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:20:00

Country of Origin:

France

Language:

Chinese

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2021-04-05

RePresente - The future is ours

Synopsis:

Argentina's social movements generate viable alternatives of economies and human relations within a crisis-ridden, exploitative, neoliberal and neo-colonial economic system.

RePresente is a documentary that seeks to open a space for voices, explanations, anecdotes but also images and dynamics of a world that does not stop to inspire us - a world that provides us with new inputs for debate, criticism and creation. The protagonists of this story are members of social movements and organizations who carried out the struggles during the last years and keep on building viable alternatives to the crisis-ridden system on a daily basis.

It also points out the structural reasons for the severe situation in Argentina after four years of explicit neoliberalism and examines the influence of the International Monetary Fund and the G20 in the region. At the same time, it talks about the hope for a better future, about alternatives generated by movements that act in the field of feminism, self-managed and cooperative economies as well as ecological and community-supported agriculture.

The documentary is a collaboration between German and Argentine alternative media collectives which has its origin in the intense days of December 2018 when the G20 summit took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Directors:

Dario Farcy, Bettina Müller, Joana Splieth, Tina Wilke

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Dario Farcy

Producers:

Bettina Müller, Tina Wilke

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:00:00

Country of Origin:

Germany

Language:

Spanish

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

documentary

Completion Date:

2020-03-07

SOLAMENTE TU (ONLY YOU)

Synopsis:

A manager and his firm. Power, greed, and decay. When the social relations that wealth entailed break, only one bond of loyalty seems to resist: that with a dog.

Directors:

EMILIANO LOCATELLI

Key Cast:

ENZO SALVI, IVAN BORAGINE, EMY BERGAMO, LEONARDO BOCCI, ANDREA DI GIAMBATTISTA, CHIARA POLIDORO, IVANO ZANCHI, DANILO CRISTOFARO, EMILIANO LOCATELLI, FABRIZIO PACIFICI, CHIARA ALESSANDRINI

Writers:

EMILIANO LOCATELLI, ENZO SALVI

Producers:

WHITEDUST PRODUCTIONS in collaboration with LATINA FILM COMMISSION

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:20:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

-

SOUND OF MOUNTAIN

Synopsis:

When a family is forced to move out of the house where they have lived for several generations, their love for the land is revealed in silence.

Directors:

Naichen Xiao, Ming Qin

Key Cast:

Xiaoning Zheng, Chunyi Liu, Xiuyun Yang

Writers:

Naichen Xiao

Producers:

Yunhao Wang

Other Credits:

Cinematographer: Linweiqiao Sheng, Meixiao Song; Editor: Chunzi Li; Sound Supervisor: Songyue Liu; Composer: Longfei Sun; Colorist: Naichen Xiao; Assistant Director: Yufei Zhao, Yuhan Huang; Script Supervisor: Dian Zhang; Production Assistant: Zhongqun Rao; Gaffer: Dong Li; DIT: Songyue Liu

Duration:

0:21:45

Country of Origin:

China

Language:

Chinese

Project Type:

Short, Student

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2021-05-26

Suspensions, Infinite

Synopsis:

Suspensions, Infinite examines the language of propaganda films to create an experimental essay film on vanishing forms of working, cycles of exploitation, and the role of human attention (as a labor form in itself) within surveillance capitalism.

Through a cinematic portrait of a Portuguese family's labor histories from 1900-2002, a continuum is exposed, about life as an immigrant, as a queer person, as almost-working class, and as astute observers of power imbalances within our current means of connection.

Directors:

Patricia Silva

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Patricia Silva

Producers:

Patricia Silva

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:11:00

Country of Origin:

Portugal

Language:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media

Genres:

immigration, essay film, labor

Completion Date:

2019-05-01

TEBHAGA- THE SANGUINEOUS HARVEST

Synopsis:

On the verge of its independence, 'Undivided-India' witnessed many associative freedom movements among which 'Tebhaga' is a citable name. In protest of the exploitation of landlords and British Government, peasants of Dinajpur district mainly and other places of 'Undivided-India' also sacrificed their lives and honor for salvation of right.

Directors:

swarnayu Maitra

Key Cast:

Farmer

Writers:

swarnayu Maitra

Producers:

Film Dots, Swarnayu Maitra, Subhra Sankar Roy Chowdhury

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:22:45

Country of Origin:

India

Language:

Bengali

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2021-02-02

14 July

Synopsis:

14 July is a compelling story reexamining the year 1982 and the Kurdish political prisoners who started an indefinite hunger strike to protest the brutal and inhuman conditions in one of the world’s most brutal prisons, the Diyarbakir Prison in Turkey. 14 July in not a political statement but instead intends to shed light on the prisoner's stories and struggle for freedom, examining the reasons that drove the hunger strike and the psychological effects such a protest had on the strikers.

Showcasing the historical account of 14 July is more relevant than ever as indefinite Kurdish Hunger Strikes has again begun in Turkish Prisons. The director's brother has been in prison for 21 years defending free speech and is now on his 68th day of hunger strike, alongside other hunger strikers whose resistance has reached the 180 day landmark.

Directors:

Haşim Aydemir

Key Cast:

Suat Usta, Şahin Yalçin, Nedim Rojhat Yeşilçinar, Tahsin Ozmen, Bülent Keser

Writers:

Metin Ewr, Ilham Bakir, Mehmet Emin Engizek

Producers:

Yapim 13

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

2:45:00

Country of Origin:

Turkey

Language:

Kurdish, Turkish

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2017-02-23

16 District, 16 Floors, 16 People

Synopsis:

“16 District, 16 Floors, 16 People”, is a short film featuring a district in Yerevan, Armenia, where the legacy of the Soviet Union still occupies the minds and daily lives of the residents living in these huge unfinished monolithic structures built to write the letters CCCP.

The film highlights the communities everyday issues and concerns, linking the past and present with all its changes and difficulties of the people once living in a superpower that’s become a decaying empire.

Directors:

Tatevik Vardanyan

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Tatevik Vardanyan

Producers:

Tatevik Vardanyan

Other Credits:

Director Assistant: Vahe Nersisyan; Executive Producer: Garo Berberian; Aerial Photography: Alex Tarverdi; Graphic Designer: Razmik Zatikyan

Duration:

0:19:45

Country of Origin:

Armenia

Language:

Armenian

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

documentary, short

Completion Date:

2018-02-01

1944. Crimea. Deportation

Synopsis:

In 1944 Crimean Tatars has suffered a long road in exile. It was accompanied by famine, illness and loss. In the first years of exile, almost half of deported Crimean Tatars died. But those, who survived, dreamed of only one thing – to return to Crimea.

The documentary 1944 tells about the tragedy of all Crimean Tatars through several separate life stories. They are cherished by each Crimean Tatar family and must be remembered by all generations to come.

Directors:

Fatima Osman, Yunus Pasha

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Mavile Khalil

Producers:

Oleg Shcherbyna, Julia Chernyavska

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:02:06

Country of Origin:

Ukraine

Language:

-

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

-

A GLORIOUS DELEGATION TO PYONGYANG

Synopsis:

April 25, 2018 four friends, coming from different parts of the western word, leave for North Korea during the meeting between Kim Jung-un and Moon Jae-in.

They accompany one of them, Davide Rossi, essayist, journalist, teacher and member of the Communist Party (Switzerland), who has received an invitation from the Central Committee of the Worker’s Party in Pyongyang. He brings as a gift to the Koreans his latest book, entitled: “The Present-day Relevancy of Marx.”

The film follow the four friends in their daily confrontation of ideas and opinions that, beyond their political and ideological believes, document the life and the desire of reunion of the People’s Republic, a country that exists in a parallel universe with the rest of the world.

Their journey ends on May 1st in Beijing, where the four friends decide to ask the Chinese, the today's most important economic power in the world, what they think about Socialism and Karl Marx.

Directors:

PEPI ROMAGNOLI

Key Cast:

DAVIDE ROSSI

Writers:

PEPI ROMAGNOLI

Producers:

Michelangelo Pastore

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:30:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

French, Italian, Russian, Spanish

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

Historical

Completion Date:

2018-09-14

A Home History

Synopsis:

One's home can tell more than a story. It can tell History.

Directors:

Tomaso Aramini

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:16:12

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

English, Italian, Russian

Project Type:

Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2018-07-28

AT 3 KM FROM REVOLUTION

Synopsis:

The account of a political and cultural defeat in the South of Italy.

In the 70s, communist members briefly succeed to govern Orta Nova. The dream of waking the city from its lethargy gets systematically shattered by deception and moral shallowness. Today, older, disenchanted, they witness history repeating itself.

Directors:

Angelo Casto

Key Cast:

Lino Gaeta

Writers:

Angelo Casto

Producers:

Angelo Casto

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:56:22

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2021-01-04

Basta Capital

Synopsis:

In 2020, in a social context more tense than ever, a community of activists loses one of their own after he is killed by police at a protest. Motivated by this drama, they decide to kidnap CEOs from the CAC 40 in order to force President Emmanuel Macron to apply anti-capitalist policies.

Directors:

Pierre Zellner

Key Cast:

Jean-Jacques Vanier, Guillaume Meurice, Charline Vanhoenacker, Anne-Laure Gruet, Antoine Jouanolou

Writers:

Pierre Zellner

Producers:

Zellner Pierre

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:36:47

Country of Origin:

France

Language:

French

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

Drama, politic, suspense

Completion Date:

2018-08-01

BEO

Synopsis:

Born in 1920, Beo narrates the hills of Montefeltro are the background where episodes of past life - fields, sharecropping, war, resistance, political militancy, emigration - and daily life – kitchen garden, bees, thoughts on the world and mankind are narrated as a tale of personal story. A tale of words and images speaking of humanity, dignity and resistance. An original perspective to recall a whole century, the '900, through an extraordinary witness.

Directors:

Stefano Viali , Francesca Pirani

Key Cast:

Pompilio Baldacci, Elisa Rossi, Francesca Micheletti

Writers:

Francesca Micheletti, Francesca Pirani, Stefano Viali

Producers:

Stefano Viali

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:00:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2017-12-27

BETWEEN PAIN AND AMEN

Synopsis:

A young composer and double bass virtuoso, who returns to Romania after studying in Vienna, is arrested by the political police soon after getting engaged and taken to the Pitesti prison, where a brainwashing and torture-based experiment is under way. The horrible communist experiment, copied after the Soviet model, is headed by the much-feared Ciumau. The composer survives unimaginable torture due to his strong religious belief and composes Ode to God. His music will eventually save his fiancee, Lia.

The film is independent and inspired by true events.

Directors:

Toma Enache

Key Cast:

Vali V. Popescu, Constantin Cotimanis, Kira Hagi, Ana Parvu

Writers:

Elena Enache, Toma Enache, Eugen Cojocariu

Producers:

Toma Enache

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

2:05:05

Country of Origin:

Romania

Language:

Romanian

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

Drama, History

Completion Date:

2019-08-31

Breathing Still

Synopsis:

Part agit-prop, part essay film, Breathing Still creates a compelling portrait of Berlin as the right-wing nationalist party the AfD wins members in Parliament for the first time. Weaving together voice-over, stills, archive and found footage, Daniels’ flaneuse, a follower of the Polish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, who was assassinated by fascists nearly a century ago, explores Berlin’s streets, and memorials to Luxemburg and the Jews who once lived there.

Directors:

Jill Daniels

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Jill Daniels

Producers:

Jill Daniels

Other Credits:

Post Production: John McMullin

Duration:

0:08:07

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Project Type:

Documentary, Experimental, Short

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2018-02-01

Ceremony

Synopsis:

What is the relationship between Manchester in 2017 and the Russian Revolution of 1917? The German philosopher Friedrich Engels, who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, lived for 20 years in the world's first industrial city. Through this founder of communist theory, artist and filmmaker Phil Collins investigates what remains of his ideas in today’s United Kingdom. How would Engels view the world today? And has anything changed for the working poor?

Collins not only brings Engels back "home" metaphorically, but also literally. We follow the journey that a statue of the philosopher makes from a Ukrainian village through Europe and back to Manchester where it was permanently installed as a new public monument. With his visually layered Ceremony, a combination of documentary road movie and social-activist pamphlet, Collins proposes a renewed link between Manchester and the idea of communism as a radical and visionary alternative for the tyranny of capital that keeps a firm grip on our political, economic and emotional lives.

Directors:

Phil Collins

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Phil Collins

Producers:

Sinisa Mitrovic, Natasha Dack Ojumu

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:07:24

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Language:

-

Project Type:

Other

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

-

Challenge

Synopsis:

Documentary about Challenge Newspaper.

Directors:

Flash

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Flash

Producers:

Flash

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:14:09

Country of Origin:

United States

Language:

English

Project Type:

Documentary, Student

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2017-12-12

DEATH MUST BE EARNED

Synopsis:

Death Must Be Earned is the intimate portrait of Serge Livrozet, former safe-cracker, one of the protagonists of 1970s French counter-culture, alongside Michel Foucault founder of the Committee of Prisoner's Action, self-taught writer and anarchist activist. The film portraits him at age 75 in his hometown of Nice where he revisits the pivotal episodes of his life of social struggle and polticial activism.

"The eyes through which Nicolas Drolc sees Serge Livrozet and the eyes through which he invites us to see him are stripped of both othering and compassion. But Nicolas is showing us no circus attraction, but rather a human-being whom he invites us to love alongside him. There is no room for fooling around with useless gimmicks. The portrait he paints is raw and without fanfare or indulgence, steeped in a subjectivity he owns entirely. It is precisely in this rigorous ruggedness that Death must be earned found a unity, a strength and an offbeat poetry."

Jean-Pierre BOUYXOU - Paris - February 2017

Directors:

Nicolas Drolc, DROLC NICOLAS

Key Cast:

LIVROZET SERGE

Writers:

DROLC NICOLAS

Producers:

DROLC NICOLAS

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:30:30

Country of Origin:

France

Language:

French

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2017-03-03

Der Offizier

Synopsis:

"No one knows another person. No one knows mankind."

Der Offizier is leading a hearing when he suddenly finds himself at a disadvantage. Will his own secret finally be revealed?

Directors:

Olof Berghe

Key Cast:

Joel Öman, Gustav Berghe, Sofia Berghe

Writers:

Olof Berghe

Producers:

Olof Berghe

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:01:05

Country of Origin:

Sweden

Language:

German

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2019-06-14

EAST OF OUR MEMORIES

Synopsis:

Hans, Heidi, Mario, Martina and Frank have different backgrounds and ages but they share a certain nostalgia for the GDR. At the dawn of the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, they tell us their disappointments, their discomfort and the still vibrant memory of this past time.

Directors:

Jeanne Nouchi, Marion Verlé

Key Cast:

Claire Chauchat

Writers:

Jeanne Nouchi, Marion Verlé

Producers:

Nadège Labé

Other Credits:

Cinematographer: Nastasja SAERENS; Editor: Stefan RICHTER; Composer: Léopold ROY

Duration:

0:52:47

Country of Origin:

France

Language:

French, German

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2019-10-29

EU GENIU CIOCLEA

Synopsis:

He was born in the family of some country teachers. Having grace and knowing a lucky man went to the mathematics faculty of Moscow's "Lomonosov" University. By marrying the daughter of a senior secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he gets to play chess with Brezhnev, but this only serves him ironically to treat the empire's rulers. He is the author of the most expensive book of poetry in Romanian space, but he dies lonely, starved in his own unheated house and is found by his colleagues only after a few days. It is often compared to the writer Mircea Dinescu, and Claudiu Komartin said that without Eugen Cioclea Romanian poetry would be like a piano with some missing keys.

Directors:

Violeta Gorgos

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Violeta Gorgos

Producers:

Virgiliu Margineanu

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:12:00

Country of Origin:

Moldova, Republic of

Language:

Romanian

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2020-05-13

Godot came

Synopsis:

The film is based on S. Beckett's great play "Waiting for the Gondot". in our short film...has came. A reference to Beckett's great work through the monologue of a lonely man who speaks to his father's suit and explains his encounter with Godot

Directors:

Λευτέρης Τσάτσης

Key Cast:

Λευτέρης Τσάτσης

Writers:

Θανάσης Σκρουμπέλος

Producers:

ΠΡΟ-ΒΟΛΗ

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:15:00

Country of Origin:

Greece

Language:

Modern Greek (1453-)

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2019-07-17

Gramsci 44

Synopsis:

Between 1926 and 1927, the Italian intellectual and Communist political figure Antonio Gramsci spent 44 days imprisoned on the island of Ustica, off the northern coast of Sicily. Together with his fellow prisoners, he founded a school. This unique institution was open to all, welcoming people of all ages and social backgrounds, even the illiterate. Ustica still remembers this revolutionary school. Ustica, remote and neglected, still waits patiently at the harbor, hoping that the boat from the mainland will come.

Directors:

Emiliano Barbucci

Key Cast:

Peppino Mazzotta, Americo Melchionda, Maria Milasi, Davide Cirri

Writers:

Emanuele Milasi

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

Cinematography: Daniele Ciprì; Music: Marco Betta; Production: Ram Film

Duration:

1:06:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2016-03-01

Green Army

Synopsis:

A groupe of ecological terrorists confines a billionaire with a curious mission.

Directors:

Nicolas Kieffer

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Nicolas Kieffer

Producers:

Utopía Collectif Cinéma

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:18:30

Country of Origin:

France

Language:

-

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Sci-Fi, ecology

Completion Date:

2019-04-02

L'Italia liberata, storie partigiane

Synopsis:

-

Directors:

Daniele Biacchessi

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Daniele Biacchessi

Producers:

Daniele Biacchessi

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:29:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Project Type:

Animation, Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2020-02-08

Luxury Eco-communism: 

A Wonderful World is Possible

Synopsis:

The film presents a vision of a communist future that is nonetheless NOT utopian. It begins with present socio-political economic realities and illustrates how such unpleasant/dire situations are the result of capitalist priorities. It analyses the way a world socialist state will arise piece meal capitalist world system. It analyses the relation between communism and ecology.

Directors:

-

Key Cast:

Liza Nicklin

Writers:

Garry Potter

Producers:

Garry Potter

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:10:00

Country of Origin:

Canada

Language:

-

Project Type:

Documentary, Feature

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2019-08-20

Me duele la Memoria

Synopsis:

They had to flee, fight for their lives, resist or go into exile. Our witnesses, Liliana, Joao, Teresa, Hector, Oscar and Alberto saw their lives change dramatically on 11 September 1973. On that day the armed forces of General Pinochet put a brutal end to the Chilean path towards socialism, a project of radical transformation initiated by President Allende and supported by an extraordinary popular movement.

In their moving, dignified and combative accounts, they share their life stories, evoke the difficulties faced in exile and for some, their return to their home country. Their memories are painful but necessary and their legacy a combination of hope and solidarity reminiscent of their fight for a fairer and more egalitarian society.

Directors:

Iara Heredia, Bastien Genoux

Key Cast:

Joao Heredia, Myriam Rachmuth

Writers:

Iara Heredia, Bastien Genoux, Marc Gigase, Daniel Wyss

Producers:

Bastien Genoux

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:13:00

Country of Origin:

Switzerland

Language:

French, Italian, Spanish

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2018-06-15

Milestones

Synopsis:

Milestones is a documentary film about memorial monuments built in former Yugoslavia after World War II. It was the time when art and culture were key vehicles for construction of the new social identity and an educational tool for community. Decades after the dismay of the last socialist traces in the territory of former Yugoslavia, amazing memorial monuments persist to prove that art can survive ideologies and political systems, always finding new paths to the audience.

Directors:

Jelena Radenović

Key Cast:

Miodrag Živković, Olga Manojlović Pintar, Jan Kempenaers, Đorđe Kadijević, Branislav Dimitrijević, Andy Day

Writers:

-

Producers:

Jelena Radenović

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:01:38

Country of Origin:

Serbia

Language:

English, Serbian

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

-

Ocean (Director's cut version 2019) CUBA-RUSSIA

Synopsis:

Small fisherman village outside of Havana. Joel, the oldest brother in the traditional fisherman family, is deeply in love Maricel. By chance, Joel learns that his fiancé got married to someone her family prefers.

Heartbroken, Joel moves to Havana. Hoping to find a new life, he is inpatient to try his luck in the big city, only to discover more betrayals and disappointments. Tragic confrontation leads to Joel’s fall from the grace brining even more drama into his young life.

OCEAN is a moving and somewhat subtle film trying to look at the people in the society where big dreams rarely get realized and human survival gets to the extreme.

Directors:

Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov

Key Cast:

Jorge Luis Castro, Monse Duany González, Alina Rodríguez Ruiz

Writers:

Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov

Producers:

Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:48:00

Country of Origin:

Russian Federation

Language:

Spanish

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2019-01-10

Sankara's orphans

Synopsis:

In 1986, 600 orphans and rural children from Burkina-Faso were sent to Cuba with the mission of learning a trade so they could come back and develop their country, which was undergoing a Revolution. But after the assassination in 1987 of burkinabè President Thomas Sankara, the liquidation of the Revolution by Blaise Compaoré and the end of the Cold War, how were they to return, to build themselves, to exist?

The narrative of this utopia of Red Africa and the epic memories of these children are mixed with the archive images, sometimes reddened by the sand, the heat and the wind, sometimes faded, almost disappearing, thus giving us to see the reminiscences of their revolutionary youth.

Directors:

Géraldine Berger

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Géraldine Berger

Producers:

Sébastien Tézé

Other Credits:

Cinematographer: Julien Bossé; Sound: Jérémie Halbert; Editing: Alexandra Mélot; Original music: Abdoulaye Cissé

Duration:

1:24:08

Country of Origin:

France

Language:

French, Spanish

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2018-11-09

Shoots of Communism on the Tersky Coast of the White Sea

Synopsis:

The historical and ethnographic Expedition of The Association of Northern navigation visited the Tersky coast of the White sea on the yacht "Saint Peter". Long ago, this land has become home to the Pomors people. But the times of peace and tradition have passed. Nowadays it is a rapidly changing land. Wild horses roam along the streets of the villages, windmills stand at the glades, bears look after the lighthouses while the inhabitants almost do not build carbases and do not go fishing. But there is still a place for new shoots and ancient graves on these grounds.

Directors:

Alexander Trofimov

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Alexander Trofimov

Producers:

Alexander Trofimov

Other Credits:

Composer: Herman Vinogradov

Duration:

0:47:00

Country of Origin:

Russian Federation

Language:

Russian

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2019-11-30

Singing a Great Dream

Synopsis:

People's singer, songwriter, and Maoist cultural leader Khusiram Pakhrin's musical journey through nearly 4 decades of political movements and revolution in Nepal.

Directors:

Anna Stirr, Bhakta Syangtan

Key Cast:

Khusiram Pakhrin

Writers:

-

Producers:

Laxmi Syangtan, Sarita Lama

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:39:00

Country of Origin:

Nepal

Language:

English, Nepali

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

Music, Revolutionary, Biography

Completion Date:

2019-10-08

Stalin's dark past

Synopsis:

The information shown in this movie is based on historical sources.

“Stalin's dark past” documentary is shot based on real stories from archives. Bolsheviks of Stalin were gathering money from banks in Tbilisi, Baku, Baku’s oil millionaires each month, and the Nobel brothers were one of those millionaires. Stalin was captured by Tsardom guardians 7 times, he managed to run out of jail in Siberia. In some archives, I found out that he cooperated with a Tsar guardian.

History knows Stalin as a ruthless ruler, an enemy of capitalism, reason for the death of thousands of people. Stalin’s mother wanted to see him as a religious figure. But destiny made him not a religious figure, the biggest dictator of a huge imperial country.

All events shown in this movie are part of history, viewers will learn and take advantage a lot from this documentary, we gathered information for 30 years from archives.

We made this movie based on materials collected from archives for 20 years, it resembles a history book. The ones who select this movie will be grateful because everybody will learn and enjoy. Please help us to sell it. This movie has never been shown to the public. We have submitted to FilmFreeWay at the first place.

Directors:

Jalaladdin Gasimov

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Jalaladdin Gasimov

Producers:

Jalaladdin Gasimov

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:20:00

Country of Origin:

Azerbaijan

Language:

Azerbaijani

Project Type:

Documentary, Short

Genres:

Biography, History

Completion Date:

2019-03-15

Super Zanni Trust 3.0

Synopsis:

Il concept è elementare quanto complesso. Il fotoritocco è uno dei mestieri dell’arte oggi uno dei suoi rami artigiani. Il ricalco, l’appropriazione e lo sconvolgimento delle immagini già esistenti è da tempo uno degli strumenti dell’arte contemporanea.

Zanni trust prendendo questo assunto come sua base di partenza costruisce un’opera politica e linguistica. L’affastellamento degli interventi televisivi (principalmente) ricostruiti sulla base della storia dell’arte – citata ovunque, comunque - o composta in modo estemporaneo a seconda della strada che il video suggerisce, analizza la situazione politica diffusa, l’afasia della politica in mezzo allo schiamazzo. Il rumore del nulla. Un dolce strillare di sottofondo che induce il torpore e quindi il sonno. Zanni Trust si prefigge proprio di cancellare questo effetto narcotico. Lo fa utilizzando gli strumenti propri dell’arte contemporanea appunto il semplice, banale fotoritocco. L’effetto speciale.

Directors:

Osea Cipriani

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Osea Cipriani

Producers:

Osea Cipriani

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:23:00

Country of Origin:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Project Type:

Experimental

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

-

Tank Man

Synopsis:

Tank Man is the story of the iconic gentleman who stood in front of and stopped a line of tanks after the Tienanmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989. All that is known of this man are the images that were recorded of his acts. This film is a speculation of what he went through the day he took his courageous steps 30 years ago.

Directors:

Robert Anthony Peters

Key Cast:

Eddie Shan

Writers:

Robert Anthony Peters

Producers:

Robert Anthony Peters, Curt Chatham

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:14:40

Country of Origin:

United States

Language:

English

Project Type:

Short

Genres:

Drama, history

Completion Date:

2019-02-11

The Forest

Synopsis:

Two couples and their children go on an excursion into the forest. They are young, successful and well-set parts in today's social-political establishment. When their children disappear in a storm, the entire construct of their friendship starts to crumble. What follows is an odyssey through the forests that turns into a metaphysical journey. The forest and the film imagery act as a poetic expression of the inner mind, creating the metaphorical psychogram of a lost culture that desperately looking for a way out and a future. It is a poetic portrait of today's society.

Directors:

Viktor Gasic

Key Cast:

Daniel Fritz, Rene Erler, Sabrina Strehl, Leni Wesselman

Writers:

Viktor Gasic

Producers:

Pavel Sebek, Kim Sun Park, Carlos Naranjo

Other Credits:

Music: Minkyu Kim; Art Director: Stefanie Boike; Cinemtography: Erik Wittbusch, Stefanie Boike, Andreas Wiechers, Andrzej Krol, John Watts; Montage: Art Vigo; Sounddesign: Keiko Imamura; DoP Cinemtography: Viktor Gasic

Duration:

2:18:00

Country of Origin:

Germany

Language:

German

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2018-06-15

The ideal kibbutz

Synopsis:

Daniel, son of a kibbutznik from France, is looking for a kibbutz that would match his dreams.

While crisscrossing Israel, he will visit kibbutz with very different orientations.

Through this journey, we discover a gallery of characters, with their stories, and especially those of their respective kibbutz.

The opportunity to see that kibbutz are still alive and that they remain to this day, the largest community movement in the world.

Directors:

denis khalifa, Rami Katstav, medad gelkoff, oded oppenheim, eytan kapon

Key Cast:

Daniel Benhaim

Writers:

denis khalifa

Producers:

denis khalifa

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:52:00

Country of Origin:

France

Language:

Hebrew

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2018-06-01

The Inspection

Synopsis:

"The Inspection" is a based on facts docudrama - a dramatic picture of last few months in a captive camp for Polish officers before Katyń massacre.

Vasilij Zarubin, a Soviet secret service officer after failed mission in Germany was meant to be executed but the under threat of the WWII, Stalin gives him a chance of compensation: his new mission is to enlist Polish officers from Kozielsk, Starobielsk and Ostashkov stocades to the Soviet Army.

Zarubin’s methods are cynical. Abusing his position in a treacherous way and acting like a friend, he tries to antagonize officers, extract crucial information and incline them to cooperate with the soviet communists. The success of his mission depends on the attitude of Polish officers towards Zarubin’s manipulations. Polish soldiers face a very difficult choice: to submit and betray or to survive. Life and freedom are at stake. In this dramatic situation they have the important reference - their faith. The atmosphere of the movie allows the viewers to understand the horrific situation of Polish officers kept in captivity. The screenplay is based on true, evidenced story.

"Inspection" has been recently awarded Grand Prix at the Festival "Two Theatre" in Sopot as the best Polish TV spectacle.

Directors:

Jacek Raginis-Królikiewicz

Key Cast:

Mariusz Ostrowski, Piotr Głowacki, Przemyslaw Bluszcz, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Marcin Kwasny, Radek Pazura

Writers:

Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Jacek Raginis-Królikiewicz

Producers:

Ewa Millies-Lacroix, Anna Kulawik-Rzońca, Bogna Janiec

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:28:00

Country of Origin:

Poland

Language:

Polish

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

Drama, Historical, Thriller, War, Human Rights, Docudrama

Completion Date:

2018-04-03

The Man In Between

Synopsis:

2001. Steen returns home to Denmark after a grand backpacker tour of Central America. After his arrival, he finds difficulty relating to his family and friends and he decides to move to the capital. But loneliness and everyday life hit him hard.It is as if the worn Vesterbro apartment whispers to him and he feels pursued by something unseen;strange dreams about a Latino girl haunt him.

One day the doorbell rings–he is faced with the charming Carlos,telling him that he has helped Steen home from a wet night out. Steen quickly finds, that Carlos is strongly enthusiastic about politics and the injustices of capitalism. They become mutually convinced that the United States is the main source of world injustice, and decide to stage a leftist autonomous event against the United States.

Suddenly, planes crash into New York’s World Trade Center on 9/11, coming as a slap in the face of Steen. He finds himself torn – the sudden doubt sends him into a pit of darkness. In desperation, he attempts to do away with himself;something happened on his trip to Central America, something Steen didn't tell anyone…

Genre: Psychological drama

Directors:

Thomas Ross

Key Cast:

Lasse Kenneth Holm Hansen, Berhuz Banissi, Lukas Miklik Stolar, Brigitte Njri Stjernholm, Asbjørn Krog Nielsen

Writers:

Thomas Ross, Christian Heckmann Engelbrecht

Producers:

Niels Christian Sixhøj Sørensen

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:29:00

Country of Origin:

Denmark

Language:

Danish, English, Spanish

Project Type:

Feature

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2019-10-31

The Reason We’re Still Here

Synopsis:

Over the last decade, the Rust Belt city of Youngstown, Ohio, has become increasingly divided between those in support of job development and those who seek to protect access to clean drinking water. The Reason We're Still Here provides a unique window into lives of union members, community organizers and residents on each of these conflicting sides, raising the question of whether economic livelihood must exist in opposition to a healthy and safe environment.

Directors:

Sofia Smith Hale

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

Nicholas Farfan

Other Credits:

Director of Photography: Nicholas Farfan

Duration:

0:15:00

Country of Origin:

United States

Language:

English

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2018-05-15

Timebox

Synopsis:

In a strange but still cozy apartment, one daughter is filming her father, a documentary filmmaker himself. Starting as a love letter to her father and to his rich personal archive film footage, the film will turn into an unexpected drama, when a public officer is knocking at their door.

Directors:

Nora Agapi

Key Cast:

Nora Catrinel Agapi

Writers:

Nora Agapi, Maxim Cirlan

Producers:

Monica Lazurean-Gorgan

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:13:53

Country of Origin:

Romania

Language:

Romanian

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2018-10-15

Wapping - The Workers' Story

Synopsis:

A modern day Citizen Kane, told from the worker's point of view. The story of a strike / lockout caused by tycoon Murdoch sacking 6000 of his workers to increase profits. The film exposes the deep and enduring immorality at the heart of the News International Empire. The defeat of this workers strike led to the falling wages and corporate control of the media of today. The loss of this historical struggle has affected the lives of the 99% for the worst. The film is totally funded by donations with no corporate support.

Directors:

Chris Reeves

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

-

Producers:

-

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

1:13:28

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

-

Completion Date:

2020-08-31

Welcome Lenin

Synopsis:

It is July 1993 in Akçakoca district of the Black Sea region; Mahmut the fisherman sails on a Saturday morning as he realizes something floating in the sea. He curiously approaches the block and ties it to his boat with difficulty. It is none other than a Lenin statue, heavy from floating in the sea, coming from an unknown destination. Welcome Lenin chronicles the story of the Lenin statue, most likely thrown away after the collapse of the Soviet Union, which traveled for almost two years in the Black Sea to eventually be put “under protection” in a dusty storage room in a municipality building.

Directors:

Welcome Lenin Collective

Key Cast:

-

Writers:

Welcome Lenin Collective

Producers:

Welcome Lenin Collective

Other Credits:

-

Duration:

0:20:00

Country of Origin:

Not Specified

Language:

Turkish

Project Type:

Documentary

Genres:

Comedy

Completion Date:

2016-10-30