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The space between one life and the next.

The traditional music mecca, The Cobblestone, is the focus of this two-part documentary. The family run business became the centre of media attention when thousands took to the streets of the capital to fight a planning application for a 9-storey hotel, which, if successful, would have threatened the very existence of what the Cobblestone had become.

A demonstration of a new telephotography system.

Directed by accomplished documentary maker, Adam Kaleta, 'Tourist Trophy' is an authentic, true-to-life portrayal of the 2022 Isle of Man TT Races, following several of the event's leading competitors as they navigate through the highs and lows of racing on the Mountain Course.

The documentary tells a story about trees not fit for the sawmill being given a new life. It is important to use what we have, and to give each stump a second chance through new value.

Hike Slow is the story of two sisters and their attempt to find a deeper connection to the natural world and to one another.

My father only used a camera once in his life. Thirty years later, he asked me to digitise the material he had filmed. I was wondering what he remembers. Created from an impulse to rethink and rewatch personal archive footage, the film explores memory and its relation to documentation and non-institutional archive practices. Connecting politics with intimate spaces, the documentary questions both the influence of war on private archives and the role of gardens as places of new begginings.

This is a story about how war brings destruction not only to the homes of the occupied territories, but also to the families and destinies of those who carry this war to a foreign land. A young Russian officer, an artilleryman, a veteran of the war in Ukraine returns to his homeland. And discovers an empty house. Trying to find loved ones, he realizes that his little world has been destroyed by him. He talks to his family photo and tries to justify himself by explaining why he bombed peaceful cities of another country.

“What nobody talks about” is an honest, heartfelt story about a reality experienced by many, yet unknown or barely talked about. Karoline is a 28 year old police officer who´s been fighting cancer for a year. Finally, she is announced cancer free and that means she can go back to her normal, everyday life. She is so excited for the next chapter. Everything’s gonna be better now! Right?

In the tradition of direct cinema, What Will I Show You is an intimate documentary in which a grandfather and his grandson discuss the past and future of Innu culture. An important, first-person film telling the stories of Innu and their culture, their work, and the immediate impacts of environmental degradation on their lands.

The Secret Sobriety Project explores the quiet side of sobriety—private moments of joy, and the connection and support the sober community creates for each other.

After observing the holiest month of the Islamic calendar alone during the pandemic, members of Baruch College’s Muslim Student Association come together during Ramadan 2022.

In 1990, the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) in Quebec, Canada, erected a barricade to prevent the town of Oka from cutting down a sacred forest and ancient burial ground. This documentary focuses on the first day of a 78-day siege that still resonates today

As Putin's savage war rages in Ukraine, this documentary brings together testimony and eye-witness footage as historic events unfold along Ukraine's frontlines. (Radio Times)

Four queer adults reflect on the TV and movie characters that captured their adolescent hearts.

An Upper West Side Instagrammer documents her dumpster diving while calling out wasteful corporate practices.

A New York City horologist tinkers and toils amongst hundreds of antique clocks in the basement-level shop he inherited from his late father.

Two filmmakers, one mother and one son, find answers and strength in the struggles of Indigenous Nasa in Cauca, Colombia as they document their journeys decades apart.

In the deserts of Benin, shepherds struggle with droughts and a changing environment as they herd animals through ancestral lands.

What started as a personal exploration soon turned out to have unsuspected political implications. When Schamlé posted photos of her toe on Instagram, there was an immediate online response from foot fetishists—is there any part of the female body that can’t be unintentionally sexualized? Consequently, Schamlé decided to set up an OnlyFans account for her toe (/u217509940), so that it would at least make some money from this sexual objectification.

The fascinating and partially hidden story of this woman and other former “guest workers” in Germany is told by her daughter, who as a member of the next generation is struggling with her own identity and her relationship with her mother, as well as her mother’s different cultural mindset.

The political situation in Belarus forced Dima to flee the country. Fearing for loved ones, she constantly keeps in touch with those who had to stay there. Despite all efforts to arrange his life in Poland, he still has to fight the shadow of the past.

We cross each other's paths & affect each other's fate at the ladies toilet. We drink and pee together, hold each other's hair when we puke and make out. A sanctuary where we can be at peace and together. Welcome to take a peek!

Twin sisters Husai and Hassi want to leave Sierra Leone to look for work in the Middle East, so they can lift their parents out of poverty. They haven’t always been as united as they are now. Husai grew up with her aunt and was the more enterprising of the two—she’s already had some misadventures abroad. When she got pregnant, unmarried, her family was outraged. Now their taciturn father supports their plan to emigrate, but their mother is opposed to the decision. However, the sisters are in no mood to change their minds.

Like the phones that have become an essential part of our lives, we all need a recharge at some point

ZU-UK explores the intimate and the epic, the interface between live and digital experiences with this work that exists between physical and virtual worlds.

From sheltering in bunkers to travelling across Europe as refugees, TikTok has been appropriated to chronicle and explain the horror of the Ukraine war.

War is no joke. But does that mean you can't joke about war? Stand-up comedian Mariana Shama fled from Kiev to Prague. Here she wonders if it is appropriate to joke in tragic times.

20 years ago, a car ran over a man at a pedestrian crossing in Prague's Čimická street. It was my dad. I couldn't walk across that crosswalk for years. A short poetic film from a place that has a special meaning for me and a glimpse into the relationship with my father.

Memories of three adults on their children's convalescent stays in Spa Kynžvart. "The nurses forbade us to go to the corridor where the toilets were after curfew, so we had to pee behind the wardrobe."

We are constantly trying to please everyone, to be the best version of ourselves for others, but in the end, we are still just ourselves. A metaphorical record of how the environment influences us and we gradually become its projection. An object for everyone and for no one.

Residents of the South Bohemian town of Paštiky wonder if a thief can have a conscience. A few days after granite skulls were stolen from the cemetery gate, someone returned them, placing them carefully back in front of the church wall. The mysterious return of the stolen sculptures leads locals to wonder about the perpetrator's motives. The film is a varied mosaic of testimonies and witness statements into which they project their own ideas.

A reflection on feelings of compression, body constriction, and its subsequent release. The parallel between human skeletons and tree spines. Us and nature, hell and freedom.

Like at the New Year’s Eve, showers of colourful light cut through the darkness. While fireworks dissolve into nothing after a thunderous sound, shattered glass leaves material artifact. Sharp pieces then become a reminder of the real track that fireworks leave in the sky.

A jumble of images of the seashore, grassy plains, and dense forests merges into one blurred image on the time-damaged film frame, creating an associative diary of impressions and memory fragments that pass through our minds as unpredictably as waves flowing into each other on the beach.

This unusual documentary pixilation is based on images discovered in Cuban court archives. In the past, the Communist regime’s prying security forces surveilled not only the enemies of the regime, but also the activities of nonconformists, misfits and dissidents.

The analogue film maps our perception of the environment and how we relate to it through different perspectives and the influence of various changes. Do we perceive the city – the space we have been familiar with – in the same way when we look at it in hindsight from a plane window or watch it in a shaky 8mm video?

Behind the scenes and performance documentary of Slowly Slowly’s show at The Forum in Melbourne 2022.

Oleksii Shevliuha has been missing since 2014, when he went to fight pro-Russia separatists in the east. His father has never stopped searching for him.

A meditative film revealing urban and natural recesses crossed by endless nooks of industrial piping intertwining its surroundings like a Uroboros serpent. The pipes guide the camera eye across large fields and blocks of flats, connecting canoeists, kids at play and a bubbling stream, serving as silent witnesses to their living existence.

This documentary is about Ukrainian demonstrations in Milan against the war in Ukraine. A group of people have gone to protest every day since the war began (24 February 2022). Sometimes they do different performances or flash mobs so they can have a chance to be more viral and let people know what is going on in their country.

Travel with explorer Sasha Tobago to the beaches and rainforests of Hawaii. Swim with sharks, try Hawaiian cuisine, and fly in a plane with no engine!

A documentary project that explores the origin and evolution of Ukrainian swearing from the times of Kyivan Rus to the present, regional differences, how it differs from the "Russian mat", how different professions swear, cult obscene quotes and swearing as a way of protest.

Yasin El Harrouk is Yonii is actor, rapper, singer, Swabian, Moroccan. This portrait presents him as a lively shifter between life and creative cultures, between the roles he plays in the studio and in front of the camera, and the expectations that family and community have of him. Yonii has two languages and even more worlds – and enjoys this wealth. But on the sofa in his mother’s Stuttgart living room, it becomes clear that this range of different worlds also means a constant balancing act.

“Sex does strange things to people!” This sentence reverberates from her childhood. What did her mother mean? What fears did she pass on to Emma? The budding filmmaker sets up the camera in her mother’s apartment, invites mum’s friends, creates an open atmosphere. Coby opens up more and more, talks about a repressed topic. At the same time, she gets to show a wholly different side of herself, performing song and dance numbers in front of her daughter’s lens.

A little girl narrates the myth of the original sin: a tear in the Garden of Eden. On the other side of that crack, a cold and bare bedroom. On the faded wall, a little piece of lost paradise.

“During the time of jacarandas, Rosa takes me on a trip through Lisbon. I follow her in the blooming streets to explore beauty through her eyes. Our relationship starts unfolding slowly as we wander in a city that I’m about to leave.” Davina-Maria

A kaleidoscopic mosaic juxtaposes images and stories from Spanlang’s cell-phone recordings. Her epos is not only an ode to sisterhood, but also a story of patriarchy and what it represents: colonialism, capitalism, environmental destruction and violence.

Adina Camhy investigates the phenomenon of a crater as a metaphor, as well as a concrete physical shape, resulting in a meditation on ‘dynamic memorials’ around the Ramon Crater in the Negev desert and its counterpart with the same name on the Moon.