"TO BE A WOMAN" SHORT FILM SHOWCASE(2021)

Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (en)

As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women’s integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world’s greatest filmmakers – all of them women.

Patent Bending (en)

Patent Bending is a Canadian reality television series that premiered August 22, 2006, on the Discovery Channel. The series is based on building some of the weird, fantastical ideas inventors have patented over the last century. Once physically realised, the flaws in these ideas tend to be humorously obvious and explain the ideas' lack of commercial success. The team then tries to come up with an improved version, thus the "bending" part of the title, meeting with varying results.

New Testament History and Literature with Dale B. Martin (en)

Yale Courses - This course approaches the New Testament not as scripture, or a piece of authoritative holy writing, but as a collection of historical documents. Therefore, students are urged to leave behind their pre-conceived notions of the New Testament and read it as if they had never heard of it before. This involves understanding the historical context of the New Testament and imagining how it might appear to an ancient person.

Karkat Rogue (hi)

Indraneil Sengupta, Rajesh Sharma and Jayant Kripalini. A female forensic surgeon, suffering from cancer, identifies an unusual similarity in the number of bodies that she dissects. Suspecting it to be an organised crime, she sets out to uncover the truth.

First Lady (tl)

After assuming the role of first lady of the Philippines, Melody must rise to her new responsibilities while learning to stay true to herself.

Karasu Tengu Kabuto (ja)

Those who have the blood of the Karasu Tengu in their veins must forever fight against the powers of darkness. Along with four other holy ninja warriors Genbu, Suzaku, Seiryu, Byakko, Karasu Tengu Kabuto fights against the evil god Kuroyasha Dôki and his underlings such as Junin-shu

The Lost Gods (en)

Christy Kenneally hosts a series that explores ancient civilizations and their gods.

猴票 (zh)

BBC Comedy Short Films (en)

Comedy short films from new and established talent. Showcasing original, weird and very funny films.

Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier (en)

Ever worried about laboratory-grown meat, accidentally touching someone’s hand on the train or the impending nuclear apocalypse? Then join Jon Richardson as he hilariously works out exactly how worried the British public should be about everything there is to worry about.

Be My Dream Family (ko)

The story of the series revolves around two families Geumgane and Hangane from different cultural backgrounds. They meet when their parents remarry in the twilight of life, and they become one family. The series follows the conflict, understanding and harmony of the extended family, showing meaning of a true family.

Suryaputra Karn (hi)

The story revolves around one of the best archer of the Mahabharata, Karna and narrates the entire story of Mahabharata from Karna and Pandavas' birth to the eventual crowning of Karna in the Swarga. The show covers the life journey of Karna on his way to becoming a great warrior.

May God Bear Witness to My Fasting (ar)

The events revolve around Ali who gets unjustly fired from his job, so he starts earning money in various ways, including fraud and scam, but this road only gets him to face more troubles and challenges.

The Outsiders? (en)

From director and photographer Simon Frederick, comes the next installment in his portrait documentaries, untold stories of young Black visionaries shaping our future. In raw, real, and deeply personal conversations, you’ll hear 41 creators, musicians, artists, authors, athletes and more discuss topics like equality, structural gaslighting, and social media.

可可可心一家人 (zh)

Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon (sv)

The series investigates Paolo Macchiarini’s claims to have invented a ground-breaking method to create new organs. His method using plastic tracheas sown with stemcells has been operated on patients in the US, Russia, Sweden and the UK. So far, unfortunately, the track record of his plastic organs is not very good. Almost all patients are dead. And several of his former surgeon colleagues in Sweden claim that not only does the method not work, but that his scientific claim to fame is based on falsified and misrepresented data. Some even claim that his patients have been used as human guinea-pigs.

Sayein Dayein (ar)