I Was A Criminal

The film follows a blind young man in Lorestan who spends his summer alone in his village while everyone else has moved under the mountain away from the heat. He waits for cars next to the road in hopes that they will give him money. While trying to find a car that passed him one day he finds a water stream by accident and the calmness of its environment makes him seek refuge there every day. But the seasons change and after the first rain, the small stream turns into a big body of water and the young man is left with nowhere to bring him happiness every day.

A letter from Beirut by Nour Ouayda

Gonzalo is a farmer living with his family in a small village in Castile, in the north of Spain. The ancient and sage tradition of producing their food, from the slaughter of a pig to his own wine, has worked very well for him at this time of crisis in Spain. Sowing and harvest, like fiestas and customs, define the annual cycle, plagued with difficulties and problems but also filled with joy and gratification.

“Chervona Ruta is the first youth festival of Ukrainian song. In September 1989, it made its debut in Chernivtsi, the hometown of the famous singer and composer Volodymyr Ivasyuk. At that time, dozens of Ukrainian bands made a name for themselves, and both popular and rock music was performed. At Chervona Ruta-1989, despite the close attention of the Soviet secret services, the flags of Ukraine were constantly raised and the Ukrainian anthem was played. The eyewitnesses tell how it was. The stars will share their memories of the first Chervona Ruta, the mood of Ukrainians, and their feelings of the beginning of a new era in Ukrainian music.

A recurrence of loss and memory, an adventure of deviation. On a summer night, Guixi and Wu Zhihong, fellow mountain-born children from the same hometown, meet through the isolation of the city, two outsiders wandering through the jungle on the streets of Hangzhou. At dawn, Guixi approaches a quiet, timeless lake.

A gunman and his sheriff companion are hired to deliver a million dollars in gold by traveling through gang-infested lands, while in disguise.

Shortly before his death, Marek Edelman (1919-2009), former commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943) against the Nazi occupation, wonders about several basic themes of human existence in relation to the Shoah: how was it possible to enjoy love, tenderness, passion and lust while the whole world was crumbling and burning around.

Since the day I was born is composed through a reflection on remorse and the search for mental liberation from the death of the individual. In the short film, barely two minutes long, an anonymous man remembers all the moments in which he has failed in the game of life; moments in which he has made mistakes, or has chosen the wrong option, harming someone close to him or himself, while his body hangs from a rope and is little by little deprived of oxygen. He regrets what he has experienced since the day he was born, but he also regrets the drastic decision he has just made.

The footage of the film shows Joniškis, Kriukai and Žagarė, places of large Jewish communities before the war. The locals remember the Jews, and tell about the tragedy that befell them during the years of fascist German occupation.

The end of the Soviet Union has made its mark, not only on Georgia’s politics, society, and economy, but also on Tbilisi’s urban architecture. Regimented blocks have acquired slipshod DIY extensions; buildings arise with no overall plan; and construction projects that were abandoned halfway have left functionless gaps. Mistakes are made and not always corrected. Urban sprawl is thus changing the appearance of the city.

Silent short (with music and inter-titles) telling an old Indonesian folk tale of a princess who ends up married to a dog.

A long-term observation from 1977-1980, focusing on the apprentice Gerd and his family. Gerd wants to become an electrician, but after several rejections he accepts an apprenticeship as a lathe operator at Ford. In the first two years he works in an apprentice workshop, in the third year he has to go into production; from now on he is under a lot of pressure, because the company keeps the decision as to whether to take on an apprentice as a normal employee open until the last moment. When Gerd talks about the apprenticeship at home and criticizes the training, his parents reprimand him. They say: You'd better put something away! He shouldn't stand out in the company. The work of a lathe operator is increasingly being taken over by automatic machines. Gerd realizes that he is learning a trade that no one will need any more soon.

Originally a TikTok compilation, sculpted into a psychedelic documentary on the loneliness and dark beauty of Los Angeles, California. Slow and meditative, mostly composed of silent shots of street lamps, moving cars and rain, which are occasionally broken up with bursts of music and a climactic digital appearance by Kanye West.

Prominent art historian Lord Steinway starts channeling famous artists when he dives into the thorny and controversial question of can great artists be evil?

“The Times has reconstructed the death of George Floyd on May 25. Security footage, witness videos and official documents show how a series of actions by officers turned fatal. (This video contains scenes of graphic violence.)”

A personal account of film as a means of mediating between generations through sharing memory and authorship.