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Iluminados documents the events that occurred in November 2023 after Universitario became national champion of the Peruvian first division against its classic historical rival Alianza Lima, through a series of interviews with the players and technical command of the merengue club since obtaining the title of the Clausura Tournament that allowed them to access the final until the scandalous turning off of the lights at the Alejandro Villanueva stadium to avoid the rival team's celebrations, an event that shocked and caused repercussions in the international media.

Amidst the urban transformation driven by progress, bulldozers dismantle 'illegal' settlements, leaving countless lives shattered. In the aftermath of such upheaval, one basti, sacrificed to conceal poverty during the G20 summit, and another basti, abandoned by authorities without alternative housing, illustrate the stark realities of displacement. The film delves into the daily struggles of individuals who persist in the rubble of their former homes.

Serial murder examines how seemingly rational choices can perpetuate inequality, challenging viewers to reconsider workplace structures and their societal implications. The Footprints of the Invisible Man Walking on the Sand explores diverse mourning processes, documenting memories, testimonies, and funerals of those for whom death is as close as life. Chores of one's own revisits a construction site 31 years later, exploring the impact of a young worker's death.

While the hunt for Lord Lucan has dominated the media for half a century, the name of the victim, Sandra Rivett, has been forgotten.

A young musician, Misho, has a heartfelt conversation with his mother about why his father left eight years ago. Fueled by a desire for answers and closure, he decides to embark on a journey to locate his estranged father. Along the way, Misho discovers hidden truths about his family, confronts old wounds, and learns valuable lessons about love, forgiveness, and the complexities of human relationships.

Confessions of Undecided Women is an animated short documentary consisting of confessions from women in their thirties about childbearing in a society where women’s bodies have been instrumentalised for reproduction. The documentary gives space to the voices of those who are undecided, fearful, or do not want children. It creates room for reflection and discussion on women’s personal choices and societal expectations.

In February 2022, in Kharkiv, twin sisters Maryna and Vladyslava Alexiiva had to flee in the middle of the night under the bombs. In extremis, they take with them their bronze medals, won in Tokyo a year earlier in synchronized swimming. They took refuge in Italy for six months, then decided to return to Ukraine to reunite with their team. From then on, they were obsessed with a single goal: to win the gold medal in Paris in 2024.

Marlene's journey is one of rediscovery. Once she saw darkness as the truest reflection of her soul—a place of comfort and identity. But life's trials reshaped her understanding, transforming that darkness into a wellspring of resilience, insight, and unexpected strength.

A documentary that revolves around Darius Brubeck, son of jazz musician Dave Brubeck, and Darius' wife Catherine (Cathy) as they are "playing the changes" through their life in music, education and personal diplomacy.

A documentary of underground music culture in Beijing

A woman returns to the site of her birth, which is now a funeral home. She drinks a white monster energy drink.

A group of authentic voicemail messages to Alex over the past 5 years from various friends and family members. It is a poetic lattice weaved with mesmeric audiovisuals, presenting the isolating effects of an ever growing digital world.

Do our past and present selves share the same identity? In "Por Outra Lente", Pedro and Luísa revisit their childhood to create an autobiographical documentary, using home videos recorded by their father. A reflection on memory, growth, and identity through the act of filmmaking.

It’s the story of a flood. This is the story of a crisis. The scar left by the 2021 floods in the Vesdre and Ourthe valleys is still there. When it rains, the drops remind us of the dead and the rubble. How to rebuild yourself? From the daily lives of victims followed over a long period of time to the visions of the future of town planners responsible for proposing solutions, After the Rain tells the story of the aftermath of the deadliest climate disaster in Belgian history.

The writer Abelardo Castillo talks about the meaning of writing about the 70s, about newspapers, magazines and literary workshops, and about Sylvia, his wife. As in Blixen's story of the stork, he completes the drawing of his life.

Feature-length documentary about the biggest and most humane festival of alternative music in the Balkans.

A (horribly uncoordinated) duo tries to take home the Trivia War Championship Trophy!

Director Fabian Biasio is stuck in a dilemma: as an urban cyclist, he has a latent hatred of cars. He compensates for his vulnerability with a generous interpretation of the traffic rules. But as soon as he sits behind the wheel of a car, he becomes a driver with heart and soul. He asks himself where this desire comes from and discovers worlds previously hidden from him.

What is home? What traces do we leave behind as human beings? In Bolzano, Stanze follows in the footsteps of a young man who once lived in two pillars beneath the highway. The mementos of a life and the bond between two people who never met, presented as a poetic essay.

In “Beneath Sheep’s Clothing”, join us on a riveting journey through Soviet history and modern America to understand the pattern of a communist takeover of culture. Witness firsthand accounts of historical Soviet tactics to overtake education and religion. Observe the compelling evidence that similar tactics have been at play with our schools and churches here in America – for over a century! If our culture-making institutions here in America, the West in general, and globally are subverted to Marxist ideologies, what comes next? Today we stand at the precipice of history. Will we awaken and safeguard our nations and world from the grip of communist and globalist tyranny enacted in the name of liberating the underprivileged and sustainable development? Or will we stand by while the freedom and prosperity our forebears fought and died for slip between our fingers? Will we hand our children freedom or enslavement? The choice is ours, but time is of the essence!

Australia: The Wild Continent carries its audience through the wildest and most beautiful landscapes in Australia in search of the hidden stories that make this continent unique. Discover flora and fauna that has evolved in splendid isolation, explore ancient landscapes sculpted by great geological forces, and learn what it means to care for Country from traditional custodians of the land. Circumnavigating the continent, we travel from the limestone cliffs of the Nullarbor to the steamy tropical wetlands of the Northern Territory via the stunning Kimberley coast and Australia’s expanse of red deserts. Along the way we meet giant humpback whales, get up close and personal with baby wetland birds, and fly with wedge-tailed eagles. Each destination has its own unique story of formation and biological significance unlike any other place on earth.

If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you’ve seen the work of Lino Tagliapietra, one of the world’s greatest glass blowers. Now facing the end of his career, learn the history of this Italian master, his luminous protégés, his time working in Seattle, and how his legacy will live on.

Actor and comedian Ardal O’Hanlon examines the role of Catholic priests in Irish life, from earliest times to the present day, to see how they shaped Irish lives for better or for worse.

On 11 September 1973, the democratic government of President Salvador Allende was overthrown by a violent military coup. 50 years later, Santiago’s national football stadium is momentarily brought to life to tell the story of the terrible events it silently witnessed in the aftermath of this pivotal moment in the country’s history.

Will Taylor and Nick Hill of Flyte welcome you into the world renowned Konk Studios for a deeper look into the recording process of their third collaborative, self-titled album.

From hooliganism and violence through to the ecstasy and the rise of rave culture, Andy Swallow, co-founder of West Ham's ICF and later Centreforce 883, opens up about his life for the very first time.

Each fishing trip lasts a month and Elí's body accumulates the illness inherited from those hard days. Your body is another gear that wears out little by little. The sea, however, always calls him, it has become the refuge of a life on land that is increasingly alien. The strange omen of a liberating shipwreck becomes darker and more disturbing when Elí finds no alternative for his son but to offer him the same fate.

What starts out as an attempt to hang onto her lifelong passion turns into a harrowing investigation into a multibillion industry and the discovery of an underground network of thousands of patients permanently scarred by Lasik, the so-called “safest elective surgery on the market.”

A poetic journey to the heart of the Ural, where the discovery of an alien creature uncovers a haunting secret.

Heart-stopping documentary recounting the thrilling 1999 play-off final between Manchester City and underdogs, Gillingham.

Mathieu Crepel, the French snowboarding legend, returns to the village where the film that put him on the map when he was ten years old was shot. Qivitoq tells the story of his rediscovery – through the eyes of an adult – of this place on the edge of the world, struck by a harsh social reality.

In the country with most Japanese descendants outside Japan, Haruko, 94, finds herself on the edge of living. While her japanese-brazilian daughter sumiko takes care of her, they inhabit a house surrounded by memories, dreams and nature. faced with the approach of death, they confront ghosts from the past and wander through the narrow path between the terrain and the transcendental.

An oblique remake of Nicholas Ray’s On Dangerous Ground (1951), Ray’s Place follows Ray from his haunts in New York City to Binghamton where, exiled from Hollywood, he taught alongside members of the American avant-garde. Participating in both Hollywood’s golden age and the experimental cinema of the 1970s yet at home in neither, what is Ray’s place?

Ghazeleh, a young Iranian woman yearning for freedom and justice, is killed during a protest against Iran's patriarchal regime, among the women of the "Women, Life, Freedom" movement. She films her own death, becoming a posthumous narrator of the story.

Feminism is no longer just a women's issue. More and more men are claiming to be feminists. But this is often easier said than done. Patriarchal structures are still deeply rooted today - in communication, the world of work, family and relationships, in politics and in education. The film follows four men who say they are feminists. They show how they imagine a feminist relationship, how they design a feminist company and how they are committed to more equality in the cultural and political sphere.

An ancestral house builds itself, comes to life, and shows us its story spanning one hundred fifty years. Through the ages, it allows us to perceive the passage of time.

Behind the artist Jon Henrik Fjällgren's success hides a life edged by darkness, vulnerability and bullying. As a child he was adopted from Colombia to Mittådalen's Sami village and for the first time he is now traveling back to his hometown of Cali in Colombia. In the program he talks openly about his life and history. There will also be guerilla recordings with Greta Thunberg, a look behind the scenes at Melodifestivalen and everyday life among reindeer and mountains.

"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by Margaret Atwood, lights the path traced in "Postcard". As the years go by, landscapes transform, take on new meanings, and hold onto joys that will never be regained. The sea and the beach, once stages of happy summers, romances, and encounters, will turn into concentration camps or centers of detention and torture. This occurs across different times and places. In this piece, I embark on a journey through some of my works that explore the relationship between testimony, spaces, and time, engaging in dialogue with the beautiful film directed by Alejandro Segovia in 1972.

"My Imaginary Africa" ​​is a first-person narrative of a singular-plural nature, bringing together the director's personal experience and concerns intertwined with the experiences, memories and experiments of other black women who revisit their past in search of self-definitions, in a sharing and creation of a common territory of (r)existence. The film is organized as an essayistic experiment of memories and subjective possibilities of refuge and resistance among quilombolas.

Pavlos, travels to a quiet village in Northern Greece to visit his grandmother. He films her with a camera, while she prepares for him his favorite meals. Both grappling with loneliness in their own ways, they share stories and open up like they never had before. In the warmth of his grandmother’s embrace, Pavlos gets to feel a long-awaited sense of acceptance.

The Huon Valley, Tasmania, contains the largest stand of old-growth blue gums in the world. But these towering ancient trees are scheduled for destruction. Can a passionate team of climbers and scientists prove the trees’ immense capacity for environmental good before the axe falls?

Shot in Cambodia and borrowing a title and a punk sensibility from Qiu Miaojin’s classic queer novel, Daphne Xu’s Notes of a Crocodile follows an unnamed woman who roams the streets of a Phnom Penh in flux, encountering humans and animals in her search for a lost friend.

In the typical handwriting of the Los Ingrávidos collective and through the accumulation of visually expressive elements – in this case the pupils of people’s and animals’ eyes captured on film material – a ritual artefact is created through the combination with a hypnotic drum accompaniment, leading to dance and trance. An initiatory composition referring to forms of consciousness and ancestral vision becomes a fluid liturgy.

An intimate confession of a girl who was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 23, created as an assignment for a Documentary Film course. In the form of a conversation with herself and her mother, she examines the impact of the disease on her life. The film thematically explores the mental space occupied by the illness and the way she copes with the new circumstances.

Invisible. That is how many define the University Student House I (CEU I), located in the central region of the city of Santa Maria. The documentary 'Invisible Sky' sheds light on the stories of people who found a home there and resist the erasure of student assistance policies.

A documentary about an unpredictable and exciting night when a simple birthday party turns into a chaotic adventure. The main character, Maxim, finds himself in the center of events when excessive amounts of alcohol and heated emotions take over. From funny situations to moments when it seems like everything will get out of control, the film captures the dynamics of friendship, fun and unexpected turns that can happen when a celebration becomes a real test for everyone present.

A short film that pays homage to the legendary Mother Cavallucci by weaving together the present and past to provide a striking portrait of belonging and memory. Poetically merging archival photographs and present-day footage from a community drag show, the film sparks conversation about the modern-day issues Mother Cavallucci revolutionized.

Discrimination, body shaming & violence. This is ballet in 2024. But a group of defiant dancers, survivors of industry abuse, want to form a radical, diverse company that opens its doors to others who have also suffered abuse, and gives these talented, traumatized survivors a chance to fight back, on stage. They find a run-down studio, and Chase Johnsey, a gender-fluid dance insurgent, to direct them. But, they have no money, no reputation, and Chase has never directed before. The dancers are brave, but young and deeply fragile. They must confront their traumas and find belief if they are ever to retake the stage. It is a journey of pain, hope, and above all resistance -to fight for justice, change lives, and create groundbreaking, liberated ballet- one choreographed step at a time.