Per Te

When the Ground Paused

Through slice-of-life vignettes, a young mother grapples with her own upbringing to navigate parenthood’s shifting demands, and to find moments for herself. Jess Barclay Lawton’s sensitivity for character studies evolves strikingly into this documentary whose slow tenderness testifies to the depth of trust between director and subject.

The Crowd

A filmmaker accidentally comes across a ruined village where silent souls refuse to revive the past. The remnants of a film shot years earlier constitute the only clue to understanding what once happened there.

Piccola arena Casartelli

A portrait, collected and discharged, of a small family-run circus that moves from one nucleus to another in the Bolognese lowlands, with its present nomad and its tragic past.

Landscape as Landscape - 27

Part of a series of found landscapes, filmed on a single 8mm roll.

The Sex Worker's Guide to Parenting

The Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting is a feature documentary rooted in the Los Angeles sex worker community. The film centers six parents working in the sex industry, including filmmaker Kimberly Ye, as they reflect on the overlapping demands of erotic labor, caregiving, secrecy, survival, and mutual support. Through intimate interviews, small group conversations, observational material, and animated reenactments, the project examines how parents in stigmatized and criminalized lines of work create family life on their own terms.

Permanent Trespass

Two “professional mourners” meet within the ominous setting of an Art Nouveau villa. Who — or what — is being mourned? From Beirut to Sarajevo, what first appeared to be an intimate encounter gradually transforms into a singular confrontation with History.

Calling Their Names Again: Yangdeok-dong, Memorie

Hinemihi: The House with the Golden Eyes

After saving Jim Schuster's ancestors in the 1886 Tarawera eruption, the ancestral whare Hinemihi spent 130 years in an English garden. Now Jim and his whānau journey to bring the revered ancestress home to Tūhourangi and Te Arawa.

Epileptic Visions

A young girl with Epilepsy goes through major life changes

Immersion

An attempt at slow cinema.