All Films

[poem filmed, yet not legible: Boats or not They burn in the afternoon. In the heat of summer all rumor is bird. Flies heart. Or it burns. "Epitafio", Eugenio de Andrade. B.G.

UigiG needs to go out and feel, like his favourite film's star. His girlfriend, just like her, loves to smoke and enjoy the authenticity... but that's before she ceases to exist.

A little boy can't get to sleep. He calls his father who tells him to try counting sheep. The little boy does as he is told but soon finds himself with a dozen sheep around his bed.

Each year, the Tamil community from South India and Sri Lanka met to celebrate the God Ganesh. The film is a description of gestures, dancing bodies, attendance recorded during this festival, crossing reminiscences of my stays in India.

An official border divides the village of Jiliz, with one side being in Armenia and the other in Georgia. Lousine, a young girl, dreams about uniting with her grandmother and relatives who lives across the stream that divides the village. Just what is a border? Why does it take her such a long route to travel? She decides to take the journey to see her family and reflects on these questions.

In Still Time is an experimental animation that investigates the catastrophic image and spectacle through direct animation of still images onto 16mm film. The film uses still images found on the internet from the current Syrian civil war; these were laser printed directly onto the film, simultaneously abstracting these images and re-animating them.

Sourced from five 16mm filmstrips found outside of a closing adult bookstore on New York's former 42nd Street sex district.

This documentary follows a young woman from Northern Kurdistan (Turkey) in the revolution in Northern Syria (Rojava).

The burlesque scene tickles the fancy of the "vanilla" mainstream while also appealing to feminists who see it as a safe haven for their sexuality. All kinds of body types are welcome. The scene challenges our views on sexual stereotypes, norms and sexuality. At Stockholm's Burlesque Festival, we meet Nick the Dick, who is participating in The Tassle and Twirl Championship for the first time; Aurora, a feminist; and Thorbjörn, who likes dressing up to challenge male stereotypes. —Johanna St Michaels

Filmed and Edited by Jacob Harris. Featuring Tom Knox, Nick Jensen, Sylvain Tognelli, Paul Shier, Jon Nguyen, Casper Brooker and Chris Jones.

An ephemeral and potent journey into the realm of the unconscious and fleeting memories through hand manipulated super 8mm film.

Franco, Joanna, Audrey, Lia, and Philippe were struck by a brutal and inexplicable unease when viewing certain works of art during a trip to Florence, Paris, or Barcelona. They tell their story: What happened? Sunstroke? Drop in blood pressure? Disorientation? An investigation begins... Graziella Magherini, a psychiatrist in Florence, returns to the questions that have preoccupied her as she tried to solve this modern affliction with her patients: motion sickness? Disorders related to places haunted by history, fear of beauty, art pain? A mysterious and breathtaking investigation that reveals Stendhal syndrome.

Nioumoune Island, Senegal. Boniface, a young priest torn between his desires, escapes from his parish. The edge of his makeshift boat, it crosses a disturbing maze of mangroves. In search of freedom, he began a journey that will confront his past, his hidden desires and the vastness of the Mauritanian desert.

Georgia Public Broadcasting and the Atlanta History Center have partnered to produce the gripping new documentary recounting the Atlanta Campaign led by William Tecumseh Sherman which ravaged Georgia in the fight to defeat the Confederacy.

Vincent is a 21 years old young man. He is trisomic. Today he is karate black belt and room server apprentice. He would like to work like everyone else, live independently and have a love story. He could also become a karate teacher. His father Edward will do everything to help his son to find this independence as he wants, but how is it possible for Vincent to stand on his own and is the society is willing to accept him?

For centuries, the mysterious nighttime lives and uncanny hunting skills of owls have made them fascinating hallmarks of children's stories and folk tales the world over. But what actually makes owls so special? Bird trainers Lloyd and Rose Buck and their very special family of owls, eagles, falcons, geese, pigeons, and two newly-hatched barn owls - Luna and Lily - provide a rare opportunity to learn more about these unique birds. Using the latest in camera technology, computer graphics, x-rays and super-sensitive microphones, we can take a brand new look at owls in more detail than ever before. The real stories behind how they hunt, how their vision and hearing works, and how they fly so silently are influencing 21st century technology and design.

"Pinkwashing" is a term activists have coined for when countries engaged in terrible human rights violations promote themselves as "gay friendly" to improve their public image. Israel is the country most famous for this strategy, having initiated it as part of a rebranding campaign has been engaged in for the last decade. In 2012, activists in the Pacific Northwestern region of the US responded to an Israeli Consulate-funded pinkwashing tour featuring Israeli gay and lesbian activists that was coming to the region. Local queer Palestine solidarity activists exposed the "Rainbow Generations" tour as pro-Israel propaganda and got some of the events, including the tour's centerpiece event hosted by the City of Seattle's LGBT Commission, cancelled. A significant backlash ensued involving the Seattle City Council and Seattle's leading LGBT and HIV organizations. Through the inspiring story of these activists' victory, Pinkwashing Exposed explores how pinkwashing works.

Duane Stewart-Grant, who is from X̌àʼislakʼala (Haisla) and nuučaan̓uł (Nuu-chah- nulth) First Nations in Canada, explores his identity as someone who is Two-Spirited - a queer, indigenous identity.

Setting West was made using original printing materials from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as wood type, borders and stereotypes of “Cowboys and Indians”, trains and bison. These words and images were printed directly onto 35mm clear film stock at eminent letterpress studios in North America: the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago, the Hatch Show Print in Nashville and the Musée de l’imprimerie du Québec & Lovell Litho in Montréal. Judith Poirier printed 1,643 feet of film to produce her abstract western and her technique of printing onto celluloid creates a unique texture on screen, as well as generating an original soundtrack. Setting West reinterprets a classic cinematic genre while exploring a formative period in the history of typography and printing.

The film brings Peter Tchaikovsky in a radical way into the present and draws an emotionally charged psychogram of the most famous composer of Russia. Tchaikovsky's fate of being a homosexual at the mercy of gay men moves into close proximity. In addition, well-known international artists and experts appear in the film and reveal their very personal approach to Tchaikovsky and his music.

A cyber goth in her thirties makes dance videos at home, seeking freedom and the truth in a society obsessed with productivity and success. Her mode of living is persistently challenged by an older brother, whose caring and love come with a strive to transform her sister. The sibling drama takes a new turn upon the goth's encounter with a dance prodigy whose brilliance seems to leave everyone else in darkness. The film draws from the thoughts of the philosopher and activist Simone Weil (1909-1943), medievalism and cyberculture amongst other influences, viewing work, art and dance as war.

The janitor at a small, suburban high school suspects he might not be alone in the building while working the night shift.