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After staying in Switzerland for fifteen years, earning a living in construction, «Bouba» returns to Senegal to help shape the future of his motherland.

In Mali's Dadougou region, the secretive Kɔtɛ (kote) initiation rite is held every seven years or after a village chief's death, forming part of the NYA and DO societies. While the rituals remain undisclosed, public festivities include symbolic fights where torchbearers and defenders clash in staged confrontations.

A short documentary about creation and state of national natural reserve "Stone Graves" and people, who on their personal level are trying to create future for these objects.

“Chervona Ruta is the first youth festival of Ukrainian song. In September 1989, it made its debut in Chernivtsi, the hometown of the famous singer and composer Volodymyr Ivasyuk. At that time, dozens of Ukrainian bands made a name for themselves, and both popular and rock music was performed. At Chervona Ruta-1989, despite the close attention of the Soviet secret services, the flags of Ukraine were constantly raised and the Ukrainian anthem was played. The eyewitnesses tell how it was. The stars will share their memories of the first Chervona Ruta, the mood of Ukrainians, and their feelings of the beginning of a new era in Ukrainian music.

Could Australia ever have been French? The English certainly thought so. Through revolution, empire and restoration, late 18th and early 19th century France maintained an unwavering commitment to research and discovery in the Pacific region and in Australia. More interested in science than in new colonies, these early French voyages, led by commanders like Bougainville, Lapérouse, D’Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet, Duperrey and Dumont d’Urville, were the first to name, describe and beautifully illustrate many Australian species. England may have colonised Australia, but for many years it was France that understood it best. This richly illustrated short documentary film brings to life our fascinating and colourful French history and reminds us of a time when scientific research involved intrepid voyages in tall ships on the high seas, battling scurvy and storms, insects and rats, and hostilities both on board and on shore.

The story of Marian Finucane’s life and career as recounted by John Clarke, her husband and confidant. Raw and eloquent, Clarke takes us behind her public persona, painting an intimate portrait of their 40-year life together.

Patrik and Elsa are in an open relationship. Just as Patrik is moving to Paris, where Elsa lives, he learns that she has fallen for someone else. In four days, all three plan to meet. As the audience, we follow them through this unexpected breakup, observing their contrasting mindsets.

This is an experiment about recording a long lens of a space, two people, and a device. The director and producer are the boyfriend and girlfriend present in the car, and the GoPro placed in front of the car realistically records the daily conversations, arguments, kisses, and tears inside the car. The experiment lasted for a month, with misunderstandings, emotions, rationality, restraint, and helplessness.

As debate continues as to the effect of gaming on our mental health & wellbeing, we speak to gamers from the UK who tell us how, for them, the positives outweigh the negatives.

Ahmad is an imaginary archetypal character, carrying the stories of several people and their migration. Named after Mahmoud Darwish’s poem «Ahmad al zaatar »(1977), Ahmad leaves the country of his parents, in search of personal fulfillment and salvation while discovering a country he could never have imagined before : Japan.

Comedian, architecture enthusiast and design nerd Tim Ross takes us across Australia to meet the families whose lives have been shaped by the exceptional designs of their iconic homes.

Between 1946 and 1951, "The Sardinian Project" upsets the history of Sardinia: the definitive disappearance of malaria, an endemic disease in many areas of the island. However, the disinfestation of the island represents only the first station of a stratified journey, a path between different eras, registers and points of view: the propaganda images and war-like symbols intersect with the gaze of the film-amateurs.

A view of a train ride as seen thru one of its windows.

Every September 27, Julio Valverde and his family make a Cosmas and Damian’s caruru at Soteropolitano, a Bahian food restaurant located in São Paulo. Over 25 years, the promise to offer this party has been fulfilled.

Deborah, Audrey, Som and Linn have very different life paths but one thing in common: they are intersex. In Switzerland, where they live, political and medical institutions maintain their invisibility. Without a law banning genital mutilation, their right to self-determination does not exist and being themselves is a struggle. Under the benevolent gaze of the director, they tell us about their path to self-discovery and self-acceptance. Intimate confessions and affirmed claims are here a militant act aiming at breaking the taboo, together.

Russia was among those who founded the Soviet Union and among those who dissolved it. But 30 years after the collapse of the empire, many Russians still dream of going back. Nostalgia for the Union in Russia has practically become a state ideology. Many people forget about the shortage, the lack of freedom of speech and trade, but they remember cheap sausages and free apartments. Why won't Russia get out of the clutches of the Soviet Union?

In Le nez de ma mère Harilay Rabenjamina moves away from what usually characterizes his work and tells a personal story. He recounts an event that destabilized him : his sister had her nose redone.

An inside look at Jessica Piper, a Democratic Candidate running for a House seat in District 1 of Missouri. This is a snapshot of her mind and what it feels like to run a campaign in an overlooked place.

"Ecos da Vermelha" shows the activities of the resistance to the Estado Novo (Portuguese fascist regime) in the city of Vila Franca de Xira, from the early 30's to 1974. Through the eyes of several witnesses that lived those dictatorship years, the film highlights the different initiatives and events that happened on those years on a political, social and cultural level, showing actions in the collectivities, the gathering in the taverns, the church's role and also some important events like the 1967 floods or the 1969 elections.

Husna and Charlotte live in a high-rise estate on the outskirts of Antwerp. They live in the same house, play in the same soccer team and spend every free minute together. Where they grow up, it’s not natural to make big plans. But that doesn’t stop these two girls from pursuing their dream to become professional soccer players.

The Halfway Point Film, A Documentary-Concert by Moira Dela Torre.

Utica: The Last Refuge tracks the Azeins, a Sudanese family, from touchdown at the Syracuse airport in 2017 through their first years in Utica. They have landed amidst unprecedented upheaval in US refugee policy. The Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees has to take care of them and other new arrivals while simultaneously fighting for its own survival. The film demonstrates Utica's resilience and commitment to these vulnerable families, who are, in turn, essential to the city’s rebirth.

This film is about the story of the main character and his younger brother, the younger brother saw the comic book of the main character, in his brain, he had a fight of animal chess related to memory. The younger brother belongs to the green party, the elder brother belongs to the orange party, at last the elder brother lost and the younger brother won in his consciousness, the younger brother took the elder brother to see the future elder brother in the heart of the younger brother.

In this film, 6 women living in different regions of Azerbaijan talk. They talk about their feelings, thoughts, and desires… What is the explanation of their happiness, what is their desire? Happiness, comfort, freedom… What is happiness? Painless death? my love Dear, Do not see the pain of the child, What is convenience? Don’t think about financial hardship, Not to depend on anyone, Will you find your soulmate? But what is freedom? Shouldn’t you be treated differently because you’re a woman? Can you transfer the world of your dreams to real life? “I’m human too…” a world where you don’t need to say… Yes? So what do you want?

Growing up as a parent to your parents leaves deep marks on the soul. During one family constellation therapy, Lucien is finally coming to terms with his unsafe childhood. It is an emotional journey through long-supressed anger, fear and sorrow, to finally showing himself to the world.

Greenwashing: it's a term that's come to the fore in recent years, as the urgency of the climate crisis becomes increasingly apparent. It's a troubling phenomenon in which companies which brand themselves as sustainable - in hopes of attracting green investment - continue to cause massive pollution. Just how deep does this deception run, and what is the solution?

Acclaimed artist Eiko Otake has made five trips to Fukushima in the wake of the 2011 nuclear disaster. Collaborating with William Johnston, a photographer and scholar of Japanese history, Otake’s multidisciplinary project transforms the irradiated landscape into a site for performance. The artist’s movements—in empty train stations, overgrown roads, tsunami-damaged buildings, along broken seawalls, and amidst makeshift memorials—dwell in the residue of life before the meltdown while also charting the passage of time in these inhabitable lands. A Body in Fukushima is culled from tens of thousands of photographs, whose mournful but resolute march creates a “letter to the future.” “My body will carry a piece of Fukushima,” writes the artist, “I hope the [viewer’s] sense of their own distance to Fukushima might also change.”

By means of exploring visual associations, City People Shapes draws a connection between the city – its architecture and street objects on the one hand, and its most dominant inhabitant – human. In this interplay, does a human subjugate the city, or rather, does the city bend the human?

'Billy Bang Lucky Man' documents Billy Bang’s brave return to the battlefields of his past, fraught with memories and flashbacks, in contrast to the eboulliant youthful Vietnam of today, as he encounters a people and a culture that he had never known and had been taught to hate. His journey takes him through the rich musical traditions of Vietnam, from Saigon and the Mekong Delta, north across the 17th parallel and climaxing with his collaboration with the Hanoi symphony orchestra. ‍ 'Billy Bang Lucky Man' is about Billy’s desire to overcome and transcend the trauma of war through music and art.

Dan Price, a talented, affluent and attractive young male at the peak of his career, finds himself standing over the railing on the Sydney harbour bridge. This short documentary explores the struggles of mental health and demonstrates that every story is different, but more importantly, every story matters - This is Dan's story.

They are faceless. They are nameless. They are feared and hated. And they make no apologies. Antifa is controversial for its radical and often divisive tactics - but what’s it really like to be a member of this anti-fascist movement?

In 1970, Richmond Park in Inchicore, Dublin, hosted Ireland's first ever outdoor rock music festival. An audience of 1,500 paid to see a one-night bill headlined by Mungo Jerry and also featuring a handful of emerging Irish “beat groups”, a nascent Thin Lizzy among them.

It’s 2019 - a year before the pandemic - and The Paperhand Puppet Intervention is set to begin its 20th season. Follow along as the company embarks on its remarkable creative journey and take a deep dive into the psyches of the company’s founders (Donovan Zimmerman and Jan Burger), and the diverse group of artists who help bring the show to life. Shot primarily on a single camera and with no budget in Saxapahaw and Chapel Hill, NC, We Are Here is a 55-minute documentary that investigates the intention and process of a community whose aim is to move us to action through moving art. It takes a whole lot more than cardboard, wood, duct tape, and string to make a great show. In We Are Here, we find out what makes a puppet come to life and we are challenged to reconsider our own place in the world.

Raised in the town of Las Canchas de Talcahuano, Gonzalo Tudela walks the streets that saw him grow up and where he learned everything that made him become a renowned rapper.

The story is about the indigenous small-numbered people of the Far East - the Ainu, who from time immemorial lived on the Japanese Islands, Sakhalin Island, the Kuril Islands and the south of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The fate of the Ainu people is difficult: according to historical documents, the Ainu were the most numerous ethnic group in the Far East. But at the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX century, some of the Ainu were assimilated by the Japanese, and some mixed with the Russian population of the Far East. At the moment, the Ainu living in Russia, while preserving their identity, are not included in the list of indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East and are fighting for the inclusion of the Ainu people in the state document of the Russian Federation.

How did we learn to read and write? How much playing and how much seriousness does it take to acquire one of the most basic skills in life? This film presents the process of learning to read and write in the first grade of elementary school. A teacher who explains and shows each letter with never-ending patience and love, and 13 students who draw fishes in order to write correctly, disagree, laugh, have difficulties, try their best with every syllable, and concentrate on their target. Little adventures in the classroom with pencils, erasers and straight (or not) lines.

A short documentary based on filmed correspondence. Journals of imaginary trips between two people stranded by the pandemic, one inside and the other outside the Uruguayan territory; one yearning to leave, another yearning to return.

Where do the T-shirts come from? A short stop motion story on the sustainable fashion journey of cottonseed. From a farm to a shop, watch the beautiful transformation. Discover what Global Organic Textile Standard means for the planet and its inhabitants.

A look behind the scenes during the Covid-19 pandemic in Latvia. The documentary gives an insight about what goes on in the so called "Dirty Zone" - the area in the hospital where people suffering from infectious diseases are held. A continuation of "Netīrā zona" which was released by the Latvian National Television in January 2021.

A documentary depicting the lives of Cubans arriving into the United States as they escaped from Fidel Castro's Cuba in the sixties and seventies. Featuring interviews with several Cuban-Americans of various walks of life, they recount often traumatic stories about leaving everything behind and finding a new place to belong and get ahead.

The journey of four directors in search of the words of men who were sons and will now become fathers. At the ‘Circle of Men’ in Turin, they deal with overcoming the masculinist patriarchal model through the changing male representation and its language.

In any war, there is always a soldier who has lost and the women who are waiting for him to return. The dreams these women weave carry them to the farthest seas. Knowing there is no return, they weave and weave to treat the wounds of war.

In a time when community is harder and harder to find, Sierra makes meaningful connections to the earth and with the people around her.

Queer South African filmmaker, Victoria Wigzell, sets out to make a documentary on the value of a trophy as cold, hard currency in winning and losing. She tracks the lifecycle of awards.

Ezequiel is serving a six-year prison sentence. So, what crime did this Cuban farmer commit? Answer: He sold his own cow. Filmmaker Salvador Gieling, a cousin by marriage, just can’t get his head around it. And if he can’t understand it, how can he explain it to his two-year-old son Luca? So Gieling and his family make the journey to the village of Sibanicú, where, camera on his shoulder, he tries to figure out what happened to Luca’s uncle.

a film produced by Wang Wentao