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In an age where immigration has become a heated and divisive subject, this is a personal and true story of one immigrants journey to the United States From Honduras and the hardships that come with it.

Propelled by terse, dialectical montage, Överföringsdiagram Nr 1 invokes the process of knowledge production through acts of both destruction and restoration. Images of a machine shredding books are interspersed with archival material from a Maoist life and animated sequences representing the reconstitution of destroyed DDR documents. Lina Selander and Oscar Mangione craft a stark, densely structured essay shot through with a sense of political disillusionment, but rich with secondary associations.

This Short Documentary is about the History of the cuisine of the North Indian state of Rajasthan.

Li Sheng Zhao was born in a landlord family in Sichuan. He used to be a soldier, and then became a student in the Department of Economics at Sichuan University in the spring of 1961. After he became a rightist, Mr. Li was escorted to his hometown of Long Chang County in Sichuan province. He observed that people were dying with hunger in his way to hometown. With his investigative experience in army, Mr. Li was called for conscience and justice, and started a private investigation. He braved the risk of death to write this hunger report to the central party committee leaders, requesting them to take measures to save the country. Although he received a reply from Ma Yin Chu, the former president of Peking University, and Deng Zi Hui, the former vice premier of the State Council, this did not prevent him from becoming a counter-revolutionary and getting into jail for 18 years.

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On the bus, listen to the noises of the daily commute until they become sounds. Then, read Tagore's poem, the one where he is brutally reminded of compassion, empathy, fraternity. So that blurry and indistinct faces in the same bus become sharp again.

Documentary encouraging the inter-generational dialogue about political event's impact on family lives in Czechoslovakia over the 20th century where the regime changed over four times in a hundred years. This film focuses on the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, which has many similarities with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A year in the life of a wildlife bridge over a busy highway in southern Finland, showing the animals crossing over and the traffic flowing under.

Discovered in the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa in 1995 by Palaeo scientist Ron Clarke, this is the story of a twenty-one-year excavation of the most complete Ape woman fossil skeleton ever found in the history of the world.

Hichem holds a higher technician’s certificate in computer science. Originally from Redeyef, he illegally crossed the Mediterranean to Italian island Lampedusa in October 2017 in search of a better future far from his hometown where job opportunities are almost non-existent. But after a month, he was forcibly deported. A year later, Hichem went to meet his fellowflight attendants in different regions of Tunisia. The scars of this bitter experience are resurfacing.

The Chernobyl disaster was one of the most terrible man-made disasters to occur on the European continent in the last century. The disaster had many appalling consequences, both physical and psychological, and affected people all over the world, including in the Balkans. In Macedonia, the Chernobyl disaster affected different people in different ways. The documentary Why Me? Includes interviews with people in Macedonia who have been affected by radiation. The documentary illustrates the negative effects of nuclear energy and shows that its consequences affect people of all ethnicities and religions.

When Freddie Mercury pulled out of his interview with Bill Grundy on the Today show at the last minute, The Sex Pistols stepped in to take his place... the rest is history. And so was Bill Grundy. People who were there tell the behind the scenes story of one of the first televised F words on British TV.

Human hands can be both destructive and healing, Jeffrie Po suggests in his experimental film with spiritual outreach. He portrays a human being as a faun who roams the jungle dauntlessly, yet is destructive. The forest with vanishing cattle becomes a battlefield between dark powers and the power of salvation.

District of El Salado, Ibagué Tolima, in the fifties. Lucila Perdomo arrives in the sector fleeing from violence and a dark past. Her knowledge of traditional medicine, added to a rumor of abortion practices and witchcraft, would soon become recognized in the sector, condemning her to isolation and loneliness.

The film reveals an unknown period in Sheikh Imam’s life and his first journey after a long ban. And how a group of young Tunisians in France were interested in making his first record and persevered to meet their favorite artist, who sang with their voice and ideas and formed the awareness of the audience. The film also reveals the Sheikh's separation from his companion Ahmed Fouad Nagem. We see that the Sheikh still lives in their hearts as being present in their revolution and became popular even to the new generations in Tunisia.

Humorous and often poignant accounts of gay bars as important venues for community, organizing, sex, and safety. This film reveals the threat to queer culture of our disappearing social spaces.

A documentary on the film Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

Featuring footage from every day at the gala, which was held from the 24th June to the 1st July, this 6 disc set features 17 locomotives in action throughout the 8 days

Survivors testify how, after coming to power in 1933, Hitler systematically eliminated all political opposition in Germany and then proceeded to eliminate the Jewish community and everyone else who in any way questioned the Nazi regime.

Exploring how community forms in gender-segregated spaces, “J’Adore Nawal” joins a group of Muslim women in a suburban Illinois hair salon.

32° is a 12-minute film about the economic impact of climate change on the Appalachian ski industry. Plus, it offers insight into what the future holds for a sport threatened by global warming. It was made with my co-director, Dustin Foote. 32° was an official selection at the River Run International Film Festival, the Environmental Film Festival at Yale, the Boone Film Festival, Long Leaf Festival and Dumbo Film Festival.

Gigi, Marie-Claude, and Jocelyne. Three retirees whose daily lives could be peaceful. But the trials and tribulations of life have decided otherwise. Widowed or divorced, they are single. A word they endure every day. In the land of fairy tales, "Rêve de princesse" tells the story of women who, at the dawn of their lives, face one of the taboos of our society: love after 60.

Sadness is a short-film dedicated to the things in life that make you sad, though when you think about it, really shouldn't.

Based on Ukrainian works of art of the late 1920s and early 1930s, the film explores the paradoxes of the formation of Soviet socialist realism.

Writer Mikhail Prishvin kept a secret diary for almost 50 years, from 1905 to 1954. This is a unique chronicle of the life of the country, evidence of the most complex relations between the state and a person trying to understand his time. The film tells about Prishvin's trip to the White Sea Canal and an attempt to write an honest book about this construction site.

For rent or sale, prosperity counts. I’m still waiting. Noise of construction continues. I’m falling asleep. Bright future is coming. Leader says.

A documentary about the senior citizens of Saipan.

"Pajubá" is a language created by black LGBTs as a mode of resistance. Given this, the present short film seeks to rescue the reality of people who experience in their own skin the strength of intersectionality between race, gender and sexuality in the São Francisco Valley region.

H8000 hardcore is a household name in hardcore and punk worldwide. Documented here for the very first time in vivid detail, to prevent the memories from evaporating as time flies by. More than 25 years down the line, H8000 proves to be one of the most significant exponents ever to emerge from Belgian youth culture. Its spirit and influence still lingers on…

About the farewells we wish for. A father leaves his three daughters, unexpectedly, without saying goodbye. In this film, the director and oldest daughter explores all the imaginary encounters she had with a father that never came back.

In this program, film scholar and author Matthew Bernstein discusses the life and unusual career of producer Walter Wanger, who greenlighted Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Filmmaker Kyle Anne Grendys is only the 75th person to be born with the rare, recessive gene disorder called Fraser Syndrome. Having always felt alone in the world, she sets out on a journey to find her community and finally meets others just like her.

Combining the arts of animation and marbling with real images, Zigzag focuses on the story of a woman in a headscarf who is stranded in the middle of the sea on a mixed beach.

Sharks may be at the top of the ocean food chain, but catching a meal isn’t always straightforward or easy. Here's the top 10 shark hunting strategies!

Mystery of the Mountain: Hidden In Plain View chronicles a most intriguing and remarkable story, and explores the question: what if one of the world's largest pyramids is waiting to be unearthed in Mexico?

For 50 years a family archive sat in the dark, until Rotem persuaded her mother Varda to watch her childhood anew

This documentary follows the lives and struggles of two Haitian activists over the years. Like two individual brushstrokes, their stories draw the shadow of an outline, the impossible impressionist painting that is Haiti.

Gay Now takes a look at marriage, relationships and culture through the eyes of modern gay people and the LGTB movement.

The condition of distance, genetic to the ethnographic image, traces the elusive qualities of my mother’s past and persona.

RapThai introduces how rap culture has taken root in and influenced contemporary Thai society. Focusing on the synergy between Thai culture and rap music tradition, this documentary homes in on the stories of 12 Thai rappers and presents a unique look at the different styles they express through their life experiences.

Johannesburg is considered the most uranium-contaminated city in the world. Waste dumps from around 600 abandoned mines sit next to residential communities, blowing polluted dust into homes and contaminating the soil and water supplies. To get a sense of the sheer extent of the problem, Martin Boudot and his team of researchers investigate. Equipped with a Geiger counter, they uncover some dangerous realities...

The film retraces the origins, history, habits and traditions of the Roma people but also tells the direct experience of some of the people who belong to it.

Searching for Winnetou explores the controversy surrounding cultural appropriation of Indigenous culture in an innovative, hilarious, unnerving, yet inspiring way. For years Drew Hayden Taylor, prolific playwright and author of dozens of Canadian-Indigenous books, has noticed a high proportion of German tourists visiting Canada, many who have come looking for a real "Indianer" experience (what Germans call the North American Native lifestyle). Inevitably, almost every one of these Germans will relate stories of Winnetou: Germany's most famous, but mythical, Apache warrior. Winnetou was their childhood hero. As one museum curator explained: "Winnetou is like Superman for the German people". Fascinated with this phenomenon Taylor spent last summer in Germany trying to uncover the over 100-year roots of its Winnetou obsession. There Taylor revealed camps where thousands of Germans dress and attempt to live like Indigenous people.

The acclaimed Cuban duo performs classic hits in a stunning performance along the majestic Havana shoreline.

Hans Sleutelaar (1935-2020) was sometimes referred to as 'the silent poet'. In this documentary he is over eighty, and after decades on the roam, he has returned to his birthplace, Rotterdam. There he is regarded as a legend, and that surprises him. Sleutelaar wants to write one last poem for his recently deceased wife, but how much time does he have left?

Nelson Pereira dos Santos talks about The Highway of Life (1980)

The train ride becomes an inner journey as the filmmaker recollects the memories of his grandmother who turns 100, the film becomes a gift.

Fifty years ago in Mexico, a social movement culminated in one of the largest student massacres in the world. The Appearances explores the social heritage of those events.