In 1940, on the dry westside of Kauaʻi, the Kekaha Sugar Company began a six-month mail-order film subscription with World Enterprises, an Oʻahu-based distributor—screening films for workers on their Sundays off from harvesting and processing sugarcane. Varied in style, the films shared a common theme: American power taming lands and peoples of the “frontier” through extraction, an encroachment justified by declared ideals of progress. WORLD ENTERPRISES is a collage of radical possibilities sourced entirely from the original 1940 film program. Recontextualized by Banua-Simon, the short compilation enters a dreamlike conversation with both the material realities of the moment of its creation and the present day, culminating in an explicit “cut-up poem” provocation that reflects on community amid political defeat while pointing toward a revolutionary movement just beneath the surface.
Stories that flow like the river that inspire them. A documentary following the director’s inclination for trekking and hiking, and the stories behind the people he meets.
A family lives in peace and harmony—the father, mother, daughter, and grandmother. But when something unexpected happens, everything temporarily falls apart. The blame lies with a lost sock. An animated story with great sensitivity to small details.
A retired detective is pulled back into work by his old police chief, in search of his late wife’s final manuscript. The Chief suspects the newest crime boss is after it, to take advantage of its mysterious power.
Brief And Buried Glimpses Of Abandoned Creation. Flashing And Fainting Towards A Distant Sorrow. Layers Of A Reality Rippling Wild Through The Solemn Slits Of Eternity. Returned And Exactly Violent As The Bodies Worth, Soundless As The Sighs Of A Gentle Heaven, Mirrored And Upheld. Transformed Through The Irreparable And Absurd Assurance Of Indefinable Loss.
The climate movement and two lawyers are challenging the Danish state in a high-profile court case to stop a new artificial peninsula in Copenhagen Harbor.
In contemporary Hanoi, haunted by the echoes of an unfinished love between a Vietnamese worker who left for East Germany in the 1980s and the woman who stayed behind, what remains after the collapse of an ideology lingers in faltering bodies, muted gestures, and misty corners. Echoes of the past ripple through a drifting generation: an inherited fatigue, a quiet unrest, a looping refrain, a trembling future. Kieu Anh Phuong Nguyen’s film is a slightly melancholic and deeply atmospheric story told in elliptical black-and-white images.
Anthony, commander of the centurions and hero of Rome, after years of battles, is back home to his love and family, what he didn't know is that a new emperor is now on the throne and dominates Rome with an iron fist.