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Baywalk is one of Manila's most famous tourist attractions. Among the homeless who gather there at night is Takashi Akatsuka, a Japanese man who has become penniless after coming to the Philippines. Meanwhile, Masami Sekiya has recently moved into a high-rise apartment a few hundred meters away from Baywalk to start enjoying his life after retirement. However, no matter how much time passes, life does not seem to get any better for either of the two.

Innovation and a never-give-up attitude are at the heart of an airport that was built on the sea; Changi sits on reclaimed land at a time when it was an expensive endeavor.

Behind the windows of her childhood home, the author hears the echoes of war. A lingering sense of danger haunts and eventually changes to a state between dream and reality. But as the dream disappears, the reality doesn't.

A snapshot experience of a Polycule

Weather Forecast is an autoethnographic observation of videos from 2003, captured with a handheld home-video camera on VHS tape. Footage of the house feasts of a Tatar family intertwine with clips evidencing the destruction of the town of Shakhtarsk by the Russian troops in 2014, and with DIY videos made in 2003 by a girl imitating TV-shows. In the interaction with the TV screen the girl performs a fight between herself and Volodymyr Klitchko, followed by a weather forecast that recalls the geopolitical transformation of Ukraine since 2003. The video explores the refugee’s mental ecosystem, as it rises above interweaving roots of analogue recordings, videos populating social media, and rituals of private memory.

Through conversations with his grandparents, the director uncovers family conflicts from 60 years ago and reflects on how life choices shape perspectives on aging and living. The film delves into the causes and consequences of choices, exploring themes of helplessness and resilience. Woven through memories, it reveals the complexities of life’s final stages and the pursuit of meaning.

In this inspiring and heartwarming documentary, experienced Hollywood talent agent Sandi Marx decides to take up a new career as a stand-up comedian as she copes with her declining health.

A family in West Africa tells the story of how their ancestor discovered the European explorers - to a European film crew. But do all the claims about the incident stand up to closer scrutiny?

Documentary by Zdenka Šíp Staňková and director Jan Minařík telling the stories of families and schools that decided to embark on the path to freedom in education.

In Kinshasa, "Zagué" saturates the sound of the working class neighborhoods, broadcast by the DJs who hold their broadcasting booths in the street and thus indicate, through sound, the borders of the gang territories. Sitos, who has just produced a new track, has to visit them to make known his last sound. We follow him in the corridors of the city, in search of a new recognition: not only from the thugs, but now from the general public.

Determined to become the most inspirational disabled person ever, Madeleine Stewart embarks on a journey to become a Paralympian.

Millions of children vanish each year. 83,000 each month. 2,700 a day. 115 per hour. 1 every 30 seconds. It makes you wonder…where do they all go? From the producers of “Watch the Water”, directors Matthew Miller Skow and Nicholas Stumphauzer tackle the dark underworld of CPS sex trafficking, elite pedophilia, and the shady death of truth seeking icon Isaac Kappy.

A documentary that covers psychiatric and psychological "treatments" including physical interventions aimed at "correcting" LGBTQ+ people in Turkey and the experiences of LGBTQ+ people who have been exposed to these methods.

South Carolina artist Aldwyth experiences challenges and obstacles in her "second act" as painter, sculptor, box constructionist, and intricate collagist. Like her artwork, the trajectory of Aldwyth's artistic life has been anything but simple.

Thirty years after the 1991 Gulf War, a group of filmmakers who were children during the hostilities travel across Saudi Arabia, gathering stories that bring home the emotional and mental costs of living through that conflict. Thirteen stories mingle with snatches of old songs and some nostalgic images of the time, invoking memories of the good things of childhood as well as the horrors of war.

The lifestyles, struggles, and dreams of a 12-year-old girl living in a highland village and her fellow villagers…

A short film portrait about old Crazy Mina: Nani Kamphuis, in which we portray the search and the desire for her ideal freedom.

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 documentary chronicling a few of the 250 cats rescued from trees by an avid tree climber.

A short poetic documentary about the everyday life of a small community under our world.

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?

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.

The filmmaker goes to her hometown of Mosul, the former capital of the extremist group ISIS, to understand its indoctrination of children and the ripple effect on Mosul’s once-diverse community.

John Casey, a transgender Brooklyn barber, takes to cutting hair in backyards during the pandemic. One day, his oldest customer approaches John for a haircut and a new plan for their body.

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.

Two brothers use thoughtful interview fragments, pieces of art, and various family mementos to explore their father’s legacy.

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

After the release of "Synthetic Human" in 1993, director Yoichiro Serizawa waited 30 years for an opportunity to make a sequel. Both the previous work and this one aimed at an accurate objectification of human vision. When we see something we see it on our retina but the image in our mind is not the only thing we see. In this film both memory and delusion are "visible" at the same time while the point of view and perception of different individuals is presented.

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.

To go or not to go to the military service? My father always said that he would have changed had he been in the military. He preferred playing a life acting performance. What could have changed him more? Military service or lunatic asylum?

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."