Memories of a Burning Tree
Smith arrives in Dar es Salaam to tie up loose ends. He is helped by others on quests of their own.
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Smith arrives in Dar es Salaam to tie up loose ends. He is helped by others on quests of their own.
Mumbi leaves Nairobi for her ancestral village and gets into a quarrel with a Christian women’s group seeking to eradicate the remains of pre-colonial belief systems. Wanjiru Kinyanjui graduated from the DFFB with this s
Alois Diethelm-Signer from Sattel is the last Swiss tree ladder maker. He has been producing tree ladders for orchards since 1966. He used to make up to 300 ladders a year, but today he still makes a good 40. Despite dec
Priest and the Ugly Christmas Tree is a small Christmas tale about a recently appointed pastor, who notices how the suburban residents are struggling in the slushy, Finnish Christmas landscape. He decides to cheer them u
A three-channel, double 8mm and 16mm projector installation.
The summer of 1965. VGIK graduate Amen Khaidarov is going home to Alma-Ata. Here, on the train, he has an epiphany — he finds an artistic solution to the prelude of the future film.
Enter into the vast world of Rüfüs Du Sol in this immersive film experience capturing the band's powerful live energy set against a backdrop of desert terrain. Performing their hits Solace, Underwater, and Innerbloom, th
Every 4 seasons, a young man visits a wild apple tree on the mountainside
Mikail runs an unusual cafe to escape from society and strict traditional structure of his family. He tries but struggles to open a boutique hotel for his mother, dreaming she can live there so she can forget all she wen
Montu Mridha’s wife and son live in a trance, often disappearing. Montu believes they are possessed, spending days searching for them and trying to cure them with holy apples.
Mweze Ngangura takes us to his native region, Ngweshe, one of he six Bushi kingdoms in the province of Kivu, in Eastern Zaïre. In this region of the Great Lakes, wealth is mesured in heads of cows and in length and bread
Many descendants of enslaved people have little record of their family's ancestry. Follow one family's quest to discover their lost history, and see how science and genealogy can help rebuild a family tree broken by slav
Film was exposed under the light of a Jacaranda tree on a street in Los Angeles. These Brazilian transplants now populate the American landscape.
A documentary about a group of young women painters from Bihar, India, who use the ancient Mithila painting style to fight discrimination and patriarchy.
A documentary exploring a personal quest: speaking to our parents before it’s too late. What begins as a search for answers about the Lebanese Civil War evolves into an intimate journey into the director’s relationship w
A narrative home movie.
A Ken Burns-style documentary exploring the first 100 years of our National Christmas Tree. On Christmas Eve 1923, President Calvin Coolidge lit the first National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse, just south of the White H
While mom prepares the family table, dad decorates the Christmas tree, but not without curiosities.
The Root of the Olive Tree tells the story of five Palestinians living far from their homeland who recount their experiences in the face of the intensification of the genocide and the Israeli occupation that has lasted m
A tree is like a man is an attempt to touch the otherworld through its edges. Shot on 16 mm in the Colombian Amazon, the film serves as personal witness to shaman Don William's lifetime relationship to Ayahuasca and othe