A Place Out Of Time The Bordentown School

Rebels without a cause in a globalized world. Kevin, David and Dominik, three troubled teenagers who were deemed too difficult to be “re-educated” at home, are shipped off to Romania by the German authorities. There, they live with local families while hoping to go back to Germany as soon as possible. Exiled from their previous lives and country, they try to adapt as well as possible to their new environment.

‘Out of Place’ revolves around a fictional concept of escaping the earth. It was created as a research process and as a work-in-progress film for a feature non-fiction. Surviving both as Korean and Asian women, we try to escape with a novel voyage from this Earth to another planet. When the bizarre statistics on us and the nonvisualised epic gather on this new planet, the voices from the ones who breathe here with one another form echoes, which continue as a round. There, the voices that this society has taught about us, and the voices we speak out for ourselves, coexist like a twin. At the moment of those two voices intersecting and colliding with each other, an unexpected scenery could be found throughout this entire film.

After second round of Brazil’s 2018 presidential election, a young lesbian take refuge all alone in her family’s farm. As she tries to understand why her mother chose to spend the last days of her life in a small old house, she is faced with revelations about her own story.

A look at the life and career of the influential post-colonial writer and champion of the Palestinian cause in the West, through interviews with his immediate family and closest friends.

Every Saturday it’s the same routine: vehicles arrive in the town square and customers flood the marketplace.

A film about a girl Alina with Down syndrome and Mayra, who adopted her. In the context of Alina's story, the film raises the topic of art therapy for children with disabilities.

A film about our garbage that is found in the most remote areas and about the people who try to dispose of it. Not only in the sea and on coasts, also in the Arctic, the jungle, high up on the mountains and deep inside the desert, garbage is found almost everywhere in various forms and dimensions, sometimes as whole car wrecks, old TV sets or simply construction rubble, but mostly in the form of disintegrated plastic particles a few millimetres in size. Humanity has handed out its visiting cards thoroughly.

An intense exploration of representation and territory, of questions about memory and identity. Once again, Aravena's gazes are divided between personal experience - represented here by family memories - and historical and political questions, which significantly broadens the images' field of significance. Using video resources to emphasize perceptions, associate content and expand her reflections on underlying issues, the artist multiplies her points of view using sophisticated language games.

Directed by and stars Al St. John and the first half is a little below average. It's a variation on the sort of rustic comedies his uncle, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, used to star in with Mabel Normand almost a decade earlier. The gags, while reasonable and appropriate, are, like the cows, milked too much. The pretty girl is swinging on a swing, reading a newspaper and knocks four of her suitors and her father into the water, with a long, slow-motion shot of them plunging into the depths.

A short amateur student film about a westerner in Hong Kong amidst a time of social upheaval.

An insider's perspective of the small, underground community of surfers in Cleveland, Ohio. Theirs is a life of shared dedication for the water and to waves that rarely come. In the backdrop is a Great Lakes city trying to recover from a legacy of lost industry, lost jobs and a river polluted enough to catch on fire. Still this culture persists in this unlikely corner of the surfing universe amid harsh weather and gray skies. For them, the golden age of surfing is right now. And it's happening on the frozen beaches of Lake Erie, five hundred miles from the nearest ocean.

A young aspiring Chinese pianist and a Mexican house painter, unknowing neighbors, go through a day of disillusionment in symphony, a longing to belong. This film contains violence. Viewer discretion is advised.

An intimate portrayal of a local music scene, capturing the incredible diversity of cultural activity happening in Limerick City.

In the 1970s, two exciting discoveries of human fossil remains, focused world attention on Australia. Evidence implied that two very different types of people lived in Australia long before the emergence of the modern Aborigines. The key scientisit in both finds, Dr. Alan Thorne presents OUT OF TIME, OUT OF PLACE, revealing for the first time origins of the first Australian. Doctor Thorne takes us on an exciting search that includes Java, China, the UK, Kow Swamp and Lake Mungo where the earliest Australians were found. This documentary takes us back 30,000 years and beyond, giving answers to many of the dreamtime stories of the origins of Australians.

Documentary filmmaker Makoto Sato offers this reflection on the life and career of Edward Said, the deeply influential literary and cultural critic, Columbia University academic, and outspoken advocate for displaced Palestinians, of whom he was one. Exploring the landscapes of Said's childhood and how they influenced his philosophy, this film features rare footage of Said and interviews with many of his colleagues, including Noam Chomsky.

For a seventy-year period, when America cared little about the education of African-Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, The Bordentown School was an educational utopia. An incubator for black pride and intellect, it taught values, discipline, and life skills to generations of black children. This is the story of that remarkable school, as told by Bordentown alumni, historians, and remarkable archival footage. It is also the story of black education in America across three centuries, presenting a nuanced, rarely seen portrait of a separate black space; and a much-needed preface to the growing national discussion about historically black institutions and their role in nurturing identity and accomplishment. What was lost and what was gained in the march toward equality?

Monica is a Chinese immigrant living in the UK with her boyfriend. After having lunch date with her British colleague, Bonnie, she begins to dream about something more than her monotonous life.

In this 40-minute film, VICE China brings us into the lives of transgender individuals living in Mainland China and Hong Kong. It is estimated that there are at least 400,000 transgender people living in China. This is by no means a small number, and the realities of their lives are almost never as simple as those of transgender celebrities, like Jin Xing. This documentary not only presents the realities of transgender individuals in Asia, it also provides assistance to those living with unanswered questions about their own identities, giving an inside look on the process of sex reassignment surgery, as well as the social support available to LGBTQ communities.

'There is nothing out there' repeated Gastel every day from his photographic studio. Those who have been there tell of a world where time stood still and the urge to leave vanished. And today, what remains? Through the testimonies of some of his closest friends and relatives we try to piece together what is left out here.