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An Ornithologist’s Daughter merges private memories and history to paint the portrait of a woman. While observing her life, we gradually discover her identity as daughter and mother who has chosen to live far from people but close to nature. Erik Nuding’s strong debut fills the spectator’s eyes with a moving family portrait of rare grace and intelligence.

Follow Sefa’s musical journey towards his biggest show to date: Defqon.1 2022. In this documentary “Sefa: Road To Defqon.1” we follow Sefa up close from his first appearance at Defqon in 2017 at 16 years old, his legendary ‘Black stage’ performance in 2018 where the area was completely overrun by fans, his 2019 closing of the main stage and finally this year's already legendary performance during the ‘Opening Ceremony’ of the RED stage in which he turned the hard dance scene upside down with the addition of live strings, a drummer, a guitarist, a 45 piece choir and himself - not behind the DJ booth, but behind his piano and as a conductor of his own show: “This Is Sefa”. We hear the testimonies of his fans, collaborateurs, partners and friends. Depicted by cameraman and director of this documentary Auke Brinkman who followed Sefa around with his camera since the early days, capturing every aspect of his life.

A poignant portrait of America seen through the eyes of six Bangladeshi Gen-Z students and their conservative Muslim community, documented between 2016 and 2022.

Over the course of the two-hour special, GONE BEFORE HER TIME, we'll celebrate the controversies, influences, and legacies of five iconic female performers whose lives tragically ended just as they were at the peaks of their careers. These are vocalists so big, we only need their first names to conjure their music in our ears and beauty in our eyes.

Documentarian Claire Dooley travels with a convoy of American truckers protesting the emergency orders that shut down America beyond the COVID 19 pandemic. Join the journey from California to DC.

3 film-makers go around Kent exploring the viral Gentleminons trend.

Following the creative process behind choreographer Bouziane Bouteldja's show TELLES QUELLES / TELS QUELS, Othmane Saadouni has created candid and moving portraits of dancers in their everyday lives in Casablanca and Meknes, and in the professional world they are gradually entering.

A behind-the-scenes story of the making of the Jaws film in the form of a unique presentation of a collection of still photos, taken and narrated by the artist, Joe Hazen.

A young, African American filmmaker, journeys to the heart of the Black experience to find the answer to a daunting question: Is the Black church dead?

Montage film by Vyacheslav Ivanov.

The biblical Samaritan community is fighting for its life and to save its language and faith from extinction.

A documentary short film about the conversations of people in a falling asleep city.

During the first days after the 1973 coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Unity government was arrested and transferred to Dawson Island, Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile and the mainland. The wives of the then-political prisoners began an incessant effort to find out the whereabouts of their husbands and then try to return them alive. In these circumstances, they meet and spontaneously organize into a group called the “Dawsonianas.”

Amidst the lingering shadows of the Somali civil war, Qaali, an asthmatic single mother of seven, braves the slums of Kampala, striving daily in a restaurant to shield her family from the specters of their past.

APINÁN (We The Lenca) is an introspective artistic vision of one of the remnant tribes of Mesoamerican in Honduras ethnicities that is still alive among the 600 thousand people that constitute it. APINÁN lives among cultivated vegetable meadows, wild flowers, tile houses and colonial remains with a palpable dignity in each of its constituents.

The biography of Youssef Yassine, the advisor to the founding king, who confronted the Ottomans, the British and the French and lived believing in Arab unity.

The mighty Yukon river flows through Eric Nicolier’s life in the far north. Mushing, rafting, carpentering, and playing music is Eric’s way of composing his life of reverie.

Bits and pieces from the last days of an Armenian fisherman desperately searching in the Bosphorus.

"WashDup" is a mockumentary based on a true story of a group of ex-snowboard filmmakers and riders who refuse to quit. After a 16-year hiatus, they make a pact to create one last movie, but lack a youthful presence to make it marketable. This unlikely alliance leads to self-discovery through an ageless lens, showcasing the evolution of snowboarding from a young sport to a mature industry. The film also touches on the struggles of old pros finding their way in life after the glory days are gone.

The tides in the Wadden Sea follow the rhythm of the moon, and the boat adjusts its course accordingly. The seagull follows the rhythm of man – it has become dependent on the fish waste that the fisherman leaves behind during the week, and on the weekends, when the fisherman is watching football, hunger threatens. Seagulls Scream on the Weekend provides an insight into the intertwined rhythms of the Wadden Sea region, and examines the relationship between boat, man and seagull.

A revolution in personal finance is born. Wall St Blues follows the white knuckle ride of a handful of would be Warren Buffets as they navigate explosive developments in retail investing, including GameStop, AMC and the digital asset space.

January 1995. Scientists launch a rocket from arctic Norway to study the northern lights. The rocket triggers a false alert in Russia of an incoming nuclear attack. Russian President Boris Yeltsin has just a few minutes to respond.

A tribute to Jonas Mekas

In the spring of 2022, the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was surrounded by Russian troops. They were using the weapons of mass destruction against the civilian population every day. In mid-March volunteers started evacuating people from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia. They gathered after each trip to exchange the information, support each other, and talk about their traumatic experiences.

A disembodied figure is carried off underground, where he encounters a vast living archive. Attached to this ever-expanding “network body” are capsules filled with fragments of thoughts. The only way our hero can escape is to fulfill the Sisyphean task that has been imposed on him.

An exercise in the camera department about a man who claims that one must not believe his story, but stories are actually the only thing he likes in the world. About a man who is afraid of people, but loves their essence. A man who was told as a child that if he could find something he felt passionate about, he would always be fine, so he found drugs. Especially a man who gave up drugs to tell stories.

Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, this recent work by Michal Mitro presents a new semblance of our future world in which energy, as a universal and indestructible force, determines the order of global activities and relationships. The film is a reflection on what a post-capitalist society can look like when energy justice prevails and when both human and extra-human factors are involved.

Gold-rush atmosphere in the recycling industry, waste as an economic engine. Every year, 40 million metric tons of waste end up in the trash cans of German households. Thanks to strict regulations and precise specifications for waste separation, this waste is turned into new raw materials.

Father Earth is the true story of one man’s attempt to help save the planet, by converting a derelict church on the Orkney Isles into an eco friendly recording studio. It’s also a fascinating study of a psychological power struggle between a character comedian – Graham Fellows, and his long-standing creation – John Shuttleworth. Father Earth is also about family relationships – specifically between fathers and sons – and it explores the paradox: how in the battle against extinction we are often distracted by personal and family issues, as they appear more important and pressing than the future of the planet. Funny yet moving, and filmed mainly in the Orkney Isles over a 10 year period, Father Earth is Graham Fellows’ most thoughtful and accomplished movie to date. Previous work includes It’s Nice Up North filmed by Martin Parr (2004) and Southern Softies (2008)

Zaevo's husband left her when she was on the brink of life or death while going through an obstructed labor. Now she is 16 and suffers from a terrible wound on her bladder that keeps her apart from her family and society. A glimpse of hope appears when a group of Latin-American and Spanish doctors travel to South Madagascar. Their goal is to cure patients with obstetric fistula, a taboo condition that keeps over 2 million women away from society. A documentary about people helping other people. An emotional and unprecedented insight into the heart of a modest surgery room where struggle and doubt emerge as the doctors battle with the limited resources they have available and the patients walk in knowing that this is the only hope to cure their illness. What's it like to have the power to cure others, while simultaneously confronting the limitations and vulnerabilities of your own human nature?

On February 24 at 6:31 a.m. for many, the morning began with calls from their partners saying: Please don't panic, but they started bombing Kyiv. At that moment a new reality started. The reality full of horror and pain. This documentary is about the experiences of queer people during the war.

In this personal documentary, Indigenous comedian Chad Charlie goes to participate in the Standing Rock occupation and has a transformative experience. The film takes us on Charlie’s powerful passage of self-discovery, from the irreverent jokester to the culturally aware poet whose powerful spoken word piece encapsulates his realizations at the close of the film. In this blend of cinema, vlog, and social media with tons of humour, Charlie uses a real mix of formats (phone streaming, news footage, fly-on-the-wall documentary style) very effectively, and doesn’t try to work in a huge narrative or have a tidy conclusion. Like many who were there and endured violence by police against their peaceful marches, Charlie is still working through trauma and mental health issues he experienced from it. In his case, this journey has left him with a greater awareness of the ongoing injustices that Indigenous people must still contend with.

Los Nuevos Maevans was a hardcore-punk band that emerged in the Baja California 80s years. Now, one of the members wants to reunite the band and revive their resistence and anti-system stance of youth, but the panorama is disheartening / Los Nuevos Maevans fue una agrupación de hardcore-punk que surgió en los años ochenta en Baja California. Ahora, un integrante quiere reunir a la banda y revivir la resistencia y postura antisistema de la juventud, pero el panorama es desalentador.

A short documentary about the fear of blood and the importance of giving it. Winner of the Falitzer Award for Film.

Filipino human rights defenders Zara Alvarez, Anna Mariz Evangelista, and Elisa Badayos were among the 62 women killed in the Duterte administration's counterinsurgency campaign. Their loved ones remember the lives they led and the legacies they left behind. The documentary is a salute to the brave Filipinas who are considered heroes by women’s and people’s movements in the Philippines.

Documentary about the second-oldest radio station in Croatia, established in 1942.

Residents of quilombola communities in the south of Brazil struggle to keep alive the tradition of singing the Ternos de Santos Padroeiros and other inheritances of their ancestors.

Experimental audiovisual portrait of the village of Teriberka in the Murmansk region.

Following two student activists as they fight to prevent a serial polluter from entering their neighborhood on the southeast side of Chicago, Let Us Breathe highlights the personal toll of environmental damage.

How do we protect our connection with young people? This is the question the film tries to answer by addressing them directly through a voice-over. In a mosaic of fiction and animation sequences, film excerpts, "smartphone" shots and a considerable amount of archive material, the film restores entire sections of our History and our current events, by looking back at some of the major political and social achievements that young people often ignore. "Letter to the child you gave us" aims at inciting them to measure the importance of laws, the stake of democracy, and to push them to the commitment until fighting abstention.

Between the dazzling first shot—burning debris falling from a satellite entering the atmosphere—and the final sequence merging underwater images with others generated by a specially created camera, a path is sketched out which, in the manner of a reverse science-fiction journey, leads from space exploration to a cemetery in the middle of the ocean.

Dinora left Honduras for the United States in one of the migrant caravans leaving Central America. Settled in a suburb of Washington D.C., she speaks on social media of the difficulties she has encountered integrating, as well as of the presence around her of a film crew which has thus unwittingly become the subject of its own film.

It was the end of 9 beautiful days

Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by neoliberalism and its central mythology of personal freedom, brilliantly laid out in Hito Steyerl’s essay gem “Freedom from Everything” which is adapted and shapeshifted here. Pronouncing on the new precarity of the freelancer, Hito wryly observes that they have “freedom from everything,” from a good job, health care, affordable housing… Featuring Maggie Thatcher, Guy Fawkes, George Michael, James Baldwin, Akira Kurosawa and David Wojnarowicz.

Juan Martín del Potro talks about his beginnings in tennis and all the demands that his professional career demanded from him on a personal and family level. Together with Mariano Zabaleta, former professional tennis player, they talk about love relationships, media exposure and current details without censorship. After the return and after the tears, an unmissable chat between Delpo and Mariano Zabaleta.

One October evening in Paris, 1961. A man leaves his room to join a peaceful march for Algerian independence. A photograph reconstitutes the offscreen dimension of the event using fragments of a daily life in suspended time.

The film follow the artist, musician, composer and serenader Francisco Trindade da Silva, known as Chico Curió from Tiradentes/MG. Through the five blocks that make up the film, we experience the musicality and elements of the artist's daily life, who tells his stories, talks about his composition process and his self-taught trajectory through music, revives his memories, shows his relationship with drawing, visits friends, has his serenade with the group 'Trio Curió' and presents, uncut, 4 of his original compositions for guitar.

Every lamp, every cup, every gadget—insurance companies often require homeowners who have lost their homes in a fire to take an inventory of every object they owned. But of course this list can never show what is really of value and what is not. This is precisely what filmmaker Irene Lusztig asks about.