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Finnish artist Tuomas A. Laitinen’s Dossier of Tentacular is an unclassifiable, shape-shifting creature that sprawls like a cephalopod along wildly varied lines of inquiry. A network of intra-frame montage sets up formal rhymes and oblique associations between the organic and inorganic worlds, whereas, elsewhere, we stare down at a loose field of ideas animated on a notebook during an academic lecture. A dense, tantalising work exploring the mechanisms of knowledge production.

Jinguashih and Jiufen were once the biggest gold mining towns in Taiwan. As the collectors and amateur artists later came to this place, a community is gradually growing.

Documentary about the Estacion de Guiguinto.

Award-winning documentary about kids who filmed Super 8 epics in the '70s, a time when dinosaurs, aliens, and killer sharks ruled the backyard!

How does design activate a space? What motivates people to make it their own? The rejuvenation of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa preserves yet transforms a Brutalist performing arts complex from insular fortress for the arts to an engaging, connected centre.

Brief, acute observation on changing times in Pakistani society by photographer and filmmaker Madiha Aijaz using the former Theosophical Society Library in Karachi.

The town of Jalcomulco is known for adventure tourism and for being a reference for social struggle. The LGBT community tells us about the experience of being born, growing up and living in a peaceful, hardworking, but above all, solidary people.

'Thank You Mother' is a cinematic journey of surfing, simplicity and appreciation. It is a film that isn't afraid to be beautiful, stylish and sincere. Produced by Torren Martyn and Ishka Folkwell with an original soundtrack by Nick Bampton. 'Thank You Mother' is narrated by award winning Australian film maker and life long simplist Albert Falzon, who made the seminal 1970 surf film 'Morning of the Earth'. 'Thank You Mother' began as a story about the act of creating a surfboard and the art of riding one. Exploring the connection between surfer Torren Martyn and his friend, mentor and surfboard shaper Simon Jones of 'Morning of the Earth Surfboards'. This naturally led to the doorstep of another friend and mentor, Albert Falzon and the film became more about connection, creativity and friendship, about surfing, being happy, and living simply.

English football team, Dover Athletic are left to survive relegation from English football's non-league premier division, after losing their key players to larger clubs. First team manager, Chris Kinnear has to work with new, inexperienced players to try and retain Dover's 'National League' status.

Back Home is an autobiographical documentary about the filmmaker’s heart-rending personal journey to reconcile with her estranged mother, who is about to undergo hip surgery in Tokyo. Filmed mostly by the director herself, the story explores the complexity of the Mother-Daughter relationship, which had been strained over the years apart by physical and emotional distance.

For more than a quarter of a century, Russia has been conducting a peacekeeping operation in a conflict area between Transnistria and the Republic of Moldova. Starting from the observation of the trilateral “peacekeeping post” on the Dniester River, this documentary reflects the life in the region, which is sluggish under the supervision of the mission’s soldiers.

Send Me Home is a 360° portrait of Rickey Jackson, one of the longest-serving exonerees in U.S. history, in his surreal, new life post-prison.

Once upon a time In Vladivostok, Russia there lived an old woman. She lived all her life with her old man. They lived like two dogs. Biting each other all time. He told her: “Do not smoke, Olya!” She said to him: “Fuck U”. So they lived happily they had children and grandchildren too. They celebrated the New Year together, until one day the old woman died. And the fairy tale here is not the end. That’s where all the fun begins. How to live further?

Trump your genetics and increase your quality of life. Growing Young is an exciting new documentary that will shatter the way you look at the aging process. Watch 78-year-old, Dr. Life share his secrets to maintaining optimal health, bulging biceps, and washboard abs. Also learn from the most visible man in American media, Tony Horton, as he shares with us how to slow down our internal biological "aging clocks." This documentary features the top anti-aging doctors and fitness experts that reveal what pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know.

On the subject of circuses during wartime, illustrations and more are shown.

'Ixoq' ('Woman' in Kaqchikel-the local Mayan language) A young Guatemalan mother dreams of a better future for her son, when an organization (Konojel) fighting malnutrition opens its doors, allowing her to support her family and become a role model to the women in her community.

With silent conflict brewing within young and old Latinx alike, god fearing macho facades must fall. Mental health is not a curse. No es brujeria.

Creeping through the pitch black of Oran.

The film researches problems and possibilities of building a cultural dialogue in Eastern Ukrainian cities. The film crew analyzes the multicultural history of the region, difficulties in cultural self-realization and attempts to make the dialogue more efficient. The film doesn't give the exact answers, but tries to create space for unbiased discussion about the culture of the East of Ukraine.

In the half-light of a basement, Quai des Orfèvres, is a reconstructed crime scene. Aurore, in her protective suit, snaps away; she is training. Yves and Thierry, her instructors, have been with "the firm" for ages, they know the job inside-out. Photographing a crime scene requires technique, a particular angle for evidence, a certain approach to space. A little-known profession, but one essential to justice: forensic photographer.

A documentary that follows the life of jazz bassist Ben Tucker who changed the face of Savannah. Arriving in 1971, this African-American bass player created Schoolhouse Rock, opened Hard Hearted Hannah’s, and wrote “Comin’ Home Baby.” His passion for music and love of Savannah bridged a very wide racial gap.

A journey through journeys. A tribute to parents. A self-portrait.

It is a story of three areas in Negros Occidental struggling to uphold their right to land and food security.

Nang has written her own script. Born in the Trinidadian village of Basse Terre in 1934, she grew up poor, illegitimate, mixed-race and female, but she survived by defying convention. She left the first of five husbands when he cheated on her. With no formal training, she danced with choreographer Geoffrey Holder, who later won Tony Awards for The Wiz. In her twenties, she went to work in the Orinoco delta in Venezuela, and saved enough to buy a house. She started university in New York in her 40s. Stubbornness, resourcefulness and resilience have allowed Nang to surmount life’s scars and tragedies. As her many changes of first and last names suggest, she was constantly reinventing herself. In this vivid portrait, filmmaker Richard Fung gets to know his first cousin at her current home in New Mexico and on the road in Trinidad.

TV Movie aired on "RMC Décourverte". Summary: On October 13, 1917, at 5 a.m. in the Cova da Iria meadow in Portugal, tens of thousands of people arrived from all over the country. They are waiting in the rain for a so-called miracle announced 3 months earlier by a woman who would have appeared to 3 children. This miracle would be linked to a secret, which would have been entrusted by the Virgin to the three young shepherds on the same day and which fuels controversy and concern. 4 years of investigation and filming in 13 countries were necessary to finally lift the veil on this secret which has terrified the greatest world government, the Vatican, for 101 years.

A public market serving the daily need of the local working class community has existed in Poplar at Chrisp Street since Victorian times. In 1951, the market underwent a significant redesign by modernist architect Sir Frederick Gibberd, in celebration of the Festival of Britain, creating the UK’s first pedestrianised shopping centre. After years of managed decline, regeneration is looming for Chrisp Street Market. A Registered Social Landlord, a property developer, and a Labour authority seek to create their vision of “the New Shoreditch”, with a brief to “change the social mix” of this 9-acre site, situated in the shadow of Canary Wharf, no matter the cost to the established community.

The new masters of the universe refuse to limit their imaginations, exploring space tourism, asteroid mining, and colonies on Mars.

This 2018 documentary investigates the role of state governments and Wall Street in driving America’s public pensions into a multi-trillion-dollar hole. Producers Marcela Gaviria and Nick Verbitsky and correspondent Martin Smith trace how state governments have withheld pension contributions to cover shortfalls and waged risky bets on Wall Street. Smith goes inside the volatile fight over pensions in Kentucky, a state whose once-flush pension system for its police, firefighters, teachers and other public workers became one of the worst-funded in the nation.

The moving story of Katie Stubblefield who, at 21 years old, became the youngest American woman to receive a full-face transplant following a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2014.

September 11, 2001 devastated the lives of countless people and changed the world. Two planes hijacked by supporters of the Islamist terrorist network al-Qaeda crashed into the towers of New York's World Trade Center. A third plane flew into the Pentagon, another was crashed in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people have to die. Contemporary witnesses recount the experiences of September 11th from their perspective.

Silience at LFEST is a crowd-created iPhone short film that was created by participants in an iPhone filmmaking workshop at LFEST lesbian arts festival in 2017.

Freedom in the Dark takes the viewer to Botswana’s metal music scene and introduces its charming individuals and unique bands. It follows Mosaka and his motley crew to their annual Winter Mania Festival, a fundraising concert for disadvantaged children. The documentary tells a story about brotherhood among the metalheads and about the "rock n' roll freedom" that encourages individuals to help the less privileged despite the common opinion.

Commissioned by No Bound’s Festival artistic director. ‘Final Sheffield’ portrays the ethos of the event in a non traditional way and exists as a piece of work that can speak on it’s own.

Analía Kalinec wakes up every day knowing that her father is responsible for the death and disappearance of thousands of people. This is the story of a father-daughter relationship destroyed by the cruelest acts that human beings can perform.

For six decades, actor Sven Wollter has enchanted us on stage. As Gusten in Hemsöborna and drang in Raskens, in countless roles on our theater stages and in films such as Mannen på taket and En sång för Martin. In this documentary, Ann Victorin takes Sven Wollter to former filming locations and takes a journey back through a theatrical life that is unparalleled.

What lies beyond that blackened memories? Our memories are infected by violent images that are infused into our imaginary. This film is an intervention of Tlatelolco, to take back this public space and heal its memories of murder.

A startling new documentary from director Sam Callis examining creativity and mental health through the eyes of the brilliant stand up comedian Terry Alderton and filmed over the course of a year.

An interview with S.T. Joshi, author of I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft.

Documentary about a stay in Japan.

A young artist works toward his future during a transitional period in his life.

A desert which posesses the origin of life on Earth. An unending fight to protect it. Could education be the key to it's salvation?

The film examines the eternal conflict between good and evil. Two main characters try to keep their home town on the path to democracy. Crushed between two evils they make the greatest sacrifice.

Many believe Bigfoot doesn't exist, but to those who have seen it, there is no question - Bigfoot is real. Encounters with this elusive and strange creature have changed the lives of those who experience its presence, but it has been linked to the death of farm animals, pets and even the disappearance of people. There is definitely a living, breathing creature lurking in the backwoods and swamps of North America but to find any elusive animal you have to know what to look for, as well as knowing its behavior in order to hunt it.

Time passes for everyone, we see it on our skin. For nature it is different, it transforms, changes and goes on without stopping. Inexorable, and we need only adapt

Kathy Acker's writing, and a seminal portrait of her taken by intersex photographer Del LaGrace Volcano, provide a lens through which to explore trans subjectivity and the queering of cinema. Pol Merchan's hybrid doc fluidly moves from the documentation of the punk era to a more performative exploration of gender.

Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 is a documentary feature film about the false information and political influences which led to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Alternative Facts sheds light on the people and politics that influenced the signing of the infamous Executive Order 9066 which authorized the mass incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans. The film will expose the lies used to justify the decision and the cover-up that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Alternative Facts will also examine the parallels to the current climate of fear, attitudes towards immigrant communities, and similar attempts to abuse the powers of the government.

Aurélien, a close friend of the director, is diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. He lives in fragile stability and in constant confrontation. In Quelle folie, he either confronts the camera or is confronted with the crowds that fill the streets of Pamplona during the festival of San Fermín to face the bulls running aimlessly.