Several people wander between dream and memory searching for the ones they lost. Interwoven destinies bring us an intimate and moving answer to this question. By fulfilling their innermost dreams and connecting with the ones they love.
What happens to the ones we love after their death? Can we bring them back? Can we keep them alive through our memories? Or perhaps by placing them in an imaginary afterlife world?
Journals explores the question of the existence and afterlife in its various imaginative forms and visions around the world. It is about the parallel life that we can dream of, but cannot touch.
In PRINCE OF MUCK retired patriarch Lawrence MacEwen is beginning to live out his final days. As Laird of the Isle of Muck, it has been his mission in life to preserve the fragile society on this Inner Hebridean island, so it may pass to his son, Colin, and future generations. His Sisyphean efforts seem to have worked… but at what cost to him?
Directed by first time feature director Cindy Jansen, PRINCE OF MUCK is a beautifully realised, cinematic documentary about a man struggling to accept he no longer controls his son, his life, nor the isle he so loves. Dutch Director Jansen brings a cool, seemingly detached ‘outside eye’ to a classic Scottish scenario, as a Laird surveys his Life and Land. Jansen's carefully constructed narrative gives space to inter-generational tensions to slow-burn, dramatic effect.
PRINCE OF MUCK starts off as a portrait of an eccentric man, but slowly rises above his family’s history on this particular island, to become a more universal story, a classical rendition of interdependence, a simultaneously transient, yet deep, experience, of a man slowly accepting the eternity that beckons him and, we ultimately recognise, awaits us all.
A woman in the state of an agony and rebirth. She can only find her strength in her wild nature, in her witch nature, in her return to primal instincts.
How the victims of abuse have to redefine themselves and learn the world again. Personal growth and self discovery portrayed by a single mother, her daily struggles, her beliefs, and her close relationship with nature and her child. Film shows absurdity of how terribly we allow ourselves to be asked simply stupid questions. The story is told in three plans: A day to day reality, second plan is a dream and third, return to her childhood.
An intimate yet candid portrait of a group of Western women who devoted their young lives to ISIS, but who now want to be given the chance to start over, back home in the West. Among them, probably the most famous British recruit, Shamima Begum, who fled the country when she was 15, and Hoda Muthana from USA who incited her followers on Twitter to go on drivebys and kill Americans. Universally reviled by the media, these women now tell their stories for the very first time.
Official Selection Hot Docs Festival 2021 - Special Presentations - Canadian premiere
Chronicling Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor’s journey from actress to activist through the lens of her friendship with her assistant Roger Wall, a gay man who grew up in poverty in the Deep South of the USA.
Simon Beaufoy’s script was drawn from hours of interviews with those close to Taylor. Alongside being an Oscar-winning actress whose iconic roles included WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? and CLEOPATRA, and a vibrant public figure who was married eight times to seven men, Taylor was a social activist who became one of the first major celebrities to vocally join the fight against HIV/AIDS in the 1980s.
After decades staffing a space station in the far-flung reaches of outer space, two jaded and ragtag humans are assigned a team of very unusual colleagues: a ten-clone hive mind of identical beings.
Adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's novelette 'Nine Lives'.
Following an interracial couple in Montana, as they prepare for their up-coming wedding. We see the challenges their Native/Non-native family face, and shed light on what it means to be a man and a woman in a patriarchal society.
The film will leave the audience asking; How do we define identity? And where does the role of traditional culture start and end?
