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"Notes from the subsurface" interrogates deep subsurface environments and the extremophiles that live within them. The film considershow they can function at extreme depths and pressure within challenging conditions such as highly acidic, high temperature, high radiation, low oxygen and methane heavy environments. Through sci-fi narratives, the film exposes non-human and multi-species perspectives, hidden networks and unheard voices. Beginning with birds-eye-view footage of the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies, the second part of the film takes a science fiction approach. The narrators develop proposals for adapting humans to livein these extreme.

Shin Hua, a barbershop since 1911, used to be a well-known favorite. Among the 12 brothers, only Freddy, the fourth son, was willing to continue the family business. Year after year, Freddy preserves the place without the help of his brothers. Even his descendants were adamant in taking up their grandfather’s mantle. As the years continued to pass, the number of clients dwindled, and today’s Shin Hua is nearing bankruptcy. A love for the simple act of a barber is keeping Freddy from closing Shin Hua forever.

Why is it that we place a plant in a pot, confining its ability to grow and occupy physical space? This work is part of "Plantarians" which asks, what does it mean to have a garden? Apportioned into episodes, the film studies the capacity of garden plants to respond to the particularities of their surroundings. At the same time, it tracks the lives of the contemporary men and women who cultivate, enjoy, eat, obsess over, and even grieve with and for these plants. The piece invites audiences to witness the codependent existence of earth’s living organisms, and to reflect on the ways in which this inter-dependence can be characterised by both conflict and intimacy.

This is a picture of my grandmother, this is my reflection on her story, and this is the way I tried to overcome the pain of losing her. Going through my grandmother's home films, taken when she was around my age, I search for an echo and an answer. We were born on the same day, so I wonder… if looking throughout her memories I can learn something about myself.

Nadia and Nikolai Fyodorovich's job is to save children in the North. They are both air ambulance doctors, but with different experience: Nikolai Fedorovich has been working for more than 40 years, and Nadia-3 years. About the difficult everyday life of doctors – a documentary by Anna Katorina.

The making of Silent Madness

The story of a family who become a surrogate family for a couple that has lost all hope of having children. The surrogate couple aim the camera at themselves from the moment they make the decision.

72 Days, 39 Riders, One World: A Film by Burton. Whether you've been here all along or you're dropping in for the first time, the bond of snowboarding spans the globe and connects us all. Danny Davis, Anna Gasser, Mark McMorris & more.

Never seen before lost & unfinished Plastikman documentation of a special live performance from 10 years ago to the day.

The world of gems narrated through the personal stories of the people who live on them: from those who dig in mines to the ones who deal with the trade of gems and their exportation. Between hardship and dreams, on the background of the breathtaking Madagascar landscape, "ALO", with the people belonging to this world, represents a choral portrait of a reality that is both charming and contradictory.

Ashley travels to Buenos Aires to get FFS (Facial Feminization Surgery). During her last days before going back to Australia she meets Celeste, who would portray Ashley and lend her a handy-cam to make a self-portrait. Bit by bit, the labyrinths of Ashley’s life and the construction of a special link between director and protagonist will be unveiled.

In Brazil, a country led by an openly homophobic president, Rio de Janeiro is one of the most dangerous places to be a member of the LGBTT community, and trans women of color are the most vulnerable. 'Na Luta Delas' (‘In Their Fight’) follows a group of women bravely fighting back, as they track the growing violence, learn self-defense, and challenge the systems failing to keep them safe.

Despite being a single father of three children, two of whom need special needs, Pedro enjoys life in the suburbs of Lisbon.

João, a biscateiro from an immigrant neighborhood in Lisbon, is forced to face a new life after the re-housing of the community.

The Mostar divers have launched themselves from the bridge for generations, risking their lives every day. They have kept up this tradition for the past 200 years, even when the bridge was destroyed by the War. An exclusive and intimate look at the lives of a group of men, encapsulating the feelings and the story of their country.

With her days numbered, Madam Ong decided to unveil her deepest secret to her son — Ming. With the camera all setup, she spoke of her early life as a wife of the commander of a guerrilla force during the British colonial era in Borneo, Sarawak. A love story in times of war. She was one of the only two survivors to live to tell the tale. Moved by Ong’s story, her son decided to teamed up with the Director and contemporary dancer — Kuan, to retrace Ong’s footsteps, in hope to know more about her personal story as well as the untold history during the era. Along the journey, Kuan got more and more attached to Ong’s story, being a women herself, she was particularly moved by the love that Ong showed for her former husband — Commander Yong, whom Ong would symbolise as a Tapang Tree, the strongest tree in Borneo rainforest, a tree that gave her all the support she needed in life. The day Yong was shot death, the Tapang Tree fell, Ong’s world collapsed.

Shot entirely on Zoom, the work results from attempts to make the latest application of personal/professional communications a site for improvisational performance and process. Feedback loops, anti-facial recognition make-up, and snapchat disguises flicker across the screen accompanied by rambling soliloquies and song in an attempt to know oneself better in times of unending transmissions.

Chronicles the remarkable history and lives transformed by Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone - named one of the most ambitious social experiments created to break the cycle of poverty. Using archival video footage filmed by Black and Brown youth from the 80's, 90's and early 2000's, the film captures the transformation of New York City's Harlem through the unique lens of three generations of students who grew up with the Harlem Children's Zone.

Fuck Content is just another creative release, but in a different medium, marrying visual art, audio, live performance, studio footage... a lot of different elements together

Three pals journey into the psychedelic depths of Wisconsin tourist spots.

Lotte Weiss is a Slovak Jew, who spent several years of her life at Auschwitz and Birkenau. Now she is 95 years old and lives in Australia. The director and artist Thea Weiss is married to Lotte’s son. Lotte’s stories and experiences inspired Thea to create a documentary. During the war, thousands of Slovak Jews were deported to the death camps. Only 500 survived, and Lotte was one of them. The amount of vital energy she has helped her not only to survive the torture and devastation but also, having carried the trauma in her memory through decades, to remain whole. Her capacity for kindness, forgiveness, and love gave her the strength and the will for survival.

Providing an unexpected and delightful pairing of audio and visuals, these five new digital works by Casey Reas and Jan St. Werner were initially inspired by Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills series and the 35mm camera-less films of Stan Brakhage.

The documentary presents seven women at their work - between keyboards, make up, paid masturbation and everyday worries. Seven stories that tell about social taboo and personal limits in the booming business of digital sex work.

Follows indignant and eccentric 67-year-old Valerie Sassyfras as she attempts to follow her popstar dreams. More than just a New Orleans-based entertainer, Sassyfras opens up to the camera as both a performer and a daughter, sister, and widow, with her iconic song "Girls Night Out" as the soundtrack to her own life. Her professional journey and unresolved familial ties intertwine in a lively and vulnerable portrait of being utterly oneself.

Forgotten on Sinjar tells the story of the genocide on the Yazidis by the terrorist organization Islamic State.

'Behind Closed Doors' explores the experiences of Stephen de Weger, who has overcome clergy/professional sexual misconduct as both a child and an adult and his attempt to bring the topic into the public eye.

The story of three women who live in a small town in the south of Tajikistan and every day go to the handyman market, where they offer their services: for only $ 3, they are ready to take on any hard, even male, work, just to return to their children in the evening not empty-handed...

Video collage-essay on the theme of doubt and uncertainty. In the video, the artist uses images and sound to develop reflections on his own work and his role as an artist, asking questions about their function and meaning.

Five friends embark on a ten-day journey on the incredible Uinta Highline Trail in northern Utah. Together they discover adventure and explore the history of the area. Along the way, you learn more about these hikers, and how they succeeded in life even when the odds were stacked against them. The film touches on some heavy subject matter, including PTSD recovery, addiction recovery, and much more.

St. George Monastery 90 km from Berlin is the only monastery of the Moscow Patriarchate in Germany. About 10 monks and novices live here, most of them in their early twenties. They conduct church services, build and renovate the monastery, the isolated location of which and the absence of parishioners make the daily life of novices from large cities in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia similar to the practice of early Christian hermits. They have different motives for staying here, and for some, the tranquility of a remote German village also means loneliness and doubt.

A documentary about Lazaretto, the desert islet near the city of Corfu that functioned for centuries as a quarantine station as well as a place of execution for political prisoners during the Greek Civil War.

The film follows the undertaking of one artist to rewrite the Hollywoodesque film – The Assassination of Wang Jingwei (1988) – starting with a trip to Nanjing to a visit a friend named Mr. Liu. It tells the ‘story’ of the appearance and then disappearance of such a controversial figure in history, delving into the discussions, empathy and gossip regarding Wang Jingwai.

Documentary following a group of young Okinawans and their fight against American bases in the islands.

Ghar Ka Pata is an autobiographical account of director Madhulika Jalali’s search for her identity as a Kashmiri Pandit woman. In the early 1990s, the six-year-old Madhulika and her household fled Rainawari—a quaint suburb of Srinagar—in response to Kashmir’s separatist insurgency. 24 years later, with no memory of her birthplace, she returns to visit with her family. In retracing her roots, Madhulika weaves a narrative that juxtaposes short, impromptu conversations, filmed on the streets of Rainawari, with a string of family anecdotes. These oral accounts of a bygone era reveal connections extending beyond religion and politics. On a personal level, Madhulika’s film underlines how the pain of exile can linger across generations.

The intimate story of a Welsh Farmhouse that was passed down a generation thanks to an unlikely friendship.

With footage, direction and editing by João Victor Medeiros, the agile camera reveals the electronic intimacy often seen by the rapper in his creative process. Recorded in January 2020, before the Covid-19 pandemic, therefore, the documentary "O Líder em Movimento" is not just a traditional behind the scenes recording recording.

New movie by Maxim Eruzhenets and Marina Kirakosyan

My father died under obscure circumstances when I was just one year old – one of the millions of Russian men who died too soon in the nineties. Why were those years in Russia so deadly? After 26 years, I want to get to the bottom of this mystery.

Reminiscing an 80s childhood spent pirating Bollywood VHS’s in Wolverhampton, Dawinder Bansal’s plucky narration speaks lovingly of her Asian community and the films that united them.

In the Peruvian mountains, rituals offer connection between participants and the divine. Resplendently realized in black and white by director Fernando Criollo, this documentary captures a place where the heavens meet the earth.

How do you keep someone's memory alive after they die? A mother and son try to figure it out together, taking a circuitous journey through archival photos, collage, and uneaten avocado.

An improvisational, experimental short film, edited on intuition.

The Hotel Regina used to be an emblematic place in Touluose, with lavish settings and staircases that retain all the splendor of the 1950s in their architecture. For more than four decades, its owner, Madame Sicre -an old woman from a bourgeois family- began to rent his forty rooms to those who were looking for fast and cheap accommodation. Today, after several years in command of the building and completely exhausted, she is forced to give up the property. A young real estate agent is moved and accompanies her. However, a possible remodeling of the neighborhood threatens to turn the stories that keep the walls in ruin.

Ahmed and Ruba, two Iraqi siblings who lost their parents after fleeing Syria, pursue their education in an all immigrant school in Cleveland, Ohio. Ahmed's goal is to become an x-ray technician to help others, and he works as a busboy to support himself. Ruba shares their tragic background through her creative writings. Together, they find solace by performing in public theatre. While they struggle to pursue their dreams, current immigration policies weigh heavy on their minds.

Recently returning to New York City after several years of living in Sweden, artist and storyteller Bryan Zanisnik comically chronicles the highs and lows of life as a contemporary artist, discovering a love for mushroom foraging and the pleasures of inner stillness along the way.

Five women experience traumatic blows to their self-image after unexpectedly losing their hair. Through the subsequent mental health, relationship, financial, and social impacts, they cope with these challenges in dramatically different ways. The Director also grapples with her own identity and what it means to be authentic.

Fragments is a short film which documents a young girl’s journey to understanding her biracial identity, broken home and the effects this has on her.

Minispectacles is a series of one-minute films, cinematic haikus. Minispectacles 45-47/100 are making the rounds with the sounds in Hungary and Switzerland. All the way to the 100min feature film. Woman with pocket camera.

A new generation of young footballers led by, among others, Dani Ceballos, Fabián or Mikel Oyarzabal, faced a complex challenge: to achieve the fifth UEFA European Under-21 Championship. A defeat in the first match and different sport injuries increased the difficulty of the objective.

In the United States, many of the essential workers are undocumented immigrants, who do not receive fair wages and risk being deported at any moment. During the current pandemic, they are also risking their lives while not getting any support or benefits from the American government. The invisible essentials.

A sharp one and a half hour conversation with the creators, supporters and opponents of the draft amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. What exactly is changing? Why are these emergency changes needed? Is it possible without them? And in which Russia will we wake up after the adoption of the amendments? The authors try to answer all these questions as objectively as possible, not accepting any of the parties.

After the capitulation of Sedan, on September 2, 1870, the Emperor Napoleon III was deposed, and the Second Republic was proclaimed on September 4 by a government of national defense in which Léon Gambetta figured. While France decides to continue the war, the Prussian armies and their allies march on Paris. For five months, they besieged the city, condemning the Parisians to starvation. Tragic events recorded in her diary by a young 20-year-old woman belonging to the intellectual bourgeoisie of the capital, Geneviève Bréton.