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This documentary explores the heart's potential to someday be able to regenerate itself thanks to revolutionary advancements in cardiology.

Providing an unexpected and delightful pairing of audio and visuals, these five new digital works by Casey Reas and Jan St. Werner were initially inspired by Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills series and the 35mm camera-less films of Stan Brakhage.

Slaughterhouse workers—some of whom are still on the job—describe their work. Their accounts reveal the toll that this “world apart,” on the fringes of the human condition, takes on the workers’ health. The film captures the struggle that the men and women working in slaughterhouses must wage against their own emotions in order to “hold on” day after day. Through their fragmented accounts, the mental images that haunt them are gradually revealed, and at times we can sense all those they would prefer not to share. Filmed in the forest, a symbolic space of refuge and isolation, the documentary shows no footage shot inside a slaughterhouse.

The project documents the people who lived, worked and played in an iconic Victorian bath-house in South London, known as the Playtower, throughout its 100-years-plus history.

The "requerimiento" was a declaration by the Spanish monarchy of Castile’s divine right to take possession of the New World’s territories and to subjugate, exploit and, if necessary, fight the native inhabitants. This film explores the aesthetics of a mythological time and its archetypical creatures and materialities. Following the trajectories of a serpent and the fragment of a meteorite, "Requerimiento" develops an interwoven narration questioning human and nonhuman alterities in different epochs and cultures.

When director Asmae El Moudir finds an old picture postcard of a mountain village among her mother’s belongings, it brings a remarkable story to life. The picture is of Zawia, the village in Morocco that her mother left as a child and never returned to. El Moudir decides to go to this remote place. In Zawia, where time seems to have stood still, she embarks on a quest into her mother’s past, and thereby her own. She connects on a personal level with women and girls in the village; one of the young girls is Oum Elaid. The better El Moudir gets to know her and her family, the more she realizes how different her life would have been if her mother had stayed in the village. What begins as an intimate, personal journey in search of her family’s roots, evolves into a universal story about emancipation, migration, and the human longing to belong to a community.

A time capsule of the last year of college, Momentum follows the big opportunities and the moments in between as college student Michael Dietrich finds his path as a creator.

Bastian, 17, has bone cancer. He decides, with his love Lise, to fight back by filming his last year. For them both, and their friends, the most important is to find beauty at every moment.

I can't sleep and my computer is full of memories.

In the middle of the steppes of Kherson region lies a railway station called Kalinindorf. In 1927 the "all-Union elder" Mikhail Kalinin came here to establish the Jewish national district. To honor this event the inhabitants of Velyka Seidemynukha renamed their village to Kalinindorf. Today Kalinindorf has a neutral name Kalynivske. Only ruins of the ancient synagogue remind us of Jewish collective farms. As well as the director of the local museum, who keeps preserving the history of these lands.

Leading Lincoln historian Harold Holzer masterfully recalls a dramatic Presidential Election that redefined racial politics and changed the course of history.

This documentary is about Sigrún Þuríður Geirsdóttir, the first Icelandic woman to swim across the English Channel. She is also the first woman to swim the famous Eyjasund (from the Westmann Islands to the south coast of Iceland). In addition Sigrún has also swam the English Channel in a relay team three times. The film tells Sigrún's story and her incredible endurance. It took her 22 hours. and 34 min to complete the swim but she became sea sick for 7 hours. Sigrún had no background in sports and learned how to swim only three years earlier. The documentary is 70 minutes long and contains a lot of footage from Sigrún's swim. In 2020 the president of Iceland honored Sigrún Þuríður Geirsdóttir the Order of the Falcon, the highest honour that the Icelandic state can bestow on individuals.

Coffee Heroes follows an outwardly calm Polish barista and her attempt to become the first female World Barista Champion; While forming an unlikely partnership with a fierce and coffee-obsessed former champion, as her coach.

Thru hiker and veteran Will “Akuna” Robinson completes the Triple Crown of Hiking: the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, and the Continental Divide Trail. This film shares Robinson’s thoughts on this incredible achievement that made him the first African American male on record to complete the Triple Crown of Hiking.

Departing from a passage of the “Ecclesiastes” reflecting on the insatiable desire of watching and listening to the things of the world, begins a visual and acoustic chase of archival images from WWI, videos found in a mobile phone, whispers in the street, the melody of a piano, silent landscapes, urban architecture, and night lights.

This film is the product of a seven-year research journey on the popular insurrection of December 1960 in Algeria and the failure of the counter-insurrection, thanks to the Wretched of the Earth themselves.

Artist Igor Gusev became popular in Europe, but continues to live in his native Odessa, although every day in this city gives him pain. Odessa is barbarously disfigured by the destruction of the historical fund and the construction of a mediocre new building. The artist is looking for a nature for the ordered painting, and this search revives old wounds in his soul, recalling decay, aging and death.

The last days of August: in the early morning a cool fog is felt on the skin, the ranetki in a barrel of water seem to be silver, the rustling of birches is heard everywhere, and in the country house everything is shaking because of the trains passing very close, but it seems to you that these are some kind of huge animals pass by and, perhaps, look in the windows in the evenings, while the lights are on there. You go out on the porch of the house and the movie begins.

48-year-old former snowboarder Bibian Mentel has been living with cancer for 21 years, received the bad news no less than fourteen times that the cancer was back. The result: one leg amputation, five lung operations, three neck operations, four back operations and 74 radiation treatments. In March 2019 she ended up in a wheelchair due to one of the back operations. Despite all the operations and radiation treatments, there are still numerous metastases in her body. Although the situation seems worrying and hopeless, Bibian and her family refuse to let that rotten disease determine everything. Documentary maker Jesse Bleekemolen (22 years old) followed Bibian for a year with a very intimate portrait as a result of fighting spirit and her dance with death.

To celebrate the coming summer and say goodbye to the dark days of winter, they leave their cities in droves to worship forgotten gods in the heart of Brittany. This documentary recounts the last edition of the Feux de Beltane (Beltane Fire Festival), a secret celebration meant for Black Metal fans, through a portrait of 6 festival-goers.

On its way to joining NATO, the small nation of Montenegro got in the way of the great state of Russia. Moscow agents plan to stage a coup in Mediterranean country on the day of the parliamentary elections. The goal is to remove the pro-Western prime minister and install pro-Russian rule. But an insider, a “small man” with an awakened conscience, afraid the conspiracy will cost many lives, decides to change the course of history.

After their graduation, Anne, Efy, Elisabeth, Johannes, and Kaupo get their motorcycle licenses and set off on four old rusty Ural 650 sidecar motorcycles, travelling eastward from Germany to New York City. When plans collapse things start to get interesting. Roads dissolve into deserts, swamps, and rivers until they reach the 80 kilometres of open sea separating Russia from Alaska, the Bering Strait. Their unreliable motorcycles suffer ongoing breakdowns and the raw and rugged terrain throws them the most unrelenting difficult challenges. Equipped with no more than naivety and persistence they somehow make their way through the most isolated corners of the world. After 20,000 km of breakdowns, all roads end and the only way to get closer to the Bering Strait is by The Kolyma, a remote 1,600 km long river. To cross it, the group build an amphibious motorcycle rig that will lead them closer to Bering Strait.

In Amaicha del Valle, a small native community in Northern Argentina, Internet service is often interrupted because of the strong winds. Mario Reyes, the native community's wrangler and park ranger, will have to take the Internet provider's engineer, Mercado, up the mountain to fix the problem.

Two family stories, a century and two metropolises merge into one: Weina Zhao. Her parents called the little daughter "Vienna" when they emigrated from Beijing to Austria. Weina's journey back in history - from the cultural revolution to modern China - touches on the major issues of the 21st century: migration, identity and coming to terms with the past.

Poetic short documentary about Finnish rituals of happiness.

After several years apart I decide to meet up with my elder sister. She lives alone in a truck and has become addicted to morphine. We start talking like never before, deep into the dark of the night.

While the space and arms races are Cold War common knowledge, few know about the United States and Soviet Union's race to dig the deepest hole. This is particularly surprising since Hell may have been inadvertently discovered in the process.

A documentary on the lives and work of two accomplished but underrecognized African-American artists who were united by their love for each other, their dedication to their art, and their passion for teaching.

Brace yourself for adventure as we take you inside Ted Turner’s 923 square mile Vermejo Park Ranch that spans the border of New Mexico and Colorado. This spectacular land offers world-class trout fishing, rich history and a wildlife array like few have ever experienced. A long-revered sportsmen’s retreat, this ecotourism sanctuary even maintains a native cutthroat trout preservation program.

Modern agriculture would be inconceivable without them: Huge harvesting machines such as beet and potato harvesters, tractors weighing tons and high-horsepower foragers. Agricultural technology made in Germany is at the forefront of the world market. How do the powerful harvest giants work? Where are they made? In our documentation we take a look around the agricultural technology fair Agritechnica in Hanover, we are present at a harvesting mission in Western Pomerania and show the effort with which the XXL machines are transported.

Dashing down to the local dairy has long been a Kiwi institution. This documentary examines the evolution of the dairy and the impact it has had on migrants looking to find their place in New Zealand.

Documentary celebrating the 1990 festive classic written by John Hughes. It’s a movie that turned its then-nine-year-old star, Macaulay Culkin, into the biggest child actor since Shirley Temple. Featuring interviews with film critics, fans, stuntmen and even a reformed burglar, who assesses the home security at the Home Alone house.

Earth is a volcanic planet, with over 1,400 active giants spread across the globe. But what would happen if all of them were to erupt at once? From rivers of lava, towering ash clouds, and pyroclastic flows to tsunamis and super-sized climate change, we explore the powerful volcanic forces that fascinate today's scientists. Join us as we conduct a thrilling thought experiment with leading volcanologists that reveals the inner workings of some of the world's most magnificent volcanoes.

Although a portrait of the troubled Rust Belt city of Youngstown, Ohio, “The Place That Makes Us” offers a gratifyingly hopeful look at efforts to restore a town ravaged by the prolonged economic distress caused by the closure of its iconic steel mills and related industries.

The Jamaica flower and tamarind are iconic ingredients in Mexico, but their history comes from a place much further away. In Jamaica & Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico, we meet five people who explore African heritage in Mexico City, an identity that goes beyond the color of one's skin.

In Aymara language, "thakhi" means “path”. It is this path that Natali takes from Brazil to Bolivia, from the present to the past. Between the departure of a long trip to an end that starts other directions. Sometimes in the Andean essence, the most important lessons are where the dualities live, in the detours along the way. A rediscovery of its ancestral existence.

Annie Nightingale, Radio 1's first female DJ, has compiled a stellar playlist of some of the finest punk and new wave moments from the 70s and early 80s. This handpicked compilation features rare archive footage from The Slits, The Raincoats and Rhoda Dakar, as well as fantastic concert footage from Blondie and The Clash. Sprinkled throughout are live studio performances from The Old Grey Whistle Test, including a haunting performance of Ghosts by Japan, a classic Ramones clip and a rare John Foxx offering. The Teardrop Explodes and Tom Tom Club also feature, as do Adam Ant and Siouxsie Sioux. Annie’s eclectic picks ensure a highly entertaining mix of popular punk and new wave favourites interwoven with some forgotten archive gems.

Aliens and UFOs are more real than ever before. Thousands of sightings by highly credible witnesses worldwide cannot be denied. The big question is not whether the Aliens are here among us, monitoring us, perhaps preparing us for some kind of end game that will change humanity forever, but why is the government and military still denying the fact that we are not alone? While many of the sightings every year are debunked, it's the ones that defy description, obliterate our notions of physics and science and exhibit other worldly capabilities beyond our grasp. The mind blowingly bizarre and most mysterious Alien Encounters of all, these are the cases we call Alien Chronicles.

Dublin is a city in the midst of a property development boom but with that traditional ways of life in the city are disappearing. Saorise takes a look at inter-generational horse culture and what it means to the men of Dublin's inner city. The already marginalized culture is in decline and likely won't exist in the near future.

A man desperate for answers wanders the isles of American Consumer Culture. He can see Reebok to his left and Nike to his right but where is his heart?

Military invasions, curfews and loss were realities that the director had to deal with as a child. This short is his revisit to that traumatic past in an attempt for a reconciliation.

For fifteen years, the Roma camp of Lungo Stura Lazio, the so-called Platz, existed on the northern outskirts of Turin. It was one of the largest slums in Europe. Jean's version is the story of a man who with his cell phone films and records various moments of daily life in the camp, until its total destruction. Now, in the large space left empty after the eviction, his memories resurface.

Unusually gifted, successful CEO/entrepreneur Sebastien Martin has experienced accurate prophetic visions for years. While ignoring his psychic abilities to build a normal life, Sebastien's shocking memories of his alien past intensified after a strange encounter with an Annunaki ET claiming to be his soul brother - leading to a profound journey of self-discovery and an urgent message to humanity.

Dancing On My Own is a love letter to the queer Asian experience, inspired by New York's radical dance party Bubble_T.

Fake news have entered the mainstream, thanks in part to “fake news king” Jestin Coler. A film that tackles journalism, memes, truth and lies in the U.S.

In the Port of Tilbury—a place which historically was the point of entry for migrants to the UK—filmmaker Maria Anastassiou worked collaboratively with a group of people who had recently arrived in the town to paint a portrait of life in the transient space of the Thames Estuary.

In Birds of a Feather, Nora Sweeney creates a warm, endearing portrait of a group of elderly Armenian men playing backgammon in a park in Glendale, California. Sweeney cultivates a sense of ceremony in the game, showing each player arriving from different directions, to convene together. Subtitles are only provided for a few minutes, introducing us to the group’s conversation in their shared language. Sweeney creates a strong sense of the communication and conviviality, at play beyond words, through this omission, intimate close-ups of hands, and personal items – cards, keys, a bottle of cologne, and the tactility of analogue film.

Scientists, virus hunters, medical detectives and public figures battle viruses at warp speed.

Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival - VIMFF 2020 - February 21st - March 1st, 2020 | An annual international film festival in Vancouver

For most of our history, the ocean has been regarded as, if not a barrier, an adversary: something to be simultaneously exploited and feared. Ingo Niermann asks us to rethink our response to the fearful oceans, in hope of finding its hidden soul and reaching an understanding with it. In Sea Lovers Niermann offers us a whole chest of new models for reading, touching and feeling the sea. As the seaside theme parks of the early 20th century offered us a safe encounter with the novel and unsettling technologies of the age, could an underwater amusement park allow us closer interpersonal connection with other lifeforms? And just as the domestication of animals into emotional and affective companions made the forests ‘safe’ for our comprehension, could dolphins or cephalopods become our guides to the watery depths that were once our home? Could the salty touch of the ocean itself soften us towards accepting its wild and all-encompassing embrace?

In Summer 2020, BLOOD INCANTATION filmed and recorded a live performance of their much celebrated “Hidden History of the Human Race” album, which has been released in November 2019 through Century Media Records and Dark Descent Records.