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This film reveals the shocking collusion between the government, media, and Big Tech to censor science and silence prominent voices, such as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (the new head of the NIH), who disagreed with COVID policies.
Under Observation is a visual essay built from recordings captured by computer webcams in retail stores. As fragments of everyday passersby accumulate, a digital wall of surveillance emerges—silent, persistent, and strangely familiar. The work invites us to reflect on visibility, routine, and the subtle architectures of control within contemporary spaces.
April 1994 in the Lacandona Jungle, Chiapas, México. The Zapatista women talk about the living conditions of Mexican indigenous populations and the life of peasant women. They explain the reasons for their struggle and their uprising.
what marks the passage or occurrence of; clue: traces of human occupation. [figurative] what remains of something; signal; what remains for posterity.
In the city of Mosconi, in northern Argentina, the handing over of oil exploitation to multinational companies in the 1990s disrupted the way of life of its inhabitants. The first roadblocks and the formation of the Union of Unemployed Workers arose. This movement was spreading as part of the resistance of an entire town against the high unemployment rate, the lamentable working conditions and the pollution of the environment.
In the first of a new series of Define Beauty, Berlin-based directer Matt Lambert—known for his often-NSFW work exploring sex and intimacy—gets under the skin of our infatuation with sweat. Read more on NOWNESS
In rural Ghana, a young woman struggles with disruptive fits and a growing jealousy of a friend.
A film director sets out on a road trip to scout locations for her next film. An admirer of Resnais and experimental cinema, she tries to create a story in which her own story is mixed with that of a singer with whom she had a relationship in the past.
Three days before the tsunami hits Khao Lak, Jens Lind and his family travel on after a few weeks in paradise. With him, he has filmed material with people and moments from a place that would soon disappear. In the ten years that have passed, Jens has returned to the beach and the survivors. The documentary "Khao Lak" is a personal observation of a place that was washed away and rebuilt. At the center of the story is the unique little bungalow-place called "Mai's Quiet Zone".
A feature length documentary about the journey of the Bosnian basketball team from the heart of a war torn city to the 1993 European Championship.
Three trans opera singers refine their unique vocal talents and contemporize the history of gender-fluid performances in the art form.
Ali Essafi visited Bouanani three years before the latter’s death. The filmmaker, poet and novelist who also made drawings was leading a reclusive life in a remote village with his wife Naïma and many cats, living in the midst of huge piles of books and manuscripts.
Between February and April 2025, filmmakers Bernard-Henri Lévy and Marc Roussel filmed the Pokrovsk and Soumy fronts in eastern Ukraine, following the fighters of the Anne de Kyiv Brigade, armed by France. They filmed the daily lives of the inhabitants, bombarded by Russian forces terrorizing civilians on the eve of possible negotiations. They interview President Zelenskyy, who is reluctant to travel to Washington, and then watch the rebroadcast of the meeting with Ukrainian soldiers in a bunker. For the real heroes are the anonymous fighters and civilians who hold their heads high in the face of adversity and suffering, and who are filmed on a daily basis. The final part of Lévy’s “Ukrainian Quartet”, Our War is a diary, peppered with flashbacks in which the author recalls the high points of this war that began in 2014.
