Streaming Home I

Religious imagery in Curado I, a small neighbourhood in the northeast of Brazil.

After many years as a vagabond, Ronald comes home to his family who are about to be evicted from their home. He saves their home and, while chasing a runaway pancake, saves a kidnapped girl as well.

Documentary on three Asian families in Britain.

A peasant Xingfa Ma works at a garage in Beijing. One day, he receives a phone call from his loved one, Ga, saying his mom is ill at hospital and need money. Xing fa comes to his boss brother Kun and asking for salary, but rejected by his boss. He has no choice but to buy scalped ticket using his left savings and borrow many from other workers. What he doesn't know is an unimaginably queer life is lying ahead him...

After a devastating volcanic eruption in 1995, the Caribbean island of Montserrat experienced a mass exodus. But many refused to leave, despite the destruction the volcano caused. Can a community torn apart by nature ever truly recover?

How we felt the rain ? It's truly amazing to see what will nature doing to us. Animals Garden Home that's why we live for

Filmed in roughly one month between the end of October and the beginning of December 2005, the film is an honest portrayal of Jac Currie’s life after Katrina and one of his first trips back to the Gulf Coast after being stranded in New York. It shows Defend New Orleans’ transition to a valid social aid project and documents some of the destruction in New Orleans and on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Short comedy featuring Oliver Hardy and a lion

A double exposure, a portrait of a body, a house that oscillates between its narrative past and its literal presence. The melodramatic, 1950s films of amateur filmmaker Joan Thurber Baldwin are psychically projected onto the house in which my grandmother raised seven kids as it is cleaned out and put up for sale after she passed away. Upholding the narrative structures of melodrama that often center around men, even when the films are about women, the film asks the viewer, as Thurber says in her introduction, to pay attention to the peripheries.

Australian independent political documentary about the US installations in Australia at Pine Gap near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

Story of a once famous trans woman called Bastet who now lives out her life in a small New York State coastal town which is closed up for winter. Bastet’s life takes a turn she hadn’t envisaged when she opens her home to a young woman who pretends to be something she is not. The movie questions the reality and truth of both Bastet, the fading trans woman star of Andy Warhol’s Factory, and Aggie, the young woman who comes to stay.

A 13-year-old starts her first day in a new school far away from home.

Banaba is a remote and tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, about 50-miles South of the Equator, at the Western limit of the Republic of Kiribati. Once it was known as Ocean Island, named after ship that “discovered” it. Once it was the colonial capital of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and one of the British Empire’s richest sources of phosphate, the raw material for the fertiliser that enriched the soil of Australia and New Zealand. From 1900 to 1979, phosphate mining devastated Banaba, leaving a landscape of barren coral outcrops and rusting machinery. Most Banabans now live in Fiji, two thousand miles away from Banaba, on Rabi Island (pronounced ‘Rambi’) to which the British exiled them in 1945, after three years of intense suffering under Japanese occupation. In July 1997, a small group of Banabans and ex-miners made a return journey to the island that was once their home. This documentary tells the story.

Filmmaker Malini Schueller examines police brutality against minorities and the dangers of overmilitarized campuses.

As 'Auntie Joyce' struggles to save her home from the encroaching bulldozers, it becomes a symbol for preserving the first Aboriginal land grant.

A short by independent filmmaker Martha Haslanger.

The Jerusalem Airport lies along the road that links Jerusalem to Ramallah. It has been occupied by Israeli army since 1967, at a 5 kilometer distance from Ramallah and 10 kilometer distance from Jerusalem. Today, to the east of the runway, a huge military checkpoint blocks the Jerusalem-Ramallah road, a dead end street. Nahed Awwad discovers that life has not always been like this, and that this sad spot used to be a place where international aircrafts landed in the 1950s and 1960s, when Palestinians traveled freely. The happy images and testimonies of the past contrast bitterly with those of the present where access is denied to the aviation zone that is now being besieged behind barbed wire and soon will be trapped behind the Israeli Separation Wall. Nahed Awwad goes to meet this place, evoking the past in order to have a better apprehension of the present: today’s Palestinian reality that is marked by forgetfulness.

The past and present weave themselves together through documentation of family moments in and around the Netherlands. A translation of attachment and dislocation on what home means in regards to emigration and memory from one generation to the next.

An example of the titanic struggles and bitter, vindictive rivalries that go unnoticed within our homes