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Moving snapshots of people taken along a river in Kyoto develop a captivating rhythm one is only too willing to give in to. People play, sing, and take walks.

In Bergen, we find one of Norway's largest harbor communities. The residents live close to the water, and even closer to one another.

"Quicho" is a documentary that uncovers the hidden beauty within the grueling labor of sugarcane harvesting in Mexico. Through the experience of Quicho, a sugarcane producer, the film explores how, despite being an exhausting task, this agricultural process becomes a symbol of resilience, community, and the discovery of something positive amid the struggle. The burning of cane turns into a ritual that, far from being just hard work, ignites a spirit of renewal and hope in those who practice it.

While on tour for their sophomore album, emo band HOME IS WHERE pulls up to venues across the country and provides moments of community, celebration, and freedom for their trans-forward audience as well as themselves. Energetic performances are the bridge between moments of vulnerability for the two trans women who lead the band and the fans lining up to see them.

My family has lived in a house across from the Blue House, the presidential palace, for 50 years. During the era of military dictatorship, the Blue House was a place of fear and inaccessibility. But as South Korea democratized, more and more people were allowed to approach it. I had grown up surrounded by countless protests, but it was the first time their sound followed me home. The never-ending noise made the house where I was born and raised feel unfamiliar. But the place they now stood was the very spot where I had held a candle to protest just months before. My right to raise my voice also guarantees theirs.

Endless Calls for Fame takes place in the gritty streets of New York City in the 1990s during a time when punk and indie rock was moving from the underground into the mainstream after the cultural tsunami of Nirvana. Using her rediscovered personal archival footage, the director shares the front-row story of this unique era of alternative rock through the lens of one band's experience, The New Rising Sons. The film brings to life a vibrant New York music scene of the past as it follows the band’s brush with stardom, their dissolution, and their journey to redemption 20 years after they were formed.

Brief impressions of a night flight on an airplane - the earth and the sky become two antagonistic but inseparable forces, moments of daytime tranquility are replaced by an anxious plunge into night fog and turbulence.

Since his death in 2007, the renown of Canadian painter E.J. Hughes has only continued to grow. For decades, his extraordinary works highlighting the landscapes of British Columbia have captivated the public, but his personal life is less well known. A solitary man dedicated to his art, Hughes led a fascinating life, struggling to make ends meet until a discovery of his work led to its acclaim. Having attempted to work as a fisherman during the Depression, he became a war artist during the Second World War and never gave up his passion for painting, even when devotedly caring for his ailing wife.

Longie (a colloquial term for "longshoreman") is a short nonfiction film featuring two dockworkers from the Los Angeles waterfront town of San Pedro, California.

The city of Alicante (southeastern Spain) experienced catastrophic floods in 1982 and 1997. Locals share their memories from the floods, and their concerns for the present.

For the last 14 years Matt Somerville has spent the winters creating his log hives before driving around all of England in the summer, erecting them as non-intervention habitats for wild honey bees.

A documental short film about the director's childhood memories in their grandmother's old house, which no longer exists.

A portrait of Joy Adamson, a remarkable woman, author of the bestseller about the fate of the lioness Elsa and a pioneer in the protection of wild animals, who was born in Opava exactly 115 years ago. The documentary uses unique, newly discovered footage from her life.

Documentary footage capturing a real event of a film student who has just begun hurriedly editing his thesis before the faculty’s screening deadline. Everything seems to be going well, until he realizes that… a crucial audio file for his work has gone missing.

Through a shared camera, a mother and her young son map the emotional terrain of migration.

Death by Digital is a short documentary that examines the fading legacy of film photography in Sri Lanka through the eyes of those who lived it. Featuring candid interviews with a veteran photographer and a longtime color lab owner, the film traces the industry’s transition from analogue to digital, revealing the quiet disappearance of an art form. With poetic visuals and a reflective tone, the documentary invites audiences to consider what is lost when tradition gives way to convenience—and whether film still has a place in a digital world.

Godard says “Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.” What if twenty-five photographs were used to create a new "truth"?

Danish author and self-proclaimed witch Andrea Hejlskov invites us into her personal universe of divination, spirituality and nature motifs from Nordic mythology. After 10 years in the wilderness, she finds herself in the middle of the crisis of her life.

The story of a Ukrainian cat named Loki: his journey to escape the war in Ukraine and his adaptation in Ireland.

Documentary | Feature | USA | Directed by Allie Rood In the late 1960s, a group of renegade architects and builders took to the woods of Vermont to invent a new way of living — one that rejected convention and embraced experiment, play, and community. Prickly Mountain traces the radical design/build movement they sparked, uncovering how their scrappy, countercultural ethos reshapes architecture and continues to influence today. Filmed over nine years, the documentary weaves archival footage, present-day interviews, and the filmmaker’s personal journey to explore what it means to build a life — and a home — by hand.

The film shows how creators struggle between using new technology and keeping their ideas original

Through interviews with farmers, ranchers, scientists and other experts in agriculture and environmental science, World Without Cows delves into the complex and often-surprising ways cows impact our world. This compelling exploration is led by two award-winning journalists who now work in agriculture. The filmmakers traveled to more than 40 global locations to examine the cultural and economic significance of cows, their role in nourishing the world and their impact on climate — and to answer the question, “Are we better off in a world without cows?”

Robert Flies, aspired to fulfill the role of a man, decides to buy his first car. That gets him into trouble.

The late 1980s. A young man shoots a film on VHS confronting his landlords, who are trying to kick him out of the house they share. Soon after, in his new apartment, the young man continues the film, this time confronting his ex-girlfriend about an infidelity.

A fascinating documentary made by film students that immerses us in the creative process and hard work behind the successful play "Un Inquilino Muy Particular." This documentary offers an authentic and deep insight into how the play was put together, from its first rehearsals to its premiere, giving a voice to those who experienced the process from within. Throughout the film, the actors and actresses, the play's director, and the producer share their experiences, concerns, and key moments of the production, providing an intimate perspective on the challenges, emotions, and dynamics that arise between the cast and the creative team. The figure of Lucas Mancinelli, who is not only one of the directors of the documentary but also an essential part of the cast as an actor, intertwines with the narrative, offering a personal and close view of the artistic process.

In 2012, while filming at Saint-Louis Hospital in Paris, Sophie Brudieu met Mahmoud, a victim of the Egyptian revolution. Blinded by facial injuries, he had been brought to France for treatment with help from a humanitarian organization. Brudieu filmed him for several months—until one day, he vanished. His sudden absence unfolds into a quiet search for a missing life. Blending observational footage, voice messages, and an intimate gaze, Light of my Eyes explores what it means to see through another's eyes and reflects on memory, otherness, and the possibility of solidarity within absence.

Echoes of the Ancients explores the lives, genes, and legacy of Neanderthals through science, archaeology, and art. It reveals the deep roots of human identity in a visually stunning and intellectually rich journey across prehistoric Europe.

63-year-old ex-navy officer Tony Parsons disappears during a charity bike ride. The remarkable case unfolds in unexpected ways.

The infinity of the Pacific Ocean: It makes up almost a third of the earth's surface. The inhabitants are constantly looking for food and shelter. There are only a few places of refuge in this water desert and yet here - in the infinite blue - there is an oasis. Halfway between America and Australia lies the Tuamotu Archipelago, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. "Tuamotu" could be translated as "The Distant Islands". The archipelago, consisting of 76 atolls, is difficult to reach and far away from any trade routes.

An 18-year-old aspiring filmmaker sets out to make a film—but has no idea what it's about. As he documents his creative block, the process itself becomes the story. The Film With No Idea is a self-reflective journey through isolation, ambition, and the silent struggle to create something meaningful.

A film by Burkina Faso filmmakers Drissa Touré and Stephane Mbanga. Made in Dioula / Dyala lanugage which is closely related to Bambara.

A poetic hybrid documentary following Auritha Tabajara, an Indigenous writer, artist, and lesbian woman, as she reflects on memory, displacement, and identity. Through intimate voiceover and encounters with landscapes shaped by colonial violence, Auritha revisits her childhood, her forced separation from ancestral land, and the erasure imposed on Indigenous peoples in Brazil. The film also addresses her experience as a queer Indigenous woman, exploring how her homosexuality intersects with cultural belonging, exclusion, and self-affirmation. Moving between personal testimony and collective history, the film transforms loss into resistance, reclaiming voice, desire, and presence while reaffirming the inseparable bond between land, body, and storytelling.

A film essay dedicated to Ukrainian filmmaker and war veteran Ruslan Ganushchak.

Francis "Frank" Piliero, at the age of 78, explores his lifelong relationship with hockey and what healthy aging means to him.

Set in the hallways of Bel Air High School in El Paso, Texas, the documentary follows an all-girl Color Guard team as they balance the pressures of adolescence with the demands of competitive performance. As they prepare for the WGI World Championships, a devastating mass shooting strikes their hometown. In response, the team creates a tribute performance, transforming their sport into an expression of collective grief, pride, and resistance.

In the southernmost region of Chile, a handful of villagers survive another winter, together with their dogs and cattle, in the midst of a nature as cruel as it is overwhelming.

When Susan Rennie retired from academia, she returned to her first love – photography. With humor and wit, Rennie’s photographic interventions offer a feminist critique of the conventional canon of art history, and an unabashed embrace of her elder, queer identity. The results are juicy, eye-opening, and often hilarious.

The shocking murder of Jamie Faith, who was fatally shot outside his Dallas home. Initially, the case appeared to be a random act of violence but doorbell cam footage helps to reveal the shocking, devastating truth.

A documentary film about nothing but footage of things that make a person's life. A young man films short scenes in his home before moving out.