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How were health, sport, leisure, care and everyday life viewed in the past? As part of the Month of History, the Zaanstad Municipal Archives presents a special film evening featuring an exclusive compilation of historical footage from its own film collection. The compilation shows how residents of the Zaan region worked, exercised, relaxed, lived and cared for one another over the years. The screening offers a unique glimpse into the past of the Zaan region.
When Raven receives a mysterious video game called EMULATE, she's excited to try something new. But after a strange encounter inside the game, she discovers that something sinister is watching her. A masked figure has a message for her. And the more Raven plays, the closer he gets to escaping the digital world. With nowhere to run and no way to stop what's coming, Raven is about to discover that some games are better left unfinished.
A group of young men ranging from the ages of 18 to 24 live their bizarre eccentric lives in a world that doesn't understand them. They navigate life's course one day at a time.
Deep in the Valparaíso night, Panxita, an older trans woman crowned queen, meets Príncipe, a young man adrift in the port city. Amid stairways, dive bars, and alleyways, a fleeting connection forms, shaped by desire, care, and loneliness
When a sesh goes wrong. Best Film - Quicktime Film Festival People's Choice Award - Shorties Film Festival
Two young russian friends retrace the story of their friendship, giving color to their memories.
A puppeteer's hand resurrects the missing and lost bodies of history through four stories in this lecture performance.
On a dark, rainy summer night, the power goes out for a young couple. While looking for a way to light up the room, they discover something strange about their microwave: it is glowing, and its lights reveal the future—but... Is this the future they desire so much?
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The Sun is walking around at work when loads of horrible stuff happens and it freaks the Sun out a little bit too much
Kuala Lumpur chases high-tech “Smart City” ambitions, but the reality is commuters navigate outdated signage and depend on poorly designed apps to even know if their bus will come. Enter a downtown KL-based urbanist, Ernest, a public transport geek who is fed up with waiting for official solutions. He decides to take the initiative to conduct legally grey guerrilla missions to fix failing urban infrastructure by using high-quality stickers and more helpful signage they designed themself.
Filmed in Mexico City and Santa Barbara, CA. July 2024.
Craftswoman: Weaving Life Whole is an intimate, "embodied" documentary offering a reprieve from our fast-paced and disconnected world. Directed by a filmmaker and textile artist exploring questions about what in our lives gives us a sense of wholeness, the film shifts the focus from the final product to the healing power of “process” itself. Filmed over six months under the pace of trust, the project follows four Finnish craftswomen finding meaning in the rhythm of ancestral craft. Letting go of the typical rush of film production, the filmmaker uses a slow, spacious approach to storytelling—inviting audiences to drop from their analytical minds into their felt senses, and to remember that we already have everything we need to feel whole.
Based on the life of Susan Atkins, who was forced to step into the role of a parent for her younger brother while her own home was broken by her parents' alcoholism and the death of her mother, this is how the constant struggle and the lack of a support system led her to trade one form of survival for a much darker, more destructive life that became her permanent reality.
A collection of portraits from Drobeta-Turnu Severin and its surroundings.
Amidst the harmonious coexistence of water, emptiness, and time, there lies a town on the banks of the Uruguay River called Liebig—a place where beauty and neglect, fact and conjecture, water, children and the elderly, memories, stories, night, fish, and fire all mingle, alongside a reality suspended in time.