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An emotional film about the profundity of what’s right in front of us, and the meaning we can draw from our connection to the land and each other as we age.

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ALMAR is a musical documentary that explores the enduring fascination with the Camino de Santiago. It not only highlights the impressive landscapes of the Camino del Norte along the Spanish Atlantic coast and the Camino Primitivo, but primarily focuses on the people who walk these paths. Pilgrims from all over Europe, who embark on this spiritual journey, contribute a specially composed soundtrack that reflects their personal experiences and inner transformations.

A short documentary that takes an intimate look at the journey of professional athlete Cal Calamia, a transgender marathon runner who’s advocating for inclusion in the running world. It delves into Cal’s journey, from their upbringing in a conservative suburb to their decision to come out as transmasculine and begin hormone therapy. It explores Cal’s profound struggles with mental health and how they ultimately found the support necessary to survive and eventually go on to dominate the nonbinary category in major marathons, as well as become an advocate for transgender rights.

Filmed in the southern Moroccan city of Assa, Palace Guardians is a compelling and detailed documentary that explores the region’s vibrant cultural legacy. Focusing on the local community, the film reveals their vital efforts to safeguard and perpetuate time-honored palace traditions, offering viewers an immersive look into this historically significant area.

Short documentary about Ita Rina, female actress originating from Slovenia who was a silent movie star.

Artist Jeff Way and Carolyn Oberst moved to the neighborhood that would become Tribeca, and had to fight to stay.

In November 2023, Gail Lewis became an overnight sensation when she bade farewell to Walmart, signed off like an officer, wept in the car, and posted it on TikTok. 30 million + people have viewed Gail's viral video since uploading. The entire internet hailed the Gail, regarding her as some sort of supermarket Chuck Norris, a heroine capable of tackling shoplifters and scanning groceries at speeds that rival Barry Allen. Fans flocked to Gail's Walmart in the hope of catching a glimpse of their icon. Anyone lucky enough to find her would typically insist on a photo-op, before thanking her for her service. Unintentionally, Gail emerged as the greatest meme of 2023. But is there more than meets the meme? Who is the real Gail Lewis?

A Man Called Hurt chronicles the life and influence of Mississippi John Hurt on the music world. Featuring interviews from Mary Frances Hurt, John Sebastian of The Loving Spoonful, Happy Traum, Guy Davis, Dom Flemons, and others, our hope with this film is not only to educate the world about the impact of this fascinating man, but also to raise money for the Mississippi John Hurt Foundation.

A young woman recalls memories of an indigenous person from Nudo de los Pastos, between Ecuador and Colombia, and reflects on the pollution that threatens her land.

The architecture of idyllic landscapes, strange rooms and idealized, even abstracted living spaces combines familiar details with unfamiliar corners and explorations of buildings and the liminal areas in between. Through movements back and forth across these zones, it illuminates memories and possible answers to the question of what home is.

A film about incarcerated veterans from Fritzi Horstman, founder and executive director of the Compassion Prison Project.

Following more than three years of exploratory research, photography, and writing about the singular view from his Brooklyn studio, Groeneboer took up a daily practice over the subsequent two and a half years of filming the panorama through his window. This process entailed a durational commitment to witnessing the presence of architectures and systems that are often hidden from everyday life. The resulting film is a visual meditation that follows the cyclical rhythms of weather and industry to offer a portrait of New York City in relation to the forces that shape it, including late-stage capitalism and environmental crises. [Overview Courtesy of The Kitchen]

Analú cooks fried food in the early hours of Sunday morning for the workers in the emergency room of the EsSalud hospital in Chiclayo. Her voice and the sounds of the kitchen blend together as she stirs up family memories, seasoned with the mischievousness she has honed over the years.

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Munya Chawawa surveys life under Kim Jong-Un, his journey takes him to Switzerland, Seoul and suburban West London as he tracks down everyone from a former school friend of Kim Jong-Un, to those who have seen the effects of Kim's regime at first hand. With a mix of interview, history, and the comedian's trademark sketches, he seeks to reveal the truth about one of the world's most notorious regimes and leaders, and aims to bust some myths that surround North Korea.

Anthony Pedone’s film documents an extraordinary response to an appalling American injustice. In 2004, up-and-coming music entrepreneur Weldon Angelos was sentenced to 55 years in federal prison. His crime? Three marijuana sales, totalling $350, to an informer. Angelos’s case became a cause célèbre, attracting rare cross-partisan support: not only did the judge and prosecutor call for his release, but so did powerful conservatives such as Charles Koch. With help from his music industry associates, including Snoop Dogg, Angelos fought long and hard for his freedom, which was only granted after more than a decade.

Behind the artist Jon Henrik Fjällgren's success hides a life edged by darkness, vulnerability and bullying. As a child he was adopted from Colombia to Mittådalen's Sami village and for the first time he is now traveling back to his hometown of Cali in Colombia. In the program he talks openly about his life and history. There will also be guerilla recordings with Greta Thunberg, a look behind the scenes at Melodifestivalen and everyday life among reindeer and mountains.

An exploration of cycling culture through the eyes of Ayesha McGowan who rose through the ranks of the New York City underground cycling world to break barriers as the world's first African American woman to become a professional cyclist.

"Efterklang - The Makedonium Band" is a new music documentary directed by Danish filmmaker Andreas Johnsen. It follows Efterklang as they embark on a journey to Skopje in North Macedonia, to form a new band and create a show to be performed in front of the local freedom monument Makedonium. All within 6 days. With the help of Grga, a concert organiser from MKC Youth Cultural Centre, and by reaching out to local musicians through open calls, the band manages to form connections with a wide range of talented musicians from both the traditional and the contemporary scene of North Macedonia.

A music documentary short film that captures drag musician; Lagoona Bloo (David Brumfield) as they prepare for a show and tell us their story of loss and triumph in the intimate confines of their dressing room. The untimely deaths of both David’s parents become a precursor for their onstage persona and a liberation from a traumatic past. A raw storytelling approach features poignant childhood footage that leaves no stone unturned, a tell-all, sugar-free interview, and glossy live performance sequences.15 minutes doesn’t seem like enough.

The clash of gray communist reality with the American dream. The nostalgic story of the welder Staś, who left Poland in the 1970s to work in the largest and oldest circus in the world, "Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.” However, everyday life does not turn out to be so ideal.

In a world where fortunes are promised and lost in a blink of an eye FTX came forward as the next big thing in Cryptocurrency. When the company crashed and burned in November 2022 the whole world was left in shock, the question on their tongues being how did this happen?

Documentary.

Israeli singer Noga Erez performs with a supergroup of 9 players. Playing songs from THE VANDALIST and more

Racing For Recovery follows the journey of Todd Crandell and others who have transformed their lives through a unique sobriety program, challenging conventional perceptions of addiction and recovery.

Pioneering alpinist Jamie Logan has climbed some of the most dangerous climbs in the world, but nothing felt as frightening as admitting that she wanted to live openly as a woman at age 69.

A docu-fiction follows 2 young Egyptian women’s journeys exploring past memories from the 60s-80s through archival home videos, audio recordings, and recreation of movie scenes.

For more than half a century, rumours have circulated of the Krays' relationship with the American Mafia. Featuring brand new interviews and sensational revelations, including an exclusive interview with a former American mobster. Also featured is the late Dave Courtney in what would be his final recorded interview.

Join a team of UNLV film students as they ask fellow students about their perceptions of love. They dive into all of this right before Valentine's Day as a holiday special.

A History of Film in Uganda is a film essay/documentary that documents the the birth and evolution of Film and TV production as a cultural practice within the geographical confines of present-day Uganda from the early colonial period through the decades to the present. It also highlights various creative movements and sociopolitical and economic factors that have shaped the contemporary Ugandan film industry.

A colony of puffins laze about on the Cornish shore.

This documentary chronicles the artistic journey of Peruvian singer-songwriter Jessyca Sarango. Entirely financed by producer Alfredo Jiménez Pimentel and directed by Peruvian filmmakers Álvaro Luque and Oswaldo Villavicencio, this project presents the singer in her most intimate and personal light, accompanied by renowned artists and friends such as José Val, Alexandra Graña, Natalia Salas, and Gerardo Manrique, who highlight Jessyca's talent and continued ability to captivate audiences with her music.

Each person’s action affects everybody. This fine principle of teamwork applies even when individuals are pulling in different directions. Trying both to reach the chocolate box in one’s nearest corner and to stop the others reaching theirs, resistance becomes momentum and then desperate resistance again. Progress is most effective backwards. The square of rope comes alive, morphing into a diamond, a triangle, a trapeze, as the advantage shifts with every second. It’s when you’re nearly there that you’re most vulnerable, losing impetus, to grab the prize or be dragged back. The balance of forces is always broken in the end.

"The biggest Slovenian film enthusiast" has to film a reportage for Velvet music festival at an idyllic Croatian island. In a passionate attempt to get something a bit more "velvety", he entangles himself and his film with an elusive lady, dragging his crew into the depths of a mystery-thriller neo-noir mockumentary. "Sink or swim brother, sink or swim."

The office, as an everyday space, holds subtle tension and creative potential even within its monotony. This work reconstructs such a space, weaving the latent movements and sounds of office supplies into a rhythmic flow. The photogram technique explores the boundary between materiality and immateriality, creating moments where familiar objects feel unfamiliar. Through this, the audience discovers new expressions of everyday objects that often go unnoticed.

Columbine teacher Kiki Leyba and his wife, Kallie Leyba, navigate the enduring aftermath of the Columbine tragedy.

SEABA Heli presents 'The Outliers II', a DIY backcountry snowboard film from Southeast Alaska.

In 1994, an earthquake hit Northridge. There was a lot of damage and the CSUN was also hit hard. This documentary shows what happened then through interviews with Professor Nate Thomas and Equipment Technician George Johnson. Nate Thomas shares his experiences of what happened in 1994 and George Johnson helped digitize tapes to show CSUN's past situation and shared his story in the 1994 situation. It lets us know what happened in the CSUN community, and what we should remember today.

A young Tsotsil woman, about to give birth for the first time, draws on the memories of the women who preceded her to navigate this unique moment, encountering the experience of motherhood in her world.

Anthony is 35 years old. He's been a business owner for 11 years and runs the Salon des Quais in Quimper. A couple for 18 years, married to the man of his life, he could lead a quiet existence in the pretty prefecture of Finistère. However, when the night comes, Anthony is none other than Britany Hart, an exuberant 100% Queer Amann drag queen! Perched on 15-centimeter heels, a flamboyant wig, delirious make-up, and a sharp tongue, Britany wakes up the Breton nights, helped by her daughters: Ixy Hart, Agony Hart, and Oly Hart. Bars, clubs, cabarets, private parties, this “Mother Drag” and her daughters are everywhere, on every front. And at the start of 2023, all their false eyelashes are focused on the organization of the second edition of the Quimper Pride, where thousands of young and not-so-young people from the surrounding towns and countryside come to celebrate, carrying the Rainbow flag and its inclusive, festive values high!

The life story of Hüseyin Kızılırmak, born in Kasımpaşa, Istanbul... Hüseyin Kızılırmak, a free-spirited, adventurous man who lived on the fishing boat named Kızıl since his 20s and survived until the age of 80 by selling the fish he caught, told us about his life in the most natural way. He died of cancer shortly after the completion of the documentary.

Almost 80 years after the end of the Second World War, Julia is standing in a field in Normandy in a Wehrmacht uniform. She embodies an ideology she does not believe in, from a world she has never experienced. Julia, a native Russian, sees herself as a German anti-aircraft helper from the 1940s. She plays a character that she has invented. A movie about the question of whether you become what you play.

Amid the social strife of 1970s Britain emerged NWOBHM, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. New bands from ordinary British towns and suburbs like Iron Maiden, Def Leppard; Saxon, and Girlschool changed the face of amplified music and created a musical and cultural revolution. This is the story of Heavy Metal Kingdom.

An exploration of the individual components that make up a jazz improvisation, told in 13 parts.

You never know Jack. You never know.

Lovers’ Wind, takes its starting point from the helicopter crash at Karaj Dam near Tehran that killed French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse in 1970, during the production of Le Vent des Amoureux (Bād-e Sabā, 1978), a state-funded documentary about Iran.