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Upon a visit to UVM's Lane Series in the Spring of 2022, Jean-Francois Alcolea offered to conduct a workshop to UVM film students and others on his piece, "Right in the Eye". A group of students from FTS 141 Video Production, teamed up to document the day and Jean-Francios' magical performance. They all left with a smile.

On September 22, 1975, 45-year-old Sara Jane Moore took a revolver out of her purse and fired two shots at President Gerald Ford on a crowded sidewalk in San Francisco’s Union Square. This failed political assassination was destined to become a strange historical footnote, yet Moore is revealed as an extraordinary subject in this expansive, fascinating new documentary by the protean Robinson Devor (The Woman Chaser, NYFF37). Having served more than 30 years of a life prison sentence, Moore tells her own story, from FBI informant to would-be assassin, all of which Devor dramatizes against the backdrop of the era’s prevalent political unrest and militancy, of Attica, the Black Panthers, the U.S.-backed Chilean coup, and the Symbionese Liberation Army. A pugnacious and unapologetic interview subject, Moore holds the center of a fleet and compelling nonfiction drama with the feel of a 1970s thriller.

How do artists view their own work? How does actor Esko Salminen immerse himself in his roles, how does the writer/director Saara Turunen create a whole new world for the stage, and why does musician PK Keränen pick up his guitar time and time again? Is creativity a conscious or subconscious process, a pleasure or a compulsion? Veikko Aaltonen’s documentary takes us straight into the heart of creativity with artists from different fields and generations. Celebrating the various forms of passion and creative work, the film presents a compelling case for the significance of art.

In the 1970s, Satish Bhaskar became a turtle walker: He walked nearly the entire coastline of India and the spectacular Andaman and Nicobar Islands in search of sea turtles. Carrying a camera and a notepad, he documented turtles’ nesting areas and tried to save them from extinction. Then the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck, putting all his work and the creatures he loved in peril.

The film follows an expedition into Ivohiboro — a small, previously unexplored tropical forest in Southeast Madagascar rich with biodiversity.

On the border between Brazil and Argentina, a family lives by the Uruguay River and works with chibo - the clandestine crossing of goods for subsistence, trade, and people. Dani, the eldest daughter, is about to finish high school and face the decisions of this stage of life.

"Welcome to my life", Sylvie Hofmann repeats this sentence almost all day long. Sylvie has been a nurse for 40 years at the North Hospital of Marseille. Her life is running. Between patients, her sick mother, her husband and her daughter, she has always devoted her life to helping others. What if she decided to think a little about herself? To retire? Does she have the right, but above all, does she really want to?

Jerry, an ordinary immigrant dad, retired in Orlando, is recruited to be an undercover agent for the Chinese police. Jerry’s family recreates the events on film and his three sons discover a darker truth. True crime meets spy thriller in this genre-bending docufiction hybrid about an immigrant’s search for the American dream. A Slamdance Film Festival Grand Jury and Audience Award winner.

This film tells the story of 9 intangible cultural heritages, including Weifang kites, Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings, Zhucheng style guqin, Maoqiang, and shuttlecock, as well as the warm stories behind the inheritors. The movie is narrated by Liu Lin and consists of 9 stories. Based on the essence of real life, it breaks the creative framework of documentary and drama films, combines the popularization of intangible cultural heritage with the stories of inheritors through poetic shots, explores the boundary between reality and fiction, and uses reality as the needle and philosophy as the line to outline a life picture where recording and narrative are both external and internal.

A journey through the memories of Brazilian filmmaker Afranio Vital. Between dreams and ruins, a life in cinema doesn’t end like this.

Since her historic participation in the International Song Festival in 1972, in a performance that would earn her the Honorable Mention award, Maria Alcina has become one of the most beloved figures in Brazilian music.

An examination of Israel and its society after many months of war, seen initially through the prism of viral social media posts - and exclusive interviews with the soldiers behind them. These posts, some shared millions of times, show soldiers humiliating bound Palestinians, ransacking their homes, joking as they detonate schools and whole districts, and laughing as they launch high explosive ordnance into densely-packed areas. The award-winning team behind this Basement Films production traveled to Israel to interview some of these soldiers, who proudly defended themselves and their videos, some expressing callous disregard for Palestinians in Gaza. Through additional interviews with Israeli radical groups, politicians, and media figures, the film reveals Israeli Jewish society in the aftermath of October 7th, gripped by a vengeance and hate that puts into question any possibility for peace.

Filmmaker José Cardoso’s deeply personal Flowers is an exercise in sense-making, led by both his conscious and unconscious mind. Navigating the barrage of online news images produced each day, he transforms these into an unexpected web of connections that link an Amazonian community threatened with the destruction of their land to an extreme right-wing Brazilian President who justifies the exploitation of the Amazon by the rising price of resources precipitated by the war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh teaches us to make our enemy the object of our compassion, and the filmmaker’s three-year-old son marvels at the frogs and flowers growing in the garden.

Somewhere on the internet is a land where communities pretend to live out a survivalist fiction. The avatars of the directors of Knit’s Island spent 963 hours there, creating a fascinating film resulting from their encounter with these communities. The “players” reveal their fears and fantasies, in an at times unsettling blurring of the real and the virtual.

Shellfish harvester Sagrario Fra is convicted of adultery and faces imprisonment in Francoist Spain.

For generations, fishermen have made their home on Tangier Island, in the heart of the Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the US. Two-thirds of the island has disappeared over the last 150 years, and local people are concerned about rising sea levels—and the lack of progress on reinforcing the sea wall—but the church remains the bedrock of this small, close-knit community.

Veteran journalist Charlie Bird battles the debilitating effects of Motor Neurone Disease while trying to break one final story in the time he has left.

Their crimes earned them the nickname Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde — and the story only gets weirder in this documentary about the most lucrative heist ever.

For her first interview in almost four years, Céline Dion confides with emotion to host Jean-Philippe Dion. Together, they talk about the rare disease she suffers from, her new life, her career and her future.

A 7-year project spanning 7 countries, filmed by 7 African majority film crews— all focused on one burning question: 'CAN AFRICA SAVE THE WEST?'

A body drifts with the current through a submerged capital.

When the world shut down, a Cuban band in Los Angeles turned up on a stage at a Cuban-Latin American restaurant. Their music became a beacon light in the dark. Their music helped reconnect people. "The Music that Saved a Community" Culture. Community. Cuisine. This is Son Habana.

Through the images we review with Fernando a career of success but also of suffering. An icon who has touched glory although it has not been easy to fight with the best. But the Asturian's is, without a doubt, a career marked by an unbreakable passion for Formula 1. A passion that never went away and that today is more alive than ever.

Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s scandalous drama Reigen and Chantal Akerman’s famous film Tout en Nuit, the viewer witnesses a modern cycle of love. The film portrays fleeting moments of happiness and disappointment: a young woman talks about her non-binary existence. We observe another woman who, after long years of marriage, finally leaves her home to embark on her first romantic adventure in a hotel room with a “blind date”. This is followed by a drunken drive home for a couple, whose nighttime outing ends in a dark landscape. To be continued!

Caroline Seger has hung up her shoes after an unparalleled career as one of the greatest female soccer players ever, both on and off the field. In this documentary, we get to follow the national team captain at the end of the last season, with retrospectives on his entire career. A unique career in Swedish and international football through her leadership and fight for equality in the sport.

When green energy comes at the expense of Sámi traditional life and culture, this poetic film questions the sustainability of combating climate change by replacing one form of destruction with another.

A multi-day ping pong tournament where four random contestants battle it out in intense games of Ping Pong to see who will be the next Ping Pong Pro.

The film analyzes the importance of cinema in the context of hybrid warfare and highlights the role of filmmakers in shaping national consciousness, serving as a cultural foundation for the country, and supporting Ukraine on the international stage.

A Puerto Rican film that combines the educational function of the documentary genre with the lyricism and power of the narrative genre, offering a new and contemporary look at our award-winning poet and patriot Julia de Burgos.

“Black Gold” is a visually striking film directed by a Japanese filmmaker, blending a minimalist aesthetic with the natural beauty of rural India – a true visual feast for cinephiles. Every detail is crafted with precision, reflecting a uniquely Japanese perspective.

Redoan Rony and Saleh Sobhan Auneem directed Bidrohe Biplobe, the rise of students 2024. This documentary is made to salute all those who participated in the Student-movement happened recently in Bangladesh.

The Cost Of Convenience examines how internet platforms are impacting our mental health, restructuring our communities, threatening our democracy, and violating our human rights.

About the creation of the film "Andrei Rublev", about its deep philosophical and artistic meaning, the figure of Andrei Rublev himself and about the influence of the great iconographer on the work of Andrei Tarkovsky.

Michael Chandler - from a small Missouri town became a top MMA fighter. Now, he's preparing for the most anticipated fight of his career – a major showdown with Conor McGregor.

A documentary detective film about the construction of a 870 kilometres long highspeed railway line that started with a dream to connect the Baltic States to rest of the Europe when in 1991 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania regained their independence from Soviet Union. Filmmaker Kārlis Lesiņš becomes a ‘citizen-investigator’ and goes on the road to find out why after 30 years and with only few years before the intended launch of the Rail Baltica railway line, the construction of this EU-funded project is significantly behind the schedule, over the budget and may never be finished at all. Kārlis follows the trail of Rail Baltica project, trying to get the answers - what has happened and what is happening? Traveling through all the involved countries, he meets officials, military personnel, investigative journalists, people whose land will be expropriated, employees implementing the project and potentially benefiting entrepreneurs, who open up to him with their versions of the story.

Béatrice Dalle, Lio, Brigitte Fontaine, Corinne Masiero, Aïssa Maïga, Virginie Despentes, Maria Schneider, Gisèle Halimi, Juliette Gréco, and Adèle Haenel—these women lived on their own terms, defying conventions and embracing lives often deemed "scandalous." Labeled frivolous, hysterical, or simply too free and too loud, they faced criticism yet used controversy as a force for change, challenging norms and advancing women's rights. This documentary retraces seventy years of their bold and unconventional journeys, telling the story of the fearless women who shaped history and fought for a more equal world.

It’s not everyday you see a film without a director! The citizens of Belfast submitted hundreds of stories of everyday life. Using an innovative approach, The Hearth pushes the boundaries of film form, resulting in a visibly moving self-portrait of the city.

Forty years on from the strike that transformed Welsh mining communities, Alex Jones returns to her home town of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, as well as other Welsh mining communities, to assess how this dramatic event affected the 'children of the strike'

Indian film director Tushar Prakash has moved to Estonia and starts taking guidance from local farmers how to become a real Estonian man.

Valentina creates roses out of wool while her father tends to the plants, which are now wilting. They are surrounded by “MUOSters” that intrude into their lives. One day, the young woman realizes that thanks to her ability to create beauty, she is able to change her destiny.

April 17, 1944. A high-profile trial for sedition opens in Washington. Dozens of individuals—including members of Congress—are accused of cooperating with German forces, participating in pro-Nazi movements, and plotting to overthrow the U.S. government. How did this happen in the world's greatest democracy? And why does no one remember this major episode in American history?

A young woman shares her journey of overcoming adversity after being bullied at school, recounting how she found a way to heal her emotional wounds, as well as a path to self-confidence and resilience, especially through taekwondo.

Can oral history restore a forgotten part of our past? Can it break the silence perpetuated over generations? In 1969, seventeen-year-old Mariona was arrested and imprisoned in a reformatory governed by the Patronato de Protección a la Mujer (Women's Welfare Agency), which was dedicated to "regenerating fallen women" during the Francoist dictatorship. In 2023, Mariona and her daughter look back in an effort to piece together her story.

Martin Scorsese presents this very personal and insightful new feature-length documentary about British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

‘Joao Gomes: The Pitbull’ covers start of the midfielder’s second year in England as he experienced becoming a father for the first time and a full Brazil international within a matter of weeks.

The thousand-year-old tradition of pottery in the Indian subcontinent is now under threat. With the market being flooded with plastic in the evolution of civilization, today this Pal community is becoming displaced.

An artist, a zoologist, a nature scholar, and a sheep farmer working in the IT sector, who also happens to be an astronomy enthusiast, all view the demise of biological bodies differently. Forest carrion, larvae under tombstones, sheep in the barn, layers of feathers and bones, and shimmering green flies on decaying flesh – amidst all this is a human trying to understand their place in cosmology. In this grand tapestry of transformation, what is the human species: part of a cycle or more akin to superhuman?

This documentary series, spanning six feature-length films, explores the life and artistic journey of Nosratollah Karimi — an Iranian actor of theater and cinema, director, writer, sculptor, university professor, and gardener.

Grzegorz Rosiński, one of the world's most famous Polish comic book creators, author of drawings for the "Thorgal" series, is retiring. But what does it actually mean for an artist to end his career?

Four years after being shot with an AR-15 during the Parkland school shooting on February 14, 2018, Samantha Fuentes reckons with existential questions of hatred and justice as she prepares to confront her shooter.

Greek-Nigerian NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo returns to Nigeria for the first time.

After an out-of-body experience, a physicist turns to science for an explanation. What emerges is a new theory of nonlocal consciousness, rooted in Bohm’s quantum mechanics, explaining how the mind could access information psychically and survive death. A paradigm-shifting film not seen since the phenomenal success of “The Secret” and “What the Bleep Do We Know.” Featuring a female PoC cast of experts in physics, neuroscience, Chinese medicine and psychotherapy. In an age of AI, this film reveals how human intelligence is exceptionally different.

A short comedy documentary showing a party of university students in south brazil.

Renowned Swedish TV-duo Filip and Fredrik embark on a trip to France, aiming to rekindle the zest for life of Filip's father.