Thursday, September 19, 2024

Blacks of Iran

Blacks of Iran is about Afro-Iranians who live in Iran’s Khuzestan, Bushehr, Hormozgan, Kerman, Sistan and Baluchestan provinces. This documentary explores the daily activities,...

Canine

A suburban Bandung family enjoys their pastime with Ngadu Bagong, a Sundanese traditional game where dogs are put to fight against a boar. Ade...

Indian Women on Record

A contemporary female musician embarks on a journey to trace the beginnings of the first expeditions of European sound engineers to pre-independence India, the...

My Kingdom Is Not of This World

My Kingdom Is Not of This Earth uses religion as a way of accessing and understanding the everyday life of a German Mennonite community...

These Objects, Those Memories

These Objects, Those Memories is a split-screen film focused on material culture, specifically, that of three long-term Zimbabwean female migrants currently residing in Cape...

68 Members

Cooperative families can rarely be found in the communities typical of modern culture. Tharu is a rare community in Nepal where extended families still...

Open Doors

The word “karchadosh” can be translated as “short chest”. You either climb mount Karchadosh or you don’t. But the doors here are always open....

Obsolescence

A countless number of cameras and televisions in need of repair go through Miguel and David’s repair shops every day, with increasingly more complicated...

Marie’s Dictionary

This short documentary tells the story of Marie Wilcox, the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language and the dictionary she created in an...

Glory be to Saint Nicholas

In the costal Croatian town of Šibenik a polynomial family prays, sings and takes care of the church of St. Nicholas, which keeps votive...