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At home in Burkina Faso, filmmaker Simplice Herman Ganou usually documents human relationships. A new project takes him to Winterthur in Switzerland, where he has trouble making contacts. How can he find a story, if no one will talk to him? Will he be able to overcome people’s fear of the unknown?

In March of 2019 my grandfather was 20 years old. The following month he was 12. Last week he was 30. Today he is 86, and tomorrow he might be 20 again. I have only known him since he was 66, but lately I have been getting to know him in a different way.

In the film, five people embark on a self-healing project. They radically change their lifestyle and take responsibility for their mind and body. Ranja gets in touch with herself through yoga, Stephan discovers the power of medicinal and wild herbs and Mona becomes pain-free through a vegan diet. Dominique finds vitality through sport and exercise and Chris lives mindfulness and meditation. What they all have in common is that they feel more happiness and vitality through change. Those who start with one area embark on the most beautiful journey of life: to their own BEING.

An Eternalism film.

As a child from St. Paul, MN, Rita Davern was always told, with pride, how her family once owned Pike Island at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. While researching her ancestors' immigration from Ireland, she begins to explore the complicated legacy of settling on Dakota land, and her quest for reconciliation begins in this eye-opening documentary.

Yulia, Alesia and Olya are three Belarusian sisters. They grew up in perfect harmony with their environment where they continue to live, engaging in fishing and subsistence farming. Daria Yurkevich frames this innocent existence magnificently, in a “paradise” located… not far from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

An Eternalism film.

A glimpse of life as seen through young people at a Zimbabwean children's home.

In September last year, 18-year-old Jay-Ronne Grootfaam was stabbed to death in Amsterdam South East with a machete. And that is not the only stabbing in the Netherlands that we saw in the news. How is it that the carrying of knives among such young boys and girls seems to become increasingly normal? And what is the link with the aggressive music style drill music?

Nëna is an observational documentary on the daily routine of a 75 years old woman, who lives in a small rural village in Albania with her disabled daughter. Though her daily routine is full and she still remains active, her fear of what will happen to her daughter after she dies conquers her.

Willie “Billy Brown” Smith is a spry, 75 year old black man who intermittently lived on the streets of Hollywood, California for nearly 40 years. After decades of hard drug and alcohol abuse, he kicked the habit and started piecing his life back together.

The work of the outstanding composer, who passed away on 1 June this year, is known not only in Ukraine but also far beyond its borders, his music is recognisable, and his works are often performed on the Ukrainian stage. However, Myroslav Skoryk's personality, creative temperament, tastes, and life guidelines have largely remained behind the scenes of the concert stage

A few days from the life of Lida Moniava and her foundation, the children's hospice "House with a lighthouse". About how they are looking for families for terminally ill orphans, so that they can live at home, and not in a boarding school. About how the New Year is arranged for a child in early December — because otherwise he will not have time to celebrate it. About how Lida is looking for sponsors for the foundation, gives several interviews a day, goes to court, where a case of drug trafficking in a hospice is being heard. This film is about Lida and about a 12—year-old palliative care boy, whom Lida took into care. About how they set up his stroller, receive an award at the Moscow City Hall and listen to music at the conservatory.

'The Garden' explores a semi-abandoned backyard shared by four blocks of flats in Monteverde, Rome. It was filmed and initially released online in three parts, during the first weeks of covid-19 lock-down in Italy. It follows a permanent resident who acknowledges the value of such space, fantasizing on its possible future. The author instead wishes for a closer attention to the invisible life in action, that of plants and insects.

Deer chronic wasting disease & meditation.

Samwise and Stevie grew up with homelessness in BC and Nova Scotia. Ianos is a gender-queer Greek. Kwaku is a single father who came from extreme poverty and famine.

The ancient city of Baiae was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire. Over the centuries, it slowly sunk beneath the sea. Amanda Ruggeri meets the archaeologists and engineers developing some surprising new technologies to protect the underwater site for future generations.

Mstyslav was known in Kyiv. In 1991, when Ukraine gained independence, Mstyslav was so inspired that he grew a traditional Ukrainian mustache and went to streets with songs about Ukraine. He was screaming his songs for more than 20 years. He was singing badly, but from the bottom of the heart. In those songs, the enemies of Ukraine were dying in terrible torments. He was badly adapted, unprotected and sincere. He got coins from passers-by, threats and insults from cops and lumpens. On “weekends” he used to drink, read, stroll around, take part in patriotic song contests, travel across Ukraine and dream of being a movie star. After he died, it became clear that his life wasn’t schizophrenia but the beauty and the truth.

In Korean society, divorce and families without fathers are a sign of failure. A daughter and her single mother talk about this type of societal pressure and their desire to rise above it all.

As the author of one of the most influential novels in Latin American literature, Paradiso (1966), the Cuban José Lezama Lima is considered a major figure in his country. In this documentary, the director and writer Ernesto Fundora, carries out a study on the author's life through the testimonies of a long list of writers, artists and personalities close to him. The result is a film that explores his work, but also pays a heartfelt tribute to his immeasurable figure.

In February 2019, after hurtling 300 million kilometers from Earth, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa 2 landed on the asteroid Ryugu. We follow the team behind the mission, as they sample parts of the asteroid and return it to our planet.

Andrew W.K. often gets dismissed as a one-dimensional party animal, and that's understandable. That is, after all, his brand. But contextually speaking, there's something profound and even poignant about his maniacal refusal to let darkness overcome him — or anyone else within earshot of his music. In this documentary, Andrew talks about how all this started, his early influences, Steev Mike, and the struggle to find clarity amongst the chaos and confusion of internal turmoil.

A thought provoking short film on Indian farmers told through clay sculptures made from barren farms of the farmers who have committed suicide.

The powerful story of the Paradise High School Girls basketball team after the most devastating fire in California's history wipes out their entire town. It's an inspiring film about a group of young girls who put it all on the court and discover a love for the game and a challenge far greater than winning.

Paul embarks on a journey to find meaning in his life after his mother abandoned him at the age of 5. Through reflections on his grandmother's life and the abuse she suffered, he will seek to understand who took care of her as a mother.

When Denis Lapshinov came to the Moscow branch of BBDO as a junior art director in 2007, foreigners - natives of England, Brazil, Germany, Italy, the USA and even Turkey - occupied leading positions in the city's main creative agencies - this era lasted about ten years. “The Pioneers” is Denis's attempt to show their views not only on the evolution of the Russian advertising industry, but also on our culture, our features, our strengths and weaknesses.

Join Kenneth Tencio and his bike on an epic trip across Costa Rica, from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific ocean.

A record of the lockdown spring of 2020, shot from the window of the director’s rented apartment in Vienna. Diary entries help to stave off the madness of isolation. The camera keeps track of time and reclaims the past. Cinema offers a reprieve from loneliness.

Using selected images and text from the Marshall Archive at the Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, A New England Document reconstructs the impulse of two ethnographers' photographic endeavours in the Kalahari Desert, Namibia, from the reparative perspective of its (formerly) silenced stories. The filmmaker, a Black international student at Harvard, and their daughter, NYT-bestselling writer Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, give voice in fragmentary counterpoint upon the haunting sounds of archival ghosts — of future possibility arising from once known pasts.

Tracing the life of activist Costis Achniotis, the film develops within the history of the Cypriot radical Left and the bicommunal movement for reunification. In parallel quests between the past and present and with an auto-ethnographic approach, the filmmakers bring together personal artifacts, new and archival material, exploring the dialectics and poetics of the ethnic clash and division in Cyprus.

Vismán and Alejandro live alone with their father, a veteran of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. In the intimacy of their house and their day-to-day life, the two brothers participate in filming their portrait by imagining staged scenes that reveal the violence inherited from their national and family history. – Camille Kaiser

SHOWTIME Sports’ new podcast ALL THE SMOKE WITH MATT BARNES AND STEPHEN JACKSON features an in-depth sit-down interview with the late NBA legend Kobe Bryant at his office in Southern California. In what was to be one of his final sit-down interviews, Bryant opens up about his life after retirement from basketball, fatherhood and the biggest misconceptions about him.

In the mountains of Córdoba hides a historical scar. In 1575, hundreds of Hênia-Kâmîare women, children and elders jumped off in order to avoid slavery. A free, poetic view at the very place where the largest mass suicide in the history of the territory known today as Argentina took place. The film is a phantasmagoric trip within this geographical extension, taking it as a vast, green cemetery.

Despite claims that the theory of evolution and the fossil 'record' prove that mankind evolved from ape-like creatures over millions of years, evidence from biology, paleoanthropology and modern genetics tell a different story.

Leaving the place you were born opens up a subconscious chest of memories that you thought were gone or lost, this film explores how nostalgia comes, when you least expect it in places you never thought you would be.

Over the course of a year and a half, this documentary follows three activists - 16-year-olds Saoi O’Connor, Theo Cullen-Mouze and Beth Doherty - as they lead demonstrations, interrogate politicians, and work alongside Greta Thunberg to create a vision for the youth.

The Circus Director is a film about the director of a circus who faced her fears and threw herself into the unknown. She brought contemporary circus to Sweden twenty years ago and has since built up one of the world’s most successful contemporary circus companies.

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ORCHESTRATING CHANGE is the feature-length documentary film that tells the inspiring story of Me2/Orchestra, the only classical music organization in the world created by and for people with mental illness and those who support them. Started by Ronald Braunstein, once one of the world's leading maestros, the orchestras' mission is to erase the stigmatization of people living with mental illness through the creation of beautiful music, community, compassion and understanding....one concert at a time. Most important, it is changing the lives of the musicians and audiences in powerful and surprising ways. There are currently two Me2/Orchestras: one in Boston and the other in Burlington, Vermont.

A sparse room with a single power plug. The jewel: a copy machine. Leather, metal, fur. A place where you don‘t sit squarely at a table with flowers and a salt shaker, but where you explore all dimensions of the space. Unwielding forms. Between 1981 and 1996, the lesbian-run „Pelze Multimedia“ in West Berlin was a beloved and notorious venue for experimental art and music, for sex parties, bar nights and avant-garde fashion shows staged on a scaffolding. Interviews with three of the showrunners are intertwined with private archive materials. SUBJECT SPACES explores the memory of a subculture, the question of feminist heritage and an aesthetic practice that stood in stark contrast to large parts of the women‘s movement at the time.

A documentary about a late-capitalist nightmare before Christmas, showcasing the gentrification of an Atlanta apartment complex and the ways the parent company abused its tenants.

In Good Company is a tale of passion, people, posters and a pandemic. This short documentary showcases the strength of creativity, colour and togetherness in a time of crisis, and the power of art in showing appreciation and thanks to our frontline and essential workers.

With seven Winter X-Games gold medals and a career spanning twenty years, Tanner Hall has cemented himself as an icon and legend in the sport of skiing. Now, at age 35, he’s decided to enter the Freeride World Tour; a five-stop competition circuit in which skiers are judged on their ability to descend through rugged, un-groomed terrain. Having never competed in a freeride competition, Tanner embarks on the latest chapter of his career, struggling against the limits of an aging body while confronting the darkest memories of his past.

The second documentary from Swedish comedian Jonas Strandberg. A spiritual sequel to "Det blev ingen CD" - this is the story about the most frequent studio audiences in Swedish television history. A story about the ones who are always there but rarely noticed.

It came without a warning. And it spreads like wildfire. To date, the novel coronavirus has killed more than 1200 people and infected more than 45000 others.

"Lumen" (meaning "light" in Latin) is a sensory film shot on Super-8 that portrays a young girl with oculocutaneous albinism. Despite the hypersensitivity caused by this genetic disease, the depigmentation of her skin and eyes gives her an extraordinary aura.