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The story of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans and the loss of civil rights.

In May 2021, Daniel Bye and Boff Whalley set off from Northam Burrows, on Devon’s north coast. They aimed to run 120 miles to the south coast, finishing in Dartmouth. They stopped along the way in fields, farm yards, chapels, barns and orchards, to perform their show ‘These Hills Are Ours’. The Wild Tour of Devon was a celebration of everything we’d all been unable to do over the past year: perform live, sing together, and run in places too wild to be accessible from our front doors. It’s a comeback tour with a difference.

An adaptation of Jérôme Garcin’s novel Le dernier hiver du cid, this documentary built exclusively on archive footage and a delicate story telling style will permit a Cannes style celebration of Gerard Philipe’s 100th birthday anniversary. He will also be coming back to the Croisette through the screening of Fanfan la tulipe.

They are old enough to enter the third grade and already have a reputation of being irredeemable. For months, they have lived far from school, almost completely cut off from school life. In Grenoble, a unique class in France called "Starter" opened its doors to them. During this particular year, Un bon début filmed their adolescence, which was difficult and rough - but whose course can still change.

This documentary addresses the importance of music in education.

The Mancuso family has practiced transhumant grazing for generations, moving the herd of Podolica cattle from the Marcedusa countryside to the large Sila forests.

A movie projectionist reconstructs his memory through movies.

In Donetsk, in the terrible and destructive atmosphere of the war, the violin teacher Larisa is raising a children's quartet. Music lessons help children escape from the effects of total horror. larisa inspires children with her example of resilience and courage, desperately hiding her personal family tragedy. soon the quartet will fall apart and the children will disperse in different directions. before that, they will have their last joint performance in moscow, in which they will enter into far from their last battle with darkness, horror and death.

Two women share personal accounts of their lives as sex workers in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in Metro Manila.

The forgotten phenomenon of a youth choir that came to be known as the “Nightingale of Trbovlje” in the 1930s, suggests that one can make extraordinary art and conquer the world even in impossible circumstances and a godforsaken environment.

Amidst the lingering shadows of the Somali civil war, Qaali, an asthmatic single mother of seven, braves the slums of Kampala, striving daily in a restaurant to shield her family from the specters of their past.

The mighty Yukon river flows through Eric Nicolier’s life in the far north. Mushing, rafting, carpentering, and playing music is Eric’s way of composing his life of reverie.

What does it take to play for your country? That’s the dream of course. It is 2022, the FIFA World Cup Qatar™ is due to commence in November, and the Australian Socceroos have finally managed to qualify after an epic struggle. Do our young players also have challenges on the world stage? Can a group of Aussie football players from Sydney Olympic FC take on the best in Europe?

Residents of quilombola communities in the south of Brazil struggle to keep alive the tradition of singing the Ternos de Santos Padroeiros and other inheritances of their ancestors.

Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by neoliberalism and its central mythology of personal freedom, brilliantly laid out in Hito Steyerl’s essay gem “Freedom from Everything” which is adapted and shapeshifted here. Pronouncing on the new precarity of the freelancer, Hito wryly observes that they have “freedom from everything,” from a good job, health care, affordable housing… Featuring Maggie Thatcher, Guy Fawkes, George Michael, James Baldwin, Akira Kurosawa and David Wojnarowicz.

The film follows the tenants of a building in Sisak’s industrial suburb of Željezara during a period in which a large mural of a Croatian street artist appears on one side of the building. All the political changes the area has experienced have shaped the tenants of the building itself.

After the untimely death of his 35-year old brother, an artist explores the questions that surfaced from grief by painting 365 paintings and to spur conversation in culture.

Refugees from Ukraine seek protection wherever they can and in many cases leave the country. One of Ukraine's neighboring countries is Moldova. At first glance, it qualifies as a country in which to seek protection. But can the poorest country in Europe offer a humane place to stay for refugees?

A video essay about being in a liminal space in a state of limerence.

Chronicle of the judicial process for the murder of 16-year-old student Paúl Guañuna, committed by police officers in 2007. The fight of a father and thousands of young people against racism, authoritarianism and impunity.

On an unknown date in August 1966, trans women in San Francisco's Tenderloin district rioted against police violence at Gene Compton's Cafeteria. There was no news coverage, and the arrest records no longer exist. Decades later, historians Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman unearthed the history of the riot and interviewed the surviving “Compton’s queens.”

On November 13, 2015, ten months after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher at the Porte de Vincennes, three jihadist commandos, divided between the Stade de France, the Bataclan and the terraces of the 10th and 11th districts of Paris, spread death in the capital. How were these men, mostly French and Belgian, some of them actively sought, able to cross Europe and carry out their plans without being worried? Faced with the loopholes revealed by the attacks, fourteen European countries, supported by Europol and Eurojust, the EU's police and judicial cooperation agencies, pooled information and resources on an unprecedented scale to identify and track down the culprits, accomplices and sponsors of these attacks.

The racist murder attack in Hanau has made the question of who actually belongs to this society an existential issue for a group of young adults.

The story of one of history’s most controversial entertainers, who beguiled audiences with his magic tricks and produced Nazi propaganda films.

An average teenager who lives in an ordinary city embarks on an adventure that takes him across three realms. The first world represents his house and close friends. The second depicts society and its battle for survival. He grew up in the community where he was viewed as inferior. His school experience wasn’t his best time as he was constantly bullied and underwent changes due to puberty. The proper sex education wasn’t provided by his school. The violence and indifference he witnessed in two worlds piqued his interest in discovering his own world of freedom and harmony. At one point, the pressure incoming from two worlds has finalized his decision to proceed his new journey into the third world.

A look back at boxer Jeff Sims, an ex-convict famous for busting Muhammad Ali's lip in a sparring session who would later meet a tragic end as he could not escape his own criminal past.

Mata-Ratos, a legendary Portuguese punk band, have played in football stadiums, sports halls, bars, performance venues, cultural associations, nightclubs, bandstands, parties and garages. They now celebrate their fortieth anniversary and director Patrick Mendes joins them once again as they tour the country. We find them at Fundão, within the sweaty walls of Octógono, in a concert full of distortion, beer and mosh pits.

A tour of the canyons of the Teolocholco community through the memories of the elderly.

During the lockdown, Alexander (65), a Uruguayan living in Vienna, develops an unexpected attachment to his pillow as he navigates solitude and the uncertainties of life. Through his daily routine, Pillow reveals how a simple household object becomes a companion in a suspended moment of time.

Anticipated documentary tells the true (?) story of the Göteborg band that achieved international iconic status but lost their way before they reached the top.

Over time, Frangery’s relationship with her father has become distant, and without noticing that distance became bigger and bigger due to his illness. During her stay at her parents house, she goes to her only source of answers… her mother, to be able to understand her father's day-to-day life. In observing and sharing small moments with him, the answers take shape.

An afternoon with Adela Cortinez, gardener recorder.

Whether it’s night or day, the northern or southern hemisphere, irrespective of the season or the precise location – our planet’s natural world produces truly magical moments all year round.

Maria, a 48-year-old woman, is trapped between two worlds—one guided by asceticism, the other fuelled by the need to reconnect and be with her two sons. Through carefully composed shots and minimalistic sound, we glimpse into her everyday life, thoughts, and emotions.

Paris, France: We travel to the City of Light to interview the captain and the face of the Argentine national team, Lionel Messi. In an unmissable sit-down in the lead-up to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, an unguarded Messi opens up about life beyond the field, touching on family, the future, and what dreams lie ahead.

The writtings of a relegate to the Patagonian archipelago during the chilean military dictatorship are found 35 years later. The notebook takes us into his encounters with the inhabitants of the Guaitecas Islands and their ways of life deeply linked to the sea.

An original documentary produced by Tasos Bakasetas and Stars Inc. 11. Witness Trabzonspor's journey to the first Super Lig title in 38 years. Experience the personal, behind the scenes stories, the celebrations and the player’s point of view. See the cultural elements of Trabzon and how football affects the everyday life of the city that lives for its club. A fascinating story that was meant to be told.

In the outskirts of Recife, something that has always accompanied us is “being together”: Parties, dances, weekend meetings. It is an essential need to cope with everything we face in everyday life.

Qena is a governorate in Upper Egypt, characterized by a rural look Those who live in this county are called "Qenawy". Abdel Elsabour, who hasn’t completed his 20 years yet lives in Upper Egypt, Isolated from the city, trying to create some shots “ Al-Marmah " shows the celebration that takes place in Upper Egypt every year, with horses dancing and jousting, and he lives in a struggle between his village mores and the cultural openness of his generation. He travels from city to another just to watch cinema" movie", he goes out at night well dressed, hears rap and go skateboarding, as he feels alienated in his village because he is different and his dream is to be a cinematographer studying aboard.

Following Inside Hotel Chocolat series on Channel 5, this Channel 4 special takes you behind the scenes at one of Britain’s largest independent chocolate makers. Covering product development both in the inventing kitchen and in the cocoa fields in Ghana.

The Petrus incident from 1982 to 1985 during President Soeharto’s leadership left trauma for some people. Pariyo, a middle-aged man who is now grateful that he was given the opportunity to live, experienced dark times while working as a robber and was almost killed. Another thing with Santuso Waluyo, he had to accept the fact that his brother had to be killed after disappearing for several days. He received news when his brother had been buried by local residents.

In this short experimental documentary, Jediah Currie tries to wrap his head around the idea of time. In three segments focused on the present, past and future. You see how time effects objects, people and memories leaving you just as confused about time as you were going into the film.

An exceptional documentary filmed in 1978 by Swedish directors Björn Blixt and Peter Englesson showing the behind-the-scenes of the film Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) by Francesco Rosi.

A poetic story of a proletarian couple’s relationship during the years of economic crisis and unemployment – of all the films directed by E. F. Burian, the film Chceme žít (We Want to Live, 1949) is probably his worst. The intention to create a powerful work of cinema that would combine modern means of expression with the ideological canons of socialist realism failed completely. Ježek and Tarnovski discovered these „shambles“ and tried to rebuild a structure out of the hopelessness and futility of life. Ježek has photochemically “transcribed” selected passages with the greatest possible degree of humility towards the work of the great avant-gardist, Tarnovski similarly makes the soundtrack visible. The improvised encounter of sound and image in dialogic mode can lead to various misunderstandings resulting in ambiguous compromise.

A glimpse of the backstage work of the Center’s draftsman, modelmaker, and scenic painter. The 32-minute documentary features CCP’s master scenic artist, tracing his early beginnings up to his retirement through conversations with his mentees.

This is a story about a father who drifted from New Zealand to Taiwan to look for his missing son. Although his son was never found after many fruitless searches, he gained love and friendship from many Taiwanese. This documentary tries to trace a father’s journey for searching his beloved son as well as to present how he recovered from his initial pain of losing son and turned it into his love for Taiwan at the end.

To the images of awakening spring, a woman talks to a man. She reflects on his actions towards her. Who she was and who she has become. By saying good bye to what once was, she accepts her altered new self. But with anger of what was taken from her, she's determined to seek justice.

Movements as processing and movements as memories. Grief takes physical dimensions in a well-told and moving documentary about Ann, who lost her son Gösta in the tsunami catastrophe of 2004, and who continuously struggles to gain control over her feelings.

Set in San Francisco and Toisan, "The American Relative" follows Pat Chu Nishimoto as she uncovers her late father's secret. In 1980, she visits China for the first time and discovers a family of half-relatives. The film then shifts to these Chinese relatives, who recount the history of their ancestral home, highlighting the erosion of history and culture amidst rapid modernization.

Part of a CD+DVD set released by Tzadik. Recorded at the powerful organ at Henry LeBoeuf Hall, Bozar in Brussels, this is one of Zorn’s most beautiful and personal solo performances—a dramatic musical reading of the epic Faust legend. Featuring a guest appearance by the sensational vocalist Barbara Hannigan, who is improvising with Zorn for the very first time. No one plays the organ quite like Zorn and many of his unusual techniques, usually hidden in performance, are presented in close focus. Beautifully filmed by state of the art equipment, this is a wild and colorful concert by two mavericks of new music.

A team of researchers explore the forgotten, hidden history of Nazi concentration camps on British territory, where thousands of innocent Jewish people were sent to die.

In 1959 New York City announced a "slum clearance plan" by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of businesses, from the Cooper Square section of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Guided by the belief that urban renewal should benefit - not displace - residents, Frances Goldin and her neighbors formed the Cooper Square Committee and launched a campaign to save the neighborhood. Over five decades they fought politicians, developers, white flight, government abandonment, blight, violence, arson, drugs, and gentrification - cyclical forces that have destroyed so many working class neighborhoods across the US. Through tenacious organizing and hundreds of community meetings, they not only held their ground but also developed a vision of community control. Fifty three years later, they established the state's first community land trust - a diverse, permanently affordable neighborhood in the heart of the "real estate capital of the world."

Tatyana Minenko saves orphaned polar bear cubs from death in the clutches of their older brothers, and from severe Chukchi frosts and hunger. But what’s next for these cubs? Zoo life or return to the wild? How much effort does it take to save one polar bear cub from death? And why is it even harder to leave an orphan bear free? The people of the north value their freedom above all else. That’s how they want to see the owner of this land – the polar bear.