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Five famous writers are brought back from time, to talk about their writings and mess around.

Hu Jie is a prodigious independent Chinese filmmaker who has produced and directed thirty or so documentaries. Also a master of wood engraving, Hu Jie breathes new life into the expressionist tradition of Käthe Kollwitz. In his works — including those produced in Paris for this film — Hu Jie recreates terrifying moments of organized crimes against the Chinese people during the famine of the “Great Leap Forward” and the “Cultural Revolution”. Bertrand Renaudineau’s and Gérard da Silva’s film offers Hu Jie his first chance to tell how he was a wood engraver before becoming a filmmaker; how, he freed the “soul of a young martyr”; and how his prints and documentaries have helped convey the experiences of the Chinese to people all around the world. (René Viénet)

At Bologna’s Specola Tower, 1932–1957, an optical technology was invented which would revolutionize astronomy. The tower’s four floors were perforated and a series of hexagonal mirrors was installed at its base, creating a giant telescope of 2×24 meters. A mobile camera was set at right angles to the mirrors and thousands of glass plates where exposed which offered a systematic overview of the city’s zenithal sky. Thirty years of research were necessary for the astronomer Guido Horn D’Arturo to invent the specchio a tasselli—also called multimirror or segmented mirror—an archetype of today’s most advanced telescopes. Horn D’Arturo’s photographic plates are now also full of spots and traces of deteriorated emulsions. This film is composed of scans and blow-ups of these plates.

Using reconsidered amateur footage and testimony from Chicago, FLIGHT LOGS unveils fear, profiteering, violence, community, and humanity experienced under racist systems during the "white flight" that shaped American neighborhoods -- from the perspective of families who lived it.

Bolívar Cuts the Sky is a short documentary (45 mins) looking at the coup attempt launched on 23 January by US imperialism and Juan Guaidó against the Maduro government in Venezuela. It covers at the history of Latin America between the 19th and 20th Centuries, and the history of the Bolivarian revolution to contextualise the assault that it presently finds itself under.

A film about the Cleaners From Venus, a cult and inspirational 80s band who never really made it but should have based on the strength of Martin Newell and his songwriting genius.

A science non-fiction film exploring the territory of Navarre. Desolate landscapes from which humans have disappeared, leaving only their trace behind them. Radio waves float in the ether. Radio amateurs talk to each other while looking at the sky.

The story of a film "Commission" starts in Georgia at some unknown point of time where a heroic, mythical female character has written a book which is being delivered by a courier (the artist herself) to three powerful women. The content of a book is hidden within an existing book – "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" written by Medieval Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli who dedicated the book to 12th century Queen Tamar who at the time brought prosperity and many social changes in the country. Being used as a secret shell or a reference to female power from the past, the freshly embedded content of a book serves as manifesto to the women who haven’t been equally appreciated due to history books still being written from male perspective. The book offers alternative gaze to a world history which can exist only in utopian science-fiction film commissioned and executed by females only.

Made from the official photos and declarations of the G7 summits. 40 years of celebrating economic growth.

As a child, educator and filmmaker Dennis Klein was afraid of people with disabilities. Because he didn't know any. Many encounters later, he sets off on a journey around the world to find out how we live together in different countries. What makes us human? Why do we treat each other differently? And who are we to each other? His journey takes him from the deserts of India to the Australian outback. From the South American jungle to the South African townships.

Hail is a moral comedy that outlines the rise and demise of fraudulent pet food salesman, Dan Hail.

This documentary portrays the trajectory of Brazilian singer and songwriter Marina Lima, an exponent of popular music with a career spanning over 40 years.

Take an artful, startling journey into unexplored regions of feminine sexuality. A sensitive and lyrical film set to become a cult classic as it explores what it considers centuries of patriarchal oppression. The land of feminine pleasures has remained very much 'terra incognita'. Deep Waters opens the door on rare and precious spaces where words are freed.

What happens when the lid of the container slams shut and our donated clothes embark on their global journey? Because of its massive scale and numerous facets, the charity industry processing them is an almost alien operation. It is the butterfly effect: a seemingly small action like giving away your old T-shirt sparks off a process with great consequences, for example for the industry in countries where it ends up. Fashion creatures emerge from the piles of donated clothes to make a statement.

The military dependents' village is a special historical product of Taiwan. Contained the cultural identity in its unique space. Now, as the years change, we will once again witness the new occupants built up a new life aesthetic along with the process of the repair and relocation. In the interaction between old and new, continue and innovate the life style and life memory of the village.

Erich Langeder's film project came about when, in autumn 2017, numerous members of the pre-monastery expressed their desire for a film about their pre-monastery during a district meeting for this year's 100th anniversary celebration. The aim of the film is to show the urban and social development of the district over the past 100 years, as well as visions for the future. A wide variety of people had their say, telling their very personal memories, stories and anecdotes about the pre-monastery.

Two dedicated high school band directors—one black, one white—were inspired by music to cross the color lines of segregation and work together for the sake of their students. This courageous cooperation resulted in the experience of a lifetime for both black and white students traveling from the Deep South to the 1964 New York World’s Fair. Featuring interviews with band directors and former students, many of whom are now professional musicians.

A multicultural Copenhagen neighbourhood as seen through the eyes of the children who grow up there.

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Revolves around a mineral water pool in director Hristiana Raykova’s hometown of Varna in Bulgaria. Situated right by the sea, this thermal pool is lovingly called “the pit” by local residents. Sitting in the hot water, they lean back up against the pool’s edge and philosophise about their lives. Here personal and political convictions collide, and tell of both social change and stagnation at the periphery of Europe.

If These Letters Reach Your Eyes captures the voices of children who survived the tragedy at Okawa Elementary School.

An animated documentary exploring the precarious lives of African migrants seeking their fortunes in China.

It was Hitler’s official residence, office and bunker; from here he planned the war and here it ended with his death – the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin. We approach this infamous place and its history from various perspectives accompanied with startling film footage. These include comprehensive film archive material, faithful and unique 3D animations and discoveries from the Moscow archives. An exciting investigation in central Berlin of what is to this very day, a place of myths, legends and secrets.

First section of a planned 24 hour supercut of video game timepieces. Designed to be played in sync with the actual time. Inspired by Christian Marclay’s The Clock.

When the director of this film attends a Hangul, the Korean alphabet, class for seniors alongside her grandmother, she discovers common marks on their bodies. This is their way to record and remember things because they were excluded from literacy education as children.

The clandestine congress of the National Union of Students, held in October 1968, resulted in the collective arrest and registration of 700 students who opposed the dictatorship.

This unique husband and wife duo effect art in motion as they blend the worlds of artistry and athleticism. With ritual body art, The Painted Warrior is brought to life to wage epic battles in the gritty obstacle racing scene.

The story of Reverend Jide Macaulay, an openly gay Church of England minister who wants to marry his boyfriend despite the Church not recognising same-sex marriage.

"The King of Catalog" is a documentary about the career of Jeff Baker, who worked as a leading figure in the home entertainment business from the 1970s until 2015. His career, in many ways, mirrors the arc of home video.

The death of the infant brings both sorrow and joy: sorrow for the family and joy for the community, because it is believed that she dies like a little angel, without sin. The wawa pampay (the infant's burial) is performed with qarawis, huayno songs, and the deceased child is adorned with many flowers.

Correspondent Safa Al Ahmad reports from inside Yemen, investigating the escalation of the U.S. fight against Al Qaeda and its impact on civilians. She travels to the front lines, visiting the sites of Special Forces raids and a deadly drone strike to shed light on how the U.S. counterterrorism strategy is playing out on the ground.

Growing up with a disabled brother and passionate about dance, Rashmi Becker set up Step Change Studios to address the lack of opportunities for disabled people to dance. This film tells the inspiring story of how she came to establish this ground-breaking studio, which in its first year supported over 1,000 people to dance.

The film, based on archival travel notes by the foreman of the Soviet reindeer husbandry and the video diary of a modern reindeer herder, tells about cultural traditions and innovations among the Kamchatka Evens, a small ethnic group of the Russian Far East.

Toni, Nebojsa, George and Andrea come from Croatia, Serbia and Romania. Workers seconded, or ‘posted’, to the shipyards of Saint-Nazaire to build luxury cruise ships, they often live there invisible. If they are detached by their status, they are especially so from their relatives and their countries.

It began as a frustration with the government's oil policy, and a love for the Arctic. Five young people from Nature and Youth sailed to Bjørnøya and the Barents Sea to showcase the unique, important and vulnerable nature that is threatened by oil drilling and climate change. The result was the film Ekspedisjon Barents.

From the war-torn Ukraine to Milan's catwalks. This is a story of beauty and struggle. This is the story of young girls longing for a better life. A story of hope, fail, success. And of a man who can determine it.

After more than a decade working in England, the filmmaker Elisa Cepedal returns to Cuencas to shoot a film about the end of the two centuries of history of coal mining: around her other remains of her land's past are dying.

Eunice (7) grows up with her sister Tarma (9) in a poor neighborhood. Despite their young age, the sisters must face a brutal reality.

A body cam moves through different rooms, shifting between various roles from one space to another: from a police officer patrolling a red-light district in Geneva, to an imaginary war theater, to a private living room, and to the observation of a virtual reality experiment on violence in a psychology laboratory.

A dozen or so young percussionists bring music to Barumbu, a poor neighbourhood of Kinshasa. They are the Beta Mbonda, former members of the Kuluna violent gangs. Music has given a new meaning to their lives while cementing their friendship. Moving between odd jobs and musical improvisations, with seemingly easy playfulness they invent rythms and sing about the hardships of daily life. Like a Greek chorus underscored by traditional instruments or everyday objects, their songs ring out into the air of Kinshasa, echoing a world adrift.

Criminal groups known as han-gure operate in the shadows of Japan. Not bound to the rules of society or the traditional code of the yakuza, these new breeds of gangsters cannot be stopped by current laws.

A documentary about small-town youth in Kunshan. They are lonely, worn down, helpless, deceived, marked by searing imprints. They keep trying, striving, struggling, and refusing to give in, their faint light rising like a pillar. Through multiple dimensions and layers, the film deconstructs this group of small-town young people who have come to the city for work: why they came, their work experiences, emotional lives, future plans, and hopes. Note: This film strictly records and objectively presents the lives of these young people. Due to the particularity of the subjects and technical limitations, the image quality and overall texture of the film are relatively rough.

A documentary about the Monster of Modena, an Italian serial killer who was never found.

"Zero Tolerance" - FRONTLINE investigates how President Trump turned immigration into a powerful political weapon that fueled division and violence. The documentary goes inside the efforts of three political insurgents to tap into populist anger, transform the Republican Party and crack down on immigration.

New evidence suggests that at least one convict escaped from Alcatraz and survived. National Geographic investigates one of the most intricate prison escapes in history - three tireless inmates break from the fortress-like Alcatraz Island Federal Penitentiary and brave the frigid waters in a handmade raft. For nearly 50 years, it was assumed that these men drowned, but what if they didn't? National Geographic goes inside the U.S. marshals' investigation following the complex and tantalizing leads they've tracked to close this case.

THE WICK is a documentary portraying a vibrant creative community under the pressures of grand scale gentrification in Hackney Wick, East London, UK.

The majestic cottonwood tree at 1330 South Pulaski has witnessed many events, sad and happy, experienced by the community of North Lawndale, now celebrating its 150th anniversary. CANOPY highlights the stories of Permapark, one of the latest developments at 1330, and of other addresses in the neighborhood where high-schoolers, college students, their mentors and teachers work with community organizers, designers, experts, planners, realtors and artists, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma and sculptor Pedro Reyes, to preserve the quality of life and make it accessible to all.

A portrait of my brother Uriah becomes a sci-fi fantasy about queerness, alienation, and disability. Using reenactment to address the problematic, it proposes a way of healing and moving forward out of a present moment of rejection, into radical acceptance. "About ten minutes into shooting, my siblings decided they didn't want to make a movie anymore. I had to placate them with Cheetos and donuts. Even with snacks, total insurgency ensued after about two hours. I thought the shoot was a failure until I showed the footage to someone a month later. Then I realized that a movie can be as simple as a document of failing." -Stephen Wardell

The first of a five-part series of short documentaries: This story begins over a century ago, when the City of Winnipeg decides that the water surrounding the traditional Anishinaabe territory of what is now Shoal Lake 40 First Nation will be diverted and used as Winnipeg’s primary water source. The community, their ancient burial grounds, environment, and ways of life are forever disrupted, and access to opportunities and essential services are severed. Enforced residential schooling and a tainted water supply compound the devastating impact. Community leader and former combat engineer Daryl Redsky sheds light on how generations of complex planning, cultural preservation and mobilization have led us to the current moment—and to the construction of Freedom Road.

In Brooklyn in the late 1950s, Jay McKnight and his friends spent summer evenings outside, singing a cappella. One night, Jay caught the ear of a girl named Andrea. Watch Jay and Andrea McKnight share their childhood romance, growing up and growing old together.