Interviews
Nicolas Maurin
Anyway
Leo has just turned 18, and must now leave the children's home where he grew up. With no housing solution, he experiences his first day living in the street.
Alexandra Pater
Bad Wings
Anna, an orphan abused as a child by the director of the orphanage, is about to get her revenge, when suddenly Liam, her partner in crime, makes everything terribly more complicated.
Giada Ferraglioni & Sergio Colombo
DREAMING EUROPE
Three months after the wreck of Cutro, where at least 94 people died, we traveled to Izmir, Turkey. The province was the starting point of the boat that in February sank off the coast of Calabria, Italy, and is home to one of the biggest communities of refugees in the country. We met Moussa, Abdulkadir and Maamoun, three young Syrian refugees who yearn for a better life, hanging between the impossible dream to return to Syria and the hope to find their future in Europe.
During the electoral campaign for the second round of the 2023 presidential elections, the main Turkish political parties spread propaganda on Syrian refugees to obtain the votes of the nationalist electorate. These stories must be told to better understand one of the most important humanitarian crisis of our time.
Wagner Dantas
FIDELIO
Wagner and Ísis have known each other for a short time. In order to know more about each other, they decide to spend Christmas together.
Gregory Bray
ESCAPISM
Honorably discharged veteran Guy Friendly anticipates his friend Todd’s arrival, so they can enjoy a nostalgic Man-Man and the Sorcerers of Destiny cartoon. But as he’s waiting for Todd, his prized Man-Man toy collection seems to move of their own accord–with deadly intentions. Can Guy navigate memories of past horrors and truly become victorious?
Darren Haruo Rae
Nisei
Inspired by stories from my grandfather, Nisei follows the journey of two Japanese-American brothers through World War II, Minoru and John Miyasaki. Stripped of their citizenship and placed in internment camps, they volunteer for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, an all Japanese-American unit that sacrificed everything, to prove their loyalty to a country that doesn’t want them. Torn between country and family, they must face the enemy overseas along with adversity back home.
Angelo Donzella
The Plan
A cunning seductress, a carefully thought-out plan and then.....the unexpected
John Parr
UNCONQUERED
“A memoir of triumph over adversity and wounds no sword can make”
The true story of two elite soldiers severely injured in the line of duty. “Unconquered” charts their inspiring journey from the depths of despair to break the chains of life changing injuries to rise again.
Yunah Hong
When Walter meets Frau May Wong
Berlin in1928, Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a philosopher obsessed with chasing authenticity in art, is left stripped bare by an interview with burgeoning Chinese American international film star, Anna May Wong (1905-1961).
Brenda Elizabeth Kovrig
You, Forever
You, Forever is a short hybrid film that incorporates documentary and fantasy fiction. Robert Ettinger, ‘the father of cryonics,’ speaks of his life’s work while his ‘patients’ experience an unnatural existence in suspended animation. The film is at once a piece of living (or un-living) history, and a surrealist comedy of the unknown. It explores some of humanity’s fascinating responses to fear, loss and grief while offering a potential for hope. In this way, the tale of an intelligent, eccentric and lonely old man becomes a story relatable to everyone.