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A short documentary about a student's 115-day exchange in the northern countries of the world.

Humans are the most innovative species on Earth. See how engineers are supercharging our abilities, reaching beyond our horizons, and altering our environment. Engineering is all around us, and we humans have been doing it forever. But how does it actually work? Find out by watching some of the most creative and innovative folks in the game build stuff that helps extend our range, amplify our abilities, and alter our environment for the better. Experience the ups and downs with engineers as they design, build, and iterate their way through challenges, inspiring the inner “maker” in all of us.

A short documentary about Heidi Schwegler, a wildly imaginative artist who faced a crisis in her practice, went on a journey, and was then profoundly affected by a surprising flip in perception.

Filmmaker Bruno Jorge makes an autoethnography by filming the characters who crossed his path during the years he lived with his family in a small rural village in the interior of Minas Gerais.

An exploration of the Met’s investigation into Sarah’s murder, how this devastating crime unfolded and its impact. Told by those closely involved in the case from the outset, many of whom are speaking on camera for the first time, including the Senior Investigating Officer, the Prosecuting Barrister and Sarah’s local MP.

A documentary short on interactive cinema and Bob Bejan's Interfilm, commissioned and produced for Weird Weekend IV.

South Korea's is facing a population crisis, with Seoul at the centre of it. The country’s capital remains the beneficiary of both internal and external migration. Instead, it is in the rural and peripheral areas where low birth rates and the aging population have become crises. The countryside is at risk of becoming extinct. As more opportunities and people get concentrated in Seoul, urban pressures have led to rising unemployment and cost of living. And when things get expensive, people do not have babies. Seoul now has the lowest birthrate in South Korea, in a country with the world’s most dire fertility. On the other hand, farms and factories in the rural areas desperately need workers. How can South Korea solve this population puzzle?

Days slip away in a former baptist church haunted by its past

In a world exhausted by industrial agriculture, Guy Chapouillié met happy farmers, commited to taking care of their land.

The filmmaker's mother recalls her own mother and childhood in the 1960s bouncing between Mexico and California. Her mother's small red vanity case becomes a symbol of her independence as a woman and also of her inaccessibility as a maternal figure. A deeply relatable story about growing up with an unconventional single mother.

A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. The film unfolds mimicking a game of telephone, where sound’s feeble transmissibility is proven as the story bends and weaves to human interpretation and miscommunication. The result is a stunning contribution to cinematic language. O’Daniel has developed a syntax of deafness that offers a complex, overlaid, surprising new texture, which offers a dimensional experience of deafness and reorients the audience auditorily in an unfamiliar and exhilarating way.

The short documentary chronicles the 3,600 km transfer of wild animals (brown bears, wolves, deer, lynxes) from a closed Andorran zoo to European sanctuaries during the 2021 pandemic, led by the veterinarian.

A local tour guide, the filmmaker’s father, leads an expedition through two neighboring towns: Conchal, whose land is owned almost entirely by Westin Resorts, and Brasilito, one of the last coastal pueblos in Costa Rica, presenting both the public and private impacts of working in the tourism industry from the workers themselves as they critique an American ideology that sees travel as an escapist and extractive process.

Past and present collide in this dreamlike tour through a former Nazi rocket factory and forced labor camp, which is now a museum.

Nassib returns to his Palestinian hometown for the first time in 50 years to revive an ancestral garden, and to search for a sense of belonging.

Twelve diverse Christian leaders from across differences in theology, politics, race, socioeconomics, gender, and sexuality find hope and fellowship at a series of boundary-breaking retreats in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Brought together by Michael Gulker of The Colossian Forum, five women and seven men struggle with some of today’s most contentious issues. Their divisions become apparent and test their common belief in the universal importance of love and kindness and the bonds they build over a year.

On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a turning point of World War II, extraordinary archive materials reveal contrasting stories from the Allied Normandy beach landings of 6 June 1944.

Amongst the grounds of an English garden, plants, animals, and birds are observed as Winter starts to turn into Spring.

From the Tyrolean mountains to Lake Garda - director Hermann Weiskopf is back on the road: at the crisp age of 60, he wants to find out on a trip on his beloved Vespa whether his age is all about high blood pressure and dieting or whether there is more to it - and how others approach the subject of ageing.

Amidst the educational and material poverty consequent to the government’s negligence, the united community of Scampia, a district of the northern area of Naples, works daily to promote cultural growth and give the youth of the area the means and the freedom to be authors of their future.

"Anima", the latin word for "air", "breath", "wind" and "vitality", is translated in slow wandering guided by the ocarina's sound, where light and shadow reveal and obscure themselves as they burn their impressions onto the film.

In August 2001, Scott Johnson was lying in a hospital bed dying from cystic fibrosis, a genetic progressive disease. His lungs were failing him and unless he got a double lung transplant soon, his death was imminent. Scott promised himself, if he got a second chance, he would make the most of it and have no regrets. While waiting in a hospital bed, he made a list of all the things he would do in his life if gifted with a successful transplant. Three months later after a harrowing journey, he received the miracle of his new lungs, which began one of the greatest comebacks any transplant survivor could endeavor. In the years following his transplant, Scott would go on to become the first person with a double lung transplant to complete a full Ironman, and now he has his sights set on The Crossing For Cystic Fibrosis - an 80-mile ocean challenge.

The documentary "Taiwan Alishan Forest Railway Journey" offers a diverse array of content, with every detail highlighting the distinct features of Alishan in Taiwan. It includes many impressive elements. In addition to employing the latest filming techniques, the team captured stunning landscapes and remarkable railway construction methods, such as the figure-eight design, Z-segments, horseshoe bends, and the restoration of a century-old steam locomotive. They even filmed the domestically produced cypress train, named Formosensis, which has yet to enter service. Both Japan’s NHK and Taiwan’s Public Television Service provided their award-winning teams and enlisted the participation of renowned Japanese composer Kiyoshi Yoshida and Golden Horse Award-winning actress Gwei Lun-mei for the Chinese narration, enhancing the documentary’s international appeal.

Documentary about the last year of Raul Alfonsin's presidency, marked by extreme political tensions.

Between poetic observation and cinematographic portrait, this film delves into the universe of the sculptor Leo Vinci. At 92 years old, Leo plays at creating and transmuting the sacrifice of daily work into the sacred office of transforming the world with his hands.

A lonely chair on an abandoned balcony, a photographer watching it days and nights, a strange thing happens that will change the life of the chair forever.

Clothing Club plays music that is, well, mostly about clothes. You like clothes, we like clothes, so it’s pretty simple in a way. Using two iPhones, an old digital camera, and a roll of cling film, Alfred Rubin has captured Clothing Club's universe in this concert film.

A tour of the ENERC and the people who make it up, telling the importance of the institution and Argentine cinema, and what it means to each of them.

A very lonely homeless man believes he is the new reincarnation of Christ, and goes around Trastevere (Rome) looking for his three disciples who will follow him in his sermons in search of change in the world.

The small town of Ponte Nova was stage to several historic moments in Brazilian history, none about itself.

Milazim, Fatmir and Liridon are veteran manual labourers who experienced accidents in their workplaces in Kosovo, Europe's youngest country. In this poetic experimental documentary tribute to a now almost extinct class of people, Ilir Hasanaj gives voice to gentle, sincere and dignified, but almost invisible individuals, who fell prey to harsh and primitive capitalistic machinery and policy in the Balkans.

Filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Britain, London, the exhibition reveals Sargent’s power to express distinctive personalities, power dynamics and gender identities during this fascinating period of cultural reinvention. Alongside 50 paintings by Sargent sit stunning items of clothing and accessories worn by his subjects, drawing the audience into the artist’s studio. Sargent’s sitters were often wealthy, their clothes costly, but what happens when you turn yourself over to the hands of a great artist? The manufacture of public identity is as controversial and contested today as it was at the turn of the 20th century, but somehow Sargent’s work transcends the social noise and captures an alluring truth with each brush stroke.

In May 2024, Victor Leksell performed in his hometown of Gothenburg for thousands of devoted fans. A lineup of guests, such as Jireel, Miriam Bryant and Molly Sandén all helped out to create a fantastic and unforgettable night.

Since the 17th century, the Jardins des Tuileries in Paris have been a place for same-sex encounters and meetings, a tradition which was disrupted by the organization of the 2024 Summer Olympics. The images in To Our Gardens, captured a few months before the occurrence of the Games, were able to immortalize the twilight of a social phenomenon. Under the gaze of the statues, in the night and among the foliage, men meet in raw scenes while never diminishing the film’s powerful intimacy.

A rare window into a conservative community reputed to be the most closed in the world, where the old remains the absolute reference in the face of modernity. Three generations of Amish make a rare decision to tell their stories after months of reflection and debate with their pastors. This documentary raises questions about the notion of individual freedom, belonging to a minority, economic and social norms, as well as the place of women.

An exploration of the unique and wholly improvisational creative process of the revolutionary “avant-groove” band Medeski, Martin & Wood, as they endeavor to record a new album at the famed Allaire Studio, twenty-five years after their formation.

Dating from 1932, this footage is a relic filmed by British explorer Nelson Castle during an expedition to the south of South America.

“We are all stardust”: this was a phrase often quoted by Dionysis Simopoulos (1943–2022), an astronomy educator and science communicator who was the one who established the first-ever Planetarium in Athens, Greece, introducing the universe to millions of people with lectures, books, tv shows, documentaries. This documentary focues on his fascinating life!

With the help of workers and former neighbors, we dig up the layers of memory that have accumulated in the Church of San Miguel in Jaén. We explored how this ancient church has served as a parish, residential block, and workplace, looking into the past to understand the present.

A critical analysis of a scene of relaxation on the beach. The genre of photovideography uses the dislocation and decomposition of the static image to transform the idyll into a series of unsettling ruptures, shifts and movements that decompose the well-being into a grid of sunlit colours and crumbling surfaces.

In Burkina Faso, young men look under the earth for gold – and a better future. As a result, 16-year-old Rasmané barely seems like a teenager any more. This mainly observational film follows him into the 100-metre abyss of small-scale mining.

A feature-length documentary that combines interviews and artistic performances to share powerful stories of people who have gone through the process of understanding, accepting, and embracing their sexualities and gender identities. The film presents a range of “closets,” each with its own unique journey, while also revealing shared experiences across different lives. Cis and trans individuals, women, men, and non-binary people of various races, backgrounds, and ages recount the moments they came out to the world. Despite their differences, the documentary highlights the connections that unite the LGBTQIA+ community and celebrates its cultural and artistic expression—offering support, visibility, and a deeper understanding of what it means to come out.

Being a project of Madımak Massacre Memorial Centre, this documentary is so far the most extensive work on Madımak Massacre. With the interviews of 127 people, archive footage and testimonies, the four-hour long documentary covers the massacre by diving into historical and ideological motives behind it. In this way, it presents a panorama of the oppression against the Alevi community and their growing struggle in recent history of Turkey.

The story of people who refused to participate in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war due to their beliefs.

A hen questions the meaning of her life on a farm.

"Sandcastles" parallels two Singapores: one in Southeast Asia, and one buried on the western coast of Michigan. On top of sharing the same name, these two places also share a fraught relationship with sand. Singapore, Michigan was a thriving lumber town in the late 19th century until erosion from mass deforestation caused the sand dunes around it to shift and swallow the town whole. Just as quickly as Singapore, Michigan disappeared under sand, its namesake in the East emerged from it through land reclamation. The film weaves a narrative that intertwines the two Singapores to depict the temporal nature of human edifices built on and destroyed by nothing more than sand.

Vito is a sweet little boy with Down syndrome, and this short documentary puts his energetic, jolly personality on full display as he interacts with his loving family. By showing Vito’s dignity and inherent value, Vito-Man tackles the difficult conversation that is the eradication of people with Down syndrome, proving that an extra chromosome should not be a death sentence.

From photographs archived in family albums and photographs of patterns and texture, a collection of small stop motions emerges, accompanied by nostalgic ambient sounds. A reflection on childhood and the lack thereof.

Produced by Peter Dickson, watch the definitive story of the 1970 VFL Grand Final, from those who lived it.

Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi receives a fan letter from a French singer living in Berlin. They begin an epistolary correspondence which graduates to Zoom calls that become increasingly intimate. They decide to meet in London and bring a camera person to film what happens.

Underpaid and undermined, a Slovenian village pastor pours her heart and raw personal trauma into ministering to her parishioners. But as the cracks in her private life deepen, the woman beneath the collar must choose between true faith and real healing.