Fale Comigo Verão: O diário de um cineasta amador

Home Movie: A Diary for my American-Born Son

2003

A film about homes on both sides of an ocean.

It Was Hot That Day: A Jandiman Story

2024

Enduring 28 days of relentless construction labor, Frank struggles to prep a house for painting amidst Phoenix's scorching pandemic summer.

beer cans under my bed

2024

This short, started early on into sobriety, finished about nine months in, is a collage of diaries and notes, collected from within addiction and into recovery.

Libya: No Escape from Hell

2021

Chaja & Mimi

2013

Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons have been best friends for 83 years. Born and raised in Berlin, they had to escape from the Nazis to Palestine with their families in 1934. They talk about their complicated relationship with Berlin in a Tel Aviv café where they meet everyday. A film about friendship, homeland and identity.

Un Anhelo Constante

2022

It’s Karla’s first birthday away from home. And music will be her way back.

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.

Fadia’s Tree

2022

While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies above, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is denied. When a chance meeting introduces her to the director, Sarah, she challenges her to find an ancient mulberry tree that once grew next to her grandfather’s house in historic Palestine, a tree that stands witness to her family’s existence.

My Personal Funhouse Mirror

2023

A look at past diary entries reveals a teenage girl's struggles with body image and depression

Bonegilla: The Migrant's Journey

2025

Nine post war migrants are interviewed in their houses and explain their survival in World War 2, migration to Australia. Travel on ships. Arrival in Australia. Life in migrant camps. Assimilation into Australian society.

Harvest of Empire

2012

This documentary traces the history of U.S. relations with Latin America and draws strong links to America's current immigration crisis. Decaying economies in much of Latin America are viewed as the result of ill-conceived U.S. policies.

Iragan gunea Berlin

2016

The film follows five people from different origins as they move anonymously around the streets of Berlin. Each of them with another life somewhere else, trying to ascertain where to go.