S2.E1 ∙ Swashbuckled

Live performance of educational film about the film. Experiencing cinema as Bildungsroman, told with references on history of film as a free resource, and then film itself as manifesto.

Godard experimental film with montages combining "Sauve qui peut (la vie) and other films by other filmmakers.

Break Through is a raw, eye-opening documentary following a group of impassioned theatre students who come together to produce a play aiming to shed light on the many stigmas and equality-rights issues faced by LGBT youth in the United States today. Throughout the creative process, they face the truths about themselves and their families. In the end, they learn the importance of self-acceptance and of overcoming their fears, regardless of their gender or sexual orientation.

Parque Lenin is the name of the amusement park located in La Habana, Cuba, where the Kessel brothers share their last remaining memory together; one shared event divided into three incompatible visions: the ideal day, a farewell and betrayal.

Betting The Farm is the story of a group of Maine dairy farmers who--dropped by their national milk company--are suddenly confronted with the real possibility of losing their farms. Banding together, the farmers launch their own milk company. Farmers Vaughn Chase, Richard Lary, and Aaron Bell--along with their families--struggle to make ends meet as they get the company off the ground. But faced with slow sales and mounting bills, can the farmers hang together long enough for the gamble to pay off? Or will they be left worse off than before?

The film is based on the confessions of four protagonists who were forcibly picked up and sent to Siberia in the second wave of deportations on the night of July 6-7, 1949. Each segment has a separate story, and as a whole they point to the horrors. and the dramas that tens of thousands of Bessarabians went through during the Stalinist period.