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Gather around the campfire with Storyteller Brian "Fox" Ellis for four Central Illinois legends. From Illinois Wesleyan’s Lady in Red and Peoria State Hospital’s Old Bookbinder to Springdale Cemetery’s Witches Circle and the Cole Hollow Monster, Haunted Heartland explores the history behind the mystery and the real people whose lives inspired stories that still spark our imaginations. TV Special released by PBS Illinois Public Media WTVP.
A struggling tenant wants to escape his Pay-As-You-Go Life Tariff, but must first confront a relentlessly cheerful Customer Support officer conducting a routine “Life Utility Check-Up”. A Kafka-esque comedy set in a world where everything is chargeable.
A short collection of spontaneous images and sounds merged in one film.
The documentary follows women who gather in Nari Adalats in rural Bihar to address conflicts within their communities. Many once came here with their own disputes and now return to listen and help work things out. The film stays with the Adalat as a space where women sit, listen, question, and mediate in sometimes brutal cases. What emerges is not a fixed idea of justice, but something shaped slowly, collectively, and without clear closure.
On October 7th, Maoz Inon loses both of his parents and chooses to transform his grief into a struggle for peace. He is joined on his journey by Aziz Abu-Sarah, a Palestinian from Jerusalem carrying his own loss. Together, they set an almost impossible goal: peace by 2030. In the face of war, pain, and despair, the film asks whether it is still possible to believe in a different future.
A young woman, isolated and recovering from a severe injury, finds herself battling a mysterious phenomenon as she’s hurtled towards a devastating realization.
A mysterious snack cake brand leads its victims into a deadly parallel world if they stop consuming it.
Homeless in Paris after spending everything on a low-budget film, queer undocumented filmmaker Bynone tracks down a former partner to obtain consent for an explicit scene they once shot together. As they revisit the footage, old hierarchies, racialized power dynamics, and unresolved desire resurface – and the boundary between the film-within-the-film and the film itself dissolves.
Wildgemis is the directorial debut of Anouk Suntjens. Set in the vast American wilderness, the film follows Dutch researcher Elke Tukker, who has spent years studying the lives of wild horses. What begins as a fascination with these free-roaming animals gradually becomes a personal journey into humanity’s relationship with nature. As activists, government agencies and ranchers clash over land management, Elke is confronted with difficult questions about control, freedom and our place within the ecosystem. When she witnesses a controversial horse round-up for the first time, her sense of “wild longing” reaches a breaking point. Wildgemis is a powerful and thought-provoking documentary about nature, power and the human need for connection.
An animated reflection on the role of the individual in the ever-changing urban landscape, drawing on Mykhailo Semenko’s futuristic poetry and the realities of contemporary Ukraine.
They said we couldn’t make it to five… They were almost right…
Many kids only know the city. The beautiful chaos of the city; the traffic, the noise, the friends. It’s a jungle, but it’s their jungle. They know every corner, every sound. Nothing feels better, funnier, or more alive than that. What is the ocean to them? Many haven't seen the sea, let alone thought about gliding on its surface. It's the unknown, it's a formidable wild place full of wonder, excitement, joy and at times danger.
Khmer movie
At dusk, solitary voyagers glide quietly through the island rainforest on their nightly insect hunt. Hawai’i’s loneliest mammal, the ‘ōpe’ape’a (Hawaiian hoary bat), continues a tradition begun thousands of years before humans arrived, unaware of dangers posed by human hands encroaching steadily, and destructively, into their forest home.
We erase, rewrite, correct and create. Construction of the subway in Thessaloniki has been going on for over 20 years. Scientists, politicians and many others have been searching for and excavating artefacts of historic significance. These artefacts have been found, kept in secret and hidden. The city has been constantly erasing its centuries-long past, always carrying a new “me” in its underbelly of streets. Then, a woman is invited back to her motherland to save it from a contagious amnesia..
A cinematic essay about an interrupted film, using footage found within the walls of a gated community, documenting the living dead.
This documentary explores the long-awaited story of the survival and cultural impact of Mr. Smalls, a family-owned, independent music venue founded by Rusted Root’s Liz Berlin and pro skater Mike Speranzo. Blood, sweat, and tears went into turning the 18th-century Catholic church into a legendary music venue and community hub in Millvale, PA, and for over 25 years they have continued to beat the odds, including during the COVID-19 pandemic
Xiaodong once worked as a security guard at a university, where he nurtured a dream of making films, and for a time became known as the “inspirational security brother”. When the online fame faded, he returned to ordinary life. There he met Yuzhuo, who had left her family after illness reshaped her outlook. Their meeting was like a stone tossed into a lake, sending ripples across the surface.