Amidst the urban transformation driven by progress, bulldozers dismantle 'illegal' settlements, leaving countless lives shattered. In the aftermath of such upheaval, one basti, sacrificed to conceal poverty during the G20 summit, and another basti, abandoned by authorities without alternative housing, illustrate the stark realities of displacement. The film delves into the daily struggles of individuals who persist in the rubble of their former homes.
The story revolves around Shalini, a single mother dealing with work and family issues while working in the security department of a nightclub. When a security breach shakes her workplace, the management enforces a new policy: mandatory smartwatches for all staff members to track their movements. Blamed for her team's incompetence, Shalini is pressured to enforce the device's usage or face severe consequences. Adding to her challenges is a young recruit from her village whose resistance further complicates Shalini's position. These seemingly innocuous devices, promoted as tools for safety and efficiency, soon reveal a darker purpose.
Delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animation filmmakers.
In this heartwarming docudrama, Chilean immigrant Marilú Mallet strives to make a film about her experience of deep isolation. Her English-speaking husband, a prominent film director, criticizes her subjective approach to filmmaking; her young son, raised in Quebec, speaks only French. Interviews with Isabel Allende and other Chilean exiles reveal a deep bond in this powerful and resonant film about language and genre, exile and immigration.
Somewhere, on a remote island, a Harpy is hatching her egg, but a vicious creature is going to steal it from her. She will have to defend it at any cost.
Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie on a farm in the Lot. Attracted by the sad smile of Marie, he rapes her one evening without realizing the gravity of his act. Commited in a psychiatric asylum, Zef falls into a deep silence. Hugues, a doctor with avant-garde methods, is in charge of caring for Marie. He decides to confront her with Zef, convinced that her healing goes through a long reappropriation of life and love.
Kajsa and Viktor, two snowboarders living in the very north of Sweden, loves the arctic winters. But in the last two decades, something disquieting has occurred. Where they live, the average temperature is increasing at twice the rate as the global average, what consequences will that have for the winter and the people living there?
From the churning interior to the oceans and life on land, view the world as it's never been seen before. Cutting-edge tools offer an inside look at Earth as it breathes, heals and flexes its muscles.
Alicia Royale is a fashion mogul who decides to have a large pajama themed party as a promotion for her new line of clothing...
Russian nationalism percolates in a castle outside Moscow, where Mikhail Morozov rules autonomously over young initiates, laying the groundwork for a rapidly growing right-wing movement.
Filmed at the Arena di Verona in Verona, Italy on September 26th, 2010, Taking The Pulse is the 2nd of a pair of concert films directed by Gabriel's daughter Ana and Andrew Gaston. This concert film takes footage from the second set of that show, where Gabriel does a section of his own songs backed up by a symphony orchestra conducted by Ben Foster (Doctor Who, BBC Proms). Setlist: The Rhythm of the Heat • San Jacinto • Digging In The Dirt • The Drop • Signal To Noise • Downside Up • Darkness • Mercy Street • Blood of Eden • Washing of the Water • Intruder • Red Rain • Solsbury Hill • In Your Eyes • Don't Give Up • The Nest That Sailed The Sky
Ernesto Pérez Roble is a tycoon, owner of a multimedia group, who when he dies leaves everything in the hands of his daughter Juana. But Camila Lamónica appears, his other daughter -unrecognized-, who owns a dancehall and wants half of her father's fortune.
Peeps into the lives of random characters, with their doubts, quirks and misgivings. As these characters hang in a timeless space- they gaze at the universe through letters, galaxies, parapets, and fishbowls.
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
A stock-car veteran (Rory Calhoun) teaches a grease monkey to race in the Southern 500 in Darlington, S.C.
Camp Nichols is the story of two outsiders, one looking for a friend and the other looking to be left alone. Jessie is a young woman who is court-ordered to community service as a summer camp counselor after being arrested. During her time there, she develops an unlikely friendship with Zack, a young camper who has trouble fitting in with the rest of the camp.
This short documentary chronicles a four-month period between 1979 and 1980 when residents of Hawaii's Sand Island "squatter" community attempted to resist eviction from the Honolulu shoreline - resulting in displacement, arrests, and the destruction of a community.
In the 1950s, Seattle had plans to build one of the densest networks of freeways in the world. It would have displaced thousands, especially the poor and people of color. Over the next two decades, a broad coalition of communities came together and halted these plans. Testimonies from that era are juxtaposed with interviews of activists who participated in the revolt, giving a picture of what Seattle could have been had the people not stood up to the highway lobby and their representatives.
A film about the cross coalition of communities that stopped a planned network of freeways from being built in Seattle in the late 60s and early 70s. It weaves together archival material with the filmmaker's personal narrative about living next to freeways, and features interviews with participants from the freeway revolt.
This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life. Often arriving without money, friends or jobs, a number of them quickly become part of the homeless population. Both dislocated from their traditional values and alienated from the rest of the population, they are torn between staying and returning home.
Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.
A film photo-montage about an old house that belonged to a traditional local family that was later demolished.
Watch the drama unfold when the city of Las Vegas blows up the town's impromptu movie set.
Moving to Mars charts the epic journey made by two Burmese families from a vast refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border to their new homes in the UK. At times hilarious, at times emotional, their travels provide a fascinating and unique insight not only into the effects of migration, but also into one of the most important current political crises - Burma.
A forgotten history of Northern Ireland is unveiled through a journey into Ulster Television’s archives, and the rediscovery of the first locally-produced network drama, Boatman Do Not Tarry.
An abstract film consists of static shots of a small house-like being demolished through temporal ellipsis.
Making Dust is an essay film, a portrait of the demolition of Ireland's second largest Catholic Church, the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas West, Dublin. Understanding this moment as a 'rupture', the film maps an essay by architectural historian Ellen Rowley on to documentation of the building's dismantling. Featuring oral interviews recorded at the site of the demolition and in a nearby hairdressers, the film invites viewers to pause and reflect on this ending alongside the community of the building. The film is informed by Ultimology, and invites its audience to think about the life cycles of buildings and materials, how we mourn, what is sacred, how we gather, what we value and issues of sustainability in architecture.
The documentary is a five country-based sequences featuring stories about conflict, migration and the experience of exile; Tibetan women refugees in Dharamshala, India, Syrian refugee family in Tunisia, evicted indigenous women in the Phlippines; Rohingya women in Haryana and Delhi, and Syrian women refugees in Canada.
It is a dramatic film, with its colossal explosion and smouldering remains. Within seconds of the chimney's collapse, crowds swarm in to inspect the site; issues of the crowd's health and safety are clearly not a concern, as people smile, wave and salute the camera.
The village of Tamaquito lies deep in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need. But the Wayúu community's way of life is being destroyed by the vast and rapidly growing El Cerrejón coal mine. Determined to save his community from forced resettlement, the leader Jairo Fuentes negotiates with the mine's operators, which soon becomes a fight to survive.
Portrait of a Russian village near Kaliningrad and its multiethnic inhabitants.
The documentary Two Doors traces the Yongsan Tragedy of 2009, which took the lives of five evictees and one police SWAT unit member. Left with no choice but to climb up a steel watchtower in an appeal to the right to live, the evictees were able to come down to the ground a mere 25 hours after they had started to build the watchtower, as cold corpses. And the surviving evictees became lawbreakers. The announcement of the Public Prosecutors’ Office that the cause of the tragedy lay in the illegal and violent demonstration by the evictees, who had climbed up the watchtower with fire bombs, clashed with voices of criticism that an excessive crackdown by government power had turned a crackdown operation into a tragedy.
An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.
Forced by the dangerous state of his homeland, Perghuzat moved to Berlin. He is alone, working small jobs day and night to survive. The profound clash of cultures, the linguistic barrier and the lack of spare time lead him into a condition of extreme isolation.
Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.
Tell Them We Were Here is an inspirational feature-length documentary about eight artists who show us why art is vital to a healthy society and reminds us that we are stronger together.