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An intimate look into the journey of non-binary artist and drag performer; Mike Hooves, as they navigate their new life and identity after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

Embark on a fascinating journey through the life and career of Will Smith, from his charismatic beginnings on "Fresh Prince" to his triumphant Oscar win, all while confronting the complexities of his public persona and the question of whether he is truly the epitome of American charm or harbors a darker side.

A short film showcasing Okinawan religious practices.

Robby Robinson’s Blueprint chronicles the life story of Robby Robinson, an iconic figure in the bodybuilding world who has remained relatively silent in recent years. Known as “The Black Prince,” Robinson was one of the first black men to appear on the covers of major bodybuilding magazines. His legacy includes his starring role in the seminal documentary Pumping Iron and his advocacy for equal rights within the sport.

A groundbreaking documentary on women transforming construction while combating climate change. Echoing the spirit of the original Industrial Revolution, these visionary women are on a quest to effect change for a sustainable planet. Their innovative work in the built environment places them at the core of decarbonization, human health and economic opportunity.

The film revolves around the world's first space museum. Tour guide Elizaveta talks about space flights, planetarium engineer Dmitry shows the public the stars and planets, Tsiolkovsky’s great-granddaughter Elena helps local actor Andrey get into the role of her famous great-grandfather, an astronautics theorist. All characters are united by their passion for space and pride in their museum.

"Echoes of a Hermit" is an intimate exploration of Lawrence Nault, a reclusive author living in the Badlands of Alberta. As he confronts his past, Lawrence shares the stories behind his books, the challenges of isolation, and his journey toward artistic fulfillment in a rapidly changing world. Through raw conversations and the stark beauty of the Badlands, this documentary captures the essence of a man whose voice is both unique and universal.

The urge to make others laugh led Camil Casanovas to become Nurse Aspirino in 1994. The short documentary film "Camil" is an intimate portrait of Spain's first hospital clown.

Adopted in Cambodia when he was four years old, Vakhim came to Italy in 2008. He only spoke Khmer and everything he saw was unfamiliar, but he was a cheerful child and to fit in, he put any traces of his short first life out of mind, though not entirely. His older sister, Maklin, is in Italy, too, and a few years later a letter arrives: Vakhim’s birth mother is asking after him. Francesca and Simone, his adoptive parents, decide to go look for her.

A friend group of 7 goes through their school year, just existing.

A man searches for memories of his family's past, alternating between Geomeunyeo, Buseok Temple, and his grandmother's house, all of which are located along a straight line on the map. Geomeunyeo is a rock located in the reclaimed area of Buseok, Seosan, South Korea. It was originally a reef that was exposed above sea level, but is now above ground. The name of Buseok, which means floating rock, is said to be derived from Geomeunyeo.

In Nova Soure, Sertão da Bahia, the word "Natuba" resonates like an echo of a mythical past. The project aims to uncover the story behind this collective memory and understand the origin and meaning of "Natuba". Through a documentary, we plan to delve into the roots of the city, exploring the contrast between the idealized conception of "Natuba" and the historical reality.

Set in late June of 2022, Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Bluffs is a cruise turned day trip of realizations of all kinds, from our lives as we've grown up, our hometown as it's changed, and the communities that coexist or don't, that make this place what it is. This experimental documentary covers a day in the life of every day people just trying to find some footing and a bigger purpose in a place they call home.

A short documentary where a grandson in 2024 reflects on an interview of his grandparents, conducted by his uncle in 2022.

On the Croatian island of Vis, a diverse group discusses their future, reflecting on the decline of storytelling and listening cultures. Fishermen, youth, intellectuals, and others, gather in cinematic dialogue, shaping the collective protagonist. Their debates on growth versus environmental protection connect past, present, and future, bridging local and global perspectives.

A deeply personal reflection on loss, memory, and the role images play in maintaining connections with the past.

The documentary follows, the adventure of three renowned mountaineers, assisted by a young aspiring climber, on the south face of the Marmolada, the legendary "Regina della Dolomiti". Matteo della Bordella, Maurizio Giordani, Massimo Faletti, and Iris Bielli come together to open a new route, challenging their limits and the dangers of a mountain that has entered the debate on climate change.

On a long, rainy day, the four Democáticos teams compete for victory in the club's most important tournament to date.

a quiet night in the balad at the end of ramadan

In 2018, they broke into politics. By putting on a yellow vest, they revolted for the first time in their lives. The film tells the story of the aftermath. Through their intersecting itineraries, modified life paths are then embodied: paused, twisted or illuminated by this decisive experience that will somehow politicize their existence. Echoing the stories of other uprisings, their words question the places of citizenship and the transformative power of revolt.

Miss Jö investigates a mysterious cardboard box.

A look at the difficult path that activism often means and focuses on the loving, day-to-day stories of the struggle for social change. In doing so, it breaks through pejorative clichés about social movements and creates a hopeful film whose protagonists firmly believe that radical change is not only possible, but also necessary.

Did a UFO fly over O’Hare Airport? How did the alligator later named "Chance the Snapper" suddenly appear in Chicago’s Humboldt Lagoon? Is Hull House haunted? Why don’t Chicagoans put ketchup on their hot dogs? WTTW award-winning host/writer/producer Geoffrey Baer sets out to solve these and other puzzlers in WTTW’s CHICAGO MYSTERIES.

A 74-year-old financier sets out to gain a “pinch of immortality” by attempting to break a world speed record on a hand-built motorcycle affectionately named Mister Fahrenheit. Bobby Haas, once the co-owner of Dr. Pepper, 7-Up, and other soda giants, abandons his business career in search of more adrenaline-based endeavors. Atop his world-renowned sidecar racer, Bobby turns the energy of his twilight years towards cementing his name in the land speed record books. But when things take a sudden and devastating turn, Bobby and those closest to him must pick up the pieces and face death at the finish line.

In the kilimanjaro area the life of a boy, a young adult and an old blind man intersect amidst cultural and climate changes.

A short documentary about Sekolah Harapan, a school initiated out of concern for the problem of unfulfilled children's basic rights in the Tanah Merah area, North Jakarta. Along the way, Sekolah Harapan had to cross paths with various inevitable problems that emerged from time to time.

Art, Beats + Lyrics celebrates the legacy of the groundbreaking visual art and hip hop roadshow that began in Atlanta in 2004 and has since become a national phenomenon. The documentary chronicles the lead up to AB+L's twentieth anniversary tour.

This film narrates the profound changes brought about by global warming in the Mediterranean, the sea described as "Wine Dark Sea" by Homer, and its surroundings. Due to global warming, the air, the sea, and the way of life in the Mediterranean are rapidly changing. Simultaneously, individuals from all walks of society and numerous organizations are working to minimize the adverse effects of global warming in the region. However, will all these efforts prove sufficient? Wine Dark Sea leaves the audience pondering this question: will we live in the shadow of the once-beautiful dream of the Mediterranean, unable to find solutions to environmental issues? Or will we create a new story together?

‘Palestine Under Siege’ is a new documentary film shot in the middle of 2023 in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel, which takes you into the heart of the struggle for Palestinian self-determination. Palestinian and Jewish human rights activists speak about the movement to dismantle Israeli apartheid. Three Australians, Dr Peter Slezak, Rand Darwish and Lee Rhiannon, travelled to Palestine to conduct interviews and investigate Israel’s accelerating colonisation of Palestinian land. This documentary was filmed and edited by Australian filmmakers, John Reynolds, and Jill Hickson from Dare to Struggle Films.

Interweaving super 8 family films, archival material and experimental animation, a granddaughter takes a deep dive into the remarkable life of her indomitable grandmother: a writer, WWII refugee and Holocaust survivor. “Anyuka” meaning mother in Hungarian, explores: intergenerational trauma, the Jewish diaspora, immigration, motherhood, and religious identity—to tell the story of a tragic and marvelous life across continents.

"Tyrone White was a member of the 65 Menlo Gangster faction of the Crips gang in South Central Los Angeles during the late '80s and '90s, witnessing police brutality and the LA riots. "White held the position of a street soldier and participated in drug dealing, gangbanging, and neighborhood drive-bys. He later joined a police force in Oklahoma. After resigning, he went to jail for robberies. "White speaks with Business Insider about his experience as a gang member, the culture of the Crips, and the rivalry with the Bloods. He talks about money-making activities, clothing, and music. He also covers the role of celebrity Crips, such as Snoop Dogg and Big U, in gang prevention within California. "After he was released from jail, he pursued a career in acting and worked with the Eagle Ridge Institute."

Portrait of a father seen by his son.

French concentration camps operated from the military uprising against the Republic until 1947, throughout the country. In Asturias it is estimated that there were 15, the furthest being Arnao, the only one that exclusively welcomes women and children in their second age.

A powerful journey of an Irish mother who lost her daughter, Nicole (Coco) to suicide and her mission to change the law in Ireland and the EU to make online bullying a crime while also fighting to have the law named after her daughter.

After being diagnosed with progressive Parkinson's disease, the legendary Croatian experimental filmmaker Ivan Faktor (b. 1953) decides to visualise his physical state with a mobile phone camera. Through interventions into received documentary modes, he creates a surprisingly spirited inner world of an artist imprisoned in space. This is filmmaking as the act of self-preservation.

A mockumentary exploring the theme of magical rituals in the post-Soviet cultural space. The film method is based on the use of information from web resources, investigative journalism, Telegram channels and re-films the rituals described there. Alchemy, occultism and magical rituals become the object of the author’s research, forming a semantic contradiction with the ordinary way of everyday life.

On the Norwegian island of Svalbard, home to the world's northernmost permanent human settlement, time both stands still and is running out. In this meticulously shot study of how climate change is reshaping even the sturdiest environments, Olga Krüssenberg focuses on locals, who are surrounded by processes beyond their control and are forced to rethink the world they once knew.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, photographer and filmmaker Carel van Hees (2KM2 - het heden van de stad, IFFR 2006) is forced to turn his apartment in Rotterdam's RVS flats into his own little world. The apartment, originally built as a home for working single women, is also known as the Hunkerbunker (the bunker of yearning), now its residents' lives are confined to their units. On the tenth floor van Hees meets Gerarda van Nimwegen, a 106-year-old woman who hasn’t left her apartment for the past five years. During her long life she has survived many crises, including the Spanish flu, the poverty of the interbellum and the bombing of Rotterdam – all this without losing her sense of humour. Berichten uit de Hunkerbunker is a loving tribute to a remarkable resident whose life has come to a halt in the apartment she’s lived in since the age of 44.

Letting AI tell its own history gives the audience a sense of the fictionality and reality that AI brings to the world.

In a powerful exploration of her Greek Canadian heritage, Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos embarks on an introspective journey through the depths of her heart, akin to traversing a black hole, in search of the gifts hidden within her wounds. Guided by the presence of the plantain, a resilient plant often referred to as "white man's footprints" due to its association with European settlers, she unravels the fragmented threads of an ancient myth and pre-Hellenic ceremony. Through this profound exploration, she seeks to rediscover the art of navigating the loss of identity and the cyclical nature of life's transitions.

A mother and son work with a cache of family photos, videos, and journals to create a moving, experimental narrative of memory.

This micro-documentary is a chapter of the series Who I am?, which proposes a reflective journey through moving testimonies, emblematic places and the struggle for human rights, truth and justice. In the former clandestine detention centre Pozo de Banfield, Teresa Laborde Calvo narrates her birth in the car that transported her mother to the place, and Miguel Santucho tells the story of his mother’s last days. Together they walk through the space of memory narrating the way in which they reconstructed their identities, the present of each one and the importance of having dared to find the truth and continue searching for the missing grandchildren.

In a coastal area known for its winds and fog, the arrival of sargassum, a group of algae valued for its therapeutic and fertilizing properties, is eagerly awaited. In a world where sargassum is increasingly rare, its appearance takes on a divine dimension, almost like a gift, transforming its harvest into a ritual of great importance, and where the attempt to artificially reproduce these algae becomes inevitable. This film explores connections between ancestral practices and new developments, showing us that understanding the past is essential to evolution. Starting from the record of customs of this sargassum-harvesting community, and problematizing popular and scientific knowledge surrounding these algae, it seeks to speculate on an illusory and technological future, inspired by sustainability and the circularity of these practices.

The hero of the third film from the "Military Corps" series was RT's Arabic correspondent Sargon Khadaya.

Unveil the journey of resilience and redemption in "Scars and Stripes: The Shane Vincent Story." Witness Shane Vincent's odyssey from the BMX tracks to the battlegrounds of Iraq, where he faced death head-on. Shane's indomitable spirit shines through as he rebuilds his shattered life. Experience Shane's testimony of God and the triumph of love, faith, and forgiveness.

Through poetic visual and aural fragmentation, This Dissonance navigates the emotional terrain of exile, colonialism, and resistance. The film weaves Palestinian and Lebanese voices with sweeping “American” landscapes, capturing the aching dissonance of witnessing U.S.-backed atrocities from afar, and resulting in a searing reflection on the generational toll of empire.

In this moving documentary, we follow the courageous journey of a group of mothers in Jalisco, Mexico, who have come together in a heartbreaking but vital quest: to find their missing loved ones. Through the eyes of these women, we explore their unwavering determination as they traverse fields, clandestine graves, and confront state bureaucracy in their search for justice and truth. Along the way, they discover clandestinely buried bodies, confronting a network of violence and corruption.

"Everything is Everything" is a conversational-style documentary that explores the heartfelt commemorations of Juneteenth by Chicago natives during the summer of 2024. This is Kin Marie's sixth film for the Filmmaker's Mixtape Challenge, led by Briana Clearly.

The job of a deep-sea fisherman is still extremely dangerous today. Waves, storms, physical work and hardly any sleep - the stress levels are high, even though the ships are now ultra-modern. Fishing far out at sea requires experience and luck. The weather can change within minutes and this also applies to fish prices, which vary greatly depending on the catch. It quickly becomes a race against time and the forces of nature.