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An American Folly. Clear the deck, light the lights....it’s showtime, folks.

Dean extrapolated landscape images from 1920s Ford advertisements, leaving out the cars to focus on their representations of place and nature. She made the animation using a digital version of a multiplane camera technique employed in early Disney films to create an immersive and 3D illusion by separating two-dimensional images. This technique was itself inspired by Ford’s assembly line; Dean uses it to explore historical depictions of the American dream, exaggerating the subject matter’s fantastical style. [Overview courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art]

Talking and singing through his cell phone, Mestre Assis Calixto, a living legend of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, interacts with children via the internet.

A mother refuses to give up fighting for her wrongfully imprisoned son's release, culminating in a spectacular bipartisan collective effort spanning local and national exoneration and innocence activist movements.

A series of sketches interrogating my transition: the ways I have found peace in my body, gender, and sexuality alongside the uphill battle of self-destruction and reconstruction.

Documentary portrait of a group of artists and creatives living in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. "We also exist!"

Master Tseng, the first woman tea master in China's history, takes us on an aromatic journey steeped in history. We travel though her delicate and timeless world as she unlocks and shares with us the secrets of Pu Er, tea's holy grail.

Finding himself at the brink of society, Cecilio, a struggling drug addict, hurdles through an abandoned world while he attempts to reach his strained family who is his only hope for a way back to recovery.

With fine watercolour strokes, Daniela de Felice paints the portrait of a young woman in love and with a true passion for politics. The film takes us back to the Italy of the 1990s, between Berlusconi’s rise to power and the final reverberations of the 20th century. Ardenza is unexpected and moving, with riveting sensitivity and sensuality.

When the coronavirus hit Europe in 2020, Laura and Daniel were not ready to spend 24 hours a day together in the same place. After the first days of romantic and culinary idyll, their relationship begins to suffer, with jealousy and bursts of ego undermining what seemed like a perfect love story. With complicity and empathy, Supertempo depicts an experience shared by many.

Located in Far North Queensland, the Daintree is a staggering 180 million years old and has been named the second-most irreplaceable World Heritage area on the planet by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. For millennia, it has existed in fruitful cohabitation with the local Kuku Yalanji people. However, as with most of Earth’s natural wonders, this 1200-square-metre rainforest has become threatened by the lasting climatic changes brought about by colonisation and industrialisation.

From Lyon to Angoulême, from Angoulême to Paris, I filmed my year 2020. One second per day.

I’m tired of playing the cowboy. But by cheating, it is possible to slip past impassable mountains and bottomless rivers. Where no cowboy has ever gone before is a vast desert, filled with strange shapes and inexplicable phenomena. In this place, death is final, but it is possible to rewrite history to change the fatal outcome.

Walk along the famous Kaliningrad's Baltic suburb in the company of a local celebrity Seryoga. He has just left the police department, but is not going to stop the fun.

Three former child soldiers face retribution, anxiety, and danger as they attempt to rebuild their lives after fighting in Colombia's bloody civil conflict. Strangers to Peace intimately captures the personal stories of Dayana, the market vendor navigating her new identity as a trans woman; Ricardo, the young father secretly clinging to his communist ideology; and Alexandra, the indigenous child soldier who left her family behind in the Amazon Jungle. Can these former guerrilla fighters, seen by society as terrorists, redefine their futures?

The crown prince couple Mette-Marit and Haakon look back at their 18 years of having Princess Ingrid Alexandra.

In this production exploring the connections between natural and cultural history, artist Axel Straschnoy heads to Savonranta to learn more about the devils of Paasselkä. The locals tell stories of the strange optical illusion above the lake, the earliest sightings of which date back to the 18th century. According to some, it’s the devil himself; others claim it to be Pajari, a character so evil that even the devil didn’t want him. The present-day sightings become a part of the meteorite lake’s folklore.

An anonymous man leaves civilisation; a journey with disappearing as its objective. The further he removes himself in time and distance from everything he knows, the closer he gets to complete obscurity. Verging on madness, he returns to the world he left behind, with a new consciousness and the perspective of someone who has opened their eyes for the first time.

Death and a heartbreak, both of them mean the end of something. Both of them are changes. And in order to live, these changes are needed. Both the end of a relationship and death mean the end of a life. The director takes a trip through Super 8 footage in which she reflects on life, death and love

In Spilliaert, filmmaker Lisa Spilliaert inquires into her blood relationship with the renowned Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946). Is she predestined to an artist’s life by this – whether or not – fictitious kinship? Is artistry passed on genetically? She reveals herself as a rapping, fanatical genealogist who probes into the origins of her artistic identity. Visiting all kinds of archives, she first chalks out the historical figure of Léon Spilliaert and his work. At Ostend’s Centre for Genealogy she attempts to substantiate her claim of kinship with certificates and registers. Spilliaert’s narrative structure is strung together by a number of rap poems, performed by Lisa Spilliaert herself. By choosing this form, she uncovers parallels and contrasts between rap music’s free identity construction and the strictly regulated structure of genealogy.

A guy and a girl are discussing their future - she wants to move to Spain, he will stay in Ukraine.

This documentary was made entirely by women filmmakers, in all areas of production. With this film, 25-year-old Silvia Arellano becomes the youngest Peruvian director to release a feature film.

A young family moves to the idyllic island nation of Palau and suffers unspeakable tragedy. Through recently uncovered archival footage and first-person accounts, Return to Palau tells an incredible true story of survival, faith, and forgiveness.

Incredible things happen when someone unveils an idea so inspiring that it moves others to act.

An atmospheric representation of the connection the three friends Maria, Markos and Julian share with the same island in Greece. By looking back on the memories of summers gone by, they create a beautiful picture of their different experiences of the island. However, this is not possible without asking yourself some questions.

New music combined with archive recordings brings to life the memories and traditions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

In an attempt to adapt the 1991 program “El Rey Tuerto” and promote the school festival “Cenba Rock,” Fidel and Theo -two incompetent students from the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires- are selected by the student council to document a series of interviews throughout the event.

The film, made by colleagues in the TV3 News Service – Ieva Vārna, cameramen Sergejs Medvedevs and Dzintars Rudzītis – collects materials filmed in Ukraine a few days before the Russian full-scale invasion, as well as events in the first weeks of the war. It's a collection of stories by people about the horrors of the war caused by Russia, becoming refugees and standing for the freedom of their homeland in spite of the atrocities done by the occupiers.

In the midst of the Ukraine war, there's an armed unit of anti-fascist football hooligans who are fighting Russia's forces on the frontlines. They're called Hoods Hoods Klan.

A "Pseudo City Symphony" of Detroit -- the camera glides through downtown, contemplates the Eastern Market, and gazes across the riverwalk.

Diebsteich, a long forgotten neighborhood in the middle of Hamburg, in the district of Altona. Residential area, commercial, cemetery and a Cuban café. But the neighborhood is about to undergo major changes. The railroad company, Deutsche Bahn, has begun work on the controversial relocation of the Altona long-distance train station. A concert hall is also to find space at Diebsteich. The film tells of the concerns and resistance of the residents, who feel ignored in the development of their neighborhood, and of the Cuban café owner, whose popular neighborhood meeting place is to fall victim to the wrecking ball.

Follow one woman’s epic search to bring her husband Zhenia home. Last seen on March 18, 2022, Zhenia was taken at gunpoint from his family home in Bucha, Ukraine by occupying Russian troops. The film details Natalia’s journey, through the heartbreak and frustration and the hope she refuses to lose sight of.

Tis the season when neighbors battle to see who can be the brightest, families gather, and people regift the cake that dare not speak its name. Here are the ten most merry, festive, magical, jolly, tales of the holiday. Who can forget...Christmas?

Student film from the 2020 study trip produced by students from 2018i.

A poetic short documentary that revives the history of the Antifascist Front of Women and its literary activism in Kosovo. Village women read and re-interpret archival feminist texts aloud, connecting past struggles and publications with contemporary experiences of gender, visibility and cultural memory in rural Kosovo. The film interrogates representation and the “female gaze” while giving voice to women who carry this history into the present.

An in-depth look at the tumultuous history of a nation now under siege by Russian forces.

Heavily outnumbered Finnish forces put up a fierce fight against the invading Soviet army during the brutally cold winter of 1939.

In Kharkiv, which is under fire every day, it is impossible to forget about the war. But you can ignore it for a certain period of time - when you and your friends are skateboarding through the streets of the city. What is this - an unjustified risk or an attempt to save the psyche?

A documentary about the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war "from the first mouth." It is based on the story of events in Chernihiv from the first days of the Russian invasion, told by its residents who remained in the city and became examples of courage, heroism, and self-sacrifice.

While the specialists were inserting a meter-long tube into me to perform a gastroscopy, I was thinking, of course, about art, or rather about some stereotypes. First: the artist must be hungry. As you can see in the video, my stomach is empty, so I'm really hungry. But if the artist does not have to take tests or swallow a meter hose, then he should not be hungry. I find this stereotype more disgusting than the most disgusting moments in this film. The second: the artist shows his inner world, literally so.

In 1633, in the face of the plague, the citizens of the Bavarian mountain village of Oberammergau made a vow before God that they would perform a Passion Play if only they were spared from the Black Death from then on. Today, the Oberammergau Passion Play is the most famous in the world. Some oaths are kept for centuries: In 1633, in the face of the plague, the citizens of the Bavarian mountain village of Oberammergau made a vow before God that they would perform a Passion Play if only they were spared from the Black Death from then on. Today, the Oberammergau Passion Play is the most famous in the world.

A brief historical exploration of Capitola, California's infamous Rispin Mansion, a once-grand estate now standing in quiet disrepair.

Throughout history, Man has become increasingly sedentary. The evolution of knowledge and technology has allowed life to become more comfortable. However, there were always those who preferred to live life as an adventure, leaving everything behind towards the unknown. In Faial lives a community of adventurers who, after a life at sea, finally decided to have a home on land. Of all the places in the world they have been through, what will have led them to stay here, on the island of Faial?

In 1984, agricultural researcher Zhao Ersheng and his team arrive in Hainan, hoping to develop China’s first hybrid millet. Despite limited resources and repeated failures, Zhao persists. He pioneers a two-line hybrid method based on light and temperature sensitivity, overcoming major scientific hurdles. In 2000, after years of dedication, his team successfully breeds “Zhang Hybrid Millet No. 1,” marking a breakthrough in China’s millet breeding history.

Afterlife is a documentary that explores How Colonization Changed Nigeria’s Spiritual and Cultural Identity. We see the ancient Bori religion practiced in Hausa communities before the Islamic invasion, uncovering its spiritual significance and the forces that led to its decline. It also examines the surviving indigenous religions and cultural traditions in today’s southwestern Yoruba and eastern Igbo communities, revealing how they have endured despite centuries of external influence.