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Building Communism isn’t just about destroying the status quo, it’s about bringing people together in the process.

The theme of the film is what unites all people, what is hidden in all of us, be it the soul or the collective unconscious. The film is about different worlds, each of which is characterized by a different state: aimless haste, flow, senseless routine, social masks (both in front of others and in front of oneself), and the connection of the characters there. The film is about the connection of people, about not noticing it, quietly discovering it, rebelling against and trying to escape the unity, reconciling and melting into a single being, a mass. The author of the film wants to believe that in the midst of the pain, wars and brutality that prevails all over the world, there could be something unifying and binding in all of us. Something that, by discovering and becoming more aware of, we could live in greater harmony, without killing each other and destroying our nature.

The story of the forbidden friendship between Dam, the tip of mount Damavand in Iran and Hofit, an air force plane from Israel. Their unexpected encounter dares them to reimagine a friendship against all odds.

Maramba tells about the burial of the King of Sumba in Indonesia. The Marapu ritual exists to be a reflection of how Sumbanese have a sacred bond with nature and their ancestral line, as if there is no line of life that is disconnected from them. Umbu Mahani Pekulangu also known as Umbu Nai Tunga is the 16th descendant who occupies the island of East Sumba. He was the last remaining king of the Sumbanese people and buried based on their belief, namely the Marapu belief. After Umbu Nai Tunga died, all of his descendants agreed not to continue the royal system, and continue with the system implemented by the Republic of Indonesia.

In their five-year ongoing strike, the workers are still surviving and struggling to make ends meet. Deni Purba sells used clothes after being released from prison. Steven Yawan who still continues to speak loudly in the capital. Musyawir with his expertise in coffee tells the story of the brutal actions at the beginning of the strike.

Even before our ancestors banged on a tree trunk with a stick or hollowed out a bone to blow into it, they were already singing. The human voice was the very first musical instrument—and judging by Partita for 8 Voices, it’s also the most versatile.

Eva Eisler is an important Czech designer and jewelry maker. The short film shows her creative process from ideation to the realization of her ideas and presents the basic building blocks of her work: purity, elegance, and minimalistic originality. All the while her metallic structures contrast with the dreamy, tender aesthetics of the film.

Is it possible to use sound to travel through time and experience the fate of other people? This story of a sound engineer studying recordings of war conflicts from the past transports viewers smack dab in the middle of a ravenous rampage where the horrors of the past come to the fore. The film also presents a philosophical reflection on the role that sound plays in our world. The film was developed on the program of the AAMOD Premio Zavattini.

The director walks in the forest, which echoes her memories. She recalls a letter she received from her grandmother 5 years before. Eugenia’s voice escapes her between the branches and vegetation. A timeless dialogue between two women generations apart.

Irish artist Richard Mosse’s world-premiere moving image work, Broken Spectre, is a powerful response to the devastating and ongoing impact of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. Filmed over three years in remote parts of the Amazon Rainforest, Broken Spectre is presented across an immersive 20-metre widescreen panorama, utilising different visually arresting strategies to depict the unfolding crisis; each shifting in scale and focus to convey these urgent environmental fault lines more powerfully.

One day, Jean-Christian Riff notices two boys playing a mysterious game under his window. He films them. This is the starting point for a film that, without the camera ever leaving its unique position behind the window, progressively opens up the circle of perceptions and emotions to the dimensions of the world. The space makes this cosmological miracle possible : a bus stop, a riverbank and the river that runs along it, but also the filmmaker’s appartment, where daily life and its sounds resonate : a multiple scene upon which pass time, seasons, beings of all ages and conditions. This film is its author’s last, as he died just after having finished the editing. It is life itself, made poetry. (Cyril Neyrat)

Ever since the Euromaidan revolution in 2014, Valentyn's life has been moving in heavy swell. In his hometown of Romny, in the east of Ukraine, he is fighting against corruption, and so against the strongest powers in the country. When Valentyn needs a break, he prepares for his third attempt to cross the Black Sea in his self-built kayak.

An experimental short film dedicated to the Mother of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda. Highly inspired by Agnès Varda's Along the Coast (1958).

“The Earth is burning. Our home is on fire. The future lies in our hands”. Every human being has the potential to become an Agent of Transformation, every home to become a seedbed for societal renewal,and every culture to contribute to an inclusive Earth Home.​Together, we can manifest this potential.​Together, we can transform our divided world into a united home for the family of life.​ This is the story of Home for Humanity , an unending "Quest for Humanity" follows the life of two visionaries Alexander Schieffer and Rama Mani building a transformative movement of humanity and an Earth Civilization.

Climate change threatens western water supplies and the “snowpack reservoir”. Year-long fire seasons threaten watersheds. Growth on the Front Range of Colorado threatens tourism and ranching on the Western Slope as 150 year old tunnels funnel water across the continental divide. But can the divide between East and West, cities and agriculture, business and recreation be bridged? How will Coloradans face a scarce water future together? Join us for Film 3 in the Watering the West Trilogy to envision a hopeful future of innovation and collaboration in the Headwaters State.

This film cross-cut the "Odessa Steps" chapter from the famous war movie "Battleship Potemkin" (1925) and the actual footage of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict in 2022. It uses a 21st-century "Montage d'Attraction" to explore The circle of history, the contradictions of civilization, and the crisis of life.

With the rising prices of gasoline, taxi drivers band together to discuss their every day issues surrounding their job as taxi drivers. The following days and weeks, gas prices are set to rise higher and higher.

A documentary profiling transgender athlete Tyler Wilde and his story with the Gillis beach Bodysurfing Association. It navigates the tumultuous waters that Tyler Wilde has had to move through as he searched for big surf, his true self, and his chosen family.

A personal journey into the kaleidoscopic history of a “place of salvation, Bakırköy. Berkay Şatır uses his own memories and neighborhood to draw the spectator into a musical growth by looking at the changing texture of a musical identity with unique archival footage and photos from 90’s and 2000’s.

Inside the famous Pavilion of the São Paulo Art Biennial, the young Mayan Edgar Calel is no longer a body, an immutability imprisoned by the framework of modern white architecture. Very white. He thus becomes air; multiple, ungraspable, uncapturable. “Sharpening words with my eyes”, he offers us another possibility to reflect upon the existence of beings and their capacity for representation. Now that we are facing Calel, we need to de-calibrate how we locate ourselves in time and space.

In this film, the story of the few people who live in Ville Montetiffi intertwine with the ancient job of griddle potter. These are both fade out images from an epoch already disappeared during the last century: images that continue to live in this timeless place, infusing a feeling of eternal present.

This immersive mixed media documentary undulates through a range of emotions as it reflects on the physical, social, and emotional experiences of taking testosterone.

This film is an exploration of the Deadhead family, past and present, and the qualities that make it unique. We follow Lonnie as she reconnects with the women she traveled with in her youth, and makes new friends along the way. Through wide ranging interviews, she seeks to dispel the common stereotypes about Dead-heads and document the beauty of the community. We learn how the Grateful Dead touched the lives of so many people, the healing they found through the music, and the memories they cherish most.

In this series of three videos, American Indian women sing the history of a landscape, including its present, past, and future, where a conflict, displacement or massacre of their tribe took place. The songs reference the Navajo Long Walk, the Trail of Tears and resulting drownings in the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers, and the removal of the Seminole people from their homelands. Chacon describes: “These songs of resistance, with only a snare drum as accompaniment, become a sonic testimony, an acknowledgement of shared survival, and a healing call in their mother tongues.”

How do we protect our connection with young people? This is the question the film tries to answer by addressing them directly through a voice-over. In a mosaic of fiction and animation sequences, film excerpts, "smartphone" shots and a considerable amount of archive material, the film restores entire sections of our History and our current events, by looking back at some of the major political and social achievements that young people often ignore. "Letter to the child you gave us" aims at inciting them to measure the importance of laws, the stake of democracy, and to push them to the commitment until fighting abstention.

A young man lives and works in an abandoned bunker in a deserted post-Soviet interzone of industrial ruin. When he's not drinking, bailing floodwater or making techno beats, he's playing a video game that eerily mirrors his post-apocalyptic surroundings—hovering UFO included. Shown in complete isolation, he is the hero, the shooter and the zombie of his own moody game.

In this offbeat whodunit, Bernie Langille sets out to uncover the truth around the strange circumstances of his grandfather (and namesake) Bernie Langille's death. Fifty years after the fact and with the help of meticulous miniatures, he reconstructs the bizarre events of one fateful winter night in 1968. What exactly precipitated the shocking discovery of Grandpa Bernie, dead in his own bed? The labyrinthian task of answering this question leads Bernie to interview a range of characters, including forensic experts and family members. Along the way, Bernie entertains increasingly absurd scenarios—including the possible involvement of Agent Orange. His obsessive musings, just like the constantly changing miniature sets, never get old. Ultimately the film provides a quirky yet thoughtful look at family ties, the fault lines of memory and intergenerational trauma.

Mysterious images shot around a wadi (a waterway in North Africa or the Middle East, often dried up), perceived as too calm by the filmmaker and his brother hence the “windless” of the title, are the setting for excerpts of audio conversations. In these, three men painfully describe their unmentionable traumas, which they have buried since childhood.

Mette’s near-death experience was so overwhelming for her that she longs to return to understand it. Now she is trying to reconstruct it in virtual reality so she can share her experience with the world.

Two men hunt through family history for answers that may save a little boy from ending up as knotty as themselves.

Malmö, Sweden, is a town that is famous for its pioneering skate scene. Some of Malmö’s most iconic DIY spots have become world famous in the skate community, but these cultural icons are gradually disappearing to make way for residential developments. Cue a crew of ex-pat skaters from France, USA, England and beyond who take up the DIY mantle and attempt to build their own space with their own rules. Pig Barrier stemmed from a mystery man called “Skater Pig” who built the small first part of a skate spot. This is where an expat crew comes in and attempts to expand on the efforts of Skater Pig. Do they have what it takes to build a real concrete bowl spot using just shovels, trowels and their collective will?

With some help from different characters and families, animals and plants, children are introduced to the concept of global warming, and given positive, easy ways to improve our impact on the earth.

After more than a decade in the financial industry, Jeff HUANG decided to leave his comfort zone at the age of 33 and changed his job from an analyst to a mixed martial artist without a regular income. Jeff walked away from it all, moved to Brazil to train. Upon his return to Taiwan, Jeff entered the professional world of MMA and became known as "The Machine". But In the face of his family's doubts and marriage crisis, will he be able to continue to follow the path he has chosen?

A Calf born in Winter is a poetic short documentary about the most important month of the year for reindeer herders in the North when new life is born. It shows the beautiful symbiosis of humans and reindeer helping each other to evolve and survive.

Set against the backdrop of Italy in the years of the fascist dictatorship, a man of means, yet unknown to history, scrutinises the world through his small cine camera. Guiding him and teaching him is a manual; the buds of ideology are detectable beneath the seemingly impartial tone it uses to describe technique. But in his films, the ineffable signs of resistance still rise to the surface.

Interviews, reenactments, animations, and more tell the story of the Black army regiments, formed after the Civil War, who played vital roles (from railroad builders to park rangers) in the American settling of the West.

Pedro and Flavio live a simple and beautiful life together, filled to the brim with love, away from the distractions of the outside world. For the past 30 years, they have poured their heart and soul into their scenic property situated in the rolling hills of Bologna.

Maya Mcmanus Ronen's debut film focuses on exploring life in the kibbutz of Neot Smadar. This kibbutz was reestablished by a group of like-minded individuals who left Jerusalem and decided to build a cooperative and horizontally structured community. Every couple of years, a significant event takes place here — residents swap houses with each other. What's unique is that no one knows in advance which house they will receive. Maya Ronen's film is an attempt to peer into the unconventional life of this community, understand the rules it lives by, and delve into the intricacies of the regular ritual of house swapping.

This documentary follows two migrants and two human rights lawyers as they take on the Spanish authorities in a trial that tests Europe's core values.

An exhibition of the STOP GENOCIDE organization has sprung up in front of a secondary school in Brno. The demonstrators, Jan and Vladimír, use drastic photographs to discourage secondary school students from living irresponsible lives – and to collect signatures for a petition to ban abortion in the Czech Republic. The story follows their efforts during one school day.

France, 1942: A serial killer stalks the streets of Occupied Paris. Using the chaos of the war to his own advantage, psychotic doctor Marcel Petiot poses as a resistance operative and preys on those most desperate to flee the Nazi regime - Jews, criminals and underground partisans. As the body count rises, both the French police and the Gestapo race against time to bring him to justice.

The Universal White Brotherhood is a community whose philosophy lies in opening their hearts to the light and to channelling a supreme cosmic rhythm through dance.

Meet the former residents of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident’s Exclusion Zone, who share their experiences of the loss of home and community, and the fragility of memories.

A documentary about Alan García based on a series of archival materials

A documentary about the history of small football in the Czech Republic

With no roads connecting its coastal communities, a humble boat and its Irish crew move quietly in the background giving rare access to remote villages up into the Arctic Circle. In near 24-hour daylight, sailing by vast icebergs and sharing midnight encounters with humpback whales, we are invited into homes and communities along the way. These heartfelt interactions reveal a generous and inviting people battling to hold onto a culture that forms their identity. A hunting society turned capitalist, local hunters no longer feed their communities. As the ice disappears around them, what future beckons? Perhaps one that offers an easier type of living, but one that brings its own difficulties. This is a celebration of Greenland’s culture, a lament for a changing way of life and a yearning for a positive future for a culture facing such uncertain times.

Aiko, a 10-year old girl, is heading into town after the lockdown, in search of new stories for her vlog. Amidst the sounds of the city, she hears music. Her curiosity leads to encounters all over the city with children expressing their feelings through music and rhythm. Together with her new friends, Aiko celebrates childhood on the rooftops of Brussels through music, singing, dancing and beatboxing.

Muhammad is 23 years old and is stuck living in Paris. While his trial drags on, he waits, trying to find his place in this foreign city.

Against common sense, a man looks at the sun every day as a profession, searching for the secrets hidden in the light.

"In June 1999 dear friends Agnetta Falk and Jack Hirschman were married at Matt Gonzales' place in the Mission. I was there with my 16mm Bolex and filmed part of the ceremony and crowd. After almost 30 years I finally made this footage into a finished film. It features many of our dear friends both living and deceased. In honor of Jack and Aggie's wedding anniversary I finished the film over the weekend." – Dominic Angerame.

Short by Lynn Thompson.

SKIN IN THE GAME is a documentary about the provocative Jewish standup comedian Sandy Gutman (aka Austen Tayshus).

In a rental car, we retrace Hernán Cortés's expedition to conquer Mexico from his first contact with the Aztec empire in 1519 to his meeting with the Aztec emperor Montezuma II. A journey that attempts to probe the tragedy inherent in the complete destruction of Tenochtitlan, one of the greatest cities ever created by the original populations of the Western Hemisphere.