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A shocking and sometimes hilarious portrait of Glenn: a businessman, family man, and pot dealer in Toronto whose world shatters upon the legalization of marijuana.

A 1963 timelapse recording shows the effects of air pollution during an entire day on Santa Monica Bay in Los Angeles. A machine interpretation of an unstable version of the original file is divided into slits and rearranged in time, giving rise to a time panorama that mirrors an uncertain, abstract future lying ahead of us.

Botswana artist Crawford Mandumbwa speaks openly about African politics, society, art and culture, and also addresses the question of why Africa remains with major problems of social vulnerability.

Director Zhang Ping documents her parent's home village and researches her father's past as a so-called "rightist".

Follow Rebecca Thomassie, an Inuk woman, around Kangirsuk as she learns the 52 Inuktitut words for snow.

A gay man risks his life confronting hate groups in a place labeled the most hateful small town in America. Interviewing town officials, hate groups headquartered there, and residents, the filmmaker tries to get to the bottom of whether or not the town deserves its infamous reputation.

Separate projections combine, unifying, becoming whole. Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector. Responding to a hand-drawn soundtrack, each projection is individually created by painting and scratching directly on 16mm film stock.

A 14-year-old Afghan girl named Khatemeh living in Iran with her family was forced to get married to her late sister’s husband whom died through suicide. After a while she escaped from home due to her husband and her brother’s torture and beating. She became a refugee to the welfare organization of Shiraz.

Marina’s (40) month-long vacation is nearing its end, after which she leaves for another six months to work on a cruiser as a housekeeping supervisor. As the separation from her children is getting closer, Marina grows increasingly anxious.

The Unsung is a film on a dying tribe on the coastal region of Karnataka, the Halakki Vokkaliga. This once culturally rich tribe with a treasure trove of folk songs, passed down orally from generations is now grappling against the tide of modernisation and westernisation. With only a handful of old ladies who identify with the tribe, their traditions and cultures, the passing of these few old women will see their very culture fading away. The film touches on the struggles of the tribe, the clash between modernisation and their culture, the fight to keep their forests alive and the painstakingly long battle to be included in the Scheduled Tribe list in India.

In the voices of its former civilian crew members, the film tells the story of the fishing boat Narwal, a spy ship in the Falklands War. Attacked by British planes, its boatswain was mortally wounded and the rest were taken prisoner.

After becoming parents Maura and Bobby Marko knew that passing on a love and respect for the wilderness would be a major priority for their family. The family attempted a bold traverse of the Arrowhead of Minnesota traveling from the Mississippi River to Lake Superior by bicycle, canoe, and foot; all with their 3-year-old son and 9-month-old daughter along for the adventure.

In 1808, Napoleon's rivalry with Britain led to an ill-fated intervention in Portugal and Spain, that sparked a nationalist revolt against the French. At Bailén Napoleon's Empire suffered its first major defeat, and though Napoleon himself then arrived in Spain to reassert French military dominance, he could not prevent the escape of Sir John Moore's small British army, after its defensive victory at Corunna on 16 January 1809. The British army would return, under new leadership, to play a major part in his downfall.

Infinity is a new entertaining and engaging, high quality feature documentary film series, exploring one of the most significant unanswered questions of our time 'Does infinity exist?' Conversations with leading thinkers from multiple disciplines reveal the latest in scientific research and a broad range of perspectives and insights.

They were called "the 175s". These men were sometimes arrested while making love, often at work, or the police picked them up from home. A few hours later, they were often already in custody, and it was usually not long before they were dismissed by their employer. Their crime: consensual sex between adult men. This was a violation of Paragraph 175, which stated that "unnatural fornication committed between persons of the male sex" was punishable by imprisonment. This is what the German Criminal Code said when it was introduced in 1871.

“Practical Dreams” is an experimental documentary which examines the existential outlook on life of Antony, a long-time UAE resident who builds houses for a living but is at a loss when it comes to explaining what home really means to him.

The human right to live on their ancestral land... How difficult it is sometimes to implement it in the Fatherland. And not even in the icy North or the scorching south, but in central Russia itself, where it would be necessary to fight with all the forces of the state for the continuation of the life established there once with hard work, so that our beautiful rural expanses do not turn into a wild, overgrown with weeds, a huge lifeless field. It's hard to survive in a place where everyone is running for a better life. Fortunately, there are still those who remain. And Faith, Hope and Love will help them.

In 1999 Wales faced England in the final ever Five Nations clash at Wembley. It was an historic and unforgettable game that paved the way for a new era of Welsh rugby. Fans who were at the ground and watching at home share their experiences of that extraordinary day.

A montage-documentary filmed on Super 8 at the Riverhead Raceway on Long Island, NY.

The documentary is a continuation of the film on the events of August 1968 and presents the history told through individual testimonies and experiences. It is a diverse reflection on the transformation of society, its connection to the previously closed world around it, and getting used to the newly acquired rights and freedoms. It does not focus on the stories of faces familiar from the revolutionary tribunes, but on the small-scale reliving of small personal histories in the context of great social changes with the distance of 30 years of living in freedom.

On this journey, we arrive in Calabria, in San Luca, an iconic place known all over the world for the Duisburg massacre. The heart of the 'Ndrangheta. A docufilm of men and women who bravely oppose the mafia.

Some people are afraid of getting old, women are often afraid to lose their beauty, men are afraid of losing their strength, and both are afraid to face other things after old age. Then, what is felt Dona, an elderly transvestite said a combination of the two. This film will show the reality of Dona's life in living old age as a transvestite in a halfway house.

Three strangers immersed in the world of camming come together to discuss its impact on young people. But their views are radically different. While one sees it as a respectable trade full of dedicated and liberated women, another sees it as a direct exploitation of the male libido. The third sees it as a haven for lonely people like himself to reconnect with the intimacy that’s missing from their lives. What they don’t know is that they all have one person in common – and she’s watching the conversation from the next room. Bex is a curvy cam model, and she’s witnessing their unfiltered feelings about her and the industry unfold. Filled with passionate debates, disagreements, humour and revelation, will our common people unite? Or will their revelations polarise them further?

Experimental documentary exploring the city of Goma, DRC. Rambling walks through the city, accompanied by wisdom in monologues. Reflections on inequality and the country's history, told from street level.

Mbye Ebrima was born in Gambia and lives in Lisbon. He uses his instrument, the kora, to transmit the knowledge acquired through generations and generations of griots. To fulfill his mission, he creates a festival to spread the instrument and also reflects on his status as an immigrant.

"BLINK" is starting with Jakov and Ivan encounter in Vienna where Ivan flee from his family house in Kaštela and been missing for almost 2 months. Upon arrival back in Croatia, Jakov is filming Ivan, his life with schizophrenia diagnose and his treatments in psychiatric clinics in Split, Rab and Ugljan. Most of the video footage was taken secretly in order to expose the inhumanity and brutality of treatment to which the residents of these institutions are subjected to and the real impact that medicament has on their mental and physical well-being.

The harrowing story of the 2006 torture and double-murder of two teen boys in Cape Coral, Florida by a teen gang and a 17-year-old pregnant girl.

Named after its setting, the French river Vidourle, Yalda Afsah’s film documents a strange and subtly unnerving choreography, capturing a group of young men performing what could be a ritual, a spectacle, a game, or a fight. In their collective movements as well as individual moments of concentration, anticipation and occasional forlornness, the adrenalin-fuelled adolescent protagonists seem to embody the frailty of the human condition awaiting an environmental change, much like an unexpectedly forceful current in a river.

A one-minute poem film about building barriers vs. living with a heart full of love, filmed predominantly with an iPhone 5c, between 2015 and 2019, in Japan, Taiwan, and the United States.

In Itapetim’s countryside, deep inside Sertão do Pajeú in the Pernambuco backlands lives Leonardo Bastião in a rammed earth housing, a poet who, even without knowing how to read or write, built through his improvised metrical poetry and his relationship with the local environment an overwhelming cultural universe. After a lifetime of anonymity, videos of Leonardo declaiming authorial verses surfaced online and reached millions of views and even gave birth to a book transcribed by fans. In 2019, at the age of 74, the illiterate poet reflects on life, nature and homesickness, while scholars of popular culture try to explain the media and linguistic phenomenon that is his life and work.

An abstract narrative, diary film and travelogue reminiscing on the quotidian. My day to day routines and deviations from it are captured as 6 months pass on the screen in a blur. Musique concrète accompanies the visuals taken from vocal samples of myself as a child and repurposed. Ruminations on nostalgia, film as material and 16mm as a particularly evocative medium with a long history of home movies and nonprofessional filmmaking. The film acts as a document, archiving time and place, as a way for me to recount where and what I did at this point in my life-a point where I still feel an existential drifting and listlessness. Something to look back at and only make sense of after the fact.

Uutisten aika is a found footage film, which discusses cultural differences, being an outsider, the Namibian independence struggle, and Finland’s long-term ties with the southern African country.

Etymology of "azogue" according to the RAE: Of Hispanic Arabic azzáwq, east of the classical Arabic z-w-q or z-'aq, and this from the pelvi z-wag.

A documentary about an aspect of the life of a generation that was witness to social changes and several economic during the "boom." Abu Nasser, one of the owners of special experiences in the midst of that series of variables. This documentary tells the story of Abu Nasser's inspiring struggle, during which he lost much but did not give up his dreams.

Haunted by post-socialist nostalgia, 25-year-old director Hanwen Zhang returns to the cement-factory town in northeast China in which he was born and raised. The town’s official name is Sheep Pen Town, in the Shuangyang District of Changchun City, Jilin Province. People don’t really use this name, but currently refer to it as ‘the cement factory’. According to oral history, the town was known in the 1990s as ‘the first line of China’. Throughout the film, the director explores this clue to reveal a half-buried story. The town was a product of China’s rapid and radical industrialisation in the 1980s, having been constructed simultaneously with a state-owned cement factory to house the workers who migrated there. With a subtle irony and a nuanced but brave approach, Hanwen explores the history of his country and its ideology through the lenses of his own family and hometown.

A miniature wrecking ball and accompanying mini brick wall to be destroyed; an incomplete puzzle of the Parthenon; homemade fake latex vomit containing plastic novelties, pieces of candy, knick knacks, and detritus from the artist’s studio; pennants made from packets and designer ziplock bags; and a mesh veil adorned with chewing gums. —Western Front

Winn Morton - a visionary, 90-year-old costume designer who honed his craft on Broadway and with Ringling Brothers Circus - brings over-the-top fantasy and sparkle to a traditional debutante pageant in East Texas.

For 30 years, Ed “Nardie” White has dedicated his life to uplifting and empowering African-American youth through the River City Drum Corps, teaching kids about their African roots and culture through music. Filmmakers Marlon Johnson and Anne Flatté spent years in Louisville, KY, filming the charismatic founder and the many children he inspired. As he prepares to pass the torch to his successor and former student Albert, Nardie also reflects on the triumphs and bittersweet losses of the past three decades. River City Drumbeat is an inspirational story of music, love, and legacy set in the American South.

Short documentary about a group of young filmmakers who started in Kino klub Novi Sad in 1951. With little money and maximum effort they succeeded to establish a professional film production in Vojvodina (part of Serbia and former Yugoslavia).

The Transcontinental Race is much more than a bicycle race, it's a complete experience. Here, filmed during 3 races from 2016 to 2018, Onboard will immerse you in the unique experience that is the Transcontinental Race.

An attempt to understand climate change through the production of human food; a few drawings to describe our world. This animation is the result of a workshop held with 15 children from the Limette School in Brussels during the festival Filming for the Climate.

The tragedy of the theater center in Moscow on Dubrovka, seized by terrorists in 2002, told by former hostages, special forces and negotiators. What do we still not know about these terrible events, even 17 years later?

Documentary about Sandra del Pilar, PhD in Art History and painter whose works explore gender violence and torture.

The Solovetsky Monastery, built in the 15th century, is a sacred place, in the history of which holiness and tragedy, unity with God and the terrible test of the special camp merged. This is the place where today everyone is looking for the answer to the main question "who am I?" The protagonist of the film goes there to shoot a documentary, and everything starts to go wrong.

The notion of a Cuban civil society is often misrepresented in the U.S. mainstream media. According to most sources, Cuban civil society is limited to the opposition, which has little impact on the Cuban political scenario. Regardless, yearly, the U.S. government allocates tens of millions of taxpayer money to empower dissidents in the island. By doing so, it overlooks genuine expressions of pluralism, reform and contestation which are shaping the Cuban public sphere, sometimes in autonomous ways, sometimes within State-run institutions. Through in-depth interviews to members of Cuban Civil society, this documentary explores the complexities associated to these processes, following the itinerary of the debate about the concept of civil society generated in Cuba, since the 90s to the present.

The film tells about a man who spent his whole life on achieving his goal, but now not sure of the correctness of his path.

The skills, backstories and mindsets of four elite freeskiers—a renowned veteran, a stunning rookie, a mind-blowing innovator and a big mountain star carrying on his father’s legacy—are all captured in oversized personal segments based largely around each skier’s home turf. Each skier brings a different style and outlook to the table, but they all have one thing in common: they love to send’er. The body of the movie showcases some of the most progressive big and small mountain skiing filmed to date, and setting the stage for the end of the season when all four skiers unite for the mother of all heliskiing trips.