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Amy, a girl in a sadder condition gets help from Olivia, they become friends and Olivia continues to help Amy.

An experimental documentary portrait of director Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter's grandfather

For the longest time, Sasha's been extremely reserved and couldn't take pictures of anyone other than her closest friends and family. One day she realized the limitations this placed on his career prospects and pushed herself to move on.

November 14, 2018: Four 9th-grade students sit at a desk in a technology class, and everything else... is history.

After 64-years of living life quietly, retired school teacher Joy France is on a mission to be heard. After finding her voice in the form of spoken-word poetry, Joy attempts to take her new found passion to another level. Can she break gender and age stereotypes by competing in the brutal, youthful, male-dominated world of battle rap? Or is she too notoriously O.L.D? A story of one woman's daring attempt to embrace life.

Filmed on both sides of the US-Canadian border before the transition to our collective “new normal,” every light returns – sinister bodies of water takes its inspiration from the possibilities inherent in gritty monochromatic filmstock; the landscapes of Essex Country and rural Michigan; and the hypnotic score performed by local musician JAG. I pushed the digital format as far away from a “clean” image as I could, trying to reflect the ambient feeling in the audio composition.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed », Francis Bacon. Around a low tree with twisted branches, a man seeks to rest. He doubles up. One lifts its paw, clings to a branch, the other sits on an uncomfortable curve, like a monkey trying to make its nest. There are three now, then four to explore the possibilities for action offered by the plant. This tree was waiting for him. The character stretches, hangs, lengthens. He becomes one with the tree and settles there, promising to visit it without hurting it. Of course, the tree is instrumentalized by becoming a chair or a bed, but no one cuts off its branches or assembles them to make them useful. The tree remains a tree, it becomes a temporary shelter, the act is reversible and, once the visitor has left, it will resume the course of its peaceful life, living being among the living.

The prolonged economic uncertainty forced even the local funeral service workers to explore various shortcuts to get more work for their parlors, which sometimes includes maintaining dubious connections with the local hospital staff. Zoki, one of the funeral parlour workers in Shtip (mid-size town in Macedonia), a charming and positive family man, is faced with many challenges while getting work for his company. But, the increased disloyal and dishonest competition started breaking Zoki’s spirit and have left him wondering if money is everything in life, after all?

In this short, shown in the student category at IDFA, the compelling, dramatised story of a pedophile is told. He hasn’t opened up about his orientation to even those closest to him, nor would he ever hurt a child.

Filmed across the Hong Kong islands, 'Ashima' follows Natacha Maboma, a young Cameroonian-American woman, as she reflects on the experience of being a young woman - and specifically, a black woman - living away from home and travelling the world on her own.

New movie by Nikita Spiridonov

There is one principle in the world on screen. It is the principle of construction. Unfinished or abandoned buildings are regarded errors and starts to debug for maintenance of order. However, there is a movement to deviate from the principles of construction-universe. The images start to blend the time and space of the abandoned building and the information of the space under construction. Eventually, the combined data causes errors, and those combined images and sounds attempts to leap out of the flat world of the screen.

In 1963, Swedish humanitarian organization IM, established a model weaving center in Vlasti, a mountainous village in Northern Greece. For the next 25 years, this intercultural venture was much more than a blessing for local women; it also contributed to the reinvigoration of an endowed locale, stricken by wars, poverty, and abandonment. A bittersweet glance at the past, raising thorny questions about the future of the Greek countryside.

A short journey around a block of flats in South London summons a meditation on person and place, home and displacement, family and memory.

Top of this bill is monster Mexican puncher, Emanuel Navarrete (31-1,1NC KO27), and he attempts to become a two-weight World Champion as he challenges for the vacant WBO Featherweight title left behind by Shakur Stevenson. Opposing Navarrete will be California’s Ruben Villa (18-0, KO5), who has fought nowhere near world level, but is unbeaten, and earns his shot following a spell as WBO International champion.

From the plains of the Troade, to the cellars of a Nazi bunker, to the dark basements of Moscow's largest museum. With Homer and in the footsteps of the extremely wealthy businessman Heinrich Schliemann, we follow the true odyssey of the treasure of Priam which spans over more than 3 millennia.

Joso (josō 女装) is a film collaboration combining anthropology and art film to explore the nature of male reaction and sentiment on the cusp of transformation in contemporary Japan.

Channel the vibes with Oski, KB, Kevin White, Hjalte and so many more. CPHO should be on every skater’s bucket list.

Castiel, a 25 year old transgender man, reflects about his identity through gender, the ways he transgresses this concept and how it influences his own perception and the world around him.

Unique musical experience celebrates Formula One's return to the track.

Could the Allies have won the war without aviation? Discover what went on behind the scenes of the historical air battle in Normandy.

As the Sars-Covid 19 pandemic increased, Rubiane Maia was in Folkestone, England, and Tom Nobrega in Tarapoto, in the Peruvian Amazon. Both were surprised by the sudden need to cancel planned trips to Brazil, their homeland. The closed borders brought unusual situations and an unknown feeling of exile. As news from Brazil reaches the distance like rocks breaking their computer screens, blurring the line between what is personal and what is collective, the pair of friends share their bewilderment and try to find some resonance amid the overwhelming amount of information that floats the virtual space.

The legendary Happy Monday’s Shaun Ryder tells the true story of when the Sioux First Nation tribe arrived in Salford.

The story of a father's kidnapping as told through the 1994 video diaries of his son.

Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, was a 15th-century teacher, poet, and activist whose universal message of justice and equality for all, women’s empowerment, service to others, and devotion to nature and the environment was ahead of his time. However, his story is virtually unknown to much of the Western world. Filmed on location in India, Pakistan, and throughout the U.S., this documentary interweaves the story of Guru Nanak’s life with a look at how his spiritual legacy continues to influence prominent American Sikh men and women, including Mayor Ravi Bhalla of Hoboken, N.J., Grammy Award nominee Snatam Kaur, and others.

In this film-poem Browzan illustrates his experience living in Berlin between 2016-17. Browzan uses collage, still photography, video and boomerangs to re-imagine this dirty paradise as a throbbing visual mosaic. The evocative imagery is harmonised by a dark music score composed by The KVB.

The film is dedicated to the legendary Admiral Igor Vladimirovich Kasatonov, thanks to whom the Black Sea Fleet was preserved as part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Knight of many orders, author of a number of books. The heir of a noble family: grandfather - a full St. George cavalier, father - Admiral of the fleet. I.V. Kasatonov became the last to whom the title of admiral and commander of the fleet was awarded by the President of the USSR.

Zhgon, matras, pimokats - those who rolled (rolled) felt boots all over Russia called themselves differently. They communicated in their secret languages and kept the craft secret. The authors of the film tried to eavesdrop on secret dialects and spy on the secrets of the craftsmanship of the remaining handicraftsmen, who to this day burn and tumble in their little washrooms.

An Eternalism film.

Brently Ford had a life-changing moment 30 years ago when he was given a brain to hold at the Richard Faull's Centre of Brain Research. From then on he made it his mission to make sure his brain is donated to Sir Richard Faull when he passes away. There is only one slight snag; he lives on his own on Waiheke Island.

Explores the enigmatic career of late folk-musician Bob Frank, his disappearance after the release of his 1972 debut album, and the cult-following it accumulated in the following decades.

Biography of Vicente García Riestra, an Asturian survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The documentary covers the flight to France together with thousands of Spaniards, their entry into the Resistance, their arrest and deportation to Bunchenwald, the Resistance inside the camp and the solidarity networks woven by the prisoners, until they regain their freedom. After the liberation of Europe, Vicente's life did not stop: he dedicated himself to visiting schools to warn young people about the dangers of intolerance.

A deep dive into the gig economy reveals its promise and pitfalls through intimate portraits of workers and interviews with leading experts.

Documentary about Northern Catalonia and how french language is erasing catalan language.

In the park, everyone walks their dog, except the gardener, who does not have one.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is sacred land to the indigenous First Nations community of Canada; it is also an area where 40,000 caribou calves are born every spring. Krista Davis joins a 10-day expedition to follow the migration of the caribous and explore how we can critically examine our own relationship to the world around us with a camera. In what is ostensibly a wildlife film, she uses various artistic means to fundamentally change the format.

In this coming out journey of a youth who identifies as trans, they explain how their art became their outlet for self expression.

Among the Indian elephants, the German service, calendars with kittens and Stalin - hundreds of little things. The true story is difficult to discern. Life, told over a cup of tea, is like a mosaic coming together in the terrible history of the country. A country saturated with a cult of personality and rejection of memory. Volunteers of the Gulag History Museum go to witnesses and victims of the Stalinist repressions in order to reassemble the evidence of the time and understand something about themselves.

In 2019, the “Sustainabiliteens” from Vancouver mobilized more than 150,000 people to march against climate destruction. The film gives insights into the teenagers’ everyday life which is determined not only by school, friends and families, but also by the climate crisis and activism. Taking things into their own hands gives them strength: “We are unstoppable, another world is possible.”

Myth of a Colorblind France explores the extraordinary and sometimes difficult lives of Blacks in Paris from the 19th century to the present.

The kid suffers from _____________.

Where does tolerance reside? Where does individual end and collective begin? And who claims the privilege to grant or deny rights?

A brief meditation on coyotes, my mother, and conservative talk radio.

Protagonist in Upright Drum In Water is the age-old Montezuma cypress or ahuehuete* (Taxodium mucronatum) 'El Sargento' in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, which is believed to be planted around the year 1460, in pre-colonial times. To many native people of Mexico this species is sacred, and associated with authority. In 1910 it became the country’s national tree. But due to heavy drought and pollution it is considered dead since 1969.

A live concert experience featuring songs from Indigo Violet, plus scenes from Dreamland, HWYKIYNT, & COIN's self-titled debut.

In 1997 J. David Bamberger broke ground on the first ever man-made bat cave. Bamberger, the esteemed conservationist and erstwhile co-founder of Church's Chicken, knew he was creating a spectacle, and the press ate it up. Journalists from New York to Berlin covered the story. "He's going batty," one headline read. 4 years after the cave was built, it stood empty. Then, on a hot summer day in August, a journalist from San Antonio followed up and scooped the story. There were no bats. As he prepared a story on "Bamberger's Folly," Bamberger took one last walk up to the bat cave and witnessed ten thousand bats began streaming out. It is the only successful man-made bat cave in the world.

After my stay in India, I returned to find myself filled with images and a deep nostalgia for what I had just lived. Time went by and these images faded away. This is my attempt to recreate those narratives, my attempt to dust the memories of a previous life, that just keeps fading with every passing day. I fill their absence with music, and blurry images and the sound of trees in the mountains and the burning sun that tanned my skin...I fill them with passages from India.

Footage following the live event of Mojofest 4. The piece follows multiple characters and their respected arcs throughout the diy music festival. Let the music set you free.

Our crime documentary delves into the case of the Suffolk Strangler, who terrorized Ipswich, Suffolk by targeting sex workers and brutally murdering five women between October and December 2006. We take an extensive look into how police finally captured the killer by exploring the details of the case from start to finish. We believe this documentary will provide new insight into this notorious criminal case.