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Signatures of Earth is an experiment in repositioning documentary narrative hierarchies in the space age. The film aggregates fragmentary encounters from varying points of view, encountering cuttlefish and quasars, and much else in between, happened upon during a transcontinental journey to film the shadow of the moon. Challenging, in the tradition of Brechtian distanciation, the film is also poetic, ethereal, roving, contemplative, richly cinematic and empathetically engaged. Signatures of Earth presents a fractured vision of the cognitive and sensory muddle that is an antipodean road trip through the Anthropocene. It all makes sense as long as you don’t want it too.

The Waste Commons reveals the intricate lifeworlds and recycling networks built by waste pickers since 1968 at Dakar’s dump, Mbeubeuss. Adja and Zidane, two waste pickers who are emerging as leaders contesting the erasure of their community, guide us through the dump’s material, social, and spiritual worlds.

After 12 years of documentary courses being absent as a form of Integrated Practicum in the Film Department at IKJ, Bikeska, Paul, Arrivo, and Raihanul chose to break the tradition. Amidst the dominance of fiction films, which are considered more prestigious, they chose documentaries due to budget constraints and a desire to respond to the world in a more honest and intimate way. Their poetic documentary film captures two layers of reality: a man who draws architectural spaces, and the laborers who build them. However, the process led to a creative crisis and the images were too structured as the treatment felt like fiction filmmaking. The question arose: were they recording reality or constructing it? The camera turned around, highlighting the team’s process and confusion. Ultimately, the film not only captures space and labor, but also reflects that documentaries, like buildings, are the result of construction and choice.

The filmmaker, starting a documentary research, interviews clients from the Champs bar to understand the importance of lesbo-queer bars for the community.

The story of the Druze community in the Golan Heights—conquered in 1967 and annexed by Israel in 1981—is told through two characters from Majdal Shams: 19-year-old Aya, who dreams of joining Israel’s national hockey team and is willing to accept Israeli citizenship to achieve her goal, and her older uncle Ayoub, a journalist and farmer who identifies as Syrian and firmly rejects Israeli citizenship. Filmed overthe course of three years, the documentary explores the deep identity crisis of a lost community striving for a peaceful life on its ancestral land while caught in the grip of a turbulent fate.

Documentary on the end of the war between Bosnia-Herzegovina. Available on El Salto's YouTube channel.

Halloween, often seen as an American custom, dates back to the Celtic festival of Samhain, which was already known in Gaul and Ireland. A two-thousand-year-old bronze calendar attests to this tradition. At that time, people believed that the gates to “another world” were open. The documentary uses archaeological evidence to show how Celtic customs gave rise to the modern Halloween festival.

Love, Z is a generational portrait and a middle finger to patriarchal supremacy disguised as a love letter. Twelve Gen Z voices question how capitalism, technology, and patriarchy shape modern love. Among them, Amalie and Sonia invite us into their private lives, searching for three kinds of love: for themselves, for others, and for life itself.

WINE and WAR is a documentary about one of the the oldest winemaking regions on earth and the resilience of the Lebanese entrepreneurial spirit seen through the lens of war and instability.

Dengbêjên Me is a empathetic documentary about the last living representatives of the Kurdish oral storytelling tradition—the Dengbêjs. The film is dedicated to their lives, their memories, their pain, and their resistance. Their songs and personal stories create a cinematic archive of a cultural heritage that dates back thousands of years. Between voice, music, and silence, a deeply emotional journey unfolds, becoming a farewell, a testimony, and an act of cultural survival.

How free and independent is the press in Europe? In recent years, multiple crises and the rise of authoritarianism have put pressure on journalists. We take a look at these countries, where aggression towards the media seems to be undermining the very idea of democracy.

When you mention "The Letter People" to a 50-year-old who experienced them as a child, their eyes widen with excitement. Here's why... Pre-dating "Sesame Street," teacher Elayne Reiss-Weimann devised a way for her severely struggling students to learn the basic elements of reading. The result, with aid from her co-teacher Rita Friedman, was The Letter People - a national phenomenon throughout the 1970s and 80s in kindergarten & first grade classrooms. Kids fell madly in love with the inflatable characters — The Huggables — whom they believed were alive. It invented techniques that are used by other reading programs to this day! Watch this amazing story told by Elayne, original publisher Dr. Bernard Kauderer, and others who brought the program to life & turned it into a pop culture sensation.

In this feature-length documentary film essay, archival footage weaves together childhood memories from once-opposing sides on the Gorizia border to rethink—80 years after WWII, and amid renewed calls for rearmament—the meaning of home and belonging.

Take a look back at all the highs and lows of the 2024-25 Montreal Canadiens season, complete with exclusive, never-before-seen footage.

While tirelessly advocating for others, Susan Suchan navigates a cruel life predicament, and secretly devises an unorthodox plan to control mortality.

After the death of a community member from eating traditional Unangax food, one woman begins researching toxic algal blooms that are impacting local food supplies.

The choreography repeated from generation to generation, the collective effort to lower and raise the rafts into the sea; the nautical gestures and respect for the right tide time; the knowledge passed down from father to son; a profession entangled with many others—roleiros, rafters, painters, sail makers, carpenters, and boat builders.

The Impossibility of Showing What Should Never Have Happened examines the persistent impact of National Socialist child rearing ideals in post-war Germany. Specifically, it focuses on how the parenting book "The German Mother and Her First Child" by Johanna Haarer, infused with Nazi ideology, remained in publication, demonstrating the enduring influence of these ideas. The work investigates the continued existence of these harmful practices in a society supposedly moving beyond them.

With the expiration of Joe Biden's term as America’s 46th president, a 52-year Washington career came to a close. As he handed back the world’s most powerful office to the rival who preceded him, his final days were marked by controversy. Hosted by Bret Baier.

Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II, illuminates the wartime experiences of 600,000 “Rosie the Riveters” - pioneers who courageously triumph over racism and sexism to create job opportunities in industry and government for themselves and future generations of African American women.

An experimental, visual, and poetic study about bodies, stitches, and repair. A sensory exploration of fragmentation and reconstruction. The body, real or symbolic, is treated as a surface to be opened, sutured, and reimagined. Using textures, objects, and silent rituals, the film contemplates the tension between vulnerability and resilience, between decay and the desire to mend. It is not about narrative, but about sensation. Not about answers, but about the act of touching what is broken.

Experience the resilience, challenges, and daily struggles of British life during World War II in this captivating documentary. From the devastating Blitz to the hardships of rationing, it takes you through the emotional and physical tolls faced by ordinary people. Through personal stories and historical insights, this film explores how citizens endured unimaginable hardships, adapted to survive, and found hope amidst the uncertainty of war, all while contributing to the collective spirit that helped define a nation's courage in the darkest of times.

Two US-based doctors investigate the alarming rise in heart attacks and related deaths in South Asian communities across the world.

A love letter to the UK Caribbean diaspora, exploring black histories, physical spaces and notions of community. The site of the Keskidee Centre, a pioneering Afro-Caribbean cultural centre, is now occupied by luxury apartments. The closure of such valued spaces where people could gather and organise coincided with the rise of a political discourse which led to a lack of documentation of Black Caribbean pasts. Working on the surface of the film image itself – making use of a rostrum camera and optical printer – filmmaker Rhea Storr reflects on the histories that remain trapped in the archive and how capitalism has affected our connection to the past.

What happens when a YouTuber runs for Prime Minister? Well this documentary will show you, enjoy my friends.

With the lack of personal video archive, Youhanna (the filmmaker) creates false memories using lost home videotapes shot between the 1990s and 2000s in Europe, Africa, and Asia, with the help of an Artificial intelligence programme, until a real, personal video archive surfaces, transporting him into the past to relive one more memory with his late mother.

I cycled over 300km alone through the occupied West Bank. This journey took me through Israeli checkpoints, military zones, and illegal Israeli settlements, as I explored what life is like under occupation for millions of Palestinians.

A Landscape documentary about the silent voids the living inhabit after everyone they love has gone.

SWEAT IT OUT! charts the rise and fall of the iconic Australian music scene, affectionately dubbed ‘Oz Rock’. It’s the story of ambition, power and passion. Of the bands that succeeded, and those that didn’t. It’s a tale of oversized, colourful characters who risked it all – and the legion of fans who joined them on their journey, sweating it out in the tiny inner urban pubs, massive outer suburban beer barns and jampacked provincial hotels. It’s the story of a country forging its identity through music and an ethos of bands that toured longer, drove further and played harder to be heard. When bands would play live seven nights a week, sometimes playing three gigs in one day – sometimes even playing three gigs, in three different states, in the one day!

A touching and humorous tale of gender roles and two people’s struggle to fulfil their dream of having a child – with the director herself in the female lead.

A group of volunteers devotes their time caring for those the world has left behind. They walk us through their routines, sharing their stories, moments of doubt, sparks of hope and the unexpected joy and healing they discover in service.

A feature documentary about a family defying erasure and preserving home away from home.

It’s easy, in 2025, to despair that any film might course-correct our everquickening descent towards climate disaster. And yet, climate change is a cause so vital to the entire planet that it’s possible to find inspiration to carry on. Director Oren Jacoby’s new film gives us reason to not only hope, but believe. We meet the climate activist Sharon Wilson, whose eerie thermal images of methane pollution in Texas unveil invisible destruction (and earn her death threats for sharing them).

In 1994, a masked man shot a waiter in the only Indian restaurant in the Orkney Islands. The murder remained unsolved for years, until new evidence emerged. Delve into one of Scotland's most controversial cases, now with powerful new testimony.

“Apathy-Rise,” a parody of Coldplay’s Paradise by Niche Trio featuring Pierre Janssen, humorously explores existential themes from The Stranger and Antigone. It contrasts Meursault’s indifference with Antigone’s defiance, highlighting their opposing responses to absurdity and fate. Janssen’s feature adds commentary on their shared tragic outcomes, blending humor with literary insight. “Deadlines,” a parody of Drake’s Headlines, similarly examines existential struggle and inevitability in both works. Through clever wordplay and philosophical reflection, Niche Trio (Tysei Murao, Felix Janssen, Gabriel Reque Cruz) delivers an engaging and concise take on these timeless tragedies.

A solo traveller, surfer, and artist from Northwest Australia, Dean creates striking aerial seascapes on wood using materials gathered from the beaches he visits. As he journeys along the coast, his process becomes a meditation on nature, solitude, and healing.

Witness the fascinating story of a photographer and photojournalist’s entire career in his own gentle and humble words. After taking some of the most classic photographs in Hollywood history, Steve Schapiro set his sights on something that he felt was significantly more important: documenting the civil unrest that was happening in Black America. Shapiro provided America with iconic images to magnify the voices of James Baldwin, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and many more. His stories are remarkable not because they’re his alone, but because of the selfless dedication to public service he pursued in his own distinctive way. Being Everywhere honors the legendary photographer’s remarkable career, his unparalleled ability to capture defining moments in history, and his unique fortune to be present at key moments of social change, revealing his deep empathy and unwavering commitment to documenting the human experience.

Carmela lives with her husband and eight children near the Ecuadorian-Colombian border. This 56-year-old Afro-Ecuadorian woman opened her home to provide free and temporary shelter for thousands who leave Venezuela on foot, hoping to find better days in other South American countries.

Lifelong marksman Glenn Goodwin reflects on his decades in Canada's target shooting community and the challenges it now faces, exploring how Bill C-21 has led to the slow "death" of the sport.

A lifelong hobby becomes a lifeline for an unexpected Twitch streamer.

The combine harvester harvests sunflowers and the children make sunflower seed balls for the birds.

Patrick Oliphant was a giant slayer, bravely taking on presidents, popes and the American corporate class with his mighty pen. An Australian transplant, Oliphant became America's most renowned and feared political cartoonist for five decades. With his biting wit and masterful drawing skills, Oliphant attacked individual and institutional corruption, collusion, greed, hypocrisy and arrogance, no matter the size or status of his targets.

Short film shot in Forte dei Marmi, August 1989.

A young fisherman living on the island of Samos spends his days working on the water, navigating the challenges of a simple life tied to the sea. Set against the Aegean's natural beauty, it’s a story about one man's connection to his home and the sea that sustains him.

A new generation of young female activists uncovers a powerful, often overlooked chapter of women's history and the alarming reality of British nuclear armament. As they navigate the complexities of teenage life and social activism, three young women – Poppy, Xanthe, and Evie – embark on a journey of discovery, following in the footsteps of over 30,000 women who forty years earlier united in peaceful, liberating protest, the remarkable Greenham Common Women's Peace Movement.

On a film set where reality blurs into fiction, there is no clear protagonist-only a fluid network of characters who drift between roles as actors and crew. "Chunhee's Wet Dream of Loving a Pig" is a meta-cinematic, carnivalesque experiment born from unfiltered passion, exploring the raw desire for art and the porous boundary between life and cinema.

The creator of the T-34 tank Mikhail Koshkin, mountain climber Mikhail Bobrov, Olympic champion Yuri Tyukalov, sculptor Mikhail Anikushin, composer Veniamin Basner did not perform ostentatious feats, but simply did their job, day after day bringing victory in the Great Patriotic War closer. Their destinies, like threads, intertwined into a single story of courage, talent and unbending will.

The premiere in La Rochelle held deep symbolic and emotional significance: it is the festival co-founded by Jean-Loup Passek, now the stage for the first screening of a film that celebrates his legacy and the heartfelt connection between France and Portugal, between Melgaço and the world of cinema.

Food giants bought by tobacco firms since 1980s changed US food systems. A former lobbyist reveals industry manipulation, while local businesses partner with farms to restore healthy food options. Starting in the 1980s, cigarette companies began to acquire the largest food companies in America. Over the last 40 years, the American food system has gotten "forked" beyond all recognition. Calley Means, a former DC lobbyist, explains the broken incentive structure of how "Big Food" manipulates "Big Government" leading to garbage in our grocery stores. But there is hope... you'll be inspired as we follow what's happening at the local level where renegade local businesses - such as Shake Up Super Foods, Good Living Greens, Firefly Organic Coffee and Market, and others work with local farms - like Arizona Grass Fed Beef Company, Inspire Farms, Crow's Dairy, and others to bring clean, organic, healthy food back to the people in their community.—Jigsaw Health Studios

A documentary that chronicles the rise and fall of LGBT rights in the UK and shows why marches and pride events must continue as there is still a way to go for equality.

Boris Palmer, Lord Mayor of Tübingen, is one of the best-known local politicians in Germany and at the same time one of the most controversial figures in the political landscape. This documentary tells the story of a man whose personality reflects the central conflicts of the time.

A documentary about the efforts of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians and the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi to revitalize their rapidly disappearing language, Bodwéwadmimwen.

When Sarai gets pregnant, Faizer, her sister, travels to Colombia to be with her. Along the way, she grapples with the mixed emotions that come with migration.

Jeff Hood, a spiritual advisor to death row inmates, travels to Oklahoma in September 2024 to petition against the forthcoming execution of Emmanuel Littlejohn and to guide him to his death, if the state chooses to kill him.

A journey through the paranormal events shared by the Kinsella twins, this documentary takes the audience down a path through testimonies of extraterrestrial encounters.

A documentary about the Slovenian punk scene between 1977 and 1985: the bands formed were all made up of high school students who, despite their youth, quickly began to perform and triggered a wave of repression by the communist party. While Marshall Tito was dying in Ljubljana, an outburst of incredible creativity from young people took place in Slovenia, who no longer agreed to the party's one-mindedness. This was the first serious countercultural blow in the former Yugoslavia followed by a “Nazi punk affair” that put the three protagonists of the punk scene in custody. While English punks gathered in pubs, Slovenian punks gathered in the city center on Johnny Rotten Square.