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The full-length documentary presents the stages in the historical development of the city of Sofia from the earliest artefacts of 6000 BC till now, telling of the archaeological discoveries, achievements in architecture and town planning, in science and the arts, interlacing episodes from the documentary series 5 Minutes Sofia. KAMEN VODENICHAROV (b. 1966), actor/director/producer, studied Puppetry at NATFA, Sofia, in the classes of Prof. Nikolina Georgieva and specialised in Film and TV Directing in the classes of Acad. Lyudmil Staykov. He is one of the founders of the widely popular Cuckoo student TV show. MISHO LANZHEV (b. 1959), director/animator, after completing his studies at NATFA, Sofia, worked for popular TV shows and films. He is one of the directors of the documentary series 5 Minutes Sofia. Festivals & Awards: IFF Sofia 2019; Best Documentary, White Nights FF, St. Petersburg, Russia

Every mother develops an indivisible bond with her child. This connection remains forever in their resembling personalities, even after they stop living together. However, with the fast social development, from time to time, the family structure changes. My mother is a casino dealer. I forgot how long ago have we talked and listened to each other. The gentle whispers of "good morning" or "good night" are long gone from our lives.

"We Entered Through the Chimeline" explores folklore, using its strangeness to construct fictions and speculative futures that offer points of resistance to our present. The film focuses upon Ruth L. Tongue who was a folklorist and a self-proclaimed ‘chime child’. In her position as a chime child Ruth believed that she had the magical ability to collect songs that no one else could, leading many folklorists to read her work as fictional. The film draws from these unreliable narratives and amplifies their affective qualities to create new and wonky fictions that unfold throughout the film. The work is filmed on 16mm film and utilises film’s alchemical qualities. Light flares become moments of transformation that support the magical acts within the narrative.

"In another virtuoso turn, the artist brings her exemplary camera eye to Moldova, home of her grandparents, before they were driven out along with their Jewish comrades, thousands of them killed. Fragments of survivor testimonials mix with archival photographs and objects, along with present-day city celebrations (what is being forgotten in these civic rites of memory?). Haunted natural scapes grow over the dead, the abandoned graveyards and stones mark the places where culture and community used to be performed. This is a synoptic act of grieving, but also: a summoning of the present, a conjuring of the thousand ways that the betrayals of neighbours and friends marked out the Jews who had lived peaceably amongst them for generations, newly caught now in a terror of state oppression and greed."- Mike Hoolboom

In 2009, while sculptor Alberto Giacometti’s ratings beat records in the art market, an affair erupted in Germany revealing the existence of more than a thousand Giacometti counterfeits, hidden in a warehouse in Mainz. For 10 years, two German merchants and a Dutch forger managed to sell hundreds of fake sculptures, some of which were even exhibited in museums. A German investigator, a private detective in Dutch art, a French sculpture expert and the forger himself, take turns telling us this incredible story as we discover the fascinating and tortured life of Alberto Giacometti.

Film-reasoning about the connection between generations. There are many questions, but there are practically no ready-made answers. Tatyana Andreevna Frolova is a guideline for finding these answers. Grandmother speaks about her difficult fate with a smile, without bitterness. Her attitude to life, grateful acceptance of everything that she had to endure, becomes the basis of the dialogue, after which, perhaps, she will want to understand herself and critically look at her life attitudes.

Critically and with a great deal of openness, six Parisians ponder how they perceive their place in the public space of the metropolis. The mosaic of stories, from an older trans activist’s experience to the encounters of a young queer artist with a handicap, brings a very direct and sincere insight into the lives of LGBTQ+ people in France today.

People from all over the world gamble on when the ice in the Tanana River melts. This hundred year old tradition in the city of Nenana, Alaska, is an important source for the small town of about 500. It's also a point of local pride and amusement.

In Ratanakiri, Broty Ranchong weaves for a living and lives with her youngest daughter, Sanoy, who works on a farm. One day, Sanoy was raped on her way to work and has a baby girl. Her brother and her sister told her to sell her, but, instead, she decided to work even harder so that her daughter could go to school.

A reconstruction of the first days of May 1940 for Truus and her mother Aartje in the heart of Rotterdam.

Video essay that examines the relationship between the 1962 film "Carnival Souls" and Lucrecia Martel's 2008 "The Headless Woman".

A compilation of Giallo trailers

Paths and deviations of a degraded profession. Workers seeking to flourish in institutional ruins.

9th of November, 2019 marks the 30th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the momentous day that caused ripples of change throughout the world. YouTube Originals brings you the chance to step back to a moment in history. The past gets immersive. With the use of cutting edge VR technology, social Historian Emma Dabiri will transport three people to a moment when their relatives were photographed escaping, resisting, and overcoming the Berlin Wall. Concurrently, YouTube Creators Hannah Witton from the UK, Riyadh Khalaf from Ireland, and Rezo from Germany will, too, step into the virtual streets of past Germany. From the perspective of a new generation, brought up to count on their freedom, they'll need to consider how this piece of history is relevant today?

It's a biographical and daily life documentary about TANAKA, Mitsu who is the legendary leader of women's liberation movement of Japan on 70's, filmed closely for four years since 2014.

Parts 4 to 6.

An intimate glimpse into the lives that pass through and converge at a seemingly seedy space — the neighbourhood pawnshop.

Good Samaritans risk hostility, political persecution, and legal prosecution to care for feral cats living in colonies. The three main characters in the documentary Catnip Nation, who live miles apart and come from different walks of life, invite us into a world of advocacy, political wrangling, and legal intrigue. Despite their passion for animals, the success of their battles are mixed but the message is consistent: This nation needs better policy to humanely manage "community cats," and to protect people who look after them.

A portrait of the past and present of the Berkeley Pit, a former copper mine in Butte, Montana, and the largest body of contaminated water in the United States. Through hand-manipulated original and found footage, the film shows the destructive consequences of mine waste though a variety of photochemical processes using the same contaminants found in the water of the pit.

Five vignettes across America revealing the resilience of the immigrant fabric of our country amidst the Trump administration's current and proposed policies.

In A Sweet and Sour Christmas, director Aram Siu Wai Collier and producer Betty Xie follow two types of holiday meals at the King Wok Restaurant: the deep-fried take-out Chinese Canadian food staples delivered to families across Kitchener and the traditional Cantonese meal for a family sharing a rare Christmas celebration.

Gas comes to a distant village. But the village is already full - with its natural sounds...

Simply start recording the niece grow up, mother in the process accidentally into the shot, watching his mother take care of nieces look, as if I saw my childhood, in the lens of the mother, suddenly became very different from her in the impression and saw her anxiety, irritability, weakness, fear, but often are niece intrusion becomes funny, witty.

Fear and circumstances – that’s what makes us choose. From the moment of awareness to the moment of making a decision, we are like in a dream. This is a story about Alena Zavarzina – snowboarder, Olympic medalist in 2014, World Champion.

Ancient History Documentary

A conversation between two women about the desires and banalities of life. Both women share the same homeland, one stayed there while the other emigrated, but the distance hasn't severed their friendship nor the similarities in their perspectives.

Between 2013 and 2015, three princes became the leaders of the Persian Gulf's main oil monarchies: Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. This new generation of sovereigns, some of the richest and most powerful on the planet, has imposed a new way to govern, between violence, repression and ego wars.

The film is a study of drag culture in Russia and the life of Russian travesty divas in St. Petersburg compared to similar artists from Western countries, where the sexual revolution took place at the time and they became icons of pop culture. Is travesty an art? What is hidden under a mask of foundation and powder? What brought young people into the travesty business?

Mother Hanabi can be whatever he wants to be on the ballroom floor. A queen. A monster. A champion. We follow Hanabi as he gets ready to walk the floor at a kiki in the heart of the Parisian voguing scene and learn about his own journey on the way.

Whether you're five or 55, you're welcome here. Transgender and gender diverse Yukoners find a surprisingly accepting community in Canada's rural north. They are knit together by the only trans support group in the territory: All Genders Yukon.

A recessionary tapestry of the rural communities of Gort and Crusheen in the west of Ireland. A newly-built motorway carves through their land, causing the areas' inhabitants to reflect on the misuse of natural resources, the value of memory, and the impermanence of their own existence.

With her wedding approaching, Kat Cole creates a visual letter to her fiancé's only living grandparent, Jean, the 100-year old grandmother whom she will never meet. In this intimate documentary, Cole exhumes long-kept secrets to capture the complexities of familial love and the subtle effects of transphobia in the home.

Inspired by the revolutionary work of David Holmgren, A Living Earth is a beautifully shot documentary about the Belgian Desnié Farm School and the power of Permaculture to build a sustainable world.

About the new novel « Sérotonine » by Michel Houellebecq with a first edition of 500 000 copies for the French, German, Italian and Spanish market.

Maricarmen Graue (52) is a cello player; she plays with a rock band, as well as in a chamber orchestra. She is also a music teacher, a writer and a marathon runner. She lives alone and is completely blind. She copes with her condition by having a biting sense of humor and being fiercely self-demanding. Swaying between laughter and a bare-boned meditation on the act of living, the documentary navigates the labyrinths surrounding this survivor.

Learn how priests and church volunteers help poor people, children in need, and their families across Europe.

It’s been 10 years since Catfish and the Bottlemen uploaded to BBC Music Introducing and what a ten years it’s been. From throwing demos on stages, rocking up and performing wherever they saw a crowd to platinum sales and headlining festivals. Watch the band in conversation with Radio 1’s Jack Saunders as they share their top 10 moments so far.

Footage following the live event of Mojofest 3: Cosmic Jamboree. The piece follows multiple characters and their respected arcs throughout the diy music festival. Let the music set you free.

National Geographic explores controversial claims about Rapa Nui or Easter Island, challenging decades of previous claims from ecocide to cannibalism.

Follows the family journey of Michael Carr the pastor, Joe Carr the boxer, and CL Carr the musician. Showing the rise from the streets of North Newark to connections with famous faces throughout the music industry.

Wyn Wiley (aka Pattie Gonia), creates eco-conscious fashion while learning about plastic pollution in Hawaii with local non-profits.

A mile off the coast of Boston Harbor in Massachusetts lies a tiny island coined Peddocks. On one side rests a shuttered military fort, a local hotspot for summer tourists. But for those brave enough to walk beyond, will find a vibrant community on the island's south-facing side. This tight-knit, working-class community is a relic of a century-old Portuguese fishing village; its lucky few have worked hard to maintain and pass down their humble cottages since the 1800s. Now, the state has claimed the island for parkland, and the current generation is the last to own their beloved summer escape. This short film takes a sentimental look at the islanders' efforts to preserve its traditions, while ruminating its history and inevitable end.

Russian prodigies! They dream of making discoveries, solving problems that no one else in the world has ever solved. There are more and more of them every year. In 2019, at the 50th anniversary World Physics Olympiad in Israel, Russian high school students performed triumphantly, winning four gold and one silver medals.

When you detox in Serbia, you eat, drink, and enjoy the music. The greatest brass band festival in Europe is in GUCA. Paradoxically, it is a backwoods village located in the very heart of Serbia, but it beats with a passion and rhythm that unites the whole world. The whole region is a unique place where East meets West and the North borders with the South. The Celtic rhythm, a southern warmth, the Latin romanticism, and the Slavic sentimentality is present everywhere. It radiates within the culture, the food, the people and the music. The festival has been around for for the last 55 years. By its size and vibe it has often been compared with Woodstock and the Festival in Rio. About half a million people come to visit every year and they stay for a week during the month of August. What is really magical is that everyone feels rejuvenated after spending day and night in this place. No matter how long your trip will be, you will always want to come again.

The legacy of the chanaes in the Province of Entre Ríos, through the voice of Blas Jaime, descendant and last speaking chaná together with the latest research by the group of archaeologists reconstruct the cultural legacy. The ceramics, the landscape and orality transport us to harmony with nature, where time is an incessant river of no return. Art and its function, landscape and its adaptation, voice and identity coexist in the Huella Chaná.

The theme that runs throughout this compilation (extracts from several Satsangs) is “silence.” Papaji states and demonstrates that silence is one's real and permanent nature. He goes on to say that silence is the ground and substance of everything in existence. He also answers the question, “Can one be silent while being active in the world? “ Papaji speaks of the way by which Sri Ramana Maharshi demonstrated silence and what he taught about how to realize it. As importantly, he speaks of the means by which we distract ourselves from the experience and realization of silence.