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James Hollenbaugh takes us to Animal Farm, a residence where animals are taken to die, their parts later being sold on or left to decay. The description of this site is recalled by the narration and drawings of young Sofia, whose Uncle Steve runs Animal Farm. By juxtaposing images of death and decay with Sofia’s colourful drawings and ambiguous understanding of the place, Hollenbaugh creates an uncomfortable tension between dark human reality and the optimistic worlds of children.

This film – neither performance nor fiction – is the third part of the artists’ attempt to revisit Anastas’s 2007 film, which sought to translate and put into play Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” onto the contemporary Arab World.

Through exploration of the materiality of spaces, objects, and of being inside, the film examines how rape more often than not happens in the perceived safety of what is considered someone's home.

A tribute about the life, personality and work of Archbishop Stylianos of blessed memory; a gift from our local Church to the Christ-loving flock and all those who loved the great former Hierarch.

Actual World, Possible Future explores the lives and work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, who sought to address the enormous problems that plague human societies: climate change, endangered species, ocean pollution, deforestation.

There are few monsters more recognizable or popular than the zombie. The reanimated corpse has been a staple of folklore, film, literature and popular culture for nearly 200 years. Join Dr. Emily Zarka, who studies literature and film through the lens of monsters, as she deconstructs some of the most significant moments in zombie popular culture over the last two centuries to reveal what these creatures say about us. In New Orleans, Dr. Zarka explores how zombie folklore arose before it became mainstream and discovers more about the spiritual and historical roots of zombie lore.

Four friends, kayaked around the biggest freshwater lake in the world (by surface area) to help raise awareness and money to conserve the pristine waters and landscapes they behold. We must share stories and values of what makes our backyard so important to us and those that live with it.

Somewhere in Between is a short film about how queer Canadian singer-songwriter Kate Reid decided to undergo a surgery that altered her body, and her relationship with her body. It is the story of how they felt about and in their body in relation to others, and the meaning that the world impressed upon their body before the surgery. Since having top surgery, Reid has felt more at home in her body than ever before. Like so many people in the world, Reid’s gender identity is hybrid and fluid. It is an assemblage of many different ideas, words, feelings, energies, lived experiences, and now, altered body parts. It is a gender that is somewhere in between.

Tugging Diary documents a footbridge over a year between August 2019 to January 2021. Due to social unrest and the uncertainty of various immediate happenings, both the internet and physical spaces act as critical communication platforms of its own during this period. As such, information can be circulated in the community more widely and rapidly outside of the existing mainstream media. As time goes by, these materials are continuously altered, some were renewed, while the others were removed, covered with paint, or overlaid by other information.

Between memories and ramblings, the camera is turned on to film things that may later make sense. Record of an incessant search for the understanding of light in a documental style.

In this layered short film, filmmaker Janine Windolph takes her young sons fishing with their kokum (grandmother), a residential school survivor who retains a deep knowledge and memory of the land. The act of reconnecting with their homeland is a cultural and familial healing journey for the boys, who are growing up in the city. It’s also a powerful form of resistance for the women.

Covid-19 has taken over the world. Government urges people to stay home, but does the dog know that?

Russian-speaking Katja was born in 1992 in the Estonian city of Narva, not far from the Russian border. She represents the entire generation of the 1990s, which sees itself as a house with no address or railway tracks leading nowhere. In the ruins of the Soviet Union, she searches for her national identity and learns to breathe freedom.

In early 2020, this would have been a documentary about freshman initiation rituals, but a pandemic and three months confined at home end up changing the author and the direction of this project.

Autobiographical documentary by Juan De La Mar. Join me to plant myself back to live.

After the rise of 30 pesos on the Metro fare in Santiago (Chile), Chilean people rise up against the repressive measures of the government to stop the protests. With a scarf on the face and a camara, I’ll show the real upset of the social outbreak that woke up a country that was sleeping for 30 years amongst an illusion of democracy

The incredible story of one of the most radical ideas of the entire second world war. Operation Market Garden was the plan that caused over 10,000 paratroops to be whittled down to just 2000. (Amazon Prime)

This film is about an attempt to reconcile with our home. Or with what used to be our home a long time ago. Or, at least, what our family thinks is our home. Or what we no longer see as our own home. Or, perhaps, is this a film about accepting the realization that we are happier somewhere else?

Documentary about sub-Saharan immigration in Spain and Argentina focusing especially on the Senegalese community

David Parkinson reconstructs the documentary he directed in 2018 about Muckie, the Muckross Lake monster, in an attempt to definitively figure out what it was, while also exploring ideas around it and other cryptids.

A young molfar wanders through the Carpathian Mountains in search of a connection with nature itself. Journeying through fire and water, he finds himself on a highland meadow where, beside a great bonfire, he sees four mavkas and dissolves into the fabric of time and space. At the same time, elder molfars recount their wondrous tales of the supernatural - stories filled with the essence of life in one of the most mystical regions of Ukraine: Hutsulshchyna.

An original idea by Gil Gonçalves.

How a historic preservation project has helped recover the story of a once-thriving town near Raleigh built after the Civil War by formerly enslaved and free blacks. Oberlin had more than 1,200 inhabitants before being paved over in the name of progress. The renovation of two 1880s houses by Preservation North Carolina has exposed remarkable stories about the families who lived there.

A discussion of the later day period of Lucio Fulci's career, incorporating his bad health through to his eventual death and a retrospection of the supposedly "lesser" motion pictures that emerged, including "Aenigma" (1987) and "Cat in the Brain" (1990). The interviewees include those who worked with Fulci and academics and authors.

If losing a child to an illness is one of the worst things that can happen to a family, Dr. Nadia Tremonti has made it her mission to make it better. It's not easy. But as a pediatric palliative care physician, she works to ensure that terminally ill children receive quality end-of-life care. Palliative care is sometimes misunderstood to shorten life expectancy, but it's a method that increases quality of life, improves symptom burden and decreases medical costs. We follow Dr. Tremonti in the short documentary above as she works to make death less medical and more human. In the process she asks a critical question: When a child is terminally ill, how can we make the end of life a better one?

For centuries, along the Mekong river, the brick kilns in Mang This used to be the symbol of the delta’s economic prosperity. Now, the last brick kilns finally come to an end.

In the city of Geneva, an Egyptian director involves a Belgian actress in a game. Julie begins by reading the first lines of "Sexus". Then, the filmmaker starts drawing the "inside of her head". What happens between the lines?

Step into paradise as we take you to Islas Secas, a remote resort set on an archipelago of 14 small islands just 25 miles off of the coast of Panama. This hot spot offers one of the most diverse marine ecosystems in the world yielding unparalleled big game and inshore fishing waters. Joined by Dave from Shimano America, we landed on a fierce school of yellowfin tuna that blew up on the baits!

Join the mission as we travel to one of the most amazing fisheries in the world to search for the elusive 1000-pound Bluefin Tuna that roam the cold Atlantic waters off of Prince Edwards Island, Nova Scotia. We team up with Greg Norton of Tightline Tours along with veteran anglers, Kenny Cirks, and Barry Brightenburg to fish the giants. This film is combines info, techniques and non-stop action!

A journey through the riches of the Caribbean. Islands, churches, land. Everyone has passed through here: explorers, castaways, colonizers, slaves. Each of them took a little piece of silent wealth with them.

Lucknow is a famous historical city in India. It is the capital of the northern Indian state of Utter Pradesh. This city is known for its unique culture and diversity of people.

Investigates the valleys in search of the Greek musical tradition of Calabria by giving voice to who continue to lend their legs, ears and hands to this heritage.

Intertwined between Turin, Rome and Genoa are the stories of a composite gallery of characters who were wounded and survived in the 1970s.

The Black Panther gallery in Antwerp dates back 50 years and is the oldest active art gallery in Belgium. This film tells the story of Adriaan Raemdonck, the man who started and still runs it.

A non-narrative film that documents and aestheticizes the cycle of transforming “waste” into rich fertile soil.

Precision work at an altitude of 3,000 meters. A unique construction is being built on the Zugspitze - Germany's highest Mountain. With a total distance of 4.5 kilometers, the suspension railway being built there is not only the highest, but also the longest cable car in the world. But that's not all: it drives over a single support that sets another record at 127 meters. How does the alpine climate influence working conditions? Our documentation takes a look behind the scenes of the cable car construction site and accompanies the creation of the impressive structure.

Two Brothers, Manuel and Valente Valenzuela, both volunteered and fought in Vietnam. Fifty years later, they are among thousands of U.S. military veterans, many with distinguished records, who are being deported. The brothers reluctantly put their uniforms on for one last time; to bring deported veterans and their families back home. Its a quixotic quest that leaves one brother exiled in a foreign country while the other will go all the way to the White House.

Made with great technical skill, this intimate exploration cleverly interweaves the past and present in order to shed light on the future.

The world has become akin to an abandoned video game: frozen and endless. State of Emergency wants to recreate this strange video-game reality. The film is an attempt to save a place in time: to describe it, and to remember it. Our current present — our own state of emergency, the Covid-19 pandemic — began more than a year ago, and no one knows how long it will last. The main markers of this new reality are isolation and distance. In the film, we see a virtual city has become like time itself, a labyrinth that is endless and uncertain. Meanwhile, lines from a diary collect the disparate thoughts accumulated over the course of a month.

From the memoirs of Marina Gustavovna Storkh, the daughter of the Russian philosopher, polymath and thinker Gustav Shpet, who was shot in 1937. A tragic story connected with the founders and the last years of the famous Alferov Gymnasium in Moscow, where the daughters of Chaliapin, Polenov, Nesterov studied…

Documentary film set in the Dheisheh refugee camp about the First Palestinian Intifada.

“What does it look like to witness someone else’s grief?” Klein Arts & Culture partners with the Alabama Dance Council to present Migratuse Ataraxia by the Wideman Davis Dance Company. This powerful multimedia performance takes shape at Klein-Wallace plantation in Harpersville, AL. The collaboration offers a blueprint for reconciliation, healing, and hope for a way forward with shared narrative.

A group of voices read suicide notes and ideations as people go on with their everyday lives.

In Presidio, Texas, it is customary to hear Norteña music, typically Mexican, in the bars of the city. John Ferguson, american, governs the 4,426 inhabitants of the small town, is the principal of the city high school. As mariachi, John and Mariachi Santa Cruz also play in nearby Ojinaga, Mexico, distant the Rio Grande river from Presidio. The need to understand the history that binds Mexico to the United States, during one of the periods where the thread that weaves them seems to have become tangled. Viva Presidio! tells the story of a man whose ethnicity represents 2% of the population who voted to elect him, of the affection for his city and of the walls and customs in a reality where, the real cultural accents,represent an element of union between two communities in conflict today.

What Should I Put in My Coffee? is the world’s first feature-length documentary about coffee creamer. Using this seemingly light-hearted topic as a starting point, the film explores big ideas about farming and animal agriculture, the environment, and the role of consumers in our current food system. Follow filmmaker Jon Lanthier as he searches across the Pacific Northwestern US for the most delicious and most morally responsible creamer, interviewing dairy farmers; baristas and coffee roasters; Oatly, the oat milk producer; animal welfare researchers; vegan activists, and many more.

Relámpago Negro is a professional wrestler who lived in his own flesh the golden age of wrestling in Guatemala. 40 years later everything has changed, except his passion for the sport. Relámpago Negro tells us how his passion leads him to keep wrestling alive after so long, building a legacy for professional wrestling until this day.

Stories of children who lost an important part of their lives due to the fighting in Donbas area, Ukraine.

For their joint Bat Mitzvahs, cousins Panda and Mimi made short films exploring what it means to them to be both Jewish and Chinese.

Dril and Derek Estevez-Olsen build a new society in the wild

In this follow-up to 2011's When a City Falls, filmmaker Gerard Smyth captures the people of Ōtautahi Christchurch a decade on from the devastating earthquake and how they've managed to thrive in the aftermath.

Lithuanian medics battling COVID-19

Filmmaker Alina Manolache was born 1990, the year after the fall and execution of Romanian dictator Ceausescu. It marked the beginning of a new, post-communist era. At the start of the film, she calls out to people who had ever been lost on the beach in the nineties to get in touch with her. This seemingly random appeal leads to her traveling around the country and having conversations with a large number of peers about their memories of the experience, and about their life now.

In recent years, insecurity and thousands of feminicides in Mexico have led women to seek greater protection and take more precautions to return home safely. "I Got Home Okay" is a piece of appropriation that talks about how women use the means at their disposal with the intention of taking care of themselves in a violent environment.

For a whole year, 13-18 year olds have filmed their everyday life. The result is a strong and moving film about what it is like to be young in Moss in 2019 and 2020.