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In 1911, during the Universal Races Congress in London, the representative from Brazil presented a painting titled “Ham’s Redemption” (A redenção de Cam).

A family of traditional film projectionists grapples with generational tensions and shifting traditions as they screen movies for gods and the forgotten at temple courtyards.

The new heart of the community is popping up in every neighborhood—in the shape of refrigerators.

When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, it became clear to anyone that the aggressor was conducting a hybrid war against Ukraine. It conquered Crimea with a combination of disinformation, propaganda, and secret military support for rebel groups and covert military operations. The only surprise is that many people were surprised when Russia deployed this military strategy, because it has a long history of doing so.

In 1989, television infrastructure was brought into the rural villages in Tunisia through the advocacy of Alain Decaux, then Minister for the Francophonie. The TV became the spot where families gathered and watched programs, and the broadcast images left a strong imprint on the villagers.

In theory, the school principal is the head of school life, the guarantor of teaching, and the person in charge of the school. A job description that sounds like a boss with full powers. The reality is a more complex and atypical model. "Proviseure: rôle principal" explores the daily reality of the profession through the lives of three women, three school principals (a kindergarten principal in Marseille, a technical high school principal in Paris, and a middle school principal in Boulogne-Billancourt), showing that their mission is as central as it is ambivalent.

During bombings in Kharkiv, many citizens are forced to find shelter in the subway stations. This is the story of different figures - a young medical student, who is the only person around with some medical knowledge, a teacher who gives hope to children and a pregnant couple, who believes in a better future, recollecting their memories and thinking about their future.

The documentary that uncovers the creative, political, and spiritual journeys of China’s foremost 20th-century painter Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983). The film follows his unusual life journey from pre-Communist China to Argentina, the jungles of Brazil; his much acclaimed exhibits in Paris and Germany in the 1960s; as well as his final years in California and Taiwan, in a thirty-year exile in the West that has been shrouded in mystery. Through interviews and previously unseen archival materials, we follow three decades of this artist’s creative and spiritual quest far from his homeland.

Wind blew and almost knocked me over, but if I hadn't been there I wouldn't have remembered that day.

For most of their history, Ghanaian beaches were reserved solely for working men due to a prevailing fear of drowning in the village. This restriction barred women from enjoying the ocean, confining them to household chores.

The agents of the Jewish General Security Services (SHABAK) are known as "Moses' Spies". This film addresses recruiting undercover agents to infiltrate and assimilate into outposts suspected of hostile subversion.

Congolese living in France for some thirty years, Papa Éric le tendre breathes and inspires good humor. From his danceable, swaying gait, to the sound of his stereo playing upbeat music, to his lilting accent heard through lyrics recounting a very personal philosophy and art of living. Paris is a city where most people seem sad and lonely. But Papa Éric is there to give them tenderness and boost their mood. A portrait of this atypical character or a simple quest for happiness?

These lines from a Soviet song can serve as an epigraph to the film "The White Way". Despite the cold and hunger, literally dying at work, the doctors of besieged Leningrad continued to save the lives of soldiers and citizens to the last, to make scientific discoveries on a global scale. This is a conversation about the victory of the human over the animal, vocation over circumstances. Honest eyewitness accounts, unique chronicle shots of hospitals in the besieged city, a dialogue between the past of Leningrad and modern St. Petersburg.

The same ones who were supposed to make the Pact for Life, do not fulfill what the pact proposes. What made the director make a documentary about police repression was the aggressive way they arrived at Rua das Ninfas in the pandemic, treatment that they did not do and do not do anywhere else

City Bird explores one of the most controversial city species out there, pigeons. Join Jenna Dodman as she investigates our feathery friends and their place in the city.

In what ways can videography itself embody a heterotopia?

Nine Stanzas on the Individual as a Collective Organism is an avant-garde documentary inspired by the work of Chantal Akerman which aims to explore the monotony of the obligatory daily activities people engage in, as well as the contrast between the personal experiences individuals go though in the moment and the way in which, when viewed from an outside perspective, those same unique individuals are subsumed into a larger, indistinct mass stripped of any and all identity other than that of a single part of a larger student body; hundreds of stray ligaments desperately fighting for a distinct presence in an environment of abject conformity.

Every year, thousands of Burmese women enter into forced marriages in China. Naing Hsu Pan uses animation to bring the moving account of one of these women to life. Using a wash drawing technique, the filmmaker paints a subtle portrait of a woman torn apart by homesickness, the oppression she has suffered and her love for her daughter.

Steven found a new hobby!

The developers of the hit game Sea of Thieves reminisce over 5 years of development.

In 1967, Pittsburgh's inner city produced America's first EMT service, comprised solely of Black men and women recruited from the city's Hill District neighborhood. Interviews include compelling reflections of surviving paramedics.

A young Russian filmmaker opposed to the war in Ukraine is secretly filming its effects from her small hometown in the west of the country.

Recent events impacting Guantnamo prison detainees and families of 9/11 victims.

The features video projections of waterfalls, which are inspired by the story of the “Fickle Falls” in Lebanon, which were named and renamed numerous times by militias engaged in the Lebanese Civil War, depending on their shifting alliances.

Why do so many people in Ireland play music so well? Perhaps it's the land itself that gives creative inspiration to all born there and to those who come to stay. Perhaps it's something even more intrinsic in the culture that's gives rise to this remarkable gift. The spirit of the place is such that the people express a tremendous joy of living and creating, and are always on a quest for music and entertainment. "Where's the Craic?" explores this remarkable culture, and why a town of 20,000 people has many more live music pubs than anywhere else in Ireland.

a short documentary highlighting the tension & duality of Montell Fish.

Tom Herbert revisits his father’s historic first ascent on the Muir Wall of El Capitan in attempt to set a speed record on the original route.

Under Fathalishah, a Qajar-era king, a new town was set up and called Sultanabad. The historical ups and downs of that town, which is the modern-day Arak, do not correspond to the mess the city is today.

Jordan Dorrington is one of the best arcade video game players in the world. He holds multiple world records in the classic arcade game, Galaga (1981). Now eager to conquer Donkey Kong (1981), the film follows as he pursues his obscure obsession.

A group of junior high school reunion crew are gathering at Zaki's house for a grill reherseal, but Abdur is seeking a horror footage near Zaki's house.

From dentures as wedding presents to veneers, Keith Duffy traces the story of the Irish nation’s fast changing relationship with our teeth.

A documentary focused on the history, cultural impact, and impending future of the historic Dirty Martin's, an Austin restaurant since 1926.

A photographer wandering around the city finds an ongoing birthday party.

An engaging journey through Gambia, Finland, and Italy, following the story of Essa, a former UN soldier and refugee, and his struggle to achieve well-being for himself and his African village.

This Is It! Southern Kitchen & Bar-B-Q has been an integral part of the fabric of the Atlanta community for four decades. The unique establishment of faith, family, favor and flavor is the home of the joyous chant, “it’s the rib tips!” which has become a staple for the restaurant. Shelley “Butch” Anthony III, Tampa native and the founder and owner of This Is It! Southern Kitchen & Bar-B-Q, tells his 40-year history with this documentary, produced and directed by Tammy Williams. The Miracle of BBQ fuses the current-day success and expansion of the restaurant to over ten stores with the four-decade history of the family-owned enterprise, and explores the obstacles and struggles of entrepreneurship, revealing how Anthony, through his faith in God, defied the odds — overcoming the struggles of addiction and having a limited education, ultimately creating a rich legacy.

A pastoral village that lies on a borderland. Its current residents speak about their dreams, and from these recollections emerge their own personal loss. Their dreams also overlap with those of the director, who has learned of his grandfather’s unknown past.

Pachuco and Cholo culture sprouted from American soil in response to social alienation, wartime sentiment, and discriminatory government policies, only to revolutionize pop culture.

Through an arrangement of intimate and artfully captured moments from everyday life set to an entrancing and ethereal soundtrack, this montage-style short film captures the transient dreaminess of being seventeen.

Glimpse behind the curtain at opera legends Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman’s famed concert at Carnegie Hall on March 18, 1990, featuring performance clips and new interviews with opera star Angel Blue, Met Opera General Manager Peter Gelb, and more.

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.

At the end of the 1970s, German Dominican priest Gerhard Pöter began working with Salvadoran civil war refugees. In the parish of 22 April in Soyapango, social projects gradually emerged, mainly in the field of education, which were supported almost from the outset by various groups from Germany and other European countries. Even today, four years after Father Gerhard's death, the social projects continue, as do the lively contacts and exchanges with groups such as the Freundeskreis El Salvador (Friends of El Salvador) from Braunschweig.

TIME & COLOR is a portrait of the life and artistic journey of Jean Claude Roy, a prolific expressionist-colorist artist who has spent decades capturing the landscapes and communities of Newfoundland and Labrador. Weary of the modern-day rush, Jean Claude packs his canvas and sets out for Battle Harbour. Surrounded by the broken and abandoned structures of a once vibrant fishing outpost, he explores his own life and legacy as he paints and listens to the stories of locals.

Narrated through images and evocative sounds the adaptation of a Mexican woman named Rosa Elva Neri Mundo who loses her sight at 32.

A collective narrative about the origins of the New Chilean Song movement, beginning with Violeta Parra, the emblematic groups, the influence of Víctor Jara, and their intersections with other musical styles. This is the story of the musical epic of the generation that had a profound impact on the triumph of the Popular Unity alongside Salvador Allende.

The documentary film presents in an unconventional way the personality of Zdeněk Neubauer, a peculiar philosopher, scientist, academic, mystic and mycologist, dissident and friend of Václav Havel, who became an expert on everything he turned his attention to - and yet he preferred to walk barefoot. Zdeněk Neubauer simply enjoyed thinking - and he knew how to pass on his enthusiasm.

Chris Sharma is one of the GOATs of climbing. His first ascents of iconic boulder problems, deep water solos, and sport routes around the world have defined the cutting edge of athletic performance and aesthetic vision for the last 25 years. But it’s been a minute since we’ve seen a new “King Line” from Sharma. Now in his forties, Chris has spent the last few years raising two young kids, opening a series of climbing gyms, launching a TV show, and trying to stay in shape through it all. When he discovers a magnificent new line in the sport climbing mecca of Siurana, Spain, just an hour and a half from his house, the Sleeping Lion is awakened, and Sharma is pulled deep into the project mindset again. Becoming a self-described “extreme weekend warrior,” he juggles family and work commitments with the obsession of trying to climb one of his hardest routes ever.

In 2016, the Barcelona City Council allocated plots of land to cooperative housing projects. One of these plots of land was assigned to Sostre Cívic, to be used for 27 units of social housing in the Roquetes neighbourhood of Barcelona. The driving group, Cirerers, was set up in September, 2017. The documentary gaze accompanies the members of the cooperative in their debate about access to decent housing in Barcelona’s neighbourhoods, which are becoming more and more gentrified, the value of communal space and the need to return to taking care of the community as a way to combat the financialization of life. In March, 2022, Cirerers was inhabited by 32, co-living units.

Danya is a charismatic and eccentric young man who is having difficulties communicating with the opposite sex. At 24, he is still a virgin and dreams of finding real love. At a dance class, our hero meets a girl who shows a mutual interest in him. They come very close to having a sexual encounter, but overexcitement prevents Danya from parting with his innocence.

The last earthquake that struck Popayán in 1983 not only destroyed the Colombian city itself, but left lasting scars on the lives of its men and women that have been inherited by younger generations. Friends María José and Alejandra deal with the traumas of the past and the pain in their own way – through sunsets, art, poetry and cinema itself.

BB’s back! Highlights from past episodes of the iconic reality series. See all the top moments, fall-outs and new friendships formed under the gaze of 24/7 cameras.

The Cortina dance pavilion outside Falkenberg was once celebrated for its dances and social gatherings, but in the early summer of 2001 a music festival changed everything. For the residents of the village and for those who were there, there will always be a before and an after festival "2 heavy 4 you".