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Leevi Pienihäkkinen’s tight experimental short documentary Peace and Silence dives into the Helsinki night, exploring the darkened city with fresh eyes. The familiar spots of the city centre flash in the images, but something is different. The everyday becomes weird, details vanish, lights shine taking over everything around them. Humans remain anonymous and faceless, silhouettes against the backdrop of the dark city.

Puglia, May 2021. A group of folk music artists decide to make a 200-km journey on foot from Torre Guaceto (Brindisi) to Santa Maria di Leuca (Lecce) along the ancient roads of the Via Francigena. A young farmer and his donkey named Bartolo join the group, creating the "Company of Wise Donkeys." The documentary is the story of a musical journey into the memory, traditions and popular culture of Salento.

The conceptual basis of the film, created for the centenary of philosopher Alexander Zinoviev, is the famous dystopian novel "Global Human", the story "Go to Golgotha" and "Live". These works are united by the theme of finding a way out of the impasse of modern civilization.

After conquering massive alpine walls together, Fay and Line head north to the ephemeral Scottish land of mixed climbing. The objectives are ambitious and the weather is fickle, testing the all women team’s perseverance.

A ski touring adventure in Norway, that goes against the elements to chase the lines of this crew’s wildest dreams.

The Turner family has guided the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park for over a 100 years. Like all of us who go to the river and mountains with fly rod in hand, it’s hard to come back the same person. Wild places forever change us – imbedding a deep and spiritual reverence for things greater than ourselves. This western idea was the underpinnings to one of America’s best inventions – the National Park System. This is their story – a family’s blessing to work, live, and share one of the most beautiful river corridors anywhere in the world. A gift that has instilled an even greater passion to protect things “wild” for many generations to come.

A neighborhood anecdote that occurred during the pandemic inspires this reflection on the space of violence generated by the scope of hate as a social construct in its relationship with the image and its representation. Confronting the forms that the hatred with which we live takes on through the images of the assault on Rodney King, George Floyd and two immigrant women in Madrid and in the Barcelona metro, this bold work proposes different languages to represent, think . and interpret the textures of hate that surrounds us and the emotions they produce.

Lights, Camera, Economics is a short documentary on the growing economic challenges faced by independent filmmakers wrapped in a love letter to the world of UK independent film. Based on research by Alma Economics, commissioned by the British Film Institute (BFI).

Afghan beauty girl wants to be a model. But all his dreams are destroyed.

A group of friends in the Costa Rican jungle are spearheading the exciting new sport of tree climbing by using traditional rock climbing techniques to scale giant strangler fig trees. As climbers living in the jungle without rocks around, they began climbing the trees.

Klaus Burger is a traveling musician. He has been in love with Russia for twenty years now, from his first tour there. Over time, he moved from Germany to the Urals, where he found family and like-minded people. Klaus Burger's lifestyle is extraordinary: at any time of the year he walks barefoot, has his own opinion on every subject, bears the title of "Golden Tube of Europe" and is building a "spiritual" wooden house in the village of Lubimovo in the Perm Territory.

When the Lord sends Connor to serve as parish priest in a small prairie village, the townspeople believe their luck has finally changed. Unfortunately, even McJesus himself may not be enough to silence the evil spirits of Halloween, Alberta.

Peoples' Democratic Party(HDP), which had been founded under the leadership and with initiation of the Kurdish political movement, entered the parliament with a landslide election victory. HDP won many city and district municipalities in Kurdistan and has become a great hope for communities and peoples of Turkey. After the peace process came to an end, many lawsuits were filed against HDP and its MPs within the framework of a lawsuit for closing and banning HDP. Hundreds of politicians were arrested and sent to prison, including Figen Yuksekdag, the former co-chair of HDP, Gultan Kisanak, the co-mayor of Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality, and Aysel Tugluk, HDP MP. Furthermore, many were forced to go abroad and started to live in exile. Aysel Tugluk got dementia while she was in prison and it was only after the protests that she was released. In this documentary, the first-degree relatives of Figen, Gultan and Aysel tell the process of going to and coming from the prison.

When her mother Wendy’s body was found in the Grand Canal in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2009, Katherine Clary had few answers about what had brought about the tragic end to Wendy’s tumultuous life. Mining her mother’s letters and a rich archive of family photos, Katherine and her co-director Emily Sternlicht weave an elegiac narrative about addiction, grief, and family.

On the morning of October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists attacked Israel. In the south of the country, they stormed a music festival and killed 350 people there alone. A celebration of love turned into the worst nightmare. Filmmaker Duki Dror and his colleagues have created a moving documentary from thousands of social media images and many haunting interviews, with footage of disturbing brutality and directness. The montage also makes it clear: The Hamas attack also marked the beginning of a new era in the dissemination of images and news through the media.

How famous department store Selfridges celebrates the festive season. We discover the secrets behind the famous Christmas windows and unveil this year's creation, a theatrical extravaganza dubbed 'showtime!'.

Reform Rabbi Yehudit (60) embarks on a journey. The destination: an encounter with a distant Jewish community - the Abayudaya community in Uganda. This is Yehudit's first visit to Africa, and she invites her daughter, filmmaker Shira Green, to accompany her. For Shira, the journey raises questions of identity and contemplation on the relationship between man and God and man and his fellow. Thus, a journey that begins with the question "Who is a Jew?" evolves into an exploration of what connects us as human beings - is it religion, faith, a way of life?

Drag queen Harmonica Sunbeam is an affable storyteller at a time where Drag Story Hour is a source of controversy and protests.

Nille Kjellberg left Stockholm and his career behind in the early 90s. In the Sörmland archipelago, among deers and Icelandic horses, he found a different way of life. In harmony with nature and the changes of the seasons. Without thoughts of status or what others will say. In the summer, his now 94-year-old mother helps with the tour rides. In the winter - then Nille lives alone on his deserted island.

In the first city in Ohio to ban abortion, a former city councilor questions how this will impact local residents in need of life-changing healthcare.

In this exploration of sacrifice, we see how love endures as Antonio’s sister moves to Texas to take care of him after he loses his sight.

50 people, children and adults, talk about their fears and doubts. What are you scared of?

Director Yaser Kassab followed in his father’s footsteps by emigrating as a young man from Syria to Europe, and like his father he also had the ambition to become a filmmaker. Now they are working together on this film remotely. From Syria, the father gives his son direction on the phone or in video calls, along with advice about future film projects or how to organize his life—loving conversations interspersed with well-intentioned parental advice.

After a lifetime of service to one household, a maid finds herself replaced. At 87, she starts to question her role in the family.

Outdoors enthusiast Charlie shows remarkable strength and optimism during her recovery from a car accident with the help of her biggest supporter - her fiancé, Liam.

After a traumatic failure at a competition, platform diver Farrah retraces and reconciliates with her past through a stream-of-consciousness journey across space and time.

Filmmaker Sevastian Kanarskyi asked his aunt to write a text about dreaming.

Vibrations from Gaza offers a glimpse into the experiences of Deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine. Born and raised under siege and frequent onslaughts these children, including Amani, Musa, Israa, and others, provide vivid accounts of their encounter of bombardment and the constant presence of drones in their sky. The children describe their perceptions of missile strikes through sensing vibrations in the air, trembling of the ground, and the resonance of collapsing buildings. The film also questions whether the deafness of these children is a natural or a consequence of Israel’s use of sonic weaponry, such as sonic booms.

This documentary narrates the birth and development of Nicaraguan cinematography through iconic images and fragments of Nicaraguan film. It covers the revolution, the creation of the first film instituto in the country (INCINE), and the pioneers and representative productions and co-productions. The film concludes with the emergence of independent cinema.

Andrew Hamilton grew up in the far north shore of Sydney. He had a good upbringing, but found himself convicted for selling a large commercial quantity of magic mushrooms, LSD and the supply of MDMA. A self proclaimed 'Mushroom King', Andrew sold shrooms for over a decade before getting arrested. After doing time in prison, Andrew has found a passion in stand up comedy and is travelling around Australia making people laugh. The power of laughter which he experienced in a maximum security prison was the light-bulb moment that took Andrew from the cell to the stages.

If we were to imagine a space where the imprints of human existence are stored, what would that space look like? What would those ‘imprints’ be?

This film is a memoir about a missing mother. The uncertainty with which the author has lived for their whole life is interrupted by sudden news.

Kandaswamy stands alone in his village of Meenakshipuram after the water becomes contaminated.

A stormy summer night. Lightning strikes the water. A chain reaction begins. Director Emilien Dubuc uses vivid imagery, evocative sound effects and microscopic shots of biochemical experiments to explain in detail how life on Earth is created. But his narrative gradually becomes less scientific and more personal.

In Climate Diary (2020), a fixed-camera chronicle captures the subtleties of climate shifts, paralleling the lock down experience. The film challenges viewer norms by favoring evocative soundscapes over constant action. This deliberate departure immerses audiences in a contemplative space, where the synergy of image and sound propels the narrative. As the documentary unfolds, the fusion of voice and music at the conclusion provides an abstract resonance that lingers, inviting viewers to explore time's intricate dance and discover beauty in the tranquility

Sexuality drugged to the point of addiction? What once seemed marginal is no longer so. The practice of chemsex is no longer confined to gay men. Chemsexers, former chemsexers, Parisian elected representatives, healthcare professionals and community activists all agree that it's time to tackle the issue head-on. Chemsex hides the consumption of stimulating and euphoric substances designed to facilitate, prolong or enhance sexual relations through their psychoactive effects (such as cathinones, including 3-MMC, but also GHB and GBL). Without taboos, thanks to the strength of courageous and intimate testimonials, this film aims to give a concrete understanding of what chemsex is: from the first time to regular practice, from the first effects to the impact on an entire life. It also highlights the methods and help available to deal with addiction and regain control of one's sexuality.

The Oktoberfest captivates around 6 million visitors every year. But what makes the world’s largest folk festival so special? This documentary takes a look behind the scenes of the spectacle and follows various people who are responsible for its smooth running and lively atmosphere. Whether they’re families of carnival operators, Oktoberfest servers, or paramedics—they all offer personal insights into their daily lives and explain what makes the magic of the Wiesn so special.

A video tribute to actress Karin Schubert.

"Liminal" captures features of this global phenomenon within the boundaries of our state, collapsing the global into the local. We present the world of the Anthropocene not as an exotic feature of a transformed landscape on the other side of the world, but in a space we inhabit; our home, Indiana. The Anthropocene isn’t “out there” but “right here”.

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A love letter in the form of a short documentary to skateboarding that deals with self-discovery and identity, showing how a piece of wood can change a life for the better.

Two men are driving through the streets of Milan to transport a mysterious box. Their route is the source of other routes, which reveal an awareness of the city that was previously dormant. An awareness that is given to the viewer by the stories of the two men, now presented: Leonetto Di Ciolo and Felice Trovati. Felice is also the builder of a particular object, the Revisionist Bicycle, a pendulum clock constructed from bicycle parts that can alter the passage of time. We discover that it is precisely this totem that is the object transported at the beginning of the film, and that the two protagonists are on a mission: to place the bicycle-clock in a specific spot in the city, because Spring, understood as a form of endurance of wonder for apparently useless things, is Spring also in the city.

The Animal Thing charts the struggles of Andrew Linzey, a cantankerous and unwilling subject for his son Adam. This is the story of a man who spoke out as a progressive voice in the Anglican Church, a polarizing force at the University of Oxford, and as a tireless campaigner for animal rights, on a range of issues from fox hunting and seal clubbing, to vivisection. Today, Andrew considers himself a failure. But despite the immense price he has paid for confronting the cruelty of animal exploitation, Andrew has also had an enormous and, until now, largely unheralded impact on the modern animal movement.

Documentary that reviews Salvador Allende's last speech through various voices of today to think about the present and the future.

This Documentary is about Adam Palmer, a Purple Heart Veteran who found purpose through God. He went his whole life searching for something greater. From football to the the military, he didn't satisfy his drive for purpose. After being severely injured in Iraq, he had an intervention with God which finally brought him peace.

When Mary, a fiercely independent woman with vision impairment, has a mishap, a friendly stranger steps in to help. The two bond – but Mary notices all isn’t quite as it seems.

Keili González tells of her experiences as a transvestite/trans girl until adulthood in her hometown of Nogoyá. She is one of the fundamental referents of the organized struggle for the rights of gender-sex dissidents in Entre Ríos.

A journey into the historical and tactile entanglements between sheep’s wool, migrant plant seeds and the River Tweed.

A ghostly bubble haunts the empty trading floor and conference rooms of La Bolsa, the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange building, as filmmaker Carolina Fusilier tries to locate a missing photograph of her father when he worked there during Argentina’s 1990s financial crisis. This search melds autobiography and science fiction, as arcane computational mechanisms—humming, flashing, bleeping—track the liquid undulations of trade.