Ruby and Otto, two young drifters, live out of a crumbling roadside motel. Their days are a mix of absurdity and tenderness, shooting BB guns at beer cans, making vinegar bombs, and finding beauty in their boredom. When their eccentric neighbor Joe enters their orbit, the trio’s chaotic friendship turns into a strange, freeing escape from the monotony of small-town life.
As happens to Simone, who was already the protagonist 11 years ago – he was portrayed back then with the other men of the Ciliberti family in the previous film *L'albero di trasmissione* – forced to close his workshop and with it his creations made from scrap, emblems of an unproductive inventiveness, of a fragile but realized utopia. It seems, however, that living on the margins of the present, in a precariousness that is a choice and not a misfortune, is a freedom that is no longer permitted. This new work by Fabrizio Bellomo is a biographical film (about a man, a nonconformist, and his neighborhood), which is at the same time a sequel and itself a film within a film, but also and above all a reflection on the role of cinema towards its subjects and on the humanist mandate of documentary.
The epic story of how one of America’s first successful public works emboldened a nation to move westward. The film places the historic Flight of Five locks on the Erie Canal in Lockport, New York, squarely in the American narrative as a symbol of a young and developing nation. The Lockport Locks were regarded as a modern engineering marvel at the time that the Erie Canal was originally opened in 1825. They enabled water-borne commerce and passengers to travel from New York City to the Great Lakes via the Hudson River and the man-made inland waterway system, opening up the Midwest to development.
Adrián and Diego are spending a typical day sunbathing and chatting on the balcony of their home. Diego talks while Adrián notices a man watching them from the beach.
A short documentary about ice explores the role and agency of ice in shaping Arctic futures by following a sailboat journey through the Northwest Passage and an overwintering in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).
This is a 2D animated documentary created using the real voices of people who have experienced loss in different ways. The story takes place in Tehran, following a girl who listens to a podcast from the very beginning of her journey.
Interview with Gilbert Higgins, one of the 146 victims of the police raid on the Truxx, a gay bar on Stanley Street in Montreal, on the night of October 22, 1977. The reaction it triggered became one of the precursor events to the creation of what was first called Le Village de l’Est (in contrast to the gay bar sector west of downtown), then Le Village gai, and now simply Le Village.
Interview with Gregory Rowe, who came from Western Canada to settle in Montreal in 1983. In addition to his comments on his experience in the English-speaking part of the gay movement, he gives a poignant account of his resilience in the face of the HIV crisis (which he has been carrying for 37 years), and his involvement in organizations that support HIV-positive people.
In a living room, two people slow dancing become a landscape for (re)connection. A Slow Dance attempts to materialize the monolithic gesture that is longing, one that takes its roots in lifelong household transgressions and collective myths.