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​At 46 years old, she's been supporting her children and husband. Kyung-ah, a housewife who wants to be a woman instead of a mother! Ji-young, a Korean language instructor who has been naturally frail and sickly since she was a child! After meeting pole, she becomes a master pole dancer! Hwa-young, an actress who was most afraid of her talent at the audition! Pole dancing is now her specialty! For them, pole dancing is no longer just a hobby, but a way of life! Follow the ups and downs of the average 40-year-old pole dancers as they face the challenges of the 2021 PICK Pole Dance Competition!

An explosive documentary that examines the surge in violent crime, drug addiction and overdose deaths in one of Western Civilization's most prosperous societies.

Gaza is a small palestinian territory where more than 2 millions people live. Completely locked up by Israel since 2007, its society is still structured and organized, but for how many more times ?

A new participatory documentary follows the lives of refugee families from Sudan and Ethiopia after reunion in the UK. Four families share the challenges of navigating everyday life hurdles as refugees, showing how complex memories and fears are mixed with new hopes and future plans for themselves and their children. Participant families chose to share these experiences in juxtaposition with everyday life activities like cooking, eating, or going to the park, revealing the humanity of their lives and raising awareness of the importance of living together in safety. The film offers a counter narrative to the current political focus on reinforcing border control and is a result of a research project conducted by the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia, in partnership with Together Now, and funded by the British Academy and the UEA ADR Impact Fund (Higher Education Research Funding).

A motion-picture essay about the beginning of the Russian invasion - an attempt to demonstrate a portrait of people, who are being forcibly uprooted from their homeland.

This documentary shows what happened when Alzheimer’s came into my mother’s life and how we managed it. What started as a private memorial video for Mom found a new life in its current metamorphosis as a possible motivator for others to consider home care for their parents instead of automatically going the nursing home route.

“If there’s hope for the human race, there’s hope for the Hudson.” —Pete Seeger In the summer of 1969, legendary folk singer Pete Seeger launched the Clearwater, a 19th-century-style sloop with a singing crew of musicians and activists. His intention was to raise awareness of pollution in the Hudson River and to petition legislation that addressed the then-burgeoning climate crisis. Over 50 years later, the Clearwater remains an interactive environmental classroom—or, in its builder’s words, “a carnival, museum, and showboat all wrapped into one.” Featuring rare interviews with Seeger himself, Down by the Riverside is a beautiful, stirring tribute to the communities of people who continue to restore and preserve this elegant symbol of the Hudson Valley. As a local story of local heroism, this documentary is an inspiring reminder of all that can be accomplished when ordinary people work on behalf of their history and environment. —Ben Rendich

Ewa, Adam and Björn are alone. They, like thousands of others in Sweden, are missing a friend. They dare to break the taboo and talk about the shame, about the dreams but also about hope. How do you actually go about finding new friends? Documentary filmmaker Gustav Ahlgren published an ad online where he was looking for people who were prepared to talk openly about their situation. He received hundreds of responses. Many live in an ongoing loneliness. Many want to break it. But how?

This documentary, which carries the spirit of humanism, is the story of those who did not submit to reaction and fascism, who struggled for democracy and human rights by seeking a way out of darkness into light. The main character of the documentary is Osman Özgüven, but it is not a biography, but a documentary of ideas. It tells what he and his comrades did in the name of fundamental rights and freedoms at the cost of paying a heavy price, how they popularised their populist policies, their concrete achievements, their adventures, how they overcame the obstacles they encountered and why they could not overcome some obstacles. These stories will shed light not only on a period but also on the future with their messages, and many of the practices they have realised are of a quality that can be a universal model. This is your story.

After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life. Ten years in the making. *Please be advised that this film deals with themes of trauma and suicide.

Successful Swiss businessman shares his journey from dedicated Ferrari fan, to driving a world championship-winning Ferrari 488GTE to the checkered flag at the most famous race of them all, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 2022.

Documentary on the making of The Dark Power.

Shoog McDaniel is a fat, queer, and disabled photographer working in and around northern Florida’s vast network of freshwater springs. For over a decade, Shoog’s photographs have transformed the way fat people view themselves and how a fat-phobic society views their bodies. Bringing Shoog’s photography to life, director Sasha Wortzel immerses audiences in a world of fat beauty and liberation, one in which marginalized bodies—including bodies of water—are sacred.

A documentary covering our planning to be the first kiteboarders to do a return trip crossing of the Cook Strait, New Zealand on hydrofoils.

YouTuber Anthony Sargon spends 3 days with Lebanese TikTok legend and Kung-Fu master Joseph Merheb in an effort to learn more about him.

A childhood full of music.

Lis Rhodes’ latest essay film Disquiet, made against the backdrop of the pandemic, continues her ongoing project of documenting and drawing attention to the progressive eradication of justice, equality and individual liberties as a consequence of neoliberal capitalism. Using still images, sound, text and her distinctive voice-over, Rhodes calls out the evils of globalisation whilst taking a truly global approach in her incisive analysis. From the atomic destruction of Hiroshima to the conquest of the skies, Disquiet draws connections between the local, the transnational, and even the extra-terrestrial, in order to untangle the relationship between violence and profit. As Rhodes poignantly asks: ‘can warnings warn, when violence is a profitable industry?’

Does Shangri-La really exist? Mirka Duijn goes in search of the answer in this travelogue-cum-investigation. She travels to the mountains of Tibetan China and digs into the archives to unravel the history of this mythical place. At first sight, the answer is obvious: British author James Hilton invented Shangri-La for his 1933 novel Lost Horizon, in which four characters crash land in the Kunlun Mountains and later find a magnificent monastery—a paradise on earth.

An ode to the canopy, Ingrain is an attempt to capture one family's recollections of their home through their fading connections with the trees surrounding it.

Set in 1970's London, Dirt in the Diamond explores the duality of grief and celebration within the mourning period of Jamaican culture.

A man travels to Québec during Carnaval in an attempt to heal from heartbreak.

Marta and her colleagues are migrant workers. They travel from Poland a few months every year and plant the seeds for their (grand)children's future at home.

Kamchatka and the Kuriles are a place at the edge of the world, where the sunrise is first met, where there are countless volcanoes and an endless ocean. Researchers, seekers and pioneers have always aspired here. An incredible story about enthusiasts whose efforts have made snowboarding in Kamchatka iconic and united thousands of young people, giving them a start in life. Self-taught athletes who grew up among volcanoes were considered the strongest in Russia for many years. They were the ones who made the first Russian snowboarding film. Thanks to the pioneers of snowboarding in Kamchatka, the whole world started talking about local spots and athletes.

Filmmaker Olly Lambert spends two months on Ukraine’s southern frontline with volunteer special forces as they begin the push to capture Kherson. The film follows “Hummer”, an experienced military commander who now finds himself a chaperone to completely inexperienced forces on the frontline.

In Czechoslovakia, between 1946 and 1971, the characters of two very different fairy tales interacted and enriched each other: on the one hand, the filmmakers of the Czechoslovak New Wave who, through poetic, committed and ambitious cinema, fought against the Soviet yoke with subtle irony; and, on the other, the writer Jan Procházka, who in 1968 added his voice to the popular outcry of the Prague Spring.

The first documentary of Japanese band SHISHAMO.

Travel Consultant, Martinique Lewis, embarks on a journey to visit historically listed Green Book locations and modern black travel destinations.

In 1988, the performance artist, ‘Satori Circus’ is created. To this day, thirty-four years later, award winning Satori Circus continues to astonish in live performances. ‘Being Satori Circus ~ A Performance Documentary in Five Acts’ tells the story in a hybrid non-fiction/fiction narrative of this history while keeping the mystery intact. What are the influences and forces that made this “Blue Man Group of Detroit”? Who is Satori Circus? 30 Artists of all stripes help to answer this mystery.

Paradise revisits South Korea’s era of authoritarian development (1970s-1980s) through the lens of queer livelihood. Despite the harsh realities of successive dictatorships, compulsory military service, and expectations of marriage and childbirth, six elderly gay men reveal how they converted second-run theaters and nearby bars into popular sites of erotic liberation, same-sex friendships, and romantic encounters.

The Black Mambas Anti-Poaching Unit are the world's first all-female wildlife ranger unit. These women pursue their ideals in a male-dominated environment, striving for a better future for both nature and women in South Africa. The film invites us into Tsakane’s world through the letter she writes to her future self. We get to know the woman behind the uniform.

St James's in London is renowned for being Britain's poshest high street. We meet the characters who run the stores, and the customers who buy their premium products.

In an intimate portrait, we follow graffiti writer Psykos in her everyday life. She is talented, strong, smart, cool, and excited about life. But soon we face mental illness, drug abuse, chaos, alienation, homelessness, and great sadness after the death of her best friend Isak.

A young man's shooting on a hot summer night isn't the only life destroyed.

Many fragments of the Parthenon, the Athenian jewel of ancient Greece, are still owned by foreign museums, raising questions about the legitimacy of their possession and the status of art.

Divided by 4000 kilometres, a son and his dying father connect in this profoundly intimate documentary debut.

A live music special documenting the third annual Crawfest. Created by William Crawford, Crawfest is a backyard music festival where bands from the Tuscaloosa and Nashville areas gather to perform original music for an entire day. Featuring music by Cavehole, Psycho Wave, The Valet, and more.

Japan has a recidivism rate of 50%. The staff at a magazine called CHANGE want to lower that by rehabilitating former prisoners. This forms the basis of FUNAHASHI Atsushi’s ensemble docudrama, which tells the story from both the perspectives of the editorial team and ex-cons.

An afternoon at the end of summer in a Calais suburb, in the northernmost part of France. Children and teenagers kill time at the foot of tower blocks. Their faces are often silent, already sometimes drawn or worried. Around them, large areas of sky and wild grass.

Loosely documenting John Caleb Pendleton's (Planks & Pistils) 2021 Juneteenth floral installation, "Chronicle of a Summer Day" is a community bouquet of remembrance and celebration.

Unravel the mystery behind the theory that the Earth is either entirely or largely hollow, using claims of actual missions to the hollow earth itself.

Malin is what the Chinese made of Maring – an alias used by Henk Sneevliet. By now, he is probably best known for the Amsterdam metro stop named after him, but who was Sneevliet? Artist Gyz La Rivière is the TV reporter and newsreader who regales his viewers with the tale of the man’s impressive past. Born in Rotterdam, Sneevliet became a passionate communist who left for Russia and China, where he hung out with the likes of Lenin and Mao.

Small nightly monochrome silent landscapes to observe and enter another time to feel how everyday transforms through the gaze.

The journey of a nomad is brought to life when four young people leave their sticks and bricks and document the best and the worst from their first year on the road.

Brian Nice had it all—a successful career as a fashion photographer, a model wife, a baby daughter, and a lifetime of international travel—until one day a death-defying brain injury took it all away. But rather than let that stop him, Brian has pivoted, using a unique perspective on life to influence the images he captures with his camera. With the patience of a Buddhist monk, the humor of a teenage boy, and an unwavering will to create art, Brian cannot be stopped, not even by a brain injury.

That Child with AID$ tells the story of Brazilian advocate and artist Lili Nascimento, who was born with HIV in 1990. Lili has worked to expand narratives about living with HIV beyond the limited images and ideologies that permeate the AIDS industry.

What is tradition? This is the question posed by yodeller and food researcher Meinrad Koch from Canton Appenzell. In search of an answer, he embarks on a journey.