The short animated film El Héroe Senegalés is an intimate portrait of Mouhammed Diof, an undocumented Senegalese migrant living in Bilbao, who leapt into a river to save someone from drowning and catalyzed a political movement.
When a successful modern dancer leaves New York in the wake of the pandemic, he returns home and experiences a creative reawakening by merging movement, activism, film, and the natural world.
Conceptual artist Zhao Rongjie brings the psychedelia of spore prints to film in an hypnotic visual collage of rare mycelia and symbolic natural (and unnatural) soundscapes.
In the mountains of southwest China, conceptual artist and director Zhao Rongjie meets a husband and wife team of mushroom hunters who welcome her into their home and introduce her to a simpler, antiquated world of physical labour, spiritual inheritance, and symbiosis with nature.
Speaking from jail, Prakash Churaman tells his story of incarceration since his arrest at the age of 15 for a crime he didn’t commit.