Grupo de Maracatu Ilê Aláfia
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Aline Morales is one of the main broadcasters of Maracatu in Toronto. From a meeting with members of Recife's Maracatu Estrela Brilhante Nação, she and her traveling companions reflect deeply on the different aspects of this genre, beyond music.
No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian burlesque carnival tradition with roots in slavery that takes place in the northeast state of Pernambuco. As the Falstaffian character Tiao, Valmir do Coco leads a nonprofessional cast of authentic Maracatu practitioners in a tale told through dance, music, and the supernatural, set in the sugarcane fields outside Recife.
For over a century ‘Carol of the Bells’ has been heard across the globe, but few know this song as ‘Shchedryk’, nor its Ukrainian origins. Own Voice delves into this history, and in so doing provokes a discussion about heritage and a changing world.
A man with broken tooth struggles to put his fake tooth on.
This program has been designed specifically to help people with no previous knowledge of Jesus to have a better understanding of who He is.
A struggling commercial actor camps for a month, occupying himself with historical research, following the timeline/locations of Joseph Smith’s life. But as financial troubles seem to weigh heavily on him (and his Domino’s Pizza commercial has still not aired yet), a dramatic detour is taken in order to get his life (and the film) back on track.
When filmmaker Andy Howlett set out with his camera to document the final days of Birmingham's Brutalist Central Library complex, little did he know the rabbit hole he was stumbling into. Decried by the Council as an eyesore, but hailed by Historic England as an exemplar of postwar design, the story of John Madin's concrete colossus and the fight to save it is a curious one. In this psychogeographic detective story, Howlett weaves together archive footage with on-the-ground explorations in an attempt to figure out why we lost Paradise and how it might be regained.
In May, four red hairballs play in front of the burrow. What fate does the mountain have in store for these young foxes? Will they survive the multiple dangers that threaten them? And above all, who is this animal with hyper-sharp senses that seems to adapt to all situations? Let's leave the path of men and their prejudices to follow the discreet trail of the fox in the heart of the Alps.
Beatriz Mira, a Brazilian filmmaker living in Mexico, films the housework carried out by women at the end of a decade marked by numerous political and social movements, including feminist groups that disputed the fact that women had been banished from the public sphere, and thus confined to the household. In their fights and debates, they wielded the motto ‘what’s personal is political’.
The film describes in a simple way the division between girls and boys through education by assigning them different behaviors based on their sex difference.
Colin is 9 years old and he is a little city dweller like the others. However, the activity of his grandparents, animal filmmakers, intrigues him. On his days off, he goes up to see them in the heart of Gran Paradiso National Park. It is then another school that awaits him. Colin learns to be discreet, to recognize tracks, to walk with crampons, to bivouac at altitude. A beautiful family bond is formed. But an animal is missing. To see it, the young boy puts his grandfather to the test.
