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In the Zeeland coastal village of Cadzand, tourism provides year-round employment and vibrancy. At the same time, permanent residents are disappearing, and housing is becoming unaffordable. Clubs are shrinking, amenities are under pressure, and the fire department is facing a shortage of volunteers. The coast is being filled with expensive apartment complexes for tourists, while young people are struggling to find affordable housing. Economic growth is clashing with social cohesion and nature. How do residents of a Zeeland coastal village combat the financial pressures when their village is overrun by tourists and white facades with red roofs dominate nature reserves?

A fascinating glimpse of Godard at work during the filming of the celebrated interview sequence in Notre musique featuring the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

Documentary discussing the making of HELL SPA.

In a Rwanda in full revival, three people with very different realities are involved in the same programme called Imihigo, a sort of “national development competition”. Richard the mayor of the district, Innocent the villager and Sandrine, a civil servant from the diaspora.

In the late 1950s, a teenage couple tries to arrange a date at a small-town movie theater. It's all just memory.

From the streets of Ocotlán, Jalisco—where growing up meant learning to endure before learning to dream—Carlos Salcido found an unexpected path in soccer. It was not a childhood plan or an early promise in the sport, but an opportunity that arrived late, when life had already taught him to fight for every step. Thus began the journey of a man who turned adversity into drive. With discipline and character, Salcido left behind the poverty of his origins to become a key figure for Chivas Guadalajara, PSV Eindhoven and Mexico's national soccer team, earning his place among the most respected defenders of his generation.

Determined to make her own money, Azza teaches other women as a freelance driving instructor. Behind the wheel of her big black Toyota, she feels safe, proud – and free. She speeds down the country’s roads and highways. From the city to the endless desert, nothing can stop her.

An audiovisual letter that connects an imagined Kyrgyzstan with the filmmaker’s inner world, blending personal illness, memory, and political echoes into a poetic reflection on distance and belonging.

In 1979, Martine Rose bought a dilapidated terraced house in Sheffield and renovated it herself, creating one of the UK's first dedicated spaces for a community of trans people: Rose's House. With unseen archive, the film reveals a world shaped by care, ingenuity and connection. Moving between past and present, Rose's House traces what Martine built - and what remains.

Gil Jibli, forensic sketch artist, reconstructs the faces of loved ones erased from the world and reveals how the human gaze transforms damaged memory into an act of love, repair, and healing.

Entertainment Tonight celebrates the sitcom's eight-season run with cast interviews, exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, and an emotional look at the final table read, last tapings, wrap party, and series finale preview.

A woman's collapse amid urban ruins sparks an exploration of humanity's connection to physical spaces and a city's resilience in the face of mortality.

A short companion piece that offers a present day walk through of Little Italy, now juxtaposing modern scenes with the world depicted in Mean Streets to illuminate its cultural and historical roots.

Women reflect on their first year of motherhood and the many joys and challenges it brings – for parent and baby. A gentle, curious and informative conversational documentary about postpartum life, of sublime analogue beauty.

The story of the Greek Jews during the Holocaust,the Axis occupation,the resistance,the role of the Christian clergy;a hymn to love and courage as it is discovered by a young woman in her quest to uncover her Greek Jewish family's history.

The films in the PLO Media Unit were supposed to show a self-determined image of Palestinian reality – and they went missing during the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982. In a « road movie » from Palestine to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, director Azza El-Hassan follows the contradicting and confusing clues as to the whereabouts of the lost archive.

The military statue is absent, yet its presence reigns; it seems like an open wound. With each turn, more buds of time bloom. There are multiple rhythms and points of view in a brief, eternal moment. An exercise in the effect of speed and its personal interplay with the viewer. Photos taken at the scene on October 18, 2024, the fifth anniversary of the 2019 Social Uprising. 35mm B&W Still Photography. Silent. Flickering Lights.

When director and ethnologist Hana Nováková encountered an elk, it changed her life. And she wasn't the first. For centuries, people across continents and cultures have been fascinated by this ancient totem animal, one of the largest mammals in the northern hemisphere. Whereas in the past they wanted to conquer it, today they tend to listen to it. The director's cinematic odyssey is the result of several years of searching for the secrets of the moose. It leads from Czech forests through a Russian domestication station to the territory of the indigenous peoples of Canada. A collage of stories told from personal, spiritual, and scientific perspectives shows the moose as a guide between worlds, a symbol of balance and renewal, and a possible answer to the question of how we can heal our relationship with nature.

In a remote Chinese town, an authoritarian father forces his wife and daughter to take care of him after he suffers a stroke. Vee Shi, his son, explores filial duty and the legacy of patriarchy, questioning who must pay the emotional and financial price for an absent and violent father.

Alberto, my grandfather, waits for the grim reaper. His friends have died and he hardly ever has visitors. After the unexpected death of his son Javier, my father, the family hides the news from him, until one day I decide to tell him. The project is based on intimate records of the three of them.

Santiago has been unable to control his epilepsy for 28 years, dealing with the side effects of various medications. In 2010, he was hospitalized for three days in an attempt to induce seizures—to locate the point of discharge—and try brain surgery, but he was also deemed inoperable. At this point, Santiago decided to try something no one had suggested: accepting his body as it is, with its “abnormal” moments.

One late summer afternoon, in a suburb in the far north of France, on the outskirts of Calais and the sea. Children and teenagers kill time at the foot of the tower blocks, between buildings and vacant lots. They talk about love, doubts, and hopes, trying to understand what drives them.

For as long as she remembers, Francisca lives with an inexplicable and uncontrollable aversion to belly buttons. Nothing makes her more anxious than this simple part of the body and the shapes in the world that resemble it. When therapy isn't enough to solve her cherished phobia , Francisca turns to other types of methods - without any scientific basis and not recommended for anyone who suffers from the same condition.

The documentary portrays the collective traumas of the militarization of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas occupied by the Armed Forces during the mega sporting events. Through voices from within the favelas, the film documents the struggle for justice and reparation for victims of human rights violations.

The rapid development of artificial intelligence is profoundly transforming the filmmaking processes of the cinema industry, ushering it into a new era.

Tayfun, an undertaker for the Belgian-Turkish community, must help families decide where their loved ones should be buried.

For Blinker, Ronni and Green MP Kathrin Henneberger, the 1.5 degree limit runs through Lützerath. They are fighting in different ways to preserve the village in the Rhenish lignite mining region. While Blinker focuses on barricades and Ronni concentrates on the media strategy of the occupation, Kathrin Henneberger tries to influence her party leadership. But they consider Lützerath to be the “wrong symbol”. After the eviction, what remains are images of destruction, memories and wounds that are only slowly healing.

Around a fire in the middle of the forest, two former members of the armed anti-capitalist group La Bande à Fasel meet three young activists from the Mormont ZAD, XR Rébellion and anti-racist groups active in Switzerland. During a night as blank as a page, the five characters reflect on revolt, its forms and its limits, past and present.

B for BARTLEBY is a documentary film essay about a very personal confrontation with this narrative: It becomes a re-encounter with a deceased companion, who wanted to film Bartleby all his life. Then a journey to the USA, to the farmhouse of Herman Melville. Here today's "classic" of American literature, conscripted the women of his family to "write off". We see performative experiments with women "learning" Bartleby and men practicing writing; we see everyday encounters with Bartleby in a cafeteria, a youth club, a center for the stranded. and a legendary offstage theater in New York. Goose quills scurry across blank pages, actresses memorize text that might be their own, costumed museum employees lead tours of "original showplaces," animals (beloved by Herman Melville above all else) glare at us. "Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!" It's about the desire and curiosity to find out how to peacefully cope with a personal visitation.

A documentary that follows Spanish television personality and psychic Benita Castejón Elvira as she embarks on the most important journey of her life: her gender transition. Through a series of personal milestones, Benita reflects on her childhood in a poor Madrid neighborhood, her early career as a performer and media figure, and the struggles that shaped her identity. The film accompanies her through emotional and practical steps of transition—such as changing her legal identity and preparing for gender-affirming surgery—while revealing the private person behind the public persona. Along the way, friends, family members, and LGBTQ+ advocates offer perspectives on her experience, turning the story into both an intimate portrait and a broader reflection on visibility, courage, and the right to live authentically.

Dive into the inventive universe of Tom Zé. Through intimate interviews with artists, family members and longtime collaborators, the film retraces the singular trajectory of one of Brazil's most original musical minds. The documentary brings together voices that reflect on his boundless creative unpredictability, highlight the technical mastery behind his sonic experiments and portray his music as the result of an expansive creative process, where ideas unfold like "pills of sound".

This story sounds too crazy to be true, and yet it is. For three years, Berlin film students Julius and Moritz poured their hearts into their animated short Butty, hoping it would launch their careers. But when a festival disqualifies their film, they make a shocking discovery: Butty is already circulating online under the name of an American filmmaker. As they dig deeper, they uncover the unbelievable rise of a mysterious “Mr. F.”, a man hailed as the next Walt Disney who built his success on a stolen film and a web of lies.

Director Simon Draper sets out to make a podcast with actress Miriam Margolyes, but the project soon becomes sidetracked as Simon is drawn ever deeper into her orbit. The podcast becomes a chaotic, joyful road trip, revealing Miriam’s true legacy isn’t just her work but the lives she’s quietly transformed, beginning with Simon.

The documentary follows how a former psychiatric hospital that had been abandoned is transformed into a thriving center for art, culture, and mental well-being with the arrival of new tenants. With limited resources, activists in Lapinlahti decide to continue the area's mental health work in a citizen-driven way, allowing the disadvantaged members of society to shine. The place fills up with entrepreneurs, therapists, artists, and associations, and the park area in the city center, closed to Helsinki residents for 170 years, comes to life with cafes, saunas, museums, and bakeries. The road is not easy. The city administration does not seem to recognize the value of the project, and the Lapinlahti community has to fight constantly for its existence. At the heart of the film is the threat of the area being sold to a large real estate investor, as plans are made to build a giant hotel in the park.

2013. Civil war rages and Almourad Aldeeb is imprisoned by the Syrian regime for several months before managing to flee to Germany. After the fall of the dictatorship, he returns to the scene of his torment. Like a silent cry, his emotionless voiceover recounts the horrors that he and his friends endured.

A story about fathers with many children who leave a peaceful life and volunteer for their homeland. A surgeon, a builder, a videographer and an entrepreneur become defenders of the motherland and mentors for their children.

This new, official documentary takes an intimate look into the life and legacy of Carmelo Anthony as he is inducted into the Hall of Fame and sees his son, Kiyan, launch his collegiate basketball career.

A reflection dances on the walls of a place suspended between magic and history. A short film about Grosio Castle, inspired by Calvino’s *Cosmicomics*.

Nowhere else does the experimental kitchen of digital democracy simmer as intensely as in the geopolitically threatened island republic of Taiwan. The "recipes" for these menus were created by activist students from the open-source community. Visionary Digital Minister Audrey Tang is spreading the concept internationally. At the heart of the film, however, are the creative cooks of the LGBTQI+ community and the emerging environmental movement.

This documentary uncovers one of the most consequential and little-known stories in modern football history and highlights the pivotal moment that helped shape Lionel Messi’s international future and altered the trajectory of global football.

Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea has always been a place where people have sought freedom. This film takes us on a journey through an entire century, starting in the golden 1920s, as it assembles the island’s scenery, history, and personal stories into a fascinating portrait. Then as now, the political upheavals that have swept across Germany have left their mark.

Portrait of an anonymous overdose hotline where people call before using, and volunteers stay on the line, racing against time, forging collective hope amid addiction.

What happens behind the scenes at Forum voor Democratie? For this documentary, PowNed spoke with multiple sources who have been involved with the party and its environment for years. They discuss the culture, ideology, and ambitions within the movement and share their experiences with topics such as conspiracy theories, ideas surrounding white supremacy, and dealing with critics. Why are they choosing to tell their story now?

The journey of four teen phenoms on the road to the 2024 X Games, with the sun-soaked, rebellious world of California skate culture as the backdrop.

The House of Dior opens its ateliers to us for Jonathan Anderson's first Dior Haute Couture collection! Jonathan Anderson takes you behind the scenes, onto to the runway and into the ateliers to explain his vision, silhouette by silhouette, embroidery by embroidery! Are you ready for his first wedding dress?

For seven days, seven unknown people live day and night in the same room, cut off from the world, under the constant gaze of the camera. Among them, the director, affected by the war in her country, ukraine, decided to realize a childhood dream: a reality show.

Or Brandes, a reserve soldier serving in Gaza as a tank driver and a psychology student, broadcasts an improvised podcast to fellow soldiers over the military radio network. From candid conversations about fear and denial, to feelings of revenge, through jokes and absurd banter, the soldiers open up with striking honesty. Using excerpts from the radio communications alongside intimate footage from combat, the film offers a rare glimpse into the inner lives of soldiers in the aftermath of October 7th.

The director paints a self-portrait while feeling sad, using the modern paintbrush of TikTok face masks.

Two people are searching for an injured deer at Gysinge bruk when they find a suitcase and plastic bags with dismembered body parts frozen in the ice. The victim is identified as a 23-year-old rock musician. Suspicion falls on the band's manager, who gives contradictory information. Leif GW Persson examines the murder, the investigation and the legal process.

The Heart of Amsterdam chronicles the rise and fall of Amsterdam's underworld: a documentary based on forty years of filming in and around Amsterdam's Red Light District.