דרמה מרגשת בכיכובה של סקרלט ג'ונהסון. פיטר ומרגיט נמלטים מהונגריה הקומוניסטית בשנת 1950. הם לוקחים איתם את בתם הבכורה מריה, אך נאלצים להשאיר מאחור את בתם סוזאן. סוזאן גדלה אצל משפחת אומנה טובה. שש שנים לאחר מכן, פיטר ומרגיט מצליחים להביא את סוזאן ללוס אנג'לס באמצעות ארגון הצלב האדום. בגיל חמש עשרה היא מרגישה צורך לשוב לבודפשט כדי להתחקות אחר השורשים שלה ולהבין את עצמה טוב יותר.
אלכס קרוס היה כוכב עולה במשטרת וושינגטון כאשר עולמו חרב עליו באחת: אשתו מריה נורתה לנגד עיניו בידי רוצח לא ידוע והותירה אותו שבור־לב, הורה יחיד לילדיהם הקטנים. שנים לאחר מכן קרוס, כעת סוכן אף־בי־איי מוערך, מחליט לעזוב את עבודתו התובענית והמסוכנת לטובת חיים שלווים יותר עם משפחתו ולשוב למקצועו הקודם - פסיכולוג. אך אז מבקש ממנו שותפו לשעבר לעזור לו בחקירה קשה: אנס אכזרי בעל שיטות פעולה מזוויעות מטיל אימה על נשים בוושינגטון, וקרוס מסכים לצאת בעקבות השובל המדמם שהוא מותיר אחריו. במהלך החקירה מתחיל קרוס לחשוד שאולי יש קשר בין האנס לבין מי שרצח את אשתו.
Coming back during Winter, Alex Powell explores both the places and personal connections found in his hometown and how they've changed. “Guide to a Midwest Hometown” explores what makes the barren places at home feel sentimental and special, and the good and bad feelings that come when being back home. Inspired by "How To With John Wilson".
The Weight of Sight is a playful and very personal essay where director Truls Krane Meby, through a massive archive of his own material - anything from DV-tapes to 35mm - explores the last 20 years of digital development - how it’s influenced the images we make, and our bodies. What kind of images do we get of the world now that everyone is a photographer, and what does it do with how we unfold our identities? How has the internet both captured and freed us? And will Truls even dare to show this film?
A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now thar she is entering into adulthood.
The director’s diary told in still images of a dramatic period in which he becomes first a father and then almost loses the love of his life when his girlfriend – filmmaker Lea Glob – goes into a coma after giving birth.
Following the success of Ali’s last special THE DOMINO EFFECT (over 9 million views in the first year) comes the sequel “THE DOMINO EFFECT 2: LOSS”. Ali tells the traumatic stories of his adolescence that ultimately lead to him going to prison for 6 years.
A personal reflection on hands, the word "tear," and caring for oneself that experiments with sound, silence, and definitions.
After being tasked with creating a piece of work summarizing their filmmaking journey, 18 year old Lewis Bedford reflects on their history in film and video.
The Text Allows No Interpretation is a personal essay documentary displaying the director’s conversation with his trauma in a stream of consciousness. The moments in photographs and videos are set in temporal disarray, meeting the superimposed phone calls speaking to and around the trauma from the past. The ever-present noise of repetition is created through jumps between memories of fear and death during the decade-old Arab Spring to insomnia and anxiety emerging through the footage of NATO military exercises on the borders of Russia.
A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.
After learning to 'write what you know,' in film school, Half-Filipino and Half-White aspiring filmmaker Andrew Orticio travels back to his father's village in the Philippines to understand his mixed identity.
An observational documentary following Steven Brooke and how the solitude of painting impacts his life and artwork.
Mama used to sing and dance. Pabung is a poet. I saw mama crying only once in my life, when she lost her ema. Pabung lost his ema when he was young, and he has kept her alive in his vivid memories and poems ever since. I keep having nightmares about losing mama and pabung. Mama wants me to be a singer after I disappointed her by not becoming a doctor. She also wants me to record her singing, which I keep forgetting. Seeing me down and depressed, wandering aimlessly and successlessly, pabung bought me a camera when I left my day job and said I wanted to be a filmmaker. I haven’t made anything noteworthy yet. However, I did some random lens tests by filming them with that camera.
A data moshed experiment using videos of daily life and textures overlayed with components from older videos creating a personal collage of the last few years.
What We Never Forget For Peace Here Now is a personal peace memorial produced in the United States, a country that does not have war memorials dedicated to peace. This video explores how we forget and how we remember memories of war. I think about who are my survivors and witnesses of war, and the deep impressions they've given me, becoming a part of me. Drawing inspiration from peace activists young and old, I ask viewers to join me in a practice of peace, here and now.
Based upon a habitual fidget of the filmmaker involving the tags in his clothing, Reilly Mitchell explores the feelings of his past by removing something that has always stayed so close to him and turning it into something new.