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Everyone knows Neil Armstrong came back from the Moon in 1969 – but it wasn’t until three years later, when the people of a tiny Scottish town stepped in, that he finally got home. Neil Armstrong and the Langholmites is a film about the day one of the world’s most famous men visited the small ‘burgh’ of Langholm and the profound emotional effect the place, and its people, had on the normally stoic astronaut. From Industria Studios and Duncan Cowles, director of acclaimed 2024 feature Silent Men, comes a wry and beautiful slice of Scottish life and a unique, lesser-known tale about one of America’s most famous sons.

The documentary takes the viewer on a serene afternoon stroll through the Japanese mental landscape and culture, with death and ageing as its perspectives.

The Makings of Curtis Mayfield, directed by and featuring Grammy Award winning musical artist and actor, H.E.R., explores the legacy and deep musical and cultural influence of singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and entrepreneur Curtis Mayfield.

A doubling of mise-en-scène. Views of a city and a family. Political Berlin, private Bavaria. Painting within the film image. Realities observed within a necessarily shifting frame. A mobile phone film with the potential for deceleration. A social medium.

SapiKuna is a documentary exploring the ancestral knowledge of the Kichwa cultures in the Ecuadorian highlands. Through voices, rituals, and landscapes, it highlights the connection between memory, identity, and resistance.

Failaka, previously Ikaros, the ancient island off the coast of Kuwait, recalls an oracle decades after the Gulf War left it deserted. Nature guards the island's ruins, animals roam it awaiting to be found, holes reach to its belly—the island where the pedigrees of pasts and futures meet. The film follows Hassan, a native to Failaka, but who had lost memory of its existence until a few years ago, when it brought him back to it.

Tales of the Diaspora is the debut film from xxiivanu productions, and was conceived as a love letter to Pasifika youth around the world, as they navigate the sometimes tumultuous waves of finding and retaining cultural identity whilst growing up away from their homelands.

In Australia’s coal country, the inside story of one Aboriginal family fighting to stop a mine on their traditional land. Adani, which owns the mine, says it’s operating lawfully.

Told in Graham Humphreys' own words and through a series of intimate conversations, Captured Souls explores the life and legacy of the UK's most iconic horror illustrator. From a childhood marked by a haunting Ladybird skeleton to the gouache-drenched goth era of Evil Dead and Nightmare on Elm Street, Graham reflects on a career that has defined horror for generations. Featuring discussions with Reece Shearsmith, Andy Nyman, Madeline Smith, Alan Jones, and more, the film charts a vivid time line through banned video sleeves, goth clubs, iconic posters, and the rediscovery of a lost original.

Look at a moment of a city turned into a cemetery. A dialogue between the living, the dead, gods and monsters that coexist on the mundane level. Two people protected behind a camera. Which of the two turns that tool into a noble weapon and who into a throwing knife with the blade dipped in poison?

Mirco Santi, who carries on the Home Movies project/archive with Paolo Simoni, briefly recounts the cinema of Massimo Bacigalupo. Home Movies has restored a number of works by Bacigalupo, a filmmaker who brought amateur cinema to the status of an art form in Italy, and keeps a large part of his archive, in which Frammento catanese was recently found.

A candid film debut in which Jeroen Kooijmans uses home videos to trace his long struggle with depression, including a psychotic episode in New York in the wake of 9/11.

Delve into the life of scientist Eva Mameli Calvino, Italy's first botanist and environmentalist. Explore her life as a scholar and dreamer, her discoveries and challenges, and her life as a woman and mother of the great writer Italo Calvino.

An experimentation with perceived movement and composition, drawn from six years of photographic fragments—an imprint of shifting visions, where seeing becomes both a subject and a mirror. Gorg O Mish is a Persian expression for twilight—literally translated as “wolf and ewe.”

A daughter reflects on her father's life - weaving the story of his miraculous journey from the streets of India with the realities of life in America. Using recorded phone calls with her dad while he worked nights at a gas station along with home movies past and present, this deeply personal essay film is a meditation on family, the immigrant experience, and the dreams we carry with us.

Toro is the tragicomic odyssey of Rocco and Angelo, two friends navigating the challenges of adulthood in their late thirties and the struggles faced by a new generation of young men.

The discovery of previously unknown recordings of Hrabal's lectures provides a rare, intimate insight into the author's world. The documentary film The Gentle Hrabal allows his authentic voice to be heard again after almost fifty years. Here, Hrabal speaks to students at his cottage in Kersko, and at other times to parishioners at the Protestant rectory in Libice.

The Sumerians worshiped Enki, a god of creation, wisdom and something far more mysterious. But the past refuses to stay buried. What if the myths were true?

In Big Wave: No Room for Error, experience the thrill of Earth's most treacherous surf breaks as award-winning photographer and filmmaker Bo Bridges captures the fine line between triumph and destruction.

A universal and deeply personal story about the transience of life and accepting death. The main character, Harald Henden (63), a renowned war photographer who has worked for VG for over 35 years, is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and realizes that he probably has months left to live. The film highlights how Henden, who has witnessed countless human tragedies through his work, must now confront his own mortality.

Fearing for her life, Israeli transgender pioneer Efrat Tilma fled the country as a teenager. Now in her seventies, she must fight for her freedom once again, as the country spirals into political and social regression.

A documentary on music, art, manhood, and masculinity and where they collide.

Rebecca Hirneise’s film centers around the uncles and aunts of her Protestant family engaging in a conversation about their faith for the first time. This reveals an unexpectedly intense and personal world of Christianity. A dialogue unfolds, revealing a broad spectrum of absolute devotion to the Bible, charismatic ecstasy, and a deep-seated fear of God.

Documentary about a skate hall in Kiruna that has become a lifeline for young people in a city that is literally being moved.

As Diddy finally faces a trial for alleged sex crimes, we meet those closest to him to ask why the allegations remained hidden for so long and why it took decades for alleged victims to come forward

An original film that brings together 25 friends, family, and strangers to talk about love and the human experience. Through the lens of storytelling, this film reveals a simple truth: when we share our stories and listen to others, we can foster a sense of belonging.

In 2014, Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West Little League became the first all-Black team to win the Little League U.S. Baseball Championship. Along the way, 13 twelve-year-old athletes from the South Side turned into media superstars—their faces were splashed across magazine covers and major TV networks, garnering them millions of fans around the country. They were even invited to the White House to meet President and Mrs. Obama. But it all came crashing down after a rival coach accused the team of breaking residential boundary rules.

Dengbêjên Me is a empathetic documentary about the last living representatives of the Kurdish oral storytelling tradition—the Dengbêjs. The film is dedicated to their lives, their memories, their pain, and their resistance. Their songs and personal stories create a cinematic archive of a cultural heritage that dates back thousands of years. Between voice, music, and silence, a deeply emotional journey unfolds, becoming a farewell, a testimony, and an act of cultural survival.

Tarik Shah, supremely talented Muslim American jazz bassist, endured 15 years of unjust imprisonment. Shah toured with jazz legend Betty Carter and was invited to play at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, only to be unfairly targeted by the FBI after 9/11. This is the inspirational true story of his music, resilience, and unconquerable spirit

Too often dismissed, young dads across the UK are quietly redefining fatherhood. Joe Swash meets four men breaking stigmas and showing what it truly means to show up.

Daniel has had 30 operations to remove a large cyst from his face that kept growing back.This is the story of a Father's Unconditional love, the friendship of a total stranger and the bravery of a heroic young man.

The intimate relationship that a photographer develops with the people whose photos he’s taking is at the heart of this film. New York-based Martin Schoeller won acclaim for his ultra close-up portraits of figures like George Clooney, Barack Obama, and Taylor Swift, yet here director Josephine Links focuses on his work featuring people who are not in the public eye, including homeless people and death row exonerees. Through testimonies from everyday people he’s interested in capturing, this documentary shows how some of us survive on the margins of society.

As a bird that briefly perches is a cinematic diary that weaves together the filmmaker’s sentiments about homeland with reference to the geology of Hong Kong; an analogy between human nature and greenhouse gardening; and her reflections on the choice of living abroad as she studies the everyday life of migrant farmers and their adaptation on foreign soil, reinterpreting agricultural processes and the migration of species. The work explores the implications of rooting, re-rooting and growing as the artist contemplates on the evolving dynamics between land and human.

"Listen!" is a hunt for sounds and meanings. In four episodes from four different regions, we will see how modern ethnic music is born, from the concept to the final track, and try to understand why we listen with such awe to music that features the voices of our ancestors?

Amidst the profound social change and political turmoil of post-war Japan, a bold generation of avant-garde artists and photographers emerged in the 1960s, forever transforming the global art landscape.

A fictionalized documentary depicting the life and work of Antoni Patek – a November Uprising fighter settled in Switzerland, a figure of the Great Emigration, and a prominent entrepreneur.

A hospital room. A camera in hand. A motionless man begins to travel – through memories, through longings, through silence.

With the arrival of major international movie theater chains in the late 1990s, the era of the old-fashioned movie theaters in Quito came to an end. For more than 80 years, the city was dominated by iconic movie theaters that captivated audiences like no other. The Bolívar, Variedades, Atahualpa, Alhambra, Capitol, and Fénix theaters, among others, were the gods of cinema that, in their heyday, projected illusions, desires, and fantasies onto the big screen for viewers. This documentary is a journey through time, a reconstruction of that cinematic memory through testimonies, vestiges, and memories.

Follows married couple, Liam & Kerry and how they live their lives on the canal. Their fuel business has a huge impact on communities in the north-west of England.

Childhood poverty in Pakistan can be nearly impossible to escape...but some local gyms are giving the street kids of Pakistan a potential chance to climb their way out into a better life in the world of MMA.

Sightings of great white sharks have been rising in Atlantic Canada. Alanna Canaran is on a mission to unravel the enigmas surrounding these creatures, determined to dispel fear of sharks in Nova Scotians. Canaran gathers invaluable knowledge of these magnificent creatures,contributing to a better understanding of white sharks in Canada.

The 2002 Arlanda heist shook Sweden. Armed perpetrators left the airport with 44 million kronor in cash from a security transport. The crime remains unsolved and the money has not been recovered. In TV4 Nyheterna Story, one of the robbers, Leo “The Chinese” Carmona, shares in detail how the group planned and carried out the spectacular heist – and what happened to the money.

In 2020, my younger sister survived a serious assault while traveling. When she returned, she wasn’t really herself anymore and fell into a deep depression. Feeling at a loss about what was happening to her, I did what I’ve always done: I filmed her.

As traditional salmon fishing comes under threat, Alaska Native subsistence communities come together to support one another, heal, and deliver a powerful testimony to their resilience and resistance.

In this hard-hitting documentary, Jean-Nicolas Verreault attempts to demystify the taboos surrounding men's psychological distress.

Declassified presents the first documentary about Britain's complicity in the Gaza genocide, exposing Keir Starmer's shady spy flight missions for Israel. What does a British base in Cyprus have to do with Israel's genocide in Gaza? Declassified travelled to this Mediterranean island to investigate the hundreds of spy flights Keir Starmer has sent over Gaza, that coincided with Israeli airstrikes and the killing of British aid workers We go where the British media and military experts have refused to look and ask whether this scandal could put Keir Starmer in The Hague.

When Lidija Zelović fled the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina at the age of 22, she didn’t realize that she would henceforth be defined as a “refugee”. Nor that her life would then be spent shuttling between her birthplace and Amsterdam, between the past and the present, between being Lidija and being a foreigner.

A documentary that records the lives of a group of former (and some still active) Portuguese transvestites. They are: Zizi Mayer, Fanny Star, Guida Scarllaty, Deborah Krystal and Wanda Morelli. They are João Callati, Fernando Paulo, Carlos Ferreira, Fernando Santos and Fernando Soares. All these artists deserve to have their lives told because they are bigger than anything they give on stage. They are important symbols of Portuguese cultural memory and their lives and careers illustrate different moments and mentalities in our country. They are lives that have endured hardships and overcome them in forbidding times and where persecution and punishment reigned supreme. No documentary has ever been made about their lives and it is urgent that these stories are not lost. They also tell the story of our political and cultural country.

Despite fearing for her life, Ugandan medical anthropologist, poet, and queer rights activist Stella Nyanzi confronts the authoritarian rule of President Yoweri Museveni in Uganda through provocative poetry, “radical rudeness,” and acts of defiant protest. After being arrested and imprisoned for criticizing the government, she refuses to be silenced and continues her fight for political change and LGBTQ+ rights. Following Nyanzi through her activism, imprisonment, and political ambitions, the film also reveals the personal cost of her outspoken struggle, exploring how her fierce public battles and powerful personality affect the lives of her children and family while offering a broader portrait of contemporary Uganda.

A Fighting Legacy explores how a 700-year-old Thai fighting art took root in the American Midwest, following the pioneer who brought it to the United States and the community built around the largest combat event in the Western Hemisphere.

A documentary musical which tells the story of war and pacifism through songs and melodies recorded in Mariupol from the end of 20th century to the beginning of 2022, when the city was erased and captured by Russia.

From the shadows of Ireland's ancient past, a spirit reawakens to bring fresh perspectives and new meaning to age-old cultural connections.