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A meditation on sleep and solitude. An elderly woman wakes up from a mysteriously long slumber and struggles to live her normal routine.

Story of a team of palliative care nurses from a small hospital and volunteer doctors from the U.S. who care for villagers with little access to medical treatment, where pain and suffering are often endured rather than relieved, and where people with life-threatening illnesses turn to traditional healers-herbalists, bone setters and witch doctors- hoping for a cure.

The Penan people fight for the preservation of the rainforest, that is threatened by companies seeking to profit from the destruction of their environment.

An inside look at the iconic list of the TIME magazine with the 100 most influential people across the world.

Paint & Plastic [a mini documentary] examines the big world of miniature painting and the impact it’s had on the lives of those in it.

Feature documentary exploring the fifty years of artistic contribution of the daring Syrian auteur Muhammad Malas.

The documentary “Not One Less” records the clash in Hong Kong Island on 31st August, 2019, and the assembly on Mid-Autumn festival night supporting protestors in custody. The protests initiated by the "Extradition Bill" has continued for more than 100 days. In this period, over 1000 citizens were arrested, a number of people committed suicide, and there are rumors that some protestors are missing. In the clash scene, protestors strive to protect their comrades from being isolated. After the clash, they still care about their comrades in custody. On the mid-autumn festival night, they sang loudly outside the Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre, to let their comrades know that they were not abandoned.

Considering sound over language, Colleen Pesci’s Cat Secrets explores the purr of a cat, its frequency and hum, as a method of healing. Cat Secrets’ narrator spends much time in the bath, exploring what a body should do to heal, a practical sensibility with an intimate home movie feel.

An audiovisual essay on Jorge Eduardo Eielson and his relationship with Lima, framed in the context of mandatory confinement.

An Eternalism film.

Ten years ago The Daily Telegraph began publication of an investigation known as The Expenses Files. It was described as the biggest political scandal of the past 30 years and its effects have been felt ever since. The men and women who helped bring the scandal to light have never spoken. Until now.

AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is the spearhead of the pro-Israeli lobby in the U.S. What started out as a liberal grassroots organization, has become one of the most influential lobby organizations in America. For the past 60 years, AIPAC has maintained a strict "no interview" policy, but now, for the first time, the founding fathers of AIPAC are speaking out - granting us full access to the untold story of the organization and to the turbulent relationship between Israel and the US.

Byeong-man, a farmer whose father was enslaved during Japan's occupation of Korea, protests the Japanese government's claim over the disputed island territory of Dokdo. Kyeong Sook, a woman who lived on Dokdo with her father, struggles to keep his legacy alive after the Korean government mysteriously erased their history. Set in the unresolved trauma of the Japanese occupation of Korea, Land of My Father (아버지의 땅) is a story about two lives that are intertwined with a remote disputed island.

"In Concert" is a 3 screen experimental film about the human species ongoing troubled relationship with nature.

Salvo is turning 40. He lives on a hill with his parents and looks after his goldfinches. Through fragments of silence, the film composes the portrait of a solitude.

White fog is slowly moving from left to right. A man cleans his workwear from a vanishing distance with an air hose. Three trembling steel cables emerge from a grey metal building. A large dump truck with a full load passes by. In a deeply green forest landscape there is a dark monolith. You can hear jingling metal noises from the off, which cause a spreading echo. A white cargo helicopter is slowly approaching for landing. A dredger moves in a circle on the surface of the water. In "Objects and Artifacts", various pictorial elements come into contact with each other in a situational manner and create a friction surface that deals with forms of a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Documentary of the making of the Porcupine Tree album In Absentia

Covid-19 has changed the sound landscape for the Mexicans. Filmmakers Leslie Montero y Rodrigo Pérez Galicia share how Mexico City’s streets sound like during the 2020 coronavirus quarantine.

Thirteen women, one photo. And a search for women who, in 1983, in a drought in the Pajeú hinterland of Pernambuco, fought for the right to survival, in a context where being a woman was limited to the function of managing misery.

The chaos on the streets of Vancouver that unfolded in the wake of the Canucks’ loss in the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals is revisited from dozens of perspectives.

How to create history through the denial of it, the process of decommunisation in Ukraine has created different types of wounds, art and architecture have been the first to suffer these changes and become objects of oblivion, the animation expresses this discrepancy between modern society and the pieces of forgotten history.

The first in the Exodus series, following the epic journey of millions of wildebeest in East Africa

The Sand Creek Massacre on 29 November 1864: More than 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho were murdered by the U.S. Cavalry. Ignorant hand-downs from the past and the omnipresence of statues glorifying murderers are juxtaposed with an empty museum of indigenous history for which there is no funding. This film against forgetting by a white female director also examines its own position: she talks frankly with descendants of the survivors – many of whom are choosing a scientific approach to history.

Esma is a 14 year old kickboxing-talent with big dreams of becoming the world's greatest fighter. But she also carries with her the constant fear of losing her ill mother. Esma seeks solace in kickboxing and works hard to prepare for the toughest match ever. But what do you fight for when your future looks both grim and bright?

Four years ago, sailing competitor Guo Chuan, who was sailing across the Pacific Ocean in a solo sailboat, lost contact with the shore team after 3pm on the 25th when sailing to the waters near Hawaii.

An unlikely partnership between a Veteran's Non-profit group and a Commercial Artist leads them to discover an untold story of pain and loss from the Viet Nam war in the wreckage of an old Huey helicopter which leads to unexpected results.

Ela and Yaz are two young women who, despite not knowing each other, have a common history. Both went through an event during childhood that would mark their lives.

The official video yearbook of the 2018 Philadelphia Phillies season

This short film chronicles the first ever detection of gravitational waves - more than 100 years after Einstein predicted them. It was a discovery that literally shook the world (ever so slightly!).

YouTuber Kendall Rae dives into The Christian Andreacchio case.

In Cosplay one portrays a character from a manga, anime, comic, video game, etc. as closely as possible to the original through costume, mask, accessories and behavior.

A powerful story of the 2019 Parkway North Junior Vikings 8th Grade Team as they strive to become 3 time champions. Despite their differences while learning life lessons through the game of football join together as one team, one vision, one community.

Most of the footage can be seen in the NobodySurf Originals series that I made for them. This is a unique collaboration with Jitzuwa Finder, who makes custom soundtracks for NobodySurf Originals. Also, I added footage that never made it to the series to come up with something new and exciting. Aloha and Mahalo Tatsuo Takei

As the United States further militarizes its border with Mexico, the Tohono O’odham tribe in southern Arizona grapples with the encroaching surveillance technologies being implemented on its land under the eye of an increasingly watchful Border Patrol.

Racial profiling by police is a recurring problem in our society for people of color. Our documentary film shows two main characters, Demitrius and Niaja, who experienced racial profiling as young teenagers. Demitrius was followed, stopped and searched based on what he was wearing. While this experience affected Demitrius’ identity--how he dresses, walks and presents himself it also made him curious about black history and the roots of racial profiling.

This thoughtful portrait shows Indigenous people living with HIV who are fighting the stigma of intersectional, intergenerational trauma by connecting to traditional spirituality.

The narrator in the moving image work "GALAXY" is technology itself. "GALAXY" tells the story of the brief encounter of the two characters Touch and Long Swipe. The story is generated by an algorithm and offers an interpretation of an encounter of love and disappointment. Small deviations in the language and the narrative logic reveal our social imprint of how stories are expected to be told and how technology is programmed to follow these perceptions. The mise-en-scéne is a computer-generated galaxy of objects and images reminiscent of the organic, but dismembered and fragmented, reflecting on the possibility of creating new worlds and stories in digital space by following a subjective system of ordering.

In Aurand’s signature diaristic form, roses in bloom, farm animals, Orkney landscapes, and scenes of the late filmmaker Margaret Tait having tea are rendered through expressive Bolex movements as well as the director’s active camera, and punctuated by abstract swaths of saturated and shifting colors. The film is an homage to Tait, whom Aurand visited in Orkney.

My Fellow Countrymen centers on two families who have emigrated from Serbia, one living in Sweden and the other in Canada. In these new lands, the families are reexamining their national identities through the prism of their children who have now spent most of their lives far away from their home countries. Balancing their children’s well-being and nostalgia for home, the families have yet to decide whether to return to Serbia home. The question now is just where is home?

Power Grab by Nicola Singh and Helen Collard focuses on the interplay of bodies in opposition and harmony.

Short documentary about professional mixed martial artist Justin Gaethje's career so far.

An essay about a guy Andrei, aka Vosman, Vosmorych, who lives on the eighth floor of a panel house in a residential area of Moscow. The film is an attempt to portray the complexity of socialization, purposelessness of existence and grassroots urban culture.

On Election Day, 115 women of color will be on the ballot for House seats — a record for American politics. Deborah Roberts spoke with 8 of those women across the aisle in a roundtable discussion.

A short documentary film on the attempts of a young Greek filmmaker to connect with his distant Lebanese half by discovering his mother's secret stories of the war.

A Hora Morta is a trip through downtown Rio de Janeiro, using images captured in the first two weeks of the coronavirus quarantine, presenting a bucolic and unprecedented view of several areas that would normally be occupied by crowds and full of traffic.

Images, voices, and interrupted silences that evoke the intangible losses caused by COVID-19.

India Inked: History's Biggest Election' is a documentary produced in collaboration with the Election Commission of India, shedding light on the intricate workings of India's massive democratic exercise. It goes beyond the usual political coverage and showcases the behind-the-scenes preparations, voter outreach, monitoring, and the entire electoral process, including the historical evolution from paper ballots to electronic voting machines.

A behind-the-scenes look at the process of creating, rehearsing, and performing the Halloween Horror Movie Improv Show, run and done by Funny People Society.

The story of how ex-con YouTube personality Bruce Fox (aka Stoner Van Houten/Spahn Ranch Worker) turned his life around with the help of Charles Manson.

‘And so I hid in caverns in the mountains; I began to wander, like a meteor’

Ensnaring almost four million Americans, probation has evolved from a way to avoid prison to a sanction actually feeding mass incarceration. Supported by neighborhood allies, some people of color set out to change all this, equipped only with cameras.

A Mime praise dancer expresses her love towards God through dance.

Both poetic and disturbing tribute to the many refugees who have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe. A plea against neglect, and for a human outlook on the realities at the European borders. Filmed by refugee filmmakers who themselves survived the deadly Mediterranean crossing.

Documentary about the art movement in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo.