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Daniel e Daniela is the story of a father who takes his daughter on a journey to her origins. They travel through Cape Verde, São Tomé and Guinea-Bissau, both guided by the desire to see, know and talk. Between laughter, songs and books, everything they will find along the way is a pretext for another story that interweaves past and present, between Nubians, Carthaginians and Egyptians, slavery and colonialism, racism and prejudice; everything is matter for another philosophy lesson, a reflection on the History of Africa or the challenges of development. Daniel, 83, wants to leave his daughter Daniela, 12, with knowledge and critical thinking, preparing her for the future with a heart full of hope and freedom. After all, in Daniel's own words: "the greatest investment is the human one".

Between tourist promotions and Hollywood films lies another Vietnam, whose stunning landscape has been evocatively captured from the country's most accessible form of transport: the motorbike.

In this documentary, landscape architect Louis De Jaeger outlines how food forests can save the earth from suffocation, resuscitate communities, make agriculture sustainable, reverse global warming and still produce an abundance of food. This film takes you on a trip through the secret gardens of food forest pioneers. From urban jungles to healing projects in psychiatric institutions. Because nature appears to be the best healer for the social, psychological and ecological scars that people have caused. If we give nature's resilience a chance, together we can create a new Eden. In fact, pieces of this new paradise are already visible.

The true story of composer Viktor Ullmann's chamber opera, completed by him in Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt and rediscovered, thanks to a miraculous chain of events.

The documentary is about living at the borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan, telling the stories of Artsakhi refugees who are currently living in Syunik, those who were uprooted from their historical lands in Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh.

Jim Bouton's 1970 book "Ball Four" was groundbreaking, shocking, and controversial. It sold in the millions. 40 years later, Bouton and former teammates spin hilarious stories from behind baseball's cloistered clubhouses, giving a rare glimpse inside Major League baseball in the 1960s. The book's cultural impact is examined by filmmaker and former pro baseball player Ron Shelton ("Bull Durham"), author Jean Hastings Ardell, and David Kipen, former director of literature for the NEA.

From blood-craving bruxa to forest-dwelling leshy, from wyverns to the Wild Hunt, explore the origins of the beasties prowling Season 2 of “The Witcher.”

A feature documentary following Antonio de Benedetto, an Italian chef on a quest to change the world with food. His apprentices are aspiring chefs with Down syndrome, who travel from across Italy to train and work in hospitality and take their place at the table of life and find their pathway to freedom and independence.

Prince Albert I takes us on a voyage through his memories. From the early days in the Spanish Navy all the way to the polar circle. An extraordinary journey of a man who split his life between royal responsibilities and a passion for the oceans.

A documentary-dance film which explores the legacy of Soviet architecture in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The film was shot in September 2021, at a time when the prospect of a full-scale invasion from Russia seemed remote, but the ghost of its former rule remained written in concrete across the cityscape. The film platforms a divisive and open conversation about the city’s Soviet buildings: What should be done with them? Should they be preserved, destroyed, repurposed? What power do they hold over the way people think and interact with their environment?

The struggle of a trans woman to have her identity recognized at her workplace.

Anthropologist Ernesto De Martino in “Il Mondo Magico” traces an analysis of what he referred to as "subaltern popular world", that is, those social realities that were marked by the strong presence of a whole series of practical and pragmatic methods, handed down from generation to generation (from word of mouth to actual rituals), which were performed by people so that it would be easier to deal with everything that presented itself as uncontrollable and unknown, identified as “the loss of being-there”.

An afternoon with Adela Cortinez, gardener recorder.

In 1959 New York City announced a "slum clearance plan" by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of businesses, from the Cooper Square section of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Guided by the belief that urban renewal should benefit - not displace - residents, Frances Goldin and her neighbors formed the Cooper Square Committee and launched a campaign to save the neighborhood. Over five decades they fought politicians, developers, white flight, government abandonment, blight, violence, arson, drugs, and gentrification - cyclical forces that have destroyed so many working class neighborhoods across the US. Through tenacious organizing and hundreds of community meetings, they not only held their ground but also developed a vision of community control. Fifty three years later, they established the state's first community land trust - a diverse, permanently affordable neighborhood in the heart of the "real estate capital of the world."

Teens are putting an end to mental health stigma by telling their own stories – unfiltered – in the documentary film OUR TURN TO TALK. From skyrocketing rates of anxiety and depression to the impacts of racism and social media, their struggles and triumphs carry a powerful message: Storytelling saves lives. Join high school senior Anastasia Vlasova as she starts a podcast to share her own powerful story, and travels across the country to give other teens a chance to bravely share theirs.

With the aim of studying sexuality and the role of disciplinary power in controlling the female body for a Philosophy of Communication course, the short follows accounts by non-straight women about their process of discovering their sexuality and acceptance.

Big and dangerous predators are invading unexpected waters, from golf courses and swimming pools to lakes and backyard keys. Through analyzing user-generated footage, shark experts get to the bottom of how and why sharks seem more willing than ever to meet us on our own turf. In a bizarre twist, people encountering sharks in unexpected places are called to urgent action.

La Petite École in Brussels welcomes children who have never attended school, who are often from an immigrant background. Marie and Juliette have created a place outside of the classical structures of learning, where children can learn to be or become children again. But the price for this is the constant deconstruction of conventional education, and endless devotion.

Little is known about the figure of Isabel Santaló, an old artist, today fallen into oblivion. But occasionally some visitors come to her flat. Through them and the voice of Antonio López (Dream of Light, Víctor Erice), the only painter who remembers her, we shape a multifaceted film. This is a cinematic portrait, which well into the film takes a surprising turn. A film that reflects on memory and oblivion, art and the creative process; posing the question of what it means to be an artist and a woman.

La Riviera has cardboard palm trees. As warm as a beach, as cold as a film set.

The film follows a group of growers who embrace the restorative power that the soil holds. Skin of the Earth is a story about the relationship between humans, the land, and belonging.

Jagged lands, picturesque coastline and landscapes dotted with lakes and old castles...: a journey through the Scottish landscapes aboard the Royal Scotsman, a luxurious train with Victorian reminiscences. To the north stand the steep reliefs of the Highlands; to the south lie the rolling plains of the Lowlands. To discover these lands, there's nothing like a trip aboard the luxurious Royal Scotsman. This train crosses the whole country from Edinburgh to the Wild West Coast, reminiscent of when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert traveled by rail to their summer residence. Departing from the capital, the convoy takes the Glenfinnan Viaduct, immortalized in the Harry Potter saga, before meandering at the foot of Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest peak.

A lyrical documentary film, an elegy to Epirus that fades away, but also to Epirus that survives. A love song for those who stayed, for those who migrated, for its musicians and its unique nature. A journey to Giromeri, Thesprotia, during the Easter days. Through the cinematic lens, we observe the everyday life of this little village and search for the roots of a very special tradition. An attempt - contrary to the relentless digitization of our times - to keep the analog memory of the Greek countryside alive: a life memento.

A feature-length documentary forming a diptych at each end of France. Two guided visits through the eyes of the people who inhabit each place. In Marseille, a deteriorated housing project is surrounded by walls cutting it off from the neighbouring private properties. In Calais, the fences and and the barbwire aim to push back the refugees hoping to reach the UK and build a better life there. "Écoute les murs tomber" (Listen to the Walls Fall) shows how human beings, moved by the desire to come and go, to live and to set themselves free from restrictions and dead ends, bypass what imprison them, prevent them and restrain them. When coming face-to-face with walls, "Écoute les murs tomber" offers pathways of hope.

Revealing indie rock’s best-kept secret of the 90s, Traces of Glory is a feature length documentary that tells the story of L.A. band, IDAHO and its obscure frontman Jeff Martin, as he contemplates his past, self-doubt and the fame he was never really after.

The filmmaker films the last moments before she is evicted from the house in which she has been living for many years. The camera serves as the guide in this process of mourning, building an archive of the house, the neighbourhood, the people that lived there or the ones that visit.

A Lord of the Rings tour guide in New Zealand processes his grief in a wonderful way.

Documentary about Operation Yewtree in the UK

Clara is a woman capable of everything, she can carry the world on her back and create a universe tailored to her loved ones in order not to hurt them. Clara is many women and because of that, she is willing to reveal her fears, to face the voids left by forgotten loves, to look her children in the eyes and tell them about herself, about what she has always carried trapped in her chest. Aseneth, her filmmaker daughter, holds a dialogue with Clara. They converse between the tension of revelations and direct questions. They meet again in the image of Lilia, Clara's girlfriend who disappeared from the scene years ago. Aseneth will soon become a mother and this will lead to an enlightening, challenging and loving encounter.

A Tired Dog is a Good Dog, Part One explores animal husbandry from the perspective of a quadruplet raised in a dog breeding family. Incorporating original footage and family archive, the film analyses canine behaviour, humans playing as dogs through kink, and his own identity.

Syncopated Green reflects on the history of outdoor free parties in the English Countryside, using rave music, past and present, to help forget the ‘official’ portrayal of England as picturesque, nostalgic, white, and rural. The film invites rave music into the English landscape – turning imperial history inside out. Somewhere between a music video, a memoir and an essay, the film asks, how might our future be different if we had other histories to lean on – and dance with?

Hollywood's own "Can't Be Stopped" crew is one of the most influential and recognizable graffiti crews to emerge out of the U.S. is Since its inception in the early 1980's, the initials C.B.S. have been at the forefront of evolving graffiti art into a true, authentic art form.

A docufilm that tells the life of Mahmood between Milan and Egypt, his dearest loved ones, the music, the victories in Sanremo, Eurovision, the European tour, the backstage of the his works. An inner journey that has music as its backbone and where love and absence find their way to coexist. Thanks to his music we explore Alessandro's world, his search for something, which led him to have more than he could dream of and which always accompanies his distant gaze, as if every time he had to go home from a trip or leave. for a new goal.

On August 5, 1989, the policeman Nino Agostino was brutally killed together with his wife Ida Castelluccio, who was two months pregnant. The documentary tells about Vincenzo Agostino, the man who, despite 31 years have passed since his son's death at the hands of the mafia, seeks justice and fights with great determination to discover the truth behind the murder.

Join Abby Hornacek on a nature filled journey through Yellowstone National Park's magical winter wonderland.

Your ABC Exposed examines one of the country’s most important cultural institutions and whether the taxpayer-funded service unites or divides Australians.

Sohaila, Zahra and Zeinab train every day. Their dream is to become professional fighters and to show the world that all people are equal. Director Lukas Tielke and his team spent a week in Malakasa refugee camp, outside Athens, getting to know these inspirational young Afghan women.

For more than eight decades, German Sinti and Roma experienced injustice. The film tells of the family of activist Romani Rose, their resistance and insistence on justice. The painful story of a minority between trauma and self-assertion. The two-part film deals with various forms of resistance by German and Austrian Sinti and Roma over eight decades. It is about rebellion against injustice and the insistence on dignity and justice.

A deeper insight into the award winning album Modern Vampires of the City by Vampire Weekend. The Director uses sampled footage and spliced Vampire Weekend interviews to dive into the samples and making of many of the bands biggest songs from the record.

In this short film, the late protagonist Ransom Bradford (1937-2013) talks about the reasons for his decision to undergo shock therapy with the aim of becoming straight. At the same time, the filmmaker takes the filmed interviews, which he had kept in his closet for 17 years, as a starting point to reflect on his friendship with Ransom – as well as on their age difference of 36 years. The film invites the viewer to reflect on the ways social norms and stigmatization relate to emotions and are inscribed into bodies. It addresses love and loss and treasures relationality and gay desire.

The 4-part documentary event “Secrets of the Chippendales Murders” gives a look beyond the bright lights into a dark world of drugs, arson, a love triangle and a murder.

Filmed at his Maine studio nestled in New England’s scenic landscapes, legendary artist Alex Katz reflects on his relationship to light and the sensations that his painting evokes.

Oleksii Shevliuha has been missing since 2014, when he went to fight pro-Russia separatists in the east. His father has never stopped searching for him.

Brazil is huge, made of an extremely colorful mix of races, origins, ideas and cultures. Now it has come to a boil: the country torn apart by political, and religious conflicts, our forests burnt down and razed to the ground, "minorities" persecuted, and part of the population arming itself on the expectation of something wicked coming our way in the most polarized election ever.

A daughter accompanied her mother to visit her old friends on an island in South China. Subtle emotions that had been long hidden gradually emerged during the trip. As she uncovered them, the daughter chose to record them on her phone.