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Friendship through the passage of time. Football matches, anecdotes and reflections on amateurism.

An overview of Chiu Fu-sheng, a fundamental producer and promoter for Chinese cinema. He worked between China, Taiwan and Hong Kong producing the best films by authors of the caliber of Hou Hsiao-hsien and went through eras that are reflected in his work: the war in Vietnam, the Chiang Ching-kuo era of Taiwan, the reform and the opening up of mainland China, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the handover of Hong Kong.

A feature documentary.

Documentary that covers, as a diary-album, everyday scenes recorded between 2018 and 2024 around my house, in a peripheral neighborhood of Corrientes in the northeast of Argentina. In the passage from day to night, gestures and melodies unfold that collapse the imposed ways of living and transform into joyful resistance to the advance of the extreme right. We are broken and so are our images. We are a handful of pixels that dance in the darkness, to the rhythm of the power of the banal.

Manele and Revolution

Set in the shadow of the pandemic, PICK UP THE FIDDLE! explores how Rodney Miller's fiddling influences people around the world, while sparking joy in dancers, musicians, and students alike.

A performance artist, Morgan Prescott, sits atop a wooden chair at the end of Toronto's Tommy Thompson Park every month, for 40 minutes, for an entire year. In the soundtrack, you hear the park and Morgan's side of a phone call from that month. It is a long-exposure document of one person shifting through the seasons of their life. What happens when we deny ourselves the familiar comforts of narrative and editing - can our inner selves withstand their true reflections?

Lucy from Palermo is studying music in England and is very pregnant. Her mother and teenage sister visit to be with her for the birth of baby Futura. Afterward the three of them return to Sicily, where Kitim, the father of Futura, also lives.

A young man apparently gets lost between his parental home in Lower Saxony, Berlin darkrooms and a flat share in Madrid. The clinical chill of the psychiatry reports is juxtaposed with a heart-wrenching diary text that resists being categorised too quickly. The images, too, speak a different language than the diagnosis: “Disoriented and not responding to his environment,” the initial anamnesis reads. But we see the film sequences trace and re-cast photographic evidence of getting lost, re-connect the narrator persona striving for self-empowerment with his environment. The protocol of a story of illness and treatment expands into an auto-socio-biographical document of self-location by artistic work – on life as lived.

Its all dust, from outer space.

The extraordinary and touching story of the Irish-American mathematician John Riordan, author of major early works in combinatorics, particularly Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis and Combinatorial Identities, and how life in an orphanage shaped his thinking. Told in the Irish Language (with English subtitles) by his American granddaughter, Lauren Speeth.

An intimate documentary focused on three musicians in the Dutch alternative music scene.

Traditional Japanese cuisine, French cuisine and sushi. Through the beautiful seasons of Hokkaido, we follow the daily lives of four chefs who pursue their culinary arts, alongside the farmers, citizens and culture of Northern Japan.

Documentary on French rapper Maes.

The tranquility of a mountain landscape is disturbed by a group of hikers.

A short documentary

An exploration of the interspecies relationship which exists inside a fish hatchery.

The average person may associate Spikeball with a beach day or backyard barbecue, but there's a very different side to the sport of roundnet that is rapidly growing if you know where to look. This documentary takes a peak inside 2023's Spikeball Tour Series championship, where the most talented roundnet athletes on the planet compete for one of the most coveted titles in the sport.

Prepare for a musical chain reaction with an hour lit up by one shining moment after another in this celebration of the best BBC performances from soul legend Diana Ross. From The Supremes to some of her most supreme solo hits, this collection from the archives underlines exactly why Ms Ross has been one of the biggest and most enduring names in music. With songs like Baby Love, I’m Still Waiting and Why Do Fools Fall in Love? from Diana’s visits to the BBC on programmes like Top of the Pops, Wogan and the National Lottery show, this is a must for all fans that promises to leave them Upside Down and enjoying a massive Love Hangover.

"It’s an expected rematch between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election. While Biden is facing obstacles like concerns about his age and declining approval ratings, Trump is juggling challenges that many of his predecessors haven’t experienced. "From legal woes to calendar conflicts, WSJ’s Alex Leary explains what challenges Trump faces on the campaign trail, and how he may turn them into opportunities."

Five Australian boys document their final two years of high school.

WHEN I SAY AFRICA unpacks the problematic white savior narratives that are at the root of Western entanglements with Africa. As white filmmakers we intend the film to be a space where self awareness and a critical view of media, pop culture and humanitarianism can lead Western audiences to reflect on their complicity in systems of global privilege. The film sets out to disrupt problematic narratives and asks audiences to think about different ways of representing and engaging with the continent.

Two filmmaker friends reconnect through the stories of their abortions. They embark on a journey between Buenos Aires and northern Italy, driven by the need to overcome trauma. This trip brings them closer to other women, each with their own stories and experiences, but these stories encounter their own limitation: that of not being able to represent an experience. The adventure that began as a search for intimacy becomes a starting point for the imagination.

After twenty years, the director returns to archives that she filmed on analogue tapes and proposes a game of glances where she constructs a reflection on various times: the life of her grandfather, who emigrated to Europe in the 1920s; the present day of the people who send messages to their loved ones with their desire to return to their land in Morocco, Palestine, Colombia, India; and the ghostly text of a young Ghanaian who is shipwrecked in the Mediterranean before reaching his destination.

For the last 27 years, 72-year-old Pantelis, a refugee from Pontus, an athlete and distinguished coach in Kazakhstan, has been coaching the children of the Pontic community in Aspropyrgos. He himself continues to practice with them.

THE CALLERS combines anonymous documentary testimony with imagined creative scenes to tell the story of those who have called the oldest queer support line in the UK, seeking guidance on everything from where to find the nearest leather club to how to come out, start a family or mend a broken heart. The film is a love letter to queer memory and possibility, LGBTQ+ community and care, and the power of collective imagination to create the lives we dream of.

Disillusioned with the urban life of New York city, an artist moves out to the far west on a journey for self discovery.

On the surface, the machine-man extracts to build and builds to extract. In the meantime, underground, other soil eaters are busy. Each seems to inhabit its own universe, unaware of the other's. Two blinded worlds devouring each other as they try to digest all the matter of the world.

More than one third of the works made during the 120 years of Hungarian film history are considered lost, ruined or deliberately destroyed. But how did all this happen?

A witchcraft warlock, a transgender girl, and a victim of child abuse unknowingly cross paths on their way to faith conversion.

DIR EN GREY streamed the final performance of their hall tour, which took place across 16 shows in 14 locations nationwide.

In an age when Hip-Hop culture is captivating the minds and hearts of millions globally, Canada's capital is generally left out of the conversation. City Limits explores the sounds, stories, history, and future of Hip-Hop within Ottawa.

Silent Dance tells the story of Turkey's first ballerina with hearing impairment: Eda Tavacı's extraordinary relationship with sounds, music, people and her body. It draws a success story from the life full of difficulties and vulnerabilities of a young woman who holds on to life by dancing against noise, deeply rooted habits and deafness. Eda's dream is to find her own voice in the darkness of violence against women within the metropolitan chaos and to inspire others. But in a world that makes people to lose sensibilities every day, how can a girl who tries to bond with the rest of the World as she also expects support from her mother realize this naive desire?

A diary film that weaves together memories and life ongoing.

In the last years of their lives, the poet Nanos Valaoritis and the painter Marie Wilson lived together in an apartment in downtown Athens. Nanos Valaoritis is reflected in the cinematographic lens, weaving personal memory into space and time. A personal microcosm, containing multifaceted manifestations of a creative life.

Free-floating yet rigorously structured, this essay film presents botanist and educationalist Catharina Helena Dörrien and her time in Orange-Nassau in the 18th century. Via regulations and floral formulas, nature philosophy and social policy converge.

After a profound loss, Carol dedicated her life to training service dogs for veterans with PTSD, providing them practical assistance and a renewed sense of purpose and hope.

Z-grade film auteur Godfrey Ho sits down to discuss his career, Ninja Terminator and how he created the cut-and-paste ninja film.

The tourist appeal of ethically problematic destinations is a phenomenon known as dark tourism. The filmmakers' itinerary for their tour of Norway included sites such as the robust sculptures of Gustav Vigeland, criticised for their proximity to Nazi aesthetics, wind farms making Sami pastures inaccessible, and the island of Utøya. Using performative and post-production gestures, they have attempted to come to terms with the plight of dark tourists.

In this documentary film, the turmoils of life in a God-fearing Romanian village are told through a queer filmmaker visiting from abroad, a young single parent wishing to break free from gender roles, and the romantic relationship between the two. As gossip grows, family members protest, and life in the village becomes a synonym to both verbal and physical threats, the search for an escape route begins.

Youth footballers and professional players are asked the same set of interview questions in this documentary that explores mental health, the academy system and childhood ambition in the world of football.

What happens when an artist risks losing the only recording of their album, by burying it in the earth in the name of art. Recomposing Earth tells this unique story - of Erland Cooper's ultimate collaboration with the natural world.

In the north of Cyprus, when Kiler Supermarket removes the stools used by cashiers in its Lefkoşa stores, a new layer of oppression sparks a workers’ fight.

SWARAM is an experimental cinematic documentary film that explores the transformative power of music and sound. Through vivid field recordings and intricate depictions of sacred rituals, it immerses viewers in the profound connection between sound and the human experience. At its core, SWARAM looks into Kerala’s ritualistic art forms—Thottam Pattu, Pulluvan Pattu, and Kalamezhuthu Pattu—examining how rhythm and sound evoke trance states and facilitate spiritual transformation. It also blends ancient traditions with contemporary sonic explorations. Structured as a visual research publication, the film adopts the format of an academic paper, with distinct sections such as Backdrop, Abstract, Introduction, Case Studies, Conclusion, and Expert References. This unique approach seamlessly blends research with cinematic storytelling, offering viewers both an academic exploration and an immersive cinematic experience.

This documentary revisits the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and its far-reaching consequences through the eyes of scientist Dr. Allen Dobrovolsky, who investigated the fallout shortly after the explosion and returns decades later to uncover its lasting dangers. He reveals widespread radiation contamination threatening millions through polluted water sources and buried toxic ruins. The film also connects Chernobyl to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, when the plant was seized, staff were abducted, and Russian troops exposed themselves to deadly radiation. It portrays Chernobyl as an ongoing environmental and geopolitical time bomb.

Barangay Krus na Ligas in the wee hours of dawn, slowly waking up from its slumber.

Are Jewish people in Germany allowed to take a critical view of the war in Gaza? Or do they feel obliged to show solidarity with Israel? Amir wonders how he is perceived here as a peace-loving Jew. Infrared images offer the aesthetics of reversal. The invisible becomes visible, the visible alien. Noise-cancelling headphones momentarily silence the outside in favour of the inside.