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A man reminisces about life many years ago in a small New Mexico town.

A Nigerian girl named Blessing came to Moscow during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. But instead of the promised job, they took away her documents and sent her to a brothel. She worked as a prostitute for 4 months. After her release, she had lived with six friends in a one-room apartment planning to stay in Russia, find a job and arrange her life.

This video investigates the human capacity for memory and the limits of computer capabilities, romanticizing digital realms and exploring digital intimacy.

"Traumatic Measuresis" an exploration of Saavedra’s personal trauma when he was stabbed in Bogota, Colombia. The film realises his further search for rational explanations as a result of flashbacks experienced in London whilst encountering stories about knife crime. The project fixes on his mind’s experience, obsessed with an irrational need to understand and assess the event through a series of experiments and re-enactments. Inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his 1982 speech about the European obsession with measurement and categorization and the “Studies in Motion” by Muybridge, Saavedra designed specific experiments and grids to recreate the situation, both from the perspectives of the victim and the perpetrator, understanding the feelings from both sides of the crime through repetition. Though photography is used as a documenting mechanism to understand experiences, video is the media that enable Saavedra to travel through time back to the moment when the stabbing occurred.

The original idea of Irregular world is to express the drama and contingency in the public space, which is the core of expression to find the appropriate space carrier. In several searches, we have tried to find places such as amusement parks and parks, and found that they can not be accurately expressed. The hospital emergency room is a place where dramatic conflicts are very strong in our life. We think that human beings have various states of embarrassment, sadness and panic in this space, and those exposed state emotions make the emergency room a drama stage. The most direct way to show this space is through long lens.

The story behind one of the best loved British sitcoms ever made, from humble beginnings to smash hit. This show celebrates all of Dad’s Army’s iconic catchphrases, the hilarious stunts, and goes behind the scenes to discover what happened when the cameras stopped rolling. Former cast member Ian Lavender reflects on the show, and there are also contributions from Jonathan Ross, John Thompson, Al Murray, Eammon Holmes, Kelly Holmes and many others.

Alden Taylor presents a brief look into the youth of today.

On November 3, 1996, «the richest man in Ukraine», Yevhen Shcherban, was killed in Donetsk. At the time of the murder, his fortune was estimated at about $ 500 million. Scherban's companies were engaged in the production and sale of metal, gas, oil products, construction and financial transactions. The elder son of the murdered businessman Yevhen Shcherban Jr. has been conducting his own investigation since 2013 and is trying to find out where his father's inheritance has disappeared.

Greedgeist looks at our relationship with money and the manifestation of greed in our culture, all seen through the camera lens of journalists from around the world. Greedgeist reveals how money, and the laws that govern it, is being debated by politicians, corporations, and our learning institutions and the polarizing affect of greed in the world at large and in our daily lives.

Like many young girls from Africa, Messania was forced to undergo female genital mutilation to make her marriageable to a much older stranger, but she found the determination to escape abuse and challenge harmful cultural norms.

In the perilous 1870's and 80's, The Hyers Sisters (popular African-American, touring-opera prodigies) left their dream of opera stardom and stood up for the dignity of their people to become Voices for Freedom -- changing minds and hearts, introducing the first black leading players to operatic audiences, and creating the first American musicals.

Twinned with Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France.

This documentary tells the story of the LGBTTI communities who have suffered persecution, prison and torture for their sexual condition under different military dictatorships in recent decades. The idea borns from the photographic and archival project for the recovery of the historical memory of the different LGBTTI communities in the world, a chapter of history too often hidden and forgotten. This first chapter is a journey around Spain, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, countries where the dictatorship has strongly marked the history of the LGBTTI community, oppressed by police regimes and social intolerance.

An exploration of women's collective imagination about marriage, through words and pictures.

For Ona, a young woman from the small Indonesian island of Kaledupa, the struggle to receive an education and marry a decent man is hard won. Her dream is to become a marine biologist and she has the drive to do it, despite no one in her family believing in her. However, her focus on her studies is interrupted when the man she is betrothed to marry is released from prison and rapes her, leaving her no choice but to demand he marry her, so she can protect the good name of her unsupportive family.

Mariam Mola is a self-styled entrepreneur - and a career con artist. In this wild game of cat-and-mouse, she's exposed by her victims as the fraudster she really is.

A very special ball is stolen in a mysterious way.

This documentary exposes the wild, untold history of LGBT activism in ultra-conservative Texas and its impact on the national stage as told by the movement's ultimate outsider, Ray Hill: a labor activists' son, ex-con, and "loud-mouthed queer," whose 50 years of fearlessly protesting for LGBTQ equality energized a grassroots movement to take powerful, political action.

A short documentary following two freelance actresses, determined to make it online in the growing voiceover industry.

Neil Elliot (Nelly) has devoted his life to the highland games, in particular caber tossing, a sport that has been around for centuries. This film is a self reflection of his career and his relationship with the sport.

Ocean activist Lamya Essemlali works to prevent overfishing and to protect marine turtles from being poached in the Indian Ocean and pilot whales from being hunted in the North Atlantic.

The young filmmaker Francisco "Xico" Ariztía shoots up close to his father, Francisco Ariztía, an exceptional Chilean artist who has lived in Portugal since the 1970s. In his house-workshop in the city of Lisbon, Xico's camera reveals the painter's intimacy and his creation, interweaving his work with a biography full of collaborations with avant-garde artists, such as painter Roberto Matta, filmmaker Raúl Ruiz and many others. Caminero is a visual exploration and intimate portrait of an exceptional painter, in an exhibition of the relationship between son and father, filmed and shot.

The definition of a “home” is an illusive term for it may be a place of permanence or impermanence, or may even be a memory. South African filmmaker, Deon Kay, is naturalized in America and in this striking video essay he converges old home footage, news coverage and text with contemporary images that move between South Africa and the United States, drawing parallels between the problems each country faces. South Africans have looked abroad to make Europe or America their new home, evading the inherent issues of racism, xenophobia, inequality and corruption in South Africa. When arriving at the same point that you hoped to depart from, nostalgia becomes a tricky slope as wishing for home may make you realise this was an unachievable reality all along.

After months being locked up at home, I was drawn into a harm reduction program to spend the weekend in a big house where my grandfather worked. It’s time now for the seasoned black fag with harmful life to live her dream of becoming an artist!

After a night of planning and mourning, a storm is brewing at early hours of 1 July, 2019. In face of the absurdity of the government's indoor flag ceremony, protesters question the usefulness of peaceful protest and hope to storm the Legislative Council Complex as a last-ditch effort to ignite change in the movement. As they confront pro-democracy councillors outside the complex, their pent-up anger and despair explode.

This short documentary follows the process of monument installation of the first Croatian president, dr. Franjo Tudjman, in Zagreb. It is an aesthetic observation of the wrapped sculpture as an overlay that reveals a new surface. By exposing it to different weather conditions it brings out the changes in sonic, visual and tactile experiences. The film combines video footage of the monument taken just few days before its unveiling, when it was still wrapped in a thick layer of nylon, and takes us through a wide range of dynamic actions performed around the statue, from construction preparations to the protests of masses of people.

"I always needed fiction to make sense of reality". A cinematic image fills the void left by the death of a loved one. This is a film about loss, loneliness and the love for the movies.

A very private trip through Russia - a world power with a shrinking population, a myriad of ethnic minorities, and vast distances, a country between tradtion and future.

Rather than the much desired rest he longed for, the film director’s vacation in Spain in 2019 brought images of immigrants being pulled from the sea and protests held by Catalan separatists in Barcelona. In his film, presented in the form of a painful memory, he layers home video shots and found footage.

A close examination of the effect of toxic stress on children living in war zones.

A brutal alpha male who does not respect women decides to return the location of one of his former loves for the sake of increasing self-esteem. But in the end he discovers feelings in himself that he had never thought about before.

Each of my trips to the village is a ritual of memory. In walks to your favorite places, in landscapes and in people, you always try to find images from your childhood and remember those who no longer exist. Memory is fragile, but that's all we have.

Listen to the sound of the waves, the turtles, all these lamps; many personal emotions and sensations.

Stories of relationships with men of two girls in love with each other.

In 2018, an agreement was signed on the transfer of the Ingush lands to the Chechen Republic. The Ingush protested and fought for justice. After regular rallies in 2019, criminal prosecution of leaders and protesters began.

In Caucasus, men and women tell stories about their fascination with prehistoric monuments. Offering a hallucinatory perspective on ecstatic effects and ancestral powers, the film is also about how stone activates children's paranormal capacities. Bodies and minds are put to the test and question our relationship with the visible and the invisible.

The film is about how a motorcycle trip to the island of Gotland led to reflections on the work and life of director Andrei Tarkovsky.

An incredible true story of survival and forgiveness. Eva Kor and her twin sister Miriam were captured by Nazis and experimented on in Auschwitz as children. Despite struggling with her traumatic past, Eva decides to forgive her tormentors.

Once again ten-year-old Romy must say goodbye to her school class to travel through Europe with her family. She pitches in at home because circus life makes children grow up quickly. This film lets us share in her everyday life and the passion for the grand performance. It talks about her longing for the familiar, but also the freedom of being on the road.

Kwinten is proud of his Dad who is the commander of a naval ship. But a new mission takes his Dad to sea again for three months. Kwinten waits for postcards and counts the days. His best friend now lives in another town, but fortunately comes to visit. Coping with missing his father isn’t easy for Kwinten. Seeing him again is all the more wonderful, though.

Eyewitness accounts and cine films from 1945.

A poetic coming of age documentary that follows several intertwined conversations with a multicultural film crew and their struggle with cultural identity. Introducing and combating 'Cultural Dysphoria' allows those apart of multiple cultures to find peace within themselves by rediscovering Canadian customs and the culture that has gifted them a beginning. It is essential that those individuals see, not a disadvantage, but the privilege and beauty to have been apart of both.

Blossoming Voices is a poetic documentary portrait about Villa Voortman, a meeting place in Belgium for people with a dual diagnosis. The film follows regular visitors Edith, Henk and Jan-Willem, giving them time and space to express their voice, pace and rhythm, as music is a cornerstone of the center's philosophy. In the shadow of a beautiful tree, music of many roots and branches arises from the villa.

The Black Artists’ Group of St. Louis (BAG) formed in the late 1960s as an arts collective devoted to raising Black consciousness, battling social injustice, and exploring the far reaches of experimental performance.

“America’s Last Little Italy” explores the deep historic roots of the Hill, St. Louis’ iconic Italian neighborhood. Italians who immigrated to St. Louis in search of the American Dream built a “Little Italy” in the city’s heart that still flourishes to this day.