Walled Citizen
A Palestinian filmmaker attempts to explore the planet as a backpacker defying the restrictions of movement imposed on him as a holder of one of the world’s weakest ranking passports. Over the period of 3 years, Sameer Qumsiyeh travels with his personal camera from Palestine to Europe to the Canary Islands and Ecuador (featuring The …Read more »
Okinawa Coming out Chronicles “Mama” Katsuki’s Hug-Filled Road Trip
The coming out story of“Mama” Katsuki, the owner of the Shinjuku 2-chome gay bar “Kusuo”. In his late twenties, he leaves his hometown so he can be truly himself. Ten years later from that day, he comes out to his parents as gay. Now he can finally say he is on good terms with his …Read more »
The last adventure of The Gandul. Diary of a shipwreck
A group of friends without any nautical experience and an experienced Captain go on board a catamaran named Gandul. They meet at the Canary Islands with the purpose of crossing the Atlantic Ocean and arrive to the Barbados Island five weeks later. During the crossing we’ll live unique moments, all amidst an amazing scenery. We …Read more »
Saturn Saved Me
‘Saturn Saved Me’ is a 50 minute personal documentary film by Sharon Smith. A spiritual road movie about her experiences in India on the bumpy road to wisdom, it explores her encounters with astrology and divination as she consults with Indian soothsayers and healers and looks for an ancient palm leaf that reveals her destiny. …Read more »
STALKING CHERNOBYL: exploration after apocalypse
STALKING CHERNOBYL: exploration after apocalypse—directed by Iara Lee (a Cultures Of Resistance film)—a documentary that examines the underground culture of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Three decades after the world’s most infamous nuclear disaster, illegal hiking adventurers (known as “stalkers”), extreme sports afficionados, artists, and tour companies have begun to explore anew the mysterious, ghostly landscape, …Read more »