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Gwendolyn is facing a year full of changes. Having left Austria for England in the 70s, she recently moved from her old house in Central London to a new high-rise building without her Ivorian husband Charlie, 20 years her junior, who wants to live on his own. A much bigger challenge though is her soon to come third salivary gland cancer surgery. Her body is weakened, part of her face currently paralysed, the situation is serious. But rather than engage in the prescribed rest, she defends herself against illness and aging and wants to become world champion once more. With her loyal trainer Pat, she prepares for the upcoming weightlifting season.

A unique historical documentary with original material from the DSE film crew, audio documents from the era, as well as newer material and contemporary footage from the DSE's areas of action that is combined with contemporary footage from the mountains and other areas where the DSE's action spread.

Follow Basil as he navigates our modern cultural landscape, engaging with a group of spiritual "nones" (religious unaffiliated) in honest and open discussion on religion and spirituality, while recounting his own journey as a "none" in search of spiritual wholeness.

In 2014, 276 teenage girls came together for exams in Chibok, Nigeria -- by dawn, nearly all had disappeared and their school was burnt. Jessica, an escapee, shares her haunting account of a friendship violently interrupted by Boko Haram.

On December 6, 1917, 2 ships colliding in Halifax Harbour led to one of largest explosions ever. The Halifax School for the Deaf was near, yet, all survived. How? Amazing stories of community and survival are shared in ASL and MSL.

A triumphant film that traces the origins of the world-wide disability rights movement. It tells the stories of the individuals who bravely put their lives on the line to create a better world where everyone is valued and can participate. Featuring interviews and rarely seen archival footage, the film reveals how these activists fought to live outside of institutions, challenged the stigmas and negative image of disability portrayed by the media, demanded access to public transportation, and battled to reframe disability rights as a social responsibility relevant to us all. This film is an excellent tool to encourage discussions about diversity and disability for students, audiences and community groups.

Truncated Utopia tells the story of Luisa Rendón Martell, a republican activist who was retaliated against in the province of Cádiz during the civil war and Franco's regime.

For 160 years, the Maison Cartier has inspired awe, desire and covetousness in men and women before its jewellery box, the most recognizable in the world. To paraphrase Jean Cocteau: "Cartier is still a subtle magician "whose able to hang the moon at the tip of a string of sun"".

The film is about how the change of generations in Ukraine can transform the perception of the space around us. It is about the conflict of epochs, the confrontation between initiative and indifference, between openness and a strictly regulated life, in the course of one small renovation.

Documentary Film by Cengiz Özkarabekir. 3 Hürel episodes of the "Alone" Documentary series... The legendary band of Turkish music history, 3 Hürel only made music in the 1970s. But no musician, no band has been able to fit so much success in such a short time. They are a band that deserves to be legendary. He is our idol...

The 30th of October 2016 an earthquake hits Central Italy. It is the strongest earthquake registered in Italy in the last 40 years: a magnitude 6,5 with epicentre in between Perugia (Umbria) and Macerata (Marche) devastates the whole area of the Sibillini mountains, where the director was born and grew up. Starting from his own demolished house and from his own pain, Baldoni takes a journey "from inside" the experience of the earthquake to tell the deep fears, the trauma, the anxiety, the rage and the hope of the people whom's life has been changed by these events.

Inspired by his ideals, architect Han van Loghem travelled to Siberia in the mid 1920s. The Soviet Union was in need of specialists to help design and construct completely new cities and mining and metallurgical centres in the Urals and Siberia. And socially engaged architects from Western Europe headed to the first workers’ state in the world so that they could bring their new architectural ideas to life. Builders Of The Future shows how for van Loghem, the journey to Siberia was also a quest for personal and professional fulfilment, which he was lacking in the Netherlands. Van Loghem's personal journey had its repercussions his relationship with his wife, Berthe Neumeijer, who had initially planned to stay in the Netherlands but then followed him to Siberia in an attempt to save their marriage.

A look at a bike ride, ranging all abilities, that lasts around 570 miles, between twin cities in West Yorkshire and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Sule is a hard-living, chain smoking poet - one of the few remaining bohemians left in London's Portobello. Drinking and gambling with his eastern european friends has left him estranged from his family and, even though he is surrounded with people, he feels utterly alone. His one consolation is his dream of one day returning to his beloved place of birth. But when his best friend dies, Sule is thrown into crisis. Suddenly confronted with his own mortality, Sule gets one last chance to turn things around when the Bosnian embassy invites him to exhibit a series of paintings entitled Guidance Through the Black Hole. The date for the exhibition is set, but the paintings are still not finished and Sule knows that if he is to succeed he must first overcome his vices. The question is: can Sule escape his dark past and find a way out of the black hole that he is creating on his canvases?

In the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, rape has been used as a weapon of war for more than 15 years. Martha writes a teenage girl’s guide to surviving sex slavery.

For more than two decades, internationally acclaimed artist Chen Chieh-jen has illuminated the deep impact of power on bodies and architecture. Here he explores a pair of sites built by the Japanese colonial government in the early 20th century: the Losheng Leprosy Sanatorium and the Taipei Prison. The first was on the outskirts of Taipei, the second in the heart of the city. Both were used for controlling marginal populations; both continued to operate long after the Japanese left; and both were eventually torn down for urban redevelopment. Across its four sections linking different times, places and people, Realm of Reverberations reveals cycles of construction and destruction, and the ironies of emotional attachment and historical detachment.-UCLAFilm&TV

Going behind the doors of the private world of a residential rehabilitation centre in Somerset, this powerful documentary uncovers what is done to help people beat their addictions and start rebuilding their lives, through a series of intimate encounters at Broadway Lodge. From Phillip Wood, the film maker behind the acclaimed documentary Chasing Dad: A Lifelong Addiction, we meet people who come from different situations and parts of the UK who all have one thing in common: to seek a new beginning here. Observing the relationships formed between staff, clients and their families, the film explores how desperate and difficult it is for people to transform themselves when funding is scarce and emotions are running high.

After five years studying in Paris, Arash has not adjusted to life there and has decided to return to Iran to live. Hoping to change his mind, his two friends Hossein and Ashkan convince him to take a last trip through France.

Documentary about a young soccer team skilled in Shaolin kung fu. Tian Dong visits its young members at their sports school, and talks to them about their everyday lives and dreams. In doing so he paints an unsettling picture of China's political situation.

The village under the Himalaya, Lukla. From here, you can only climb the Himalayas with your own two feet. Many tourists come here to admire the beautiful scenery of nature. It is a beautiful path with romantic memories for the tourists. But for some people, the same path could be somewhere with a burden of life, carrying heavy loads for someone else. Nepalese porters climb the Himalayas wit)h the heavy loads of the tourists. The amount of the loads is more than the one that the porters might not even use all to their grave. Thirteen-year-old Sonam also climbs the Himalayas instead of going to school because of the difficult family situation.

A David versus Goliath story of rural community pitted against their monopolistic internet provider, as they fight to prevent the shutdown of their new ultra-fast municipal broadband network.

About the origins, development, and establishment of street art and its representatives: parkour, BMX, workout, rollerblading, breakdancing, and street basketball.

After working abroad for several years, a filmmaker returns to his family home in Shiraz, Iran to make a film for the woman he loves. His exploration of his feelings and of the cross-cultural and geographical barriers to pursuing this relationship eventually spark introspections among members of his family, as they express their emotions to one another in new ways in front of the camera. A documentary about cross-generational understandings of love and emotion set in current day Iran.

Pictures and social media messages are interwoven together with animated segments to highlight Abu Haidar family’s state of being stuck, halfway.

"For JT, a young prospect making his way into a local branch of the Crips in Brooklyn, joining the gang is about family: Getting close to a group of men that care about him, and are willing to back him up if he ever finds himself in trouble. "But getting initiated isn't easy. We followed JT through the process of getting made to see what drew him to the gang, and to hear why he's willing to be "squared in"—suffering a brutal beating at the hands of his best friends."

Short collage film regarding the history of philosophy.

Film hurls us into a sensually lo-fi, subterranean maelstrom of visual and aural sex-positive excess that recalls (and rivals) Hieronymous Bosch, Derek Jarman and the Kuchars.

Portrait of a homeless Russian-speaking chess player traveling in Germany and Europe, playing chess with passers-by on the street.

At the crossroads of the 2016 presidential race and the fight for civil rights, economic fairness, and a democracy that works for everyone.

Shark Swarm explores some of the largest and mysterious shark aggregations on the planet. This is a nightmare. More than twelve thousand Blacktip sharks not far from the coast. Hundreds of hungry gray sharks swarming at a remote tourist destination while highly solitary Mako sharks swarm for survival at the bottom.

In 1970, Dennis Hopper shot 'The Last Movie' in Chinchero (Peru), an enigmatic Western about the possibility of an indigenous rebellion against a Hollywood film crew. 44 years later, two filmmakers arrive at Chinchero with the intention to make a new film with the villagers about Hopper’s legacy.

Sumantra Ghosal's documentary about two contemporary legends in Indian music: tabla genius Zakir Hussain and sitar maestro Niladri Kumar. Featuring interviews and concert highlights.

Olive trees have been a key element of life for populations in Palestinian land for generations. Since the creation of the state of Israel, historical inhabitants and trees face the uproot of their lives and culture. This documentary shows popular struggles in occupied Cisjordan through the testimonies of Palestinian families and the activists that protect them during olive harvest.

Thousands of PTSD victims live in Israel, which in recent years has been promoting an innovative treatment, namely psycho-active substances, known as psychedelic drugs. The film documents PTSD victims undergoing MDMA treatment at Beer Yaacov psychiatric hospital over several years. We return with them to the site of the trauma, to the life before and the long and complex road to leaving the bleeding wounds behind and returning to life.

Luo Zhangjie is 88 years old. Her son Qi Caizheng has lost his memories due to meningitis, and now he can't even cope with the basic tasks in his daily life. Moreover, he hits whoever gets close to him. Luo has been looking after her son, but as she's getting old, she is training her granddaughter-in-law to take care of her son.

Anindilyakwa man, Steve 'Bakala' Wurramara is afflicted with a profound hereditary neurodegenerative disorder. While modern medicine looks for answers, the stories of an ancient curse and black magic still permeate this remote Aboriginal community in far northern Australia. Bakala enlists the help of his daughter to search for a cure from the traditional bush medicines in the land, desperate to find an answer before she too is diagnosed. As his desperation grows and his disorder takes an ever greater hold, Bakala realises he must fight this ancient curse to unlock the secrets of his Ancestors.

Leaving is a short video piece that explores transient spaces and bodies through the chronicling of a hitchhiking trip taken during the summer of 2016, throughout Canada and the United States. Based on fragmentary evidence collected - a broken video camera, a wide variety of cuts and bruises and a general idea of what was written in a lost notebook - it explores the intersection between femininity and travel, the manifold perceptions of the other, as well as the use of intimacy and kinship as tools for protection.

What would a Korean adoptee say to the mother she never knew?

An inspiring documentary about a heroic gay Jewish sportsman who ended up in Auschwitz.

Accordion Class explores the under-examined history of the accordion and its legacy in China, as the only permitted western instrument during the cultural revolution. Since then, the accordion’s popularity and influence has risen and fallen over half a century. Looking at accordion classes and competition today, the film presents how the instrument is taught, performed and received by a younger generation in the city of Changsha.

A tribute to the Alamo Drafthouse located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that was forced to close after three years when its lease was abruptly and unexpectedly terminated by its landlord. Employees and customers reflect on the impact the theater had made on its community in such a short amount of time.

A journey across the country to understand why senior citizens are the fastest growing group of people going hungry in America. This journey will change your thinking about aging.

For an estimated population of 4 million, Lebanon boasts some 200,000 foreign domestic workers, contracted under a system of full custodianship that deprives them of basic rights. Implemented since the start of the civil war (1975), this system is borrowed from similar ones in the Gulf countries. It is predicated on a transaction whereby the worker is not providing a service, but is rather commodified as a product, with specialised agencies organising their import under conditions not unlike modern-day outposts of slavery. Director Maher Abi Samra places his camera inside the offices of the El Raed agency with the full complicity of its owner Zein. Diligently, unobtrusively, he observes and probes. The components of this state-sanctioned system come undone methodically

A look at the development of Holland Michigan since 1847.

Lesbian Herstory Archives: A Brief Herstory The Lesbian Herstory Archives was founded in the 1970’s when a group of women involved in the Gay Academic Union realized that lesbian history was “disappearing as quickly as it was being made.” The group’s mission is to gather and preserve records of lesbian lives and activities so that future generations will have ready access to materials relevant to their lives.

A short documentary describing how teaching art lessons has helped Andres overcome his troubled past. From surviving the Argentinian dictatorship, to the kidnapping of his farther. Andres is building a new life for himself in the UK.

The only big cats to hunt in groups, lions give solitary leopards and cheetahs stiff predatory competition. What makes the pride's hunting strategy successful, and why don't leopards and cheetahs also hunt in groups?

The fascinating story of Ursula Kuczynski, a Jewish German mother, refugee, and spy, who stole Britain's atomic secrets and gave them to the Soviets.

Lilith uses rope bondage to connect with her spirituality. This film documents one of her suspension sessions in which she self-ties with exceptional agility and creativity.

A short documentary telling the story of a man who was born without eyes who has developed a life-long passion for playing video games. We explore why despite its obvious challenges gaming still provides great entertainment, inspiration and enjoyment to the blind.

British author Jacky Rom jets off to LA and Las Vegas on a fact-finding mission to investigate murder weapons, deception, and body disposal methods in order to help inspire her latest crime novel.

The film shares the stories of Bernice from Kongo, Emmanuel from Ghana, Ivan from Ukraine, Nana from Georgia and Pantea from Iran on their journeys to landscapes and cities in Westphalia, Germany. They talk about their descent, being on the move and coming home.