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The Slovenian economy relies on workers from Kosovo, but how can the education system support their children? The documentary follows the journey of four Albanian-speaking children from Kosovo as they navigate the Slovenian school system.
Through photographs, the director's grandmother recalls her childhood memories of a place: Le Sault. She spent all her vacations there and now lives there. The timeless essence of this place is charged with emotion and history. Still childhood memories give way to vivid shots, as if past and present come together to celebrate the permanence of beloved places. This little movie is a witness to the passage of time.
A group of Zambian conservationists battle to protect the most trafficked animal in the world.
A short film to protest against the probable upcoming right-wing chancellor of Austria.
Endless Calls for Fame takes place in the gritty streets of New York City in the 1990s during a time when punk and indie rock was moving from the underground into the mainstream after the cultural tsunami of Nirvana. Using her rediscovered personal archival footage, the director shares the front-row story of this unique era of alternative rock through the lens of one band's experience, The New Rising Sons. The film brings to life a vibrant New York music scene of the past as it follows the band’s brush with stardom, their dissolution, and their journey to redemption 20 years after they were formed.
A found footage film made out of old advertisement, made to portray real life dangers in an form of a found broadcast.
A documentary elegy about the last days of summer turning into autumn, and about people in a state of transition. They are still enjoying the last day of summer, but they know that autumn has already arrived. Childhood is about to end, the prime of life will fade, old age will turn into decrepitude. But there is this endless day of pure happiness.
The story of the "Hot Lotto" scandal, a $20 million fraud so ingenious it took more than a decade to unravel. Told by the confounded state Lottery CEO and the brash, young investigator who dared to outwit his mysterious adversary.
Just south of Gävle along the E4 highway lies a giant Chinese palace – Dragon Gate. This is the unlikely story of a small municipality’s struggle to put itself on the map. Of a Chinese mosquito repellent billionaire’s grand dream, clashing with Swedish bureaucracy. But also of the ongoing battle to make one of the country’s most bizarre construction projects a success.
Matsuko Deluxe explores the seemingly familiar yet overlooked facets of Japanese culture through real-life experiences.
The ideological war between Russia and the West takes on a highly dramatic form in Finland, where three Russian women are locked in a bitter dispute over Putin's regime and their own colonial heritage.
In a digitally surveilled Tehran, the tables turn on those in power. The city's inhabitants face a sudden change that upends the status quo, sparking a tense exploration of privacy, authority, and the consequences of ubiquitous monitoring.
Artist Joe Boyd unveils beauty in life’s forgotten fragments, alchemizing the mundane into moments of wonder. In the embrace of the imperfect, and incomplete, he discovers that art’s true power lies not in permanence, but in the delicate, fleeting dance of creation and release.
After the Taliban takeover in 2021, LineOut follows Afghan refugees in a poetic dreamscape where a metaphoric voice reflects grief, healing, and the fragile balance between holding on and letting go.
A thought-provoking portrait of a Far Right Christian group that joined the assault on the U.S. Capitol in 2021. Considered armed and dangerous, they run from the FBI while their loved ones agonize and pray, hoping for God's protection.
Floeur Alder's parents are celebrated international ballet stars Lucette Aldous and Alan Alder and she grows up with god-mother Dame Margot Fonteyn and 'Uncle' Rudolf Nureyev. Like her parents, she trains in ballet. She is about to realise her goal to dance on the world stage when she is randomly stabbed in the neck by an unknown man on the streets of Perth. Facing years of physical rehabilitation, she turns to her family and dance to recover and, as the only child of celebrity parents, face the ultimate challenge to find her own way of dancing.
The music group Akelarre closes a chapter of more than 30 years on stage with a documentary that reviews its origins and the most representative moments of its prolific musical career. 'Akelarre: marearen kontra' is a film that unites the life of the group Akelarre with its fans through their passion for music. This documentary is a recognition of a way of understanding life.
Through text, researcher-writer Alexandra David-Néel’s journey across the Himalayas a century ago unfolds via her letters home—seeking answers in a world fractured by colonial entanglements, wars, and human ferocity. In audiovisual spaces, the filmmaker's experiences in eastern Tibet are reflected via her own lens and those of native Tibetan people. What begins through her encounter with a legendary school in the region becomes, by the film’s completion, an elegy — as violence eclipses “history”, yet fails to erase memory. Meandering between past and present, the work invites viewers into a meditative space open to contemplations on life, death, history, remembrance, the self, and more.
During a stay in Egypt, Roman Pernack observes the revolutionary unrest on the streets and captures it with his camera. Contemporary history up close.
A family photo in the garden, a recording of my grandmother singing, a letter I wrote to her a year after her death—200 kB of data stored on a DNA molecule, the hard drive of the future.
After fleeing from Syria, Amjad has been staying in touch with the outside world from Lebanon via Facebook and the like for years. His mobile offers an escape from boredom and loneliness.
Bansenshukai: From Secrets to Empires is a cinematic docu-drama that blends espionage, global trade, and historical strategy in a visually rich, fast-paced format—crafted for today’s attention-savvy audiences. With exceptional production values and a unique narrative connecting Japan’s shinobi to Europe’s first stock exchanges, it delivers intelligent, high-impact storytelling at the exact intersection of history, entertainment, and modern geopolitics. The film isn’t just entertainment—it mirrors today’s shifting global trade and power struggles, making it both timely and commercially magnetic. Its themes of secrets, spies, trade routes, and survival resonate across cultures, while its pace and style break from tired “talking-head” documentaries to match the energy of blockbuster IPs.
Fatimetu Bucharaya is a Sahrawi woman who in 2019 founded SMAWT, a voluntary women’s association dedicated to the detection of anti-personnel mines in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). This documentary chronicles the group’s work and the challenges they face within a complex political backdrop.
An experimental, visual, and poetic study about bodies, stitches, and repair. A sensory exploration of fragmentation and reconstruction. The body, real or symbolic, is treated as a surface to be opened, sutured, and reimagined. Using textures, objects, and silent rituals, the film contemplates the tension between vulnerability and resilience, between decay and the desire to mend. It is not about narrative, but about sensation. Not about answers, but about the act of touching what is broken.
In 1960, in the heart of the Saharan desert, France detonated its first atomic bomb in Reggane, Algeria, forever altering the surrounding land and lives. The invisible populations continue to suffer its fallout in silence.
A documentary focusing on daily events leading up to a student band's last performance before graduation.
This documentary is a journey to the heart of the first inhabitants of what we now call Colombia, by the hand of a handful of Colombian scientists, who, with passion and tenacity, offer us the first clues to understand the Amazonian Prehistory. It is a journey to the beginnings of the most ambitious scientific adventure of recent years in the country, which will allow us to connect, as Colombians, with an Amazonian identity, denied, violated and unknown until now.
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Constantly online, never at home: A film about the crew of a cargo ship, their loneliness, and their attempt to escape it. For months at a time, far from home and family, they live in cramped quarters. An allegory for the homelessness of modern humanity, caught in the monotony between machine, sea, work, and sleep.
Canadian Corporal Léo Major (1921-2008) took on a leading role in the liberation of Zwolle during the night of 13 to 14 April 1945. He was almost independently responsible for the withdrawal of an German occupier. This short film contains interviews with family members, war historian Joël Stoppels and residents of Zwolle, including former mayor Henk Jan Meijer. In addition, historical events filmed in Zwolle and Calgary are re-enacted.
A non-biographical documentary that approaches the poetic work of Dinos Christianopoulosrecording the impact of his poetry on young generation through the subjective view of a director. A creator and poet, a special scholar is approached by painters, musicians, publishers in Thessaloniki.
I Am Living Proof is a riveting look into the lives of three individuals who face an extraordinary life-altering event when unbeknownst to them, their paths are about to intersect when a traveling preacher comes to town.
When COVID-19 struck in 2020, Alyssa – an Australian healthcare professional living in the UK with her partner – wanted to do everything she could to help. What happened next changed her outlook on life forever.
A search for the identity of a prolific street artist becomes a treatise on graffiti, cave painting and the human need to make a mark, no matter how impermanent.
One man’s upbringing in Dunedin, New Zealand. Following his early life, bullying, and his own advice for the current generation. Unfiltered.
During practice, a performer of Mexican folkloric dance delves into her philosophy on a challenge she faces on stage.
A bear is hunted and caged. But he escapes again and again. He is loved as much as he is feared. A hybrid of wilderness and projection. The film PAPILLON follows his trail. And also becomes a hybrid. Of documentary and myth.
A touching and humorous tale of gender roles and two people’s struggle to fulfil their dream of having a child – with the director herself in the female lead.
This film is a searing yet hopeful documentary chronicling the devastation and resilience surrounding the August 8, 2023 wildfire that tore through the historic town of Lāhainā, Maui—the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century. With over 13,000 residents displaced and an entire town reduced to ashes, the film captures both the staggering loss and the community's unbreakable spirit.
Fifty years ago, the struggle for the lands in rural communities of Cuzco was filmed. A group of filmmakers brought these images back to the province of Paucartambo (Cuzco) and proposed to the villagers of the area to build a community memory through the creation of a new film.
Historian and adventurer Dan Snow heads to the Andes Mountains on 5 for a fresh look at one of history’s most enduring mysteries. Dan Snow & the Lost City transports viewers to Machu Picchu, where the secrets of the Inca civilisation are waiting to be unearthed.
This is a short documentary that probes the nuances of Queer Chinese Canadian identity. The film investigates how being part of a distant diaspora, as well as being othered as outsiders in Canada, informs the racial and queer identities of the subjects.
Daughter-cum-documentary filmmaker, Ava Grimshaw-Hall, embarks on a poignant journey to connect with her sperm donor father John, as he battles an aggressive cancer. Together, they explore their unique bond, seeking understanding and closure amidst life’s uncertainties.
We follow Stevo Grabovac, a retail clerk, through ten days before the announcement of the winner of the prestigious literary award for which he was nominated for the second time in his life.
Si-rak participates in rehearsals with the cast to write an audio description for the performance.
High Crimes: The Chinese Mafia’s Takeover of Rural America The Chinese mafia is building a black-market marijuana empire across rural America—buying homes, churches, even schools. They’re lacing marijuana with poisonous pesticides, laundering money, stealing power, and flooding the market with unregulated, chemical-laced weed that could harm someone you love. It’s a multi-billion-dollar industry. Investigative journalist Steve Robinson sets out to reveal how Chinese mafia networks have quietly taken root in rural America—sometimes right next door. This is a story you won’t hear anywhere else. And it’s high time to stop looking the other way.