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"There are things in this world that are yet to be named" centers around Solanum plastisexum - an Australian tomato whose sexual expression is unpredictable and unstable, challenging even the fluid norms of the plant kingdom. Footage of the team of botanists who recently used their Solanum research to explode notions of sexual normativity in any plant or animal is combined with a voiceover of letters sent between science writer Rachel Carson and her lover Dorothy Freeman. "There are things in this world that are yet to be named" is a meditation on erasure, indefinability, and the intersection of queer and environmental histories.

How can we find happiness in today’s world? A young filmmaker asks her peers what makes them happy. A snapshot of a generation of French youth faced with the uncertainty, hard choices and intermittent joys of life.

The film accompanies Grupo Galpão during a period of social isolation. The actresses and actors were prevented from debuting in the theater for the 25th edition of the company, due to a worldwide pandemic for ten days for a first artistic experience in the virtual environment.

Discovery of the Strahov stadium, the largest stadium in the world, where thousands of gymnasts gathered during the communist era. A wordless film that connects the past and the present of a grandiose location.

What happens when two eyes meet? What if these looks share the same space, but constitute their own worlds? What separates and approaches indigenous and non-indigenous people?

Juan Sartori, a millionaire businessman comes back to his home country of Uruguay to start his road to presidency.

A short documentary on North East professional wrestler Joseph Biggs.

Where does music live in the human brain? How and in what form, does a sound, a song, a musical piece become an embedded emotion, image, memory or unforgettable melody? How and why does music succeed, often very quickly, in transforming the physiology and neural connections of the human brain, from a baby in gestation to our last breath? Tuning the Brain with Music is a documentary film that introduces us to the spectacular transformative powers that music has on the plasticity and anatomy of the human brain in a sustainable way. The stories at the heart of the film are many and varied: there are premature babies who in intensive care units are appeased by music therapy sessions; Canadian veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress that music has saved from suicide; autistic girls who have formed a rock band; survivors of cancer and stroke for whom music has been an integral part of their medical healing protocol; and homeless youth for whom music is their lifeline.

The definitive documentary about Rayuela, an alternative rock band that reunited in 2019 for a final concert. What broke them apart? This question will be answered as the band's story is told.

A mental health diary made during June and July of 2019.

When Andrés knows the diagnosis of Norma's terminal illness, his mother urges him the need to hold on to his camera, record his family environment and rescue childhood memories that show fragments of a young, cheerful, uninhibited and vital mother. After Norma is a catharsis against family history that reflects on the relationship with our parents and is a metaphor for change and absence. A movie about a family that could be yours.

Kathleen is a hairdresser who uses her talents in the most tender and gentle of ways: she primps and pampers people in palliative care, committed to creating small moments of normalcy and joy in their lives.

At first calm, even dreamy, the film takes the viewer into the quiet of the seaside and undersea landscape somewhere in Italy. They are soon shaken awake from these blissful images by footage of traces of today's global industrial world, as an increasing part of the sea is polluted by wastewater from factories, destroying the natural beauty.

In If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?, Helen McCrorie takes us to Cultybraggen Camp in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Originally built during World War II as a prisoner-of-war camp, Cultybraggen has also functioned as an army training base, a nuclear monitoring post, regional government headquarters, a data storage centre, an orchard and now – in McCrorie’s film – a world run by children.

Musician, model and rock monster Dave Doughman and his band Swearing At Motorists have a unique reputation on Hamburg's alternative music scene. It's Not All Rock and Roll is about being a musical troubadour in the modern world.

Ulrike and Olli meet in 1985 while on tour with Circus Roncalli. He is living his childhood dream as part of the successful clown duo 'Illi & Olli'. She has recently left her life as a nurse in Berlin behind. When the season is over, she moves with him to Switzerland. What began as a circus fairy tale eventually becomes reality, amid creative crises, raising children, and ultimately growing older.

Lockdown and safety measures for Covid-19 made tangible human interaction harder, if not impossible, to get. Birmingham based artist and professor, Stacey Holloway, transformed her yearning for physical touch into an interactive series of kinetic sculptures. From hugs to high fives, Stacey captures the spirit of what she missed most about proximity to others, with humor and affection.

The film A Northern Light follows Riverhorse Nakadate as he makes his way by canoe through endless miles of wilderness to celebrate the stunning and surreal lakes and forests, illuminate and juxtapose the serious and perilous threats at hand, and to show a deep poetic reverence to the last remaining places of incomparable beauty.

It's an intense ride with this Muslim volunteer ambulance crew in Lashio in Myanmar's northern Shan State but one in which their dedication to helping those in need - regardless of gender, ethnicity or religion - is palpable and radiates a powerful message for peace. From beginning to tragic end.

Andrzej has serious problems with drugs. He is locked in prison, at special unit for old offenders. In order to fight for relationship with his girlfriend, he decides to start therapy. During this journey, he discovers his own emotions, and realizes, existence of the different layers of his own internal life. A fight for a girlfriend, becomes also fight for himself. Will he succeed in this struggle?

In war-torn South Sudan, Makur Diet knows all too well the horror of conflict. Over ten years ago, he lost his leg to a bullet. Makur was close to giving up, until one day he was given a prosthetic leg, and with it a new lease of life.

One of the most frightening of American urban myths is the legend of The Mothman, a red-eyed creature seen by some as a harbinger of doom in 1960s rural West Virginia, where sightings of the winged demonic beast were first documented near an old munitions dump known by locals as TNT. Many believe the Mothman to be a 1960’s phenomenon, an omen only appearing before tragedy, and disappearing after a flap of sightings and the subsequent Silver Bridge collapse in 1967. But what if there’s more? What if the origins of this omen trace back much further and go much deeper than anyone realized? And what if…the sightings never ended?

At the start of the 20th century, the industrial revolution radically transformed agricultural methods aimed at mass production to eradicate hunger. Today, the food industry produces enough food for 12 billion people. A third of this food is thrown away or burnt while a billion people around the world are still hungry. What is the alternative?

A young musician struggling with life.

Capitalism produces more and more losers worldwide. An old idea is given new strength: the cooperative. In Guatemala, a country with a cruel history and a dominant oligarchy, indigenous coffee farmers defy the most difficult circumstances. With their cooperative, which has been run by a Swiss citizen for 30 years, they have become one of the most important coffee exporters in the country.

This sociological journey back in time began over twenty years ago when several families were evicted from their homes. They got together and squatted in an abandoned building in Jaffa for two years. The children of all ages who lived there grew up around violence, poverty, and drugs-but also solidarity. They saw the power of people fighting the establishment for their right to a home. They became documentary subjects for the first time in 1999, in Yael Kipper and Einat Fishbein's film The Two Yossi (screened at the very first Docaviv Festival). Now, their journey continues: what has become of them? What chances does a poverty-stricken child have to make it in the world?

Introducing Made Back East, a natively New England ski film. A Vagrants original, in partnership with Parlor Skis and presented by Life is Good, that explores a love affair with backcountry skiing. The ski community refers to our home as “back east”. Assuming that anybody who grew up skiing here would eventually find their way out West. But to us, that assumes too much. The mark of a true New England skier is a deep appreciation for the bad days just as much as the good ones. As they say “if you can ski the northeast, you can ski anywhere”. In this film, we follow six diehard skiers on a trip into the woods seeking that perfect window where everything comes together.

New movie by Nikita Efimov

Expounding a resistance movement in a viewpoint most associated with innocence.

Pulling Power from the Sky: The Story of Makani is a feature length documentary that chronicles the thirteen-year quest of an eclectic band of scientists, artists, sailors, pilots, and engineers, as they team up to design and build kites that can efficiently harness energy from the wind.

In a small and remote hamlet in Southern Sri Lanka, a little girl develops a curious friendship with a spirit who lives in an abandoned house. This film was shot in my mother's village in Southern Sri Lanka—shortly after the civil war in 2010. Collaboratively developed with members of my family there, a narrative was improvised around an investigation into my mother's interactions with spirits in the community during her childhood. Landing somewhere between horror fiction and “spectral” ethnography, the film describes a population reeling from devastations of the past, where distinctions between the living and the dead are thinning, and foreign influences loom over Sri Lanka’s commercial, economic, and media infrastructure.

Get a glimpse deep inside the Congo River Basin, whose impenetrable jungles remain one of the least explored places on Earth.

A short documentary about Patrick Noze, his art and journey as a migrant in America.

This short documentary portrays a typical day of a Turkish farmer woman who lives in the village of Kozan, Adapazarı, Turkey. The film follows her everyday activities while also portraying her own opinions about her life.

In episode #5 of the On the Trail of the Nephilim series, L.A. continues to investigate the mysteries of America’s Stonehenge. You will see the connection between Americas Stonehenge and Stonehenge thousands of miles away in England. This is deliberate and could only have been accomplished by “triangulation in the air.” But there’s more! New discoveries revealed for the first time may point to America’s Stonehenge being the axis Mundi – the center of the world! There is a hidden history and L.A. is on the trail to uncover and reveal it! He’s on the trail!

This down-home documentary chronicles the struggles of a sleepy town in Alabama as it's sparked back to life by embracing local lore and learning to love Bigfoot. It covers the town's history, it's many Sasquatch sightings and how it became the Bigfoot Capital of Alabama.

In "Spaces #2", 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality that we live in. The project is inspired by the book "Species of Spaces" by the French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist, Georges Perec and the days of quarantine. The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space. The only outdoor areas that may be used are outdoor living spaces, such as the terrace, the garden, the balcony and the stairwell. "Spotting Fig trees" is Tarik Aktas's submission.

A documentary about one of the most important philharmonic of Corfu.

Imagine putting on a blindfold on a busy Berkeley street corner and inviting strangers to dance with you. That’s what Gabriel Diamond did.

With a camera in one hand and a skateboard in the other, filmmaker Adam Abada cruised from Pasadena to Santa Monica to uncover the relationship between identity and mobility in Los Angeles. In a city where public transport is avoided like the plague and any evidence of walking is met with incredulity, the car has become king.

The most popular women's contact sport hidden in plain sight, roller derby. We follow its powerful, diverse spirit through the voices and action of Free State Roller Derby's teams the Black Eyed Suzies and Rock Villains. This documentary explores the varied stories, rich culture and empowering journey that is women's roller derby.

Timo struggles to find companionship with his fellow house cats.

Never Rest/Unrest is a hand-held short film by Tiffany Sia about the relentless political actions in Hong Kong, spanning early summer to late 2019. The experimental short is an adaptation of the artist’s practice of scaling oral history, of showing political crisis in Hong Kong as ephemeral stories on Instagram for the past year.

The Amazon rainforest of Guyana, not far from the mythical Tumuc Humac mountains, remains mysterious. The ancients evoke paintings left on the rock, but the way to get there seems forgotten. In 1995, François Susky, who piloted his Cessna 185, flew over the Mamilihpan. Fascinated by this inselbergh, he decided to set up with three Amerindians from Antecume Pata the first expedition in this “forbidden” zone by prefectural decree.

A critical analysis of the music of the Boss.

A documentary exploring strange lights seen over Colorado and Nebraska, featuring never-before-seen footage and scientific interviews.

People with different heritages explain what their exotic names mean to them and the society around them.

Li Ruicheng is the fourth generation owner of his family's two century-old Chinese medicinal plaster business. He has spent the past year appraising the potential heirs to the family business, but just as he is about to arrive at his decision, his two children express their desire to start their own businesses.

In the heights of the Kurdish mountains between Iran and Iraq, Helia and Sama decide to take up arms clandestinely so they no longer have to endure the violence suffered by Kurdish and by women in Iran. Inside the Komala party’s encampment, they begin their political and military formation...

SALT follows motorcycle builders Ted Hector and Gary Macdonald on the long road from Alonsa, Manitoba to Utah's iconix Bonneville Salt Flats. They bend the lines and push the limits of their big twin flathead Harley in pursuit of a vintage world speed record.

To remove a tampon is a private action. I have always removed them by myself except once.

This short documentary takes us into the outskirts of one of the most populated cities, the City of Mexico, as well as one of the most conflictive areas in the entire Mexican republic, the municipality of Ecatepec. This documentary will make us question all the privileges we enjoy, it will also invite you to the reflection. "Los de Abajo" portrays the way of surviving, existing and looking for the means to subsist of all people who live from day to day; since given the health emergency derived from the COVID 19 virus, they have not been able to work since February 2020, their income depends on what they work in the day, and in this situation, How have they been able to survive? Have they received support from the federal government? This and other questions we respond in this documentary.

"Ceguera Inducida" (Induced Blindness) is a retrospective upon childhood and a collective memory which seems to be endangered by the growth of extreme right-wing parties in South America. Yesterday, far away from home, the distance seemed to shape and re-signify my infancy and the memories arising from the Uruguayan worst economic crisis at the beginning of this century. Today, these words seem to prevail and the melancholy continues to invade. The second voice of the film belongs to Jorge Luis Batlle, ex-president of the Republic (2000-2005) during a visit to the United States.

The Mangrove Zone of Rio de Janeiro was a well-known area of prostitution that faced several persecutions throughout the 20th century. Between 1954 and 1974, the Mangue Republic was established in the region, a representative regime, which under medical control and police surveillance, women decided who should take over the administration of the houses of prostitution. Based on surviving images, the film proposes another look at this memory of dispute and resistance.