Categorie: Awards 2021

The Kybalion is a feature-length documentary shot on location in Egypt exploring the “Master Key” to the mysteries: the immensely popular 1908 occult classic of the same name attributed to an unknown Three Initiates. Occult historian Mitch Horowitz guides us through the book’s seven principles of Hermetic philosophy and, along the way, we encounter seven experts working in metaphysics today and discover where truth and mystery meet.

The prolonged economic uncertainty forced even the local funeral service workers to explore various shortcuts to get more work for their parlors, which sometimes includes maintaining dubious connections with the local hospital staff. Zoki, one of the funeral parlour workers in Shtip (mid-size town in Macedonia), a charming and positive family man, is faced with many challenges while getting work for his company. But, the increased disloyal and dishonest competition started breaking Zoki’s spirit and have left him wondering if money is everything in life, after all?

A compelling and moving documentary that examines the scientific implications and values of forgiveness as well as the physical, mental and spiritual health benefits for individuals, relationships, and societies as a whole. Choose Love explores many different facets of forgiveness, addressing new scientific findings and raising some important questions. The documentary describes a journey of transformation through a growth in knowledge and awareness. The seeds of a new form of humanity are present in empathy, love and the true character of forgiveness. Choose Love talks about this choice, accompanying the philosophical and spiritual aspects with new scientific insights. It gives voice to people who have made this journey, and tells the stories of people throughout history who, despite everything, have chosen the path of forgiveness, such as the aboriginal people from Australia. True stories that describe a process of openness, forgiveness and love that breaks down prejudice and divisions. We need to change ourselves to change the world, because it is only by feeling strong and grounded that one can find the power for forgiveness.

Tarika is a medium who has dedicated her life to learning how to manage her innate abilities to communicate with the beyond. Her world is entered by Sirio, a man whose life was torn apart by the tragic death of his wife, and Nadia, a vibrant woman hiding a dark family past. Through Tarika’s abilities to cross the threshold between life and afterlife, Sirio and Nadia exceed their limits, gaining a second chance to face some unresolved issues with their departed, which becomes the vehicle for their understanding of their deeper nature and their own human journey.

Year 2010, at 66 years old, Ramiro Calle, pioneer in introducing yoga in Spain, contracts listeriosis in Sri Lanka. Entered in Madrid and against the prognosis that granted 4 hours to him of life, he recovered disturbing to the medical body. Few months after that he continued giving classes in its center, the Shadak, through where came more than three hundred thousand people since 1971. An inexpert narrator, through the experience of Ramiro Calle and his 50 years of personal investigation, investigate about the real yoga; its more deceptive virtues, their intention and its forms. Without avoiding the controversy, with humor, force and wisdom we will go to the bottom of the question of YOGA in Spain and Rishikesh, India, thanks to a unique audio-visual trip on something so discussed, so practiced and as well, so little known.

Sending Off is a gentle film about the end of life. Filmed over ten months in rural Japan, director Ian Thomas Ash documents a home care doctor as she and her team provide hospice care for residents of a village who choose to pass away at home. The changing seasons provide a backdrop to the deepening relationships the patients form with their families as they reach the end of their lives. The trust the director formed with the medical team and patients is reflected in the often surprising level of access granted to the camera. The film has been described as being both “emotionally charged… makes us question our own attitude towards death and aging” while also having the power to “take away the fear of death.” Sending Off was named Best Documentary at the 2019 Nippon Connection, the largest festival of Japanese film in the world.
This film contains images around the dying and the dead that some might find disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.