The Delights
More than 120 kids live together in Las Delicias agrotechnical boarding school in the Argentine countryside. Throughout the year, in addition to the compulsory subjects, they learn activities related to farm work. A doctor and other members of the school staff lend an ear during the daily struggles with mis-behaviour, physical ailments and the desire to return home. In that school, away from their families, they will experience the end of their childhood and the beginning of their youth.
"There is light in even the darkest places" - VOX Magazine
Anyox
An epic, intimate documentary about one of the most important missions ever carried out in the depths of the Amazon rainforest. Bruno Pereira leads the mission to establish first contact with an isolated group of Korubo indigenous people, and broker a reunion with family members they were separated from years before. Bruno would later be murdered in the same region alongside Dom Philips, whilst trying to protect the land and rights of indigenous people, and this film is a valuable insight into his work.
"Extending far beyond the conventions of pure ethnographic cinema...a wondrous record of contact with a society that has lived far from the reaches of modern life, and a bleak reminder of the voraciousness of our world." - Sheffield Doc Fest
Signs of War
Who can see a war coming? It started with fireworks in the Crimean sky, a strike on a civilian plane with 298 people on board over the fields of Donetsk, the onslaught on the city of Kyiv by Russian soldiers and bombs. Millions of local residents are trying to flee from Ukraine, while thousands of foreign journalists are trying to get in. One of them was there for it all.
" candid and insightful testimony brings a palpable intimacy that is often lost in journalistic accounts. Here is the march of war, seen up close and personal." - Guardian
A Long Journey Home
A family of three generations lives in a 120-square-meter home. The division of the space articulates five people’s daily lives, which also throws them into different worlds. They talked about the past and probed for a future. Yet, a crack keeps growing with a repeated pattern full of happiness and grief.
"a relational, temporal and cinematographic journey....Recent Chinese history is implicitly outlined, the rapid growth of the 1990s having left a mark on society as a whole. A Long Journey Home is a brilliant quest for emancipation, seeking a place among one's own people." - Visions du Reel, **Winner** Jury Prize in the Burning Lights Competition
How to Save a Dead Friend
Trans women face extreme violence on the streets of Mexico City. After witnessing the murder of her friend, trans sex worker Kenya sets out to find justice. In a long struggle full of fear and pain, Kenya cannot help but to see her own life reflected in her friend’s tragic ending. A debut of great integrity.
"Raw and deeply affecting...Kenya offers the camera a disarming welcome. Despite the outward show—high heels, wigs, make-up, plastic surgery—there’s a distinct lack of vanity on display." - IDFA