Résistance

Tūhoe – A History of Resistance is a documentary of the Ngāi Tūhoe tribe and its attempts to reclaim land resources and justice from the New Zealand Government. This documentary explores the tenuous and volatile relationship between the Crown and the Tūhoe who continue to resist.

Uses archival photographs, newsreel footage, and interviews to chronicle the quest by Black South Africans for economic viability and individual freedom.

If a comet is a cosmic snowball made up of ice, dust, and rock with a tail millions of miles long, which it is, then consider A First Attempt at Aesthetic Resistance a kind of lit-media-art cosmic snowball made up of socio-cultural criticism, personal essay a la David Sedaris but less digressive, and a Saturday Night Live-like cinematic reflection – ON PLASTIC-INJECTION MOLDED CHAIRS. Writer, director, producer, Patrick Bazin, hits a sweet spot between humor and terror, delivering a hyper-stylized blow to the tyranny of blandness, mass-produced plastics, conformity, and uniformity. A First Attempt at Aesthetic Resistance leaves a righteous desire-for-beauty afterglow millions of miles long.

Despite a seven-year-old arbitration victory for the Philippines in the South China Sea, China's harassment of Filipino fisherfolk and vessels persists. In Masinloc, Zambales, approximately 1,500 fisherfolk continue to be threatened by China's illegal acts in Scarborough Shoal.

Civilian victims of Russia’s terror, Oleksandra Ikonnikova and her 6-year-old daughter Nadiia, spend three weeks at a Ukrainian field hospital for the wounded of heart. Oleksandra, who struggled to keep Nadiia alive, is suffering acute post-traumatic stress. Nadiia has stopped eating. Psychologists help them recover and build resilience for more pain still to come. The survivors learn to become warriors, not victims. Their determination to thrive is their way to fight back against Russian aggression. Oleksandra and Nadiia grow stronger in the supportive community but leave with no home to return to as the war rages on.

Filmmaker Rodrigo Dorfman goes in search of his revolutionary roots in Chile and in the process finds it in the euphoria of the Occupy Movement.

As the government tries to rid Mexico’s streets of graphic art, its funny, vibrant and colorful artistic identity is in danger of disappearing.

The film highlights the New Zealand student-led movement against compulsory military training during the Vietnam War. Led by 19-year-old Robert Reid, it brought together activists and diverse communities in a historic protest. Featuring interviews with those involved it is a reminder of the power of activism and ordinary people standing up for what they believe in.

Biography of a bush of who we closely look at the body, the branches: revolutionary states in the middle of an urban center. Reflections on what it is to "be vegetal". A short film produced in reaction to the future destruction of a place (where the future École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy will be built, where I am studying). The main stake was to find a vegetal time and a space of consideration for the forms of life already there.

Propaganda documentary explaining the Korean War from the Chinese side.

A television staging of the 1941 Brecht play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from conquering the universe.

The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

Rayne fights against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, encountering Ekart Brand, a Nazi leader whose target is to inject Adolf Hitler with Rayne's blood in an attempt to transform him into a dhampir and attain immortality.