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The story of Sir Philip Craven, former president of the International Paralympic Committee, who became a global leader for change.

Maharashtra was hit by a three year long man-made drought that led to community-wide despair. And while climate change was a catalyst, it was not the only reason behind the mass suicides.

A natural study on the motorcycles fauna in São Paulo at the beginning of Covid19 pandemic. Filmed in the early fall 2020, this is Claudio Szynkier's first formal experience with cinema, music and the city. The film is a short musical effort, developed and improvised along a post-quarantine afternoon ride.

Four women in Central Florida establish a unique bond while working with crickets, superworms and roaches on an insect farm in the rural town of LaBelle.

Through a critical look at the dynamics of the municipal council of Saint-Nicolas, in Liège, the system of party and power games is called into question, while denouncing the few truly political issues that emerge from it.

A three-part documentary series that recounts the notorious killer's crimes, the decades long investigation that captured him, and the effect his brutal murders had on everyone in his orbit, especially his daughter who speaks openly about what it is like to be the daughter of a serial killer.

An Eternalism film.

An anthropological film of the people of Angola.

Adapted from the international best-selling book by speaker/author/coach Hal Elrod, this documentary on morning routines tells the story of how a simple morning routine became a worldwide movement, showing the morning routines of some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, but in the middle of filming, Hal is diagnosed with a rare form of Leukemia and given a 30% chance of survival. Will his morning routine save his own life?

West Estate spotlights the severe housing problems in Hong Kong, taking the spirit of resistance outside of the protest. The damaged walls in the cage-like tenements reflect the many forms of social injustice as well as Hongkongers’ widespread sense of rootlessness. Connecting three stories from different households like puzzle pieces, the film depicts people’s despair over issues of family, sexuality, love, and freedom.

They spend every waking moment training, playing and competing in the dirt and they wouldn’t have it any other way. Take a look into the lives of twelve professional off-road riders in some of the most grueling, gnarly and incredible tracks and trails on the planet. From fifth gear pinned across the harsh California desert, to the rough and deep sands of Belgium and Germany as Team USA prepare for the prestigious Motocross of Nations, to risking their lives jumping a moving train in California or dropping into a mega quarry in the United Kingdom. Witness these riders put it all on the line in their pursuit to being the best.

A phenomenon known as ‘Peatlemania’ has recently taken hold of the nation. Fisherman Calum ‘Boydie’ Macleod, electrician Innes Scott, and delivery driver Uilleam ‘Uilly’ Macleod together as Peat & Diesel have taken the Highland music scene by storm capturing the country’s imagination through their infectious music and unique tales of island life.

Walt Whitman rises from a hardscrabble boyhood in Long Island and Brooklyn to write the masterpiece Leaves of Grass in 1855 that revolutionizes literature. Many of his most famous poems are profiled.

Told he only had a short time to live, Joshua Belinfante sought out dedicated talents around the world striving their best at what they always wanted to do as kids; trying to find what he would do if given a second chance.

A red-eyed phantom soars high above the night sky, leaving fear and tragedy in its wake. Some call it a myth. Others a nightmare. Only the daring seek answers to a decades-old question -- who or what is Mothman?

In the decades after Bacon's Rebellion, a nigerian man and an European woman - husband and wife - sing of their fate, their future as law by law, edict by edict, their family, their marriage, their love made illegal.

A Kurmanji young shepherd in a village of Northern Khorasan in Iran as "Kay Kay" during a year can not make a decision to move out of his birthplace to Tehran or not.

2020. The coronavirus epidemic is in full swing. The authorities in most countries around the world decide to isolate their citizens and close most public places. The main character of the film is a young actor named Danil, whose theater has been closed for quarantine. Like most creative people, he is forced to sit at home without money, work, or fulfillment, but with the hope that it will all end soon.

The composer, singer, musician, painter and filmmaker João Lutfi, known as Sérgio Ricardo, narrates his journey from the beginning as a pianist for TV Tupi, through his experience as an actor on TV, as a bossa nova artist until he found his very own and characteristic style as a filmmaker and composer.

Inspired by the city symphonies of the 1920’s and 1930’s, this short film documents Reykjavik city during the summer. Free from the constraints of narrative filmmaking conventions, the film carefully observes the beauty of fleeting moments in our everyday lives.

An account of the heroic life of Spanish admiral and politician Pascual Cervera (1839-1909) and his last battle against the United States Navy, which took place on a fateful July 3, 1898, off the coast of Santiago de Cuba.

Tobishima used to be a prosperous sea transportation hub in the Sea of Japan, but now it is a quiet island with a small and aging population. The only junior high school student in the island will graduate this year, and his school, Tobishima Elementary and Junior High School, will be closed at the end of this school year. This film captures the daily lives of the various people living on Tobishima and follows the activities of those who are struggling to maintain the community and connect the island to the future while facing the harsh reality of the situation.

In August 1942 US Marines storm ashore on the Japanese-held island of Guadalcanal. The six-month campaign that follows is brutal and becomes etched in Marine legend.

Set to the lilting tones of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong’s honeyed rasp, Bloom is a queer African pole dancer’s surreal adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, inspired by Ballet Black’s production A Dream Within a Midsummer Night’s Dream. Filmed against a scene of glossy anthuriums and fluorescent birds of paradise, a vibrant bouquet dissolves, revealing a portrait of an African body wreathed on a steel pole, in various states of limbo: an analogy for queerness itself. In a state of nature, pole dance – like queerness – is innocent. However, stigma attaches a perceived and misconceived immorality. Through a system of prisms and mirrors, attention is first drawn to an anthurium’s spike-shaped inflorescence, which bears small flowers with perfect male and female parts. Focus then shifts to a pole in perspective, superimposed against the lingering red silhouette of an anthurium’s queer premise, the desire to be.

Collection of documentary works of students of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov about the pandemic.

The chronicle of the events of 2019 in the student media The Vyshka, whose editorial staff wrote loud texts, held planning meetings, went to rallies and reported from court hearings. But, more importantly, the film chronicles the confrontation between Russia's largest student media: from the outbreak of conflicts with the administration of the Higher School of Economics to the deprivation of the status of a student organization. He also talks about the change in editorial management, the difficulties in the development of an independent media and why The Vyshka is so much more than working chats.

After a heartbreaking loss to Vanderbilt in the 2014 College World Series Championship game, Virginia entered the 2015 season with its sights set on making the 1,186-mile trip back to Omaha. But a host of injuries and tough losses had the Cavaliers on the verge of missing the NCAA tournament for the first time since head coach Brian O’Connor took the helm in 2004. A late-season run gave Virginia renewed hope as it relied on the strength of the program’s culture to make one of the sport’s most remarkable turnarounds en route to a CWS Championship finals rematch with Vanderbilt and the ACC’s first College World Series title since 1955.

Shot in six cities along the Trans-Siberian Railway, this documentary details the current state of the Russian queer community - giving both broad societal overviews and deeply personal accounts from activists and non-activists alike. The film follows Paul Rice and Liam Jackson Montgomery, a gay couple from Ireland, as they travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway, meeting with a diverse range of LGBT+ people-from Nobel Peace prize nominees and drag queens to those who have suffered brutal homophobic and transphobic attacks.

The Lanexang Kingdom country has been divided into three Kingdoms: the Vientiane Kingdom, the Luang Prabang Kingdom, and the Champasak Kingdom. Each of these three has developed its capital city into great cornerstones of the nation of Laos. Explore these three old capitals and other unique areas of Laos from breathtaking heights, such as Xiengkouang, where the scars of the war remain.

Ein Qiniya, a small Palestinian village in the West Bank, occupied since 1967. This is where Milena Desse is to make her own enquiries: how can one decipher remaining traces and reconstruct History? How can one shine a light, as they say, on such places? Determined to unfold the layers and work out the creases like so many clues about some buried history, the young director strives like an archaeologist, equipped with a magnifying glass and a camera.

It is one of the most iconic images of our time: two African-American medal winners at the 1968 Olympics standing in silent protest with heads bowed and fists raised as “The Star Spangled Banner” is played. This documentary film is a revealing exploration into the circumstances that led runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos to that historic moment at the Mexico City Games, mining the great personal risks they took and the subsequent fallout they endured.

Nicknamed "The Black Beverly Hills," View Park, Baldwin Hills, and Ladera Heights, are unarguably the three most wealthiest black neighborhoods in the world. Residences from the neighborhoods tell stories of their personal upbringings, past and present history of their neighborhoods, and their own views and opinions of the changing demographics.

The documentary tells the story of seven women with their fat bodies, from prejudice to acceptance and self-love. Despite their lives, their sizes and different gender contexts, they have in common the struggle for respect for their flesh in the face of a culture of beauty summarized in unattainable standards.

Memories from red guards, three Chongqing people and one cemetery.

This improv, art film was initially going to be about movement, then It became a documentary about 5 girls in Tokyo, and my travel experiences in Japan, then it evolved into an inside joke about the film, Lost In Translation. Everything in this film from the cinematography, the film editing, the sound, and every photograph was done by one man with one camera.

In partnership with filmmaker Lauren Tabak and writer/consulting producer Barry Walters, we dive into the music career of Sylvester, starting from church choir in South Central LA to his early years in San Francisco. It follows his ascent to stardom through his evergreen, international hits "Dance (Disco Heat)" and "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)". Through his groundbreaking career, Sylvester blew open the doors for queer visibility and gender fluidity in mainstream music, leaving a legacy that continues to influence today's pop music.

Two foreigners meet in Barcelona and become friends after discovering that they both work in the same business: sex work. Their conversations offer an insider’s view into the differences between women and men in the sex industry.

In Senegal, traditional dance forms preserved for generations mix with modern dance influences from around the world. The interaction between tradition and globalization, catalyzed by creative young dancers, fuels an intense new cultural context for artistic expression. The Call of Dance is a raw, immersive collection of moments in modern Senegalese dance that capture the complexity of this new era of multiplicity.

Travel Hymn is an intimate look inside the process of creating, touring and promoting Circa Survive’s acclaimed major label debut, Blue Sky Noise. Following the five members over the course of 2 years & 8 countries between 2009 & 2011, the previously unreleased film inspects the adventurous and at times tumultuous process of releasing and touring on an album.

In the hills of Wallonia, there lies a seemingly dormant village. While the social fabric of the village is rapidly changing, some inhabitants have to come to terms with personal losses. They find comfort in their daily routines. Come the spring, the village awakens.

An Eternalism film.

Stout Hearted: George Stout and the Guardians of Art tells the story of George L. Stout, an art student from Winterset, Iowa, who became the leader of the Monuments Men during World War II. This group, a military special forces unit, was assigned the mission of retrieving stolen art from the Nazis. The film also explores Stout's pioneering efforts in the areas of art conservation, which elevated this discipline into the world of modern science. Many of his innovations are used today to preserve masterworks from deterioration and extinction. Today, the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield continues the work of Stout L. Stout and The Monuments Men by protecting cultural heritage globally.

In December 2017, Gilho Lee, a colleague of director Eunju Jang, who had been making the film with her, took his own life. The documentary Sinsi asks Okja Lee, a female shaman, to mourn for his death and to wish him good luck on his new film.

The lives of a group of Moroccan refugee boys in Europe are followed for over a year. Their journey to Sweden takes them through Spain, France and Germany. This documentary does not have a narrator; it builds on the testimonies of the heterogeneous group of boys, to which their mother's voices add an essential vision about their social circumstances.

“Le Guess Who?” is a celebration of global sounds and musical crossings. For four days, Le Guess Who? occupies Utrecht’s downtown area with over 200 shows designed to “electrify” theaters, churches, galleries and warehouses. With music, photography, films, visual arts and fairs, satellite events take place in cafes, hotels, restaurants, on the canal pier and in Neude square, as well as in the most hidden corners of the city.

This documentary exposes the wild, untold history of LGBT activism in ultra-conservative Texas and its impact on the national stage as told by the movement's ultimate outsider, Ray Hill: a labor activists' son, ex-con, and "loud-mouthed queer," whose 50 years of fearlessly protesting for LGBTQ equality energized a grassroots movement to take powerful, political action.

John tells the story of a young male, a psychiatric hospital patient who witnesses the death of another Black male patient at the hands of white staff. Blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, this work draws from real life cases of mentally ill Black men who have died as a result of excessive force of the State.

Behind bars in Russia is no fun - in our Documentary about Russia's toughest prison we show why! Terrorists, gunmen and mafia bosses are serving their life sentences in the Russian penal camp "Vologodski Pjatak". The fortress on the island of Ognenny was built as a monastery in the 16th century. Later the "Fire Island" was converted into a gulag for enemies of the state after the October Revolution of 1917. Since 1994 it is a maximum security prison for serious criminals. Christoph Wanner is the first western TV reporter to manage to shoot behind the prison walls on the island of the damned.

A day of a Rugby play between Tamanduas (Brazil) and Ciervo Pampas (Argentine), two inclusive teams. Before, during and after the game, we get to know a little bit of the players' relationship with sport and their own identity. It was a game held in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the Diversity Week program.

Love with Obstacles focuses on the extraordinary author, Marxist feminist, October revolutionary, political exile and diplomat, Alexandra Kollontai (St. Petersburg,1872– Moscow, 1952). The film dives into the conservation of her legacy in Moscow archives, what has been told and untold, and her vision of the future of a socialist feminist revolution. Love with Obstacles is the first part of the feature film Amor Rojo (to be completed in 2021) which will draw a fuller portrait of a figure that is able to bridge a century of feminisms, from first wave to fourth and fifth, across a couple of oceans, from Russia to Mexico and the Pacific. Through her legacy and its place in the history of ideas, the film seeks to draw a genealogy to today’s renewed surge of feminism.