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"Poetry is the divisor, before it repression, after her freedom", thus recites the poet evanilson alves, "sarau of the jaguar - poetry of broken" documents the poetic sarau that happens every fortnight in sussuarana, periphery of Salvador. On stage birth abdias, women and men in poetry saw ounces in the jungle of the Bahia capital.

A portrait of a mother and daughter - one living in Sweden and the other in Somalia - who correspond by letter to one another.

Sold-out stadiums, the roar of the fans, oceans of alcohol and easy-going friends... isn't that the life of a rock 'n' roller? But what's left when your friends abandon you, the fans find new idols and you find a court summons on a murder charge in your mailbox? This film tells the story of the life of the drummer for the cult Soviet band Zoopark.

From 1884 to 1914, a small belt of land between the British Gold Coast Colony and French-governed Dahomey was part of the German overseas empire in Africa. "Togoland", the later Togo and the eastern part of today's Ghana, experienced the first German capitulation in the early days of WWI. European rule left its marks on people's minds, even more than a century after the forced pull-out of one of the major European players in the competitive "great colonial game" and more than half a century after the African Independences. Lomé - Adibo - Yendi - Kamina - Wahala: present-day glimpses of a journey into the past.

This is the Queensbury Tunnel Society's vision for the 2020s: a network of shared paths linking Bradford, Halifax and Keighley, with a rejuvenated Queensbury Tunnel as its centrepiece. These paths would improve connectivity for commuters, tempt tourists to visit the many attractions within easy reach and, critically, deliver a social and economic uplift to the area. But without Queensbury Tunnel, a significant proportion of the potential benefits will be lost. We have to save this remarkable and historic structure before concrete suffocates it.

Sintayehu Tesale is an Ethiopian carpenter. But not only. He is an inspiring person; one of those who leave a mark on you when you meet him. He is persevering, he is positive, he boosts your strength, he encourages you to stand up. He is, in summary, a motivational person. Maybe, part of this strength comes from his own struggles, from his own experience, from the fact that he is one of the few carpenters in the world who does not use his hands, but his feet, due to an undiagnosed disability. This is the story of Sintayehu, the story of his life.

Abraham Bojórquez - Ukamau Y Ké - developed hop hop in the Aymara language and with his rebellious lyrics, shook up Latin American society in the early 21st century. At the cusp of his musical career he died violently the same day he finished recording his second record. Years later, his friend, the rapper and documentarian, Andrés Ramírez returns to Bolivia to uncover the reasons for his death and to find him among the Andean circular temporality. In this surreal journey, Ukamau y Ké is revived through archival footage, testimonials and in dreams.

Yellowstone National Park has 4 seasons that can change at any time. Summer is for eating…. Fall is for mating… Winter is for surviving ….and Spring is for re- birth.

Lemonade Joe, The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians, Dinner for Adele, The and the Golem - These and other Czech cinematography film hits have on thing in common: Jirí Brdecka. The Screenwriter, writer and cartoonist Brdecka was known in Czechoslovakia for his cooperation with Jirí Trnka, Jan Werich or Oldrich Lipský, and became a worldwide famous and respected director of animated films. But who was he in reality? Where did he seek inspiration and where did his rich inner world come from? How did he fight the non-free political regime and manage to show the world his free and timeless creation? Director Miroslav Janek gradually penetrates the interior of one of the most prominent personalities of Czech film and presents to the audience a miraculous world of animated paintings, graphics, oils, watercolors, frescoes and mosaics. On Christmas Eve in 2017, Jirí Brdecka would celebrate his 100th birthday.

A story about democracy, human rights, and what it means to stand up for your values in America today. On January 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands of women marched on Washington, DC. That same day, hundreds of sister marches took place across the country and around the world.

In rural Ghana, Clara faces the challenges of teaching, as her students discover the happiness of having wheels.

Raška č’byla is an authentic type of onion which was initiated by the grandfather of Melania Trump. The people of a small village are very proud of it and are eagerly promoting its qualities.

Emile Ghessen follows western volunteers as they travel to Iraq and Syria to fight ISIS to find out what motivates them to pick up arms.

Who would say that in the early 90s, when hip-hop itself was developing in the USA, a bunch of kids from the other side of the ocean were intensely listening to Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang Clan, Cypress Hill or De La Soul? And who would say that these same kids literally from the other side of the world, influenced by those artists, were starting to create a strong and lively hip-hop culture in Porto, Portugal? In a journey that begins in the late 80s when the first echoes of American hip-hop began to shyly arrive in Portugal through television (MTV), movies ("Style Wars", "Beat Street") and radio, the documentary takes a deep look at the history and memories of Porto's rap culture until today.

Through a guided meditation performed by a hypnotherapist, viewers are invited to construct a 'memory palace' as they experience Walter Gropius's iconic Fagus Factory. The film offers an opportunity to soothe anxieties around technology's effects on the body and workplace, and to consider the relationship between memory and architecture.

Dive deep into the story of freestyle skiing, its origins, and how it continues to develop. In the fluid style of a top-to-bottom run that reaches across eras, take a thrilling ride through history.

Centuries ago, from the centre of the greatest empire on earth, the Mongolian war machine was unleashed southward to defeat and conquer what today is China. This is the story of the will of a great Mongol Khan, of two unyielding adversaries and a siege that changed world history.

Between two rock formations, machines unveiled traces of life from the Jurassic period, despite the gap between them some similarities are still perceptible.

There are over 150 white-painted bicycles chained up throughout New York City. Each bike represents a cyclist killed in traffic - each is placed at the scene of the crash. Mirza puts up the bikes. He remembers these fallen cyclists when everyone else seems to have forgotten them.

"Let's Not Pretend" is a film by Riley Bartolomeo about acclaimed artist Susan Calza. This documentary follows this award and fellowship grant winning artist to discover the autobiographical stories which lay beneath her art. Moreover, the film emphasizes the importance of art in our communities, country and world!

A poetic visual elegy celebrating life in the time of death. The film reveals the elaborate rituals of a traditional Chinese "Happy Funeral" for a 104-year-old foot-bound woman in Yunnan Province, southern China. An investigation into the secret of longevity tracing the wisdom of Buddhism.

The story of two young girls, Janna Ayyad (9 years old), and A'hed Tamimi (14 years old), that live under military occupation in Nabi Saleh, Palestine.

Begun in a three-week seminar at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in October 2016, seventeen of us began an excavation together, immersing ourselves in a selection of Red Cross shorts made over nearly a century in countries round the world. This nearly wordless feature-length ensemble has five parts/chapters: The Man Who Stopped Time (Greece), Disappearances (Switzerland), Photo Shoot Location Yemen (Yemen), Beirut Grammar (Lebanon) and Mine Clearing (Mozambique). Each chapter adopts a different formal strategy in order to open up a new conversation with these picture remains, sometimes scribbling over the pictures, or re-presenting the material as a series of friezes, fading every shot, or slowly accumulating them. The hope is time travel, to venture to the other side of the image.

Microscopic landscapes of Vancouver, Canada.

A retrospective of the Vegas shootings

Description by Ken Jacobs: Get Up and Go is a glimpse given dimension. No day is complete without a visit to Chinatown and on this day my movie camera caught a woman rising from a bench. That’s all (the obvious influence is James Joyce's Ulysses). Malcolm Goldstein’s violin takes us to the edge.

Between 1971 and 2005 on a small sicilian island in the Mediterrean sea, north of Palermo, an extraordinary phenomenon developed. In just over 30 years, a surprising parabola of the locally known "Hit and Run" game took place, which is more widely known as baseball. In the peak of this event, during the 90s, the small island of about a thousand inhabitants hosted two sport teams: Ustica Baseball Club and Ustica Softball Club, both at their respective national levels. A sporting and social ferment that led, among the ranks of the Italian softball national team, a Ustica's athlete at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Throughout the years, this phenomenon attracted the interest of journalists, baseball professionals and enthusiasts, which made Ustica famous as the Island of the Baseball.

In Muay Thai, League, and life - you have to fight to win. Especially when there’s a championship on the line. Tanet “Jacky” Puangngoen is a Muay Thai boxer and League of Legends player with over 3,000 games as Darius. FIGHT follows Jacky’s journey as he competes in the Hong Kong Muay Thai Championship.

Guo Jie is one of the estimated 277 million rural migrant workers in China. In Shanghai, Guo Jie buys and collects styrofoam boxes from markets selling fresh produce. She takes them to a seafood wholesale market where she resells them to wholesalers who will store fish in the boxes.

A short documentary about the village of Moniave.

An investigation into the hauntings at the Rectory and Church.

"We, the Yazidis, became doves. Doves without wings", says Hedil. Stranded with her family in a Yazidi refugee camp in Eastern Turkey, she reminisces about her former life in Northern Iraq and recounts the horrors of her escape. The film follows two families' attempts at normality in an otherwise miserable place. (ML)

In an abandoned valley, one village's precarious attempt to survive offers a series of reflections on our changing relationship with the countryside and as such with the natural world itself.

Accra Power focuses on the creative and artistic strategies of young Ghanaians situated at the crossroads of tradition and various belief systems, high technological and economic growth, infrastructural deficits and current energy crisis.

A documentary about the duck farmer Khaiti Hallstein, who follows her dream of owning a small farm after her mother’s death. She is driven by a desire to have a voice in food production and find her true calling.

Across a series of increasingly surreal flashbacks, an extended Indigenous family argues about what caused their boat’s motor to breakdown and leave them stranded. As they consider the causal roles played by ancestral spirits, the regulatory state and the Christian faith, the film makes manifest the multiple demands and inescapable vortexes of contemporary Indigenous life.

Det Voldelige Teater / The Violent Theater is a short documentary portraying the lives of the two danish wrestlers Michael Fynne and Christian "Tank" Vester. Both wrestlers are part of the Aarhus based wrestling promotion, Bodyslam! Pro-Wrestling. The film is the bachelor project of Frank Rosgaard Olsen and Andreas Brink Vestergaard at the film school Multiplatform Storytelling and Production.

Documentary which shows several court cases in which Dutch people try to get debts erased by the court.

Erna and Dževad are the owners of a pub in the vicinity of a steel mill, a complex that used to be one of the largest of its kind in Eastern Europe. Taking place one week before the pub’s official closedown, the film follows a series of conversations between visitors and frequent guests, who discuss the ways of reaching Germany – a new utopia of former socialist workers.

Elliot, Ursula, Winn, and Peter have all discovered something about themselves that requires changes both inwardly and outwardly. They have an undeniable need to be outwardly what they understand themselves to be inwardly. Living in Austin, each must find a way to the truth of themselves. This requires conversations with family and friends and dealing with school and work environments. Fortunately, trans identity is more visible than ever—the subject of television shows, talked about in the media, and tied up in controversial legislation—but films that take us directly into the lives of trans youth are rare. Trans Youth closely follows Elliot, Ursula, Winn, and Peter and other subjects as they navigate both the tumult and the ecstasy of growing up, letting us get to know them as individuals rather than stereotypes.

Spanning years of correspondence and three separate trips to Nunavut, Alan Zweig's latest documentary navigates issues of culture and identity with his pen-pal and semi-reluctant guide, Tatanniq Idlout, a.k.a. Inuk rock singer Lucie Idlout.

The story of the Israeli actor and holocaust survivor Shmuel Wolf and his wife, Miki Marmor, from the point of view of their daughter, who documented the last 4 years of her father's life. A personal and profound film dealing with old age, parenthood, love and art.

What's with the sudden boom of independent designers and small publishers creating tabletop games? This film tells their stories.

Where do art, politics and subversive acts collide? Finding Heaven Under Our Feet: Making Modern Dance, a feature-length documentary film, is a journey through time. Choreographer and dance historian, Dr. Jody Weber describes the roots of modern dance in the expressive dance movement of 19th century Boston, illustrating the art form's ties to the early 20th century women's rights movement. Seeing herself as an heir to these early innovators, Weber works with her Somerville-based dance company to address the elusive nature of the genre through community engagement, audience education and the ability of artists to use their work to tackle social and cultural issues, such as climate change and our relationship with the planet.

The Alaska Effect: a shortform, run-and-gun style piece that is one part odd, two parts ice- a Good Enough documentary film.

A documentary exploring the short-lived but influential Los Angeles based budget record label, Crown Records.

A group of young men shoot off fireworks, get drunk, take mushrooms, and dance around a fire over the course of a day and night in the woods of northeastern Pennsylvania.