Dreams Like Paper Boats

Edouard has been living in Port-au-Prince with just his daughter Zara for five years. Since his wife left, his daughter and him have only received a cassette from her, and that was a long time ago. After years of absence

No boats ever sail in the mountains

People embarking on a small boat - the bustle and confusion of it. A walk and a song. A villiage square, men with coffee, women with children, and old man by himself. A painterly use of film grain.

Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes

Commissioned by Remy Martin for a public exhibition in Grand Central Station in New York, Remy/Grand Central is an advertisement with a deconstructive twist. In a syncopated collage of appropriated footage (including a T

Tough Boats: Journey Down the Nile

Board a traditional felucca sailboat and travel down the Nile from Aswan to Cairo, visiting spectacular ancient Egyptian tombs and temples on the way.

Cheung, the Dragon Boatman

This is a film that celebrates the moral function of art. Sun Ma Si-tsang, at once a master Cantonese opera actor and a talented comedian, showcases an oft-overlooked style of singing, presenting it as an inspirational f

Night Boats

Seventy-year-old teenagers running away from home. They are not running away from their parents, they are running away from the inevitable.

Big Boats & Busy Harbors

Climb aboard with Rusty of “Farm Country Ahead” fame and see all the action in a busy harbor. Powerful tug boats guide giant, ocean going ships while huge gantry cranes and other awesome machines handle all different kin

A Wooden Toy Dreamed of Paper Boats

An ancient fleet of paper boats is enslaved by the music of a record player; when it breaks down, the boats see an opportunity to rebel.

12 Boats And a Fish

12 toy boats and a toy fish slowly slide into water. It´s a balanced night. Watch them take their way. Recognize the interdependencies. Hear the water flow. Take time for slowness. Make your own thoughts. Even sleep in t

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Of Boats and Brothers: The Yacht Building Herreshoffs

This award-winning documentary film chronicles the accomplishments and relationship of John and Nathanael Herreshoff. These determined brothers overcame all obstacles, including blindness, to earn a worldwide reputation

Purano Dunga

A man steals his brother's boat after a property dispute.

Dala Boatbreakers

A first film from an emerging Myanmar filmmaker, this short documentary unobtrusively observes a group of boat wreckers at work on the banks of the Yangon River in Dala, the final port of call for many old boats. The wor

Procession of Boats on River, Burma

Images of boats on the river.

Drive Somewhere - The Saga of the Vulgar Boatmen

What do you do when you have sacrificed everything for music and it's taken away? Beginning as two punk bands in Indiana and Florida, a professor and student bond over Elvis Presley and decide to send cassettes via the

Deep Mountain Boatman

The second in Wang Haibing’s ‘Three Families’ trilogy (which also includes 1991’s Northern Tibetan Family and 2000’s Days in the Mountains) -- all of which won the Sichuan International TV Festival “Golden Panda” award i

And Sometimes the Boats Are Low

The man, the woman and their multiples share the same space at different times while being in different places at the same time, creating a paradox of existence. Sometimes they meet and sometimes they don't.

Boatman

91-year-old Tan Bangwu is a well-known veteran boatman in the Three Gorges region. His four sons are all among the post-relocation migrants of the Three Gorges Project. After the reservoir began filling in June 2003, mos

A Boated Roof

This 16mm artists film documents the making and design of a wooden community pavillion on Kyrl's Quay, Cork made collaboratively with Meitheal Mara boatbuilders.

Boatlift 9/11

A tugboat captain answers the call for aid on 9/11, becoming part of the largest maritime rescue in history.