Islands Of The Future

Nooroa Baker goes out to collect a few ingredients to create a traditional Māori medicine that holds great Mana within and is at risk of being forgotten forever.

In greater Lisbon area, the name Cova da Moura has never been synonymous with well-being, education or prosperity. on the contrary, it has always been associated with the idea of violence, insecurity, danger or, at best, with lack of education and sheer poverty. Cova da Moura Island follows this neighbourhood's daily life, finding the cape verdean reflections in it and searching for the ways in which social exclusion is fought or perpetuated in the lives of its residents.

A group of young Latvian boys enroll to a pioneers movement during the first years after WWII.

Said to be the first science-fiction film produced in China (and perhaps having its North American theatrical premiere in Future Imperfect?), Death Ray on Coral Island spares no bile, camp, or latent envy in portraying America as the cunning archenemy that will stop at nothing—industrial espionage, assassinations, even ballroom dancing—to steal China’s futuristic weaponry. The film occupies a pivotal moment in China’s modern history, representing a legacy of the Great Cultural Revolution and a harbinger of the nation’s ascension on the global economic stage. Courtesy of the China Film Archive and Shanghai Film Group.

A documentary about Fidel Castro's visit to the USSR from April 28 to June 3, 1963 and how the Cuban leader traveled throughout the Soviet Union for 40 days, from Severodvinsk to Khiva in Uzbekistan.

Focusing on Yunlin County, we see the area covered in smog and the Jhuoshushi River drying up. The film can be seen as a chronicle of the environmental disasters resulted from industrial development, which ends with the Tianjin explosions in 2015.

We stepped on Orchid Island (Lanyu) because of an ancient chant, which is the earliest sound of the Tao people recorded by Japanese scholar Kitasato Takeshi in the 1920s. Our filming journey, a 3-hour boat ride from the southeast coast of Taiwan, became a heartfelt exploration of the island's intersections between old and new, tradition and modernity.

The story takes us to an island with no future, given that it’s already partly submerged underwater. A woman is caring for ten or so very elderly individuals, but the arrival of five travellers turns their lives upside down…

It shows the Olympic Games on Dankichi Island, where humans and animals compete against each other, in the categories: relay race, tug-of-war and tree-changing race. Who will be the champion?

Long before, dinosaurs on Earth disappeared due to asteroid collision. Dinosaurs came to life as small Tinysaurs on an island unknown. While some Tinysaurs like energetic Tricera, naughty Tyranno, sleepyhead Stego are having a great time, playing soccer with acorns, suspicious villains appear and start to threaten the peaceful island of Tinysaur… Where are these fishy stares coming from toward Tinysaurs? Will Tinysaurs be able to protect the endangered paradise, the Tinysaur lsland?

It was not raining, but the ground was wet because the water was dripping from the outdoor units of the air conditioners on the towering buildings. The neon lights of Tsim Sha Tsui glittered in the mysteriously shaped puddle. The film is a diary-like film that captures peaceful Hong Kong in 2019, just before the pro-democracy protests against the Fugitive Slave Ordinance intensified.

An adaptation of Maurice Renard's 1908 novel Le docteur Lerne, sous-dieu.

A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent 6000 "unwanted" citizens of Moscow and Leningrad to a desolate Siberian island - with no food or clothes to speak of. Decades later this documentary returns to the island.

Boy Borya reads a book about pirates instead of doing homework. He tears off the handkerchief from the parrot's cage, flaps it and exclaims: "I would like to be on an uninhabited island!" The mirror on the wall grows and opens directly to a tropical island, Borya's desire is fulfilled. Quite quickly, Borya discovers the magic properties of the scarf and calls friends to him: Yura and Mila.

Off the coast of Antarctica, in the southern ocean, there is a small island. No one knows about it, except for polar explorers who winter in Antarctica, and their relatives. On the island, right on the rocks, there are sarcophagi. People who are not written about in geography textbooks are buried here. But without them, it would be impossible to develop Antarctica. More than 60 years have passed since the first burial. During this time, the cemetery has never been completely renovated. Our team of 8 people went to Antarctica to make it for the first time.

Short Italian travelogue film about Rhodes. Idyllic shots of a couple in love in the woods and by the sea are followed by images of Italian naval ships that "cross the waters around their new occupation". Finally, there is a staged shot of a cannon firing a shot, with the Italian tricolor and the coat of arms of the company Savoia appearing over the statue. The island of Rhodes, which had been part of the Ottoman Empire since 1522, was conquered by the Italians in 1912.

Documentary on Okinawan resistance to American and SDF base construction

A story of a family of three consisting of a pig, fish and a tadpole that lives in the stomach of a big fish. Their lives are turned upside down when a fruit floats into their home.

The art, destiny, and relationship of two geniuses of world cinema: Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Parajanov.