Master Wu’s Double Ninth Festival
The Double Ninth Festival, with a history of over 2,000 years, is a traditional Chinese festival. On this day, people climb to high places to pray for blessings and wish the elderly good health and long life. In Daoist culture, this day is considered an auspicious time for ascending to immortality. Therefore, the Shamanistic traditions […]
Eugene O’Neill’s – The First Man -dcff Finalist
This is the first-ever film adaptation of The First Man – an early and rare story from the pen of Nobel laureate and Pulitzer prize winner, Eugene O’Neill. This psychological romantic drama set in 1920s Connecticut, delves into themes of obsession, grief and betrayal. World renowned anthropologist Curtis is consumed by grief over his young […]
UNDER MY SKIN
UNDER MY SKIN Back to his hood in the North Side of Marseille, South of France, Kaleem accepts a job in construction. He reconnects with his best friend Rachad who wants to hire him as manager in his new sport center. Kaleem is training hard Krump and meets a mysterious greek architect : Marie. Director […]
IDEA – Miniatures by Improvisers
This film is a 67′ free-style music film, a video collage, a tour de force of improvisations by musicians from mainly the UK and Germany in an audio-visual dialogue with Ebba Jahn. The result is a shrill, flashy, colorful, touching video collage full of different approaches to sound and image and the world. Background: I […]
Longing for the Soul; A Quest for Rumi -DCFF 23 Winner – Best Doc USA
Longing for the Soul, A Quest for Rumi, a full-length documentary film, will take the viewers on a mesmerizing journey through the lands of ancient Persia, to modern days Afghanistan, Turkey and United States, to tell the story of a mystic man, Molana Jalal-El-Din Rumi, who’s message of love and peace has been passed on […]
Around the Same Table
Relatives of patients sitting around the same table at different times; to solve problems in the most difficult periods of their lives; embark on an emotional journey toward each other’s inner world. Director Biography – Zeynep Üstünipek Born in Istanbul, Zeynep Üstünipek began her studies at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul. Later she […]
Remembering the Children: The Red Deer Indian Industrial School
For over 100 years, many of the Indigenous children of Canada were forcefully taken from their families and sent hundred or thousands of kilometers away to Residential Schools whose purpose was to take away their language and culture and replace it with that of the European colonizers, often using abuse and neglect to achieve this […]
The Divorcees Of Casablanca DCFF23 Winner – Best Feature Film Int’l (Morocco)
Five women from the great city of CASABLANCA, a source of economic, social, and civilizational progress. There are five divorced women from different social strata, and are professionally active in various fields. These women try to rebuild their lives, in an unequal society, dominated by prejudices against divorced women, and ignorance of the rules of […]
The Founder Effect -DCFF23 Winner – Best Feature Film Canada
OUTLINE: When a young boy goes missing in the town of Hope, his grandfather must grapple with their family history and navigate mysterious phenomena as he sets out on a quest of conscience to save his grandson from the shadows. SUMMARY: A perfect family getaway is suddenly upended when a policeman’s grandson disappears. Jack Rooney […]
Flammable Film
The narrator films a Montreal alley, just to see. In doing so, he suffers from a heart attack. Between life and death, he reviews what he has lived, but also what he could have lived. And what he will live? In the future. If he does not die there. Director Biography – Olivier van Malderghem […]