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A collage of images, thoughts and letters that seek to find the meaning of "ugliness" seen through time. The film pays an homage to Jean-Luc Godard's film-collages such as "Histoire(s) du cinema" (1988-1998) and "The image book" (2018) using different sources from film and literature to create a discourse about ugliness.

Lyonel Feininger's work is as individual and unmistakable as he is himself. As a classical modernist artist, he is difficult to categorize. He lived and worked in Germany for a long time. He began his career as a caricaturist, later became known as a painter and headed the printing workshops at the Bauhaus. His work cannot be classified as cubism or expressionism. The film visits places that inspired him, such as Paris, the villages around Weimar and, above all, the Baltic coast - many of which are reflected in Feininger's work and make the development of his oeuvre comprehensible.

Gary is dead. In order to reach heaven and escape eternal boredom, he must work 100 years as a grim reaper. This documents his first day on the job.

Michael Mosley transformed the lives of millions of people. In this programme, we look back at an extraordinary broadcasting career which spanned almost 40 years. Fronting series such as Trust Me I’m a Doctor and the hit podcast Just One Thing, Michael used his warm, often funny approach to deliver important, life-changing health messages. He started behind the scenes as an award-winning science journalist and producer, before becoming a much-loved presenter. His programmes have made a lasting impact on the nation’s health habits, from intermittent fasting to the benefits of a cold shower. Michael also shared his own struggles with audiences worldwide. As a chronic insomniac, he made programmes about sleep and, ever curious, he would also go to extremes in the pursuit of science, even infecting himself with a tapeworm. Celebrating Michael’s career, this programme marks the enormous impact he made, touching the lives of so many.

In the interior of Sergipe, a musical rhythm fills the parties and moves people. Music lovers and singers of the genre share their stories and how arrocha affects them.

Ukraine, summer 2022: a filmmaker makes the journey. He films the ravaged country, meets refugees and writes down his impressions. From the edge, he gets to the heart of life in a country at war.

This impressionist hybrid documentary traces the oyster through its many life cycles in New York, once the world's oyster capital. Now their specter haunts the city through queer characters embodying ancient myth, discovering the overlooked history and biology of the bivalve that built the city. As environmentalists restore them to the harbor, Holding Back the Tide looks to the oyster as a queer icon, entangled with nature, with much to teach about our continued survival.

'La Mamma Morta’ is an aria from the opera Andrea Chenier that is also well-known for its use in a memorable sequence in the Oscar award-winning Philadelphia. Thirty years on, this new short film from WNO includes a brand-new recording of the aria featured alongside recreated scenes that better encapsulate the perspectives of people living with HIV today. To mark World AIDS Day 2023, the Welsh National Orchestra released a special new version of La mamma morta, featuring WNO Orchestra, soprano Camilla Roberts and Nathaniel Hall from Channel 4’s It’s a Sin. Released as part of the last rendition in the Three Letters project, this film aims to tackle societal stigma around HIV.

Allies Left Behind uncovers the obstacles Afghan allies face in obtaining residency visas to the United States despite promises from the American government. This story also explains America’s bureaucratic challenges that are causing visa processing delays.

With the Middle East on the brink of war, Four Corners travels to Iran, Lebanon and Israel to investigate why a new regional war is looming.

Everyday life on the beach, filming a short film, the sea as the horizon.

Danny Kushmaro reaches the northernmost place on earth. Who did he meet while there that drove him crazy?

The role of historians is key in the history of humanity because their objective is to investigate the past to avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future. Furthermore, they often bring to light the history of unique individuals who, due to circumstances, have not received the recognition they deserve, especially in the case of women. This documentary focuses on the work of the historian Aïda Sánchez, who rescued Dolours Vives Rodon from oblivion, one of the pioneering women in piloting aircraft in our country and who played a vital role during the Spanish Civil War.

A documentary essay examining the creative process of creating a book from the writer's first thought to the printing of the typescript.

"Take the Steps” follows four characters at Collingwood Football Club throughout the 2023 Toyota AFL Finals Series. Craig McRae is in his second year of senior coaching.

A mini documentary made by moi for my final year project on benthic macroinvertebrates.

Two weeks to go until the qualification race for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. A young Polish swimmer (Jan Kałusowski) prepares for a chance to compete at the most prestigious sports event in the world.

The personal story of a film director who searches for his great-grandfather, who disappeared during World War II, uncovering the secrets of his family history.

Through the perspective of three young people who moved from where they lived to go to college, this is the record of a conversation about what goes and what stays.

25 years after being kidnapped by the MRTA, a gay former rural teacher turned hairstylist seeks justice for himself and his trans sister murdered during the Period of Violence, confronting a homophobic society and a painful past he would rather forget.

A first-of-its-kind film that tells the true Moriori narrative, giving voice to a people whose story has been misrepresented and forgotten.

Harry's magical adventures at Hogwarts unveil a controversial backstory about his destiny intertwined with Voldemort's sinister rise to power. The epic battle between good and evil ensues.

Think we live in unprecedented times? Think again. Bret Baier explores the bombshells and dirty tricks that haunt the final days of Presidential elections.

The film follows friends Andreas and Carl Henrik. Andreas donates a kidney to Carl Henrik, and the film explores whether the debt of gratitude will destroy their friendship.

Searching for the reasons for her grandfather's depression among the paintings on the walls of his house, a young filmmaker discovers the parallel that unites them both: each works on a portrait. The young filmmaker, faithful to her craft, turns a painting that obsesses her into a tableau vivant: it is her own way of painting. There is another painting that bewitches her: it is the last one her grandfather painted, and it remained unfinished. Using her brushes, she now wants to finish what her grandfather left unfinished.

Return of the New Zealand Sea Lion. This is one of New Zealand's greatest wildlife comeback stories, as the locally extinct New Zealand Sea Lion reclaims the beaches along the South Island coastline for the first time in over 150 years. Join wildlife filmmaker JJ Emerson as he dives deep into the history of this iconic marine mammal, spending time amongst the Sea Lions in their newly reclaimed habitat, on the outskirts of Dunedin.

In a dark room. A flickering light. Your fingerprints marry to your hands. You look out a window. Mind spinning on the floorboards. A fire place hotter than a 1000 watt light bulb warms you. For weeks you wait for the sun to appear and it does. It always does.

In June 2024, the photographer María Cano presented a series of pictures in the window of "Es Mirador", in Set Cantons street in Palma (Mallorca). One night I was walking around the area with my little camera and decided to record the Maria's work and the space around it. The photographs in the window showed disjointed figures and faces that seemed to come out of a nightmare. Every one of them gave me a feeling of terrible anxiety. They were faces, hands and metaphorical cries that denounced a problem that affects a large part of the young population: the problem of housing. With these recordings as a starting point, I began to make this audiovisual piece.

Samira, the youngest of five sisters, calls her family together, camera in hand, for a rare meeting: “to help each other without having to go through a shrink or an imam”. Her mother remains silent. It’s not until she arrives in her native village that she reveals her secrets, her regrets and her strength – and that the profound bond and legacy that unite them, between love and rejection, begins to reveal itself.

"The next time you hear someone blame inflation on stimulus checks that Americans got four years ago or workers finally getting much-needed pay bumps, kindly remind them that corporate profits are at a 70-year-high. Hello?"

Explores the clash between traditional nomadic life and the arrival of electricity and a 4G network in a remote desert community in Northern Kenya. As darkness fades away, the film raises questions about the consequences of modernisation on their self-sufficient culture, highlighting themes of capitalism, globalisation, and climate change.

A compelling film about the adoption of twin babies, by two separate families

Right in the heart of the South China Sea, the Philippines find themselves on the front line of the conflict between Beijing and Washington. As tension mounts between the two countries, we take an in-depth look at the situation in the archipelago.

Rosh Veera, a proud Sri Lankan-Malay woman, cooks a traditional meal and talks about her mother's journey of leaving her home country to immigrate to Australia.

The trumpet was heard again in the Sejdić house. Nebojša has not yet reached his grandfather’s heights and successes, but he is on a good path to do so. At the end of Fejat’s life story, our film begins, and whether this is the swan song of the Sejdić trumpets or a new beginning, time will tell.

Ontario is the only province in Canada without a ban on cat declawing. Amy Hoggart, the hilarious correspondent from Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, cracks jokes, cuddles kittens and attacks this controversial practice using satire to expose a heart-wrenching catspiracy.

The oldest and largest kennel of northern sled dogs of the Kamchatka Territory — "Snow Dogs" is located in the edge of volcanoes and snowy mountains. This is the brainchild of a friendly family of famous Kamchatka kayaks Andrey and Anastasia Semashkin and their nine children.

Spellbound is a photographic series surrounding the themes of coercive control that has been inspired by the life of Mica Ellie Hill. The images follow the main character the 'fairy' as she battles to understand her own mental health and how to survive in a world not built for her. She's lost and afraid. We then get introduced to the 'fox' who pray upon this and takes her down a dark twisted spiral of lies, abuse and control. A fairytale of gore, coercive control, manipulation and mental health depicted in 7 images. Following, Ryan Robertson has been detailing the behind the scenes of the images within his documentary "Spellbound:Framing Coercive Manipulation" Which explores Mica's story, the creation of the images, artwork and the chilling music that ties it all together.

For many years, bouqunistes in Kyiv save books from rain and cold. Each of them has their own story — someone lost a teacher’s job in the harsh 1990s and someone came to work here after retiring. When the Russian invasion begins, they are left with questions about Russian heritage, imperial myths, and their past.

Every Sunday, in the borough of Penha de França, Luísa organises a festive gathering at a local community hall. Miguel, a film student who recently moved to Lisbon, visits the space while getting to know a neighbourhood that feels oddly familiar to him.

The 2nd World War in Norway. The police chief in Lillesand tried in vain to report that a German warship had been sunk by a Polish submarine off Lillesand on 8 April 1945, but no one believed it to be a warning of an upcoming invasion.

The American Soldier traces the evolution of America’s fighting men and women over the 250-year history of the nation. From the early settlers and the Revolutionary War against Britain, soldiers have played a key role in the seminal events that have shaped America. The two-hour special uses a blend of expert interviews, high end dramatizations and high-impact archive to tell the story of how the young independent nation plunges into the existential crisis of the Civil War in the 1860s, before coming of age in the World Wars of the 20th Century, and then finally emerges stronger from the complex conflicts of the Cold War and beyond. The American Soldier explores how the destiny of the United States and the story of the American Soldier are forever intertwined.

Shawn Roe spent most of his adult life in and out of prison. Now, he’s studying at the University of Montana to help others overcome issues with addiction that held him back for years. Watch the Montana Kaimin's documentary about Roe's journey from addiction to admission.

It is a film essay that tries to tell the story of two people who communicate with some archival materials that they find in Santo Domingo at different times. One of the people belongs to that era of the archives, who now lives in a future where the city no longer exists. And the other, a person who has never heard of this city where his family is from.

Anita Brookner, art historian, TV presenter and author of the Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac, added to her accomplishments in the 1980s by sharing with television audiences her understanding and appreciation for some of the finest works by the world’s greatest ever painters. In this collection, Anita’s contributions to the BBC’s 1981 series 100 Great Paintings are brought together in one place to create a masterclass in art appreciation, with her unique insights helping to increase our awareness of the cultural significance and creative processes behind works by the likes of Cezanne, Ingres, Delacroix and David.

Intrigued by the enigmatic decision of celebrated novelist Mohamed Hafez Ragab to abandon his thriving career at its peak, filmmaker and poet Hend embarks on a quest to uncover the truth, only to unearth a haunting secret that has condemned Ragab to a life devoid of writing.

Oscar Renou, a 76-year-old citizen of Buenos Aires, updates his memories of his childhood home, and Natalia Kerbabian, the architect and activist behind the project “Ilustro para no ovidar”, draws it. Through this memory exercise, the documentary rescues the identity that is lost with the demolition of emblematic architecture of the City of Buenos Aires.

Documentary profile paying homage to the world’s most performed living composer, Sir Karl Jenkins, who turned 80 in 2024. His work has touched the hearts of millions globally, transcending traditional genre boundaries. The film incorporates footage from throughout his career to give a complete insight into the many influences on his music: from the Methodist hymn-singing of his Welsh chapel upbringing to his recent commission of a saxophone concerto for Jess Gillam, which is being performed at this year’s BBC Proms.

The birth experience affects the whole life. Two Finnish birth experts, midwife Kirsi and doula (birth support person) Anna-Riitta, work to improve birth practices and empower birth givers. Observational yet strongly cinematic, The Labour of Pain and Joy explores the personal, social and mythic levels of birth.

A documentary about one night at Alexander Theatre in Helsinki. Staff prepares for 300 guests, serves them and closes this historically significant building for the night.