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Sreyra, Ponler, and Sreyven are three young garment workers in Cambodia. Day after day, they produce clothes for the most important global brands, until something exceptional disrupts their routine: suddenly they pass out in the workplace, an event that is followed by their colleagues fainting en masse. Episodes of mass fainting like these are not uncommon in Cambodia, where labour conditions remain harsh. According to trade unionists and government officials, this is caused by long work hours, high temperatures, and malnutrition. However, workers tell a different story: what happened to them is caused by spirits (Boramey), angered by the lack of respect shown by the factory owners. Starting from this enigmatic background, Boramey: Ghosts in the Factory offers insight into the lives of Cambodian garment workers at the intersection of work, religion, family, and spirituality.

In the semi-darkness, the light on the slides and the gesture of halting and looking. Is this where half-light ideas breathe?

"i wanted to make something horror adjacent when it came time for halloween. i had several ideas but many proved to be too complex to do by myself. i instead stuck to what i knew, stretched my editing, framing and lighting abilities and hopefully made something that is beautiful yet off putting, just in time for the season. i hope you enjoy it." -lucille, october 2021

June, 2020. João is back in Diogo’s room, where they share memories, smiles and glimpses after months of being apart due to quarantine. Uncertain about their future, they can only enjoy each other’s company while contemplating the urban landscape.

Happiness Class takes us on a journey through the unique and fascinating world of children—their preoccupations, worries and, most importantly, their very idea of happiness.

From the city of Sydney, the director receives audio messages from his grandmother who tells her first-hand how large protests against the government have started in Chile. That familiar voice becomes an emotional guide to the Chilean rebellion and grief seen from afar.

Kwang-Ja Lee, a counsellor at ‘Lifeline Korea’ has been listening to anonymous people’s stories for 45 years. Every day, she is all ears to stories that cannot be shared anywhere else. Image and sound react to it and creates new reflective space that seems to be the bottom of one’s heart.

People have been living in space for a long time, in a big House called planet Earth, but only six decades ago we became the real owners of this House, because we got the opportunity to go out and look at it from the outside, from the top point. We have found the perfect tool and limitless opportunities for observing and studying the Earth. How many amazing discoveries have been made since then thanks to scientific instruments raised into orbit. We found out where most of the oxygen we breathe actually comes from, how such powerful and dangerous natural phenomena as typhoons and hurricanes are formed, we looked deep underground and found fantastic processes there. And this is only the beginning, only the first steps in the holistic and systematic knowledge of this beautiful and mysterious space object.

On a full moon night, a young woman follows a mysterious maintenance worker who leads her to encounter the road line markers on the highway. Between dazed scenes and all-night conversations with the labourers about their love life, she questions her own relationship for the first time. When the morning rises, she dares to change her life.

An experimental documentary that creates an impressionistic and artistic experience cataloging the journey of a Japanese woman, Tomomi, who finds herself on a Saskatchewan elk farm during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Port Park City (港口+园区+城市) visually documents fragments of the industrial topography of Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta in China. This documentary film narrates Shenzhen’s young history, centring on its role in supplying mass-manufacture and labour organisation to global markets, and their hand in catalysing its urban development, which is now in a phase of deindustrialisation. Composed of found footage, pre-recorded footage, sound recordings, and the voices of poet Zheng Xiaoqiong, local artists, researchers and scholars, this film allows frictions between workers’ rights and the waves of development facilitated by modern industrial logistics to unfold.

How Did We Get Here? is a short-film that explores the significant events that took place in Nashville, TN during the chaotic year of 2020. Starting with the devastating tornadoes that came through the city in March, to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement and the bombing of 2nd Street on Christmas morning. ​ This documentary features interviews with a diverse cast of some essential voices from Nashville's community, including Dr. William Schaffner, Dr. James Hildreth, Mayor John Cooper, Councilwoman Zulfat Suara and more. Ultimately, this film highlights the resilience of a strong community and the people who make it special.

Andrey is 13 years old. He has been sent to a monastery for the summer for misbehaving. He knows the secret passages in the old towers, the name of each bell, and the meaning of life.

"Our Feet Are Rooted" is a documentary about government sponsored land grabbing in Northern Uganda and the non-violent techniques community members are using to fight for their ancestral land.

Quarantine is a visual documentary that chronicles the highs and lows of 2020 from before and during the quarantine, capturing what we dealt with worldwide during this time.

This is a film about the strangely idyllic time we had during the first UK lockdown, and the media we consumed.

The story of Ola Kravchenko who has been accused by her ex-boyfriend and by a documentary show to have been the murderer of Tair Rada but acquitted by Israel's state attorney office.

Boots on Ground is an autobiographical account of a second-generation British South Asian woman’s experiences with the police, racism and violence in London. Presented in split-screen, mobile phone footage captured during protests in the summer of 2019 show the legs and feet of police officers patrolling the area around Buckingham Palace and The Houses of Parliament in indiscernible formations. Kiran Kaur Brar’s spoken narration describes a disturbing personal chronology of police violence and racial discrimination, beginning in her childhood in the 1980s and eventually converging with the day of filming.

Twenty years after the US first invaded Afghanistan, President Biden announced the end of America's longest war. VICE News reporters were on the ground with Afghan and Taliban fighters to witness the final days of the conflict, from the frontlines of battle to the desperate scenes at the airport as Afghans were catapulted into a devastating systemic collapse. This is a harrowing, illuminating and definitive account of the Taliban’s return to power, reported by a team who has covered this country and this war for a generation.

COWRUPTION is an insightful short film that exposes the corruption involving animal agriculture's damaging impacts on our environment, in hopes to inform and inspire the audience to reconsider what they eat—to promote healthier living and save our planet.

Trying to understand Douglas Mendoza’s work, Jharol, his son, takes a trip into Douglas’s memories.

This documentary is base on the traditional Tibetan pilgrimage culture, and tell a real story about how a 16-year-old boy to realizes his dream of becoming a Tibetan opera actor. Pure, unadorned, yet marvelous, this is the story about faith and spirituality that soar above the Tibetan Plateau; unfolded when the traditional and modern cultural tides clash, and what's more, about the passion of life. He ready to die for his beliefs.

Diverse days of one provincial embankment. In a remote area of ​​the provincial town, there is an unremarkable old embankment. It was built in Soviet times. At first glance, it may seem that nothing has been happening here for a long time. But observing the same place from the same survey points throughout the year, important changes are discovered, associated not only with natural phenomena, but also with people coming to the embankment. Some of the townspeople appear several times throughout the film. And it becomes clear that these walks along the river are a daily ritual for them.

My mother, Gyeongja , who celebrated her 60th birthday in the Year of the White Rat (called "Gyeong Ja year" in Korean) according to the Chinese zodiac, got divorced after 29 years of marriage. She leaves the city where she lived and moves from place to place in search of work. With my heart for my mother in such a situation, I stay with her and start making a film. Following my mother's story that I shared with her late at night, I look back on the past year filled with many worries and sensations.

Hak-kyung Cha is a writer, performer, and video artist born in South Korea and based in the United States. The inspiration I received from reinterpreting her artworks is reflected in my life. "We" achieve a balance and perform a solo dance together, and I dedicate my soul to her.

This documentary explores how Alexi Devilliers's love for cooking and art became a life-saver for the homeless at Justa Center

Jeremy Sicile-Kira uses painting to communicate his dreams to others but must overcome his disability to do so.

Life Jacket is a powerful award-winning documentary that takes us in a journey with some of the refugees as they share their powerful stories of fleeing the war and persecution with the hope to reach a safer place for themselves and their families. From stories of war and killing to stories of fear while trusting a simple life jacket to keep them safe while crossing the Aegean Sea to reach the Island of Lesvos, risking their lives in the hope to reach a better and safer place.

(2021) 17/04/2021 (GB) Documentary 61m

Naina Sen (The Song Keepers, MIFF 2017) explores the relationship between biracial identity and generational belonging through traditional Balinese dance. A revealing, deeply personal account of artist Jocelyn Tribe’s life, Poleng utilises contemporary movement, Balinese dance, and archival and family photographs to delve into the complicated tangle of mixed-race identity, growing up with an absent parent and intergenerational relationships. Layered, luminous and presented with at times excruciating honesty, this dance documentary duets presence with absence in chronicling a life only half-understood.

Folk Frontera is a magical-realist portrait of life in the borderlands. The film follows two fronteriza women as they struggle to find their place in the vast Chihuahuan Desert, a region whose culture is thousands of years old, but which is bisected by the U.S.-Mexico border.

Glady is a young woman with a clear principle: Stand up for what you think is right. With this attitude she started a project where she wants to build a farm and a school in the small village of Chewe in Zambia with an undefeated hope for a better future for the children and especially the girls living there.

Walter has lived alone for most of his life and doesn’t venture far from his house, but his life is far from ordinary. He finds solace and wonder in the nature of his backyard in the company of special friends.

Snakes are awesome, complex predators with dramatic behavior and cunning skills. And, they are more useful to people than you might think.

Frequent Kronos collaborator Bill Morrison uses rare, early-20th century news footage to uncover ways that narratives about race have been used in the U.S. to divide people and maintain power.

The Quintessence considers the scientific study of outer space as a narrative, and analyses the hidden dreams and expectations of those shaping contemporary research about the universe.

A sonic journey through Basque punk rock and the turbulent past that defined its sound, chronicling the rise of the gaztetxe movement.

The story of those who made possible the first human flight into space, but remained behind the scenes. The heroes of the film are Semyon Kosberg and other engineers who worked in the Voronezh design bureau on the third stage of the rocket engine, without which the Gagarin spacecraft would not have entered orbit on April 12, 1961. Memories of Viktor Skachilov, the only surviving member of Kosberg's team, and archive photos are intertwined with animation and an inspired soundtrack created specifically for the film. "Kosberg worked" is about hard work for the sake of a great dream, about scientific breakthroughs and people who do the incredible.

Given the circumstances, it is highly unlikely that any headway will be made.

A son cajoles his mother to pick up the accordion and reluctantly play for the first time in 50 years as a means to reconnect with her Swedishness through fragmented songs later used to score her father’s recently rediscovered home movies from the 1940's and 50's.