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One afternoon at Trocadero, four young men tell us their perception of public space and how they occupy it, the group effect giving them the strength to make this forbidden city their own.

Onofrio died in Berlin in 1978 at the age 23, leaving behind some love letters, the last of which is from Maria, who believed him alive for 40 years. Made with the intention of giving a voice to the silence created by his family around this loss.

Whatever you think of pigs, you’re probably underestimating one of the world’s most amazing animals. A year with wild boars and their relatives reveals a tender and dedicated matriarchal society, playful youngsters, and powerful warriors.

When the students of Helgenæs Boarding School in Denmark go hunting together, it is primarily about what gets shot and who shoots it. But for these youngsters, who seem to find themselves somewhere in between childhood and adulthood, the hunt is a focal point for a shared culture as well as an identity. It becomes their way of tackling the transition into adulthood.

Small investors lose their savings, fund managers lose their reputation, financial regulators lose their credibility—the Wirecard bankruptcy has sent shockwaves through the financial market.

The film exposes the life of women who have been trafficked in various parts of India. Some of them have been trafficked because of debt bondage and some for sexual exploitation.

This documentary shows that the music community in Bandung does not just gather, but embraces each other. Even with their limitations, they can unite into a solid and creative community to conquer all negative views of the general public in the past. All challenges and obstacles were overcome together to later grow into a music industry that we know today. It is this long-standing concern that is trying to be revived through the inspiration of previous successes. GOR Saparua is a complete proof of the unyielding spirit displayed by Bandung music activists. Even Alvin, the director noted that the music event in Saparua had existed since 1963. It was started by Aneka Nada, a band that was strengthened by Sam and Acil Bimbo as well as Guruh Soekarno Putra. Until then its use is maximized by the next generation. Especially the 90's.

"Raised on Porn" exposes the ways pornography has become the new sex education for children and unpacks the dangerous lifelong implications of this global phenomenon. Through riveting firsthand accounts, cinematic re-enactments, 3D animation, and interviews with the world's leading neurologists, sociologists, psychologists, and therapists, "Raised on Porn" is filled to the brim with raw, compelling insight on how pornography is poisoning us and our relationships. This film shatters cultural myths about the "harmless" nature of pornography and provides a sobering framework to understand how this graphic genre of media has shaped our world, eliciting a desperately-needed call for change.

A documentary film chronicling the lives of African-Americans from Los Angeles, CA, traveling to Africa The Motherland for the first time.

Deep sea fishing - that's working to the limit. The ships of the German deep sea fishing fleet often stay at sea for months. The hunt for the black halibut takes the team to the Arctic Circle. Storm and snow are part of everyday life here, work on board is dangerous. Great trust in their comrades and their own skills makes the crew a tight-knit community. This documentary accompanies the crew on board one of the largest deep-sea trawlers in the German fleet.

Scotland's love of football is complicated. It unites us and divides us. It builds our hopes up and it breaks our hearts. It is an endless love that defies rhyme or reason. Scottish football isn't just a game, it's a way of life.

A little girl wakes up in the middle of a watermelon melon. She hears voices from watermelons. These are the stories of women - their fears. "Watermelon Bone" is a documentary animation about the fears of motherhood. The film is about love - the most sincere love – maternal.

This dance film focuses on the story of the cycle of the “semilla” (seed), attesting that no matter where we go, our roots connect us to our ancestors and to each other. We overcome impunity by cultivating, sprouting and growing life wherever we go.

"Shusha, you are free!", A joint production of "Baku Media Center" and "Salnamefilm" studio with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The documentary was shot on the eve of Victory Day. Interesting details of the Shusha operation, one of the most important battles of the Second Karabakh War, were presented to the audience for the first time in this film. The film includes interviews with soldiers and officers carrying out the Shusha operation, as well as exclusive footage taken during the operation.

The Lighting aims to revisit issues of discrimination rooted in technological development and image production. Three professional Togolese photographers explore how to use instruments to compensate for insufficient exposure while shooting dark skin tones. A leading software engineer, developing facial recognition algorithms at Taiwan's MediaTek, talks about how a newly-created camera algorithm is very popular on the African continent.

A group of young dancers from Kigali, Rwanda explores the theme “freedom” in various locations in Kigali. We get a glimpse into everyday life in Rwanda, and witness the young dancers’ passion and commitment to dance.

The Angolan Civil War still casts its shadow across the life of a young widow. The camera wanders through the rooms in her house, recording everyday objects and activities, while she describes how the war entered the family in a poetic monologue.

In Your Honor is not a band. It's not a song. Nor a documentary. IYH is an ambitious dream that brings all that together and shows how raw and how intense the symbiosis between a group of friends and their favorite band can be. It's a concept that was born the moment Dave Grohl (lead vocalist of Foo Fighters) surprised by the wild crowd's reaction during their show in Argentina in March 2018, salid "Why don't you start a band and I'll come to see you every night, how about that?" That phrase, which most of the times is symbolically interpreted as a thank-you gesture, didn't go unnoticed by one of the members of the crowd that night, Juan Pablo Sanzi, who immediately got the message of his idol and realized he had to do something about it. And so he did. IYH is a unique insight on a particular trait of Argentinian idiosyncrasy, linked the notion of 'passion' portrayed by soccer fans and how their behavior is replicated in rock concerts.

The story about a theater company and a cosmopolitan and migrant art forge.

"Contraction/ Expansion" is a 16mm record of gestation and its aftermath. Assembled from fragments of texts and necessarily domestic images, the film sets utopian desires for a more radical and comradely approach to birth, infant care, and gender against the background of interiors and isolation in pandemic times.

Zizinho was one of the best Brazilian football players ever and arguably the very best until the 1950's. His birth completed a century and this documentary celebrates it.

A simple love letter to Fortaleza city.

Behind the familiar myths and tales of patriotism, the true story of Thanksgiving's origins bears little resemblance to how we celebrate today.

A glimpse of the daily life of the workers who built and maintained Gading Serpong, one of Jakarta's satellite cities developed by a private developer.

Story of the hands of the people who turned soil into elixir... and reached from nonexistence to existence. An old story of the true value of water, of novel thoughts to drive water. Story of a town with all its vicissitudes, that has been shining like agate on the heart of the dry and barren soil of the desert. Story of the kind dialogue between religions and the scent of faith.

One month after marrying the woman of his dreams, Simon Sansome and his bride were starting a life and a family, when tragedy struck. Due to medical negligence, he lost all function from his waist down. Little did the couple know it would be the making of the man, now ranked in the 'top 100 most influential men in Britain'.

Set in the urban metropolis of London, this film is an intimate portrait of a Danish-born dancer Toke Broni Strandby. The director NONO expertly visualizes the emotionally layered journey we endure to fulfill our dreams while exploring themes of identity, contemporary alienation, and acceptance. An inspiring story about triumph, a celebration of the beautiful resilience of the human spirit.

How much control should we be able to exert on an unborn child—or on the body carrying an unborn child? To what extent should we be able to intervene in the reproductive process?

Three elderly New Jersey men search for the world's greatest Hot Texas Weiner, but along the way, discover the tragedy that has happened to their hometown, Paterson, New Jersey.

Uterine fibroids affect Black women three times more than women of any other race. After being diagnosed, the filmmaker sets out to explore health inequities and find out why so many Black women are as silent as the growth.

From a bunker on the roof of their communal Philadelphia row house, the militant Black revolutionaries of MOVE fight to protect their family and defend the rights of their arrested comrades. But their Osage Avenue neighbors shun them, and the city wants them gone. Using puppetry, Osage evokes the devastating, chilling conclusion to the standoff.

Interviews with associates of Klaus Kinski in his final years offer anecdotal evidence of his fragile state of mind and deteriorating work ethic.

How can hemp help heal and restore land? Two sisters in upstate New York seek to blaze a new trail in regenerative farming through the cultivation of this controversial plant.

Al Amari is a Palestinian refugee camp located in the West Bank. It has been here for more than seventy years and during this time its original appearance has been replaced by concrete buildings resembling a regular city. This is the Czech director’s second visit to this distinctive community, and despite many residents’ wariness of her, she forms friendships with the locals. The film consists of several portraits of refugees living in Al Amari and provides a report on the difficult everyday life of people surrounded by fear, war and violence. Taken as a whole, these portraits form the story of the filmmaker and her protagonists.

Halfway between a documentary and an artistic installation, Heimat, starting from the creative fragmentation of the Last Letters from Stalingrad, a collection of letters written in December 1942 by German soldiers besieged in the Stalingrad sack, is a sensorial and universal investigation of that very mysterious object that is the memory of Home: a mysterious, elusive object, always on the verge of fading. In Heimat, the paste of old family films, brushstrokes of color and chemical residues of decomposing film coexist. A reality that becomes oneiric, almost hallucinatory.

When an elderly, disgraced musician signs on to direct a young artist's music video, his idiosyncrasies and egomania take charge and the entire cast and crew find themselves on edge and at risk in this experimental single-shot film experience.

In a small village in the interior of Portugal, living one step away from the dead holds unimaginable secrets. The film tells us the story of an old couple who saw the whole neighbourhood turn into a cemetery.

A new short film created and intended as a school project

Sara says that anorexia took away 8 years of her life. And she is aware that this is the last moment when she can really change something. At a facility for girls with eating disorders she tries to recover so that she can continue her life and fulfill her dreams about her private life.

A new trendy word that appeared recently, a fashion, a technique, a trade, an offshoot of organic, a current of thought? In the midst of this ecological questioning that challenges us today more than ever, in the end, no one really knows. Yet behind that word lies an inexhaustible hat full of wonders, all of a beauty that could be called naturally simple. This documentary will take you to meet a family who practices permaculture on a daily basis and will make you discover, through their testimony and images of the four seasons, how today permaculture is much more than what we could imagine. A true art of living for tomorrow.

Marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11, this intimate film follows the life stories of six young people whose dads died in the attacks, before their kids ever got to know or even meet them

In the Galapagos Islands, a group of scientists works to understand the movements of the world's largest fish - the whale shark. Without understanding their breeding and migrations, we cannot hope to protect them. The scientists of the Galapagos Whale Shark Project head north to Darwin Island to uncover the secrets of these ocean giants.

A devotional love poem, a City Symphony. In 2011, Craig Baldwin drew me a map of the city of San Francisco. Over the years, the city became my spiritual home, and Craig became my mentor. In 2015 I rediscovered the map and decided to literalize it. For six months I walked the streets of San Francisco with a Bolex, clicking off frames, simulating the map, enacting every single circle, mark, straight line, etc… Part performance, part love letter, the film is a celebration of the City of my dreams. For Craig Baldwin.

The twelfth edition of the International Meeting of Collective Architectures was held in Palma de Mallorca, in the neighborhoods of La Soledat, Nou Llevant and Es Molinar, at the end of September 2019. The meeting focused on the imposition of false paradises and the description of the current mechanisms of urban transformation that expel people from their neighborhoods.

“54 YEARS LATE” is a short film that tells the gut-wrenching true-life story of Terry Gene Wright, a 58-year-old African American man who was not diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) until the age of 54 despite being seen by an array of healthcare practitioners, enduring countless hospitalizations and surgeries, and having all the classic symptoms of CF - a progressive and genetic disease that’s often perceived to affect only the Caucasian population. Written and directed by Michele Wright, Ph.D., and produced by Butterbean Productions, this movie emotionally depicts Terry’s roughly 5 ½-decade painful and surreal journey from childhood to adulthood to finally being diagnosed with CF “54 YEARS LATE”!

Made by the residents of Vila dos Pescadores, in Cubatão, during audiovisual workshops at the Querô Institute through the Querô Community project, the documentary builds, through testimonials, a little of the history of the old residents of the neighborhood and their direct relationship with fishing and the environment, bringing the positive look of the residents about Vila dos Pescadores.

Abdullah Milhim is a photographer trying to announce by photographing what is going on in the war zone, Syria to the world. Once, he goes to photograph a just bombed region, he sees an aged man inside the ruins. He is influenced deeply by the situation of the aged man who is just standing and crying while people are escaping and wounded are carried in the chaos, and so he takes the man’s photo. At the very moment, aircraft noise is heard and a bomb is dropped near them. After that day, Abdullah starts looking for his last photo, a new arm and his future.

The film follows the Australian-Lebanese filmmaker Daizy Gedeon's independent introspection into how Lebanon has ended up in a state of complete catastrophe, exposing the country's dark underbelly which is its most sinister enemy.