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A couple friends visit the One Mile Telescope.

Walking the line between mindfulness and adrenaline rush, an American, bipolar, aerialist tries to reconcile her suicidal inclinations, her past life as an air traffic controller and the pressures of training for opening night at the Vietnamese circus. High Flying Jade is the true story of a bipolar woman from Los Angeles who moved to Vietnam and joined the circus in Hồ Chí Minh City. In the US, Jade was an air traffic controller but repeated attempts at suicide culminated in hospitalization. She was eventually diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder. Now, she tries to manage her unique brain chemistry with learned-mindfulness and focused aerial training. We meet her one week before the opening night of her first ever performance in a real, big top circus.

An experimental film that contrasts the famous "I'd Like To Buy The World A Coke" ad with the Coca-Cola Company's most recent scandal: unconscionable water privatization in Chiapas, Mexico.

Karula, the Queen of Djuma, reigned over South Africas Sabi Sand for over a decade. But now, the queen is gone. Her offspring now hope to claim the land that was once hers.

Dear Queer Dancer follows two LGBTQ trailblazing couples­—Angelica and Jahaira and Luis and Ngoc—on their way to compete at the World Latin Dance Cup. Defying the genre’s legacy of machismo, their message to the Latin dance world is “make room. We’re here.

Ben Felten (51), who as a teenager was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease that left him completely blind in his mid-thirties. Despite his visual impairment, he wants to fulfill his childhood dream: top-level motorcycle racing.

Machine Hallucination whirs and throbs for thirty minutes as a machine processes images and then responds to them. There are moments when glimmers of New York are completely clear: you feel as if you’re moving over the city’s grid at a great height, or glimpse images of buildings right before they start to morph beyond recognition. Other times, you are looking at the data architecture, at graphic plottings, or metadata tags of the original photos.

The drug war costs billions of dollars, claims thousands of lives and employs technologies that are limited only by the imagination and the money of the cartels; DEA special agents follow drug mules and track boats.

The story of families seeking to undo decades of repression and assimilation of the Kurdish language by taking matters into their hands. Now, every home is a school. A banned language, a sealed school, children studying in their mother tongue at home, and families who convert their homes to schools. ‘Every home is a school’ is the story of defiant people who seek to revive and keep alive a forbidden language.

When Abou from Mali finally made it to Europe, it felt like a new life had started for him. A life, that offered a future. The film he made about his journey from Africa to Europe gets shown all over the world and throughout Germany, where Abou lives as an asylum seeker. His life oscillates between that of an artist with a voice, who is invited to screenings and events, and the isolation and boredom in a remote refugee centre. An essayistic reflection about Europe’s invisible borders and filmmaking as an act of self-empowerment.

A story about obsession and yearning for the infinite.

Csabi lives in a small village,Terény, in the north part of Hungary. His life is defined by the repetitive rhythm of simple things: there is lunch at noon, the waste collectors come on Friday, the withered flowers have to be replaced. There is no disruption in the wheel of everyday life. But how long can things stay the same?

The companies Ngan Kong and Ng Teng Kei are classic brands with more than 70 years in Macao. After long, prosperous days, times have changed, bringing numerous problems. One of the properties had no choice but to sell its assets ending a seven decade story. The other one, however, just went in the opposite direction…

Once a mild-mannered TV director, Hua Ze discovered that an old friend reporting on alleged corruption after the Sichuan earthquake had disappeared, along with any mention of him online. Following a trail of leads over the great internet firewall of China, she discovers a jaw-dropping array of human rights abuses across the country. Her awakening takes her into a new world of dissidents, citizen journalism, human rights lawyers. police harassment and kidnappings. In her own reporting, Hua cannot turn a blind eye to the problems, and is made to pay the price. The film documents Hua’s courage, and her willingness to lose everything in her fight for justice.

A mosaic of cultures, Spain is rich in the many influences that have passed through its history. Iberians, Celts, Phoenicians, Romans, Ottomans and Jews have shaped Spain's cultural heritage, making it the third country in the world in terms of number of sites classified by UNESCO.

First-time filmmaker Jason Schneider confronts the stigma of disability while coming to terms with his own limb difference in this documentary film.

"10:28,30 examines the relationship between myself and my sister, and our relationship to our mother. I am interested in the dissonance of our lives apart and the tension in the desire to be together."

Once upon a time, massive fish migrations were observed yearly around the globe. Civilizations and wildlife revolved around these natural wonders and depended on them for survival. For millennia, we have relied on rivers as a source of food, recreation, and energy. Unfortunately, many of these natural, free-flowing rivers have deteriorated as generations pass. Love Flows brings to life the challenges that voiceless rivers and fishes face against threats, but more importantly, it focuses on what we are doing to help improve the situation.

The process of recycling garbage at the Bishkek landfill - difficult, unsightly, often carried out manually - is shown in the film through the stories of people working on it, represented by different social groups - from homeless people to residents of a nearby village.

Garden Of Perfect Brightness is a new film by Yoeri Guépin that situates itself in the only remaining ruins of the destroyed Summer Palace of the Qing Dynasty located in the Haidian district in Beijing. In 1860 British and French troops sacked and burned the Yuanmingyuan complex which consisted of 800 acres full of exquisite gardens, architectural heights and precious art objects. Under the command of the infamous British Lord Elgin more than a million objects were looted, which are now on display in more than fifty different European museums, mainly in Britain and France. The violent event marked the end of the second opium war and the start of the ruination of the imperial complex.

"Tha-at’s right" is an attempt to choreograph a dance from a dance review. This review, written in 1959 by critic and poet Edwin Denby, articulates the music and movement of a dance using an idiosyncratic stream of metaphors. "Tha-at’s right" takes these outlandish descriptions literally by using them as a script or score, translating the written word back into a performance. This process was realised collaboratively with the performers onscreen over the course of a day.

The documentary When the Light Goes Out aims to, through an experimental video essay and using images from the photos of the Fotocine Fund existing in the collection of the Municipal Museum of Coruche.

Mixing vibrant, drawn animations with home videos, family photos, and audio recordings of loved ones, 2065 is at once autobiographical and otherworldly.

Blue Hotel is to reflect on the lives of Afghan refugees who came to Turkey illegally from Afghanistan and providing a living by collecting paper.

When Explorer left Honduras, she left everything behind. In the middle of the night, she didn’t have the chance to ask where she was going, but she’s never afraid, her father is always there taking care of her. This Honduran family travelled to Mexico looking for a safe place. A place where their two daughters could grow and their lives weren’t on the line. This is a brief chapter of this family’s journey to protect their daughters’ lives and their innocence.

The region of Cunha, in the Paraíba Valley, the burnt clay brick, pau-a-pique and rammed earth motivate to highlight the vernacular construction processes that are still alive, involved in the construction process of the three unique projects. In the exercise of re-imagining architecture through the daily process of transforming the primordial material that will shape the projects, the team proposes to reveal the works for the day-to-day work of two potters in the region: Zé Taubinha and Burrico.

Language matters, transcends and is learned. Our daily life is full of violence that we confuse with normality, going through childhood, gender, new and old generations. So how do we get out of it? Deconstructing the word and actions of citizens, relearning our culture without justifying the violence being part of us.

Transplant + Life is a medical/faith documentary, filmed mostly by the Buzo family themselves, as they spend six months in the transplant hospital trying to save their infant son, Ricky, from a rare and life-threatening disease - Hurler Syndrome.

"Chalchitra Railyatra" is a 40-minute experimental documentary tale about Railways and Cinema, the marriage between the two, by way of revisiting images of railways in Indian Cinema interwoven with a personal journey of the filmmaker aboard various trains in India.

Fay Jones, widely acknowledged as one of the 20th Century's greatest architects --recipient of the 1990 AIA Gold Medal for Thorncrown Chapel -- created astounding works, utilizing only locally available materials, employing nearby artisans, and insisting on local builders. His predilection for readily available raw materials, such as Arkansas fieldstone and local lumber for building chapels, pavilions, and residences set a precedent for a model of sustainability and resilience.

The Crypto Crew team investigates a mysterious house in Wallins Creek, Ky.

Michelle, 86 years old, is an equally obstinate and touching widow and filmmaker Amélie Cabocel’s grandmother. Michelle lives alone in a big house in a lonely area of Lorraine and is probably completely unaware that with every fibre of her existence she bears witness to a vanishing age. But when Amélie tries to persuade her to take part in a photographic and exhibition project, she resolutely makes it her own.

From a young age, Michael Fabiano was told he wasn't good enough. And things didn't get easier when he entered the world of opera. Now, a global talent, Michael reflects on a journey that led him to find stardom, and love, inside New York City's Metropolitan Opera.

Mlek Phon, a 22-year-old woman of Pnong ethnic origin, lives in Puja village, Mondulkiri province. Her father is a farmer while her mother is a housewife and a winemaker. She is the eldest of four children. Since her parents are getting weaker and older, Pun quit school to help them. She works hard in the fields and brings her siblings to school. The eldest brother decided to follow her and quit school to support the family. At the same time, Phon is very worried about her second brother because instead of listening to her and doing homework, he prefers hanging out with friends and playing games. She puts all her hope in her youngest sister who should graduate and become a doctor or a police officer.

Phuon Keo lives with her two grandsons who joined her in the province of Banteay Meanchey because their mother’s husband, who lives in Koh Kong, is an alcoholic and treats them badly. She would like to be able to reunite the family to give her grandchildren a chance to go to school, but her entourage advises her to stop thinking about her daughter and only care for her two grandchildren.

Rammayee, a Jarai woman, is a native of Lai village, Khnol commune, Oyadav district, Ratanakiri province. She orphaned when she was 2 years old and then lived with her aunt and aggressive uncle. As she did not want to burden her aunt any longer, she decided to get married at the age of 15 years. Unfortunately, she suffered from health problems during pregnancy. Her first-born had been underweight then and had suffered from constipation. Rammayee and her husband decided to borrow money for their child´s surgery in Phnom Penh. Despite of hard life in the village, they both work hard to raise their child. They hope that their child will not follow them, but instead of getting married early will go to school and have a better life.

Voiding the Void is an immersive HTC Vive VR installation by Ana Knežević. Viewers pass through virtual spaces in the installation, exploring shapes and sounds from afar and within. This movement triggers subtle shifts that offer the viewer new relationships to the virtual space they are in and the world they return to.

A portrait of a farmer in Al Ahsa, detailing the special relationship he has with his palm trees and animals, bonds of friendship and respect. He has a particularly strong connection with his donkey, but it is under threat and might soon disappear.

MJ Seide never thought that she would live a happy, fulfilling life. Then she met her future partner, who at the time had been married to a man and raising children. MJ remembers how it felt to fall in love, and to get to know her new extended family.

Alberto Van den Eynde's work investigates two conceptions of the image: as a capturer or rescuer of past moments and as a cause of the anguish implied by its recovery. The author's approach to his twelve-year-old self is articulated through a mosaic of vacation videos found in an old family camera. These memories form a touching, nostalgic, self-parody warp, the digital remnants of a new generational sensibility.

A documentary film about the experience of 9 trans persons of Barcelona

A video made with vintage 16mm educational footage transferred to video and layered. The images came to my mind for the 17 days that the orca whale mother pushed her dead infant around in the Salish Sea this past fall 2018 in what biologists referred to as a "tour of grief". This piece to me is about how the ocean is a gigantic home to so many we know very little about, who are migrating all the time. And it is about hope for something better. And love of your offspring. And it is a peaceful slow and hypnotizing work, with the fluidity and beauty of the oceans inhabitants. Marisa Anderson created a guitar score and wave and whale breath sounds were added to create a complimentary sound design, the waves and the breathes of the whales soothing and connecting with our own breaths.

What is work? Everyone works and has to work. The 40-hour workweek is a standard in our capitalistic society. Our work consumes the most of our available time for almost our whole lives. Office jobs and assembly-line work have become a symbol for wasting our time to useless labor. The film shows us a day in the life of the working man and the routine and grind that comes with it. With patience, the film shows commuters in traffic lines and public transport, all heading to work. Huge office buildings where hundreds of people are working, all identical behind a computer screen, typing. Endless repetition behind the assembly line. The documentary takes a look at people during a workday and makes you reflect on the meaning of labor.

In an area of Iraq destroyed by ISIS, Hana Khider leads an all-female team of Yazidi deminers in their attempts to clear the land of mines. Their job involves painstakingly searching for booby traps in bombed out buildings and fields, where one wrong move means certain death. Hana works for the Mines Advisory Group, an organization who are part of the ‘International Campaign to Ban Landmines’, a coalition awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.

How do you generate structures that won’t collapse, even under the worst imaginable conditions? This roving travelogue forges unexpected connections between ambitious Parisian structures and the tensions surrounding the gilets jaunes protests.

The war is over. They stayed. Small members of the Caliphate. Five little girls from Russia were left completely alone in the middle of the Syrian desert after their parents were killed. However, the orphans reached the Al Khol prisoner of war camp in the so-called "Syrian Kurdistan". In the process of filming, they were found and returned to their relatives in Chechnya.