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An experimental documentary in which the director recalls his experiences in the first days after his father’s death. Absence becomes presence in the narrative, which goes back in time, trying to revive the person who is no longer there.

Imagine a group of friends who met through the climate movement. For several years, you have fought alongside others for a fairer future, but little has significantly changed, leaving you somewhat exhausted. Now, you go away for a weekend at a cottage to rest—and during that time, you find yourselves in an apocalypse for a single day.

This documentary tells the fascinating story of Benjamin Sisterna, one of the world's most important snail collectors. Originally from Vera, a small town north of Santa Fe, he began selling bread on the street at the age of eight to support his family and went on to become one of the founders of a company that changed the history of the alfajor and Mar del Plata: Havanna.

A heartfelt story about screenwriter Alexander Emmanuilovich Borodyansky, who leads his daughter, for whom the film becomes a journey into the creative and human world of her father. The multi-layered canvas of the film is woven from the voices of comrades and like-minded people, subtle observations and revelations. This is not only a portrait of one of the most versatile authors of Russian cinema, but also a deep reflection on the nature of screenwriting.

This short film documentary strives to bring to light people that are often forgotten about in the sport fishing world. Using the 2024 White Marlin Open as a vessel to explore unheard topics of the sport fishing world from mates and captains this film dives into the true stories and memories of people that live a life they love doing what they love...chasing fish! This film is a culmination of a year's worth of work from our small three man crew. Our goal was to capture a side of sport fishing that has never been shown before while diving into topics that no one thinks about being factors in the success of a tournament fisherman's life.

In 2014, German war photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner Anja Niedringhaus was killed in an attack in Afghanistan. Through interviews with colleagues and family members, and through Niedringhaus’ vibrant and powerful photographs, Sonya Winterberg’s documentary paints the portrait of a woman full of joie de vivre and curiosity – but also reveals the political backgrounds to her murder and the failure of the German and Afghan security services that made this tragedy possible in the first place.

Director Martin offers unprecedented access to the band's creative process, documenting their journey from initial concepts to final recordings in Australia. Experience the tensions, breakthroughs, and quiet moments of inspiration that birthed "No One Was Driving the Car" across Australia, Manila, Bicester, and Grand Rapids.

You are here An homage to terry gilliam's 1985 Brazil

In 2022, the filmmaker follows the migrational route of his relatives from Germany to Tajikistan. In the capital Dushanbe, he meets a group of people around the Bactria Cultural Youth Center, with whom he revisits the memories of his relatives, who fled from the Civil War in the 1990s. A small community of friends takes shape through the shared love of music and the common wish to create something together. By turning the city into temporary spaces of collective action, they question national identities, gender roles, and embark on a search for their personal freedoms.

In Emilia, amid the wounds of the earthquake, the Rulli Frulli Band was born. Boys and girls of all colors and abilities play instruments made from trash and light up stages across Italy. Not just a band, but also a model of inclusion studied by the Università Cattolica. An adventure made of music and rebirth.

An exploration of the daily struggles of fishermen who have inhabited the Western Cape coastline for generations.

A short spoof of the Brutalist.

A group of women gather to organize the details of a wedding. What begins as a trivial conversation gradually transforms into a revealing catharsis.

Beautiful landscape film highlighting the Berkeley Marina in Berkeley, CA—the debut from whiz kid director Ajay Bhargava.

In a Brazilian favela, perched above Salvador Bay, Mônica’s open-air restaurant has become a viral hotspot. Young people from the community bring influencers and tourists to its terrace, hoping to share in the buzz.

In the Palentina Mountains, Teleclubes were created to share television, wine, and company. Today, they continue to be a refuge and meeting place. This documentary celebrates those places where rural life persists, reinvents itself, and continues to build community.

Duolan left Yakutia for Georgia. He turned his apartment into a small kitchen to make a living selling sushi. In Batumi, where little reminds him of home, Duolan searches for something that might bring back the feeling of his homeland - in the local landscapes, people, signs, and even animals. Sometimes, he sings Yakut songs, hoping to at least mentally transport himself back to the place he left behind.

Unable to come to terms with his father’s death, Rafał meets his murderer, 21-year-old Daniel, recently released from a juvenile detention center. As Daniel tries to rebuild his life, he teeters on the edge of homelessness and crime.

Visual portrait of Bolesław Gasiński — an outsider artist whose life and art intertwined in his self-built home in Laski. The documentary, through archives and memories, focuses on his grief after losing his beloved wife.

A documentary about the inspiring story of Shayne Smith, an Olympian and motivational speaker, whose connection to professional wrestling has been key in overcoming life's greatest challenges.

A behind-the-scenes look into the elite force securing the perimeter of Salah Tebessi's restaurant show.

"Ascending Beyond Shadows:" is a documentary about rock climbing. This documentary follows Tristin as he uses rock climbing to deals with hardships in his life in a positive way through this hobby.

Horst Schröder built Epix Förlag, publishing groundbreaking, controversial comics from around the world. Facing triumphs and setbacks-censorship, legal battles, and personal tragedy-he changed Sweden's comic landscape forever.

170 metres of 35mm film consumed by fire. Each metre, contact copied back onto its original medium, come together to create this portrait of the toxic relationship between a lighter and the film.

At Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a man jumps over a barrier. Within seconds, five police officers catch him and push him to the ground. He laughs loudly. Evidently, this is exactly what he was aiming for. Dario is disappointed with current climate policies and sees only one solution: strike out and resist. His resistance has already led to several outstanding criminal proceedings against him in Germany. A request from Switzerland comes at just the right moment to prove himself further: the activist group “Klimastreik” is looking for someone who is willing to commit a “crime”.

Billions of dollars are generated each year in the sports memorabilia and trading card industry, but who are the buyers and sellers? What is the actual value of what is being sold? Hobby Hustle follows three separate people who became involved in the polarizing obsession that changed their lives forever.

Summer 2023 filmmaker and Dogme 95 founder Lars Von Trier posted a video on instagram seeking applications for a, "female girlfriend/muse." Later that week I visited Rose, my 72 year old neighbor, best friend, and possibly my muse to film an application and examine our relationship. Lars has yet to respond.

My mother ended her life on August 10, 2020. Now I have to put his things away. With what I collect in her drawers, from her entourage and in my memory, I fill, by all the means offered by the cinema, the void that she has left. A piecemeal journey made up of fragments of eras to understand this world that has become foreign to him.

Jamal Hindawi, a 50-year-old Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. Together with a group of friends, he is working on a play that tells the story of an old jacket that symbolises the Palestinian identity. One day, after rehearsals, Jamal goes into the mountains with his friend Zreik, and on the way there he loses the jacket on a bus. A journey unfolds that takes Jamal from the mountains through Beirut, a city in radical transition, where successive crises and protests have left deep scars.

Set against the backdrop of the world's longest ongoing internal war, the story centers on an unnamed protagonist who is a humanitarian known as "Dreamer." He suffers from PTSD and is plagued by repressed memories and visions of a terrifying figure: a shadowy visage with a skull-like face known as "The Ghost". Driven by these unexplained visions and a desperate need for answers, Dreamer impulsively decides to revisit "the borderlands," a place he last saw thirteen years prior as a humanitarian. This decision arises during a casual conversation with his son. The film chronicles Dreamer's arduous journey to the borderlands, where he encounters both new and familiar allies and enemies. As he navigates this dangerous landscape, the plot explores how Dreamer evades security forces and crime syndicates, forged alliances, and undertakes perilous quests. The film contains combat scenes, acts of violence and interviews which include a prisoner of war and a resistance commander.

Since 1963, a monument and festival on the coast of Kumamoto, southern Japan, has commemorated Kathleen Drew-Baker, a British scientist whose 1949 discovery of the life cycle of nori seaweed led to the globalization of sushi culture.

A snapshot chronicle of my last three months living in Richmond.

I. I examine damaged film material. II. I recover stories by breaking down the medium that contains them. III. I observe the intervention of biological processes in the production of images. IV. The life of signs makes its way.

A journey to discover the life and work of Julio Camba (Vilanova de Arousa, 1884 – Madrid, 1962), one of the most popular Spanish journalists of the 20th century. In this documentary, we travel through memory, the testimonies of biographers, experts, journalists, actors, actresses, and friends, as well as readings of articles written by Julio Camba in the different cities around the world where he lived and worked: Buenos Aires, Istanbul, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Lisbon, and New York.

Experience history through a special documentary short film, Pulse of the Continent: Final Spike Steam Tour, telling the story of an incredible journey through North America spanning nearly 10,000 miles over 76 days. Come aboard with us as we revisit the magic and excitement of the Empress 2816 steam locomotive’s epic trip from Calgary to Mexico City and back.

Manifesto of post neorealism

Despite accusations of institutionalized systemic Nazism by the Russian government and its allies, Ukraine’s diverse Jewish community remains among the country’s most passionate patriots. Alex Osmolovsky’s illuminating documentary follows Ukrainian Jews from various backgrounds as they reflect on their relationship to their homeland and share how their lives have changed since the Russian invasion. With scenes of soldiers in camouflage kippahs and a bris performed on the front lines, the film paints a striking portrait of one of the world's most resilient Jewish communities as it navigates its way through more than three years of war.

An Irish geologist teaching in Italy gets a call from a Berlin hospital: her estranged father, whom she hasn't seen for over 30 years, is unconscious after a fall. As his next of kin, she is asked to come to Berlin. Over the course of a night in her father's Berlin apartment she learns from his diaries about a trip he took with a friend to Italy in the early 2000s to research fascist-era buildings and sculptures. It is a trip that ended in tragedy. Latina, Latina is a timely and moving hybrid-documentary that looks at a political ideology through the objects and buildings it left behind.

In the Green Mountains, a passionate group of snowscape conservationists spent 40 years partnering with different landowners across Vermont to establish the longest cross country ski trail in the United States.

Witches or sirens, free women are regarded as dangerous beings in the collective imagination. A female director travels to Mexico, to the Veracruz region, in search of the legend of the Petenera, the legendary figure of the femme fatale who became a siren for defying the law and bathing on Good Friday.

Missing Black Women is a powerful new documentary that sheds light on one of America's most overlooked crises-the disappearance of Black women and girls across the country.

When Yoshi Kubo is evicted from his California farm under the WWIl Japanese exclusion order and confined in a bleak internment camp, he takes an unconventional stand against oppression.

Female soldiers in Israel return to combat roles after 75 years, facing the psychological aftermath of war. Through personal accounts, the film explores their battlefield experiences and struggles with PTSD in Gaza and Lebanon.

Amidst the changing political environment in Texas, two trans individuals-- James and Evie-- navigate their day-to-day lives while discussing the implications of the current social and political landscape.

Archives of manual screen printing in Jakarta's Chinatown. Behind the process, a father earns a living far from the family he left in Pandeglang; he lives in a repeating routine—a colorful job that consumes the entire day to perform.

November 23rd 2024, Ricky Neil Jr. performs their last headline show of the year, live at a The Bird in Perth WA.

After a Russian missile strike kills their 11-year-old son and critically wounds his mother, a grieving father holds a phone to his child's ear at the funeral so she can say goodbye from her hospital bed.

In The Outer City (Bayırşəhər), one of Baku’s historically and architecturally significant neighborhoods, large-scale demolition has already begun, placing the city’s memory under threat. For over a year, local residents and architects have been fighting to protect the historic buildings, the urban fabric, and Baku’s unique identity from the excavators’ bucket — yet the scope of destruction keeps expanding day by day. “Beneath the Ruins: The Outer City” is the follow-up to the documentary “Framed: The Outer City.”