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The Last Page documents the final days of a bookseller Polan Shobo, specialising in antiquarian books in the Tokyo suburbs. Kyosuke Ishida, the owner, decided to close down his shop after 35 years due to the recession brought on by the pandemic. In the week before the closing day, the shop saw an unexpected surge in visitors.

SolarStratos, a mission envisioned by Raphaël Domjan and an airplane designed by Calin Gologan, returns to the skies after a short hiatus in its program in 2018.

This documentary feature examines the tragic tale of Material Issue, a Chicago rock band on the cusp of superstardom that was cut short by its frontman's suicide. This is a power pop trio that was literally out of time, sandwiched between the post-punk era of the 80s and the alternative rock movement of the 90s, searching for its identity in the gritty world of rock and roll.

An unknown narrator questions life and death, while observing the day to day life of a cat.

Composition for twenty photographs, sound effects and narrating voice. Twenty pictures taken between spring and summer 1934. A moving love story lost in the past. Mountains as a place of the soul, between Trentino and Südtirol. The photographs come from the director’s family archive, kept by his father Carlo, a retired professor. The female protagonist of the story is the director’s grandmother, Alessandra Buffatto, who was 21 at the time of the pictures. The short film is dedicated to her memory.

Surf the glittering channels of Xenia's mind in this highly saturated, musical spectacular where she and an old friend begin making sense of the issues between Xenia and her boyfriend, Keke.

It offers in the subtitle this documentary that explores the sound and cultural intersections produced in the North of Chile between heavy-metal and Andean music. Bands from Chile, Peru and Bolivia exemplify this sound, as lively as it is little studied. It is music with a distinctive identity, both traditional and globalized.

An epic documentary film on the mystic music traditions of Bauls. The Bauls of Bengal have kept their philosophies alive for over 1000 years, but modern demands threaten their simple, enlightened lifestyles.

The latest exhibition, successfully held at the Center of Modern and Contemporary Art in La Spezia, of the famous British mime, dancer, choreographer and director Lindsay Kemp and designed together with Claudio Barontini, one of the most important portraitist in contemporary photography .

Safe Space is pieced together from numerous YouTube clips of ballroom events from the early 1990s. Ballroom culture is created by trans and queer people of colour in response to a society that marginalised their presence.

2020. A raging pandemic. A country in crisis. A world on the brink of collapse. For many, this was the darkest moment of their lifetime. Everyday was filled with loneliness and hopelessness. For so long, it seemed that there was no one in sight. People began to lose hope that life could return to normal ever again. Until one day, an incredible new case for hope arrived. so we could all finally start living again.

A submergence into the vivid realities of three transgender sex workers living in Cape Town, South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Embark on a journey where one artist struggles to heal herself and a community through a collaborative art effort.

A photographer takes pictures of things she finds interesting

I get home late from my underpaid job. I open the fridge and remember that I didn't have the time to cook for today or buy any groceries. It's the end of the month and I can't afford eating out. I lustily scan my flat mates' shelves, but there's nothing I can steal without it being too noticeable. I end up boiling some pasta, pour some pesto sauce on top of it, and take the plate to my room. Filled with posters, pictures, and drawings, my wall becomes a window. I close my eyes, I'm not there anymore -I'm in a different time, somewhe-re not here.

Faggots have a lot to learn from dykes and vice versa.

A probe into the harsh realities of pursuing a passion in a setting that does not reward it.

While reading the diaries of his grandfather, imprisoned during the dictatorship of Hoxa in Albania, the director recognises the pigeon outside his window that kept him company during his incarceration. A short circuit that leads him to reflect on the open wounds of family history.

The construction of the "garden-village", the flood of '68, the urban expansion, the birth of the Don Mazzi Community, up to the challenges of the "Covid era" and the projects for the future of the neighbourhood, synonymous with solidarity and integration. An educational project that involved a group of students from ISIS Galilei in Florence.

In the small Danish town of Holstebro, Eugenio Barba realizes the Festuge, a spectacular theatrical project: a hundred horses from all over Europe travel together the border area of ​​the Danish coast, break into the city, even entering the premises of the library.

In the spring of 2018, the filmmaker Maria Petschnig befriended Marc who at that time was living in his car in Brooklyn for more than a year, while also holding a day job. Petschnig started to record his life and struggle, his thoughts, routines, etc. over the course of two years.

In this colorful and moving animated documentary, we follow Michelle, a young lady as she prepares to fly at the airport. At the TSA line, a mother and her daughter stare at her like deer in the headlights. Michelle responds with a smile and a hello. To her surprise, the mother-daughter runs away from her, screaming “We need to wash our hands now!” Michelle then takes us through her emotional reflection on the bizarre yet embarrassing encounter. It is revealed at the end that Michelle is an Asian-American pharmacist and she is a frontline health worker during this pandemic. Narrated by Michelle herself, this film offers an honest look at fear and connection in an era marked by uncertainty.

The film takes a look at the life and work of Pabung Syam through the eyes of one of his admirers and student.

Max uses their music and honesty to create a sincere coming-out video for their parents, intimately explaining their non gender-conforming identity.

Tracing her journey from Australia to the UK, director Joanna Callaghan weaves together her own personal history with a wider story of colonisation, migration and the role of geography in identity. Framed by a road trip through Australia, Callaghan uses a diverse range of recorded media to explore her relationship with the country, her family and her own creative life. Shaping this rich mix of archive material, including family photos, home movies and extracts from her own films and photography, Record builds to reveal a lifetime’s journey.

A family has lunch under the shade of a C-47 warcraft. An army installation contains the last remnants of an endangered grassland ecology. Young filmmakers hone their skills making a cop show on Chicago streets. Stylized scenes of field botanists, retail clerks, and soldiers in Clarksville, Tennessee and television workers, and police in Chicago, Illinois reveal the unseen forces of imperialism in US daily life. An examination of a television production and quotations from revolutionary and resistance fighters build to a provocation: name the enemy or become it.

A pandemic diary filmed mostly in NYC, incorporating Super 8 and digital video recorded with Street's unique experimental eye. "From the uncertain first months when every foray felt perilous to various re openings, outings are recorded and reflections shared. Stills punctuate abstract and documentary footage, offering a collage of mediums in the face of the unknowable. "Sorties" is a military term-- a mission launched from a defensive position. That's sort of what a walk felt like in March 2020 in NYC. And then of course things changed; cases went up and down, the science evolved, fear waxed and waned. Of course, the pandemic continues; but I had to limit myself in making the film; March 2020-August 2021."

To create this hypnotic experimental dome film, an AI model was trained using thousands of photos of buildings in Montreal, taken with a fisheye lens. The pictures were processed with a self-learning algorithm that gradually recognizes patterns in data, and develops its own rules for how to represent those patterns, taking into account the geometric and perspective requirements of a 360-degree dome projection.

The story of Lew Stude, who single-handedly saved an art form from extinction.

A big dreamer from the small town of Togliatti, Russia ponders life's purpose while building a rocket powered sled made from discarded trash.

Spaces of terror, produced by massacre or disappearance, do not belong to far away galaxies, or to some kind of no one’s land, but are inserted in our everyday geographies. We coexist with them, often without seeing or perceiving. They have a voice and things to tell, so let’s start listening.

The surface of the skull is smooth as marble, except for the fractures surrounding the small, round bullet hole. The camera penetrates this opening, revealing the rock-like landscape within, of deep ravines, jagged-edged craters, and bony reefs. Here and there we see a web hanging, inhabited by a spider. The gurgling and whooshing of the tapestry of sound intensifies the ominous atmosphere.

Which predator has the strongest bite in the animal kingdom? Realistic graphics break down the bite of some of the world’s fiercest and deadliest—lions, crocs, sharks, gators, jaguars and more.

In Kano City, Northern Nigeria, crowds gather to watch local heroes face off in the ancient Hausa martial art of Dambe. Part battle, part dance, part live mythology, it’s a cultural tradition that has survived and thrived in the region, despite invasion, famine, British colonialism and attacks by Boko Haram. In Dambe’s lightning-fast bouts, against a hypnotic soundtrack of live drumming and improvised praise songs, conflicts erupt, rivalries are formed and legends are made.

On 1 January 2021, the UK took the final, definitive step of its Brexit process and left the EU’s customs union and single market. Even if the complete chaos of an exit without a connection agreement was prevented at the last minute, it is still a hard break between the UK and the EU. A hard Brexit, in other words – with restrictions on trade and services as well as economic losses in the billions that experts predict for both sides. In whose interest is that? The documentary follows the question of who the actors are who wanted a Hard Brexit at any price, and shows the means they used to pursue this goal. It is an investigative journey involving discreet London addresses, neoliberal think tanks and a party that is actually a company.

The film is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Bilbao; six people who project their pride, their sense of belonging to a mixed, open and effervescent city. Six lives defined by their own rhythm that make the city flourish. This is the cinematic result of the sum of images and emotions. An organic creation of the ‘Bilbao’ concept. Being from Bilbao implies conveying through emotions why Bilbao is a wonderful city in which we live, feel, work, love, share and coexist.

In the last decades, boarding schools of different religious orders have been closing down, and with them, an essential pedagogical system of education and identity has disappeared. As part of their pedagogical method, the schools had an herbarium and a large collection of stuffed animals from the Missions. This film connects identity with the diaspora of the Missions, and the forgotten pedagogical systems with the construction of the exotic and colonial imaginary.

In a short film at once personal and universal, the filmmaker explores the family dynamics that unfolded during lockdown. A touching, aesthetically inspired piece.

A participant in the Soirée de la relève in 2017, Gisela Restrepo returns to the RIDM with her first feature film, a work as political as it is personal. The filmmaker, named after her aunt who was reported missing in the 80s, revisits a family wound that never had the chance to heal. She makes the journey to Colombia, her parents’ homeland, searching for the remains of her aunt who fought in the civil war and whose story is shrouded in mystery. The journey sheds light on an emblematic woman, whom Gisela never had the chance to meet; meanwhile, the film shatters the silence that was forced on her family and on all those denied the possibility of burying their dead.

In the nation’s fruit basket, Latino community organizers and farmworkers are finding their voice and demanding equal representation at the ballot box.

Musician Dan, who was forced to quit performing due to the Covid-19 lockdown, is getting ready to perform alongside his bandmates as New York City gradually opens up. Before his street gig, Dan holds a warm-up session by playing for his granddad using an old but cherished saxophone he had passed on to him.

Thibault, a young painter, attempts to paint a live model for the first time.

Teo, a 36-year-old Italian, was adopted by Cesare and his wife when he was just a baby. A few years ago, his mother died of cancer and that changed his life. As Teo begins to heal, he decides to change paths and start studying acting, a decision with which his father disagrees.

When a FIlipina-American niece travels to Tacloban, Philippines to visit her beloved aunt, other relatives show up with a message, transforming the nature of the family visit.

In 2017, Alaa moved to NYC after getting married in Egypt. Thinking back, he explores the relationship between immigration and fatherhood. What does America truly represent for Alaa?

In a time of imposed isolation, one is learning to accept and find solace in the moments of silence.

A look into the New York City parole system reveals its limitations and prejudices, as parolees speak about their experiences trying to convince others that they are more than the actions of their past.

A tender look at three generations of motherhood and music in a bittersweet recollection of filmmaker Paolo Bitanga’s last Christmas with his grandmother.

Two men laugh about their days of mischief and wonder as they remember their most iconic adventure: hopping on a one-way plane to New York.