The Collective

Three businesspeople of color discuss the Black Lives Matter movement, supporting black businesses, and the small shop in Encinitas, CA, that showcases their products.

Two alien youths are finding their own paths in life aboard a little community in space.

A thought-provoking and genre-bending look behind the scenes of what might be the world's only underground DIY anarcho-feminist porn collective.

The Casteless Collective is a protest music band from Chennai, South India, playing an exciting mix of folk music and Gaana art coming from North Chennai’s slum area, combined with modern musical styles of rap and rock. Dealing with social issues that Indian society prefers not to look at: the still existing caste discrimination, the ‘untouchables’, and the oppression of women, LGBTQI+ people and those from underprivileged and marginalised backgrounds, as represented by the band members themselves. The film shows the young band’s powerful attempt to break cultural stigmas, and joins their journey towards an Indian future of casteless mentality and reality.

This short film, directed and conceptualised by Berlin-based, Wales born, photographer and director Carys Huws, takes you inside the defiant, enchanting world of the Berlin-based dancers and activists, as they read their manifesto – an urgent demand for the decriminalisation and destigmatisation of sex work.

Shukar Collective play bear tamer music using spoons, wooden barrels or daraboukas, whilst a couple of DJs add layer after layer of urban sound over this traditional music. It is this kind of eclectic environment that best describes what the documentary deals with: culture contact.

La Grave enjoys an almost mythic reputation among freeriders. Interminable downhills, ice gullies and overhangs in the glaciers make the hearts beat faster of all those, who can get nothing out of prepared skiing slopes. Sam Anthamatten and Johnny Collinson on the traces of this legend

A ridiculous 360 road gap in the woods of the North Shore, a 7000' descent in Costa Rica, an epic Oregon coast session, and huge big mountain lines in Kamloops. Places you have been and some that will remain secret. Riders you know well and some you have never heard of! Bits 3, CKD, our 3rd full length DVD is about an ongoing passion for mountain biking and the lifestyle surrounding it. It's a journey with some of our closest friends who inspire us everyday on and off the bike. So grab a fresh copy of CKD and enjoy one of the finer films out there.

The adventures of a big offbeat bear and a mischievous mouse.

Enmadou Sara is the judge of the world who decides whether to send the deads to heaven or to hell. Victims who were killed by someone went to her and told her that they still have their thoughts left in the world and want to come back to life. Sara told the dead that they need to find out the truth of their deaths in order to revive. However, not only did they learn about the truths of their incidents, they also find out that they did not live hard when they were alive. The best time to change your life is when you find the readiness to live!

Three worker-owned businesses show what it's like to work collectively, manage a business and deal with problems in a truly democratic way. The Cheeseboard Bakery and Cheese Shop with 18 workers, Rainbow Grocery with 150 workers, and Inkworks Press with18 members, all located in the San Francisco Bay Area, are successful worker-owned businesses, and members of NoBAWC.

Started in the sleepy college town of Charlottesville, Virginia, The Collective of Lady Arm Wrestlers (AKA CLAW), is spreading like cooties; with sister branches in Austin, Brooklyn, New Orleans, DC, and even Sao Paolo, Brazil. Each league sticks to simple rules, ladies arm wrestle in character, raising money for good causes. Other then that, there are no rules. Together, they have raised over $250,000 for charity. Who are the iconoclastic women behind the movement and the wrestling personalities who grip up for philanthropic glory(this ain't your mother's Junior League)? Is it the fourth wave of feminism of the latest form of burlesque? And whats with the Ref?

"Collective Unconsciousness: The Not Dead Yet Story" explores the annual Not Dead Yet festival that takes place in Toronto. This documentary dives into what makes the festival great and the impact it makes on the city's hardcore/punk scene. "Collective Unconsciousness: The Not Dead Yet Story" also features performances from bands that played in 2015, shot up close to give the viewer the feel that they are there. Features performances by S.H.I.T., V.C.R., Power Trip, Title Fight, Career Suicide and more alongside interviews with members of Dress Code, Title Fight, I.C.E. and more.

In the midst of recording their next record, a punk rock band defends themselves against media outcry after an alt-right terrorist dedicates a mass shooting to their music.

The late 1960s saw Japan in a fever pitch of political agitation where student protests were a frequent occurrence. A somewhat timely insight into radical protest and mass meetings from almost half a century ago, the film reveals the aftermath of protests and shares extremely rare footage of mass meetings that were held at universities.

In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move into action uncovering the mass corruption of the health system and of the state institutions. Collective follows journalists, whistle blowers, and authorities alike. An immersive and uncompromising look into a dysfunctional system, exposing corruption, propaganda, and manipulation that nowadays affect not only Romania, but societies around the world.

"Time is Art" is ultimately the story of an artist's search for inspiration in a money-driven society that shuns creativity, and of the human search for meaning in a seemingly meaningless world.

When a woman body parts are found, an artist begins seeing visions of the victim in pieces and slowly realizes the corpse may belong to his lost love.

Nine Stanzas on the Individual as a Collective Organism is an avant-garde documentary inspired by the work of Chantal Akerman which aims to explore the monotony of the obligatory daily activities people engage in, as well as the contrast between the personal experiences individuals go though in the moment and the way in which, when viewed from an outside perspective, those same unique individuals are subsumed into a larger, indistinct mass stripped of any and all identity other than that of a single part of a larger student body; hundreds of stray ligaments desperately fighting for a distinct presence in an environment of abject conformity.