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Aral - Death of a Sea
The Aral Sea was once the fourth inland sea in the world, with a flourishing fishing industry. In the 60's, with a need to increase the cotton production, the Soviet government decided to change the direction of the…
Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea
A documentary film about the three remaining generations of fishermen in the Aral Sea, and their daily struggle to survive in one of the scarcest places on the planet. It tries to capture the life after one of the…
Aralkum
A desert landscape, as if from another planet. A few lonely, rusty shipwrecks.
Low desert scrub grows around them to hold the sand together during the merciless storms.
Aralkum, the Aral Desert, is the bare seabed, the…
The Ararat Shadow
After the 1915 genocide, the Armenians succeed in life all around the world. The documentary follows this scatter and indomitable nation.
Arbitrary Fragments
Using highly-manipulated and over-processed images, Latham investigates the process of video as inherently fragmented. Weaving together various people’s impressions of the artist and her work, the work demonstrates…
The Archivists
When Mirna (32) opens the archive of her deceased German grandpa an ambiguous bond starts to grow. Although the archived past happens to be darker than she expected, she starts to realize how it always stayed present.
Arctic Alchemy
An adventurous home brewer from Pennsylvania undertakes an unexpectedly harsh journey to the Arctic losing some of his friends on the way but achieving his goal - brewing an old recipe of Arctic ale, popular with...
The Arctic Camels
When Torarin and his sister Svalin want a horse for riding, their parents buy two Bactrian camels. The family soon discovers that camel training is not for amateurs. Therefore, they take on an expedition to Mongolia,…
A Real Life Behind the Balcony, or Romeo and Juliet Make their Getaway
The protagonist Hiltraud Schmidt, a sufferer of a neurological disease, is lovingly called princess by her partner Franz Bittermann. The two of them talk about how they got to know each other and their current…
Area of Unrest
A border town is being rocked by anti-Roma demonstrations. We follow two locals strongly impacted by these demonstrations. An orderly older man who has undergone military training gradually reveals his hatred of…