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Social worker Renáta Toszecky manages a women's shelter in Hungary, operated by Hungarian Baptist Aid. The film follows Renáta and gives us a glimpse into the challenges of social work.
The life of the former actress Nelly Evgenievna and her neighbor Klim Efremovich passed by the sea. Now they live old age in a small resort town, spending days in memory of past youth, quarreling, reconciling, philosophizing ... But suddenly the granddaughter of Nelly Evgenievna comes to their humble abode ..
Shelter (Suodji) is an adaptation of an old story from Utsjoki, Sápmi, to the present. It is a legend of what the director´s relative, Ovllá-Ivvár Helander, did during the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918 in Utsjoki. Ovllá-Ivvár decided to fool Death and take his fate into his own hands. Today we are facing similar threats. The protagonist of the film is walking in Ovllá-Ivvár´s footsteps. But at the end, who its really who?
Beijing Changping Qiliqu Temporary Shelter is a shelter that was part of the network of temporary shelters used in China from the early 1950s to accommodate homeless people (the liumang 流氓). Changping Qiliqu shelter was used as a detention center in the 1990s, in particular, to incarcerate recalcitrant Yuanmingyuan artists, including Xu Ruotao. With its cold and soulless images, this video has a latent subversive tone, and a consistent vision of a hostile world.
What is a home? Can a body become a home? This short film tries to answer these questions about the construction of our identities through the intimate portrait of Galician transgender people.
A death row prisoner with 10 days left to live forms an unlikely bond with a washed up country singer turned prison guard.
When a global pandemic limits the possibility of travel, a honeymooning couple gets stranded at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel where a skeleton staff of two employees tend to them. As tensions escalate amidst a forced lockdown, it becomes apparent there is more to fear at the storied hotel than just cabin fever.
Lou, a former professional golfer, turned motivational speaker, seems to have it all: fame, money, and a beautiful live-in girlfriend, Alex. Her seemingly perfect life is turned upside down when she is attacked near her home in Manhattan.
Sainath, age 25, is a film student in Pune, India and his grandmother, Sunila, age 80, lives far afield in the village of Merces in Goa, India. They share a ‘film letter’ with each other. A film mounted with an expression like a warm letter weighted with feelings. A written letter is a compilation of words and sentences and a ‘film letter’ is an assembly of images and sounds. A shelter(Gotho) unfolds the journey around Polem district with voice recordings of the director and his grandmother.
A few shacks built on the hillside on the fringe of society and without men. A place of refuge, of collective and feminist transformation. From this edge, alongside those who build it, the filmmaker questions their place in nature and society, as well as the freedom of their body and the prospect of having a child. Openly alluding to Virginia Woolf’s famous quote (“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction") and introducing us to a bouquet of incredible, uncompromised female characters, an investigative yet tender camera challenges the boundaries of gendered social roles and immerses in the micro-universe of absolute freedom and self-determination.
The story takes place in the mountains of Tusheti (Northeast Georgia) where a shepherd refuses to obey his rich and influential master.
A woman finds herself isolated in her remote home with her brother who is seeking forgiveness for the darkest moment in their family history.
On a solo hike, a woman finds herself stalked by a bear. Only one will survive.
After a dog destroys a couple of Woody's houses, Woody finds warmth from the rainstorm in the same house that the dog lives in. Hijinx ensue.
Give Me Shelter is a documentary to raise awareness for important animal issues around the world. This film uncovers the most prevalent issues in the animal world through the eyes of individuals dedicating their lives to them daily.
An 80s throwback about a teenager who makes a wish on a magic coin only to find that it has unleashed a curse on his boarding school.
Three teenagers form an unlikely bond on a road trip to nowhere in a wide open field behind a women's shelter.
Gimme Shelter shows the work that UNHCR is doing to fulfill its mandate of protecting and supporting refugees around the globe by illustrative examples of critical UNHCR emergencies around the Democratic Republic of Congo and the impact on neighboring countries, Uganda and Rwanda.
Beloved by audiences for over a decade, Here TV's original movie "Shelter" is celebrated with an in-depth discussion with stars Trevor Wright and Brad Rowe, along with director Jonah Markowitz.
The first feature-length documentary that fully explores how the toxic social and political Canadian context after 1968 created some of the most nihilistic and imaginative Canadian cult films of the 1970s and 80s and beyond.