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"Notes from the subsurface" interrogates deep subsurface environments and the extremophiles that live within them. The film considershow they can function at extreme depths and pressure within challenging conditions such as highly acidic, high temperature, high radiation, low oxygen and methane heavy environments. Through sci-fi narratives, the film exposes non-human and multi-species perspectives, hidden networks and unheard voices. Beginning with birds-eye-view footage of the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies, the second part of the film takes a science fiction approach. The narrators develop proposals for adapting humans to livein these extreme.

After 56 years of marriage, the hero buries his wife and remains alone. Now he tries to find a place for himself in a new devastated world and understand what is better – to be alone or together.

The economic engine of Janesville, Wis., was its massive General Motors Assembly Plant, but when the factory shut down, the townspeople refused to succumb to depression, helping create a vibrant civic renaissance.

Ocean activist Lamya Essemlali works to prevent overfishing and to protect marine turtles from being poached in the Indian Ocean and pilot whales from being hunted in the North Atlantic.

Paragliding high above the wetlands of Southern Louisiana, Ben Depp photographs the sublime complexity of the Mississippi River Delta. His awe is mixed with sadness, however. The wetlands are rapidly disappearing, largely due to environmental damage caused by pipeline canals. His is just one of the five stories this film intimately follows: from a local fisherman, to a biological scientist, to the Native American people of the United Houma Nation who call the wetlands home. By capturing the lives, livelihoods, and cultures facing extinction along with this precious ecosystem (and the city of New Orleans that it protects), Last Call For the Bayou is a cinematic call to action: act now, or let these myriad histories be lost forever.

The time for letters has passed. The last words that came from the Gulag became a document. The time for letters stopped then, but continues to shudder today. Evil repeats itself invariably. We try to remember events and destinies, but the unceremonious history teaches nothing. Letters from eternity. Letters to the future.

Karai Mirim and Karai Jekupe are Guarani Mbya leaders who live in the Jaraguá Indigenous Land, in São Paulo. As they ascend the Pico do Jaraguá, they tell the Guarani history of the metropolis.

Lena hides not only her real name, appearance, but also the source of income - from her mother. She did not fit into adulthood, and became one of those who own at night the central bridge between Victory Square and the circus. The conversation with her was filmed several years ago as a reflection on the next financial crisis, but, unfortunately, it is still relevant.

Jean Dularge is an experimental historiography project by Acadian artist Rémi Belliveau, in which historical fiction is performed and inserted into the fragmentary and little-known history of rock in Acadian communities in New Brunswick. Anchored in several years of research and collection of artifacts, the story that emerges seeks to validate the hybrid and shifting nature of seniority by claiming its right not to identify with either of the dominant musical cultures of Eastern Canada, either Anglo-Maritimer or Franco-Quebecois.

A young girl leaves the capital for a monastery.

What do we know about human clinical trials of drugs? Sometimes strange things happen outside the doors of medical institutions, which are usually kept silent. The film tells about several volunteers who decided to exchange their health for money without thinking about the consequences.

The "self-isolation" regime due to the coronavirus epidemic was announced in Perm on April 2, 2020. Patrol cars drove around the districts and an appeal was read through loudspeakers: "Citizens, we ask you to stay at home." It was forbidden to leave the house further than 100 meters, and move around the city without a pass. It was allowed to walk the dogs, go to the nearest grocery store and to the pharmacy, if required to keep a distance and wear masks. People over 60 were encouraged to stay at home. Streets and courtyards were patrolled. During the first week of quarantine, the streets were empty. The main points of congestion of residents were grocery stores and pharmacies. By the end of April, people began to go out for walks more often and treat themselves to irgi berries.

"I will become a mother" - the heroine of the film dreamed of saying these words for the second time. However, she lost her daughter late in her pregnancy. After the tragedy she experienced, Anastasia decided to share her story. She will talk not only about how to survive the death of a child, but also about her eldest son David, who also suffered at birth.

This piece is a personal art project, and an attempt to recontextualize my relationship with my body by means of traditionally "unflattering" angles and Photoshop.

Vika, Sasha, Nika are ambitious girls who were united by a love of clothes and a desire to do charity work. Together they open a secondhand store. Each of them has her own reasons for doing this. Gradually, the working relationships between the them develop into a strong friendship. But volunteering comes with many challenges, and not everyone on the team can handle them.

What if you take some of the most absurd tweets and quotes of certain politicians literally? And how could the statement "If there are no vaginas, it would be useless." be visualized in this case? A look at the most absurd word creations and phrases from everyday politics.

Every Saturday in his studio Yuri Norshtein signs books, talks to readers and viewers. The audience has a rare opportunity to overhear what the genius of today, the famous cartoonist, is talking about in the kitchen of his studio, under a cozy yellow lampshade. Poems, folk art and the secret of the subtle matter of talent, which can be felt in the magical chime of bells ...

Documentary

A never before seen look at the history and impacts of the Arctic Winter Games, an international biennial multi sport games that has been celebrating circumpolar sport and culture in the North since 1970. This short documentary follows the stories of characters from across the nine contingents that make up the international competition as they prepare to partake in the 2020 Arctic Winter Games which mark 50 years since first opening in Yellowknife, NWT.

a brief look on poet Sultan Bin Farzan achievement

A night ride on the Bohdanivska street in Lviv.

Amidst the voids of the university and the stormy cry of the struggle for affirmative policies, the documentary-essay presents the voices of those who lived and still live at the institution under the forces of racism and discrimination.

The rampant abuse of laws meant to protect the elderly has left many seniors penniless, powerless and isolated from their families.

The film tells about the physical therapist of the Moscow children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" Ilona Absandze. The story of a strong woman, with an iron rod, behind which a subtle sensitive soul is hidden.

"Come Together" is a story of an encounter between two people who haven't seen each other for 65 years, during which they've constantly exchanged letters.

Short Documentary

In 2015, Syrians were being relocated by the UN across Scotland. After hearing that some families were homed on the remote Isle of Bute, filmmaker Laura Wadha decided to make a film about Mounzer, a Syrian barber who settled in a little Scottish village with his family.Haunted by the ghost of war, he is trying to build a home for himself and his children. The barber shop welcomes locals and soon the community adopts them.

This is Ibiza film will take you on a tour to one of the most infamous islands in the entire world where extraordinary mix of night-life hedonism and spiritual evolution create a unique culture of dance, music and love.

Nafplio’s Syntagma Square is unique. A true pleasure of time "is our history. It is neither the square’s history nor Nafplio’s history, it’s the history of Greece". It has changed many forms and names and gives the stigma in today’s city. It is surrounded by buildings of various eras and cultures bearing memories of Ottoman, of Venetian, of neoclassical and of later eras, that to this day they retain the aesthetics of their original construction. Shall we go to the square?

Bardul is a hardworking Albanian immigrant living in Greece, a typical man-next-door. He is so hardworking, that he ends up sleeping very little, and even on his way from one job to the next. We follow him from dawn till midnight, in his sleep and his awake. We follow his labors, we travel to his places until reality is mixed with his dreams. Identities alternate, whereas different becomes the norm – and vice versa. Where is he considered a foreigner and where is he considered a local?

An Italian family travels around Greece, setting up a moving funfair. Being routed in the circus, the two brothers keep on the magical world of entertainment, wandering in the countryside and islands. Observing the procedure of build-up, we discover their everyday life behind the lights. The arrival of their mother and sister will warm them up before they depart together for their new destination.

A documentary film about a worker of the school cloakroom.

Kawsar, an undocumented migrant worker, has lived in Korea for 17 years. After he gets married, his wife comes to Korea to meet Kawsar for their honeymoon.

Lin Li's waterscapes in I am so tired reject any notion of safety or comfort in their stormy aggression, with excerpts from BBC news recordings creating a thick and fearful sensory nightmare of displacement.

In Duncan Marquiss’ Mirror Test – named after the behavioural experiment in which animals are shown their own reflection – the disruptive movements of a curious jackdaw are juxtaposed with voice testimonies of its owners, a German couple who lived under the GDR.

Julia Parks' The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk offers up precise descriptions – and the poems of Cumbrian writer Kate Davis, which diligently recount the process of learning to walk following a childhood diagnosis of polio.

The sea is the epitome of freedom for the Palestinians. But due to the restrictions on their freedom of movement, a majority of Palestinians have for decades been denied access to the coast. In a simple but original and meaningful way, Martin Johannsen lets his protagonists recount their memories and ideas of the sea with their eyes closed, as if they had fallen into a trance-like dream. The sea becomes a mirror for reflection, where they talk about their relationship to water through living imagery. Some have never forgotten their only encounter with the sea, while others can only fantasise about what it looks like in reality.

With Jesper 'Yebo' Reginal as the driving force and mastermind, the independent Danish music company Crunchy Frog has become known in the music industry worldwide. Dedicated superfans such as Rolling Stone Magazine's own David Fricke have brought the company and its many bands into the limelight, and now the frog is turning 25. Palle Demant ('Born To Lose') has followed the company on and off for years, and we are shown the best moments from Crunchy's 20th anniversary in 2014 and the 25th anniversary last year, which tell the story of the Danish DIY company. Starring photographer Søren Solkær, critic Jan Sneum, David Fricke himself and bucket-loads of crunchy music.

A woman arrives in Lebanon in search of a missing man, whom she met in Iceland a few years ago. Here, the buildings and landscapes still bear the traces of past conflicts, and the missing friend's absence is haunting the deserted and labyrinthine streets of Beirut. The siren song of the sea draws her to the south, towards Earth's mystical centre.

Synchronized skaters do it all — together. Synchronized ice skating can be a cold and unforgiving world, but to the women and girls who find family here, it’s home. Journey alongside skaters, both amateurs and professionals, as they push their teams and themselves beyond the routine and up towards greatness. They’re chasing Olympic dreams not just for themselves, but for their beloved yet largely overlooked sport. Together these skaters are out to prove the staying power of synchro.

The film talks about the consequences of the journey that Aline Motta undertook in search of her roots and questions the sense of belonging to a place that might not acknowledge its seemingly evident kinship. It brings together Lagos in Nigeria, Cachoeira in Bahia, and the artist’s home town Rio de Janeiro in Brazil through the waters and bridges that connect the three cities and their common ancestral background.

The exclusive TMZ investigation explores the couple's unprecedented exit as senior leaders in Great Britain's royal family, cutting through the noise, inaccuracies and speculation surrounding the couple's surprise announcement.