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As loneliness rises worldwide, eight individuals across Europe and Asia resist the pressure to conform, seeking connection without sacrificing who they are. Can we build a sense of belonging not by abandoning the self, but by expanding it?
Behind the public facade of the ”First Lady of Israeli Song and Poetry”, intimate family archives and personal diaries uncover the secretive life, private struggles, and haunting plagiarism scandal of renowned songwriter and composer Naomi Shemer, creator of the iconic ‘Jerusalem of Gold’.
Architecture students join Shelly-Rachel Levy-Drummer to Bitola, North Macedonia, once known as Monastir. The history of her family is bound to Bitola’s destroyed Jewish community, to uncover and document the city’s lost Sephardic heritage through design and memory.
Marek Hłasko — writer, rebel, carouser — was hailed as the Polish James Dean for his looks and the Polish Boris Pasternak for the brilliance of his prose and his experience of exile.
Hanan, a musician, struggles with mental illness, and his mother, a writer, both use their art to break down the walls of silence surrounding their family’s ordeal. Their creative work becomes a powerful dialogue, creating meaning and beauty amidst the chaos.
In São Paulo’s city center, 120 Latin artists live and produce at Ouvidor, the biggest artist occupation in Latin America. While there are constant threats of eviction, residents face an increasing internal turmoil.
When a feminist producer teams up with an Ultra-Orthodox rabbi to make a film based on a biblical tragedy, artistic differences escalate into hostility.
”Tito, Margot & Me” is focusing on the love story between the British ballerina Margot Fonteyn and her husband, the charismatic Panamanian diplomat Tito Arias.
“Greetings from the death camps” documentary film is a testimonial about the human spirit despite the terrors of war.
Director Joo Joostberens reflects on a topic that is still taboo in our society: Why are we running away from death? Can you prepare for the death of a loved one? The movie tries to answer these and many other questions.