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Le vent des amoureux was completed by Lamorisse’s wife and son, and officially released eight years after the filmmaker’s death. Iran’s Ministry of Art and Culture used additional material to create a seven-minute short film intended as a postscript in veneration of both the filmmaker and the Pahlavi regime’s vision of progress. It was a last gasp, released at the dawn of the Iranian Revolution which would see the ultimate downfall of the Pahlavi regime. A decelerated rendition of this short film accompanies an audio interview with an archivist entrusted with preserving the original reels.

An uncovered archive recounts my childhood through sketches, scribbles, and a forgotten love poem.

"Amidst All This Beauty" follows Ronald Lee Fleming, a noted urban planner and bon vivant, on a tour of his Newport, Rhode Island estate. In his garden, he has built shrines to the life he has lived and the many ways he has nearly died. He has begun sharing his hopes for the gardens when he is no longer there to tend them, ensuring the garden's future in Newport. Ronald has used the garden as a form of therapy, designing and building them to help heal the emotional wounds he sustained serving in the Vietnam War.

A group of authentic voicemail messages to Alex over the past 5 years from various friends and family members. It is a poetic lattice weaved with mesmeric audiovisuals, presenting the isolating effects of an ever growing digital world.

When Noemí left Escarigo in the 1960s in pursuit of a better life, she left behind a village whose streets were filled with life and joy. Now, silence reigns over this rural portuguese town. We follow Noemí on a trip back to her hometown, which she barely recognizes. With the help of the few locals and her longtime friends, Noemí dives into her past as she tries to cope with the loss of loved ones.

Somewhere in the centre of Portugal, an entire village lives in harmony with the annual cycle of the cork trees. When the time is right, the cork farmers go out to harvest the cork bark from the trunks of the trees with an experienced and careful touch that has been kept alive for generations by fathers with special axes in their hands, passing on the noble craft to their sons. Strong women gather the cork in stacks and dream of a time when they didn’t have to carry it themselves, but were the cork workers’ cooks, surrounded by birdsong and scorched cork trees with nature as their kitchen. Back in the village, the owner of the plantation tries to sell the cork at ancient prices, while at the same time clashing with his daughter. Sofia Bairrão’s film is a sensuous and beautiful meditation on the Portuguese landscape, which produces more cork than anywhere else in the world.

Under the auspices of Rio Chiquito, Bruno Muel and Jean-Pierre Sergent’s 1965 report on the birth of the FARC, and Dunav Kuzmanich’s 1981 fiction film Canaguaro about the end of the Liberal guerillas, this is look back on 70 years of clandestine life in the Columbian forest. Women and men who took up arms amid profound social inequality and political violence recount their years as fighters and their return to civilian life, without disowning their past. From 2012, when the peace negotiations began, to 2022 — the story of a new struggle.

Ivy Bairley and Chance Conerly return as a duo to showcase the tragic downfall of Eugine Mulvihil's Action Park.

With the participation of civilian and military historians and historical researchers, topics are addressed ranging from the social and political situation in 19th-century Peru prior to the battles and the military strategy within the theater of operations during the conflicts, as well as their outcome and conclusion after these + what winning them meant for Peru and Latin America.

Filmed in a single day in spring 2024, Leaward is a short form documentary profile piece about the people and places surrounding the River Lea, In north East London. Through a series of audio interviews we discuss the significance of the area with community activists, volunteers, local business owners and local residents. Portraits and atmospheric B roll footage illustrate the dialogue finding beauty in the everyday and ordinary.

A visual exploration of the 2024 Blessing of the Fleet Celebration in Narragansett, Rhode Island - featuring carnival rides, historic landmarks, and serene ocean views.

Young Darwin is feeling bored in his Yucatan village. Playing games on his parents' phone or using the forest as a playground with his brother doesn't help shed his gloom. So he decides to find out if Shaman Charli's stories are true and plucks up the courage to visit a forbidden cave.

She's a cabaret singer. She's fat. She's beautiful.

The film delves into the universe of thoughts and memories of Camilo, a teenager with a muscular disorder, as he transitions into adulthood. The film's dialectic, crystallized in an extensive 16-year film record, navigates between the writing of philosophical texts and conversations he has with his friend Luis, with a critical eye toward social systems, his own relationships, and himself. His way of feeling propels the temporal leaps in one direction or another, with their drifts and reveries, similar to the ways in which memory operates. Time becomes both theme and vehicle.

A small film crew (cinematographer and sound director) goes in search of the traces of Tío Lino, a storyteller from the last century, whose stories transmitted orally have remained in the collective imagination of the residents of Contumaza

We are at a village school in Anatolia during a cold and snowy winter. The village school located in the cemetery contains many mysteries.

Join Josie Alec, proud Kuruma Marthudunera woman and the Australian Conservation Foundation's First Nation's Lead, on a journey across Australia to explore First Nations connection to Country, and the fossil fuel and nuclear projects that threaten that connection and damage nature and climate.

Shot near Marseille in a grotto overlooking the Mediterranean, ‘You, My, Omma, Mama’ depicts a journey through space and time in search of our grandmothers and connections to our past, towards the history of the future. The world Prouvost invents here might perhaps originate with the 11 cm figurine known as the “Venus of Willendorf” as great-grandmother of us all. The artist borrows the story of this stone-age sculpture, reinterpreting and interweaving contextual motifs. Among the many interpretations that fascinate Prouvost is one whereby the figurine, named “Venus” by her finder, might not be a fertility symbol but rather a representation of a wise grandmother.

Amid the aftermath of Mozambique’s civil war, I visit my grandmother, confronting fading memories and blurred lines between truth and fiction. A former rebel’s presence in the village echoes the relentless ghosts of war, mirroring the tensions of my generation.

A chilling exposé of the escalating violence and land grabs perpetrated by extremist Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank. The film highlights the growing trend of these settlers establishing illegal "herding outposts," which serve as a pretext for seizing vast tracts of Palestinian land. The documentary traces the surge in violence that followed the devastating attacks on Israel in October 2023. Amidst the chaos and fear, extremist Jewish settlers have exploited the situation to intensify their land-grabbing activities. Eyewitnesses recount harrowing tales of intimidation, harassment, and physical violence perpetrated by these settlers, often under the watchful eye of Israeli security forces.

Documentary about Mat Irvine

The reasons the Beatles broke up are extremely well documented and even at the height of their animosity none of the band ever blamed Yoko Ono for it - so why is this still a thing?

Today we look into the tragic story of Reddit Secret Co-Founder Aaron Swartz, who was instrumental in creating the internet and is the closest thing we have to a human love letter for the World Wide Web. His death has been a difficult subject to discuss for many years, and today we lay out all of the events that led up to his tragic passing.

Mimamen is a short documentary following five individuals clad in jumpsuits and one woman wielding a machete as they embark on an expedition into Malaysia's inaugural theme park, Mimaland. Abandoned since 1994, their mission is to uncover remnants of the park. Alongside their exploration, they engage with locals, seeking their perspectives on the theme park.

There is no place on our territory so closely linked to the Holocaust as Terezín. Our pilgrim wanders its streets and meets locals who would prefer to forget the grim history of their town, after all, it was "only four years". But even though the former ghetto is barely remembered, the effort to forget is not yet bringing the town back to life. So why has Terezín become a ghost town? And to what extent does its bleak present mirror our approach to Jewish suffering as such?

Known only by her research number, Grizzly 399 has been a fixture in Grand Teton National Park since 2007, becoming the world's most famous grizzly bear. Now 399 is raising four cubs in the face of human encroachment, a warming climate, and the threat of losing protection under the Endangered Species Act as citizens from Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana attempt to remove grizzlies from the protected list. In a riveting story full of twists and turns, hope and heartbreak, Grizzly 399 stands as a symbol of the clash between humans and the wild.

"If high inflation hurts just about everyone, why can’t we have no inflation?"

An exploration of the site of the first purpose-built modern film studio in the US (American Vitagraph Company) which operated from 1907 through the silent era, was repurposed into a yeshiva school for girls in the early 1980s, and rebuilt in 2000s for residential use with the original 70-foot smokestack still intact. The film includes interviews with film historians and descendants of the studio founders; re-photographed nitrate fragments of films that were produced at the Brooklyn studios over 100 years ago; and original footage shot inside the yeshiva school and of the building during and after demolition. The film explores both profound resistances and persistent echoes of national and local cultural histories, the archeology of the American film industry, local neighborhood demographics, gentrification, and politics.

A film documenting the ever-changing east end of London (specifically Walthamstow)

The film reveals the vampirism of capital according to Karl Marx, showing the life of immigrant workers in the Netherlands. Filmed with dreamlike calm, it shows their wait in forgotten places, living in precarious conditions where the company deducts rent from their salary, while the camera gives them a voice.

Vampires, witches, werewolves, and ghoulies—Kenosha has the highest population of horror hosts per capita, who produce their own homemade TV shows showing cult-followed horror films. Using a televisual aesthetic that matches the community vibes of the subject matter, I’M YOUR HOST explores their relationship as a community, their triumphs, and a tragic loss that bonds them together.

A short documentary about a student's 115-day exchange in the northern countries of the world.

After a twenty year absence, Rawane Nassif returns home in Msaytbeh, Beirut. Msaytbeh, (from the word Mastaba, the elevated place) was home to a loving and diverse neighbourhood of secular leftists. Upon her return, Rawane realises that the life and community she left behind has drastically changed.

Still is the end of journey, the conclusion, but it doesn’t mean ‘be still’, in fact I feel rather the opposite. Arriving like a rabbit in headlights, trying to ease into a flow, discovering what ‘semi supine’ means. Now I’m, well I’m not a rabbit in headlights. I think ‘still’ here is about the change, made ourselves available to change, and be changed. Part 5 of 5.

South Korea's is facing a population crisis, with Seoul at the centre of it. The country’s capital remains the beneficiary of both internal and external migration. Instead, it is in the rural and peripheral areas where low birth rates and the aging population have become crises. The countryside is at risk of becoming extinct. As more opportunities and people get concentrated in Seoul, urban pressures have led to rising unemployment and cost of living. And when things get expensive, people do not have babies. Seoul now has the lowest birthrate in South Korea, in a country with the world’s most dire fertility. On the other hand, farms and factories in the rural areas desperately need workers. How can South Korea solve this population puzzle?

Focusing on the vital role of Indigenous political leaders in defending their territories, this documentary highlights their protagonism in the fight for rights across Brazil. It explores their strategies for organization, the diversity of their movements, and their interactions with both internal community dynamics and non-Indigenous political structures.

A disheveled pigeon on a windowsill reminds Ramona of a painful memory of her past that she thought she had successfully suppressed. Having resurfaced, she has no choice but to confront them in this dark night of the soul. “Gołębie” can be described as a happy accident. The film came together on two different occasions on two different days, begging to be made. It is an exercise in crafting a narrative out of completely non-diegetic sound and the sheer manipulative power of cinema as a medium.

A GCSE short film project studying depictions of outer space in movies.

The language of dreams reminds us that the "reality" has long undergone the workings and transformations of the mind. However, the disparities between the dream world and reality may serve as a reminder of something profound. Through the dreamer's narration of the dream process and retracing events by following others' memories, the selection of scenes originates from real-life situations. In the interweaving of reality and illusion, a state of seeming truth yet non-truth is crafted, shaping the image of the departed as both present and absent.

When the world is in huge danger and health crisis only the impeccable Pflege Wonka can save them all

In 1864 the mass murdering pastoralist Angus McMillan cut an ambitious 220km path through the mountains between two remote gold mining towns in the heart of Victoria, Australia. 120 years later a group of bushwalkers stitched the trail back together. When Beau Miles found out about the track he decided to run it, thinking ‘gee, this track has a story to tell’! Running 73 km a day for three days over steep, often unmarked terrain, and having grown up thinking McMillan was a colonial hero, there was a lot of terrain, and thinking, to be absorbed. He’d finally embarked on a running adventure that wasn’t just about running.

Animals as Our Neighbors is a wonderful Finnish nature documentary by Petri Merra that tells us about the animals living close to us. Some of them are familiar to us in our daily lives, while others are mostly nocturnal and rarely encountered. What all these animal neighbors have in common is that they have found a new habitat by moving in to live right next door to us.

Relighting the Flame tells the story of how a new generation of workers are defying enormous odds to rebuild and grow America’s steel industry, right in the Industrial Heartland.

Short doc about Chinese offerings to the dead

Giancarlo Parretti was central to one of Hollywood’s greatest scandals. In 1990, Parretti bought iconic James Bond studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists for $1.3B with high hopes. However, within weeks, the 17th James Bond film (GoldenEye) was put on ice, paycheques to Dustin Hoffman and Sylvester Stallone had bounced, and hundreds of staff were fired. Parretti soon faced an FBI investigation for alleged financial irregularities and his ownership of Hollywood’s most famous studio spiraled out of control.

A documentary about Tadashi Hase, a gay poet born in 1929, who spent much of his life closeted due to homosexuality being classified as a "mental illness." Despite these challenges, he became an award-winning poet and continues to work at 94. Only later in life, as societal attitudes shifted, did he come out. Through Hase’s journey, the film explores the history of homosexuality in Japan.

Searching for the reasons for her grandfather's depression among the paintings on the walls of his house, a young filmmaker discovers the parallel that unites them both: each works on a portrait. The young filmmaker, faithful to her craft, turns a painting that obsesses her into a tableau vivant: it is her own way of painting. There is another painting that bewitches her: it is the last one her grandfather painted, and it remained unfinished. Using her brushes, she now wants to finish what her grandfather left unfinished.

The life of Swedish designer Wanja Djanaieff is explored in this documentary made from 25 years of material recorded by her son.

What could be more powerful than cinema? Push open the doors of the Rex in Foix to discover what goes on behind the scenes of a cinema that makes young and old dream.

A filmmaker adventures through the Scottish wilderness uncovering the astonishing lessons wild places can teach about the secrets of the human mind and our place in the universe.

The entrance to a residential building in Uspenska Street in Odesa, where the famous Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova once lived, is now adorned with wall paintings, featuring cats, dogs, and whimsical plants. The walls were painted by Muratova's husband, screenwriter and production designer Yevhen Holubenko. However, the artist, whose name is well-known among art connoisseurs, usually doesn’t paint in apartment building entrances.