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Marseille, a European city like many others. La Plaine, a lively district, a large square, a historic and popular market. A tumultuous battle between, on the one hand, the city council's urban planning services, determined to carry out a major program of "requalification" of the district. On the other hand, a part of the residents, who refuse this gentrification operation, and demand to be associated to the decisions. This epic story lasts 3 years and ends abruptly with the incredible construction of a concrete wall of 2m50 high all around the square. The television of the district, imprinted with the stories of past uprisings, a tool of counter-propaganda throughout this battle, refuses to stop at the report of a defeat and wonders. Summoning the Free Communes of 1871, their joyful and fiery rage, a singular writing takes hold of the fiction. In order to make this collective struggle a victorious human adventure, another way of making the city and the world is envisaged.

Future comes now and in the next second, like waves; while the photography stays at the depth where the wave no longer moves the water particles. This depth is equal to about one half the distance between me and my grandfather. The distance between us is called a wavelength.

He symbolized the USA - the dream and the nightmare. As a debuting writer, Norman Mailer was the “angry young man,” but he died as an angry old man and an icon of America. In between, life was like a roller coaster ride, marked by brilliant success and dark moments. Born in 1923 to Jewish immigrants, Mailer grew up in Brooklyn. The dominant figure in the family was his mother, whose father was a grocer and hotelier in the seaside town of Long Branch, New Jersey. Norman actually wanted to become an aircraft engineer, but took writing courses at Harvard College while studying.

Fool's Gold is a peek into the life of an old man who has refused to vacate a dilapidated house in a prime location in Kolkota. The old man feels that it is important to guard it from various encroachers, and even though he has a better house and his son's family waiting for him, he chooses to stay in this broken down one where even electricity and power supply has been blocked. It starts becoming apparent that there is a role reversal, as if the house is not for him, but he is the one trapped in the house bound by an unexplained duty towards guarding it.

The distillation of ten years of looking at one square block in the very middle of an American city. A film made from stills that challenges them to move. Beauty, pathos, and turmoil, all in the course of a Joycean day.

The attacks of November 13, 2015 deeply marked France, with 131 dead and thousands injured, at the Stade de France, the Parisian terraces and the Bataclan. For the first time, victims, families, police officers, prosecutors, judges and lawyers recount their quest for truth and justice, from the night of the attacks to the final preparations for the trial that opens on September 8, 2021. For almost six years, the justice system has been on the move to investigate, question suspects, follow up on leads from Paris to Raqqa, and organize the largest terrorism trial France has ever seen.

This film tells a story of ethnic Koreans from Russia and the post-Soviet territories making their new home in New York City. The history of the diaspora is told through conversations with Lidiya Kan’s mother, personal stories, fragmented memories, and her family photo archive. An important character of the film is Morkovcha, the Korean carrot salad, an invention of the Russian Korean diaspora; its essence is symbolic of their mixed identity.

“I’ve been a robber, a thief, a thug. I blew my veins out, I drank, I drank and I fucked chicks. I never stole from the poor. I’m HIV-positive since 16 years. I’m repenting over time. I cleaned myself from my sins. I committed offenses but I never took a human life away. Not yet. Haven’t got an abortion either. These are mortal sins - and as for the others, I paid already. I’ve been the worst of bitches but in this life already I’ve seen the light. My name is Stela, I’m 42 years old and I spent 10 of them in jail. Chaos is my life.”

A former Vietnam War infantry soldier decides to celebrate his 70th birthday by walking across New York State to help other survivors of PTSD while confronting his own demons.

A look at the career of the singer ahead of the release of her new album 30, her first in six years, examining how she is able to retain such a loyal fan base after disappearing from the business for long periods. The movie explores Adele's latest press appearances, including two simultaneous Vogue covers after sitting for separate interviews and photo shoots for the magazine's US and UK editions

A full, bright, and inspiring documentary about folk weaving as a part of the Ukrainian cultural heritage. Is a story about Ukrainian identity, understood through the aesthetics of various weaving products and their use in rituals. The film consists of 8 novel-episodes, each of which tells about a variety of folk weaving (“Polotno”, “Rushnyk”, “Namitka”, “Plakhta and obhortka”, “Kraika”, “Lizhnik”, “Gunia”, “Kylym”).

Luis Alberto Gaitán "Lunga" was a photographer from Guateque, Boyacá. He is the author of the most iconic pictures of the Colombian political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, assassinated in 1948, giving birth to one of the cruellest waves of violence in the country. Since ever, Lunga's photographs have been reproduced over and over again without the proper credits. This film is a trip to the 40's and 50's Colombia's decades and it wants to give to Lunga the recognition of his work and his name in the history of Colombia as a photographer.

When Kim Acquaviva’s wife Kathy was diagnosed with late-stage ovarian cancer, the couple decided to share the day-to-day realities of her slide toward death that doctors can’t always provide.

Filmed in the late 90's to early 2000's of home footage following around a young group of alpha male lads trying to figure out who they are, going through fazes and where they fit in into society.

Upon being shown a photograph of a 6-year old boy, now digitally aged to 50, Yathay Pin’s realities collide. Haunted by his inner demons, his guilt surfaces for abandoning his son to escape during the Cambodian genocide. The Player, embodying Yathay, plummets into his mental prison, containing locked memories.

The film marks the 30th anniversary of the SOS Racismo Movement and gives voice to participants in the debate on racial issues in Portugal, bringing together multiple testimonies from racialized, black, gypsy, and migrant communities, as well as contributions from various figures in social and political mobilization, reflecting the intersectionality, diversity, and transversality of the various fronts in the fight against racism. As a tool for debate, mobilization, and awareness-raising in the fight against racism, this documentary aims to contribute to the development of effective political responses to racial discrimination.

In Sicily, a small farming village survived in the area of Marineo, just 30 kilometres from Palermo. Over the course of the four seasons, life and traditions adapt to the changing crops and climates. This documentary tells the story of the people there who, with the crisis in cereal production and milk cow raising, are seeking to maintain the traditions of their ancestors, their fathers and grandparents. They are still using age-old tools to work the land and raise animal species that are disappearing due to industrial breeding.

When a filmmaker sets out across the country asking strangers to delve into the abuse and hurt caused by their fathers, it forces him to look inward and address the same hurt he never realized he carried.

What is it like to grow up under the rigid control of a strict and meticulous – if not downright puritantical – father? A funny, yet heartbreaking, snapshot of a childhood, overshadowed by disapproval and discipline.

In 1965, a modernist building was built in the city of Vila Real, Portugal, by architect Nadir Afonso. Many memories are made of a bakery that once produced 80,000 loaves of bread a day. The authorities turned their backs on Panreal, contrary to countless stubborn citizens. The condemnation and the controversy went hand in hand.

The descendants of Moctezuma and Cortés reunite for the 500th aniversary of the Spanish Conquest of México

Archaeologists decode ancient inscriptions hidden in the valley of the Queens, a necropolis filled with more than 90 burials, to uncover the lost stories of the most powerful women in Ancient Egypt.

The crocodile is the king of the wetland; a tone of a cold-blooded monster with the most terrifying bite force on Earth. The product of a 100 million year ancestry, the 25 species around today are a testament to the crocodile’s supreme intelligence and adaptability.

First in this film series of hauntings in this historic town. Found dead in her attic, eaten by her cats, Mrs. Micks makes her presence known to people living in her house, with witnesses' accounts and opinions by a psychic expert.

Corvo tells the story of how with no threats, no weapons and no violence, the magician and stunt artist, Robert J. Williams, robbed 13 banks in 2012. With unconventional narrations, untraditional reenactments, magic acts and stunts, the documentary thoroughly analyzes the sequence of life events that led to the execution of these robberies.

Growing up in West Baltimore, a neighborhood plagued with high unemployment, generational poverty and a 40% high school dropout rate, Princaya, Davioin, Courtney, Tyler and Shakeer live with violence at their doorsteps and fears of being killed by the police. Chasing their dreams for a better life, they focus on education, taking honors and AP classes in high school. Suddenly world events challenge their successful journeys with the pandemic and the national outrage at the George Floyd killing.

The house, the parents, the ravaged city streets and the stream of thoughts. This is the first self-isolation that is not self-initiated. Only one apocalypse was mandatory to bring us closer.

In a small village in eastern France, the same gestures are carried on daily. Chopping wood, milking cows, sewing a garment, growing vegetables from the earth... These are all actions repeated from generation to generation, day after day, until bodies are exhausted.

An extremely personal and vulnerable look into the notorious blacklisted celebrity.... Ted the dog.

MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE tells the story of the student-led struggle to win Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, in the late 1960s. The documentary is a mosaic of voices, film footage, and photographs taken by student activists. This important intergenerational story highlights how students and faculty seized the moment to build upon an alliance of Puerto Rican, African American, and other progressive students forged in their communities and the civil rights movement. Together they changed the face of higher education, transforming the curriculum and expanding who gets educated. The film sheds light on the 50-year history of struggle that started with the founding of one of the first Puerto Rican Studies departments in the nation, and documents the continued movement to maintain their gains.

The story of singer Johnny Cash's tour in 1963 and his relationship with Ireland, featuring archive footage and first-hand accounts of a troubled time in the country star's life, and hearing from Irish people who saw him up close.

In most aspects of her life, Erin Jones is a normal person. She’s 27 years old, she works a retail job and she lives in Chicago with her three roommates. That, and she also has more than two million followers on the popular video-sharing app TikTok. Erin, Verified is an open, honest look at the effect pseudo-fame and parasocial relationships have on people in the age of social media.

Experimental documentary chronicling the first tour of underground Louisville punk bands "Belushi Speed Ball" and "Dick Titty Blood Punch."

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later western Europe) and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.

Composed entirely of phone video, the film is a travelogue of time spent in Kansas City, MO and Denver, CO, in 2016. As with his singular "flash memoir" writing technique (see "Sparse Black Whimsy: A Memoir") msw's filmmaking invites the viewer into intimate, unexpected fragments of friendship and music, redefining the memoir in the process.

Each week, people visit the Brooklyn Public Library to video call incarcerated loved ones. A story of two mothers and their sons, and the librarians who keep the families connected.

Within the walls of a call center, a feeling of being in limbo pervades. Homesickness floods the phone receiver as deported call center agents make calls across the US-Mexico border.

Aruna Vasudev, Founder of Netpac, Cinemaya & Cinefan Film festival has touched the lives of many in the world of Cinema. This documentary traces her roots from her humble origins in an undivided British India, to corridors of cinematic universe. It brings together her journey as a film critic, cinema activist and an impresario, weaving a tapestry that connects the dots that make the large canvas that we know as Asian Cinema Renaissance. This film explores her dynamism painted through a narrative unfolding lives of critics, filmmakers, curators and programmers – who are hidden maestros that largely make the cinephilia culture and by large remain unsung in histories of Cinema.

Roman Ducksworth Jr., Peter Francis, Jimmie Lee Jackson, Alberta O. Jones. Four names, four cases reopened under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, implemented in 2008 to re-examine racist violent crimes from the days of the civil rights movement.

Tupac Shakur’s image is known around the world. He was one of hip-hop’s most photographed figures. But could just a handful of photos uncover new truths about someone we think we already know? This episode throws a unique lens onto an extraordinary life, focusing on ten defining pictures, from iconic shots to private snaps. Their secrets are revealed by those who were there and those who knew Tupac best.

(More of me), a new music documentary, chronicles Tony Succar inspirational journey from his humble beginnings as an unknown indie artist, recording in his parents’ garage, to Latin Grammy winner. Filmed over a period of two years, the documentary features amazing performances and interviews by some of Latin music’s greatest artists and composers coming together to record “Mas de Mi,” the album which would go on to receive four 2019 Latin Grammy nominations and win Producer of the Year and Best Salsa Album. Tony is the youngest recipient ever to receive the honor. Additionally, Tony’s new album “Live in Peru” drops May 21.

Set over three days, Goody Goody Gumdrops is an absurd, comic observational musical documentary cum live album launch for Tropical Fuck Storm’s new album Deep States. Situated deep in Central Victoria on the banks of the Goulburn River at TFS HQ, we follow the band as they prepare for a rock show in their barn. Referencing the feel of the Australian Western and Australian Gothic (see Wake in Fright, The Cars That Ate Paris and Picnic at Hanging Rock) we travel with the band through their abject, weird and beautiful space. The weekend starts as the band welcomes you into their studio/cocktail lounge and teach you how to make their signature drink, The Tropical Fuck Fizz, then entertain you, Rat Pack style.

When Earth turns out to be a sinking ship, humanity must quickly find a replacement — or so the private space industry and its investors would have us believe. But the planet hasn't given up the fight just yet, and when the world's governments declare war on Earth, they are signing up for a battle unlike anything civilization has ever witnessed. As Earth prepares for its last stand, it finds some unlikely allies from within the ranks of its greatest foe — humans.

Inspired by Brazilian Funk and using Bonde das Maravilhas as a reference, MC Gaby & GOUVER, composes an ode to the island where she lives as a foreigner in Hamburg, in her neighbourhood of Wilhelmsburg.

Mná and Sons is a site-specific film directed by Aoife Desmond. It combines a critical essay response to Kyrl's Quay, Cork city with inserted performative actions. The film is structured around seasonal changes, documenting evolving plant, bird and insect life, development of architectural interventions and transformation of a city centre site from a state of vacancy to temporary inhabitation. The site-responsive performance sequence 'gold woman never said this would be easy' presents a series of solo and collective improvisations which ritualise and acknowledge environmental loss and transition.

During another snowless winter, a famous freeride skier has a chance encounter with two kids on the street, which prompts him to dig through his grandfather's old family albums, capturing the snowy winters of the past. Immersing himself in the photos, the young man is transported to the parallel world of the winter mountains. Is winter irretrievably lost?

Film uses archival footage and semi-historical narrative to weave a complex exploration of identity, culture, and the power of archives in contemporary Ukraine. The video follows a young boy's 1995 outing with his family in Luhansk in eastern Ukraine (occupied by Russian proxy forces since 2014), while the adult voice of the child narrates his story from the present. His voice, however, is not his own. The story that he tells about Ukraine and Luhansk is explicitly framed as a narrative perceived by an American artist whose grasp of the situation is subject to media sensationalism, dramatic flourishes, and personal fetishism. Ultimately the film undermines its own authorship and our engagement with its drama, while also producing the story of a child who becomes a hero in a nation searching for hope.

Even today, actors struggle for acting by themselves. Can they fulfil their long-awaited acting dreams?

With bracing honesty, filmmaker Quen Wong shares her journey as a transgender woman in Singapore—from her days as a teenage boy coming out to her uncommonly supportive family, to the present as a woman about to marry the love of her life. Locating herself within the local trans community, the documentary also weaves in interviews with different generations of trans women including ‘Anita’, a former legend of Bugis Street—a world-famous stomping ground for trans women in the 1950s to the ’80s—and Lune LOH, a trans youth activist.

The film's heroes live in a closed box. Chasing each other is the only meaning of their existence.