Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds

Do Que Aprendi Com Minhas Mais Velhas(pt)

Orun: O Mundo dos Orixás(pt)

Exu - Além do Bem e do Mal(pt)

Arreda Homem Que Chegou Mulher(pt)

Documentary about terreiro women in Fortaleza who occupy the highest positions in the hierarchy, subverting the patriarchal tradition of religious communities.

Ferreiros dos Orixás(pt)

Ylê Xoroquê(en)

The process of formation of the person and its identity from an African conception of the world. The orixás (gods), linked to the forces of nature, are equal to people, and are not transcendent. of the person with their orixá, within the family and the culture. Filmed in a Candomblé terreiro of Bantu origin.

Carapicuíba City O Filme(pt)

No Fim do Déjà Vu(pt)

Amor de Ori(pt)

Oxum goes to the river every day to fill his jug with water. One day, a woman in red clothes crosses his path and changes her life forever.

Casulo(pt)

Oyá Tempo(pt)

A stormy journey brings you closer to a feminine force hidden in nature.

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat(fr)

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

Das Dorf der Freundschaft(de)

A German Documentary about the “village of friendship” that was created by American Veteran George Mizo to help the Vietnamese kids suffering from the Vietnam War.

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City(de)

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Dubrovnik(sh)

A film describing the political history of Dubrovnik and the history of its architecture, painting, literature and science until the end of Republic of Ragusa.

The Beauty of the Adriatic(sh)

The Beauty of the Adriatic was created as a promotional tourist film, but through its unusual and even bizarre formal devices it overcomes the promotional function. The narrator of the film is constantly communicating with the viewer, exclaims and inserts jokes, and we also see him in the film as a guide entertaining us with various gestures and movements. In the film there are also interspersed humorous animated scenes, an interview with Hamlet, poetic sequences and stylized scenes such as one where the camera is "looking for" the lost guide.

Dubrovnik Summer Festival(sh)

Zvonimir Berković decided to present the Dubrovnik Summer Festival on film in an imaginative manner. He set scenes from the most popular plays of the Festival across various locations in Dubrovnik, so Pero Kvrgić acts Negromant's monologue from "Dundo Maroje" while interacting with vendors on the local marketplace, and in the dreamy atmosphere of Lokrum forest fairies are performing a scene from Držić's "Grižula".

The Sea, Reefs, Letters(sh)

The intellectual and the sensual are combined in this essay presentation of the work of the painter Ivo Vojvodić from Dubrovnik. Through the presentation of three frequent motifs of Vojvodić's painting - the sea, reefs and letters - Berković touches upon the emigratory fate of Vojvodić's family in desire for a home and the Ragusan ideal of freedom.

Fondations(fr)

Mathieu Collette, a passionate blacksmith, renovates an abandoned heritage building belonging to the City of Montreal to create a blacksmithing school. Sixteen years later, after turning the building into an internationally renowned center for the transmission of living heritage, Mathieu is threatened with eviction for obscure administrative reasons, in the very year of Montreal's 375th anniversary. What could possibly justify putting one of Quebec's last blacksmiths out on the street, as the bearer of an unparalleled social and heritage project? Filmed over several years, this documentary traces Forges de Montréal's fight against the disappearance of a part of our collective memory.

Shaka(en)

Showcasing breathtaking footage of mountains and waves around the world, Shaka follows snowboarding world champion and renowned athlete Mathieu Crepel as he faces the biggest challenge of his life: to surf the legendary waves of Jaws Beach, Hawaii.