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Through early Mi’kmaw and Acadian habitation, British settlement of planters and disbanded soldiers, and modern immigration, viewers take a whirlwind trip down East Hants history. Drone footage, maps, images of historic sites and people, strategically placed interviews, and a great script and musical background draw out the tale of East Hants, exploring where people lived, how they lived, what industry sustained them, and the resulting East Hants “persona”.

This concert documentary blends the full live performance of the final hometown show of mewithoutYou's "[A→B] Life 15th Anniversary Tour" with interviews and archival footage to tell the story of the band's evolution and emotions as they revisit their debut record.

Documentary about the role-playing game, and what benefits it can do for a person's life.

Andrés Pérez Araya, one of the most outstanding Chilean artists. Through his own voice, makes an exciting retelling of his life and his final years.

A portrait of a small Georgian village filmed across the seasons, that focuses on family intricacies and working the land in a timeless place of transience and refuge.

Brighton-based animator and illustrator Laurie Rowan unleashes a host of wide-eyed and pastel-hewed critters into the unique architectural space of FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool. Just one of a series of short films from Canvas and It’s Nice That, highlighting three of Britain’s best-loved cultural institutions through the individual talents of three different UK-based artists.

“Hi, what are you up to?” On the video chat, Periscope, the exchange of images can be enriched by text messages and/or a flow of hearts allowing people who are streaming their video live to see strangers’ comments on their appearance or their conversations. Entirely constructed using these exchanges, National Narrative probes the exhibitionist norm of the enhanced selfie. Spontaneous poetry (“Your eyes they wanna drive me bananas”), a burlesque scene between two loafers who are unable to make out which of them is receiving mocking comments as they confuse left and right on the screen… Far from sparking derision, this montage instead points up the users’ self-derision and the paradoxical coyness of a space where people claim to show everything, from breasts to vomit. How does the immediacy of a chat between strangers integrate into its playful and intentionally exaggerated quotidian, the incommensurable horror when a tragic event intervenes?

The memory of the fight of the Tembé-Tenetehara people against the invasion of farmers in their lands in Pará, brazilian Amazon.

1 in 3 children is impacted by this environmental illness- 22,000,000 U.S. children today, but chances are they've never even tested your child. It conservatively costs the U.S. $100 billion annually, however a carefully crafted political campaign has made you think it's not your problem. Think again.

Reza faces the challenges of living with M.S., straining his marriage to Farzaneh. As tensions rise, family involvement complicates their emotional turmoil, leading them to consider divorce after 26 years together.

Short documentary.

A documentary about the history of the emblematic and centennial tree called Centinela, from stories spanning more than a century until its fall in 2017 during Hurricane Maria in Orocovis, Puerto Rico.

This documentary presents itself as a foundational work of historical and cultural preservation, focused on disseminating the significance of one of the most important pre-Columbian legacies in the Caribbean. Through an academic yet accessible approach, the film delves into the heart of Puerto Rico's Taíno identity to reveal the transcendence of the Caguana Indigenous Ceremonial Center.

making of featurette provides a useful history of the extensive "Elseworld" of alternate superhero universes initially created in print and now making its way into animation. It also describes the research that went into designing a 19th Century version of Gotham City and its inhabitants

Comeback is the story of the Iranian National Polo team's return to the international scene. Iran is the birthplace of polo but soon after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the sport all but disappeared in Iran. Comeback documents the history of polo in Iran, its near demise, and eventually Iran's return to the international scene.

Behind the solid concrete walls of the women's prison Gharchak in Iran's capital, Tehran, four young women open the door to their lives and innermost thoughts. They reveal their downfall into substance abuse and violent crime, which led to a life behind bars. All four are sentenced to several years of imprisonment for assault and murder. Their children play on the grey stone floor in the prison, where the women's only contact to the outside world is through a pay phone. Violence, coercion, abuse and sexual assaults were the recurring reasons why the young women broke with the outside world's expectations of proper female behavior – and sacrificed their lives in the process.

Songdo is a new city that was quietly built from scratch on land that was reclaimed from the sea in South Korea that is essentially the blueprint for the new city building boom that has swept across Asia and Africa. While it features all the high-tech, smart city features which are designed to make resident’s lives easier, it is also a place that is 100% covered in surveillance cameras where people are watched and listened to 24/7.

A visual journey inside the majestic building of Locarno's Gran Hotel, long-closed. The ghosts of those who resided in it during the past decades still live inside.

Mi Sue Pwint is a member of the All Burma Students' Democratic Front, the student army formed after nationwide protests were brutally crushed by Myanmar’s military dictatorship in 1988. This film tells her extraordinary story as both a leading revolutionary and mother and describes how she is now actively engaged in the peace process in her deeply conflicted country.

On the subject of circuses during wartime, illustrations and more are shown.

It is heavier than a dozen jumbo-jets and twice as high as the Brandenburg gate. It is more than just a bridge. It is a landmark – Hamburg's Rethe Bridge from 1934. The bridge is one of the first job-creation schemes of the Nazi regime. It’s a massive structure that captures the basic meaning of the Hamburg harbour. It is only because of its overpowering size that the bridge managed to survive the wear and tear of the decades and the second world war. But, like all things, its time has come to an end. The bridge is to be replaced – completely. A film that highlights the history of the old bridge: the Nazi construction, the demolition, the reconstruction, the add-ons and the maintenance

Winter in the Klondike will change you - but now the winters are changing.

After users on 4Chan's /b/- random board decipher a message by a "3301", stating there is a hidden message inside of the attached image, they have unknowingly set in motion the most elaborate scavenger hunt the internet has ever seen.

In 1965, Robert Manry was a typical middle-aged suburbanite in Cleveland, Ohio. However, his colleagues at the Plain Dealer newspaper were shocked to learn he had just set sail on a solo voyage across the Atlantic in his 13½-foot sloop, Tinkerbelle. By the time his 78-day odyssey ended in England, Manry was the target of a wild journalistic arms race, the guest of honor to a welcoming committee of 20,000 Britons, and had become a hero to his countrymen - and to dreamers everywhere.

Drug overdose is now the main cause of death for Americans under the age of 50, they are more likely to die from a drug overdose than a car accident or gun. More than 70,000 people died from overdoses last year as opioids and illegal fentanyl – which is up to 50 times stronger than heroin – unleashed the worst public health crisis in American history. Two years ago, BBC News reported on the growing problem of opioid addiction in the US, now we return to find out what happened to the people we met along our journey down the notorious I-95. This interstate runs from Florida to Maine, and to see what has become of their struggle against addiction.

In 1968 on Christmas Eve, this special moment in space became an important part of our history.

A short documentary about drag artist Fez Faanana.

On a cinematic journey through the Wrangelkiez neighborhood in a single day, we encounter Berlin originals, whom Roman Pernack lovingly portrays in their everyday lives. A different kind of Heimatfilm.

Rockstar Peter DiStefano searches his home of Los Angeles to find Modern American Artists to create new works of art with. Peter displays his Nationalism and love for helping others to expose other Artists in various mediums.

Opened in 1979 as Chicago's first alternative dance club, the nightclub Neo reigned for 36 years as a sanctuary for misfits, weirdos, and outcasts and ground zero for an explosion of fashion and music trends. Eric Richter's labor-of-love documentary debut is a testimonial of a club that not only outlasted its competitors but never lost its attitude, or its reputation as a place where people celebrated their individuality and danced all night.

The film raises two painful issues that are consequences of the war in eastern Ukraine: missing persons and prisoners of war. These issues are intertwined, yet they have many different aspects.

The film situates the viewer within a makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies of goats and camels, the oldest companions of Arab men. As we move deeper into the desert, the site turns into a sacrifice zone and reveals its dark geopolitical secrets. The sensory ethnography film will invite you to question the banality of displacement, confinement and exploitation in an out-of-sight territory.

Is already 40 years since the saharawi population became refugee in Algeria because of the Moroccan occupation. While the POLISARIO government tries out to solve the conflict with institutional help, saharawi youngsters advocate for the option of an armed conflict. While they wait, cinema will be their only weapon.

Walking across the IU Bloomington campus one cannot help but be charmed by its natural topography, native limestone, and appealing architecture. But the campus’s beauty is not by chance. Careful planning and cultivation went into creating an environment that evokes feelings of admiration and wonder. Beautiful by Design explores distinctive features of this campus—and the reasons for its appeal.

Creeping through the pitch black of Oran.

Benevolence, a Journey from Prison to Home follows the journey of five women as they are released from prison and move onto Benevolence Farm in Alamance County, NC. Benevolence Farm is a working farm that serves as a transitional home for women reentering society from state or federal prison. Benevolence tells the story of what happens when you bring individuals who have never met, to live and work together.

This film portrays Mohammad Reza and his daughter Saher in Iran, close to the iraqi border. Traces of war and battle are everywhere. The loving father and veteran sees himself in obligation against the Islamic State and struggles for his child's acceptance.

Vaschel: Portrait of a Paper Bag documents the life and relationships of Vaschel—a French Canadian paper bag hand puppet—following the first several years of his life in New Jersey, Boston, Philadelphia, and his triumphant return to French Canada.

The film researches problems and possibilities of building a cultural dialogue in Eastern Ukrainian cities. The film crew analyzes the multicultural history of the region, difficulties in cultural self-realization and attempts to make the dialogue more efficient. The film doesn't give the exact answers, but tries to create space for unbiased discussion about the culture of the East of Ukraine.

Through the interspecies gaze we observe one of the most ancient and highly honoured dog breeds, the Saluki. Guiding us in love, preparing us in death and transforming us in life.

Episode II, Moon Talk – “The Collins Story – Connecting the Moon to the Earth”, introduces the audience to Collins’ role in the Space Program by following the development of the Apollo 8 lunar orbital mission and the communication and navigation systems we provided.

Music documentary.

The film addresses the exile of approximately 12,000 alleged sympathizers and members of the Indonesian Communist Party, who were sent to Buru Island. The story follows Hersri as he returns to Savanajaya Village, where he lived during his exile. Sanleko Beach, the site where the first political prisoners landed, becomes the place where he recounts these bitter memories to his son, Ken. With no historical landmarks as evidence and his fading memories, Hersri struggles to preserve the painful past.

It is a documentary that portrays the life of a man of Romanian nationality, ex-drug addict and ex-homeless. Christian Georgescu was born in 1978 in Romania and it was in Porto where he was reborn. It is in this city that he rewrites his history as an Activist and Peer Educator. The charisma that characterizes him joins the inspiration of wanting to bring change to the lives of those who today are going through much of what was their past.

Franciscan scholars take a look at the life, struggles, achievements, and legacy of Saint Francis of Assisi.