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Testimony of the events that took place during the assault on the Moncada Barracks in July 1953, based on the texts written by President Fidel Castro in the former prison of Isla de Pinos, currently Isla de la Juventud.

Toni Morrison (1931-2019), first black woman writer being awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature, was a critic, a book editor, a college professor, and a creative author of novels, poems and essays. She claimed the invention of a black writing and brought the light on what had kept silenced since the days of the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation: the black people history.

The story is about how important it is to remain calm and not panic, even if you know that a fiery meteorite will fall on you in a minute.

A music video.

Taiji has been estranged from his mother Mitsuko for years. Due to a meeting with his friend, he looks back at his past with his mother. After not seeing her for years, Taiji sees Mitsuko again. He tries to regain his mother's love.

A sculptor turns to his dreams for artistic inspiration, his unconscious will manifest in a way never seen before.

The first blueprints for rockets could be found in a treatise, Artis Magnae Artilleriae (1648) by inventor K. Simonavičius. And how many Lithuanian astronauts were there? Two. And one of them was an architect. Ozė (V. Ozarinskas, 1961-2014) was an exceptional figure in the Lithuanian cultural scene. His works stand out in their scale, depth, and originality. Especially inconvenient to the viewer is Ozė’s “black” creative period. But is black color only the symbol of despair? Astrophysicists estimate that the better part of the Universe is composed of invisible dark matter. Seems like Ozė knew that very well.

Chinese movie

The events revolve around a representative in Parliament who represents one of the constituencies in Upper Egypt. He was able to achieve great successes, but he dies. The family nominates his daughter, a law school graduate, to take his place, but she encounters many problems.

On planet Earth, three human baby cubs come into the world squinting their eyes. They play joyfully under the gaze of an astronaut father who tries to immortalise them before his long journey into space. However, it's an expedition of no return. Following in their parents' footsteps and armed with toys, the children experience a blissful world, tailored to humans, and they grow up confident in their ability to conquer it. The stars become reachable, all animals are at their disposal. The earth rumbles beneath them and the fumes of a volcano become menacing. But the protagonists of this story don't seem to realize that they are ghosts trapped in a scratched film. Perhaps, only due to a matter of diopters.

Technology is always present in our lives. In many cases, it improves our lives, but we often are not able to manage it, especially when it reaches the end of its life. This issue can create serious imbalances that affect our planet. The documentary Materia Viva addresses this concept to open up and tackle a series of environmental issues: recycling and resource management, the circular economy, and topics like climate change and climate neutrality

The title Green Matters refers to filamentous green algae which is growing excessively in the Baltic Sea. Green Matters approaches eutrophication from a new perspective. Considering the enormous importance green algae had in the evolution of flora and fauna, its importance as an essential source of oxygen, and its energeticand nutritional values, it truly deserves our respect. Moreover, we can be fascinated by its beauty, when observed in its underwater surroundings. Mia Mäkelä studied green algae and their possible use applying traditional rug-making techniques. Her project aims to help the eutrophicated Baltic Sea by foraging algae and putting them to good use.

In New York, the Federation of Black Cowboys keeps alive the memory of African-American cowboys in the Old West. As many as one in four cowboys in the pioneer days was black. A fact that has been whitewashed from history and popular culture.

An intimate reading experience of voice messages from my grandmother‘s sleepless moments. A portrait of personal memory as it is reimagined and lingers for an instant. My phone camera documents wandering figures by a lakeside at night. Across from the lake, the sight of the dissolving cityscape appears to be both infinitely close and extremely remote. This film attempts to reconstruct the forgotten and the marginalized parts of individual beings in the scope of time. The film explores what’s beyond the visual expression and flows out of the flat screen to co-inhabit the space of the audience’s reality. The viewers would find themselves roaming through the ontological existence of film, confronted with sound, light, darkness, time and rhythms, transitioning between positive space and negative space, and approaching the very ambiguity of memory.

Abstract animation film whose main theme is “matter”. It is developed in four different acts/movements, each one with a distinct graphic and sound universe, globally constituting a journey through the four major states of matter: solid, liquid, gas and plasma. In each of these parts three conceptual dimensions coexist, corresponding to three different areas of human knowledge: science, art and religion.

A series of complaints directed at the camera that nobody wanted to take care of before. It turns out that the complaints focus on policemen, a sergeant, and a master corporal.

Peter returns to Poland from Iraq war. He is not happy to find his sister living with her lesbian girlfriend in their family home. Brother does not accept his sister's sexual orientation and tries to get rid of her partner, but even the mother defends the girls. Will the family manage to overrule him?

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Unseen follows Jess and Ryan Ronne, a blended family with 8 children, including Lucas, who has profound disabilities requiring total care. Their situation has gotten more and more challenging as Lucas gets older and stronger. With limited resources and support, caregiving takes a toll on their physical and mental health. It’s a common story among parent caregivers: the isolation, uncertainty about the future, lack of options, and a never-ending daily to-do list means the role of caregiver overpowers nearly every other facet of life. Video diaries from diverse caregivers featured in the film illustrate this universality, while interviews with mental health and policy/legal experts provide a broader view on the societal impacts. Through the power of unfiltered, compelling human stories, Unseen cultivates compassion and tangible support for the caregivers in our communities.