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For over 40 years, legendary coach Neal Henderson has touched the lives of young people in the Washington, DC area through his youth team, the Fort Dupont Hockey Cannons. Founded to provide inner-city kids the opportunity to play organized hockey, the Cannons are the longest running minority-led hockey program in the country. As Henderson looks to solidify the future of the club, a new crop of teenage players struggles to understand if this game is really meant for boys like them.

Amid the opioid crisis in their small New Hampshire town, Lydia O’Leary and her family open their home to those recovering from addiction. As Lydia’s altruism grows, her children assess their unconventional home life while yearning for a normal adolescence. Emboldened by the camera, the children open up about hardships, including negotiating physical and emotional spaces with adult roommates. Diane Tsai’s feature debut sensitively captures a complicated balance of community, independence, and a family’s love.

October 18, 2019, Santiago, Chile. An increase in the price of public transportation sparks an unexpected riot. Popular anger explodes, rooted in decades of discontent as a result of a savage neoliberal system that has deprived people of the most essential services, in a country that has never returned to true democracy thirty years after the end of Pinochet's dictatorship. Since the first days of the rebellion, we begin to hear about a new urban legend, the Primera Linea, a spontaneous security service that defends protesters. Scenes of protest and urban guerrilla warfare cross the streets and squares in the country. The people crowd the famous Plaza Italia, the zero zone of Chilean demonstrations, now renamed Plaza de la Dignidad (Dignity Square). The repression by the Chilean police is brutal.

Duende without an arena, in the shadow of the Méjan chapel in Arles, Mano a Mano is neither a duel nor a duo. But an eloquent hand-to-hand encounter with words. The poetry of life versed directly into the microphones.

"Choose Your Own Father" is derived from extensive archival research into John Latham's early history in Zambia, employing personal histories of Latham's father and interweaving these with those of the filmmaker's own.

Episode I, Steps to the Moon - "The Collins Story - Connecting the Moon to the Earth", provides the back-story on Arthur Collins and the company be founded including the space technologies to achieve the Mercury and Gemini missions.

Constantin, Sarah and Gregor live in a polyamorous relationship. Their intimate confession is not just a demonstration of a free relationship between three people. The lovers, who have intimate conversations, sing, tease each other, or remain silent together, give a glimpse into the life of a social unit that takes questions of trust and tolerance to extremes. A polyamorous relationship can sometimes be even more solid than a couple because it goes beyond the familiar. It represents an experimental space where safe boundaries are abandoned and a gateway is opened to a frighteningly unrestrained universe where established patterns of behavior do not apply. It is a chance to free oneself from inner demons and be renewed within. To find ourselves, we must first lose ourselves.

Five years after Watching Them Die: The Mexican Army and the 43 Disappeared.

In the mid-90s, three business partners gather in a commune, buy up land in the Moscow region and build three houses on one plot. What will become of this place and its inhabitants after 25 years?

ayşe (ayşe akçaylı) is a teenage girl with bipolar disorder

Photographs are dusted, records cleaned, insects removed from books and everything is digitized for eternity. The matter-of-fact shots of fastidious archival work, though, are combined with the voice of a young woman who reports on the collapse of civilization, the fragile artefacts of which she secures as the last human being left in the “Congress”. In the field of tension between image and sound a space for our imagination opens up.

The film documents the daily lives of four young people in various locations in Latvia during the Covid-19 pandemic, as they search for answers to everyday and existential questions.

The relationship between the information we retain and its imagery we mentally re-envision and reassemble, helps us conceptualize imperceptible events such as the slow moving catastrophe of climate change. Recalling Robert Jay Lifton's concept of fragmentary awareness, we form surreal sequences from these visual thoughts in order to create our own narratives of the real events that are difficult to comprehend. In this video, natural imagery unfolds into a surreal cycle of destruction, death, and rebirth. The fragmented footage, taken from three coastlines in the United States, is edited into new forms - accentuating nature's close interplay with itself and us. The soundtrack, taken from the ambient sound of the source footage, is manipulated and layered with synth drones - reinforcing the intense and uncanny relationship between memory and reality.

Who is a drug addict? Criminal? Dangerous sick person? Or a hero fighting the worst enemy? It is customary to treat drug addicts as the scum of society, unnecessary and superfluous. But it's not just weak people who start using drugs. Very often, especially in childhood, drugs appear in life as a tool of socialization. Using the example of a personal story of one person, the author tells how people in Russia treat drug addicts, what stereotypes they have to face, whether they manage to start a new life and whether there is a share of responsibility of each of us in the problem of drug addiction.

During a 22 year prison sentence, an inmate falls back into gang life until experiencing a loss that leads him on a path toward redemption. Focusing on positive mental health, this intimate reflection from incarceration to reentry explores the healing of a gang leader's deep emotional wounds.

A moving and joyful time capsule, Alive introduces opera singer Marilyn Minns, showing some facets of her present condition before delving into her past. Suffering from Alzheimer’s, her memories are increasingly fragmented. Archive photography of Minn’s childhood is narrated using a 2014 interview, in which she talks about her childhood singing, and about her brief stint in the band Jokers Wild (whose lead singer, David Gilmour, would go on to form Pink Floyd). Weaving between the past and present, Alive introduces the man who will become her husband, a disgruntled lover, notable performances she took part in, and documentation of the mobility that her musicality awarded her. Following the shared reading of a letter – in which she outlines an episode in her life that she refers to as “the Russian saga” – Marilyn surmises the roles family, friends, passion, and love have played in her life, landing the film with a trailing air of hope.

Shot like cinéma-vérité, the piece moves around friends and lovers vqueeram lives with. It documents Delhi, Bombay and Goa, during the time-period of January 2019 to September 2020, and speaks to an intensified political atmosphere in India.

In defiance of the war in former Yugoslavia and ethnic and religious antagonism, which is still alive, women from Bosnian Rogatica who belong to different nations, denominations and generations live together in an old house.

Chronicles the events in Iraq from 1990 through 2001.

Shot in a steppe landscape in southern Ukraine, this short film follows the process of transformation of an abandoned Soviet apartment building.

In a revealing look at friendship, fame and ageing, this film follows the creative process of rockers Del Amitri as they record Fatal Mistakes, their first album in almost 20 years.

This film is the fifth in a series of documentaries “The history of Perm cinema in faces.” The history of Perm animation began approximately in 1965, when Svetlana Mozhaeva created the first hand-drawn cartoon "Seven I". Gradually the animation workshop got time-lapse filming equipment and a staff of artists. The collective portrait of Perm animation is built with the participants’ stories from the “Permtelefilm” period of the distant 60-80s of the last century.

Farid's wife is dead. When she was dying, Farid was diagnosed with blood cancer. Now his relatives are trying to save him, but Farid can’t live without his wife and refuses to be treated.

City Yalta at Azov territory many years ago was a popular and happy place. Now it's hurt to see its abandoned buildings. The nature isn't alright and the people are leaving this area.

In northern Montana is a massive wildlife sanctuary on track to become one of the largest, protected ecosystems in the United States: the American Prairie Reserve. Here, scientists and ranchers are working in partnership to restore these grasslands to their natural state. To do that, they must bring back the animals, starting with the keystone species: Bison. Enter America's heartland and witness surprising landscapes and never-before-filmed animal behavior, featuring sandhill cranes, swift foxes, grizzly bears, pronghorn antelope, and more.

Lynne Sachs films her daughter Maya in 16mm black and white film, at ages 6, 16 and 24. At each iteration, Maya runs around her mother, in a circle – clockwise – as if propelling herself in the same direction as time, forward. Conscious of the strange simultaneous temporal landscape that only film can convey, we watch Maya in motion at each distinct age.

David Albert, more commonly known as Dalbert, documents his daily life for twenty-four hours and shares his results.

A documentary by Brooke Linnegar

When hosts of "The Loudmouth Podcast" Ryan Perry, Luke Hearne Brown & Alfie Akers gather to present a live version of their award nominated podcast, their production crew pulls out and have to resort to shooting a live special from a Nissan Micra. The special features deep discussions on Biscuits, The Meg (2018) and various other mildly funny anecdotes. As well as featuring a Special Guest and a trip to the golden arches.

Experimental documentary. Walking the city of Goma, interacting with the public during the Covid-19 pandemic

Sunshine is a 20 year old young woman who served a sentence for drug abuse. Having found to be pregnant on her first day in prison, where the child was born, Sunshine was left with a new reason to live. Although in the past the relationship with her family was not the best, during the time in prison her relatives made sure they would write every day, and visited without fail. On the day of her release, she was carrying over 500 letters and a chance to turn a new page in her life.

More than a hundred years ago, Alexey Gastev wrote the utopia " Express. Siberian Fantasy " about the great Siberian cities of the future. In it, Novosibirsk appears as a Steel City, high-tech and perfect. This film is a reflection on the unfulfilled utopia, the past and present of Novosibirsk in a dance against the background of fragments of its Soviet modernist architecture.

A self isolated man and noise

Exploring non-binary identity and queerness, the film follows Richard Energy, a provocative digital drag king born at the start of the pandemic, who manages to get their job back on stage just as the second lockdown threatens. This timely and moving film examines what it means to be an artist, driven by creativity and a desperate need to perform, at a time when live venues across the UK on the brink.

The historical events of the french invasions that took place in the three portuguese municipalities of Mealhada, Penacova and Mortágua.

We shared a small apartment in Hamburg for 10 years. Just finished school and moved out with our parents, we were able to let off steam together in the big city and enjoy the freedom of student life. We laughed, cried, partied and toiled together - but above all we got to know each other intensively. In these 10 years we have not only grown up, but have also become best friends. Before we part ways and we will soon be living on different continents, we decide to go on a great journey together. Just the two of us. A journey in which we have time and leisure to think and reflect. In which we can only concentrate on ourselves.

A film made by Borders Additional Needs Group's Branching Out Youth Group as part of Film Town, Alchemy's year-round community filmmaking project.

A hypnotic, textural assemblage of human and non-human material processes. Comprising mesmeric visuals, choreographed objects and the sensual making of a clay pot in an open field, the film pairs jolting mechanical sounds and vibrations with a meditative voice guiding a cartography of being and becoming.

Suzi (Suzannah Mirghani) is the voice of her generation—the virtual voice, that is.

Former glamour model Jess Davies uncovers the hidden trade in nude photographs.

Conversations explores the colors of the landscape through the palette of digital color, and is a reconnection with my past narrative films. A mix of home videos, captured sounds, and unpublished films are assembled here to make a digital mural. As the date suggests, I have no plan yet to end the work.

She’s a Sri Lankan born, Dallas-based, retired teacher and mother. She’s also crazy about basketball. Meet “The Unlikely Fan” who knows a thing or two about hoops.

Arizona is the Grand Canyon state, but among other things, it's also the state the Sonoran Sisters Pastry Company call home. Donut connoisseur Stanislav "Stan" Jok tells you about it as he drives to different parts of the Copper State.

A young entrepreneur meets a group of coffee farmers and finds the inspiration to continue despite the pandemic.

Tora is an out lesbian who spends her time driving around with her male friend group. When her best friend Jakob tells her that he is leaving to go to university, Tora grapples with unexpected emotions and has to confront this before it’s too late.

There once was a man feeling sad and in pain, so to get some attention, he hijacks a plane! But seizing an aircraft is quite the chore, so he guzzles a beer. And another. Then a few more. What happened next might seem unbelievable to you, but make no mistake, it's all quite true. Story about the incident on a Braathens SAFE's flight 139 on June 21 1985.

In November 2019 Heidi Duckler Dance performed as part of the international programming at the Centro de Experimentación Escénica in Valdivia and at the LOFT International Dance Festival in Concepción, Chile. The company arrived at a time of mass protests fueled by the increased cost of living and prevalent inequality in Chile. Despite the rising fear of violence and feelings of trauma coming back from the days of the dictatorship, the festivals moved forward with their programming.

Most everyone remembers the summers of their youth but forget to remember each day for what it was. Here for your viewing pleasure are the little moments captured each and every day of the last summer of Cash Davenport’s youth. This is Summer Sunset Songs.

'Feast of the Seven Fishes: An Italian Tradition' shares the fascination, celebration and history of the Italian-American Christmas Eve tradition, the Feast of the Seven Fishes.

Christmastime 1777... General Washington marches his beleaguered Continental Army into Valley Forge. Battling starvation and disease during the harsh winter, the patriots persevere, and emerge a stronger fighting force.

Could we find Love beyond Hate, could we find Peace beyond War? Can we heal, in Oneness, our Humanity and the World?

Madam Ye is a documentary film on the typical exploits of Ye Shuhua, who is an internationally renowned astronomer, an important founder of astronomy in China, a strategic scientist, the first female director of an astronomical observatory in China and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The film tells the story of her 70-year dedication to astronomy.

Ethnographic documentary which, thanks to an one-year-and-half anthropological research with a collaborative approach, gives a deep insight into the everyday life, functioning and networking of diverse migrant communities in Barcelona and documents their persistent fight against the prevailing racist power relations.