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A documentary that revives the memory of the Technical Industrial School of Santa Maria through the voices of former teachers and retired staff, revealing not only how these individuals helped shape and strengthen the institution, but also how CTISM marked and transformed their lives, intertwining individual destinies and collective memory into a living portrait of technical education in Brazil.
Twelve-year-old Aglaya dreams of making a film based on her own novel about the magical land of Kolhandra. During her summer vacation in the village, she gathers the neighbors' children and turns them into an amateur film crew. Together they search for locations, come up with costumes and get into character. But soon Aglaya realizes that bringing a fairy tale to life is much more difficult than simply making it up.
From the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, France and East Germany maintained links despite the Cold War. As early as 1959, towns in the two countries were twinned and thousands of French workers' children went on holiday camps in the GDR.
Dr. Joe Vitale goes beyond the law of attraction by exploring the surprising daily habits of people without limits. Through a revealing and intimate look at what it really means to live a life that transcends the ordinary, watching this film becomes a healing and inspiring experience.
Daniel Zuccala carries the wounds of a childhood marked by his father's demands and his early death. Lost in a world of excess and violence, Daniel seeks to numb his pain with drugs and crime, until his abuse blinds him. When he is about to commit suicide, a story he hears on the radio ignites a spark of hope. Moved by that signal, he begins a path of redemption that leads him to transform his life.
Behind the scenes documentary of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna.
As the first man to attempt to paraglide across the Colorado Rockies braves dangerous weather, camps in extreme weather, and hiking for miles in search of suitable launch points, he documents every minute of the perilous journey.
This experimental short documentary displays a series of different ".avi" videos found on YouTube, mostly published by accident in the early days of the platform, giving the audience a brief glimpse into the lives of different people from all over the world.
It’s been 10 years since the landlord sold the house and the family lived apart. A portrait of my imaginary family having a reunion dinner in my old home awakened my longing for this lost space. A journey of reunion with my old home and a journey of saying goodbye.
Frank Paine, is a 73-year-old South Bay icon and humble local legend whose life orbits around a two-block stretch of beach. His unforgettable mustache and magnetic spirit are what most first notice, but Frank’s layers expose a depth that might answer some questions that surfers continually ask themselves. Surfing, which, for some, becomes lost in isolation, is made whole again with Frank.
Adriana, a woman of Indigenous heritage and an advocate for ancestral medicine, believes that Yagé, the sacred plant, is trying to deliver a message that could transform her life. As she reconnects with her roots, she begins to ask: How can ancestral knowledge survive in a world that’s always changing? What does it mean to belong, to remember, to heal? In seeking these answers, she’s forced to confront her identity and redefine her purpose. What she discovers may reshape not only her own path, but the future of Indigenous legacy in the modern world.
Romani filmmaker and advocate Liza Mortimer unearths her family's musical legacy in the archives of The English Folk Dance and Song Society, revealing how her great-grandmother, Minty Smith, and other Romani people played a vital role in preserving England's traditional folk songs.
A short film about butterflies that are irreverently pinned for display. Meanwhile, a diverse group of women speak up about their complicated relationship with beauty, as if they are suffering a similar fate. A mixed media animation made with paint and other analog techniques.
Almost every Dutch woman encounters it at some point, and some girls and women even encounter it multiple times: the pencil vendor. It sounds so innocent and is often dismissed as a "minor" offense, but this disruptive experience can leave deep and lasting scars on those who experience it. It remains an extremely intimidating experience when you're suddenly confronted on the street by a man who exposes his underwear. Victims of sexual assault speak openly about the consequences of their unsolicited encounter with sexually deviant behavior in men. And what drives a man to do this?
TBA. Said to be released in late 2024
Hannah Arendt was one of the most fearless writers of the 20th century, and her report of the Adolf Eichmann trial coined the phrase, “the banality of evil.” The German American scholar transformed her time as a political prisoner and refugee during World War II into insights about the human condition, the refugee crisis and totalitarianism.
My father often jokes that he's both a police officer and a hunter. While he has a busy job, he always returns to the tribe on his days off— to check traps, clear the water source, and weed the land.This film documents the time we spent together at the mountain spring. Step by step, he passed on his knowledge of the forest to me. I came to realize that he was trying to hand down the wisdom of my grandfather — how he drew water and lived in harmony with the land.
A story about recklessness and risk. About dreams and people who change their destinies by following their passions. In this documentary, we follow Mārtiņš Sesks and Raimonds Strokšs – two reckless Latvians who believe that right here in Latvia we can reach the highest peaks in one of the most difficult sports in the world – motor racing.
As my elder sister Jiao awaits childbirth in a pink maternity ward, speculation and expectation from women of four generations in my family superimpose and collide with their physical throes and haunting memories.
How does fish find its way to a market in inland Galicia? Inland fishmonger (Peixeiro de interior) documents a day in the life of Ovidio, one of the stallholders at Lugo’s market square.
Freddie Manseau is a painter and instructor at Santa Monica College's Emeritus Campus. This short form documentary details his teachings, personality, and home life with unprecedented access to Freddie himself.
Off School Property: Solving the Separation of Church and State explores the historic shift that removed the Bible from public education—and the lasting impact on students, schools and society. Featuring insight from cultural researcher George Barna and other respected voices, this thought-provoking documentary examines how we got here, what’s been lost and how a constitutionally sound solution is already bringing hope to communities across the country.
See some of the most devastating Knockouts in British Boxing history. Incredible shots that you just dont get up from. Knockout after Knockout.
A story about primeval forests - a world of subtle connections that have been formed for thousands of years. Cedars, spruces, firs grow here, and on the European continent, such forests have survived only in the north of Russia.
Activist brigades organise a green-fingered resistance against destructive plants and neglected overgrowth around their villages in Galicia. The files they use to sharpen their chainsaws are sourced from a metal factory in Switzerland. Through these two territories, the filmmaker weaves an unexpected narrative - at once personal and political.
Sisters Zaynab and Maryam are two Afghan soccer players who play for the Herat women's team. When the Taliban return to power in Afghanistan, they decide to flee the regime. Maryam manages to board a flight to Italy, while Zaynab is left behind. The film follows their parallel and separate lives between Afghanistan and Europe.
Mount Rushmore: Carved in Stone" is the official 25-minute documentary film screened daily at the visitor center theaters at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota. The film explores the creation, history, and legacy of the monument.
Loud noises and lights, bombs and gunshots are the rhythm of progress and catharsis at a party. ANO decides to leave the city. He sets off on foot on an erratic journey, in which the landscape reflects back an apocalyptic image of the present and a foreshadowing of the future. Deserto Vértigo is an exploration of the psychological state of our current collapse, a surreal, agonising, yearning film.
Tells the story of the challenging second journey of Estonia's first space project from research laboratories to space.
The World Came Flooding In is an immersive VR documentary reconstructing memories of the eastern Australia floods in 2022, which is representative of similar events that happened recently in various parts of the world.
Sultan is building a new life for himself in Saarbrücken. Here, he can flourish in a way he never could in his homeland of Oman. Since fleeing to Germany, he has been shaking up Saarland's nightlife as a drag queen. But his past keeps catching up with him. Between new beginnings and inner conflict, SULTAN tells a story of origin, identity, and the attempt to truly arrive.
This is a film about a director's workshop, which was led by People's Artist of the Russian Federation, director-producer Sergey Snezhkin and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, actress Margarita Bychkova. The film was shot by one of the students of this workshop and tells about the same students who studied directing and acting for five years and dreamed of a long and happy life in art, not yet realizing that on the path to a director's career there are no rules and guarantees, and after training the struggle for happiness will only begin...
His scars form the starting point of her research trip to track down the young people crushed by the military putsch of September 12th, 1980. The dream of Turkish democracy in pieces, the way to an authoritarian regime and political Islam already paved.
A mysterious mountain in the heart of Arizona is rumored to be a hub of cosmic knowledge. Two locals investigate the truth hidden within.
Recognizing the undeniable role of Filipe La Féria in the history of Portuguese theater, this documentary seeks to explore the thinking that drives creation and unveil the philosophy hidden behind the stage.
A Storyville documentary exploring the extraordinary life of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known globally as Carlos the Jackal. The mastermind of some of the most audacious attacks of the 20th century, he has never spoken for himself – until now. From his childhood in Venezuela to his radicalisation, his operations across Europe and the Middle East, and his relationships with some of the era’s most infamous figures – from Colonel Gaddafi to Osama Bin Laden – Carlos speaks with unsettling clarity about his life, past actions and ideology. In this rare and intimate portrait, recorded from the confines of a French high-security prison, where he is serving three life sentences, Carlos shares his story - unfiltered, unapologetic and deeply revealing.
In a Latin American country, a child’s notebook recounts a series of horrifying events that happened at the Big Moustache Clowns Circus. Presented as a children's horror story, it narrates the way in which tricks and torture were performed at the circus.
The land of southwestern New Mexico is contoured by rolling hills and sweeping valleys and streaked with arroyos. Land With No Rider centers on four cattle ranchers who know this region of the Mimbres River Valley like the back of their hands. As they speak about their lives, their ruminations often linger like poetry, noting the sound of snow falling or singing softly along with the radio. They rise with the sun and still tend to their herds at dusk, the soft purple hues tingeing the light as the ranchers reflect on the possibility of being the last of their generation to work this land. Director Tamar Lando’s transportive vérité portrait of the often solitary yet beautiful world of these ranchers is part oral history, part patient ode to a valley in transition.
In Gascony, a sparsely populated region in the southwest of France, lives Dr. Jean Cadéot, a ninety-year-old veterinarian who continues to work tirelessly and still enjoys doing so. Although his eyesight is getting worse and worse, he treats his animal patients with all his senses and all his love.
From starting a ski brand in his garage in Lake Tahoe to Olympic Podiums, it's been a wild ride for Matt Sterbenz. In this documentary, he chronicles his humble beginnings of the brand to his return in 2025. One thing remains unchanged - 4FRNT has been, and still is by skiers, for skiers.
Three generations of the Pemón people fight to reclaim their ancestral grandmother. The spirit of Kowai Kueka, embodied in a sacred red jasper stone, was taken from Venezuela to Germany as art without their consent.
For the past two months, we dedicated out lives to documenting the life of Sam. Every human on a day to day basis encounters a "Sam", a peculiar somewhat unpredictable seemingly valueless person, and what you would probably refer to as "douchebag" or "arrogant prick". We found ourselves unknowingly siding with society until we took the time to really observe and realize the childhood trauma and drug abuse that contributed to creating this flawed but valuable human being.
At the end of the 70s, punk promised rebellion and self-empowerment, also for women in the scene. They fought for their place on stage among the dominant punk top dogs, battling against social norms and long-outdated female role models. This is their story.
Spend a day in pre-pandemic San Francisco with Mercedes Weatherford, a quirky woman in her 70's who still works full-time. Over the course of her workday, she reflects on her career and life journey. During this 12 minute portrait, the documentary asks what is the value of work?
Just scrolling through my phone.
A chance encounter, followed by some persuasion, prompts Kennet to revive his film career—a decision that leads to something far greater and more transformative.
Within the depths of Saob Cave in Basey, Samar, the stories, colors, and culture of the women banig weavers continue to thrive.
Documentary.
Dalit Subbaiah, directed by Giridharan MKP and produced by Yaazhi Films in collaboration with Pa. Ranjith's Neelam Productions, won the Best Longform Documentary Award at the 17th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK). The film traces Subbaiah's life and struggles, celebrating his legacy in revolutionary music and activism
A young horse is about to experience its first training. Race day is approaching at the track. In full gallop, horses inspire admiration with their power and grace – but do races truly let them be free, or are they merely fulfilling human ambitions?
