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Take a look as these women explain their hair journey in The Politics of Hair. Join Jeral and Elizabeth Clyde on a political Hair journey.

The marks colonialism left appear throughout, not only the countries that were affected, but also the ones who profited. The ways in which each country decides to deal with those marks, however, differs in interesting ways. A perfect example of such disparity comes in the form of the black man, from the ways in which society sees him to the ways in which he sees himself. This documentary short will be told through a poetic journey of the black male's experience, presenting the audience with Godsway Anderson and Marcquis Graham, two black men from Ghana and the United States respectively. Their opposing stories will showcase the modern effects of colonialism and question how the lives of two unique men from two different countries, while seemingly distinct, intersect in interesting ways. The most interesting intersection, however, happens when the two discover that their future relies on the power of 'Sankofa,' which translates to returning to your roots in order to move forward.

New York based fashion illustrator Richard Haines talks designing the cover art for The Criterion Collection's release of Tom Jones (1963).

The film portrays the events of a single day in Cairo of 1954, as they unfold through the personal story of the now 97-years-old Jacques Motola. Through present-day conversations with his granddaughter, his memories of past reveal the story of an aging artist and still somewhat a man of mystery.

Some of the events themselves are forgotten, and they are excluded from copyright, and they are the co-creation and the word-of-mouth of people in a certain region. These events, which have little value but are attached to the landscape and time and space, should have a reserved meaning. When the scene of the event is gradually changing, will the event itself die? As an individual, I may be able to record something.

Exploring family, love and human resilience, we follow John and Quiandre as they pick up the pieces of their lives destroyed by Hurricane Irma the most powerful storm to ever hit the Caribbean.

In May 2018, families from Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, Romania, Kenya, Fiji and the Saami Youth Association, Sáminuorra from Sweden sued the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union for the inadequate 2030 climate target that the EU had agreed before the 2015 Paris Climate Summit. The plaintiffs claim that the EU’s existing 2030 climate target, is inadequate with respect to the real need to prevent dangerous climate change and not ambitious enough to protect their fundamental rights to life, health, occupation and property. These families and the Saami Youth are supported by broad range of NGOs and more than 175 000 citizens. Three Portuguese families - which represent sectors dependent on the balance of the climate, such as the forest, agriculture and beekeeping - are already feeling the worsening impacts of climate change.

A behind-the-scenes documentary telling the story of Wolverhampton Wanderers' promotion to the Premier League as 2018 Championship winners under manager Nuno Espirito Santo.

Vladimir and Valentina met on an ad in the Lonely Hearts Club newspaper. To start a new life and create a family, he comes to her – from Altai Krai to St. Petersburg. However, it turns out that things are not so simple.

At a time of rising Islamophobia, Muslim women in New York have found a safe haven in a beauty salon. Le’Jemalik is the city’s first female-only parlor, where clients can remove their headscarves and indulge in halal beauty services brought to them by a resilient American Muslim businesswoman.

Dr. Andrew Rynne, known as Ireland's first vasectomist, became famous when a man walked into his surgery with a rifle.

A desert which posesses the origin of life on Earth. An unending fight to protect it. Could education be the key to it's salvation?

A documentary about the underground punk/new wave/thrash scene in Tulsa Oklahoma, focusing on the late 70s up until the mid 90s. Going against the grain in the conservative atmosphere of the city formerly known as the Oil Capital of the World, bands such as Los Reactors, NOTA, Pitbulls On Crack, Bunnies of Doom, Baby M, Brother Inferior, Tex Montana's Green Party and many others struggled to make a name for themselves releasing their own music and playing local and national venues. Oil Capital Underground is filled with rare live footage, flyers, photos and interviews with many of the colorful musicians, promoters and club owners discussing the music, personalities and social climate of the time.

Is the woman invisible in samba? Invisible, but essential. What keeps a foot structure almost always invisible. It is necessary to give birth to the samba that in the parades of carnival was deferred to the detriment of the plastic, of the esthetics of a product offered to the world that does not necessarily reflect the reality. Here, at the origin, the woman appears in the segments sustaining the institutions maintainers of the "roots", although the environment remains dry of machismo, they lead wings of composers, they play firm in the battery, they succeed like carnavalescas; are at the forefront of projects to preserve the intangible heritage of their associations. Many are inserted in samba wheels, currently the niche where the most samba root is exposed.

Digital Drama's short film about the history of suffrage banners to mark the 100 year anniversary of the Representation of the People Act and the year that some women in the UK first got the vote. Expert Elizabeth Crawford examines how these beautiful banners were used in the campaign to gain the vote.

A young trans woman goes door-to-door campaigning to be elected to parliament in Nepal.

The everyday life of the Orthodox Christian community of Kananga, in Democratic Republic of Congo, a war-ridden country with thousands of victims and one of the most dangerous places in the world.

This film takes us to Chile for a deep dive into cueca, the national dance of Chile. The cueca brava music scenes in Valparaíso and Santiago, which many compare to the tango scene in Buenos Aires or the fado scene in Lisbon (only much less popular and away from tourism), had been going through hard times under the Pinochet years. They had been manipulated and stripped of their radical potential for social commentary; it was only in the early 2000s that many (young) locals rediscovered it… and danced it, played it and re-invented it.

Based on dreams (waking and non-waking) by pals and acquaintances of noted American writer Lucy Corin, the night after the epochal US election of 2016. A bevy of speakers weigh in on the new world.

A documentary about three artists (Don Davis, Charles Lindsay, Rick Guidice) and their work with NASA.

A reflection on the fly as both a living being and a metaphor for the human desire to reach beyond, using artifacts from hand-processing.

Water runs under a bridge A church looms overhead A couple films each other on the shoreline Walking into a sea of chaotic filmic decay Super 8mm Kodachrome shot by my parents in 1985, and buried by myself in late summer of 2018.

Walker’s is a short observational/ethnographic documentary about a historic black barbershop in Wilmington, North Carolina. Composed primarily of close-ups, the film illuminates the barbershop as not just a shared space, but a social institution of great importance within the community.

A gáhpir is a women’s headdress and a gate to ancestors, and it also reminds its wearer of the importance of traditions. The gate opens up a way to the mountains, to the landscapes where the ancestors once stood, breathing in the same air and admiring their surroundings.

Monika Uchiyama’s observational study of her family’s Tokyo-based wax factory captures the love and labor involved in the production and sustainability of handmade goods across generations.

Journeying into the mythical space of southern Mexico, visual artists Geska and Robert Brecevic and their five-year old daughter Katja unearth complex stories in which time, memory and nostalgia are continually reenacted. Dreaming The Memories of Now leads us through a stunning and profound exploration of the artistic process of creation and an ethereal declaration of love for a place. Stretching the genre of documentary, this film poem is a composition of far-ranging thoughts, sun-drenched images and scenes of mystery, guided by the voice of the narrator and a gripping, visceral soundscape.

Through the eyes of some Latinas, this documentary short delves into the issues that affect the female Hispanic community in Southern California. What would you do to follow your dreams?

A doc-travel log that goes through past and present of the vast Amazon region, the largest hydrographic territory on the planet, in which humid forests and ancestral cultures coexist resisting the advance of the transnational domain,

A film about the black head Carranza sheep and the ways of subsistence cattle related to them in Karrantza Valley (Bizkaia, Spain). A series of seven in-camera edited Super-8 reels explores the link between grass, sheep, feeding, wool, milking, cheese, threads. It is a project that began with the recalling of first moving pictures of sheep (MOUTONS ENTRANT À L’ABATTOIR, Lumière Brothers, 1896) and with the correlation between wool spinning and the film rolling pace.

Evgeny Granilshchikov's debut full-length film pursues the exploration of the social and political landscape of contemporary Russia started in his short video works and drawings about a decade ago. Like in many of his previous works, Granilshchikov's characters are young creatives, whose lives and careers develop to a backdrop of current political affairs.

The film shows the genesis of the Swiss Tropical Institute under the direction of Rudolf Geigy. From his employees and students he was partly admired, partly feared. His moods and outbursts were legendary. As a wealthy industrialist, he was able to afford virtually everything and generously invested in the establishment of the Tropical Institute, but also made considerable development aid in Africa. A search for traces with contemporary witnesses.

This short documentary centers on climate change in southern Greenland, told from a personal yet historical stand point.

After serving time in a New Hampshire jail, a freed inmate faces the pull of addiction.

An in-depth documentary on the relationship between Donald Trump and Evangelical Christians, featuring prominent interviews with writers, clergy, and voices from the Christian Left.

A documentary about the fans of the football club, Sheffield Wednesday.

Chronicling the journey of contestants, past and present, who compete for the coveted crown of Miss Continental, a pageant for transgender women.

A look at a Columbian extreme bicycle culture.

Short film about the "daisies" female employees who clean the streets every day.

The umutina indigenous people tries to save their culture; but the poorty and the rising influence of the evangelic christianism turn this dream to melancholy

On 1 June 2009 a passenger plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. My cousin Georg, returning from Brazil, was among the 228 dead. He grew up as an adopted child in a small Italian village in the midst of the Dolomites; he had travelled to the city of Salvador da Bahia on the coast of Brazil in search of his biological mother. Seven years later his adoptive brother, Markus, crosses the ocean to follow Georg's footprints into his own past.

Ural stand-up comedian Denis in one minute tells his whole sad life.

Even though it's only been a few weeks since I returned home, our trip to Asia feels like a hazy dream. This is not a recount of the whole trip but a collection of some of my favorite memories along the way.

Rebirth is about the achievements of developmentally disabled children coming to the forefront of life as any other normal human being. A group of parents at Mysore (India) prove that such children do not have to be side lined.

Love and Loss follows two surprisingly strong women: Karen Crespo and Nicole Evans. Both women are vibrantly physically disabled; however, Nicole was born disabled while Karen became disabled later in life. Through the observation of the dating lives of them, this film explores the challenging and often unconventional intimate relationships of physically-impaired individuals, as well as how those individuals define and live their lives within the context of their disabilities.