Motherland

As the Pandemic breaks, 5 doctors in the USA treat COVID-19 patients away from their Motherland. An emotional journey of healthcare workers and their families with unfiltered content from their personal lives shot entirely during the lockdown.

In the remote region of Semipalatinsk in North-Eastern Kazakhstan live the victims of hundreds of Soviet nuclear tests carried out from 1949 through 1989.

he short film portray a stock footage banner forest on its pilgrimage back to reality. The artwork deals with the issue of life as a journey, recognition and the struggle of self. For Wardynski 'It is about liberating the forest montage, a bit like when you buy a turtle in the market and let it go because you want it to be free.'

A moving, feature-length documentary shot on three continents, and amongst the most ambitious factual programmes on the BBC in recent times. Motherland used genetics to enable members of the African diaspora to trace for the first time their African ancestry. Three Black Britons become the first people ever to uncover what Alex Haley, author of Roots, could only dream of - to "go back" to Africa and reconnect with the precise population groups from which their ancestors were separated by slavery.

The Motherland is an ironic parable of Downey's native Chile. Returning to Santiago, he finds a society in the grips of the military dictatorship of General August Pinochet. In a scenario that suggests the "magic realism" of Latin American fiction, Downey visits the suburban house of his youth and stages a surreal re-enactment of the Motherland "giving birth" to a duck, while the crucified Prophet looks on. This overtly symbolic scene is intercut with the spectacle of General Pinochet and his troops in full regalia. In an unsparing indictment of the economic and political reality of the dictatorship, The Motherland offers the Prophet as a sacrifice to the goose-stepping ranks of Pinochet's junta. This savage allegory, in which church and state conspire to oppress society and the individual, merges the subjective and the cultural, the autobiographical and the political.

A short film in the style of a movie trailer visualizing how it feels to visit the motherland.

Yvonne, a UN Envoy for Africa, UNICEF and Roll Back Malaria Ambassador embarked on the "Motherland" tour to meet women throughout Africa and bring their stories to an international audience. She interweaves her music with the powerful and inspiring stories of women who are transforming the lives of their families, their communities, and their countries.

Jens is tolerant, tall and good-looking. His big honesty and loyalty to Germany brings him increasingly problems. Many people think he is a Nazi, although he only loves his native country...

~my motherland is a mouthful~, one of Sabella D’Souza’s videos, is a recording of a session on Periscope, Twitter’s live-streaming app. The artist performs for the growing amount of strangers who join her session, primping herself and adjusting her jewelry and garment, customized with the phrase “my motherland is a mouthful” printed on the fabric.

As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.

This film casts a curious and critical eye at North American discourses about motherhood since the 1950s. Through conversations with seven mothers, a selection of archival footage and stills from the 1950s, as well as some home movies, this film offers new ways of thinking about what it means to be a good mom.

How do we decide where is home? Feeling increasingly isolated in her adopted homeland, accomplished documentarian Dai Sil Kim-Gibson travels to Cuba to unearth stories from a relatively unknown group in the Asian diaspora. On the island, she meets Martha, a woman of Korean descent who identifies herself as Cuban. Like many of her contemporary countrymen and women, Martha possesses family ties that span multiple nations, cultures and politics. Her story inspires Kim-Gibson to travel to Miami to meet Martha's émigré sister and the rest of their mulitcultural family, in a journey that reveals how very different worldviews can co-exist in one family separated by place and ideology.

A fascinating spy thriller about the everyday life of a Russian intelligence officer abroad. The Middle East. Intelligence officer Viktor Bystroletov arrives in one of the countries of the oil basin under the guise of an international journalist. His goal is to establish contact with a former terrorist named Javad. It has been several years since Javad retired and disappeared in an unknown direction…

My Hero is a series of dramas based on novels about the careers of the heroes in 5 different stories.

Anthology of short films directed by several different directors.

During the war between Iran and Iraq, a group of Iranian Kurd musicians set off on an almost impossible mission. They will try to find Hanareh, a singer with a magic voice who crossed the border and may now be in danger in the Iraqi Kurdistan. As in his previous films, this Kurdish director is again focusing on the oppression of his people.

A love story revolving around a young man and his attempts at securing love by speaking nonsensically misspeaking his mother tongue.