En el Hollywood de la música electrónica, músicos, Djs, gogos y promotores trabajan en una sofisticada maquinaria de ocio para satisfacer los deseos de diversión, sexo y libertad de la acelerada sociedad occidental. Cada una de las “nueve y media historias musicales”…
“IBOJA SURVIVED AUSCHWITZ ” is part of documentary series “You Have to be Round to Live in a Globe”, which was awarded special commendation of Prix Europa about life in exile, migration, the subject of refugees and culture clashes. Iboja Wandall-Holm survived the Auschwitz concentration…
Jacob Andrén, an ordinary young man, is thinking back upon his days in primary school. He is wondering about what happened to all those trees that he and his classmates bought after raising money on a flea market. They received a certificate, he recalls. But that was almost 20 years ago. Did…
Sounds in a city are like an invisible landscape. In this experimental documentary, filmmaker Boyi Xu constructs a sensory journey of the intense soundscape of New York City, visiting various places and spaces to draw a sound sketch of everyday urban lives.
Mr Floyd's death, under the knee of a white police officer, unleashed a wave of grief and anger across America. That wave reached Australia's shores with thousands of Australians coming out to protest in support of our indigenous community. In this deeply personal story, Stan Grant gives voice…
Formerly Homeless, Fannie speaks for the speechless and gives us pause to feel and think in perspective.
Severely disabled children need not be immobile and dependent. Present day engineering and electronics can give them the ability to move about at will. The film shows that when doctors, therapists, designers, engineers, parents and even children themselves work together really beneficial results can…
Su Friedrich takes up the camera in a new chapter of her quest to film the battleground of family life. Her mother Lore—who played the lead in The Ties That Bind (1984), a film about her experiences growing up in Germany during the Second World War—plays the lead again, this time kicking…
Recordings of the virtual ICAP Conference 2021
Icaros explores the profound spiritual universe of the Shipibo indigenous people who live by the Ucayali river, one of the main tributaries of the Peruvian Amazon. Young Mokan Rono sets out on a fascinating journey to discover the ancestral knowledge of ayahuasca, mentored by a wise shaman and by his…
Icarus Films is proud to present four dance films - ONE DAY PINA ASKED..., REBELS ON POINTE, IN THE STEPS OF TRISHA BROWN and PHOENIX DANCE. ONE DAY PINA ASKED... (re-released 2013) An encounter between two of the most remarkable women artists of the 20th century, ONE DAY PINA ASKED... is Chantal…
Drug addicts taking 'Ice', or crystal methamphetamine, show us their violent and manic lives. The drug crystal methamphetamine, or ice, is cheap, highly addictive and ultra powerful. Its use is increasing, emergency wards are filling with dangerous psychotic patients. We follow the lives…
