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Documentary about 30 young people struggling to find belonging and direction. Will a four-week voyage from Portugal to Norway aboard the historic sailing ship Christian Radich help them find a new course in life?

For the first time in history, a camera crew has exclusive access to the selection process for new members of the Colombian police’s Special Operations Command. Over the course of four and a half months, more than 100 police officers, coming from all over the country, will try to complete one of the most demanding courses in the world with just one goal, to become COPES. Only a few will succeed.

A documentary presented by Robin Ince on how the science of the early 1970s influenced Doctor Who. Featured as an extra on The Collection Season 7 BluRay boxset.

A cinematic portrait of Dónal Lunny, legendary musician and cultural pioneer, tracing his groundbreaking journey through Irish traditional music and revealing how his life and artistry helped shape the sound of a changing nation.

During the 90's, religious leaders and politicians went on a rampage against superhero-themed trading cards. This documentary chronicles the absurd persecution of the beloved Pepsi Cards.

A documentary comedy that reveals, with humor and great honesty, the unexpected journey of La Patogallina: putting together its first Shakespeare-inspired TV series, while everything seemed chaotic. Amidst parades, bruised egos, broken romances, and endless rehearsals, this documentary shows how a group of artists decided to laugh at the end of the world and turn it into an unforgettable show.

Join adventures Erik and Sarah on yet another epic Baffin Vacation as they kite ski north along the remote coastline of Baffin. Over their 69 day holiday they ski mountains, climb an epic big wall, and cross a glacier in search of new rivers to white water kayak.

At the end of 2023, my sister, living with schizophrenia for fifteen years, received her first electroconvulsive therapy. Watching her in the ambulance, I wondered: as she and I drift apart and our parents age, how long can I keep turning away—and how should I see her now?

A year after the first edition of the "Festival Maia" in the city of São Mateus do Sul, old and new artists and invited bands appear at the event, exhibiting their art for the world to see, and reinforcing the power of original and independent art from a small town in the interior of Paraná.

This documentary highlights the triumphs and challenges of individuals who have found strength, purpose, and camaraderie within their running community. The heartfelt message resonates far beyond the world of running, making it a must-see for audiences of all kinds.

The Spanish Film Academy and the Universitat de Valencia have joined forces to restore photographs damaged by the DANA in Valencia. ‘Las capas de la memoria’ is a creative project which, through audiovisual media, has revitalised damaged photographic material.

The duo relive the Great Fire of London through the eyes of both the rich and the poor.

A heartfelt, unfiltered portrait of love, grief, and trans joy - told through letters written to a boy named Wes.

Hidden in the shadows is a Latino workforce that feels they have no voice. Part of a strategy to distance themselves from workers, temporary and sub-contracted work offers little protections and few legal obligations by employers. But these workers do have a voice, and together they are empowering one another to move progress forward. This film was produced in cooperation with Rutgers Professor Dr. Todd Wolfson and his students. It tackles the subject of temp labor and focuses on the New Labor worker center founded in New Brunswick, NJ.

The self-organized – anti-commercial documentary Barbarian Heritage is an attempt to record a story about the occupation of Villa Varvara and the movement of Thessaloniki in the 90s. Its creation was based on 17 interviews with comrades who were active in the movement at that time and on research on the corresponding archival material (videos, photos, posters, texts, publications). Its goal is to share tools for research and recording history with the movement and to motivate similar attempts in the future.

Legends of wild men, such as the Yeti of the Himalayas or Bigfoot in America, exist all over the world. The Simiots are the wild men of the Pyrenees. In Arles del Tec, a small town in Northern Catalonia, the legend has been alive and well for over a thousand years. There are also those who believe that the Simiots are not just a myth. Some people have even seen them and had contact with them.

In 2002, Cheng's father murdered his mother. He is both the son of the perpetrator and the beloved son of the victim. That afternoon, he met the children of two other death row inmates. The three of them talked about life, about marriage, and about their greatest fear: their fathers, and the death penalty.

Centred on sphagnum moss, Translocations highlights the mutual aid and reciprocal exchange that exists between species in the restoration of a lowland peatbog. Featuring the voice of botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer, and a tactile soundtrack score, the film documents the human and more-than-human life, energies and actions that are transforming an intensively farmed and damaged terrestrial environment back into a flourishing wetland habitat.

Takis, a former nightclub owner, shares his inspiring journey of giving up everything to rescue stray dogs in Crete. Beginning with a few abandoned dogs, his sanctuary now cares for over 400. Despite challenges, Takis has transformed local attitudes and inspired global support in tackling Greece's stray dog crisis.

After a lengthy preparation period, Perla left her Toronto apartment and dove into the werkroom for SEASON 5 of CANADAS DRAG RACE. In honour of the one year anniversary and to celebrate the work that went into showcasing her runway package, PERLA: a fashion film has arrived Showcasing all of her iconic runways from the 5th season, inviting you into her world and bringing the looks to life through creative collaboration with J Stevens, Perrie Voss, Benjamin toner, William Carr, Fabian Di Corcia, and Fernando Cysneiros (The Drag Series). Step into her mind and into the runway package from Canada's Drag Race season 5.

A sober teen filmmaker documents his life growing up in a family of recovering addicts, struggling to find peace, identity, and purpose while surrounded by the chaos he's determined not to repeat.

In the 1980s, Loris Stecca was the youngest world boxing champion in Italian sports history. An assault boxer capable of making television, audiences, and sponsors dream, he then fell into a downward spiral. Today, at 65, after serving an eight-year sentence for the attempted murder of his former business partner, he works as a garbage collector for a social cooperative. But his endless struggle continues, as he attempts to clear his name with the help of his daughter. Or perhaps Loris is simply trying to save his soul, guided by a spiritual mentor. The toughest opponent to beat is always the same: his own endless anger.

Hidayet Usta is a shoemaker in his early 80s who has made a living repairing shoes. Having separated from his wife years ago and with a strained relationship with his children, Hidayet lives alone, but contentedly in his own world.

The documentary interviews Nobel Peace Prize winners, diplomats, negotiators and former guerrilla fighters who have dedicated their lives to the task. How did their mediation successes come about and why did they fail? Peacemaking is both art and hard work.

Twelve-year-old Jools dreams of dancing with self-confidence. Together with Yorrith, a choreographer, she learns to shake off the gaze of others and dance freely.

This Film is a documentary film about the legacy of Hawaiian women Buddhists beginning with the life of Mary Mikahala Robinson Foster, lady in waiting to Queen Liliʻuokalani. While many have visited Foster Botanical Gardens in Honolulu, little has been known of her work to perpetuate the practice of Buddhism, even beyond Hawaiʻi, where she is revered in India and Sri Lanka for her contributions.

A documentary on music, art, manhood, and masculinity and where they collide.

A farmer from Zarzuela, Cuenca, writes a letter to extraterrestrials asking them to save the countryside on planet Earth.

The film tells the story of the grief surrounding a mother’s death, memories of loss, and the joy of summer cabin life in the Finnish lake landscape, drawn from 8 mm movies filmed by three generations.

While separating peanuts from their shells, the women in a collective in Agadez, Niger, talk to each other about the men passing by and the filmmaker being present. Focusing on their working hands, the camera reveals the harsh conditions of these women’s daily lives.

A mockumentary focused on an ESA at a college campus and her point of view about the students and their activities.

The Slave in Your Backyard exposes the hidden reality of human trafficking in everyday communities. Featuring survivor Heather Pagán and former trafficker Bruce, this documentary sheds light on the fight to end trafficking.

In 2014, Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West Little League became the first all-Black team to win the Little League U.S. Baseball Championship. Along the way, 13 twelve-year-old athletes from the South Side turned into media superstars—their faces were splashed across magazine covers and major TV networks, garnering them millions of fans around the country. They were even invited to the White House to meet President and Mrs. Obama. But it all came crashing down after a rival coach accused the team of breaking residential boundary rules.

After discovering more than 100 Super 8 reels in his great-aunt's basement, a young filmmaker reflects on the value of these movies and his family's legacy.

Against a green-screen backdrop, a group of children and adults ask themselves questions about their gender. In a natural space freed from normativity, the possibilities of rewriting the scripts of their lives become infinite. Acclaimed director Manuel Abramovich and his performers invite us into a dazzling new reality of desires and possible futures.

Join Tractor Ted and his real life farm friends Farmer Tom, Midge the dog and Merlin the pony as they discover what’s going on at the farm. Meet some children enjoying a birthday party and find out how blackcurrants are harvested. There are plenty of real tractors and big machines in action, farm animals to discover and catchy songs to sing-along to!

An essay film about stay-at-home moms and the work they do.

In July of 2021 there was a flood of catastrophic scope in the Ahrtal Region of Germany. 135 people lost their lives and countless others lost their possessions, their homes, their most treasured mementos. Three years later the reconstruction is progressing slowly. This is an attempt at exploring, what it means to irretrievably lose a part of ones’ past.

On a Sunday in Diadema, an alien wanders in a search for the Northeast elsewhere in the middle of the urban landscape.

This epic, sprawling documentary film follows changemakers and inspiring people living along the Ohio River valley-- across 5 states-- striving to make the area a better place.

"The remarkable true story of the world's most famous grizzly bear and the Scottish couple who raised him as their own" BBC.

Australia's most unusual triple-murder conviction – Why did Erin Patterson kill her lunch guests by serving them beef wellington laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms ?

It’s Carnival in Rio. A young man wanders through the streets of the city and the remains of the huge cardboard parade floats. Driven by grief over the bankruptcy of his samba school, he’s also haunted by memories of his dead father and a lost love. An impressive cinematic experiment composed of fragments of the present and the past, developed as part cinema, part art installation in the tropical setting of Rio.

Before unsung gay NYC exploitation maverick Andy Milligan died of AIDS, he cranked out grindhouse-ready shock and so-bad-it’s-good schlock movies throughout the late 1960s and ’70s. Yet, as captured in this fascinating documentary, his life and on-set persona were messy, complicated, and unforgettable.

Kari Uusitalo, a regular visitor to the Tampere Film Festival, delved into the state of Finnish cinema of the mid-1980s, while getting to know the new generation of filmmakers in Anssi Mänttäri's comedic short documentary. Deep in Reppufilmi's cellar, in addition to director Mänttäri, we meet Pirkko Hämäläinen, Markku Toikka, Matti Pellonpää, Paavo Piskonen and Pauli Pentti. The film poses the question: why is a person, an artist, willing to risk everything over and over again?

An apple harvester collects up apples that are given a good wash and the children make apple juice.

I recently rewatched a film Chantal Akerman made while living in New York. In it, we hear the letters her mother sent her from Europe while we see these long, static shots of the city. I thought about how I never really told you things. I’d say: this or that happened, but never: I’m sad, I miss home, I don’t know where I’m going, I’m happy, I’m in love, I love you. I thought about how often you asked me to stay in touch.

The Stone That Remembers interprets the Durga Mahisas-uramardini statue’s journey from its home, the Singhasari Temple, to the hands of colonizers, and various museums. The film follow the patriarchal displacement of a woman that represents the Durga, exploring the parallels between the fate of the statue and many women today.

Documentary celebrating 125 years of film in Zaragoza

For the first time in history, a quantum computer was installed at a university—in a century old chapel at the oldest engineering school in America. And along with it came the pitfalls, wonder, and adaptation that comes from doing something that’s never been done before.

During a stay in Egypt, Roman Pernack observes the revolutionary unrest on the streets and captures it with his camera. Contemporary history up close.

The hesitant strains of guitar music interwoven with secondhand shops and one physical therapist's recollections.