Documentary Movies

"THE BUTTERFLY"

VIOLET2023

Polar Bear

A new mother’s memories of her own youth prepare her to navigate motherhood in the increasingly challenging world that polar bears face today.

Assustadora

Morgana

Morgana is a filmmaker who has found in experimental cinema a powerful voice capable of encapsulating the most abstract notions of her identity, unfolding in an amalgam of textures, colored lights, and wildly extravagant music. An intimate portrait of a filmmaker, but above all, a dear friend.

Danza Moderna

Preparation of a ballet performer, the meaning of dance in human life. Presentation of the choreography "Invasion" by the San Marcos University Ballet, directed by Vera Stastny.

Lowland Kids

As climate change erases the Louisiana coast, the last two teenagers on Isle de Jean Charles fight to stay on an island that's been in their family home for generations. Feature film continuation of a short of the same name.

CODE NAME: Nagasaki

"CODE NAME: Nagasaki" tells the story of Marius and Fredrik, two young men who forged their friendship through filmmaking and decided to put their skills to a unique challenge: finding Marius’ long lost Japanese mother.

Mainstream

Which artistic practices are possibile in a society that revolves on artificial needs? An open consideration through the work of the artist Dan Perjovschi. An invitation for a walk along the imaginary axis of the sight.

Dear Amelia

Dear Amelia follows Natalya Rahayu, a single mother with a young daughter who suffers from health issues.

Tá Cráudi!

Anconetani

In the Anconetani family's former home, located in the Chacarita neighborhood of Buenos Aires, you'll find the workshop, the instrument shop, and the Accordion Museum, which displays century-old instruments and preserves the family's history. Nazareno Anconetani, 91, cherishes the nearly extinct craft of accordion making. With his joy and the magic of his stories, he transports us to a past where effort and work were a daily celebration of life.

Angry Inuk

With "sealfies" and social media, a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit is wading into the world of activism, using humour and reason to confront aggressive animal rights vitriol and defend their traditional hunting practices. Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins her fellow Inuit activists as they challenge outdated perceptions of Inuit and present themselves to the world as a modern people in dire need of a sustainable economy.

Vroeg Verloren

Writer and podcast maker Liesbeth Rasker was 10 years old when her mother died. She explores the impact it had on her life. A film about death, grief, the desire to get it all out of the way and what happens when denial no longer works.

Écoutez Mouna

Everyone knows Aguigui Mouna, the jester who harangues the crowds on the Beaubourg esplanade in Paris and rides his bicycle through demonstrations. But many don't know the story of André Dupont, a Savoyard raised in tough conditions, forced into violence in the navy to rise to power and into resourcefulness in civilian life to survive. Antibes, 1952, the transformation: Aguigui Mouna is born. Laughter, solidarity, non-violence, humanism—Mouna has found the meaning of his existence. He will try to share them with all the robots of this "poop-pee-capitalist" society. A comic book character who, through his adventures, reveals the absurdities of his century.

Lai

Alberto Laiseca was a writer, a writing teacher, and creator of the “delirious realism”. This is a depiction of the author of Los Soria and El jardín de las máquinas parlantes, and his relationship with writing and his students.

Contradições Urbanas

Who owns the public space? Urban Contradictions documents the State's poorly planned interventions in public spaces, segregating social strata, the neglect of the problems resulting from this social exclusion. Condomínio Selva de Pedra, Cruzada São Sebastião, both in the upscale neighborhood of Leblon, Rio de Janeiro. And the traditional neighborhood of Catumbi: Solutions, Organizations and Contradictions. Urban Contradictions is the report of an investigation on citizen identity and the use of urban spaces.

Kid Dynamite

Kapila

The film sketches the creative life of the protagonist Kapila. The film’s narrative is structured as one day in the life of a Koodiyattam performer.

NA China

The implantation of African traders in Guangzhou is a recent phenomenon, on which Marie Voignier reports through her interlinking portraits of Jackie, Julie, Shanny who have come to set up their business on site. Amidst the monstrous accumulation of merchandise on the endless markets of the megacity, the film follows these African businesswomen grappling with the globalised Chinese economy.

White Mama

Аlina Makarova is a mother of six of her own children and one adopted child. Her ex husband is from Ethiopia, and all her own children are mixed race. Only her adopted son is white, but he has serious health problems and is psychologically unstable. Alina's older children realise what complications the adoption might bring and are afraid that there won't be enough room, time and love for everyone. But she convinces them that it's the right thing.