A 500 year history of Juderiya on the Island of Rhodes, Greece. Gorgeous photography and incredible story of how part of the community was transplanted into the Belgian Congo during Italian occupation.
2003-01-14
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Fascinating documentation of the Sephardic cuisine, which disappears over the years, just like the Ladino language, through the eyes of a director who documented her grandmother, cooking Ladino: "I'm afraid this food is starting to disappear. I want to teach my granddaughters to cook, but they have no time."
Engaging musical history of Sephardic Jews from their Spanish expulsion and search for new homes across Europe and the Ottoman Empire until their return to the Israeli homeland. Narrated and sung in Ladino by Yehoram Gaon and beautifully filmed throughout international locations.
Uplifting account of survival and continuation from renowned Ladino singer and her Bosnian heritage.
Can a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one from the 15th century. Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew from Sarajevo (born 1930), who spoke Ladino/Judeo-Spanish, his mother tongue, to survive the Holocaust. Moris used Ladino to communicate with an Italian Colonel who helped him escape to a Partizan refuge after he ran away from the train taking Yugoslavian Jews to Nazi death camps. By speaking in Ladino to a Spanish-speaking US pilot in 1944 he was able to survive and lead the pilot, along with his American and British colleagues, to a safe Partizan airport.
1600 years after its legendary foundation, Venice continues to be unique: the urban environment, made of stone, earth, and water, and for its legendary history. But, above all, Venice is unique for its identity as a city of oxymorons, holding together opposing DNA in a formidable contradiction: the allure of decadence, and the frenzy of the avant-garde. VENEZIA-INFINITA AVANGUARDIA is a labyrinth of stories, works of art, palaces, celebrities of social and cultural life, places, extravagances, and traditions. It's a sensory experience made of lights, water, and music. Beside connections and suggestions, testaments flow by of art historians, urbanists, sociologists, philosophers, curators, musicians, writers, journalists, artists, and our contemporaries.
The film is dedicated to the history of the execution of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.
Girlhood follows the story of three seventeen-year-old girls in a neighborhood in the center of Athens as they go through the difficult period of transition to adulthood while in quarantine isolation. Christina, Nefeli and Vera experiencing sexism, dream of their independence and try to learn to love themselves. With their faces glued to a screen, they take refuge in each other and await to finish school.
A documentary film includes four stories about socially and politically active women who participate in the local elections in Ukraine in October 2020. Four video-stories about different fortunes, different professions and motivation of the heroes, who are jointly sharing a common desire for change in the interests of a local community which they belong to, and their readiness to take the responsibility for their actions, to unite other proactive citizens around their ideas, and to break the gender stereotypes.
A documentary-observation of 16 children creating their own fairy tale during a 15-day inclusive film art workshop at the "Dzherelo" Rehabilitation Center.
Adhkhana Bhalo Chele Adha Mostaan is a film that explores the duality of an artist told through chats between the Director and Arnob about life, battling our demons and overcoming them. Essentially we're all Adhkhana Bhalo, Adha Mostaan and it's learning to embrace both that sets us free. This film is a self- realisation trip and I hope we can all connect to it through stories of love, loss and human connection.
When Thomas Altheimer sues his former friend and fellow artist Claus Bech-Nielsen for identity theft in the shape of the book "Sovereign", it sends Altheimer into a maze of Kafkaesque paranoia.
Documentary about sound design, a film proposed in addition to "Petits contes sous la neige".
A young German girl Magda Homann was destined to fall victim to two World Wars at once, Kaiser's Germany and Tsarist Russia, the Hitlerite and Stalinist regimes. Having started a new German-Ukrainian history, she falls into the hands of the NKVD and her trail is mysteriously lost. But the search for Magda Homann by her German and Ukrainian grandson continues 70 years later.
This piece consists of motion picture film portraits of One World Trade Center, taken from numerous locations ranging from areas in Lower Manhattan to the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn. These portraits have been taken at various times of day as well as in varying weather conditions. The piece, originating from 7 rolls of silent Super 8mm color film, has been digitized for preservation and screening.
VHS transferred to digital video, b/w, sound.
This is a documentary film about five actresses of different generations who played the same role of Masha in Anton Chekhov's play 'The Seagull'. Masha is a woman who is in love with Konstantin, unrequitedly and for ever. This role left a mark of some sort in all the actresses' lives. The film is about parallels between their lives and the role they played, it is about the enclosed world of loneliness to which one comes and struggles to leave.
This work is a study of the durative moment of montage between three bodies: the digital, the filmic and the human. It is a moment of confrontation between these three bodily apparatuses. It is about how they are constantly at odds with each other and yet, also in awe of each other. - looking and looking and trying to feel the others, become the others and destroy the others. How is it that they can be merged and become something beyond their separateness? How can they, together, become a fourth body?