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The Kiryat Moshe neighborhood on the outskirts of Rehovot is home to a large Jewish Ethiopian community. Nowadays a national priority construction evacuation project guarantees the residents a safe exit from the neglected and poor ghetto. Hana, a single mother who is worries about her teenage son, jumps at the opportunity for a change that will keep him away from drug dealers in the neighborhood. She joins Kevret, a young and idealistic, head of the tenants' committee, in leading the neighborhood residents. They embark on an 8-year wish for change, through the bureaucratic paths of politicians and real estate sharks.

WADJEMUP or ROTTNEST ISLAND is sacred to Aboriginal people. Thousands of Aboriginal men were imprisoned on this island from 1838 - 1931. Now hear from the descendants……

Behind the windows of her childhood home, the author hears the echoes of war. A lingering sense of danger haunts and eventually changes to a state between dream and reality. But as the dream disappears, the reality doesn't.

Bawa's Garden is a road movie in search of the work of renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. The film follows a protagonist scouring the island for the 'lost' garden of Lunuganga. Finding the treasure might be the goal, yet her search is the catalyst for encounters with a series of characters and rarely visited buildings that reveal the story of Bawa's life and work.

A snapshot experience of a Polycule

Bitcoin. NFTs. Burner phones. A rapping tech entrepreneur. How is a hipster couple in New York allegedly connected to a massive 2016 crypto currency exchange theft? Reporting on the duo at the center of the financial mystery that rocked Wall Street, which led to $4.5 billion of bitcoin disappearing from an online banking system.

Determined to become the most inspirational disabled person ever, Madeleine Stewart embarks on a journey to become a Paralympian.

Portrait of the writer Elsa Triolet, wife of poet Louis Aragon. The tile is a play on a famous poem by Louis Les yeux d'Elsa.

This new documentary, surrounding the creation of the OBLIVIØN double album, chronicles my decent into depths I was previously unaware of. It’s my guidebook to the underworld. My love letter to the vast galaxies that exist beneath the iceberg surface of our conscious minds. A dive into parts of the ocean so deep that light never penetrates them. A world inhabited by the beasts we thought we banished from our minds.

A short documentary about the exhibition The Art of Animation and the conception of creative ideas.

Two brothers use thoughtful interview fragments, pieces of art, and various family mementos to explore their father’s legacy.

Sylvana lives in Lebanon, Mohammed in New York, but when they are together, they like to go for walks. Sylvana is in a wheelchair and Mohammed is blind, so she guides the way as he pushes. They talk about the constant lack of autonomy they experience in daily life, and how the obstacles they face are not only physical but above all societal. When Sylvana was a child, other children were forbidden to play with her for fear that her disability was contagious. Although highly educated, Mohammed was unemployed for two years as a result of discrimination.

A 23-year-old, first-generation, Mexican American woman runs for office in one of the most dangerous cities in America.

In the borders between Bosnia and Croatia we meet fleeing families who bet everything in a game, where the only objective is to arrive in the hallowed lands of Europe.

The film tells the story of a middle-aged couple's relationship. A very intimate look into their kitchen and living room with just a few scenes. It shows a glimpse into their lives before they decide to change something in their relationship.

In 2020, an armed conflict erupted in Nagorno-Karabakh. The fight over the disputed territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan has claimed thousands of lives. Four Armenians are talking about growing up during the war time, and also about the frustration that, compared to other world conflicts, this is not interested for foreign media.

Marina is 26 years old and works as a prostitute to pay for her college education. She came to this work by accident and in the best possible way – in a feminist, safe environment and surrounded by people who care about her well-being. Together they face situations accompanied by exaggerated demands and prejudices.

Sisco, Cecilia, Gibbo and Armelle work as hired crop pickers. Along with other seasonal workers, they sleep on the farmers’ land before moving on to the next farm. Their irregular worktime depends on the cyclic changes of the weather. For a while, they pick strawberries in Denmark, and then move on to vine in France or oranges in Spain. Even if they find themselves on the society’s edge, with their nomadic way of life condemned by some and adored by others, they remain relatively free and independent. And it counts both in work and money. Precarity, a daily object of struggle of others, is their very own life style. They do not know what tomorrow will bring for them, yet they are still left with a lot of time for dreams and plays.

Exploring the subject of menopause in Ireland, seeking to broaden the conversation around a subject often considered taboo and finding out how real women experience this life event which affects half the population.

After leaving prison, Mariusz and his son attempt to adapt to reality, interweaving the habits inherited from jail with the struggle of everyday life. Contrary to popular opinion, their relationship is filled with self-reflection and love.

Through observational and interview recording, it seeks to describe the relationships between a Catholic parish, an evangelical church, and the shrine of "Gauchito" Antonio Gil, located in a neighborhood in the Buenos Aires suburbs called Villa Rosa.

Now falconers do not go into the forest for prey. Therefore, falconers become more attached to their birds of prey, which creates more experiences and little tragedies. The characters in the film are five people who are connected in different ways to birds of prey. Someone takes care of the affected birds, someone deeply studies the philosophy of falconry. But all of them once had to endure the hardest thing in the life of a falconer - the loss of a bird.

Driving and walking through the wonders of central Italy.

In an imaginative conversation, a colourful group of children search for answers to their questions about the mystery of life and death. Using a series of beautiful viewing boxes, a dialogue between young and old unfolds, starring an adorable rabbit.

Olya is a loving mother of two children. The children's father is a wealthy businessman who rarely took part in their lives. One "inconvenient" remark turns their lives upside down… This is a story about several weeks of a single woman's life in a continuous struggle for her children. And about the children who are hostages of the situation, to whom no one gives the right to choose.

156 rivers begin in Colorado. “The Mother of All Rivers” supplies 17 states and parts of Mexico with life-giving water. Our water begins in the Rockies, flows down rivers, pools in reservoirs, and has been bought, sold, fished, boated, measured and fought over since pioneers and engineers built the first diversions and ditches in the 1800s. Flow through history and down the Cache la Poudre River from Northern Colorado to the Mexican Land Grant where Ben Eaton learned how to bring water from the river to grow crops and cities in The Great American Desert.

A documentary about the life of Puerto Rican nationalist Rafael Cancel Miranda and the events that led to the 1954 Attack on the US House of Representatives

Filmed with a phone camera during the lockdown in South Africa, one filmmaker contemplates creating within a place that never changes. The documentary focuses on her home, La Casa Azul, a tribute to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Kahlo was his source of inspiration when he became disabled during the turf wars in Cape Town in 1966. The documentary reflects on representation in cinema and responds to the challenge of creative creation during the pandemic.

For many inhabitants of this world, the dystopia is not a future possibility but rather a historical reality. Odorless Blue Flowers Awake Prematurely is dystopian nonfiction, a science-fiction documentary, which explores Beirut’s peripheral rustbelt that sits on the banks of the city’s river and is affected by the blast on August 4, 2020.

In 1961, the disappearance of ancestral medical practices was predicted as a consequence of the profound social and economic changes implemented by the recent Cuban Revolution. In 2021, the source of ancestral knowledge is kept alive through the universe of four characters and their relationship with nature.

The theme of outsiderdom anchors Güler’s In Limbo – a series of intimate vignettes that play with subversion. In one scene a masculine group is gathered on the shore talking about hooking up with girls, before one person jumps in the water to reveal top surgery scars. In another, a belly dancer twists in the desert, kicking up dust and sand before lifting their veil to reveal a moustache.

A portrait documentary on Boston-based pop-punk/alt-rock band American Ink with bassist Aidan Crotty, guitarist Michael Romano, and drummer Nick Fauza.

Juanita wanders between reality and her dreams to cope with the absence of those she loves.

Enjoy the Weather began as a performance piece, designed and directed by Teresa Silva, the Portuguese choreographer and dancer, during a residency in Marseille (at Montevideo). Today it is a film which exemplifies what can be achieved through the unique combination of moving image and moving body arts. The starting point is a reading of The Life of Plants by Emanuele Coccia. The philosopher adopts the point of view of plants to devise a new understanding of the world as a living system linking all beings - animate and inanimate.

Portrait of legendary Mancunian busking troupe

The inside and candid story of how a small rave turned into a massive festival.

Traditionally believed to be unlucky, twins in Madagascar’s Antambahoaka population are often abandoned. A new children’s center—ran by twins who grew up in this culture—challenges superstition and poverty to offer these children a new future.

Long Island hero, Jeff Bartels, confronts local police department to uncover the largest scam ever in the state of New York.

1989 is largely remembered as the year in which the Berlin Wall fell. But, beneath the rubble of the Berlin Wall lies the Romanian Revolution. In December of 1989, the fight against the mutilated form of Marxism practiced by Nicolae Ceaușescu came to a head when civilian protestors were fired upon by Ceaușescu's military police in Timisoara, killing an estimated 76 people. To ease tension, Ceaușescu delivered a speech to the industrial workers of Bucharest. However, it was not long before the crowd began to jeer in response to Ceaușescu's pontifications. Ceaușescu was arrested by their response, for right before his eyes he witnessed the end of his tyrannical rule and the beginning of the revolution. Ceaușescu was captured on December 23, and on December 25, a military tribunal was formed, where Ceaușescu and his wife were convicted of genocide by starvation. They were then executed by a firing squad.

Cat Cleaning Herself

Former soldier and MP Johnny Mercer meets his Ukrainian political counterparts and heads to the focus of the conflict in Kyiv with explorer Levison Wood

Six survivors of the Marieval Indian Residential School on the Cowessess 73 reserve are devastated by the discovery of 751 unmarked graves on the grounds of their former school. They return to reflect, pay their respects and seek change.

In 1982, Patrice Berthelot reports on the conditions of his detention in Sion prison through a correspondence with the director Anne Theurillat, who now transforms his words—by turns cheerful or imbued with mellow bitterness—into images, through an inspired cinematic construction. A question remains: is it possible for humanity to exist between four walls?

Drawing on the threads of Virtual Currency and Digital Junk, Very, Very, Tremendously seeks to discuss how the acts of production and consumption from the virtual world interact systematically with reality, whilst also mirrors how the ‘two realities’ coexist in geopolitical conflict.

On the day of the summer solstice, before the harvest, villagers gather to throw away their debris. At midnight, the pile is burned. Three women talk about what they would have liked to have disappeared in the fire.

The Wyoming Backcountry Discovery Route is a multi-day off-pavement ride for dual-sport and adventure motorcycles through the most dramatic and rugged landscapes in Wyoming. Beginning in Baggs, WY, the route traces the mountain ranges to the east through the Sierra Madre and Medicine Bow Ranges, crosses west to the Wind River Range, then goes back east and north through the Bighorn Mountains, eventually ending at a remote Wyoming-Montana border. Almost every section includes some moderately technical riding, as the remote two-track flows through regions of vast high-desert, short-grass prairies, and alpine climates. You will experience expansive views from the summit of two different 11,000-foot mountains, cross two major rim escarpments and pass through many other seldom visited areas and historic mining towns. This is the most remote BDR, so plan ahead and be prepared to have a true backcountry adventure.

Set to images of an old football match between Malmö and Helsingborg, Swedish artist Sara Sjölin tells the tragicomic story of a failed and destructive relationship with an ex-boyfriend.

“I want to help people fight not with death, but with life,” says Elina, a clinical psychology student. But only a video camera helps the girl to fight with her life, which she turns on closing herself in her room.

Due to long-term observation of the NPCs (Non-Playable Characters) the player witnesses certain documentary events that take place in different parts of the in-game world. However, these events are permeated by common cross-cutting themes: excessive cruelty and human indifference. To some extent the constant movement (which also accompanies the player-observer throughout the in-game space) is the only salvation from arbitrariness on the streets, but not always.

In "The MBC Rolling, Series II", the cooperative engages rolling objects commonly used for auto mechanic work to perform domestic tasks, highlighting and questioning the assumed duality between so-called masculine and feminine labor roles and the heightened value given to capitalist/commodity-based industry over caregiving/service-based industry, the latter of which is often invisible and unpaid. The video is a tapestry of improvised encounters in interstitial and adjacent filmic space between two performers. It is chance choreography with alignment and misalignment in movements and actions engaging bodies, objects, and technology. – The ManosBuckius Cooperative