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The story of a seemingly picture perfect wealthy Connecticut family whose lives get torn apart when the mother of five suddenly goes missing and police point the finger at the most likely suspect: her husband. This hour-long documentary is told through the point of view of those closest to victim Jennifer Dulos and husband Fotis Dulos. We dig into their marriage, the breakdown in their love for each other, and the carefully hidden instances of aggression and fear in the last years of their relationship. The story will culminate with police investigation, murder charges and Dulos’ suicide.

"Until My Fingers Bleed" is an experimental documentary, in which the performance's images intersect with the archival materials of the official government media channels. The spectacularization of the speech and the potential acting of the president are beyond documentary, approaching a fictionalized reality, by bringing out perverse poetics.

Two Black youths on a south London community program do everything to avoid swimming which is part of the criteria. Will they overcome their battle with society and will we ever find out why they refuse to swim in the first place?

The untold story of SNAPPER, an unfinished early 90s film about a man eating turtle that wreaks havoc on a lakeside community in New England. Through unearthed behind-the-scenes set footage, photos, newly digitized film reels of daily footage, and never-before-told stories from the filmmakers, this short documentary tells the story of an idea that almost became a reality. The film also provides a window into the local Boston special FX makeup and horror communities of 1980s and 1990s

With many Covid-19 patients battling for their lives, a hospital faces its toughest challenge ever. Exclusive frontline access reveals the staff and patients' resilience in the face of this new enemy.

Like Reger – the character Thomas Bernhard placed on a museum bench in front of a painting by Tintoretto, an ‘old master’ if ever there was one – an actor finds himself alone and stranded after a notorious virus closes theatres indefinitely. Here he is, wandering through an empty theatre, walking through pointless backstage areas and stumbling onto a street haunted by masked passers-by. Having convinced a fireman to look after him and his explosives, he tells him and the silence around him of his disgust with, amongst other things, the Heideggerians, the lack of punctuality, people who admire as opposed to respect and the State’s appropriation of children. In the overlapping of film and theatre, despair and survival, 1980s Austria and 2020s France, Bernhard’s text gains fresh resonance, “…and as far as culture is concerned, in this country your stomach is only there to churn.”

Intense interest in Japan by the West made it a favourite destination for filmmakers from the earliest days of film. This selection of films from 1901 to 1913, newly restored by the BFI National Archive, takes us on a fascinating journey through Meiji Japan.

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Following a four-month visit to Taiwan during the pandemic, New York-based artist Yo-Yo Lin shares a first-person account of returning to a place of medical and familial trauma. Moving through the artist’s intimate thoughts, Re:collections melds together new media performance, documentary, Chinese medicine, and Taoist cosmology to question how identity and language are conceived in the context of disability and immigration.

"Originally focused on exploring the non-content language-soup of social media (with help from programmer/researcher Achim Koh), this iteration of Andra8’s existence is more narrative, with an actual identity growing from influencer primordial data. Subsisting on shakes supplied by subscribers, performing menial tasks trapped in a setting as much to project out as live in, and constantly self-promoting in companionate couching, Andra8’s situation will feel familiar to those reliant on and resentful of the gig economy we’re trapped in." - Screen Slate

A comedy documentary about indifference and passivity dedicated to the UEFA EURO 2020.

In 2019 the whole world watched flames destroy the roof tops of Notre-Dame of Paris cathedral. After clearing and securing the site, the huge task of reconstruction began. To the men and women working to save and restore the magnificent cathedral, this is their mission, to be completed quickly and perfectly.

Sistan and Baluchestan Province is located in the southeast of Iran in an arid desert climate. Due to the drought, most of the villagers were forced to immigrate to other towns. This documentary shows two lifestyles in the desert region. One group gives in to the conditions and emigrates, and on the other hand, someone who in the same conditions, builds a Baluchi Garden and an artificial lake with floodwater.

A musical short film blending editorial moments with vulnerable interviews, "WE ARE" peeks behind the curtain at pianist, band leader, philosopher, and activist Jon Batiste's highly anticipated album, WE ARE, as he walks the audience through four themes: Lineage, Authenticity, Excellence, and Evolution. Jon has recently won a Golden Globe and BAFTA award for his work in scoring Pixar's "Soul," and has also been nominated for Oscar, Grammy, and Emmy awards.

Documentary about the role of toys in people's lives, visiting 16 stores that spark the imagination of their youngest customers.

The documentary sheds light on Syrian history in the context of its civilizational development and formation over many centuries, sharpens the viewer's attention to the changes in public opinion that have taken place over time. To reveal social processes, the author uses a special monologue method, and the vision itself is realized by combining the internal analysis of the hero of the film and its director, who returns to Syria and sees his country after a long absence differently, than it was before the war. The film shows the destruction and vandalism caused by terrorists in many archeological, religious and residential areas of the country, which became dangerous for the population, especially in late 2015 and early 2016 - the most difficult phases of the war on Syrian soil.

A fishing crew in the Peruvian Amazon. What unfolds is a richly textured human drama.

During the twenty-year tenure of Head coach Zoran Terzic, the women's volleyball team of Serbia won 19 medals at the most important world and European competitions. This documentary is about him.

Going beyond the media blockade of Australia's apocalyptic mega-fires first-hand, Inferno captures the volunteer firefighters who fought against all odds protecting their communities from total annihilation.

The first year after the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan.

Their hybrid forms and body parts a patchwork amalgamation of different tree types, this tree is a climate adaptative response, a lifeform born out of resilience and hope. As the spirit inhabiting the tree emerges to converse with the viewer, they share with us their experiences of ecocidal generational trauma, urging us to reflect around the ways all the beings on the planet are deeply interlinked, and to honour our collective responsibility towards one another. Using a blend of 3D animation, found footage, and a musical score based on data sonification, ‘Rainforest Canopy’ uses the speculative to recast the ecological crisis, asking ‘Why is this important?’ from a multispecies and affective gaze.

The Chemical Factory is a short animated documentary featuring a Chinese immigrant mother recounting her life growing up during the tumultuous 1950’s communist China to her American son during the COVID-19 pandemic. Faded memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution are brilliantly rendered using groundbreaking technology, while drawing striking connections to the spate of violence towards the Asian community in America.

Same shot of my house, thinking about moving. Moving out/moving in, emptying boxes one at a time.

After the pandemic separates them, an international couple writes long-distance letters to each other while they face uncertainty and wait to be reunited.

"¡Socialismo o muerte! (in defence of Cuban socialism)" is a short documentary looking at the latest imperialist assault on the Cuban revolution following protests against shortages across the island in mid-July. The film offers a defence of Cuban socialism, looking at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the US blockade on the nation's economy, as well as the broader strategy being deployed against Cuba socialism by the Biden administation.

Santa Barbara triathlete Neil Myers was nearly killed in a horrific training accident on Gibraltar Road in 2018. One week after the accident, he signed up to compete in a triathlon that was a year away, with a goal of simply crossing the finish line. Four months after healing and leaving rehab, Neil began his cycling training. Only one year after the accident, he surpassed the goal he had set while he was in the hospital. He and his team won the 2019 Santa Barbara Triathlon.

The Path of Remembrance and Comradeship is a long walkway encircling Ljubljana, Slovenia, charting the length of a military perimeter that surrounded the city during its occupation in World War Two. Seventy large stones dot the path at intervals along the way, marking the position of former bunkers erected by the Italian and German armies to quash a burgeoning partisan resistance. Wryly mimicking the leisurely pace of a stroll, Michael Pattison’s Lubiana Laibach inches along the path one boulder at a time. The film is made up of a dazzling montage of static shots, one dissolving seamlessly into the next. The marker of each shot to the other is the fixed outline of the stones themselves, which do not change position on screen. What warps and transforms before our eyes is the space around them, a powerful evocation and metaphorical reanimation of the invisible contours of a history of resistance.

Over most of two decades, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s life has been a roadmap of Islamist militancy in Iraq and Syria. Designated a terrorist by the United States, the powerful Syrian militant now seeks a new relationship with the West.

Interview series: Things known (a complex psychological phenomenon)

The weapon carrier Wiesel is a small track vehicle of the Bundeswehr. Visually, it looks like a toy tank, but it's packed with firepower and power. The 20mm machine gun and the anti-tank guided missile TOW are dangerous weapons. The weasel was designed to be extra small and light so that it can be quickly brought into its field of application by helicopter and transport aircraft. It is probably the most diverse armored vehicle in the Bundeswehr.

Safia is an intimate portrait of the life of a young Iraqi girl post-ISIS. Set in the lavish nature of mount Sinjar, the film observes the psychological impact of war and atrocities on the young Yazidi girl and her family. At the tender age of twelve, Safia assumes the role of a mother rather than a carefree child. The film is a poetic depiction of life in the shadows of conflict.

Trek IT tells the story of Italian Star Trek fans. The documentary chronicles how a small group of friends grew and went on to launch magazines, conventions attended by thousands of people, and much more.

In 2007, something happened in the NHL that had never been seen before. For the first time in the league’s 90 year history a player from Denmark, a tiny country with no hockey tradition, took to the ice. And it didn’t stop there. In the following years, even more Danish players unexpectedly broke through to the NHL. But the most amazing part of this story, is that these players didn’t just come from Denmark. Unbelievably, they all came from the same small town. Welcome to Herning, a town with a population of only 50,000 in the middle of nowhere in Western Denmark. But in just nine years, Herning sensationally produced five NHL players. In the same time period, Chicago produced three, and Detroit produced four. This is the story about how little Herning against all logic become a hotbed of NHL players.

Interviews with casual retro game collectors to collectors with the most expensive retro game collections in the world

The film traces the motives for the assassination of anti-Apartheid activist, Dulcie September and travels from the heart of Paris in March 1988 to the pursuit of justice in 2021, exposing layers of deceit, complicity, hidden agendas in the unsolved mystery of this murder.

The Walking Man follows an 82-year-old man with a passion for the cosmos who has walked the equivalent of the Earth's circumference nearly four times.

Archive footage, insider testimony and expert interviews reveal what the original royal party girl really got up to on her Caribbean hideaway.

The film presents the activities of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya from the moment she registered as a candidate for the presidency. An unknown housewife unexpectedly won the support of Belarusians.

In the following documentary, we explore how two collectors and a store owner feel about the current digital distribution of video games and what could happen if buying physical media is no longer an option.

This fascinating documentary presented by historian and presenter of the Three Castles Burning Podcast, Donal Fallon explores the past and future of Dalymount Park, an iconic football stadium in the heart of a community

This silent film is from a body of work made in the film maker's home during the Covid-19 pandemic when he found it difficult to make other work due to social distancing. The work consists of films of the walls of the interior of his house, or views of the outside world filmed through windows of the house. This is a short time lapse film showing the movement of areas of light and shadows across a wall in the corner of a room over a period of several hours.

BELLUM is a film about how war trauma still grips the lives of three generations today. In a hiding room created for this film, we see a Jewish family breaking the silence by finally starting a conversation about suppressing and passing on war trauma. We examine how trauma is passed on from parent to child. Are later generations able to break free from a traumatic experience that they have not experienced themselves?

Marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11, this intimate film follows the life stories of six young people whose dads died in the attacks, before their kids ever got to know or even meet them

Made by the residents of Vila dos Pescadores, in Cubatão, during audiovisual workshops at the Querô Institute through the Querô Community project, the documentary builds, through testimonials, a little of the history of the old residents of the neighborhood and their direct relationship with fishing and the environment, bringing the positive look of the residents about Vila dos Pescadores.

After two seasons of flirting with relegation, Atlético de Madrid started the 95/96 season with Radomir Antić as new coach and a limited investment in signings, some of them completely unknown to Spanish fans. With this background, the red and white club joined the small club of the chosen few, those who have won the two most important titles in Spanish football in the same season.

A solo performer (Vail) dances free of societal restraints. Fluid sequences of movement are situated in a non-hierarchical, undetermined space. Transcending time, place and individuality, the film constructs a world of multiple positions and perspectives.

“Michèle Firk came to Cuba, not just to breathe the air of revolution as others do, but to serve it. She was internationalist. It was not a word, it was fully her.” François Maspero

Three filmmakers recorded three women from different generations that they met through their virtual testimonies where they revealed personal experiences of violence. Although they do not know each other, they contrast their reflections, similarities, frustrations and differences about growing up as a woman in a context shaken by gender gaps.

Unjustly stuck behind bars for more than 20 years, Moath al Alwi builds elaborately detailed ships out of scrap materials from Guantanamo Bay.

A documentary about the most distinctive Athenian building type, the polykatoikía, and the reconstruction of the city through the life of the anonymous regular builders. Who were the provincials who came to Athens with their wives after the Civil War and ‘cemented’ the city? Who ‘demolished’ the neoclassical buildings and filled Athens with apartment buildings? Ηow did they learn and develop their craft? How did they communicate and negotiate with the architects, the ‘educated’? In other words, what was the story of their encounter with the ‘project of modernity’? The documentary is based on Ioanna Theocharopoulou’s book sharing the same title, revised and published in 2021 by the Onassis Foundation.