Tree

Inspired by Dürer’s The Great Piece of Turf, Claudia Larcher explores a tree from the crown through to the roots. The gaze glides slowly over leaves and bark, explores insects and fungi, until the earth reveals itself as a fantastical, animated world. A plea for the marvelous.

It took his whole life to live and three full years to film Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man. Filmed in four countries with more than 80 interviews from artists with a combined 58 Grammy Awards by the artist included, “Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man,” an Allen Farst film, is the cinematic documentary that shines a light on one of the greatest rock’n roll pianists and keyboardists over the last 40 years. Not just known for his musical influence, Leavell is also one of the biggest names in environmental forestry and was selected the National Tree Farmer of the Year in the United States. -His commitment to the planet and his strong family ties are refreshing reminders to be kind and treat your neighbor with respect. As Leavell puts it, “if you cut a tree down, plant two for the next guy.”

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"A Tree Once Grew Here" combines captivating visuals, animation, and artificial intelligence derived imagery, to tell a tale that transcends language. We are reminded that we must rebalance harmony and nurture our planet; because we can no longer afford not to.

Belzec, Poland, late 60's. Local children decide to find a treasure buried behind the forest.

Can a tree be racist? A few years ago, debate on this issue reached as far as Fox News. The focus was a row of tamarisk trees along a huge golf course in Palm Springs, which screened off the neighborhood of Crossley Tract. This is a historically Black neighborhood, named after its founder Lawrence Crossley, who was one of the first Black residents to settle in the largely white tourist paradise, established on indigenous land over a century ago.

The story of the Syrian archaeologist Khaled Al-Asaad, who saved Palmyra's treasures from ISIS, only to pay for his brave stance with his life.

Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad and founded the Sudanese Film Group in 1989. After years of distance and exile, they are reunited, hoping to finally make their old dream come true: to bring back cinema to Sudan by reopening the Halfaia Cinema, a dilapidated theater in Khartoum.

Short documentary about chilean Neo-psychedelia band Niños del Cerro.

An early Soviet New Year cartoon with Grandpa Frost celebrating the holiday in the woods with other forest critters. But the wolves try to steal the presents for themselves and eat his reindeer.

The life crisis of Kimia and Farid, who have been married for twelve years, destroys the world of their children. Children who know nothing but kindness in life.

The day after his father's funeral, Manuel waits for the arrival of his sister Olalla, with whom he has not spoken in more than twenty years. Twenty years since their mother died, at which time she left home without warning and never returned. Olalla returns with the subconscious idea of ​​understanding his brother's decision to condemn his life to staying in that remote place in rural Galicia, a question that he does not even consider.

A documentary directed by Halgurd Salih tells the mysterious story of Mr. Hama Tal, a veteran Peshmerga.

Dora, a 45-year-old biologist lives alone in an isolated house, where she conducts an ethically questionable research. Looking for a partner she can trust, she hires a new caretaker, Mateus, not realizing that he is also hiding his own secrets. Gradually, the two grow closer and Mateus finally discovers more about Dora's research: human composting. Mateus, who applied for the job in search of his father, who he believes to have worked at the house before disappearing without reporting, confronts Dora, but she manages to lure him like prey into her office, in the Tree House.

The incredible story of friendship between Emanuele, a young scion of a family of doctors, and Rinaldo, an old man without children, who challenges death to teach Emanuele to "read nature" and to realize his dream, become a farmer, despite the wishes of the family and the pressures of society.

Documentary about the members of the folklore ensemble "Drevo" from the village of Kryachkivka of the Pyryatyn district of the Poltava region, performing ancient Ukrainian songs. The members of the ensemble were filmed during a meeting with People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR N. M. Matvienko.

A few days in the life of a small-town boy. After graduating from college, he receives a conscription notice. We live his last days together with him.

The last wedding of an Udmurt. A year after his death, his soul says goodbye to the world of the living and becomes engaged to another, unknown world.