Short docufiction film about an elderly woman's efforts to stay connected in a society that rejects her in the digital realm.
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Short docufiction film about an elderly woman's efforts to stay connected in a society that rejects her in the digital realm.
I'm twenty. I need to be scared of things.
From his groundbreaking music career to public controversies, this documentary uncovers the events that led to Kanye West’s dramatic fall from grace.
At the forensic medicine unit of Compiègne Hospital, Dr. Bernard Marc and his team welcome victims every day who are alive but wounded in body and soul. Whether victims of sexual, parental, psychological, or accidental violence, their bodies, now crime scenes, are examined with infinite delicacy by this seasoned forensic scientist who, for forty years, has been collecting often heartbreaking accounts of assault. In the confidentiality of his consultation room, other hidden and sometimes long-buried sufferings are finally revealed. Here, victims lay the first stone of their recovery and begin their long legal journey. This film offers a sensitive immersion into the daily life of this medico-legal unit, where the anatomy of everyday violence is revealed.
Survivors of horrifying serial killer attacks courageously recount their stories of escape in chilling detail.
The film opens with a family’s home video of a car journey to the beach. Memories are woven into the sea and water, carrying within them family bonds, siblinghood, and change. This intimate work invites the viewer to reflect on memory, belonging, and connections to others. The sea and aquariums portray life flowing through time and space.
Docufiction set in Jeddah, starring Aws, Lily, and Mema, the three children take the lead and freely create their own horror story
A Christmas meal in a French family from the Puy-de-Dôme, secretly recorded, featuring arguments, bursts of laughter, and lessons on how to use a film camera.
The German Fountain—located in the heart of Santiago, Chile—was a gift from the German colony to the new Chilean republic in 1912, in gratitude for the transfer of land in the Mapuche Walmapu territory. In the heat of January 2004, the fountain becomes a symbolic space. Although bathing is prohibited, families from the city’s marginalized outskirts visit it and transform it into a public swimming pool, thus redefining its political and social character.
A documentary that takes viewers on a journey to rediscover one of the most important avant-garde groups in the history of Argentine popular music: Los Andariegos. Journalist Santiago Giordano guides the viewer through the life and work of those who marked a turning point in folklore as a genre. Through the direct testimony of the protagonists of that golden era, including the voices of other generations, the documentary explores how they were influenced in different ways by this legacy.
Bodies that move, walk, swim, progress. Bodies that rely on other bodies: that communicate and organise among themselves. Their complex movements mean that obstacles, borders, farewells, walls, family, hopes and arrivals all become imprinted on the body. Changes of place and travel appear as power, possibility, and future. Friday Dreams is a collaborative film made by sharing experiences, compiling fragments, transforming images and imaginaries, and expressing them.
Filmmaker Martijn Blekendaal thinks there should be a superhero for invisible children: kids who need to be invisible because otherwise their lives are in danger. In The Invisible Ones he tells the stories of four children—some of whom are now 85 years old—who learned to master the art of going unnoticed. This is something he learned to do in his own life.
In Slovakia, Andrej Dúbravský prepares for his Olomouc exhibition GOOD BOY. While creating intimate work in the midst of tranquil rural surroundings, he is facing homophobic criticism from government officials, highlighting tensions between personal expression, societal backlash, and the fight for LGBTQ+ visibility.
Documentary revealing the untold stories behind the most controversial music of the 1980s, featuring Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Queen, George Michael, N.W.A, Madonna and others. Told exclusively using archive footage, some of music history’s most shocking stories are revealed as never before, with new light shed on this provocative decade in music that was as high on fun as it was on scandal.
The powerful sequel to The Alien Perspective uncovers new evidence about why aliens may be visiting Earth, from their point of view. Explore how downloads from non-human intelligence shape humanity, and witness tests of possible alien craft material.
When a school shooting shakes a Texas town, a mom becomes a hero and speaks against a faulty system. The community confronts those who failed its kids.
I begin by looking closely. I tread on the earth, which, divided by lines, seems endless. In the beginning, there was the seed. Hidden underground, it is condemned to a fleeting existence, with no possibility of renewal. Monocultures have homogenised the landscape to such an extent that I can no longer see what lies beyond, beyond the fields. I imitate the machines that work at night, reversing the natural cycle of plants, which depend on sunlight. Sometimes I challenge myself to enter their labyrinth, hoping to find the end of the field. I repeat these visits until exhaustion, until the sterile fruit is ready to be harvested.
Palco cama is an intimate and unprecedented dive into the creative universe of José Celso Martinez Corrêa. Filmed in his bedroom, in his bed—a space of rest, sex, love, dreams, and creation—the playwright transforms everyday life into a scene, making the bed his stage. In an interview that exposes all the raw material, Zé Celso revisits the genesis of his works, narrating with passion and detail the artistic journey that has shaped Brazilian theater. The film captures the raw material of this performative conversation, where the artist performs, reflects, and surrenders himself before the camera, revealing the body and the word as central forces of his art.
This documentary tells the full inside story of Razgatlioglu and BMW’s unforgettable 2024, from the early question marks to its triumphant conclusion.
A lone rider from the imaginary state of Illiyeen crosses an empty landscape and their reflections unfold in a poetic meditation on identity and belonging. ‘Illiyeen’ is the result of a collaboration between filmmaker Nanna Rebekka and visual artist Eliyah Mesayer. A black and white film work from an imaginary state of the same name, in which a lone rider crosses an empty landscape in a meditation on identity and belonging. The Bedouin term ‘Illiyeen’ refers to a heavenly record or register where the deeds of the righteous are written down and protected. But here, Illiyeen is transformed into an allegorical ‘state of nowhere and nation of everywhere’ beyond geographical or national borders.
Spend a night with epic YouTube star Dillan.
A personal reinterpretation of a collection of instructional 16mm films from the German Employment Agency.
In a beautiful Alpine setting, this is the true story of Matthias, a left-wing filmmaker, and Sadiel, a Cuban activist. Sadiel is unhappy with communist Cuba and these frustrations lead him to embrace right-wing ideas, while Matthias stays true to his beliefs. Their relationship mirrors bigger political issues, challenging their political views and ideas of a “successful” queer relationship. Matthias Lintner films this intimate portrayal, through which both embark on a transformative journey, realizing the true nature of change.
A mockumentary that blends and bends archival, pornography, re-enactments, and the only existing interview with Audrey Little-breast, “the first Indigenous female pornographer,” as she refuses to be labelled or represented as anything but herself. She is interviewed about her notorious pornography that exploits settler desire of “Imaginary Indians”. The film is a comedy that playfully engages the subjects of Indigenous identity, the politics of recognition, the “playing Indian” phenomenon, and Canada’s hottest piece of tail - The Beaver. We are invited to ponder how deeply historical and contemporary settler-indigenous relations impact our sexuality.
An elderly actress arrives at her holiday home in Bretagne to prepare for a new film. She brings with her numerous scrapbooks and countless film memorabilia. With a personal oeuvre of more than fifty films, the past and present sometimes intertwine. Images of the woman in her beach house mirror images from her films, and images from films intertwine with events from her own life. When a young cyclist breaks down near the house, he challenges the actress to dig deeper into her past. They spend a compact day together. Every question, every image, every article triggers a memory for the woman.
An expressionistic portrait of Etel Adnan, immersed in her art and the world. Working without ego, Adnan asks, what does it mean to be alive, to live through catastrophe, to experience time.
Diagnosed with stage four cancer 20 years ago, Rob Shaver made a pact to run every day until he dies. "The Life We Have" is a quiet, powerful reflection on mortality, resilience, and the choice to live with beautiful effort.
Fast on his feet with a fat mustache, short stature, and investigative gaze. For a couple of days in the mountain, in his native land, we approach a man, strange and loud but nevertheless genuine and sensitive, a hunter. In his own way, Mr. Sotiris shines light on our bond with nature, history and man.
Realce is a documentary short following two HIV-positive friends, DJ Deseo and porn actor Fernando Brutto, during one of their performances at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival. The duo move through the streets of Rio and Carnival “blocos,” sharing their reflections on friendship, undetectability, their relationship with sex, and drug use within their own community.
At DIFAJE, the Family and Youth Affairs Division of the Bobigny Court, the duties of young prosecutors are the same, with one exception: they deal with minors who are either victims or perpetrators of crimes. For the latter, the prosecutor is the first person they deal with in the legal system, their first point of contact. He or she is the one who gives society's initial response to a young person whose future is already uncertain. Between prevention and punishment, the magistrate's role is a delicate one. He or she must combine authority with education. He or she must deal with the reality of a complex environment and with the differences and vulnerabilities of each individual.
The story of the making of "The Night Witches: the amazing true story of how Russian woman pilots helped win World War II" at UNW Theatre.
A brief documentary exploring how Teen Storytellers Project has had an impact in two family's lives.
ABOUT FACE spotlights two Asian dancers as they challenge ballet companies to rid The Nutcracker and other shows of offensive, racial stereotypes. What started as a pledge on a website grows to a global movement, disrupting ballet.
A recording of a live performance by a group of film students at the final stage of their studies, in which they attempt to simulate the emotions experienced after screening their thesis film, reflecting on their final work submitted to the faculty.
A climate activist reflects on her alienation from our modern society, her decision to take action against it, and the events that led to her arrest. An urgent story delivered through a striking blend of animation styles.
A cinematic collage of urban life and infrastructure and the natural world throughout South Korea. Shot by Seyoung Lee over the course of 2020.
Closed-off to most of the world, the filmmakers were granted exclusive access to an isolated Jewish settlement in the Northern West Bank called Itamar which sits between two mountains- the Mountain of the Blessing and the Mountain of the Curse. On the night of March 11, 2011, two terrorists penetrated the security fence of the community, entered the home of the Fogel family, who were asleep in their beds, and brutally murdered the parents and three of their children, including a three-month-old who was nearly beheaded. THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE explores the aftermath of the crime and examines how the memory of that night still haunts the people of Itamar, and poses the question: Why would anyone choose to raise their family in such a dangerous place?
How does a piece of sugar taste of history? A century ago, in Erlin, a land susceptible to winds and floods, the Erlin Sugarcane Farmers' Association was born. It was Taiwan's first modern organization to advocate for farmers. They held lectures and established rural schools, but ultimately faced imprisonment. A century later, many have forgotten this history. On the crimson monument at the site of the incident, only the faded inscription "Erlin Sugarcane Farmers" is visible, reflecting against distant chimneys. What kind of future awaits Erlin's rural villages? Looking back at history, what can we learn? "Before Crystallization" tells the story of how people were treated before sugarcane became a symbol of sweetness. "Before Crystallization" discusses what efforts we still need to make before memory becomes a collective identity. Let the Erlin Sugarcane Farmers' Association lead the way, as we travel through time together and begin a century of reflection.
Full Sweat is a 60-minute documentary about AFL club Hawthorn and their brutal 2025 pre-season.
In 2014, in Kurdistan, thousands of Yazidi women are kidnapped by ISIS and reduced to sexual slavery. Most of them become pregnant. Once freed, the surviving mothers are forced by their own community to abandon their children.
Follow rapper Gzuz on his toughest battle: getting out of excess, prison, and escalation—and into a life as a father, husband, and artist. But old patterns don't just disappear. Between touring, studio work, and family, he struggles with his past. Will he manage a fresh start, or will his life remain a tightrope walk between extremes?
A short documentary featuring moments and conversations filmed in Mojácar, a popular Spanish destination amongst British expatriates.
This documentary dives into Tromsø's vibrant street art scene, following two local graffiti writers. In a city known for its wild nature and extreme seasons, a subculture of expression and rebellion flourishes. The film explores questions of public space, community, and voice in a remote but connected place.
An intimate look at one mans journey with the sport of golf and the life lessons it taught him.
In late 2021, Chile experienced its most violent anti-immigrant protest, sparked by an unprecedented influx of migrants from Venezuela. This evocative cinematic experience examines contrasting perspectives around the migrant crisis that is driving anger and violence towards the migrants.
1869: William H Mumler stood trial for fraud in New York for claiming to photograph spirits of customers' deceased loved ones. Mumler walked free as experts of the day could not figure his methods. Was he a fraud? Or could he truly photograph the dead?
Views of the sky during and after the Santa Ana winds: 30 seconds at each hour of the day, each hour captured on 24 different days.
The creation journey ended up taking me to a mossy, windswept Iceland and so many unforgettable places in between.