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Dear Father...tells the story of Beate, who from a young age was sexually abused by her father. Beate has fought hard to take back the power of her own life and body. The film tackles an important and tabu topic, and it is a story about the hope and strength that we humans have within ourselves.

Life is a struggle. This was confirmed by journalists from Ivanovo Andrey Yevgenyevich Moscow student Nikita Mikheenko, who for several years have been trying to prove their innocence, being behind bars on dubious charges. But the presumption of guilt can and should be fought.

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.

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.

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.

On July 8th, 2019, the New Democracy government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis assumed power in Greece, after campaigning on a promise to ‘clean up’ the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia, and ‘take it back’ from the anarchists. Since then, the Greek state has launched a renewed attack against the anarchist and self-organized migrant movements, targeting squats and promising future raids. Against this threat, Greek anarchists have responded with characteristic resolve and determination.

A young Cambodian poet returns to his home village where his father used to crop rice. The filmmaker, camera operator and friend, is conduced by the words and images of the poet that wants to tell his father how is life going. History that grants poetry and dignity to the political issues of land and work.

Short by Danny Carroll.

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

A film for A.R. Ammons, author of Garbage: A Poem (1993), and baculovirologist Lois Miller. 10 quintillion insects live on the planet—that is, 300 pounds of insects for every pound of human flesh. They drive decomposition, dissolution, and decay that makes way for the new. Specifically, darkling beetle larvae, Tenebrio molitor (roughly translated as "death spirits" and "millers"), better known as yellow mealworms, are capable of digesting Styrofoam by way of their gut microbiome, biodegrading the plastic waste into carbon and hydrogen. Their lives run counter to ours, which revolve around accumulation and accretion.

Vestige: n., a trace of something that no longer or cannot exist.

Ruth loves Carnival. Dárcio always goes with her.

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!

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.

The film tells about the architect Tsogik Arabian and the fate of the house she built.

Nikita eats food from the trash can, sleeps wherever he has to, and dresses in whatever kind people give him. Nikita is not a bum, he just has a dream and is ready to do everything to make it come true.

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.

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.

The film tells about the families of innocent convicts, in particular, about two mothers, whose children are in prison. They are trying to prove the innocence of their children and the falsification of criminal case materials by law enforcement officials.

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.

The film tells about military conflicts in which Russia takes part. Opinions and different points of view of ordinary Russians and people of creative professions. Vladimir, Moscow, St. Petersburg, then everywhere...

In the life of 40-year-old Dana, there was one suicide attempt, fights with homophobes, drugs and a broken heart. Living in Russia, she is not afraid to speak openly about her orientation, enduring threats and ridicule. However, Dana does not despair and finds solace in watching TV series and the big Big Tasty.

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.

Nostalgia refers to the feeling one has for a place one has left, while solastalgia expresses one's relationship to the place where one has lived one's life. Ecological philosopher Glenn Albrecht refers to the impact of environmental change on the mental health of the people who live there, and the film explores this relationship through the stories of people connected to a quarry near Maastricht, using impressive visuals consisting exclusively of drone footage of the landscape.

An exercise in introspection, a request for patience, an exploration of space both internal and external. Have you ever felt connected to someone you’ve never met?

An autobiographical portrait of a backyard from Spring to Fall 2009. This footage was revisited after a 10-year hiatus, and reveals a deeper personal story about our attempts to start a family.

A meditation on transnational adoption, identity, and colorblindness growing up in a transracial family.

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.

A gloomy filmic contribution to sea rescue and a concentrated revelation of the mechanisms of systematic flight prevention in the Mediterranean and the people responsible for it.

The film tells the story of the Russian Navy officer Vasily Boisman, who, seriously wounded after the Battle of Port Arthur, was taken prisoner by Japan. According to the laws of that time, Vasily, as an officer, had the right to return to his homeland, but he chose captivity — together with the crew of his ship, remaining faithful to the duty of the Human and the Office

An inventive examination of the legacy of the 1990s: In his experimental short film, Ben Young portrays the figure of the then U.S. president – whom he is said to have met once in person in Louisville, Kentucky – as a foil for the questionable political developments, the beginnings of a globalised world and a society marked by collective amnesia. The director’s intelligent, witty and very personal reckoning with Bill Clinton.

A cinematic family constellation in which the audience is guided through a seemingly random conglomeration of private photos, video recordings, notes, thoughts, sounds and texts. Narrative strands crystallise, only to be discarded, taken up again and finally left standing in their ambiguity. A film about the big questions of life, love, family, relationships, death and good food. No more, and certainly no less.

How can we visualise the past without perceiving it too much as a historical fact? This film uses a clever combination of archival material and oral history to bring memories of a transgenerative trauma and the associated pain to the surface.

Camps of Dependence is a short documentary looking at the COVID-19 pandemic as an instrument of eugenics against disabled people in Britain. The film looks at the political economy of disability, the nature of dependence as a relation of repression, disabled people's resistance, eugenics as an ideology and the nature of the process of barbarism today underway in the British care sector.

In this short film, six Syrian women living in Jordan recount their personal stories of survival – from displacement, child-marriage, and trauma, to their resilience and hope to rebuild a better future for their children.

This is a story on human desire and acrid smoke. When Myanmar opened its borders in 2010, there was an incursion of foreign capital into these unclaimed lands, with China the most aggressive of them all. Determined to also stake their claim within this fever rush of Chinese cash, Yung-heung and his comrades have set ablaze large swathes of forest alongside northern Myanmar to be turned into farmland.

A foggy window, a person climbing onto a roof with a camera, and a horizon stretching out to infinity. A distant and at the same time close space, a country where injustices reign and acts of police violence are commonplace from day to day. A reflection on social injustice and the need to pay attention to reality.

Once Upon a Sea is a poetic, interactive XR documentary telling the tragic tale of the legendary Dead Sea. Through a physical exploration of the sea’s forbidden, moonlike landscapes, to intimate encounters with local characters, the user gets a rare glimpse into one of the world’s most dangerous,soon to be extinct, wonders. Centuries of human intervention and political neglect have turned the Dead Sea into a precarious place. Its water levels have dropped dramatically, leaving behind sinkholes and collapsing beaches. The experience offers a deep insight into the complexity and very human impact of this ecological and geopolitical crisis. Once Upon a Sea is our call to action.

Rightly titled ‘More than ‘just’ a teacher’, it is a film that encapsulates several aspects of the National Award Winning educator’s life both within and outside of the ambit of her profession. Revealing her eccentricities and remarkabilities alike, the film is an unusual, yet heartwarming portrait created in a fluttering montage of perspectives. FEATURING EXCLUSIVELY ON CINEMAPRENEUR

Born, Unborn and Born Again revolves around my struggle to embody the White Horse, a zodiac sign which occurs every 60-year cycle in East Asian Countries. This film explores the transnational nature of governmental control over reproductive systems, and how this oppression manifests in our bodies and perceptions of self. I use the structure of my mother tongue, Korean, and my second language, English, to contemplate ruptures, repetition of time, and violence against women. An untold history resurfaces in the present, and re-orients us towards the future.

Basque musician Kepa Junkera travels to Évora for a musical dip. Without giving up his roots, he meets the Alentejo singing and reveals 7 different Évoras to us.

Mundo explores the widespread phenomenon of evangelical conversion among indigenous peoples in South America through the case of Matilde, an elderly Aymara woman who raises cattle on the border between Chile and Bolivia. The film delicately shows how, for her, the sacred land is becoming an evil place and how the sky is filling up with a new presence. One world is eclipsing to make room for another.

Juju is a young influencer very well known in Instagram. But her brother dreams about unmasking her before a legion of followers. Is everything fake on the net?