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This is Not Me tells the story of unhappy gay men who have had to marry women to hide their sexual orientation in the face of societal and family pressure in Turkey, and their own internal conflicts. The three main characters of the film, Mustafa, Mehmet and Yusuf migrated to Istanbul from small towns and come from conservative families. The film reveals each characters’ world: exhausted from continually playing at social roles and lying about their identity, faltering between their reality and their dreams, frustrated and stuck in their lives. It also looks at the subject from the aspect of women who are the other victims of these marriages. Mehmet and Yusuf, both married to women, act the part of heterosexual males and family men within their own social circles.

A crew of miners digs coal 500 meters underground. Miners must fulfill the daily plan. But with each hit with the pick, it becomes more and more difficult to get to the coal in the safe zone. The foreman decides to take risks and dig coal in the danger zone.

A profile of five-year-old table tennis prodigy, Allen Mao, with expert commentary.

Life feels more like a complicated game of snakes and ladders than a straight line.

A group of strangers come together to do the impossible, create a business solution that will end cancer globally in just 4 days.

The instincts, habits, reproduction and metamorphosis of insects and other arthropods, filmed in their natural environment, in the footsteps of Fabre. Poetry and cruelty in the world of small animals.

Silicon Valley, California, USA, 2010. Instagram was born with the purpose of offering its users a simple way to enrich the visual quality of their photographs; but it soon became a powerful tool aimed at people who, in order to feel good about themselves, and regardless of their personal circumstances, worship appearance, fame and luxury.

Set in the backdrop of the nationwide 2019–2020 student protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in India—filmed in the city of Bangalore—Sab changa si is an intimate documentary on friendships, language, love, youth, resistance, and identity of class, caste, religion, and gender. In this film, the political is personal.

In Donbas Ukraine, while precarious truces and ceasefires are negotiated far away by diplomats, Ukrainian soldiers fight against separatists supported by Russia. At an age when some are experiencing the best years of their lives, in the frontline men and women are fighting, condemned to dig and dig up again the trenches, while bombs keep on falling on them. Loup Bureau takes us on an immersive and stunning cinematic journey revealing the naked truth and roughness of survival, in what is called to be the last conflict on European soil.

A Tired Dog is a Good Dog, Part One explores animal husbandry from the perspective of a quadruplet raised in a dog breeding family. Incorporating original footage and family archive, the film analyses canine behaviour, humans playing as dogs through kink, and his own identity.

Country music has always been Black music. For Love & Country examines the genre's past through the lens of a new generation of Black artists claiming space in Nashville, and transforming country music in the process.

El Rio Grind 20 year retrospective. ERG is a skate crew from Tampere, Finland. Over 20 years, they have been filming and making skate movies year after year. This is the director’s visual overview of these days.

Mudar is a Syrian actor, flew to Germany by a visa from Beirut, he researches refugee’s journeys who came walking on their feet, for his theatre play and explores the real experiences that immigrants lived throughout their road. After his meeting with a Syrian filmmaker Ammar Obeid, Mudar wants to stand naked outside in the cold of his back yard.

This vibrant documentary celebrates Guillermo Gómez-Peña and the contribution his radical, queer, anti-colonial art has made to conversations around border-thinking, gender politics and Latinx identity.

I was born the same year my father died, giving my mother back her reason for living. Day by day I live the pain of losing someone I never knew.

Brazil is huge, made of an extremely colorful mix of races, origins, ideas and cultures. Now it has come to a boil: the country torn apart by political, and religious conflicts, our forests burnt down and razed to the ground, "minorities" persecuted, and part of the population arming itself on the expectation of something wicked coming our way in the most polarized election ever.

This documentary addresses the terrible environmental problem of the loss of habitat of sea turtles in the Mexican Caribbean due to the growing tourism industry and the pollution of the oceans by plastic waste.

30 years after their emigration, Danni interviews his family and tries to learn their story to reconcile with the past.

A documentary about the life and work of architect and urban planner Rexhep Luci and about Prishtina, the city he loved and the city where he was murdered in September 2000. The documentary tells his personal and professional relationship with the city, from his commitment to urban growth during the Yugoslav era to his determination to prevent unauthorized construction in the post-war period. His niece, Besa, through intimate conversations with Rexhep’s family and colleagues, as well as by following an architectural intervention on the street that bears his name, takes us on a journey through his life and the urban development of Prishtina. The documentary explores what stops an architect.

A 16mm film by Bokyung Jun

Documentary short film on the experience of a trans young person in Dublin Ireland.

The girl is doing her best to escape from loneliness, and the young man is trying to keep it. But one day these very different heroes meet.

The daily experiences of three land cultivators in Puerto Rico.

In the first episode of Turkey's Giant Buildings, we witness the construction process of the "1915 Çanakkale Bridge", an engineering marvel.

Red Africa relates the history of the influence exerted by the USSR over many African states between 1960 and 1990, working from extraordinary archival footage filmed by Soviet operators. The subtle editing of restored images reveals the hidden agenda of the USSR which, under the cloak of generosity, was aspiring to expand its socialist “paradise”.

This short documentary follows pioneering Chinese-American photographer Sam Wang from his birthplace in Beijing, China to Clemson, South Carolina on a journey of shifting cultural identity and constant visual creation. Sam's mastery of hand-crafted processes and dedication to creative curiosity has inspired four decades of students in the United States, and it continues to excite an emerging class of Chinese photographers today.

Explores Terrain Theory, a model for health that works in symbiosis with nature to promote wellness and healing, free of a corrupt and flawed medical paradigm.

profile of the Norwegian model and actress by academic Rachel Knightley

Su shot The Magnificent Levitation Act of Lauren O at Hong Kong’s Shaw Studios. She came up with the character after she came across American science fiction writer Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, which followed protagonist Lauren Oya Olamina on a quest for freedom. Su’s character belongs to a fictional activist-anarchist group called Laden Raven which was founded in the 1930s. Composed of circus performers—often viewed as social outcasts—and other marginalised members of society, the group attempts to change the world as did the 60s counterculture movement.

A short documentary that tells the stories of Masrou’ Leila, a Lebanese rock band with an outspoken gay singer, and Sarah Hegazy, an Egyptian activist. Both parties have experienced oppression because of their sexual orientation and beliefs. The film shows what it’s like for the LGBTQIA+ community to be oppressed and threatened by the governments in the Middle East.

What does it take to be on the other side of the cockpit door? This short documentary portrait tells that story of one pilot's path.

Making Time features the rebels and independents of horology who push the boundaries of the timekeeping invention, journeying deeply into their imaginations and consciousness.

To produce speech, a set of mechanisms must be brought together. What is the normal articulation for speech? How to produce the sounds that make it up in the correct way? A physiological analysis of the aspects of speech shows us how: the jaw must move in a certain way; the air must be expelled from the lungs in another. Based on the concepts stated in the film "Normal Speech Articulation" (1965), produced by the University of Iowa (USA), we intend to reflect on the way women have been represented, and consequently educated, over the years, both in film and in the media. Largely composed of archival footage, this film intends to make evident, through a montage inspired by Structuralist movements, the violence of this education.

A filmic dialogue between exiled Syrian writer Samar Yazbek and the filmmaker that tries to ask vital questions about cinema and literature in the face of war, death and violence. Focusing on the relation between the spoken word, the literary text and the act of listening, the film explores the writer’s work with her own tools: words. As the war intensifies, the dilemma increases: to speak or not to speak becomes a central question in the film. But if the filmed conversations are interrupted, who will tell the story of the voiceless? A pertinent poetic and political testimony of our troubled times.

A documentary following Shoji Sakurai, who spent 29 years in prison after being falsely arrested for the "Fukawa Incident."

71 is about the sensibilities of the black middle class as observed by Jessica Taul and Pamela Patterson, the filmmaker's mother and aunt, respectively. They discuss their differing tastes, definitions of class, frogs, and other qualifiers they consider in their evaluation of the space that they live in: a suburban-like outcropping of identical housing units. Through direct quotation and phenomenological relation to Bill Greaves’ seminal film, Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class (1968), 71 navigates the temporal gaps in conformity and respectability politics between 1968 and 2022.

Each of the characters personifies different professions, cultures and outlooks on life, but they definitely agree on one thing - in the boundless love for the place in which they live.

Maidan: Road to War was shot from 2014 to 2022, as the DNR and LNR territory was subjected to daily shelling from Ukraine. The film delves into the 2014 situation in Ukraine and pieces together the course of events. The film wants to draw the attention of the Ukrainian authorities to the shelling and the deaths of civilians in the Donbass, but the government didn’t respond.

Visitors from across the nation gather at a sea of white flags to honor loved ones lost to COVID-19. As they mourn en masse, we witness their many expressions of loss and humanity.

This thoughtful, eye-opening documentary by Toronto’s Karen Chapman asks whether a community plagued by gun violence can find a way forward via an unexpected solution: mindfulness and meditation.

An ode to a flower that once enjoyed prominence in Iranian culture, Gladiolus tells the story of its ubiquitous role in life’s important ceremonies and how it became a victim of its own popularity by the same nation.

In August 2021, U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban were back in power. One group answered the call of duty and volunteered to save our allies. Their effort to rescue one interpreter turned into an evacuation saving thousands of lives.

Investigative documentary about the human cost of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Allegations of labour abuse have dogged the organizers, but what is the truth?

"Andala — the Last Visit" tells the story of a family. They lived in Andal, a small town of Asmasyz near the city of Nowhere, until the day when a dam began to be built in the very center of their native village.

Yigal Mosinzon is an integral part of Israeli culture; all are familiar with his timeless books, plays, and films such as Hasamba and Kazablan. Mosinzon is a cultural icon who remains mysterious, always managing to surprise his audiences with innovations that contrast mundane reality with unfamiliar, never-before-seen perspectives. His unconventional personal story comes to life through his work, revealing colorful episodes inspired by a myriad of relationships, marriages, and more than one unbelievable romance, including with Marilyn Monroe. The fictional realities he created never stray far from his unique personal experiences. Mosinzon's character is unraveled in this film, a man who was not afraid to discover, change and turn imagination into reality in a life that was an absolute secret.

Tik, who was born with ADHD, is meticulously cared for by his single mother diagnosed with cancer. This early summer, he finally musters up his courage to step out of the motherly comfort zone and embarks on a journey of growth.

Two friends attempt to create an overly ambitious horror film, but disaster strikes both the production and their friendship.

Anishinaabe author Drew Hayden Taylor investigates how — and why — Indigenous identity, culture and art are being appropriated by those who are not First Nations.

The main character of the film is the creator of the vaccine against plague and cholera, Vladimir Khavkin. In 1892 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov called him "the most unknown person in Russia." And in India, where the scientist saved the lives of more than 33 million people, he was called Mahatma, which means "great soul". The action of the film about the difficult path of a bacteriologist takes place in Russia, Ukraine, France, England, India.