HOW MANY TIMES CAN GOD SAVE ME – dir. Larry Enright

Original Film Title: HOW MANY TIMES CAN GOD SAVE ME

Director’s Name: Larry Enright

Producer: LARRY enright

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 24 minutes 29 seconds

Film Description:

SO MANY TIMES I SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD BUT GOD KEEPS SAVING ME

Ancestral Rivers – dir. Taylor Smith

Original Film Title: Ancestral Rivers

Director’s Name: Taylor Smith

Producer: Taylor Smith

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: Canada

Language: English

Runtime: 22 minutes 58 seconds

Film Description:
The Indigenous Youth River Guide Training (IYRGT) program aims to remove barriers and create opportunities for youth to learn land-based skills such as flat-water and whitewater canoeing, wilderness medicine and whitewater rescue training in order to become wilderness guides. The goal is to improve self-esteem, leadership, self-determination and expose youth to potential career opportunities all while centering Indigenous languages and knowledge. This is the first IYRGT cohorts story

“When Houston Had The Blues” – dir. Alan Swyer

Original Film Title: “When Houston Had The Blues”

Director’s Name: Alan Swyer

Producer: Drew Barnett-Hamilton

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutes 14 seconds

Film Description:

“WHEN HOUSTON HAD THE BLUES” casts a spotlight on the rich, wonderful, but sadly unheralded spawning ground of extraordinary Black musical talent: Lightnin’ Hopkins, Big Mama Thornton, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Clifton Chenier, Gatemouth Brown, and others.

Earthbound: Nzambi Matee – dir. Farhoud Meybodi

Original Film Title: Earthbound: Nzambi Matee

Director’s Name: Farhoud Meybodi

Writer`s Name: Farhoud Meybodi

Producer: Sean Hobbs

Country of Origin: Japan

Country of Filming: Kenya

Language: English, French, Polish

Runtime: 47 minutes 52 seconds

Film Description:

Amidst a catastrophic plastic waste crisis in her hometown of Nairobi, Nzambi Matee risks everything to pioneer revolutionary technology that transforms plastic waste into sustainable paving bricks.

On the edge – Witold K. – dir. Jacek Knopp, Piotr Weychert

Original Film Title: Na krawędzi – Witold K.

Director’s Name: Jacek Knopp, Piotr Weychert

Writer`s Name: Jacek Knopp, Piotr Weychert

Producer: Mirosław Chojecki, Sławomir Chojecki, Feliks Kaczanowski

Country of Origin: Poland

Country of Filming: France, Poland, United States

Language: English, French, Polish

Runtime: 1 hour 22 minutes

Film Description:

„On the edge – Witold K.” Is a documentary movie about art and life of polish-american visual artist Witold Kaczanowski. Witold was born in 1932 in Warsaw. His father was a director of Mental Hospital in Tworki near Warsaw, where artist spent his childhood under German Nazi occupation. In 1964 he smuggled manuscripts of dissident writers from Poland and the Soviet Union into the West and for doing that he was not allowed to return to Poland for many years. In 1967 Pablo Picasso painted his portrait. Artist moved to United States in 1968.

Call Me Soraya – dir. Daniel Stadelmann

Original Film Title: Call Me Soraya

Director’s Name: Daniel Stadelmann

Writer`s Name: Daniel Stadelmann, Otmar Schmid

Producer: Daniel Stadelmann

Country of Origin: Switzerland

Country of Filming: Brazil, Germany, Switzerland

Language: German, Swiss German

Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes

Film Description:

Soraya feels like a girl, but anatomically she is a boy. Until recently, she went to school as Josué. Her coming out at the age of 13 is initially positive, but after just a few weeks she is met with increasing rejection. Soraya also experiences resistance at home. Her father hopes that his child might “change her mind” again. Soraya, on the other hand, fights for early hormone delivery and an early operation. Over a period of six years, a touching film was made which, beyond the individual fate, contributes to the debate about transidentity and homophobia.

Ukraine War , the eyes of refugees – dir. Olivia M. Pfaff

Original Film Title: Ukraine War , the eyes of refugees

Director’s Name: Olivia M. Pfaff

Writer`s Name: Olivia M. Pfaff

Producer: Olivia M. Pfaff, Robert Levin, Mark L. Owen

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: Romania, Ukraine

Language: English, Romanian, Ukrainian

Runtime: 37 minutes 25 seconds

Film Description:

Narrated By renowned Journalist, Mark Owen of France 24
Run Time 36.53
Short film , documentary , following the lives of the Ukrainian war refugees, from the Russian war on Ukraine. It features the lives of the refugee children and their response to war. Interviews with parents and other adults. filmed on location in Ukraine and Siret Romina

Datie: The Art Tribe of Tiegang – dir. Baker Bohan Zhan, Cindy Tiantian Liu, David Binghui Sun, Alice Xiaoqian Sun, Elina Yiqi Wen, Ivy Ziyi Yang, Alison Yi Jin

Original Film Title: 打铁:铁岗文艺社

Director’s Name: Baker Bohan Zhan, Cindy Tiantian Liu, David Binghui Sun, Alice Xiaoqian Sun, Elina Yiqi Wen, Ivy Ziyi Yang, Alison Yi Jin

Writer`s Name: Baker Bohan Zhan, Cindy Tiantian Liu, David Binghui Sun, Alice Xiaoqian Sun, Elina Yiqi Wen, Ivy Ziyi Yang, Alison Yi Jin

Producer: Elaine Guiling Zhu, Icy Bingjie He, Giselle Yaqi Liu

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese, English

Runtime: 14 minutes 37 seconds

Film Description:

The artists of Datie Literature & Art Tribe in Tiegang village, harbored the ambition to build the village into “the No.1 graffiti village in China”. However, they came across the contradiction between artistic dreams and the reality in Tiegang.

Minima and the drags – dir. Antoine Dabin

Original Film Title: Minima et les drags

Director’s Name: Antoine Dabin

Writer`s Name: Antoine Dabin

Producer: Antoine Dabin

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 52 minutes 23 seconds

Film Description:

“Minima and the drags” is the story of a movement exploding on big capital stages, including Paris obviously. What we don’t know is that the Drags created the Pride and initiated every important battle for LGBTQIA+ community rights, as for every ostracized and despised communities.
To describe this movement, its commitments going through party and disguise, we are going to follow several Drags paths, as the one of Minima Gesté alias Arthur. He/She is on every battlefront, the show, her/his engineer job, her/his relationship, his/her commitment for all lost causes…