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In 1972, the arrival of migrant workers led to riots in the Rotterdam neighbourhood of Afrikaanderwijk. An explosion of violence ensued, accompanied by a hailstorm of stones and Molotov cocktails. As the current generation recount testimonials, the events are reconstructed and imbued with present-day significance. This effect is amplified through the use of a split screen showing past and present at the same time. In (Re)membering the riots in Afrikaanderwijk in 1972 or guest, host, ghos-ti, visual artist Cihad Caner explores the things we remember and the things we forget and how memories and perspectives are bound to time and place – different for each individual.

Through first-person narrative, "De Colores: Defining Kinship, Finding Peace" tells the story of the community created by lesbian women of color who came to Northampton, Massachusetts, in the 1970s and 1980s to live, work, and love.

In memory of her husband, she lights a cigarette and places it on the grave, as if he were still here.

A sonic, surrealist narration in which the musicians fingers’ are the protagonists. Reflecting on common hierarchies and roles of the fingers when navigating through physical, digital and sonic realms, "Pinkie" is taking a perspective of deconstructing and reassigning them towards a queer, holistic reception of playing an instrument.

The documentary follows the inhabitants of Suzu City as they recover from the 2023 and 2024 Noto earthquakes, and their attempts to keep their local festivals alive.

Introducing a short film created from my nights in Japan exploring Tokyo and Osaka. This video was shot entirely on 16mm motion-picture film using a Bolex H16 Rex-5, which has been converted to Super 16.

Pınar Gültekin went missing on July 16, 2020, in the Ula district of Muğla, and her lifeless body was found on July 21, 2020, in a rural forested area of the Menteşe district. The murderer, Cemal Metin Avcı, first wounded Pınar, then burned her, and finally poured concrete over her body. Through Pınar’s case and historical precedents, the film exposes how impunity perpetuates these crimes while highlighting women’s hard-won legal victories and solidarity networks. It juxtaposes the brutality of her murder with her friends’ relentless campaign to preserve her memory, framing their activism as part of a broader feminist resistance. By connecting individual trauma to systemic failure, the film challenges viewers to confront both the roots of gender violence and the transformative power of collective struggle, where mourning becomes mobilization, and loss fuels demands for justice.

A story of resilience, heritage, and the human spirit. Elemchi Nwosu is of Igbo heritage, and her parents are survivors of the Biafran Civil War in Nigeria. Now living in Wales, Elemchi journeys back into her heritage.

A critical zone of radio towers, antennae arrays, satellite ground control stations, radar installations, meteorological instruments, and fibre optic cables populate the region around Longyearbyen.

Upon discovering the sexual practice of cruising, the director begins to question the relationship between his sexuality and his own identity, diving into the vast reality of sexual micro-universes and challenging his identity as a gay man. He uncovers how certain violences and repressions he had tried to escape from, have silently mutated within the very practices, spaces, and discourses where he once sought freedom. In realizing this, he chooses to express a form of pleasure that requires neither labels nor boundaries.

A documentary about the Chilean viral short film "Prestando mis Alas". The short had great repercussion on its country thanks to the themes it touched during the global pandemic in 2020.

The hope of a grassroots funded skatepark offers an outlet for a small Pennsylvania town affected by the opioid epidemic. The first iteration of the Quakertown Skatepark was built in 2003. By 2008, many in the town wanted to see it permanently closed due to vandalism and safety concerns. A local Pastor, Dave Kratz, got involved in changing the atmosphere of the park. With the help of students, local businesses and the township, the group raised over one million dollars to fund the creation of a world-class skatepark and community center.

In the culture of the Old Believers, the main goal is the preservation of religious dogmas. However, their closed nature and commitment to traditions have also helped to maintain their way of life. As the Old Believers become more open to the world, their authentic material culture gradually fades away. To capture this vanishing heritage, we traveled to Tayaty, one of the few remaining sub-taiga villages of the Old Believers. The main goal of our expedition was to find preserved traditional household items and, through their owners, gain a deeper understanding of the design thinking of the Russian people.

In the Páramo of La Sarna, Sebastian is getting ready to film a documentary. However, on his journey he is forced to reflect on the connection between his loss of vision and the scars of his territory's forgotten past.

A woman talks to a parrot. A man dances with a broom. Two children practice riding a horse atop a tank. Someone sings a song. Each person is their own stunt performer. From Bella Unión to Aiguá. From Tacuarembó to Tranqueras. Cuñapirú, el Repecho de Pena, Sarandí de Arapey. Different accents, the same piece of land. People telling us their own story, or someone else's. Gestures and silences like mirrors in which we can look at ourselves; a documentary made of portraits and a landscape called Uruguay.

Aaron Johnson’s powerful short film "Dark and Tender" follows ten Black men on a transformative retreat with the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project outside Seattle. The men seek to reclaim platonic intimacy and tenderness through close encounters with nature and depictions of gentle Black masculinity, restoring the vital aspect of touch by replacing violence and rough play with care, connection, and intimacy.

In August 2022, a group of squatters entered an abandoned building in Marseille. Inside, they uncovered the forgotten remnants of Jean-Pierre’s life – hidden among decaying papers and neglected VHS tapes – a treasure trove of the Mineshaft founder’s archives. Piece by piece, they began to uncover a history of pleasure, transgression, and community. Guided by a voice-over, they navigated Jean-Pierre’s intimate space, uncovering a story of defiance and desire, preserved in the materials he left behind.

Witness a stunning natural event that occurs roughly once a decade: the filling of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre. Follow floodwaters travelling over 1,000km from outback Queensland through ancient riverbeds to dramatically arrive at Australia's largest inland salt lake, bringing life to the desert landscape.

The film brings together fragments of press images related to the phenomenon known as "false positives" in Colombia. The video shows the bureaucratic action of stamping seals with the plus sign (+), which has the meaning of "positive." Newspaper clippings depicting victims and perpetrators of extrajudicial executions, on which red ink stamps are printed, flash by as the audio presents fragments of testimonies from perpetrators, some of whom acknowledge committing the crime while those most responsible persist in denying what happened and even justifying the murders committed against defenseless people. However, the documents and traces of the crimes (bodies, remains of objects or clothing belonging to the victims, testimonies) prove the perpetrators' responsibility, revealing the complex artifice they deployed to falsify their supposed efficiency at the expense of the defenseless population.

AMSTERDAM IS DEAD a Parkour Film aiming to revive this city’s lost street parkour scene.

Gerardo is a 79-year-old man who, through costumes, film photography and satire explores his spirit of an inner child, and opens up a world of play, fantasy, memorabilia, and imagination that challenges the prejudices of aging.

A musician's quest for rock 'n roll glory takes him from the bars of Toronto to the clubs of London, but after eight years chasing a deal, he's sick of the trend-crazy music business and turns to solitary songwriting. Now, twenty years later, the mysterious tunesmith emerges from his parents' basement with DIY flair and a power-pop masterpiece he believes will change everything. Is the world still waiting for Harkness?

A toxic divorce case in 1963 involving sexually explicit Polaroid photos of the Duchess of Argyll with an unidentified man rocked 1960s Britain. Who was he?

Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s honeymoon trip to Viena Karelia was one of the numerous colonial expeditions undertaken by Finnish artists, aiming to draw from Karelian culture to construct Finnish cultural heritage. Director Mikki Noroila’s relative Rimmin Ul’l’aska, who lived in Viena Karelia, served as a living model for Väinämöinen in Gallen-Kallela’s Aino Triptych (1891). The film tells an alternative narrative of history, one that does not rely on the Finnish colonial tradition.

One in Five Hundred is a documentary film that explores the scientific causes and sociological effects of the catastrophic floods that tore through Yellowstone National Park and its surrounding gateway communities in June of 2022. Using film to capture the lived experience of the flood and its effects provides an impactful perspective on how we understand recovery, economic hardship, and interrupted livelihoods in the wake of natural disasters.

Uninterrupted family shenanigans and static sights of some places my family visited in Switzerland. An unfinished, public video archive.

It proposes a dialogue with the imaginaries of the women of the Bajo Cauca territory in the department of Antioquia, a territory that for decades is crossed by waves of violence, being a mining territory is believed to be a territory of men but also belongs to women, their stories are intertwined through a territory in dispute between armed groups, mining companies, heavy machinery and illicit crops. Mercury is a protagonist in this story, we find its traces in the bodies and the territory, mercury arrives through mining in the 70s and enters all spaces of everyday life, it gets into rivers, houses, pots and kitchens, in pregnant women and through food it reaches the territory of the uterus. With these changes in territorial dynamics we see the changes in pregnancies, care practices and what it means to be a mother.

A Film by Kate Gammill. The first student-produced documentary completed with The Institute for Southern Storytelling at MC, it explores the effects on people and a community after a crime investigation runs cold. Featuring various individuals associated with the trial and the popular duo of the Creeps and Crimes podcast.

Coal mining was the life blood of Wales... until it wasn't.

Can we ever be modern? Could our art ever be removed from the influence of religion? On meeting Bhabotosh, the biggest star in the Bengali festival of the Mother Goddess Durga these were our natural quests. However, amidst all the heartburn in which he was in, we found in him, an artist who only wanted to be remembered, as one, who had sought the truth of this life. This film immerses itself in that need of his, in his factory, his home, as he works to create that one solo show in his long career as an artist, to bare his soul and its roots, rootless that he had always been.

Athletes compete for the title Fittest on Earth experiencing exhilarating highs and devastating lows. This film amplifies the connection between each competitor's intense, personal journey, and their breathtaking feats of pure athleticism.

Trees from the backyard of NANO LAB, Melbourne, Australia.

An animated documentary about the life experiences of people with vitiligo.

Film director Siyeon wants to love forever. But is that really possible? Both eternity and love are infinitely heavy for Siyeon. Then, in a letter from her parents that she found by chance 27 years ago, she sees two people who are convinced of eternal love. Where did the love of Jaesoon and Jaehwan, who dreamed of eternal love, go? Siyeon wants to learn how to love forever by filming a documentary about the two.

We connect to 'Underland,' a forgotten world. Somebody's still there. What's the reason that this being is still living in this place? Guided, we explore Underland.

In Guadalajara, Oscar Hernández, known as Mr. Tree, has spent 25 years planting and preserving trees with his own resources. Despite challenges from authorities, he remains dedicated to teaching children and adults the importance of loving and respecting nature.

Following the death of her mother, Gertie, filmmaker Young found a suitcase that had been packed away for over 60 years containing the remnants of another life - her mother's life before she emigrated to New Zealand from Hong Kong in 1957.

One-shot visual composition based on the eponymous music by Soheil Peyghambari.

An immersion into a world where death for one's country is considered the greatest act of self-sacrifice. The Russian-born director naively thought he had escaped such a world.

According to surveys, one of Europe's largest lithium deposits is located in Cínovec. Two thirds of it is found on the Czech side and one third on the German side. Both countries plan to start mining, but their processes may differ significantly. And, depending on the route taken, the environmental impact and quality of life for the local population may also differ.

The last days of a young farmer on a Greek island as he prepares to leave for mandatory military service, navigating the expectations of his community. The island’s landscape mirrors his internal shift, marking a quiet moment of transition.

During the Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974), thousands of Africans fought alongside the Portuguese Armed Forces and risked their lives for a homeland they believed was their own. After the Carnation Revolution, however, they were left behind. Persecuted and killed, the Portuguese Guinean commandos suffered the worst of Portugal’s abandonment. Nearly 50 years later, they tell their story for the first time and accuse the Portuguese state of betrayal.