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A filmmaker spends some time with his grandpa in Wise River, MT. They fish, reminisce and ruminate on the changing landscape. A meditative and exquisite portrait that explores the nature of time, aging, and family bonds.

A filmmaker searches for the eight winds of the Mediterranean on the island of Corsica.

A charismatic young woman's intelligent film about making the leap from supporting roles in German TV dramas to play the leading role in her own life. A courageous piece of performative autofiction which invents its own rules as it unfolds.

A pictorial sense of space presented through frames; an illusion between two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality; a play of the seen and not seen; a curiosity to the ‘left out’. Is All Around is an abstract impression of Zoey Benschop’s artistic process while making her 2022 work ‘Raamwerk’.

Featuring extensive conversations with people in polyamorous relationships across different age groups, the documentary film tries to understand how they navigate emotions such as jealousy, insecurity and possessiveness in love, and go about their daily lives. It also features experts to understand the socio-political, legal and psychological implication of there being a kind of romantic love that defies the rules of monogamy.

The Nanaisky district, situated on the northeastern banks of the Amur River, lies northeast of Khabarovsk. The Nanai people are among the indigenous communities of the Far East, numbering approximately 12 thousand in Russia. Andrei Beldy, a cultural advocate for the Nanai community residing in the village of Naikhin, expresses concern about the fading of traditions and the Nanai language. Only a few hundred individuals can speak it fluently, with local children receiving instruction from an enthusiastic linguist from Veliky Novgorod. Beldy recounts the historical displacement of Nanais to Sakhalin during Stalin's era to populate the former Japanese territory. He criticizes the current authorities for restricting free fishing, a traditional occupation for the Nanai people. Most villages lack access to gas, and timber is exported abroad. With the onset of the war in Ukraine, many Nanai residents, including the elderly and deceased, received conscription notices.

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

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Inari Sámi Ulpu’s home language was Finnish. Inari Sámi was not spoken in the family after her grandfather went to an orphanage in the 1920s, where speaking his native language was forbidden. As she is becoming a mother, Ulpu begins to wonder about her culture, her linguistic identity, and the generational trauma inherited from her grandfather from a new point of view. Learning Inari Sámi and passing the language to her children seems like a challenging but empowering process, which has the power to open generational knots.

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The film is a visual and musical love letter to the director’s late grandmother, Niillasaš-Jovnna Máret, one hundred years after her birth. Archival interviews and the joik of áhkku unspool as a connecting thread across time, and the melancholic yet playful story offers lessons for the new era defined by giving and receiving.

An essay film that describes the city as a subjective paradise in which systems of order and chaos constantly override each other. An ode to chaos, hidden signs and the city as an eternal palimpsest.

The film is a documentary record of the passed stage of the life of the creative association "Buryatsky Underground" ("BATO") for 6 years of its existence.

A chronicle about the everyday life of an Emmaüs community. Most of its people are migrants, mostly with children. They come from Albania, Chechnya, Morocco, Georgia, Mongolia, Afghanistan... Time flies between their work, homesickness, and nostalgia of the loved ones they will never see again.

When Sofia courageously reveals her rape by a powerful figure within the Hellenic Sailing Federation, it sparks shockwaves and ignites the MeToo movement in Greece. Amalia reaches out to Sofia for support—she was raped by her coach from the ages of 11 to 13—leading them on a path toward justice. In a milestone trial, Amalia faces grueling courtroom proceedings, intense victim-blaming, and attempts to discredit her. Sofia stands firmly by her side, providing support and crucial testimony. The statute of limitations on her case has expired, preventing her from having her day in court.

My mother, Carol Frieda Herman P. Hirsch, Chaya bas Moshe ve Yehudit, died on June 23, 2022, at home, the way she wanted her last weeks to be. Self-determined, surrounded by majestic trees outside the windows, with birds chirping in the background. With her books in shelves nearby. Even when she lacked the energy to read, she was glad to have those books near her. And she enjoyed the smells of good food, her music and other simple things as long as it was possible. The choice to use film material that was way past its sell-by date corresponds with how, as one approaches the end of one’s life, things fall apart, gradually. A tribute.

Every week for the past three years, Alexis and Kellie have stood outside Durham County’s child welfare agency, demanding the return of their children. Together, they embark on a journey to bring their children home.

Mindelo is the cultural capital of Cape Verde. Over the years, generations of writers, painters, singers and intellectuals have been the ultimate expression of Cape Verdean art and thought. Fragments of the lives of its inhabitants reveal the strength of its history, the beauty of its creativity and, above all, its resistance to the scourges of life in Mindelo, a meeting place for different nationalities.

Video Nasty; once a term referring to films that were criticised for their violent content in the early 80s, now the name of an up-and-coming film production company in Sydney, Australia. Join us in this two-minute documentary where university student and founder of Video Nasty, Lachlan Wylie, speaks on his experiences since starting the company in May of 2022.

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.

Delve into the prolific artistic career of the acclaimed painter Devrim Erbil, who has transformed Turkish art over the past sixty years, inspiring and educating countless generations.

In 2016, the parties of the Taiwan Legislative Yuan submitted drafts on the marriage equality act but were confronted with anti-LGBTQ groups. Meanwhile, three pairs of same-sex partners are also facing their own family issues. Tien-Ming and Hsiang have been in love for more than 30 years, but their love is being tested with old-age and illness. Jovi and Mindy spend most of their time protesting for marriage equality, fighting for the rights of Jovi's daughter. Gu flew from Macau to live with Shinchi but is now struggling with finances and the pressure to come out to their parents...

This documentary chronicles the artistic journey of Peruvian singer-songwriter Jessyca Sarango. Entirely financed by producer Alfredo Jiménez Pimentel and directed by Peruvian filmmakers Álvaro Luque and Oswaldo Villavicencio, this project presents the singer in her most intimate and personal light, accompanied by renowned artists and friends such as José Val, Alexandra Graña, Natalia Salas, and Gerardo Manrique, who highlight Jessyca's talent and continued ability to captivate audiences with her music.

Regular beatings, nights locked in the cellar. Alex's childhood in the Westphalian province was marked by his father's constant violence. Images of classic masculinity, harshness, no room for compassion or vulnerability. The only moments of peace: family vacations on Norderney. It is to this very place that Alex now travels with his father 30 years later in this documentary, to finally understand: Dad, why all this?

"The cinema of solidarity" is one of the propositions that compose the Some Strings program. Some strings is rooted in that which stains the screens of history: in Palestine, where poet and teacher Refaat Alareer, like so many others beings, was targeted by Israeli strikes and killed along with seven other members of his family.

The Paris Opera is one of the world's most prestigious opera houses. Guillaume Diop was appointed principal dancer there in 2023—the first person of color in the opera's history. In the orchestra pit, Sulivan Loiseau plays The Nutcracker on the double bass. She is the first Black musician in the Paris Opera Orchestra. It's not just Diop and Loiseau's exceptional talent that continues to attract attention, but also their skin color. Some consider them role models. Others believe the opera is using them to fulfill its diversity quota. This documentary follows these young talents over a season and shows the cultural institution in its attempts to better reflect multicultural society.

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

The office, as an everyday space, holds subtle tension and creative potential even within its monotony. This work reconstructs such a space, weaving the latent movements and sounds of office supplies into a rhythmic flow. The photogram technique explores the boundary between materiality and immateriality, creating moments where familiar objects feel unfamiliar. Through this, the audience discovers new expressions of everyday objects that often go unnoticed.

The story of an American composer born a hundred years too late. Roger Lasher Nortman, a romantic classical composer, seems to be marooned in our time. His irascible character and the archaic beauty of his music, which belongs more to the golden age of classical composition than it does to our own, speaks volumes but doesn't reveal the torment that surrounds him.

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?

Since its inception as a commercial interest in the 19th century, a growing debate has formed around the collection, research, and sale of significant vertebrate fossils specimens on the world stage. TERRA DRACONIS documents the long-standing divide between academic, commercial, private, and legal interests involved in the ownership of dinosaur fossils and explores the many opinions regarding collection of vertebrate fossils in the modern age – for posterity or prosperity.

Amongst an abundance of lost and innocent blankets, one stands out. Joseph is a Blackfeet man who was raised by a white Irish family as part of the “sixties scoop”. Guided by ancestral knowledge and cultural heritage, he embarks on a quest for the truth of identity and self.

Soot covered skies cover a restless immigrant city where a battle over Cleveland's streetcars opens new frontiers in American democracy.

Martine is a marriage counsellor at the Women's Centre in Montreuil. Between files and dance steps, she takes us on a tour of the centre, telling us how she welcomes women who are victims of domestic abuse and the battles they fight alongside the association.

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

Come ride along on a streetcar through the vibrant, culture-rich city of New Orleans. Hear five different stories from visitors as they share their experiences with the dynamic music, tasty food, and the friendly people.

A young Tsotsil woman, about to give birth for the first time, draws on the memories of the women who preceded her to navigate this unique moment, encountering the experience of motherhood in her world.

Anthony is 35 years old. He's been a business owner for 11 years and runs the Salon des Quais in Quimper. A couple for 18 years, married to the man of his life, he could lead a quiet existence in the pretty prefecture of Finistère. However, when the night comes, Anthony is none other than Britany Hart, an exuberant 100% Queer Amann drag queen! Perched on 15-centimeter heels, a flamboyant wig, delirious make-up, and a sharp tongue, Britany wakes up the Breton nights, helped by her daughters: Ixy Hart, Agony Hart, and Oly Hart. Bars, clubs, cabarets, private parties, this “Mother Drag” and her daughters are everywhere, on every front. And at the start of 2023, all their false eyelashes are focused on the organization of the second edition of the Quimper Pride, where thousands of young and not-so-young people from the surrounding towns and countryside come to celebrate, carrying the Rainbow flag and its inclusive, festive values high!

Rock and roll megastars The Psychadelic Hix are about to embark on their long anticipated world tour. However, the hype is tarnished by rumors of the group’s association with the mysterious Muncie Ball Beer Cult, which indoctrinates young Hix fans into moving to the coast of Maine and marrying lighthouse keepers.

After being banned from over 50 of Adelaide's venues Aloe Vittoria was desperate for a win, so he planned a comeback show. The Grace Emily Hotel agreed to let him perform for one night only and Sheron Subasinghe was there to record it all...

People call Jamal Holtz the future mayor (or governor) of DC. At 25, he is a warm, extroverted, "old soul" passionately dedicated to establishing Washington, DC as The United States' newest State. 51st State explores the emerging national issue of DC statehood from the personal perspective of one of its youngest and most vibrant Gen Z leaders—set against the overlooked cultural backdrop of our capital city and a deep yet virtually unknown crack in our democracy.

The life story of Hüseyin Kızılırmak, born in Kasımpaşa, Istanbul... Hüseyin Kızılırmak, a free-spirited, adventurous man who lived on the fishing boat named Kızıl since his 20s and survived until the age of 80 by selling the fish he caught, told us about his life in the most natural way. He died of cancer shortly after the completion of the documentary.

An emotional film about the profundity of what’s right in front of us, and the meaning we can draw from our connection to the land and each other as we age.

Stuck between four walls, elderly find peace and joy via social life.

Almost 80 years after the end of the Second World War, Julia is standing in a field in Normandy in a Wehrmacht uniform. She embodies an ideology she does not believe in, from a world she has never experienced. Julia, a native Russian, sees herself as a German anti-aircraft helper from the 1940s. She plays a character that she has invented. A movie about the question of whether you become what you play.

After serving two decades for drug charges, Craig Sweat launches Uncle Budd, New York's first black-owned cannabis brand in the legal market, but faces obstacles raised by his past.

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.