Janko ide z hôr(1949)

Beyond Fordlandia(en)

An environmental account of Henry Ford’s Amazon experience decades after its failure. The story addressed by the film begins in 1927, when the Ford Motor Company attempted to establish rubber plantations on the Tapajós River, a primary tributary of the Amazon. This film addresses the recent transition from failed rubber to successful soybean cultivation for export, and its implication for land usage.

Fordlandia(en)

Fordlandia is a small settlement on the River Tapajos in the Brazilian part of the Amazon, where Henry Ford set up a rubber industry in the 1920s. Mainly due to the resistance of nature, the project failed and was abandoned some 20 years later. Fordlandia is a voyage of (de)colonisation whereby the drifts and detours of modernity in uncertain places are highlighted, turning away from whatever their historical imaginaries were. The tensions between industrial and natural landscape are levelled off in a certain horizontality of hierarchies between form and content, and at the same time the animal resignifies possibilities of the community of the living.

Giant Coal Dumper(en)

“Shows how a full carload of coal is loaded onto a vessel every thirty seconds at the great Erie Railroad Docks, Cleveland, Ohio. Great clouds of coal dust rise as each car is unloaded.”

Until the End of the World(it)

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, along with other international organizations, is leading efforts to increase aquaculture by encouraging countries around the world to invest in its development. However, local communities strongly oppose the expansion of fish farms due to resource depletion and water pollution concerns. From Italy to Greece, Spain to Senegal, and all the way to Patagonia in Chile, their journey to uncover the truth extends to the ends of the earth.

Poros Stands(en)

Behemoth(zh)

Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves. Meanwhile, coal miners are busy filling trucks with coals. Wearing a coal-dust mask, they become ghostlike creatures. An endless line of trucks will transport all the coals and iron ores to the iron works. There traps another crowd of souls, being baked in hell. In the hospital, time hangs heavy on miners' hands. After decades of breathing coal dust, death is just around the corner. They are living the reality of purgatory, but there will be no paradise.

Der lange Abschied von der Kohle(de)

A Century of Energy(pt)

Manoel de Oliveira's final work revisits one of his earliest films and celebrates a century of industrialization in Portugal.

A Visit to Peek Frean and Co.'s Biscuit Works(xx)

A look at typical activities taking place in the Peek Frean factory: First, the workers get up steam, as supplies of milk and flour arrive. Sheets of dough are rolled, then cut, shaped, and readied for baking. The camera then continues to show further events throughout the work day.

Pieseň strojov(sk)

Cattle Market in Derry(xx)

Bustling scenes show Edwardian Derry-Londonderry before industrialisation took hold.

Industrializácia Slovenska(sk)

Woman at War(is)

Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.

Unite In Laughter(en)

”Unite In Laughter’ is a documentary film that explores the uncomfortable side of the Singaporean identity, through the lens of three comedians who take a leap of faith in their own identities.

Ângelo Rodrigues - The whole Story(pt)

The channel SIC followed the actor's long process of overcoming!

K'i Tah Amongst the Birch(en)

Filmmaker/activist Melaw Nakehk’o has spent the pandemic with her family at a remote land camp in the Northwest Territories, “getting wood, listening to the wind, staying warm and dry, and watching the sun move across the sky.” In documenting camp life—activities like making fish leather and scraping moose hide—she anchors the COVID experience in a specific time and place.

City of Queens(en)

An explosive look at the real lives of seven London drag queens. London drag is different from any drag you’ve seen before. Contrasting the glamour, fun and sharp-tongued humor you’d expect from drag queens with stories of abuse, attacks, past trauma dealt with through unrelenting resilience. This film goes behind the makeup to tell the unfiltered gritty human truth of their lives. Find out why London drag queens are at the forefront of queer culture in Britain.

Thursday(en)

Thursday shot from filmmaker Galen Johnson's high-rise apartment during COVID-19 “lockdown” in Winnipeg, captures people going about their daily routines in the city's eerily empty streets, yards and parking lots, on their balconies and on the riverbanks. The extreme distance and the diminutive scale of humans is paired with sound close-ups—a combination that embodies the strange, heightened intensity of feeling of the time, knowing an era-defining tragedy is happening yet being so physically removed.

Joe Fafard, selfie(fr)

Encantadeiras - O Canto e o Encanto das Quebradeiras de Coco Babaçu(pt)

The Encantadeiras is a group formed by a group of babassu coconut breakers from Maranhão. The film accompanies the 7 women on a tour and unveils the story of each one. Babaçu, feminism, land reform and music. A lot of music.