Children of Your Love
An ode to the traditions of Melgaço and to the deep human connection with the land — its hardships, rituals, and generosity — Rui Pedro Lamy’s documentary captures the identity of a people rooted in a mountainous border region. Through evocative imagery and personal testimonies, the film preserves the memory of a time when subsistence economies shaped livelihoods and […]
Radical Neighbouring
What do humans who aren’t consumers look like? What happens when we find ways of feeding ourselves and each other without buying or selling food? Sand River Community Farm is an experiment in gift economy and community building. Ever since farmer Adam Wilson was offered $500K from a community member to take this piece of […]
Blue Lake Whispers
In an abandoned forest, a woman emerges from the depths of a lake. She wants to give birth to her child, but she keeps repeating that her child has told her it doesn’t want to be born. She encounters two women who tell her that in the world she has entered, no one is born […]
Blooming
Founded three hundred years ago as a refuge from slave traders, Ganvié, in Benin, has become the largest stilt village in Africa and now attracts thousands of tourists. But the people of the water, who once resisted colonization, are today colonized by a new invader: the water hyacinth. Said to have been introduced to decorate […]
A New Kind of Wilderness
On a small farm in a Norwegian forest, the Paynes live a purposefully isolated life, aiming to be wild and free. Maria and Nik, along with their four children Ulv, Falk, Freja, and Ronja are self-sufficient. They practice home-schooling and strive for a closely-knit family dynamic in harmony with nature. However, when tragedy strikes the […]
A New Kind of Wilderness
Blooming
From afar, every mountain is blue
Indigenist Fernando Schiavini revisits the places and villages he visited in the 1970s, a time when little was known about “deep Brazil”. The history of Brazilian indigenism told by those who lived it and helped write it through the language of solidarity.
5861
5861 emerges as a documentary short film, in which the imposing natural beauty of the Serra da Estrela serves as a backdrop to reveal fragments of the life of Henrique Rebelo, a former driver in the Portuguese Colonial War.
The Mosquito Dance
Between the past and the present, an omniscient narrator travels through places, objects and people, while awakening memories disturbed by phantom gears. The result of collecting and interpreting life stories that unfold over the landscape of the foothills of Serra da Estrela, A Dança dos Mosquitos is a cinematographic essay that seeks to give stage […]