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"Kicking Up a Racket" is a short documentary about Dublin's young punk community, exploring it's history and the people who keep it alive. Narrated by Pete Briquette of The Boomtown Rats.

In 1952, London was engulfed in the Great Smog. As a result of industrialisation, a leaden fog settled over the entire city. The archive images from this period become letters from a desolate future.

Egili Oliveira is preparing for Carnival 2022 in Rio de Janeiro. She participates in the second division competition of the Rio Carnival (Gold series). It's a long and arduous road until the samba singer becomes a stunning queen: the drum queen of the Acadêmicos de Vigário Geral samba school. The story of a powerful black woman, who, at 42 years old, still fights for her place in Brazilian society and at Carnival.

Rapper and breakdancer Teekay from Eindhoven is known for his somersaults and vlogs that are causing a stir. During the corona riots in 2021, he not only gained national fame as a vlog reporter, but also ended up briefly in jail. After his junior year, Teekay wants to change course and, above all, be an example for other young people. In the film he takes us into his life and talks about his childhood in foster homes, the mistakes he made and about his dreams. What is Teekay looking for?

The story of the film is based on the artist’s home videos and documentary material covering a decade of his creative work. The author presents his apartment as a living space and the main character of the film. By engaging his entire family in the project, he creates a new micro-social model of his home, where they all act according to self-imposed rules. Events that take place are both casual and creative: the living space becomes a stage, routine becomes performance and the other way round, art projects become family entertainment, as well as a radical transformation of the home.

The official documentary for the album 'Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre'

A documentary in the form of an encounter with French photographer Patrick Sarfati, who, from the 1980s onwards, magnified the male body and portrayed many iconic artists.

Recording an hour before the short film 'Hallo Bangkok' and the feature film 'Blue Again' will be screening at Bangkok Film Festival 2023, at Bangkok Art & Culture Centre.

Pata Marsilla was at the former nightclub when the tragedy of Cromañón (2004) happened in Argentina. Although he was only seventeen years old, he remembers every step he took that night. His words come alive through a recreation of how a concert turns into horror.

January, this year, saw the release of Belfast harpist Úna Monaghan's debut album Aonaracht. Coming from the traditional Irish music background, it finds the musician, composer and Gaeilgeoir expanding beyond her native hinterland to explore the possibilities that might arise by combining the latest technological tools with the element of chance. Her journey is captured from its onset in August 2021. Along the way she is joined by a variety of collaborators, amongst them, Iarla Ó Lionaird, Kevin Murphy, Paddy Glackin, Saileog Ní Cheannabháin, Pauline Scanlon and Jack Talty.

Half-timbered houses, storks, wine, sauerkraut, traditional headdresses, the Alsatian accent: these images and clichés of Alsace occupy the imagination of almost all French people. Few other regions can boast such a charming and popular heritage. But behind this apparent prosperity and love of a job well done lies a more painful history. Ravaged by three wars in less than a century, Alsace saw its inhabitants forced to change nationality four times during a single lifetime. A tormented, extraordinary destiny, little known to the rest of the country.

"Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight" covers renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work “Drifting Toward Twilight”— commissioned by The Huntington Library, Art Museum, & Botanical Gardens — a site-specific installation that features a 17-foot-long vintage wooden canoe and found objects, including birdcages, antlers, and natural materials harvested by Saar from The Huntington’s grounds. This film renders a portrait of Betye's process at 96 while also reflecting on her life, career, and memories of Pasadena.

A mother's monologue as her daughter inhabits spaces from the bucolic countryside to the burdening city cement.

The film deals with the decades-long development of the legal prosecution of the crimes committed in Auschwitz, using the last trials as a mirror of the first Auschwitz trials in the 1960s.

A team of young Hispanic filmmakers encounters a strange old man trapped in time, with the aim of gathering his wisdom. RECUERDO (which premiered in the United States at Cinema On The Bayou) is a docufiction with realistic and magical overtones that takes us on a journey through the intense history of Central America.

In the first 30 years of the PRC, in order to maintain and consolidate CCP’s rule, political campaigns were frequently launched. Landowner Liu Wencai’s home in Sichuan province became the "Landlord Manor Exhibition Hall," serving to educate people about the class struggle. Tens of thousands visited daily. The cluster of sculptures entitled "Rent Collection Courtyard" was the subject of a documentary film and the prototype for copies of statues exhibited across the country. The overwhelming media publicity turned Liu Wencai into the representative of the "heinous crimes" of the landlord class and he became a household name, influencing several generations. Liu Xiaofei, grandson of Liu Wencai, has suffered from injustice since his childhood and began his interviews and investigations into this catastrophe for his family twenty years ago, in order to “clear” the charges against his grandfather and restore the historical truth.

Beyond the Light Barrier is the autobiographical true story of Elizabeth Klarer, a South African woman, and Akon, an astrophysicist from Meton, a planet of Proxima Centauri. Elizabeth was taken in his spaceship to Meton where she lived with his family for four months and bore his son. She came back to Earth with very detailed technical information of how the light propulsion system used in the spaceship operated and other information that greatly impressed earth scientists.

In a world where technology and humanity intertwine, Tiffany, a self-aware feminist "sex robot", embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Conversing with leading experts, Tiffany confronts the issues that have shaped her design and asks about queerness concerning sex tech.

The unfavorable situation of the labor market during the pandemic pushes Kateryna to work in a fraudulent call center that sells vitamins that promise “magical” success to its consumers. While this helped to survive financially, months of isolation, irritated customers and a common frustration took her into a vitamin deficiency, so-called avitaminosis. The film is a journey into fragility and the search for healing and love in an increasingly suffocating world for young generations.

Nazi Germany has fallen. After allied forces defeated Nazi Germany in World War II, Europe became a dangerous place to be associated with the Nazi regime as officers, party members, and supporters of Hitler began to flee Germany.

Bariloche, 2023. A group of volunteers travel to the burned forest to carry out a planting day, where Dani and others explain the importance of planting trees.

Sound exploration of Krasnoyarsk spaces. Musician Alexander Pustynsky records improvisational musical sketches in various corners of the city and its environs, where the sounds of nature and the city can become part of the sound canvas.

An Unscripted documentary with some emotions

The film is a search for Peter Gasparik's grandfather Stefan Truban, who was a resistance fighter and concealed the persecuted, defectors and Jews during World War II. Through private history we get to global history.

Film made by activists who lived for a month in the Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Grace Kelly. Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco. Grace Kelly is one of the most admired women in the world. She is forever remembered as a standard of beauty, style and grace. Fitting for a woman who epitomised grace.

In this dynamic and dramatic short film, an African American veteran takes us on an extraordinary journey through his life. From a chance visit to the Pentagon, to growing up in a vibrant integrated neighborhood, his story is one of resilience and inspiration. Fueled by the determination to seize educational opportunities, he enlists just in time to experience the racial divisions of his era before Truman desegregates the military. Thrust into the brutality of the Korean War, the weight of combat becomes an indelible part of his soul. Returning home, he embarks on a new path as an architect and discovers unexpected connections in far-off Pakistan. As his family expands, his sons reflect on the man who raised them and the legacy he instilled. This film unearths the essence of the Black experience in the early 20th century, paints a vivid portrait of the Chosin Reservoir, and unravels the intricate tapestry of race, family, and personal growth.

Dorothy Arzner was Hollywood's most powerful director, though History has forgotten her. She began working in the film industry at 19 as a "cutter" before the advent of editors, and gradually worked her way up through the studio system. Determined and ambitious, she was accepted as a director at Paramount, as the first woman to direct a talking picture for the star Clara Bow. A true pioneer of the cinema, she was the only woman director at a major Hollywood studio in the 1930s and 1940s, openly lesbian, dressed like a man, making movies "avant-gardiste" about women's condition. She was a mentor for Francis Ford Coppola, who considers her as one of the most important woman directors of Hollywood.

Rotterdam regular John Gianvito (Vapor Trail (Clark), IFFR 2010) checks in with a sensitive, homebound film diary recorded in the pandemic years 2020-2022. The watchful, wary stance of deer outside his house triggers a series of fragments associated with death, burial, mourning and care: Gianvito calls it 'a requiem'. Snatches of classic soundtracks (including Renoir's Partiede campagne, 1936) and glimpses of news broadcasts expand the private, intimate context.

Amanda Bergman is passionate about the land she stands on. So when she is not fronting the band Amason, she runs a farm with her partner Petter. And we are following them for a year on their farm in Dalarna.

Neither indoors nor out, but on the doorstep, where you might play a quick game while waiting for someone. Girl and boy pile up candy wrappers, face down; elsewhere, for the game is widespread, it could be cards, tokens, any flimsy object with a front and a back. A lightning round of scissors-paper-rock decides who slaps first. The aim is to make the colourful, ‘right’ sides appear, and these wrappers can be claimed, yet are soon back in play. The siblings have identical profiles, and sometimes positions, like one person playing in a mirror. When the door opens and the someone appears, they rush off into their day.

In the early 1990s, in Siberia, in the taiga in the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, several dozen people separated from the world and, having organized a community, tried to build their ideal society. It's been almost 30 years. What came of it?

In this documentary, Louanne searches for a blue shed built by her grandfather's brother, 46 years ago, on a Moroccan beach. This hunt rapidly becomes a quest for adventure, answers and friendship where memories from the past and hopes of the future get mixed...

Here's a film for high school students and their teachers about the history of the Viet Nam War, composed of just photographs from that war, narration and, to help us through a damned disheartening story, lots of the Bach Suite for Solo Cello #1 in G. The film is 45 minutes long––perfect for classroom use and repeated screenings by stu-dents on their own. It's my response to the flawed Ken Burn/Lynn Novick 18-hour PBS series, The Vietnam War... too long for the classroom and failing in many ways as a useful account of the tragic Viet Nam war. It’s free to stream or download the film from this website, so teachers, help yourselves. I’ve also provided a curriculum, produced by the Zinn Education Project’s Rethinking Schools for teaching this film, and some additional useful writings for understanding the Viet Nam War.

Exploring the innate intimacy of submission wrestling, a lifelong wrestler turns his talents into an on-demand fetish video service.

A 70-year-old queer man who is losing his memory needs you to help keeping some of his most intimate and contradictory remembrances from a public bathroom in his past, where he had experiences of danger, pleasure, and shame.

In 1986 a group of Amateur thespians staged a production of Macbeth so disastrous that it made International headlines. Forty years later a filmmaker sets out to track them down.

Is it good.. or bad... or both: a critical assay to fathom the momentous journey of cinema, from analogue to digital. peppered with questions & answers, sighs and pauses!

In a Colombian city, Black Boys Chocó dance to fight back against racism, homophobia and transphobia in their community.

In 1971, Jagera elder Neville becomes the first Aboriginal Australian to enter Australian parliament. He sits for over 12 years in both state and federal parliament.

Fadhel, a 54-year-old Tunisian oud master, is hit by a car in the street. In the afterlife, he is told that a part of him is still alive on earth. Fadhel protests, but has no choice: a virtual reality headset is placed before his eyes. Back on earth, Fadhel has forgotten everything and has become Abu Huraira.

A multi disciplinary film and photographic art project created by Yankunytjatjara artist Derik Lynch and Australian artist Matthew Thorne that explores (in dream and memory) Derik's childhood growing up in the heart of central Australia. The story follows his road trip from the oppression of white city life in Adelaide back to country - Aputula - to perform Drag on sacred Inma ground, while memories from his youth return. Inma is a 60,000+ year old form of storytelling using the visual, verbal and physical. As a place of storytelling it is also the place where the history and stories of the past are written and shared in the present.

The film is about inspiration, reminding the power of collective action, the importance of preserving the heritage of Santa Ana, and the boundless potential that lies within the community. It is a story that deserves to be told, a story that will resonate with audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

An intimate, ironic, and freewheeling portrait of Patrizia Cavalli.

The film wanders through the city of Montreal, revealing a heterogeneous human mosaic of life stories and intimate reflections of its residents.

In 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Three years on, same-sex couples still face challenges that heterosexual couples do not: some have trouble becoming legal guardians for their children; others must travel abroad to start a family; some are even rejected when applying for legal marriage status. As such, legalization was just another small step forward in the fight for equality. This 90-minute documentary shows how different same-sex couples fight for the life they desire and deserve. They may be fighting different battles, but they share one thing in common: the belief that the sun will shine after this rain.