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This visually idiosyncratic short documentary concerns itself with immigrants who fled their troubled home countries to settle in safe Finland. However, in their adopted home country, they have run into street violence. By telling the story of these brothers the film asks if it is possible to break the cycle of violence through one’s own actions and to live without constantly having to look over one’s shoulder? The film’s aesthetic choices are bold and alienate the viewer from the violence of the subject to just the right degree.

Wildlife rescue work often involves racing against time. At the WildOne Wildlife Rescue Station in Chishang, Taitung, many wild animals, big and small, flood in as soon as the breeding season begins in spring and summer. Many injured animals, frightened and stressed, may even refuse to eat. Treating and caring are challenging to the veterinarians and rehabilitators. Despite the effort invested in their care, they must restrain their emotions to avoid the animals becoming familiar with humans. And sometimes, after extensive care, if releasing them back into the wild isn’t possible, euthanasia may be necessary for the sake of the animal's good. The film Journey Bound Home documents the journey at the WildOne Wildlife Rescue Station, from receiving injured wildlife to determining if they can ultimately be released back into their natural habitats.

Uninterrupted family shenanigans and static sights of some places my family visited in Switzerland. An unfinished, public video archive.

Coal mining was the life blood of Wales... until it wasn't.

Germany holds the largest collection of Cameroonian cultural objects in the world in its Ethnological museums. One important piece is 'Mandu Yenu' the Royal Throne of Bamum, a striking work adorned with glass beads and cowrie shells, also known as the Pearl Throne. What should be done with this masterwork and other pieces overshadowed by their colonial heritage?

A short documentary.

In an attempt to make her mother's dream come true, the director accompanies and is accompanied by three VRChat users, Rúben, Rodrigo and Stiff, who share their experiences and their contact with virtual reality, in an affective, technological and critical way.

An adult couple picks lemons in their garden. This silent film is an homage to Louis and Auguste Lumière's movies

In Guadalajara, Oscar Hernández, known as Mr. Tree, has spent 25 years planting and preserving trees with his own resources. Despite challenges from authorities, he remains dedicated to teaching children and adults the importance of loving and respecting nature.

The last days of a young farmer on a Greek island as he prepares to leave for mandatory military service, navigating the expectations of his community. The island’s landscape mirrors his internal shift, marking a quiet moment of transition.

Bluegrass 45, from Kobe, Japan was one of the most prolific bluegrass bands in the 1960s. Fifty years later, they reunite to retrace their 1971 tour deep in the American South. With infectious joy and humor, CALLED TO THE MOUNTAINS explores their unique musical world, as we get to know the individuals who make up the band and their connection to the music and culture that called them, accepted them, and forever changed their identities––from 5,000 miles away.

While living abroad, a queer filmmaker occasionaly returns to his hometown of Tripoli, Lebanon. His quest to confront the city that once rejected him inspires reflections that give the film the character of an urban symphony.

An invitation to rethink our relationship with the city of São Paulo, a vibrant and complex metropolis, but also marked by inequalities and segregation. This film takes us on a journey through the stories of resistance and struggle of marginalized groups, highlighting their voices and their daily battles for the legitimate occupation of urban space. From the colorful streets of Jardim da União to the community garden of Mulheres do GAU, from the warm theater of Cia Mungunzá to the ancestry preserved in Pico do Jaraguá, we are invited to witness the strength and resilience of these communities. Each scene reminds us of the richness of diversity and the need to build a more inclusive and fair city for everyone.

A tale about one of the UK's most notorious credit card fraudsters whose crime wave began at just 16 years of age. While his contemporaries were using fake IDs to get into nightclubs he was defrauding cardholders from his desk in a call centre.

What happens when an image leaves a state archive and enters the feedback loops of an artificial neural network? Inspired by an encounter that the artist had at the Google Cultural Institute with an image originating from the National Gallery Singapore, Figures of History and the Grounds of Intelligence travels back in time to probe the intersecting histories of state planning, global networks and cybernetics that span from the Cold War to the ongoing boom in generative artificial intelligence. Looking into how different historical figurations have come to make up the grounds of “intelligence” that underpin today’s generative text-to-image models, the narrative focuses on what it means for these models to “learn” from history without actually understanding it in order to generate ever-changing distributions of noise. At stake here is the future of representation itself—a future where images appear to have no history to speak of.

Women all over the world are choosing to ditch the dye and embrace their grey hair. This documentary explores the reasons behind the trend through personal stories and expert opinions.

A housing estate, childhood memories. From the windows of my apartment, I film the place where I grew up—this vanished kingdom. The adventures and mysteries of yesterday blend into the present, where reality and imagination blur together. Starry nights when we dreamed of life in the sky, afternoons when every corner became a world to discover... Just yesterday, this place was the stage of childhood dreams.

It stands on the highest point of the small East German town of Artern and can be seen from all directions, even from a distance. A radio mast of the FMT8 type. Until today called 'The Tall Harald' after the towns first post-reunification mayor. But then the image begins to change.

In 1968, a group of radical journalists leave the city and politics to live communally as organic farmers. The film examines their lives and return to the political world and how the commune became a community.

the jay, the train, the moss, the soil trembling. how to listen to a space considered empty? ‘underneath it flickers’ takes different perspectives on la friche josaphat, a verdant fallow land in brussels threatened by real estate development. by questioning our ways of looking and listening, the film seeks to connect with the land as a single body inhabited by many creatures.

Documentation of time spent in North Carolina, June 6th through the 9th, 2024

Ceramic artist Charles Smith of Mobile, Alabama, has a lot to say. His Afrocentric sculptures and art help tell the real story of Alabama’s Gulf Coast, going back centuries to honor the ghosts of the past.

A documentary about former team principal Franz Tost and how he built up the fledgling Toro Rosso outfit into a Grand Prix winning team. How he helped nurture and grow exciting new talent into becoming future world champions. Drivers such as Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel! He explains his process in working with drivers, managing a growing team, and facing multiple challenges.

A first person journey through a lunchtime adventure as he finds himself enthralled by a masterpiece.

Rome, the "Eternal City", has captivated people for centuries. In 1532, Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck visited the city to sketch ancient ruins and sculptures. Nearly 500 years later, the Urban Sketchers, a global movement of illustrators, are drawn to his work. The film explores Heemskerck's journey, the sketchers following in his footsteps, and the "Fascination Rome" exhibition at Berlin's Kulturforum (April 28 - August 4, 2024).

Every day, 22 veterans commit suicide in the United States. Mission Outdoors is an organization dedicated to reconnecting veterans back into their community to inspire hope back into their lives.

A dirty samba circle. Guided by the moment and edited from two shots without temporal cuts, the film expresses and vivifies in images the dynamics and traditions of Samba de Roda do Recôncavo Baiano, in Santiago do Iguape, district of the city of Cachoeira. With a handheld camera and free camera movements, he emphasizes the movement of the percussionists, the scream of the sambadores and the dance: “olha a hora de entrar na roda, a hora certa, viu!”

In 2016, Venezuela introduced the CLAP program to provide essential food items during the economic crisis. However, Armando.info journalists discovered that the powdered milk included was deficient in calcium and high in sodium. Investigations revealed Alex Saab, a government contractor, was behind the overpriced imports. Journalist Roberto Deniz exposed Saab’s corruption and fled to Colombia due to threats. From there, he uncovered Saab's money laundering for Maduro and bribes to opposition members. Saab was arrested in Cape Verde and extradited to the US. Saab must choose to collaborate with US authorities or face trial, while Deniz, in exile, continues his reporting despite personal risks.

The filming of this movie – the story of Russia’s oldest homeless charity “Nochlezhka” – began in January 2022. At the beginning of February 2022, work was underway on the script, and then February 24th happened and all ideas and filming, like many other things, lost their meaning. Two years later, it seemed important to to return to that time, look at ourselves and the country back then, and realize how the ideas and meanings that seemed significant to us had completely changed 24 months later. Or simply ceased to exist.

The film is about a young poet who left the war for Turkey. Unlike many emigrants, no one is waiting for him at home. Double orphanhood makes Slava wonder: How does a person become a poet?

During the production of a documentary about his accordion-playing friend, a filmmaker pushes the boundaries of their relationship when a career opportunity presents itself.

La Estancia is a house doomed to disappear in a city like Medellín, where memory is treated harshly. It's a journey into a boarding house inhabited by old, lonely men who reveal their lives, loves, desires, and even their view of death. Guillermo and Álvaro, a couple for over 50 years, recall a buried city where homosexuality was silenced. Raúl, Guillermo’s current partner, seems trapped in a daily hell of bitterness. Javier, the antithesis, is a mystic who wears a kimono, is Mormon, and works in multi-level marketing. This place holds as many rooms as possible universes, separated by endless stairs, dark corridors, and glowing thresholds. A house, a labyrinth, a family—fractured like any other—where dialogue unfolds in broken conversations, where one’s view becomes another’s question. A web of silence, conflict, and mystery. A place they never expected to end up in—and from which they may never leave.

Through a powerful visual metaphor, Camille Vigny gives a first-person account of the domestic violence she suffered. The images and text interact with remarkable precision to convey the devastating impact of the cataclysm. It's a political gesture, brimming with courage, an icy cry that takes your breath away.

Fred Mills discovers the incredible infrastructure of the Faroe Islands.

The death of a father and a chilling encounter deep in Panama’s untamed jungle trigger a personal exploration of life and death through encounters with a diverse collection of people who face mortality’s physical and symbolic borders in their life and work.

A look back at the band in 1988, and their sold-out UK tour in 2023, while investigating why and how the group still stays together

Kadir İnanır writes in order to not forget every moment of his early professional life. This process of recording is not limited to writing. He consolidates this archive first with photographs and then with images. His archive includes behind-the-scenes footage from many films, thousands of photographs, some of the costumes he used in his films and priceless diaries. Hüseyin Karabey, who has been filming Kadir İnanır at regular intervals for about 13 years, based on his yet-to-be-published autobiography, shares with us an important part of the history of Turkish cinema through the actor’s testimony.

Universal Woman 2024, Philippines, Maria S. Gigante Phnom Penh, Cambodia March 22, 2024 First Runner-Up: Lisandra Chirinos, Venezuela Second Runner-Up: Elisa Mysyshyne, France Third Runner-Up: Brianna Mai, Cambodia Fourth Runner-Up: Tavera Pena Chabelli, Dominican Republic

Linking images of women's rights day demonstrations in Lille on March 8, 2024 with archive images of films from the Insoumuses collective.

Stand-up comedy seems like an easy thing to do - you get on stage, tell funny stories for an hour and also swear a little. Sander Õigus has been doing stand-up for over ten years, let's see how the truth becomes the truth and a joke becomes a joke.

Originally shown as three separate films, I. / II. / III. is a triptych portrait of the most intimate proportions. Simple scenes within the domicile become completely entrancing as layer after layer of exposure unfurls onto itself. The movement of the leaves, the light, his father: all become hypnotic in this silent sonata.

Raquel kept 3 diaries between the time she was a preteen until adulthood. She read them and realized a problem, that they dealt with boys.

Chiche is an ingenious and creative man who finds a strange rock, which he believes to be a fragment of a meteorite. Despite the little hope his family has in his projects, Chiche decides to bring it to an expert to determine its true origin.

The full-length documentary film “YUDI: Dance in the Dark” tells the story of three people from an orphanage who, in pursuit of the dream of performing on stage, organized their own dance team, YUDI, in the Siberian city of Tomsk. Subsequently, they became finalists in the projects “Minute of Fame” on Channel One in 2007, “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2015 and “America’s Got Talent” in 2018. The film shows in detail the formation of the team and the entire behind-the-scenes life of the main characters, where, in addition to victories and performances with stars on the same stage, there were also personal dramatic moments. The story of the main characters serves as motivation for the younger generation and proves that success on the world stage can be achieved even while in a remote region of Russia.

Meet Marcus Tribe, a fifth-generation forester, one of Britain’s last woodsmen. He lives in his wooden yurt on a 6-acre woodland in Devon and has spent over 20 years preserving the land and living self-sufficiently. Now in his older years, as he witnesses the climate crisis, he wishes to share his lifetime of knowledge in the hope of inspiring younger generations to reconnect with the land. Marcus’ hopeful wisdom believes what ancestral people taught; “that what you did in your lifetime wasn’t for you, it was for the next seven generations… So you made sure you left Mother Nature in the same condition for them.

Young biologist Diego García-Vega travels around Spain in search of common solutions to the profound crisis facing farmers and the looming ecological emergency.

The documentary features the testimony of Domingo Espinel Reyes, a goatherd from Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Spain) who shares the story of his childhood and youth as a goatherd, memories linked to springs and fountains that are now neglected.

WOS presenting his third studio album “DESCARTABLE” live at Racing Club Stadium.

The Great Auk was the original penguin, but disappeared in the mid 19th century. Stories and observations are woven together to create a narrative that floats between two worlds, in which the Great Auk becomes a symbol of a much larger and more urgent situation. Drawing a thread from past events to the ongoing biodiversity crisis, the film deals with loss. In the process of making the film, the artist travelled to meet various people and places with a connection to the extinct bird, from the home of the author of The Great Auk in England to the old Zoological Museum in Copenhagen, where the entrails of the last two Great Auks are kept in glass jars. The story is interwoven with close-up portraits of various seabirds taken with a Super-8 camera from Hornøya, Norway’s easternmost point and a bird sanctuary. They are all endangered, and through small moments captured on film, it is as if they have already become a memory.