In Wuqiao, a small Chinese town, the inhabitants are dedicated to circus. For decades, different generations present themselves as clowns, magicians, acrobats and tamers. During the holidays of Chinese New Year, the Wuqiao Acrobatic World turns into a big playground for spectators. Surrounded by Buddhist temples and Taoist sculptures, artists create their own space of circus tradition, imagination, illusion and reality. Backstage life is melancholic. “Wuqiao Circus”, a film about circus life fra
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The Pillar of Strength
A wonderful story that touches on topics about family, natural relations and human identity as well as the patterns and culture of life in the Borneo archipelago. This animated short film brings narrative storytelling in promoting cultural forms, life patterns and spiritual energy between human relationships with nature as well as unearthing the conflict of family.
ASHES OF HOPE
Ashes of Hope narrates the forest fires that occurred on the summits of Gran Canaria in August 2019, just one month after the declaration of The Sacred Mountain Areas as World Heritage. Through the people who live at the top: shepherds, stone workers, weavers, farmers … and those responsible for the space, as well as the professionals who intervened in the control of fire and the human troops who fought against it; the documentary narrates a highly visual discourse where the power of photograp
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Endless distractions threaten to destroy creativity.
Yenka
Embalming an animal is an extremely complex task. Even more if it’s your pet. Pedro Viamonte (82), founder of the Higher Institute of Taxidermy and Conservation, decides that death isn’t reason enough to separate him from his beloved deer after 16 years together.
Omar And Us
Ismet is a recently retired Turkish soldier whose last post was as a Commander of the Coast Guard at the Turkish maritime border. New to civilian life, he struggles to communicate with his family and the people around him. His only son abandoned him and left for the U.S., and now his wife wants to join her son, too. In an unexpected turn of events, he suddenly becomes neighbors with two refugees, Omar and Mariye. Through this encounter and firsthand experience of what refugees have to go through