Toysplosion

Watching Barbara and Nicholas D'Amora teach RPM (Rapid Prompting Method) to other autistic children for the first time is like watching Prometheus sharing fire with mankind. There now is light where there was once darkness.

QUINUERA is an intimate family portrait that returns to the roots of an unexplored land transformed by quinoa. A call for dialogue with the land, with a community and with nature itself.

It is an existential film about Earth and unlike how it is represented as young woman by Dovzhenko, but as old one, who has five adult children. This one family exemplifies today's life in Ukraine of oligarchic feudalism that caused the change of survival strategies. Instead of resting in the shade of white acacias the old man Ivan and his wife Stepanyda struggle to survive the crisis. When their elder son died, they learn how to live further. Film develops the topic of 'life and death', as through the prism of personal tragedy, but also in a social sense of Ukrainian village decline. If today the EU countries are expressing 'Deep concern', at the Stalinist era of Terror-Famine the world preferred to keep silence.

Five cool Native stories about the heavens, creation and the trickster Raven, by five talented Alaskan storytellers, with gorgeous backdrop footage of Alaska.