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Watch the sunset on Managros Beach in Chios, Greece, while listening to ambient music from around the world.

When your myth and reality are interchangeable, the only thing that is left is to listen closely to the murmur around.

Hasna and Samad, 14 years old. Art and painting help them to resist and catch the light in the middle of the darkness.

Documenting her daughter Willow's preparation to sing a heartwarming song in front of an audience for the first time, filmmaker Kelly O'Brien offers a tender glimpse into the highs and lows of pre-teen life as Willow makes an unexpected choice.

Anna Zett collages mostly unreleased footage from the Berlin Archive of the GDR-Opposition into a pulsating short film thriller. The film opens up an associative realm which allows for the re-evaluation of experiences of violence hard to access today.

The director decides to travel to Ukraine, her native country, for the duration of the film, to explore her family history, but the outbreak of war disrupts her family's daily life.

The NYC Curbside Composting Program has expanded to Queens! Have you heard of it? The PSA shows a step-by-step process of how Curbside Composting works. This film encourages you to start composting too!

Defective portraits from a remote Amazonian village exposes bleak memories of addiction, disease and abandonment.

After a long and arduous dust season the rain has finally returned. Atmospheric River Rats 2 is here now featuring unprecedented levels of community. We hope you enjoy and we couldn't have done it without you. Confused? Decode some of the inside jokes and lore by checking out last year's movie.

In 2022, Marc-Antoine Forand completed an incredible feat by running the distance of 17 marathons in just 7 days in honor of his son Noah.

The documentary tells the story of farmers who are countering the growth compulsion of our system and breaking out of the structures of conventional agriculture. With the help of communities, they create a local supply cycle based on the values of ecology and the common good - community-supported agriculture.

Grab your cocoa and your cowboy boots and join Madison Alworth as she takes you inside the Gaylord Opryland Resort during the Christmas season. Watch how this historic hotel transforms into a winter wonderland the whole family can enjoy.

Follows a team of former U.S. Special Operators as they skydive into Mt. Everest in honor of those lost during a mission in Afghanistan.

One step at a time, the trail-running community is constantly moving upward. In recent years progression has vaulted forward, with runners blending inspiration from the world of alpinism, rock climbing, and running and tackling technical terrain in a way we’ve never seen. Follow along as Emma Cook-Clarke and Jesse McAuley dig deep on the west peak of Ch'ich'iyúy Elxwíkn, the Twin Sisters (or the Lions), an iconic Sea to Sky trail. Filmed within Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw territory, the homeland of theSk̲wx̲wú7mesh People. As well as, the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta, the territory of the Blackfoot First Nation (Siksika, the Piikuni, the Kainai); the Stoney Nakoda First Nation (Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley); and the Tsuut’ina First Nation and within the homeland of the Northwest Métis and Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.

Marine biologist and diver Dr. Albert Jose “Doc” Jones dove into the first lost slave ship ever to be recovered, and co-founded the National Association of Black Scuba Divers.

A girl visits the German Pavilion in Barcelona after a breakup and gets thinking about Lilly Reich and love.

After forty years of fighting Moscow, Washington won the Cold War, and NATO found a way to expand eastward; however, there was one loose end to the problem: Yugoslavia was not a satellite of the USSR…

Using home movies shot around Christmas time, Nativity portrays certain dynamics and roles played within a Portuguese middle class family in the 90s. Framed by a persistent harassment of television advertising and entertainment, those images follow a journey through a consumerist euphoria of a country living an illusion of prosperity, but which in the end is transformed into a sleepy hangover.

A teenager documents their family dog during her final months.

Citizens across Europe who used to belong to the lower middle class have fallen into poverty. An in-depth investigation into the precariat, a new social class of financially insecure citizens who, although they are employed, find it very difficult to make ends meet.

Caity Simmers edits a surf movie, inspired by the films of Dane Reynolds

A look at how air fryers could transform food preparation at Christmas, testing out air-fried versions of favourite festive food and revealing what works and what doesn't, as well as how to time various food items to perfection.

A Chinese-American woman grew up in a community where immigration and citizenship were restricted by law. Those who could vote were too afraid of the government to register. Only the election of the first Asian-American to Congress gave them the confidence to exercise their right to vote.

Li Yi-Fan’s What Is Your Favorite Primitive (2023) narrates “a death match” between the artist and their software while grappling with the production process. In a fight between social and ethical concerns, it also raises questions of image production and communication.

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Decades after liberation in eThekwini-Durban, South Africa, the young woman Lindeka reads the book Malfeasance. Lindeka is fascinated, but finds Serres’ narrative increasingly disturbing for what it omits: Where is eThekwini-Durban, or even Africa in this universalising history of our planet? Striking up a conversation with Michel, Lindeka decides to make her own study of historical difference and global connection.

Nine years after Brazil's Independence, popular protests force Emperor Dom Pedro I to hastily flee the country. The ghosts of Imperial Brazil project themselves into today's Brazil on the traditional Quitanda's street, in Rio de Janeiro.

Victoria, a film student, has been raised in the Catholic religion all her life, which has been part of her identity. Now that she has grown up, she is afraid of doubts that wobbling her beliefs. That is why, she makes this documentary to face the stigmas about herself and her spirituality.

Landscapes, things, men, women and children taken by an "evil eye" more than a century ago haunt the present in this jagged reverie. A persona voicelessly narrates, via captions, going through colonial photographs, digresses to eating fruit and entering a cave on a tropical vacation island.

Adventurer and filmmaker James Levelle crosses the globe almost fossil fuel free to get to the ill-fated UN Climate Conference in Chile and deliver messages from the world's youth he has collected on the way. Undaunted by any of the myriad obstacles put in his way, including the cancellation of the conference, our intrepid hero never wavers from his thrilling, life-affirming (and threatening) mission.

At 92, Doña Therezinha is obsessed with selling her luxurious apartment and fleeing Rio de Janeiro. Jaciara, her devoted maid for thirty years, awaits this revolution in her life with anxiety. Her granddaughter helps her to sell her apartment, while portraying the intimacy of these two women who, locked between four walls with a view of the sea, live their reality on its way to extinction, in a Brazil that is "burning."

Biopic about the songwriter Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy

The son of the Red Huachinango defines the future of the women and girls of the Zapotec Isthmus community of Tehuantepec, as many of them will be forced to test their virginity through ritual.

This film traces the elusive trajectory of Mark Rothko (1903-1970), the American master of abstract expressionism who called his work "a pharmacy for the soul." Moving from Latvia to the US as a child, he left Yale to paint, later inspired by Italy to create his iconic color fields. Full of vibrant colors, drama, and emotion, this subtle portrait makes his legendary art shine forth.

A documentary showing the effects of gun violence on young men, women and mothers living in Philadelphia.

Formidable grandmother Isla Roberts is adamant. She insists that although she’s not a lesbian, her girlfriend Susan is. In this tender, richly humorous portrait of an 87-year-old horse carriage driving champion, we learn what makes an ordinary life extraordinary. Straight-shooting Isla’s lived experience of rural Australia, raising a family in severe economic hardship, and finally coming out later in life, all make for a poignant documentary of a woman who’s well ahead of her time and refuses to be put in a box. Director Marion Pilowsky tracks Isla for an eventful, cathartic year with empathy and incisiveness.

For more and more people, food not only has to be tasty and healthy, but also good for the climate. Five alternatives to classic foods are being put to the test. Can they meaningfully supplement our diet? This documentary goes in search of answers with the vegan star chef Ricky Saward and health experts Irina Blumenstein, Sandra Ulrich-Rückert and Margareta Büning-Fesel.

Julian has agreed to help Henry make his first film--but, on the day of shooting, Julian shows up having taken four tabs of LSD. Across the streets of Toronto, the two friends battle for control of the frame and struggle towards the meanings of art and communication.

During the Cold War, the CIA secretly raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The six-year operation included an intricate cover story by billionaire Howard Hughes. Drawing on declassified documents and never-before-seen interviews, Neither Confirm Nor Deny tells one of the highest-stakes, yet least known stories of the Cold War.

In the midst of war, the Kremlin has weaponized religion to justify its actions. Ukrainian priests share their stories in this powerful documentary.

A short documentary that intimately follows the powerful journey of Iris, a resilient trans activist based in Istanbul. Filmed over 1.5 years, the documentary captures her determined efforts to fight for equality in the face of systemic oppression, while offering an unfiltered look at the personal struggles behind her public persona. From protests to public speeches, Iris’s voice emerges as a symbol of courage and defiance, standing up for the rights of her community in a society that often silences them.

Muted Bridges records five oddly refurbished bridges in the Hong Kong Island which were once heavily covered with slogans, signs and information during the social unrest. It is a direct response to my previous work 'Tugging Diary,' where everything are renewed, erased, as if there’s a new page awaiting.

Dusk of the Lights is a short experimental film directed by Allan Bustovsky.

Ten years after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Yushu, a group of professional musicians search for new voices of Tibetan folk songs in local primary schools. The new generation carries the hopes of Tibetan families, and in their bright voices, we can sense warmth, human resilience, and inner strength.

The story of the contrasting roles looted Benin Art plays across cultural divides of the West versus the people of Benin. Told through the lens of Prof Peju Layiwola, a descendant of Oba Ovaramwen Nogbaisi, who ruled over Benin during the British Punitive Expedition of 1897. It chronicles the pains of mass murder, the theft of items of cultural heritage, and the agitations of Orientalism.

Facial recognition technology morphs the Sophia Robot’s face with the faces of actors from film close-ups, producing a strange journey through uncanny emotional expressions.

A biographical documentary about the different stages of the life of the historical leader of the Kurdistan people's liberation struggle (Mam Jalal).

The old hermit, settled in the forests of Karelia, like an ancient sage from local myths, lives in harmony with nature, away from civilization, and maintains an active lifestyle.