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In his laboratory, an oceanographer conducts temperature and salinity tests to determine the necessary conditions for the micro-algae Protoceratium reticulatum to survive in the Saint Lawrence Estuary. The filmmaker, moving between the seen and the unseen, follows the scientist as he studies the dinoflagellate, an amazing microscopic monster organism responsible for red tides and other phenomena.

Short film of a trans ladies beach day.

'See the soft pink, white and blue pools of the Dead Sea in Your Body Is A Mine (2019), its shimmering expanses of salt flats and pink cliffs, its pale shores littered with salt factories, commercial spas for tourists, political trauma and apartheid, a geo-political space of weightlessness and weighted politics, of extraction and violence and wellness. The light in the film is overpowering—it trembles. No bodies but industrial bodies in sight. “The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live,” Audre Lorde writes, famously, so lit. But what if there is no light, in some interior, and what product?' (Quinn Latimer)

The history of the famous Portuguese stone sidewalks, from their appearance in Lisbon, in the middle of the 19th century, until they reached Rio de Janeiro and perpetuated themselves on the iconic Copacabana boardwalk, created by Burle Marx.

Steven Holl architects has designed a major new addition to Princeton university’s growing campus in New Jersey. The Lewis Arts Complex significantly expands the site’s performance, rehearsal, and teaching spaces with a suite of new facilities. The project also serves as a new gateway for the school, helping delineate the campus while maximizing pedestrian traffic.

A journey to three remote observatories in three different continents (Chile, Canary Islands, South Africa) in search for our place in the cosmos. In nearby villages, astonishing humans share the same vulnerability and longing for life.

The cost of college is forcing students to make choices that put eating regular meals and their education at odds. Director Geeta Gandbhir and executive producer Soledad O’Brien’s poignant film follows four college students as they navigate food insecurity in their attempt to change their lives for the better. Homelessness, abandonment and mental health issues loom as students are caught between educational institutions’ pursuit of profit during “the best time of their lives.”

A collection of interviews about dads. All collected from 'kids' of all ages as they play with blocks or Legos.

On February 5th, 2019, thousands of Martiniquais took to the streets to demonstrate against the “high living costs” and for higher wages. The 38-day strike resulted in a memorandum of understanding that was partially respected, although it was not enough to erase the colonial burden that Martinique still carries.

Human Zoos tells the shocking story of how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in the early decades of the twentieth century. Often touted as "missing links" between man and apes, these native peoples were harassed and demeaned. Their public display was arranged with the enthusiastic support of the most elite members of the scientific community, and it was promoted uncritically by America's leading newspapers. This award-winning documentary explores the heartbreaking story of what happened, shows how African-American ministers and other people of faith tried to push back, and reveals how some people are still drawing on Social Darwinism in order to dehumanize others. The film also explores the tragic story of eugenics in America, the effort to breed human beings on Darwinian principles.

On the basis of conversations with Hänsel and some of her permanent crew members, a remarkable portrait is created of a filmmaker who is also her own producer, i.e. boss. The relationship between characters and their natural environment plays a major role in her work that is often based on novels.

Juskatla weaves together perspectives of the people who live on the islands of Haida Gwaii-an archipelago on Canada's Northwest coast, and the ancestral territories of the Haida Nation. From industrial loggers who harvest trees from ancient forests, to Sphenia Jones, a Haida matriarch who bears an intimate knowledge of her People's territories, Juskatla meditates on the divergent ways of being that shape the islands and its people.

A glimpse into a refreshingly different sex education class in the Netherlands.

Sérgio shaves his beard, getting ready to leave the house. The sun goes down and Sérgio goes to Bairro Alto. Against the wild crowd, he drinks beer, rolls cigarettes, takes drugs. He talks about life and finds a friend. Bairro Alto is his playground. He robs a closed bar and gets in a hassle. He becomes sober again once her friend feels sick, and Sérgio feels responsible for her. He ends up alone in Cais do Sodré. As Oscar Wilde said “One must never regret that a poet is a drunk, but that drunkards are not always poets” and Sérgio is in fact, a poet.

For many, UFO experiences & extraterrestrial encounters have been happening for decades. There are some who believe that a secret entity has been covering up stories and suppressing witnesses in an effort to keep UFO mystery under wraps. This special explores the consequences and potential dangers involved when these secrets are finally revealed.

In 1943, legendary Hollywood director William Wyler and his film crew flew combat missions on B-17 bombers to document the fierce air battles of World War II. Over 70 years later, the footage was discovered in the vaults of the National Archives. After painstaking, shot-by-shot sound and picture restoration, director Erik Nelson has constructed a new film out of the material. Inside the making of The Cold Blue.

An intimate portrait of Cuban trans women

Jamie Oliver is the man with the masterplan for a stress-free festive feast - from all the trimmings to the turkey, stuffing and, of course, fantastic gravy.

Ice climbing in Kentucky?! This adventure documentary takes the audience for a bourbon-fueled ride deep into the bushy hollers of Appalachia with a crew of harmless misfits as they race to search out and climb new ice routes before they're gone, with a few surprises along the way.

Tom Wallisch returns from his 2018 knee injury, intent on spending the season skiing powder in the backcountry. He enlists his former roommates, Tim McChesney and AJ Dakoulas to join him, and together the two skiers and filmer had one of the most fun seasons of their lives. // Supported By // The North Face Line Skis Full Tilt Boots Spy Optics Monster Energy Bose

It's Dutch Design is a 60-minute documentary about the worldwide success of Dutch Design. Top Designers and international keyplayers reveal their personal vision and explain why a small country could become so big in the field of Design. The history is told with iconic Dutch Design examples, spanning more than 100 years.

"Ricecake" is a short documentary film on RICECAKE: Vancouver’s Queer and Asian Dance Party, the brainchild of Shay Dior, a QPoC, drag artist, and mother of the HOUSE OF RICE. Through interviews with Shay Dior and friends, the film explores what it means to navigate queer spaces in Vancouver as an Asian person.

Loïc, 26 years old, leaves the Auvergne where he was born to live his homosexuality freely in London. But things don't go as expected since he learns he is HIV-positive. First comes shock, then denial, then forced resolutions: no more sexual relations, partying, smoking. Loïc starts a treatment, with its lot of painful side effects and nightmares. He is tired, nauseous. Back in his own Auvergne, he wonders if he will be able one day to tell everything to his parents. Until then, he opens himself to the camera, and shares his doubts and his fears.

Experimental short film exploring New York City's multicultural history through the eyes of three chosen individuals.

In 2002, 79 people died when The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC) launched a homemade mortar onto a church where many were hiding from crossfire between the FARC and the Paramilitaries. Leyner Palacios survived, but 28 of his family members did not. When peace between the government and the FARC was signed in 2016, after 50 years of conflict, Leyner made it his mission to ensure the peace deal was implemented to his people’s benefit, receiving a Nobel Peace Prize in the process. But, as the FARC demobilise, other armed groups seek to fill the power vacuum, and political pressure through presidential elections puts Leyner’s work, and life, at risk. Will this poster boy of peace be able to protect his family from another wave of violence?

Indonesia has been very progressive. Women are daring to be exposed by the heat of the sun to vocalize their thought. One of the demand is acceptance for LGBT community. On the other side, a masculine lesbian wanted to have a child.

As a shepherd’s son, Sverri Steinholm grew up chasing sheep around the dramatic, otherworldly Faroe Islands. Today he is a pastor of the Lutheran Church, the dominant religion on the islands. He is also a compulsive runner, finding solace and spiritual refuge from personal conflicts and the burdens of priesthood on rugged, exposed trails of his homeland.

400,000 Americans speak Palatinate German? Douglas Madenford, born and raised in Pennsylvania, looks for traces in his homeland and the Palatinate in the documentary "Hiwwe wie Driwwe" by Benjamin Wagener and Christian Schega. Doug meets many people and learns what is left of the Palatine language and culture in America and how it has developed "hiwwe like driwwe" here in Germany and beyond in America. About 300 years ago, many people from the Palatinate fled because of political persecution and economic reasons to the United States and mainly settled in and around Pennsylvania. They also brought their language and culture to the New World. Both have largely survived to this day. In America, people still speak their variant of the Palatinate dialect: the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch.

The #3 leading cause of death in the United States is its own health care system. 1.7 million Americans experience a preventable mistake during medical care, and these mistakes lead to many as 440,000 deaths annually. Directed by the son of late patient safety pioneer, Dr. John M. Eisenberg, To Err Is Human is an in-depth documentary about this silent epidemic and those working quietly behind the scenes to create a new age of patient safety. Through interviews with leaders in healthcare, footage of real-world efforts leading to safer care, and one family's compelling journey from victim to empowerment, the film provides a unique look at the future of our healthcare system's ongoing fight against preventable harm.

Mrs. Lea Gottlieb is the legendary designer, founder and owner of the Gottex swimwear empire. The film follows her complex relationships with her two daughters, and her unbridled passion, for which she paid a heavy price.

The Sakthi Folk Cultural Centre, in Tamil Nadu, India led by two radical Catholic nuns uses the Tamil folk arts to develop self-esteem and economic skills in young Dalit women (outcastes or untouchables). Sakthi reclaims the degraded parai frame drum to re-humanize and empower the young women through the physical embodiment of confidence in performance and a regenerated cultural identity in a complex campaign against gender, class and caste subjugation. This ethnomusicological documentary seeks to reveal and analyze Sakthi’s outstanding model for Dalit women’s development that integrates folk arts performance with social analysis, micro-economic sustainability, self-esteem and community development.

The story of Emeer - AKA B-boy Zulu Rema - a Tunisian teenager, who had both is leg amputated as a child, and of his passion for art and dance, that has helped him become a break dance champion at national level and a role model for young people all over the world.

Would you want to change your life once and for all? Surely, yes. But everything was holding you back. However, the family of circus artists with a beautiful surname Groll did it. They realized their dream: to live in the village in a beautiful place, far from civilization. They were looking for a place for their new life all over the world, and they found it in Russia. Did they find what they were looking for?

Songwriter and entertainer Drs. P. often let his public roll over the floor with laughter with his absurd songs, but his personal life also knew a dark side. The documentary 'De Terugkeer van Drs. P.' (The Return of Drs. P.) doesn't simply show a hilarious but also a painful image of the virtuoso who rarely showed anything of his personal life.

Short documentary about Emma Ruth Rundle, her process, and the 2018 tour in support of the album On Dark Horses.

For 8 months, the director, who signs with this documentary her first film, knew how to be accepted within the group Shayfeen. For the under thirty, Shayfeen is one of the figures of the Moroccan Rap scene. Shobee and Small X, two young people with complicated family lives, meet in Safi in 2006. Children of the new millennium, they have the verb and easy melody. Without makeup, with discretion and attention to detail, the camera of Fatim Zahra Bencherki reveals, through them, a complex youth, surprising, who sometimes feels "unloved" and is often a mirror of our contradictions.

Space scientists in Mumbai dream of launching the country's first astronomical satellite. Meanwhile the children living next door to the Space Centre are inspired to have dreams of their own.

Garden designer Lynden B. Miller explores the life and career of Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959), America's first female landscape architect.

The film tells the story of the Rote Zora, a militant women’s group in the FRG, which in the 1970s and 1980s carried out actions against various facets of patriarchal power relations. Narrations by various contemporary witnesses, interviews with a historian and former Zoras bring the history of the Rote Zora and the women’s movement of the time back to life. The film shows that many of the Rote Zora’s themes are highly topical and offers exciting material for discussion on how to deal with this history today.

Is it anyone's business if consenting adults want to pay or accept money for sex? Sex worker and author Maggie McNeill tells her startling tale about the persecution of sex workers based on the false assumption that most of them are exploited victims of pimps and traffickers. Her movement is challenging these assumptions and the powerful political and cultural forces behind them.

A short documentary that chronicles the night of a Drag Queen competition in Rome, between the normal work routine of a young artist and the dedication of all the people involved.

The Team That Turned Up is about one of the most famous rugby encounters between Ireland and England in 1973.

Documentary about the beginnings of computer development in Yugoslavia, 1970s and 80s.

A short film about fatherhood and a tribute to those who were there.

The French adventurer Eliott Schonfeld crosses the Himalayas from west to east. Off the beaten track, his way leads him first through the wide valleys of Ladakh and over barren passes and glaciers to Nepal. There is always some seven-thousander in sight, but people and villages are the exception. Eliott's only companion on this lonely hike is his horse Robert. While the snowy and icy passages become a real challenge for the four-legged friend, Eliott feels in the bitterly cold nights on his own body that he may have saved too much on his equipment. Nevertheless, the minimalist adventurer explores his limits along the way and does without the last comforts of civilization: tent, sleeping bag and lighter. How little is just enough?