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A man films living things. He archives them in paradoxical wet preparations. Images held in fluid that could outlive him. In 2100, his daughter will be 86. He will be 129.

The story, the passion, the art and the protagonist of a movie life. Meet Hugo Meyer, a great filmmaker who has always been at the high (literally) of the best cinema

Mary Pickford's name remains inseparable from the legend of American cinema. She invented the star system at the beginning of the 20th century, and was the biggest star ever known, not just in Hollywood, but worldwide, at a time when actors didn't even have their names on movie posters. She was more than a pioneer, she was a jack-of-all-trades: world-famous star, producer and formidable businesswoman, screenwriter and director in the shadows, studio boss, Mary Pickford alone embodied the entire legend of cinema and the advent of women in that particular era.

Fragments of a diary video epic.

A documentary and non-fiction project in the shape of a child's game that tell us about a wounded land and vulnerable bodies.

In China, beekeeping is an ancient and traditional profession. Every spring, beekeepers migrate huge distances with their bees in search of the best nectar to harvest the highest quality honey. Relying on the changing seasons and fluctuating temperatures, making a living is becoming increasingly difficult in this traditional industry. Flower Chasers follows the journey of young beekeeper Xiaolong and his family as they travel across China in search of flowers and honey, witnessing the precarious living conditions beekeepers face, along with the threat of an ecological crisis.

In 1973 the Kino Arsenal – then in its Welserstraße location in Berlin-Schöneberg – showed a programme of videos by the Japanese artist Takahiko Iimura. At the time, it was not yet possible to project the video images on the screen at the Arsenal, so employees brought in their own televisions from home, which were then synchronised to facilitate a collective experience of the then novel medium.

‘January’ is an independent documentary that follows the stories of a group of six young people living their ordinary yet surprisingly funny lives.

Piece composed of four short films of different nature where the motif is the woman.

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.

"Retro Boom" is a documentary film shot in the period from 2013 to 2019, before COVID-19 pandemic. Filming takes place in the clubs: Vintage industrial Bar, Route 66, Pepermint, KSET, Johann Franck (all in Zagreb) and festivals in Medulin (Tear it up) , Zagreb (Zagreb Vintage Festival), Sveti Martin na Muri (Trash'n'burn). It is a film that brings a cross-section of an interesting retro scene that has existed in Croatia for years. In the last ten years, the vintage (retro) scene has expanded greatly among the young and among the middle generation, it can almost be said that it has become fashionable, but by no means mainstream. The film follows original rockabilly and rock'n'roll bands, fashion, clothes, pin-up girls, barbers, old furniture, old items, motorbikes and a lot more – all of it gathered through interviews and events of the past years.

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

In 1981, English actress Kathy Harcourt mysteriously disappeared from the United States. 40 years later, this story unfolds, from an old 35mm copy of the last film Kathy Harcourt stared in. This film retraces this brief episode of the golden age of adult cinema.

For a series of reasons, two friends decide to take a trip to Bari, the city where they experienced the most unexpected happiness when Red Star Belgrade won the European Cup on May 29, 1991. By defeating Olympique de Marseille, Red Star Belgrade became the last team from the East to win the Champions League.

The rhythms of a typical day during the summer wheat harvest in Kansas.

When Ivan Simonovis becomes the first and most famous political prisoner in Venezuela, a 15-year period of imprisonment leaves devastating effects on his and his family’s lives. Living in exile as a filmmaker, his son Ivan Andrés crafts a very personal and moving story, using over 25 years of unique family material, showing history from an angle never seen before. A family that had to overcome extreme hardship, a father that has to find his place in life again and a son that faces his traumas by inviting the viewer into the core of a wound that touched both his family and his entire country.

What happens when the quest for clicks goes too far? TMZ examines the dark and sometimes deadly side of social media in Tragically Viral.

Mitrofan Aksenov is a genius who anticipated the most important and influential scientific discovery of the twentieth century — the theory of relativity.

The medium that gives voice to those who have no voice is radio. In northern Iraq, seven young journalists, Muslims, Christians and Yezidis, are giving their microphones to those who want peace. They work for Radio Al-Salam, a station free from political and religious influences. In total freedom, voices are raised on the airwaves and bring back the link within a nation.

Katiba Banat: Sisters in Arms uncovers the previously hidden stories of Canadian women who helped liberate South Sudan, the world's youngest nation. Displaced by war as teenagers, they were trained and armed for battle and formed lifelong bonds rooted in shared hope for a more secure future for their children and their nation. In this intimate five-part documentary mini series, they share their stories for the first time.

After the outbreak of a full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine, the Ruslan Shostak Foundation carried out the largest evacuation of orphans since the Second World War. Rescued 1700 orphans from Ukraine, transporting them to Turkey. What do children dream of without parents? Where will they return after the war?

Just one week after the inauguration of the new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, supporters of his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, invaded and vandalized the headquarters of the three branches of government in Brasília: the National Congress, the Planalto Palace and the Supreme Federal Court. Unhappy with their defeat at the polls and guided by fake news and conspiracy theories, many of the pro-Bolsonaro invaders believed that the Armed Forces would overthrow the newly inaugurated government. The images of destruction made headlines around the world. In this special documentary, reporter Camilla Veras Mota and video journalist Giovanni Bello went to Brasília to speak with witnesses of what happened that day and, with the help of experts, piece together the pieces that made the January 8 attacks possible.

A feature length documentary that portrays the lived issues of six transgender characters living in Chapada dos Veadeiros. People different from each other, complex by their trajectories portrayed in their bodily, geographical, decolonial, intersectional territories and their LGBTQIAPNB+ experiences. The film presents dissident gender narratives, elaborating friction and alterity, with analyzes on biopolitics and necropolitics about these characters who struggle in this cis-theme.

The band Platon Karataev was founded in 2016, and the indie-folk songs of their first album exploded on Spotify to such an extent that they even surpassed the listenership of the best-known Hungarian artists. At the gate of international success, they decided to switch from English to Hungarian, from acoustic guitars to a more grandiose, psychedelic soundscape.

Inside the heart of the BBC Persian newsroom in London, as the team covers unrest in Iran. We hear from reporters about the challenges of carrying out their journalism despite being banned in Iran and the personal sacrifices they make to do so.

Normal ? Not normal ? Where are the boundaries ? Who decides it ? Filmed with members of a GEM (Groupe d'entraide mutuelle : Group of mutual assistance, to help people with psychological difficulties), this movies talks about normality and abnormality in our society.

Jon Tizick and Taro Koka talk about their lives before Taekwondo, how they got into Taekwondo and how they ultimately became world champions.

The adventurous Peter Paul worked his way up through the police force from the late 1990s to become a specialist in the Special Investigative Applications Service (DSRT), better known as the ‘stealth section’. As an undercover agent, he found himself among the Netherlands’ most notorious criminals, placing listening devices in cars, houses and flats, once even dangling from a block of flats.

For over forty years, Jacques Duhoux, expedition pioneer in northern Quebec, has lived alone in the Uapishka (Groulx) Mountains. Now at 85 years old, he continues to live off the grid, despite the inevitable decline that comes with age. A tribute to a true monument of northern exploration, Jacques exposes the delicate balance between nature, aging and the search for freedom.

A documentary about immigrants.

Unraveling the chilling case of William and Patricia Wycherley, an unassuming couple who vanished from their Mansfield home in 1998, leaving their neighbours oblivious to the sinister truth lurking beneath the surface.

Navigating the triple border that separates fiction, documentary and essay, in Dueto, writer and filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky and actor Rafael Ferro expose, in a confessional manner, the bond they have shared for many years, not only recalling but also retelling a handful of common stories. Some of them have to do with the origin of their relationship, others with its extremes, from the most tense to the most playful. However, all of them converge in a common denominator that keeps them together despite everything. Dueto is the story of two men who, without any shame, allow their friendship to affirm, with conviction, its real name—love. One that is sometimes tender and light, other times possessive and rough, but always ready for a generous indulgence that doesn’t need that of the flesh. The two of them turn Dueto into an oath made of film, in order to honor the pact of that powerful shared feeling.

Caity Simmers edits a surf movie, inspired by the films of Dane Reynolds

Training barefoot and in traditional dress, the Diablillas prepare for their biggest challenge yet: a softball game against their rivals, the Amazonas, in front of thousands of fans. In Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, groups of Indigenous women defy societal norms to establish female softball teams.

How did the rise of LGBTQ visibility, political progress, and digital technologies in the 2000s come together to offer the abundance of complex queer and transgender representations we see today? Media scholar Katherine Sender shows how LGBTQ visibility and political progress have combined with new digital media technologies and television platforms to produce an increasingly complex range of queer and transgender representations.

With a contemplative letter to a friend as its point of departure, this video essay examines the complex, paradoxical visuality of the atom bomb in China. From 1960s military documentaries to contemporary CGI-enhanced fictions, a visual trope of the communal “People’s Bomb” was orchestrated in counterpoint to the evils of imperialism and the untamed wilderness of the Gobi Desert. Amid the ecological crises of the Anthropocene, Letter to T suggests that despite the disenchantment with and the re-politicisation of the image, we might find radical sources of connection and endurance in nuclearity.

In August 2016, one year after graduation, Albert returned to New Asia College to end his life. Ching-yi and Raymond met because of Albert’s passing, and organized his funeral together with some other friends. Six years later, they occasionally get together to chat about this forever young, handsome, and stylish friend.

A look at the origin and evolution of Harlem River on the tenth anniversary of its release. Featuring an interview with Kevin Morby and performance footage from the last decade.

Every Thursday, a group of students from the University of Ibadan, the oldest in Nigeria, organizes a film club, transforming a small amphitheater into a political agora where they refine their vision and develop a critical voice. "Coconut Head Generation", a scornful expression to designate a stubborn and brainless youth, takes on a whole new meaning when the students turn this stigma around to claim their freedom of thought.

A reply to an earlier work – a radically digressive footnote – and the opening salvo of a new tendency. It is intensely personal and explores the relationship of storytelling to violence, to power, and to memory.

During a winter-long residency in Brooklyn, ten obsessive female artists succumb to the darkness of their creative fascinations.

From the makers of award-winning films Cowspiracy and What The Health, SLAY follows filmmaker Rebecca Cappelli’s journey around the world to uncover the dark side of the fashion industry. Rebecca's investigation into the animal skins trade unravels a harrowing story of greenwashing, mislabeling, animal cruelty and cover-ups from some of the world's major luxury fashion brands. SLAY provides an in-depth and eye-opening look into the realities of today’s fashion industry while pointing the way towards viable and sustainable alternatives. Are you ready to get under fashion’s skin?

A Ghostwood Archives documentary about the American musical duo The Louvin Brothers.

Climate Change. It's daunting, confusing, and worse of all...it's political. In our polarized society it's hard to separate fact from fiction, especially when the consequences concerning our planet can seem so dire. In the face of this confusion, Kim Monson, host of The Kim Monson Show, will lead you on a brief but extensive overview on the various climate challenges and topics that adorn the headlines the world over. A Climate Conversation cuts through the rhetoric and propaganda to ask the simple questions that many times go unanswered. From melting glaciers to natural disasters this documentary seeks to uncover the truth concerning our changing planet. Grounded in science and free of political cheap-shots, A Climate Conversation seeks to remove the shroud of mystery and misdirection from one of the most important topics facing our civilization.

This is a tale of true determination that took Kalvin Phillips from a working-class estate in Leeds, to the pinnacle of his profession. In 2022, he made the challenging decision to leave his beloved Leeds United and join Manchester City. As he faced the pressures of adjusting to a new team he sustained a serious injury, threatening his inclusion in both Man City and the England World Cup squad

The film is made from home video recordings made by a Ukrainian family in 2002-2008. Like most home videos focusing on children, they convey the feeling of a beginning and perspective - but also of repetitiveness, mundanity, the hum of time. What is our 'together' made of? What connections keep us together? Through vernacular videos from the past, the film seeks to speak (often in baby talk and children's riddles) about plurality, rootedness, about us.

If the Palace thought that 2023 would be a quieter year after the drama and tragedy of 2022 then the release of Prince Harry's autobiography Spare has just about destroyed all hope. The book has caused international frenzy amongst the media and the public. Opinion is now more divided than ever on whether Prince Harry should retain his royal titles. Though Harry and Meghan fled the royal family for a second chance at the private life they always wanted, the world refused to let them go quietly. Despite their escape, the media's continued attention cased a barrage of headlines, flaring up rumour after scandalous rumour about the couple and the royal family. In order to set the record straight, they decided to tell their own side of the story, giving a tell-all series of interviews, podcasts and Netflix documentary series. But eclipsing all of the revelations shared previously, in January 2023 Harry released his controversial and much-anticipated autobiography, Spare.

Divided into chapters like a memoir and punctuated by an alternation of natural stillness and special encounters, this film celebrates the subtle discoveries that define our identity. It highlights not the grand events of life, but the poetry found in simple moments, the everyday, and the shared intimacy of those we hold dear.

One step at a time, the trail-running community is constantly moving upward. In recent years progression has vaulted forward, with runners blending inspiration from the world of alpinism, rock climbing, and running and tackling technical terrain in a way we’ve never seen. Follow along as Emma Cook-Clarke and Jesse McAuley dig deep on the west peak of Ch'ich'iyúy Elxwíkn, the Twin Sisters (or the Lions), an iconic Sea to Sky trail. Filmed within Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw territory, the homeland of theSk̲wx̲wú7mesh People. As well as, the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta, the territory of the Blackfoot First Nation (Siksika, the Piikuni, the Kainai); the Stoney Nakoda First Nation (Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley); and the Tsuut’ina First Nation and within the homeland of the Northwest Métis and Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.

Since 1997, KHYI-FM in Dallas has championed the authentic, unpolished sound of indie Americana and country music. It’s a cause that crystallized when station manager Joshua Jones founded Texas Music Revolution, an annual festival designed to showcase and introduce new musicians to local listeners.

Rain does not caress the skin, the wind resists blowing, a soul is like a doll forgotten in the house of glass. Tikhon Pendurin’s piece “Death of Cinema” is a dream of a film, the process of falling asleep, a frozen cosmos, the liturgy of a sigh. Fotogénie, a return to the forgotten magic of magician Segundo de Chomon, the mystery of Val del Omar, Alain Resnais surreal theatricality “Death of Cinema” seems to absorb all the magic of cinema and confesses its own forgetfulness. The characters of “Death of Cinema” stand before the justice of truth, naive children turned with pride away from the audience. Here, the main thing is the hallucination of light, a whisper, a prayer, the bewildered physiognomy of cinema, which allowed itself to laugh at its own seriousness. (by Karina Karaeva)

Librement Mostafa Derkaoui

A boy raised in the mountains films his home surroundings. He shows his sister, his father, their house with a treehouse in the garden, and the family’s old dog. He runs and cycles while holding the camera, creating choppy, chaotic images that match the energetic life of a child.