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Documentary about the Drents Dream circa 1945-1990.

History of Dutch women working behind the scenes of moviemaking.

A look into how the Freedom of the Press is being effected through the new news possibilities of social media. This short documentary discusses the differences between new media and traditional media and the pros and cons of each format. Official selection of the 2018 C-SPAN StudentCam competition.

Psychologist and professor Jordan Peterson has come to fame, or notoriety depending on your perspective, over the last year. But many of those who found him through his criticisms of political correctness are saying they have discovered one of the world's most significant thinkers - why?

This short documentary explores the captivating work of five acclaimed African American quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama, a rural community that played a pivotal role during the Civil Rights Movement.

‘An animal simply is,’ nature photographer and writer Heikki Willamo says as dazzling black-and-white images segue from a forest bear to a seagull gliding over the sea. The animal images are themselves captivating, without any need to ask what is happening next. Directed and shot by Perttu Saksa, a well-known photographer, Animal Image borrows its form and speech from the reputed existence of animals: there is only here and now.

In the film, we accompany the archaeologist and his friend and looter Petro to several excavation sites. These excursions take us to a time between the future and the past, where despair over history lost forever meets the visit of aliens in our prehistory.

A faceless woman's story told through the eyes of an unknown man. The scenes might look empty but there is a full story waiting to be told. It is up to us to decide if we are ready to hear it. A delicate and restrained piece of filmmaking by Tanguy De Donder that takes the viewer through the now forgotten parts of the Belgian city of Liège.

An artist welcomes his friends to an exhibition of his work, but finds himself unable to leave when it closes.

“Ku’damm 56” and the documentary offer a glimpse into the 1950s: hope and guilt, a new youth culture, old constraints, and courageous people finding their place between taboo and freedom.

Soulmate is a poignant documentary that follows the journey of a compassionate woman who dedicates her life to rescuing and caring for stray cats. Through her heartfelt narration, she recounts how a single cat’s arrival sparked her passion and led her to open her home to countless felines in need. When her neighbors objected, she refused to give up and sought to establish a shelter outside the city. The film delves into her struggles to secure a location, navigate mounting challenges, and sustain the shelter without any government support. Despite the odds, her resilience shines as she builds a safe haven for these vulnerable animals. But in a devastating turn of events, her dreams—and her sanctuary—are tragically reduced to ashes on a dark and fateful night, leaving behind a haunting story of hope, love, and loss.

The film, which portrays two families and is punctuated by the intimate journey of an imaginary conquistador, questions the Amazonian reality of contemporary Peru. An exploration of the daily consequences of a colonization that never truly ended, the documentary challenges humanity's place in this desecrated world.

Self-improvement documentary consisting of interviews with five local entrepreneurs.

In music, the return to the original movement. Reflections on the rhythm of childhood and parenthood from birth.

Blue Barrier reconstructs the story of an urban highway recently inaugurated in the city of Tehran.

The term Bedouin is derived from the Arabic word for desert, badia; meaning a Bedouin is a desert dweller. They are extraordinary people, their connection to mother nature is exemplary, and their history speaks for itself. Bedouin’s trace there ancestry all the way back to Prophet Ismael, the firstborn son of prophet Abraham. This documentary is filmed in the birth land of their forefather Ishmael and gives insight to life before, during and after the 1948 war, shedding light on tribal history, identity and culture.

Joseph Bagheri, who was self-taught and learned to read and write at the age of 18, is one of the last revivalists. He is one of the most significant figures of the 19th century, a period of national renewal: Bagheri rose as a hero against five centuries of Ottoman slavery, fighting for freedom and national dignity.

Aurélio and his father-in-law Apolinar, both Kallawaya healers, have contributed to several books by German anthropologist Ina Rösing. While the former welcomes urban patients to his native village of Lunlaya at the gateway to the Bolivian Altiplano, the latter has chosen to open a consultorio in the capital, La Paz. Their intertwined trajectories raise questions about the evolution of healthcare practices and the place of anthropological works in the construction of memory.

In an Oval Office speech in March of 1983, President Ronald Reagan unveiled his plans for the Strategic Defense Initiative system–nicknamed 'Star Wars'–which would defend the United States against a first-strike intercontinental ballistic missile attack by the Soviet Union.

Christiania is a world-famous libertarian community with its own government, located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Having been given the unique opportunity to become citizens of the Free Town for a month, we tried to explore the hippie utopia hidden behind bright facades, loud music, and crowds of tourists.

Five friends set out on a journey to hop trains from New York to Los Angeles in one month.

"Der Nister" (The Hidden), that's how Colleen Shabtai called the house where she dreamed of a happy family. Together with poet Aaron Shabtai, she raised six children in a Jerusalem house, until they got divorced. As a teenager, their son, Nahar, began documenting his family. He filmed 20 years of family life, from a house full of children, until it turned empty and old. Only his mother and brother Lemuel remained there. He is unable to lead an independent life while she refuses to part with her role as mother. The grandfather's inheritance runs out, forcing them to leave the house, a departure which is a critical moment for his mother, his brother and Nahar himself.

About the war in the center of Europe, in Ukraine. Military drama without shots and blood with a front line. testimonies of 55 soldiers. They are women and men, some are 20 years, some are 55; someone was a schoolboy, and someone was a miner

The film crew of the Creative East project is travelling around the Eastern Ukrainian cities researching abandoned areas and buildings. The people they meet offer different perspectives on the problem. Apart from revitalizing abandoned buildings (skate-park Druzhba in Lysychansk), you can also use them for temporarty art interventions (rave parties in the former industrial park in Kostyantynivka) or just leave them as they are (Soviet summer camps on the Azov coast).

The documentary essay explores the earthquakes, the republic, the ancestors, the mining industry and the concept of time as symbols of the Chilean and Mapuche identities; as their parallel realities turn in opposite directions.

Marof Winery is an estate and wine cellar dedicated to purist, natural wines of the highest ranks, founded by Stanko Polanič and led by winemaker Uroš Valcl. This film attempts to introduce the thought and relentless passion that powers the inner ticking of this challenging dance with the nature.

Join military expert and historian Ian McCollum as we look at some fascinating weapons of espionage. Including a pen gun, belt buckle gun, various silenced O.S.S. firearms, and other historical weapons.

A Syrian doctor living in Germany befriends the filmmaker and turns the camera around.

Fresh from his great victory at Austerlitz, Napoleon's next campaign saw him take on Prussia in the autumn of 1806. Prussia's army had been feared throughout Europe since the days of Frederick the Great, but in just 5 weeks of 'Napoleonic Blitzkrieg', the French Emperor showed that those days were long gone.

Throughout the history of mankind, the buildings displayed power and a certain meaning, but also kept secrets. Sometimes by accident, sometimes deliberately, the whole cities would be drawn with an invisible ink. This show shows how and why buildings are filled with secrets.

Together with a group of professional hackers, TV 2 is attempting to gain access to some of the most sensitive information held by Danish citizens. Two municipalities have agreed to allow the hackers to attack them using every means possible.

TV 2 in northern Syria to talk to a captured IS fighter who has ties to Denmark.

For centuries, Egyptian temples were victims of looting, earthquakes, desert encroachment, and floods, and were almost swallowed up by the waters of the Nile in the 20th century. This film aims to better understand the history of these temples. Thanks to an unprecedented international mobilization, discover the exceptional heritage saved at the cost of a "pharaonic" trip.

In this film you will see labour emigrants from Uzbekistan who for many years have been working in a car wash and a vehicle service station in Almaty (Kazakhstan).

The film is about the fact that humanity can lose its world, the Earth, if it does not begin to take better care of the place where it lives. In the film, you can see how quickly humanity is losing what God created for human life.

In 1988, the last shipyard in Sunderland closes, ending 600 years of tradition. Thirty years later, amidst the biggest regeneration project in its history, a £133 million bridge is built in it’s place. Has the city recovered and is there a future on the Wear? A reflection on history and hope as told by the shipbuilders themselves.

Behind the scenes of the iconic toy shop, Hamleys. From a single shop in 1760, Hamleys is now a global chain and more than 50,000 lines of toys. It survived the Blitz and multiple takeovers, and its products have moved with the times.

Documents the final show of noise rock band Dope Body at the Floristree space in Baltimore Maryland.

It is the male sex hormone par excellence. A man ruled by testosterone is said to be selfish and ready to take any risk. But is this bad reputation justified?

Construction of a story between a father and a daughter, as a documentary essay, investigating the history of the town of Federación, Entre Ríos and its consequences, which have directly affected its inhabitants and the protagonists of this documentary. The film takes place on a journey through the personal construction of a space that the filmmaker did not know and the exploration of an inherited memory, as well as the story and memories of historical and personal events by her father.

Eight female storytellers, authors and poets performing at the Atalukan Storytelling and Legends Festival in Mashtueiatsh (Pointe-Bleue), Quebec.