How can you document the elusive stuff myths are made of? That is what the furtive chalk graffiti on freight train wagons is, the fleeting consecration of their anonymous creators. The word “graffiti” stands for an art with schools and aspirations, very different from that other fleeting and legitimately popular art, which may bring to Argentinian minds the painted messages on the rocks of Mar del Plata. Bill Daniel pulls it off by getting onto those bare wagons with his camera, by traveling with those who load them and the tramps who use them.

In 1925 William Faulkner lived in New Orleans for a few months writing short sketches in which he called the city to life. Inspired by Faulkner's impressions, Dutch Filmmaker Marjoleine Boonstra drifts through the devastated streets of New Orleans, at any hour of the day, looking for the fears and dreams of people whose lives have gone adrift as a result of hurricane Katrina.

Crying Sun tells the story of people from the Chechen mountainous village of Zumsoy and their struggle to preserve their cultural identity and traditions in the context of military raids and enforced disappearances by the federal army, attacks by guerilla fighters, and subsequent displacement. By helping to articulate the voices of Zumsoy villagers in the public and policy spheres, the video calls on local and federal authorities to end impunity for human rights violations and to restore policies for the return of mountain villagers to their ancestral homes.