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It's a man and his place, the father in a housing estate. It's after his death. Something has been found. Not a secret, but the underside of days, recorded with obsessive precision. A daily struggle with material life and the passing of time.

Poet, performer, and local legend Eva Hrubá is a woman of contradictions, sparking both devotion and public outcry. This documentary dives into her dual existence of vibrant joy and silent suffering. Moving beyond her reputation as the "eccentric lady on a purple bike," the film explores how she transforms loneliness into art and pain into a shared celebration of life. The film explores the world of a remarkable woman, seeking the boundary between her persona as an author and her performance.

Story Drive: Voices Unveiled is a hybrid-documentary that showcases real-life anonymous LGBTQIA+ voicemails and adapts them into a cinematic experience contrasting personal, raw, and at times emotional testimonies with otherworldly, whimsical, and experimental animation.

Noice is back on tour, now with a new lineup and new material being performed live for the first time in 28 years. The documentary follows the band both on and off stage through concerts, rehearsals, and travel, and explores how their return connects to their breakthrough and role in the Swedish music scene in the early 1980s.

The desert city of Agadez in Niger has been a hub of trade routes since time immemorial. The local Tuareg population always earned a good living by transporting goods and people across the Sahara. But Agadez is also a place where migrants pass through on their way to Europe.

A 26-year-old taxi driver drives towards the Hjälstaviken nature reserve and never comes home. A week later, the police make a macabre discovery: he is found dead, hanging from a tree. Suspicions are directed at five young people who were in the area. A 15-year-old girl had previously reported him for rape. Leif GW Persson examines the case and the legal proceedings.

Highly topical, serious and humorous, this film observes people who are passionately devoted to bird watching. Through their eyes and ears, we discover the world of the birds that becomes a metaphor for the state of the world.

A traveler and a narrator in the post-apocalypse; they narrate an abandoned city as we arrive at a destroyed landscape and understand what happened to this small city.

A choir of sighted and unsighted members travels to Japan to sing in the footsteps of the Goze, blind itinerant female musicians whose tradition dates back to medieval times and no longer exists today. Over the course of the journey, their paths, their voices, and moments in time intersect. And our eyes gradually get accustomed to the depths of darkness.

In 1987, Mirapolis opened its doors in the Parisian suburbs with the ambition of becoming the great French theme park capable of rivaling Disney. Driven by a spectacular vision and an imagination inspired by national tales and legends, the project quickly turned into a nightmare. Through archival footage and firsthand testimonies, the documentary retraces the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of this outsized dream, which shut down just five years after its inauguration.

In his latest film Rum, Söderquist revisits footage from the shooting of Letters From Silence, placing them in dialog with recently shot footage. Deploying split-screen for the first time, Söderquist’s camera slowly and meticulously travels through sparse interior spaces and passages, evoking both a sense of enclosure and departure.

Ronald Reagan’s America sets the stage for Mario Cuomo, the son of Italian immigrants who rose to become Governor of New York and, in his defining 1984 DNC speech, offered a powerful vision of leadership rooted in compassion.

In the Netherlands, a large proportion of men face mental health challenges. However, openness regarding this remains rare, especially in the world of football. What does it mean to act strong in a culture where silence is the norm? A group of professional football players gather in a retreat to start to open themselves up to themselves and to others.

From the Ground Up is an example of how several people from civilian professions created an effective combat unit, building it on “disciplined initiative” and without “absurd subordination.” A unit in which combat missions can be carried out without losses.

On May 27, 1980—the last day of the Gwangju Uprising—students at Sinheung High School in Jeonju defied martial law. Their teacher disciplined them to protect them, but this act of love left forty years of misunderstanding. Now in his nineties, the teacher reunites with his former students to finally offer each other the reconciliation they had long set aside.

A stranger-than-fiction-story, the core is a mysterious package that the Sandnes family from Valdal in Norway has been receiving every Christmas for the past two decades, with gifts for everyone.

A documentary film about photographer Romualdas Požerskis.

Vaivén follows three generations of beachgoers from sunrise to sunset in Barcelona - a study of patterns, rhythm, and the natural cadence of a day at the beach.

An all-Black team sets out to summit Mount Everest not just to make history, but to redefine what it means to climb and who belongs in the mountains.

Amina lives with an invisible chronic illness that has imprisoned her in an exhausted body. To better understand this elusive illness, her brother Liam makes her a room of her own where she can exist as something other than a patient.

The film observes the everyday lives of four girls in a residential group run by child and youth welfare services. Separated from their parents, they struggle for recognition, self-love, self-determination, and security. Always with the fervent desire to return home someday.

Stage art film Dancing to the Pinnacle is an important milestone in the history of Beijing Dance Academy and the development of dance education in China. Consisting of eleven chapters — Seedlings, The Earth, Highlights, Elegance & Talent, Perspectives, Blooming, Focus, Champions, Fulcrums, Mother, and Toward Greatness — it brings together first‑rate creative and performing talents from various dance genres and academic disciplines across the country.In an innovative way, it presents the spirit and brilliant performances of diverse dance styles including classical Chinese dance, Chinese folk dance, ballet, contemporary dance, ballroom dance, and musical theatre, showcasing the excellence of this prestigious dance institution and the charm of the art of dance.

Is it ‘rule breaking’ for Korean society to encourage childbirth while leaving childcare to individuals? Is it ‘rule breaking’ for a family where the father works low-wage irregular jobs and serves as a stay-at-home dad to four children? To resist Korean society's rule breaking, this stay-at-home father of four decides to become the so-called "Rule Breaker."​

Twenty years after shooting the film Souvenirs, Shahar lives in Amsterdam, raising two Dutch-Yemeni children, just like the grandchildren his late father had longed for. He runs the best falafel food truck in town, employing refugees from all over the world. His son Salie, is a 14-year-old adolescent with a sharp tongue and plenty of criticism. Embarrassed by Shahar’s market job, he wants his father to open a respectable restaurant. Shahar dreams of a restaurant too, but cares more about the refugees he would need to let go. The solution comes from Salie, who starts to grasp what truly matters in life.

Delves into personal narratives, emotional stakes, and tight-knit community of UCLA's Women's Basketball team during a pivotal season in the program's history.

They Break the Tree of Peace explores the reality of life under military occupation in Masafer Yatta, documenting the violence, intimidation, and demolitions carried out and coordinated by illegal settlers and Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian communities.

The film featuring Alexander Prohanov, the Russian writer and publicist, is built around the metaphor of a counterattack. The writer uses this metaphor to identify both Russian current geopolitical strategy and the deep metaphysical meaning, the mystical code of the Russian historical algorithm. A counterattack is always a response to an enemy attack, always a defense of one's own territory, culture, faith, and way of life. Russian history is always a counterattack. He who comes to us with a sword will perish by the sword.

Altmark is located in the northern part of the German region of Saxony-Anhalt. This area of the country is sparsely populated and rural, and is mostly defined by agriculture and a rather frugal architecture reminiscent of that of the Hanseatic cities. It's here that an extensive military site was built in the 1930s. It is used as a training area for the German army and also includes a garrison town, in which parts of the military corps reside. The site covers a surface area of 323 square kilometres. It is the third-biggest military area in Germany and the most modern in Europe.

Of The People: The Women Of The Civil Rights Movement shines a light on the often-overlooked women whose courage and leadership shaped one of the most transformative eras in American history. While names like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X dominate popular narratives, this work centers the voices and stories of women who organized, strategized, and sacrificed to dismantle segregation and secure voting rights. From grassroots activists to national leaders, these women such as Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, and Dorothy Height fought not only against racial injustice but also gender discrimination within the movement itself.

Two generations of Arsenal greats are brought together as Bukayo Saka joins club legend Thierry Henry for an unguarded look at what it takes to perform at the highest level. Saka and Henry reflect on pressure, resilience, and the joy that first drew them to the game, with the conversation taking them back to Saka’s childhood home in Ealing where it all began.

Tania Head became a household name as a 9/11 survivor, celebrated for her miraculous escape from the very floor the plane hit. Her story of resilience, coupled with the heartbreaking death of her fiancé, Dave, moved the nation. As president of the Survivors' Network, she was a symbol of American strength, a fixture alongside political elites at Ground Zero.The illusion shattered in 2007 when a New York Times investigation proved her story was a lie: her career, her fiancé, even her identity.

Mariana and Xevi work the land from opposite ends of the world. Rooted in agroecology, their projects trace a quiet dialogue between territory, nature and family.

Searching for an idea becomes a complex inner journey, a space between doubt and the urge to create. Artistic creation turns strange, even to its maker, drifting between self-discovery and uncertainty, shaped by a quiet absence of intimacy with the world.

Christiania is one of the world's most iconic social experiments. After 50 years of big dreams, strong tobacco and anarchy, this colourful neighbourhood finally got the film its colourful history deserves.

Belonging Syndrome is a short documentary that follows Duang, a second-generation Italian-Thai girl. Duang, during a period of stay in a monastery. Through her inner diary, the film explores a suspended phase of life: the one in which identity it is not yet defined and belonging becomes an open question. The monastery becomes the physical and symbolic place where Duang observes herself. Immersed in a daily life marked by rituals, silences and repeated gestures, the protagonist goes through an experience of deep listening, in which time slows down and perception is refined. Belonging Syndrome talks about hybrid identities, cultural legacies that coexist without completely merging, the difficulty and possibility of inhabiting multiple worlds without having to choose just one. It is an intimate and contemplative story about the search for balance in a fragile and open phase of existence.

Long before the term “diversity” was on everyone's mind, the DIN A 13 tanzcompany in Cologne, under the artistic direction of Gerda König, was developing mixed-abled performances with dancers with and without disabilities. To this day, their pieces remain political, provocative, and constantly searching for new forms of expression in contemporary dance.

The film shines a light on the long and rich history of Bonthe, a town on Sherbro Island, and the island’s immense contribution to the formation of Sierra Leone. Beyond celebrating its heritage, the film addresses the ongoing challenges threatening the island’s survival—climate change, mangrove loss, and rising sea levels—while highlighting a new generation rising to find solutions and safeguard its future.

In Tegucigalpa, Honduras, women learn early to take up less space. Cartography of What Persists is an autobiographical documentary that moves through the city's streets, walls, and memory, tracing what the body carries and what it refuses to let go.

One evening, my friend Alyssa confides in me: she has just started a new relationship, but it is already off to a wobbly start! Over the following months, I meet up with her to hear the latest developments. Little by little, her sister and our friends join in, each sharing their takes on the situation.