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Zhou Xiaoting tried to use film as a love letter to say goodbye to her mother, while Han Xia wanted to prove her perfectionism. Each person has their own intentions and meaning when making a film, but they all face different challenges on their journey to becoming a director.
Quatre altitudes bosniaques is an exercise in topographic cinema shot in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The document draws on the geography of the city of Sarajevo, from which the filmmakers construct a visual ethnography fragmented into four levels of elevation.
At 23, Cyprien runs a marathon a day for 25 days, from Paris to Marseille, to raise 50,000 euros for LENVOL, a charity supporting seriously ill children. Mission PAMA is a powerful story of endurance, solidarity, and pushing limits.
This documentary follows Israeli comedian Guri Alfi as he embarks on a journey to explore the profound impact of the October 7th Hamas attack and its aftermath on the identity, security and status of Jews in the United States.
N|u is a moribund language of the southern Kalahari, spoken by an ever diminishing group of elderly San people scattered across the region. It is also one of the oldest human languages initially declared extinct in 1974 but was sought out by land claim activists in the mid 1990’s. (Joy Gregory)
High in the Black Sea region, Lütfiye (58) and Ayşe (73) grind corn in an old mill while talking about being married off at seventeen. Lütfiye still bears the scars of that past. The responsibilities that came with child marriage have left a lasting impact on her life. She often goes out to the village with her friends to work in the tea fields; her husband Ali (59) stands quietly on the sidelines. The women's solidarity and cooperation stand out in contrast to Ali's silence. However, there is another person outside this silence who changes the course of the story.
The images and sounds in this work do not correspond to institutional records; they intersect with different temporalities, in the search for an audiovisual poetic reflection (without shying away from the absurd), on academia, foreignness (geopolitics and gender) and orphanhood, beyond personal memory.
In 2012, British expat Christine Robinson was raped and murdered in her own South African Lodge. This is the story of how Christine's niece, whom due to health was stuck in the UK, hunted for her aunt's killer abroad.
The history of the Pilastro district begins in the '60s, with some council houses a few miles from the center of Bologna, built to meet the demand for housing for the growing number of immigrants in the post-war period. Under the shadow of the Virgolone, one of the largest residential buildings in the city, grows a neighborhood with almost 7000 inhabitants, often rising at the center of media attention for its crime sagas. Through the history of a neighborhood and its inhabitants, the film explores the relationship between city spaces and daily experiences, in a context where challenges and contradictions in urban development are evident.
The director of "Normal" recounts the film's genesis and production, reflecting on the ethics of the gaze and how, in just a few years, the struggles for inclusion and rights have seen their scope narrow and must, day after day, face new widespread violence.
Iman, an Iranian refugee who fled fearing for his life, arrives on the refugee-filled Greek island of Lesbos. There, he joins as a theater teacher at a school for refugees established by a group of young Israelis. The children soothe his scarred soul, and he becomes a source of hope and security for them. Together, they create a theater performance that depicts the refugee experience. But just when Iman feels he has found true refuge, the situation on the island escalates and reaches a climax when fascists burn the school to the ground. Iman must decide whether to surrender to the external and internal pressures that threaten him or whether he can find the strength to continue and provide the children with the shelter and hope they desperately need.
A Fighting Legacy explores how a 700-year-old Thai fighting art took root in the American Midwest, following the pioneer who brought it to the United States and the community built around the largest combat event in the Western Hemisphere.
Valeria is adjusting to her new life in the UK, trying to cure her insomnia while being haunted by daily war news and her own survivor guilt.
Franz Stock, a German military chaplain, accompanied hundreds of resistance fighters sentenced to death to Paris. Through his diary, which documented the judicial terror orchestrated by the Wehrmacht during the Occupation, a story that questions the ambiguity of this testimony.
Supreme Court plaintiff Kuntrell Jackson reflects on his adolescence before and after being sentenced to life-without-parole for a murder he didn’t commit when he was just 14-years-old.
A world without hearing is unimaginable for many. However, there is a population group that is affected by it and continues to be marginalized. Interweaving the present and the past, this film explores the topic of deafness.
Pam St Clement remembers how the nation was gripped by one of the most iconic episodes of EastEnders, when Pat’s affair with Frank was finally, and very publicly, exposed.
The final installment in Lucy Raven's "The Drumfire" series. Focusing on the biggest dam removal and river restoration project in US history, Murderers Bar captures a landscape in flux, as the dam, the immense reservoir behind it, and the river now coursing through both, are transformed through the duration of the work
The film accompanies professionals who, in the area of tension between pragmatism and empathy, dedicate themselves to the work that has to be done after a death.
Portrait of pioneering LGBT filmmaker Lionel Soukaz, who passed away in February 2025. His work lies at the crossroads of several film traditions that rarely intersect: experimental, activist, pornographic, and diary film. Based on both public and private interviews with Lionel Soukaz.
Mohana is the president of the first trade union for women auto rickshaw drivers in the southeast Indian state of Tamil Nadu. As well as maneuvering her own auto through the busy streets of Chennai, she has to navigate a sexist and patriarchal system to secure equal opportunities for women drivers. She faces constant resistance—with conflicts and humiliations every day.
When Yoshi Kubo is evicted from his California farm under the WWIl Japanese exclusion order and confined in a bleak internment camp, he takes an unconventional stand against oppression.
Mariano Valcárcel lends his voice to this story, which, based on family memories, recounts the three generations of musicians in his family, with a focus on his grandfather, Edgar Valcárcel. His story reveals a prominent Peruvian composer whose achievements, anecdotes, and testimonies portray a man who, despite his contributions, died without fulfilling his greatest desire. Fernando Valcárcel, his son, through dedication and hard work, manages to fulfill his father's dream, allowing him to rest in the land he loved so much.
Winfried Kretschmann is the first Green politician to rise to the top of a state government — and so far the only one. He has governed Baden-Württemberg as Minister-President since 2011, longer than any of his predecessors. Soon, his tenure will come to an end: Kretschmann will not run again in the 2026 state election. This film takes stock of his time in office. A Catholic with a communist past. A conservative in a left-leaning party. A Green in the automotive heartland of Baden-Württemberg: Winfried Kretschmann’s political biography is a long journey marked by surprises and contradictions. Jenni Rieger and Jürgen Rose retrace this path. They speak with Kretschmann’s party colleagues and coalition partners, long-time close aides and early companions such as Joschka Fischer, Cem Özdemir, and Annalena Baerbock, as well as political rivals like Volker Bouffier, Markus Söder, and Bodo Ramelow. Has Germany’s first Green Minister-President changed the country?
Within the revelry of Rio's Carnival, Ilma writes to her son. How does she sense his presence in the crowd?
91 year-old Zbyněk Ungr reflects on his career as a writer of literary radio programs at the Plzeň Radio Station, with which he has been connected since its very first broadcast. As a twelve-year-old boy, he witnessed the now-legendary announcement: "This is Plzeň speaking, free Plzeň is speaking." Even at his advanced age, Ungr maintains a director’s perspective, engaging in discussions with the filmmaker during shooting about the meaning and value of the documentary being made about him.
When the need to radically transform our relationship with living beings has become an emergency, UNANIMAL invites us to explore the cohabitation between humans and animals. Sally Jacobson and Tuva Björk plunge headlong, with a delight mingled with irony and absurdity, from the commonplace to the spectacular, guided by the majestic voice of Isabella Rosselini, to propose us to stop looking at animals, and let them look at us.
Several brutal knife attacks in Sweden can be linked to an international violent cult on the internet that goes by the name 764. An 80-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman were attacked by children while the attacks were being streamed. Through experts and relatives of the victims, TV4 Nyheterna Story portrays the cult 764. A violence-promoting organization with links to Nazism, Satanism and child pornography emerges.
A look at the gatherings, film presentations, Q&A's and other activities that take place during a film festival in Lisbon.
The Close-Up of Bae Chang-ho is a documentary that delves into the work of director Bae Chang-ho. In this cinematic essay, he revisits key locations from his films, exploring the intricate relationship between nature, urban landscapes, architecture, and his works, while sharing his reflections on life and cinema.
What does a day in the life of the most famous painter alive look like? Is it a battleground of colour, a symphony of rebellion, a spectacle of squeegeeing? And what roles do the Sparkasse Bank and mysterious Anselm play in all of that? In his hilarious spoof documentary on the art world, Ulu Braun walks away from his trademark ‘video paintings’ and steps into a full blown AI universe.
Twenty years after Swiss publishing house Pendo closed its doors, the descendants of its founders repeatedly circle, examine and lose sight of its legacy. Frölke’s film gives structure to this archive via media experimentation.
New witnesses come forward about the incidents that happened in 1980.
Behind the scenes look at Stephen Fulton like you've never seen before.
On the set of a film, an extra tries to get noticed. Unfortunately it’s the lead actress who gets all the attention. Frustrated with staying in the shadows, the extra lets herself be invaded by a deep jealousy.
The traditional salmon weir of the River Sámi of Deatnu represents the symbiotic architecture of humans and ecosystems that also bears deeply on the international politics, global interests and changes of dynamics. As an architect, the director is also interested in the archetypal form of the weirs that also has things in common with other places and indigenous nations worldwide.
Always Looking explores the work of photographer Titus Brooks Heagins and the challenging questions his photos pose about the systemic neglect of society’s most vulnerable communities of color. Humanizing yet confrontational, Titus’ photographs document the overlooked: people who, through some intersection of poverty, race or gender/sexual identity, exist as outsiders.
History revolves around the Alexander Column on Palace Square, as if it were a cursed axis of time.
Life and career, lights and shadows, successes and misfortunes of Angelo Cecchelin, the greatest comic actor Trieste has ever had. Who was Angelo Cecchelin? Rome had Petrolini, Naples had Totò. Trieste had Cecchelin.
In Excess examines labor, capital, and displacement in modern America through the lens of one city’s trash — in sewers and streets, waterways and workplaces. It’s a gritty dive into the inner workings of a city’s infrastructure that embraces different formats, weaving newly digitized archival material together with surveillance footage and contemporary vignettes of people at work, communities in flux, and waste in motion. Observational, off-beat, and open-ended, the film finds harmonies and dissonance in patterns of creation, consumption, and renewal.
Set in the Cariri region of Ceará, in Northeastern Brazil, the film follows feminist activists who, through personal accounts and stories of resistance, reveal the urgent struggle against femicide and the pervasive effects of patriarchy on women’s lives. Against the backdrop of the Araripe Plateau, these women share decades of activism, reflecting on how female subjects resist the patriarchal modus operandi that violates their bodies and existence within a rural, developing Latin American context.
A silent film that traces the journey of a Belgian potato towards its destiny as a fry... in the Brussels Frietmuseum.
June 26,1990, the Dude Fire rages across Zane Gray country in the towering ponderosa forests below the Mogollon Rim in Central Arizona, killing five prison crew members and a female supervisor on her first fire. Follow along with the survivors and firefighters as they share their experience as inmate firefighters and their harrowing story of courage, loss and redemption.
A poetic documentary in the form of a letter from a son to his mother. What begins as an attempt to tell her story, slowly transforms into something else.
The Heart-Heart Orchestra, an ensemble composed of members with developmental disabilities, is raising awareness of disabilities through various performances both domestically and internationally. They are developmentally disabled, but they are also professional musicians who take on roles in the orchestra. This film observes how these two identities interact.
Felix, an Amazonian leader of the Shipibo-Conibo people, decides to make a long journey from his community to the city of Pucallpa in Peru in order to be heard by the state bureaucracy. Along the way, he reflects on the stark contrasts between life in his community and the city. In this way, this Indigenous leader tries to do everything possible to prevent his people's territory from being taken from them.
In an age dominated by convenience, the fountain pen seems a relic of the past. Yet, a devoted few remain loyal to its timeless charm. This documentary delves into their world, uncovering the passion, stories and the nostalgia that keep the ink of tradition flowing.