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In the warehouse of the Korea Democracy Foundation, a bundle of mysterious old roll films written "Film damaged by the flood" is found. In attempts of restoring it, they visit the groups of photographers who recorded the field at the time and try following the traces of the roll film. However, as that world is restored and damaged photos are brought back, deleted worlds are discovered. The world of the many workers who fought to prevent the hell created by the protagonists of the democratization movement after they became president. In the midst of the alternateness, the landscape is gradually revealed.

Under cover of night, a hardworking farmer voices his despair and anger towards God. He speaks the unspeakable, admitting his loss of faith, as a storm rolls in. Will lightning strike him down? Are his cows and bulls silent witnesses or spies? Will he ever be reunited with his devout deceased grandmother now that he's replaced belief with blame?

A man sentenced to death is found innocent and released after 22 years in prison, 19 of them on death row. Now he has to face a new challenge: to survive freedom. Curtis was only 22 when he was sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit and spent 22 years in prison, 19 of them in death row, buried alive below ground in a concrete room with no windows, waiting to be executed, in Oklahoma State Penitentiary. “A Declaration Of Love” by Director Marco Speroni, aims to give voice to a man who is being cruelly persecuted by a perverse legal system, digging into his deepest and most hidden emotions. The film is a visual journey through Curtis’s glance and his sense of displacement towards a world where he doesn’t belong anymore. “A Declaration Of Love” is a singular way of addressing the barbarity of the death penalty and also a chance to explore a crucial question: what does “freedom” mean in a society that refuses a person like Curtis despite all he went through?

Meerman apa is the only hope for the village of Toktobek-Sai, which is surrounded by water. Forty families live on the peninsula. Our heroine, having no medical education, helps people with the help of healing herbs and a special gift that nature has awarded her. For 30 years, she has helped 137 women give birth. Now she shares her experience with others.

An intimate portrayal of one family’s dynamic while navigating relationships with parents, spouses, and children.

A film about the musical career of Jon McLoughlin AKA Kid Krupa, member ofThe Revillos and Del Amitri.

Following the consequences of nationwide lockdowns amid the Covid19 pandemic, the film chronicles stories of girls out of school in a small village in India.

The film about the work of Pavel Petrovich Bazhov, a writer and collector of folklore, author of Ural tales, is based on autobiographical texts and archival photographs of the "Bazhovsky" Urals, many of which have never been published before.

This is an unthinkable story about mercy. About Elizabeth Glinka and her followers. About the humanitarian mission of the charity organization “Doctor Lisa's Fair Help" in the Donbas. About the readiness to rush to the rescue at any time of the day or night, to any point of the earth. Despite the war, despite the closed borders. This is a movie about the fact that there are no other people's children. That every child's life is priceless. About how important it is to help, protect, protect everyone who needs, here and now.

By means of exploring visual associations, City People Shapes draws a connection between the city – its architecture and street objects on the one hand, and its most dominant inhabitant – human. In this interplay, does a human subjugate the city, or rather, does the city bend the human?

This is the story of a Russian family who in September 2020, after several months of quarantine and online training, sold their only house in Oslo, closed their mortgage and rented a yacht for a year to go on a trip with their three sons (9, 7 and 5 years old). In the middle of their 10-month regatta in Lisbon, they were experiencing a tipping point - to move on or stop. This story is about how to stop being afraid and start living your life, and not the life of your children, how to escape from a pandemic, lockdowns and restrictions. And how to re-learn to enjoy the little things, like water in the shower or the absence of mold on the ceiling.

I Want My Kid Back: Treating Emotional Dysregulation is about children who suffer from biologically driven mental illness. The COVID-19 Pandemic has shown a spotlight on the crisis of youth and mental illness. Several childhood mental-health issues are caused by emotional dysregulation. This biologically driven issue often manifests as behavior problems, resulting in lack of appropriate treatment. Dr. Kristin Russell, clinical psychologist and mother of a son with emotional dysregulation, shares her family’s struggle to understand what was causing his problems and the journey to find effective treatment. Barriers to such treatment options are identified.

The film outlines the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) outlining OHA's 15-year strategic plan for 2020 to 2035, focusing on ways to mālama Hawaii's people and environmental resources.

They are faceless. They are nameless. They are feared and hated. And they make no apologies. Antifa is controversial for its radical and often divisive tactics - but what’s it really like to be a member of this anti-fascist movement?

Concertina is an interlocking narrative film that jumps between parallel realities as two sets of brothers discuss their dreams of one another. The film explores themes of ecology, family, and labor using magical realism as a narrative device to create dark, ethereal worlds that offer a glimpse into the power of the physical realm over our collective psyche.

28-year-old Jack, 19-year-old Jessica and 15-year-old Freya talk about what life is like as a short young person and the challenges they face.

Essay collected from fragments of embodied longing for the lost cosmic romance.

The Last Page documents the final days of a bookseller Polan Shobo, specialising in antiquarian books in the Tokyo suburbs. Kyosuke Ishida, the owner, decided to close down his shop after 35 years due to the recession brought on by the pandemic. In the week before the closing day, the shop saw an unexpected surge in visitors.

This documentary feature examines the tragic tale of Material Issue, a Chicago rock band on the cusp of superstardom that was cut short by its frontman's suicide. This is a power pop trio that was literally out of time, sandwiched between the post-punk era of the 80s and the alternative rock movement of the 90s, searching for its identity in the gritty world of rock and roll.

Surf the glittering channels of Xenia's mind in this highly saturated, musical spectacular where she and an old friend begin making sense of the issues between Xenia and her boyfriend, Keke.

A Body Hack Halloween.

It offers in the subtitle this documentary that explores the sound and cultural intersections produced in the North of Chile between heavy-metal and Andean music. Bands from Chile, Peru and Bolivia exemplify this sound, as lively as it is little studied. It is music with a distinctive identity, both traditional and globalized.

80 years have passed since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. On June 22, the world again froze in a mournful minute of silence. But 2021 marks the 80th anniversary of another historical tragedy - the beginning of the Holocaust in Russia. Everyone knows the places of mass extermination of Jews: Auschwitz, Dachau, Babi Yar, ghettos in Minsk and Warsaw. But there was a Holocaust in Russia. The first mass shooting of Jews took place in the city of Nevel (near Pskov) in September 1941. The film "One Life. The Holocaust" tells not only about the past tragedy and the courage of those who saved Jews, but also about how memory is preserved today. Among the heroes of the film are the creative intelligentsia, famous public figures of Russia, journalists and just ordinary people - witnesses of history…

A selection of the nation's best-loved toys and games, through the years beginning with countdown of the favourites of the 1970s, featuring a cast of experts, toymakers and manufacturers, as well as a smattering of famous faces and comedians. Including crazes from America such as Pet Rock, the skateboard, and Evel Knievel, as well as British classics Sindy, Action Man, Katie Copycat and Striker.

The pitter-patter of rainfall on the gutters, the smell of wet mud, the joy in familiar games, sharing food in Ramadan, cooking on the firewood, and every happy milestone —this old neighborhood will always live in the hearts of its inhabitants. Alrufea is a documentary that showcases and highlights the intimacy this neighborhood community holds.

A short documentary based on filmed correspondence. Journals of imaginary trips between two people stranded by the pandemic, one inside and the other outside the Uruguayan territory; one yearning to leave, another yearning to return.

This film is about human rights violations that took place during the Corona epidemic in Iran: a small part of the thousands of villages in this country that do not have schools. Many students in disadvantaged educational areas have to travel long distances to reach certain areas to connect to the Internet due to the lack of Internet antennas in their villages. And despite the coronavirus, they are forced to sit together in online classes.

2020. A raging pandemic. A country in crisis. A world on the brink of collapse. For many, this was the darkest moment of their lifetime. Everyday was filled with loneliness and hopelessness. For so long, it seemed that there was no one in sight. People began to lose hope that life could return to normal ever again. Until one day, an incredible new case for hope arrived. so we could all finally start living again.

Paul Mwasi is a Malawian separated from his family and lives alone in South Africa. He works as an uber delivery man aiming to establish a better life for his wife and daughter. In this film, Paul provides his testimony on alienation, languages, and the pandemic, merged into a poetic story that expresses a surreal experience. Through music, montage, and personal shots, the movie beautifully captures an image of a separated family and a lonely man who rides the dangerous streets of Cape Town during the lockdown, highlighting the story of many others who migrate to South Africa in search of economic prosperity.

As the grandfather’s presence in the country becomes increasingly problematic, the mother decides never to touch a camera again. At the same time, the father becomes obsessively convinced of his disappearance. Lost among the absence of images, the film encounters a rare event in 1976, in Montreux: Nina Simone returns to the spotlight.

How a man lived and worked, to whose songs the whole country lived. What was his inspiration and for whom he wrote the music that sounded in the receiver of every Soviet person.

"Dragons are not boats, Dragons are people." Against the background of sailing races in the Dragon class, real life stories of specific participants-heroes unfold. Each of them is unique in its own way, but their lines are based on a common idea – in order to contribute to the restoration of the Dragon class and all sailing, the hero is forced to sacrifice something personal (money, time, relationships). Only by making a sacrifice can you do a really meaningful thing.

I get home late from my underpaid job. I open the fridge and remember that I didn't have the time to cook for today or buy any groceries. It's the end of the month and I can't afford eating out. I lustily scan my flat mates' shelves, but there's nothing I can steal without it being too noticeable. I end up boiling some pasta, pour some pesto sauce on top of it, and take the plate to my room. Filled with posters, pictures, and drawings, my wall becomes a window. I close my eyes, I'm not there anymore -I'm in a different time, somewhe-re not here.

A probe into the harsh realities of pursuing a passion in a setting that does not reward it.

The journey of four directors in search of the words of men who were sons and will now become fathers. At the ‘Circle of Men’ in Turin, they deal with overcoming the masculinist patriarchal model through the changing male representation and its language.

The construction of the "garden-village", the flood of '68, the urban expansion, the birth of the Don Mazzi Community, up to the challenges of the "Covid era" and the projects for the future of the neighbourhood, synonymous with solidarity and integration. An educational project that involved a group of students from ISIS Galilei in Florence.

The bonds between different generations of women in the director's family, from her great-grandmother to herself, highlight a matriarchal line focused on the daughter-daughter relationship, which tries to tell a different family model, far from the patriarchy that continues to prevail in the majority in our society.

The film takes a look at the life and work of Pabung Syam through the eyes of one of his admirers and student.

In a time when community is harder and harder to find, Sierra makes meaningful connections to the earth and with the people around her.

A family has lunch under the shade of a C-47 warcraft. An army installation contains the last remnants of an endangered grassland ecology. Young filmmakers hone their skills making a cop show on Chicago streets. Stylized scenes of field botanists, retail clerks, and soldiers in Clarksville, Tennessee and television workers, and police in Chicago, Illinois reveal the unseen forces of imperialism in US daily life. An examination of a television production and quotations from revolutionary and resistance fighters build to a provocation: name the enemy or become it.

Queer South African filmmaker, Victoria Wigzell, sets out to make a documentary on the value of a trophy as cold, hard currency in winning and losing. She tracks the lifecycle of awards.

A big dreamer from the small town of Togliatti, Russia ponders life's purpose while building a rocket powered sled made from discarded trash.

Four individuals struggle to transport enough healthy bees to California’s Central Valley to pollinate the almond orchards.

Ezequiel is serving a six-year prison sentence. So, what crime did this Cuban farmer commit? Answer: He sold his own cow. Filmmaker Salvador Gieling, a cousin by marriage, just can’t get his head around it. And if he can’t understand it, how can he explain it to his two-year-old son Luca? So Gieling and his family make the journey to the village of Sibanicú, where, camera on his shoulder, he tries to figure out what happened to Luca’s uncle.

In a short film at once personal and universal, the filmmaker explores the family dynamics that unfolded during lockdown. A touching, aesthetically inspired piece.

As part of an experiment on climate change, NASA dropped 90 yellow rubber ducks into holes in Greenland’s glaciers. More than a decade later, scientists are still trying to locate the ducks, which they hoped to find scattered across the globe. Stray Ducks is the surreal and epic tale of these cute yellow toys and their mysterious disappearance. Anonymous, bobbing across the oceans, they observe human behaviour the world over. With a keen sense of irony and absurdist humour, this film takes an artistic as well as a critical perspective on social injustice and the climate crisis. (Programming Collective)

The director searches for the meaning of home, and what she gains as she moves from place to place.

A life of creativity in a day spent with a five-year-old girl in a low-income family in Barbados.