A Deep Breath, Women Filmmakers

The Waves(eu)

Seven women, guided by a therapist gradually put their bodies into motion. As the dance therapy progresses they give us the moving testimonies of the physical and psychological tortures that they underwent during their incommunicado detention in Spain in the 2000s.

Hitzordu Tokiak(fr)

Élise Orhategaray explores the perspective of older women from her native Basque country mountains. More of her visual work can be found on hitzordutokiak.com.

Sujo Anônimo(pt)

The Making of Resident Evil(en)

A behind the scenes look into the making of resident evil where the cast and crew breaks down the process.

Dolor(tl)

A grandson embarks on a personal journey of caregiving to his grandmother diagnosed with Alzheimer's Dementia. With the help of archived footage collated in 8 years and through personal conversations portrayed in soundbites with his family members, he tried to unpack their lives as it unfolds with Nanay Evie’s condition. This story eventually reveals itself as a personal letter to all the family caregivers.

ino(tl)

ino, a young balut (boiled fertilized bird egg) vendor, strides throughout the night in the streets of Cauayan City not only to sell his product but meet his friends and enjoy the night until he is being scolded the next morning for the insufficient payment of goods due to unsold eggs.

My Boy Superman(tl)

As our son, Oyen, is turning 15, navigating both adolescence and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It feels like we are nurturing a 'superman.’

It's Just Better(en)

In a farmhouse on Cape Breton Island where Shawn Peter Dwyer, age 10, lives with his mother and nine brothers and sisters, children's pockets are usually empty and their lives well filled.

Gizella(fa)

O Meu País Não Existe(pt)

Tea Man(fa)

This film is about the interest of a person named Ahmed in cinema. Ahmed has been very interested in cinema since his childhood. He started working in cinema as a teenager because of his interest. Ahmed is currently a famous tea man in Iranian cinema.

Afrika ohne Gnade(de)

Documentary report from a journey through Equatorial Africa.

Guillermo del Toro: Un director y su Oscar(es)

Big Bang Henda(pt)

Toppling statues and symbols, building new memories, framing the altered landscape, writing letters to the future, and reversing power dynamics: Big Bang Henda is a documentary-poetry-manifesto about the work of Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia Henda.

The Man From The North(tr)

Kadir İnanır writes in order to not forget every moment of his early professional life. This process of recording is not limited to writing. He consolidates this archive first with photographs and then with images. His archive includes behind-the-scenes footage from many films, thousands of photographs, some of the costumes he used in his films and priceless diaries. Hüseyin Karabey, who has been filming Kadir İnanır at regular intervals for about 13 years, based on his yet-to-be-published autobiography, shares with us an important part of the history of Turkish cinema through the actor’s testimony.

I, Kamikaze(ja)

Hayashi Fujio, a 90-year-old veteran, narrates his memories from World War II, when he volunteered for the very first kamikaze operation planned by the Japanese Imperial Army.

México Pelágico(es)

While the Pelagic Life team is chasing the elusive sardine baitball in the open ocean near Baja California, they stumble upon a crude shark fishing operation that sparks a seismic shift in the group’s thinking. Departing from their original concept of documenting awesome sea-life phenomenon, they transform their mission to creating awareness of Mexico’s sea-life while creating sustainable livelihoods for the shark fishermen in order to preserve a delicate and critical ecosystem.

Under Construction: The Film(en)

An honest, brutal and sometimes humorous account of one man's experiment to push his body to its absolute size limit via weight lifting, food and steroids.

Sem Pena(pt)

There is no place in the world where the prison population grows as fast as in Brazil, a country that have the fourth largest population of inmates in globe. Sentence on Trial dives deep into the hellish everyday life of the Brazilian prisons to expose how moroseness, prejudice and the culture of fear amplify violence and the social abyss of the country.

Too Close for Comfort(en)

An extended humorous public information film (lasting around fifteen minutes) narrated by Richard Wattis.