Streets of Early Sorrow
A fictional film influenced by the Free Cinema movement, in which a young black man, a political exile, wanders the streets of London while reliving traumatic memories of a massacre in South Africa. Winner of the 1st Cin
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A fictional film influenced by the Free Cinema movement, in which a young black man, a political exile, wanders the streets of London while reliving traumatic memories of a massacre in South Africa. Winner of the 1st Cin
A recent young widow Anne Morgan is thrust into terrible poverty. Unable to care for both of her children, she persuades a prominent black doctor to adopt one of the boys.
the friends& man of constant sorrow music video is about loving 00s indie rock music while reckoning with its commercialization. the video imagines a futuristic stomp-clap band that makes the streets of Williamsburg thei
A documentary about the events that led to the rise of Darfur's Arab-dominated government and the international community's "legacy of failure" to respond to the genocide carried out in the country.
In 1974, mountain climber Molly Higgins (Lori Singer) begins her ascent of Lenin Peak, located in the Pamir Mountains on the edge of the Himalayas. She's part of an international climbing expedition that has brought a te
Through a combination of animation, graphics, and prose, young Ukrainian artist Marynka Dovhanych offers a deeply personal account of life during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Structured in eight chapters, the
Starla, a student struggling with family pressure and bullying at school, gradually loses her confidence and courage. One day, she begins experiencing mysterious and terrifying encounters that force her to confront the f
Dialoguing and coexisting with a Kallawaya family, their interpersonal relationships and relationships with nature are portrayed. The spectator can witness how ritual medicine, textiles, music, oral tradition and their d
In 2019, Hogan Seidel and Gabby Sumney decided to tackle a yearly collaboration called Sorrow Halved–from the German idiom “Geteilte Freude ist doppelte Freude, geteilter Schmerz ist halber Schmerz.” or “A joy shared, is
Isabel Clifford sits to be painted. Her artist is Marion Leslie, a man distracted by matters of the flesh. Not Isabel’s flesh but Lorelei’s, the same Lorelei who wows the corrupt police chief, Sarpina, with her virtuoso
Tony Palmer tells the life story of Sergei Rachmaninoff through the use of home movies, concert footage, and interviews. John Gielgud reads from Rachmaninoff's diaries in a voiceover.
Musician Catherine MacLellan—the daughter of Canadian singer/songwriting legend Gene MacLellan—grew up surrounded by her father’s music. He committed suicide when she was 14. The Song and the Sorrow follows Catherine as
Manal is forced to leave Syria. Once in safety, she plans to send for her children. As she learns that she must wait three years, Manal contacts 'an agent' to reunite the family. But first they must cross the sea...
Icelandic artist and musician Ragnar Kjartansson’s often intensely durational performance-based works manifest a rare synthesis of pathos and humor. A Lot of Sorrow is both a music video and an extended concert film, in
Sorrow is an analog animation in which through black, red and gold ink the internal conflict of a being who tries to inhabit his own house, but how they do not allow themselves to do so. As they try to go about everyday
A magistrate saves a young woman from drowning and they fall in love.
It's 1832, 22-year-old Raphaël's gambling has driven him to the brink of suicide. As he is about to throw himself in the Seine, a shopkeeper offers him something: a mysterious "skin of sorrow", which will grant all his
‘I absorbed the women in my life as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my face.’ (Vivian Gornick). Sorrow had a baby explores the mother-daughter relationship through multiple lenses: memory, beauty, and inherita
Follows single mother Yejide as she prepares for her daughter's rite of passage into womanhood. The burdens of tradition and duty bring Yejide's maternal instincts into conflict.
Is it possible to see the future in what surrounds us now? Two dutch couples, sixty years apart in age, discuss the past, present and future.