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About people who have dedicated themselves to their favorite business. They have different ages, places of residence, and destinies, but each of them realized one day that environmental protection is his vocation.

2 years after former staff writer Nick Karmia ended the MOTS series (Man on the Street) with a SPLASH at the College of DuPage’s (COD) Annual Boat Race, the Courier finally brings back the beloved series. With an invitation by COD’s Engineering and Technology Club to cover the same event years later, what better way than with a fun hat and 48 fl oz of applesauce? Little did anyone know the absolute insanity that would inevitably unfold on this very day…

Four children share their thoughts on aphasia, describing how they communicate with family members who have difficulty expressing themselves verbally.

In 1979, 23 year old British nurse Helen Smith died in suspicious circumstances in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi authorities quickly ruled it an accident, but their refusal to investigate further created international mystery, with accusations that the Thatcher government was more interested in oil than justice. Now, 45 years on, previously classified documents reveal in this documentary what the British government really knew about Helen's death.

August gives her insight on why she chose to transition and what she hopes for the future.

Former ABQ convicts trying to make it in life after serving time in prison.

This experimental short documentary displays a series of different ".avi" videos found on YouTube, mostly published by accident in the early days of the platform, giving the audience a brief glimpse into the lives of different people from all over the world.

The queer community has long since established itself in large cities, but in rural areas, queer people live less publicly. And when they do, worlds often collide. The documentary shares silent struggles, but also moments of solidarity. The film takes an in-depth look at the challenges, but also the hopes and successes of queer people in rural areas. It shows how social change and greater acceptance can develop in smaller towns. The province is more than just the antithesis of the big city - it can be a place of change in which queer people find their own ways to assert their place.

The Rote Islanders, who live in Indonesia's southernmost edge, have carried on the ancient art of ikat weaving for hundred years. As the wombs that nurture the Rote people's civilization, women play an essential part in this long journey. Mama Masri, one of the last remaining weavers, facing the complexities of life as a mother, wife, and weaver.

SapiKuna is a documentary exploring the ancestral knowledge of the Kichwa cultures in the Ecuadorian highlands. Through voices, rituals, and landscapes, it highlights the connection between memory, identity, and resistance.

The Hamas terror attack had dramatic consequences for people in Israel, the Gaza Strip and around the world. Here, we hear individual stories from people living in Tel Aviv. What were their lives like before 7 October 2023? What’s their current perception of the war? What do they see, when they look to the future? In the summer of 2023, Tel Aviv was a lively, liberal and open metropolis, known as the “Mediterranean Capital of Cool”. Then came October 7, and changed everything. Here, people’s lives are forever divided: into ‘before’, and ‘after’. Club owners, culture workers, restaurateurs, LGBTQ activists and architects share very personal insights into a traumatized society. And they’ve not given up hope for better times once the war is over.

Shot on a 1960s hand-wound analogue camera, a dialogue is fostered between sailor, boat, and the elements, which addresses themes of ecology, sustainability, heritage, traditional skills, and maritime history, whilst journeying through the rivers, coastlines, and open seas of the UK, Netherlands, and France.

Tina Frundt is a leading specialist in the fight against child sexual trafficking in the United States. Working alongside law enforcement, families and social workers, she seeks to disrupt forms of exploitation facilitated by social media.

For half a century, elderly scholar Professor Igor Vladimirovich Vishev has championed a radically new vision of humanity’s boldest dream: the attainment of de facto immortality. Blind since youth, he is cared for with quiet devotion by Vera, a frail old woman who is not his wife, but a loyal companion of many years. Professor Vishev believes that the physical death of the body is not the end, and he looks with hope toward a brighter future beyond his own passing.

Trevor spends a week away from home to spend some time writing and hiking.

A true story about courage, destiny, and the search for a chance at a better life. Two sisters, two worlds, and the question of whether our environment truly determines our future.

George Monbiot deconstructs the roots, secretive propagation and deep impact of a doctrine that has played a profound role in transforming our economics, politics, environment, and how we've come to view ourselves.

Just as Mbaye is about to return to Dakar, France announces that it is closing its borders due to the Covid epidemic. A journey against the tide begins.

This documentary follows four female same-sex couples in Japan as they build their families through assisted reproductive technology. Each couple faces discrimination and legal challenges, and the film portrays the common joys and struggles of becoming parents, as well as the additional trials of being an LGBTQ+ family in modern Japan. Uniquely, this film is shot by a lesbian mother who is also navigating her own journey through parenthood. It invites viewers to reflect on the hidden diversity of families within Japanese society.

An investigative documentary about a lost Polish blockbuster from 1930 and its surprising connection to Merian C. Cooper - creator of the legendary King Kong.

"Something to Call Our Own" is a compelling documentary that delves into the origins, obstacles, and evolution of modern CHamoru dance. From the small island of Guam to the international stage of FestPAC, the documentary showcases the inspiring story of cultural revival, resilience, and the ongoing journey to reclaim and preserve a tradition that belongs to the CHamoru people. Once silenced by colonization, the CHamoru people rise—through song, chant, and dance. At the heart of this revival stands Master Frank Rabon, who dared to reimagine a lost tradition, giving it back to the generations who longed for it. From the shores of Guam to the world stage of FestPAC the CHamoru people reclaim their identity, their language, their pride. Through every movement, there’s a dance and with every dance they declare: We are still here and this is Something to Call Our Own.

Ratty: The Downfall of NYC Rats, is an observational documentary giving a voice to the intriguing yet terrifying furry rodents of New York City. Ratty uses street interviews, archival footage, and interviews with organizations such as SenesTech, Positive Pest Management, and PETA to answer the question: How are we alleviating the problem? Does the solution lie in the hands of the people, or City Hall and Sanitation? The whimsical caricature of a Brooklyn rat, played by El Gabriel Gomez, provides a lighthearted transition between interviews. Will the launch of rat birth control be the solution, or another attempt at control that will fail?

Portrait of two Chilean folk poets, practitioners of the “canto a lo divino.” Afflicted by the drought of their lands and by the fading of tradition, an old shepherd and a laborer—both born as singers—must die singing.

On 9 February 2022, four friends in Kyiv discuss the situation: There are 120,000 Russian soldiers at the borders - what will happen? An equally historical and private moment.

Between minesweeper and family photos, the filmmaker faces the grief over the grandfather with radical honesty. A rough yet deeply tender work of remembrance.

Explores the figure of the labor attaché as a diplomatic figure that emerged during Perón's first administration in Argentina. This initiative represented a cultural conflict by opening spaces in Argentine politics, such as the foreign ministry and foreign relations, to workers.

Away from music for 18 years due to a hand lesion, pianist Yuki Rodrigues returns to the spotlight. Her major breakthrough is the recording of her first album of original compositions, determined to face fears, trauma and her audience.

A weekday morning in a quiet house, from 5:19am to 7:31am, in one take.

Discovering a multitude of unmarked, unedited, and unseen tapes belonging to her father, the author begins a personal and cinematic odyssey to unveil the real man behind the recordings.

There are children in front of the beach. Hye-sun sends a letter to Gwang-hwa, conveying her love and mentioning the foods she ate and her health condition. Gwang-hwa replies to the letter. The two people read letters sent at different times together. And they are heading to the same place.

With incredible intimacy, filmmaker Susanna Cappellaro documents her husband Scott’s decision to have an extrasensory device implanted into his body in order to increase his awareness of the world around him. As Scott goes further down this path, he can't understand his wife's resistance.

Directed by Jorge Bodanzky, As Cores e Amores de Lore tells the story of German painter Eleonore Koch, Volpi's only disciple who, having settled in Brazil since World War II, lived freely and intensely, always dedicated to her art. Based on a series of meetings that the director had with the painter, the film portrays the last years of her life.

Conservationist Sam the Trap Man brings to life the vision of "Recloaking Papatūānuku" - a bold initiative to restore and regenerate over 2 million hectares of Aotearoa's native bush and wetlands.

Visual metaphor of virtual life: an endless cycle driven by bots and algorithms, where connection is instant but loneliness persists. We think we move forward, but always return to the same point.

Nicolò dreams of taking off aboard an airship, convinced that the man of the future must stay in the sky. I follow him on this utopian yet concrete quest. What if the sky wasn't so far from earth?

Artist Ted Meyer works with injured military veterans in Twentynine Palms, CA, creating paintings from their physical scars as a way to help them combat emotional trauma.

The documentary Arg(h)itzen features the testimonials of 30 people who were subjected to torture in the Sakana region between the years of 1966 and 2011, through a rigorous and dynamic story. Not only does it show what torture is and how it can be recovered from, but it also reveals, through experts, the State structures of impunity. This is the result of an enormous work of collaboration between neighbours to highlight the truth about torture and create the path towards its complete eradication.

Following a road trip alongside the Mississippi River, everyday Americans are asked to talk about what’s on their minds right now - with their only prompt being to listen to what the person before them has shared.

While the children are enjoying their summer holidays, Basri, 8, heads off to the Macedonian mountains to join his brothers. They are the shepherds of hundreds of sheep, helped by huge dogs that protect them from wolves. For Basri, it's freedom, while his teenage brothers dream of elsewhere.

17 troublemaking kids from different parts of Ukraine help the adult director Katya find her lost home. Katya embarks on a long journey where she meets future adults, together they seek the answer, what is home? Is home people? Or is it things? Or maybe home is our language? At the end of the journey, Katya realizes that she still doesn't know when her Crimea will be de-occupied, but she definitely understands that to find home, she needs to return to the mundane, simple, and sometimes interesting life that she has loved for 33 years.

Short music documentary.

An experimental documentary that reveals both the facts and fantasies of the history of pregnancy tests from the 1930s-60s which relied on the use of live frogs and rabbits. These pregnancy tests changed the world: they expanded our understanding of hormones, gave women more reproductive choice, and caused ecological crisis- decimating certain amphibian populations.

Filipino Canadian filmmaker Kent Donguines travels back to the Philippines to reconnect with his roots. In a nation with over 134,000 years of history and centuries of colonization — under Spanish, American, and Japanese rule — Donguines notes a shared feeling of weakened traditional identity among many Filipinos he knows and meets. A vital part of their heritage, the centuries-old practice of tattooing, was banned by colonizers and even shunned by Filipinos. Donguines travels to Buscalan, a secluded mountain community, to discover more about the revival of Indigenous Kalinga tattoos. Guided by 107-year-old master artist Apo Whang-od, Donguines learns the deep history and symbolism behind the tattoos. The revival of this Indigenous body art tradition offers a powerful way to preserve culture, spark pride, and strengthen identity, and Treasure of the Rice Terraces shows how traditions can survive, evolve, and inspire both local communities and cultural identity worldwide.

David and Enrique have been friends for over 15 years. Both film lovers, they decide to venture to the Atacama Desert to shoot a feature film. With no acquaintances, no locations, no actors, and only $11,000 and a lot of enthusiasm, they travel to Chile for 21 days with the dream of making a movie. Everything seems to be going well until, on the last day of filming, a tragic accident ends their friendship.

Ana, Sofía, Ivonnsabel, and Lisbeth are four enterprising women who will cross paths in different parts of Spain; Lugo, A Coruña, Madrid, Altea, Alicante, and Valencia are just some of the places where they will meet to exchange personal and professional experiences. They come from different backgrounds, but despite the distance between them, they face similar problems. Their stories intertwine, generating a vital process of transformation that allows them to become the best versions of themselves.

At the Amazonian tri-border of Colombia, Peru, and Brazil, an Indigenous trans beauty pageant emerges, defying deep-rooted prejudice. Saray, Ariadna, and Ashley—trans women from different ethnicities—travel to Leticia to compete for the crown. Between rehearsals and memories, their pursuit of becoming “The Queen of Amazonas” transforms into a powerful act of resistance and an intimate portrait of the Amazon’s boundless diversity.

A testimony on the life of P Nuut, an artistan at Thai Village Inc. and how she came to discover faith and community in Thailand.

A nice, 40-minute documentary on the life of Mark Jones; It follows the story from his early musical memories, using a four track recorder in the 80s, going by the stage name ‘Walter Wall’ and releasing a great amount of songs during that time, to joining bands like The Zeb & The Coral throughout the 90s and 20s. Mark Jones is a musician based in Liverpool who has been a singer & guitarist for about 40 years, performing in various venues across the UK, Europe, and the USA. As a multi-instrumentalist, he plays guitar, clarinet, saxophone, bass, percussion, and keyboards. Originally from Southampton, Mark discovered his love for singing at an early age and taught himself to play guitar and bass when he was 15. He began busking and regularly performing covers in local venues before joining a band as the lead singer. Over the years, Mark has had songs released as singles by local record companies, such as 'Life's Alright', 'Superlambanana' & 'Turned Out Nice Again.'

Looking For My Anchor follows filmmaker Erica Jordan as she navigates her journey through grief after the loss of her mother, eviction from her home, the end of a long-term relationship, and her son leaving for college. Living aboard a small boat in a working-class maritime community on the edge of Marin county, she uses personal video journals and home movies to revisit moments of motherhood, loss, and longing, while confronting the uncertainty of life on the water. Her story intersects with the lives of three people living anchored out on the San Francisco Bay – the wise, self-described “anchor outlaw” battling health issues while struggling to maintain his boat; the young advocate fighting to save her community from displacement; and the artist whose untimely death underscores the fragility of their existence.

The previously unaired “Barbie Tapes” provide remarkable insight into the life of war criminal and “SS executioner” Klaus Barbie, both during and after the war.

The unique music documentary about the legendary thrash metal band Destruction.

Visionary artist Rashaad Newsome merges art, AI, and performance to create a multimedia tribute to vogueing and Black queer culture. Invited to stage a show at New York’s Park Avenue Armory, he reclaims the space from its white military past, transforming it into a Black queer utopia. Joined by global collaborators and Being—an AI ‘digital griot’—Newsome’s creative journey unfolds in this immersive documentary. Through striking visuals and storytelling, the film celebrates community, resilience, and the power of art to heal, unite, and spark liberation.

When a school shooting shakes a Texas town, a mom becomes a hero and speaks against a faulty system. The community confronts those who failed its kids.

In 1991, the Schwarze Pumpe energy centre in Lusatia is phased out. Tens of thousands lose their jobs, hoping for better times. Today, the dirt and feelings of the past keep coming up.

Paweł, a young boxer, and his half‑sister Julia inherit a flat, offering hope to leave the orphanage for their first real home. Their quest for stability tests their bond and confronts adult challenges.