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When therapy and medication fail to provide any relief for severe depression, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) – better known as electroshock therapy – can offer a solution. Mie and Tine have been struggling with depression for years. Their hopes are now pinned on ECT. How are they experiencing their treatment? Are they gradually regaining their old selves? And how are they coping with the fog that remains after an ECT session?
Despite their different aspirations, backgrounds, and origins, Ilyasse and Pauline, scientists in their early twenties, share one common dream: escaping to the moon to address Earth's problems. Each of them dedicates all their resources and efforts to achieve this goal. But what if space was political, and what if dreaming was too?
After noticing the Meewasin logo throughout Saskatoon, filmmaker Devon Rumpel set out to answer that question. A Vision for the Valley explores the rare longevity of a modernist logo and the ideas that brought it to life. The film traces the origins of the Meewasin Valley Authority before turning its focus to Vic Sotropa, the logo’s designer, whose largely under-the-radar career has had an outsized impact in Saskatchewan. What begins as an inquiry into graphic design expands into a broader reflection on legacy, place, and the enduring power of human vision.
When a local Ten Pin Bowling Alley in the northern suburbs of Melbourne Australia puts on a Pro Amateur competition with the biggest cash prize in the country, the local league players try their luck.
An experimental visual adaptation of selected poetry written by Salomėja Nėris, Eduardas Mieželaitis, Algimantas Baltakis, Janina Degtutytė, and Justinas Marcinkevičius. Accompanied by the art of Stasys Krasauskas and narrated by Rūta Staliliūnaitė, A Song of Life and Love attempts to capture the city of Vilnius and its surroundings while documenting regular people and places in an attempt to memorialise the ordinary.
Film by Victor Asliuk featuring the artist Viktar Kabac, shot in Poland.
The film follows famous Icelandic bodybuilder and internet personality Gummi Emil as he navigates his daily life. Between extreme stunts like running a marathon barefoot two weeks in a row and quiet and personal moments at home. Gummi opens up beyond his public image.
In this special Billions Club Live concert film, Ed Sheeran takes the stage in Dublin to perform his biagest sonas on Spotifv--each with over 1 billion streams--plus a couple far favorites. This special performance celebrates Ed's connection to Ireland, his impact on pop culture, his Billions Club milestones. and the fans who helped him reach them.
An experimental documentary featuring international college students commenting on their experiences of cultural isolation in America.
In the new cryptic triptych by ever-mysterious Mox Mäkelä, trains travel across the borders of time, armies gather in a place where history repeats itself, while Karelian women sing about how humans will destroy the world.
*Twink* is a sacrificial ephebe who insists on surviving as a symptom of cultural memory. Drawing on a queer reimagining of the myth of Eros and Psyche, the film maps the disguises through which twink iconography has infiltrated the history of the image.
Amidst memories, dreams, and sensations, the youngest member of a family affected by cancer recounts stories about the love and longing left behind by his father, his sister, and Cajueiro beach.
Yara, a daughter of a Moroccan boxing legend and a coach who runs a family boxing school, is being raised to become the next champion. When her parents separate, boxing remains the only thing that still connects them.
Max Ernst (1891-1976) is considered a pioneer of surrealist painting; his enigmatic, magical worlds delight and disturb the viewer: To mark the 50th anniversary of his death, this documentary tells his fascinating story from his early life in Germany up to his exile in the USA in the 1940s.
In CURTAINS, Sandra Hüller tells the story of a woman who breaks out of a long-term violent relationship and of a political and social system that prefers to look the other way. The film shows the power structures behind the facades and how the state inadequately protects women.
In 2017, a series of seemingly random shootings terrorized Tampa’s Seminole Heights neighborhood, leaving four people dead and a community on edge. With few leads and mounting fear, the film examines the investigation and the lasting impact on a neighborhood forever changed.
In this haunting and visually inventive documentary, a spectral voice drifts through time and memory to trace the Maidan revolution and the roots of resistance in Ukraine.
Hunting for the "Shaheds", the fighters of the mobile fire groups lead a nocturnal lifestyle. Waiting for the target in the dark, being ready to fire throughout the night, is a grueling routine that lasts more than one year, and smoke breaks after sleeping almost all day are a brief opportunity to bask in the rays of the evening sun.
Since 2024, on central squares in many towns and cities across Croatia, groups of primarily elderly and middle-aged men calling themselves 'The Knights of the Immaculate Heart of Mary', gather together in communal prayer and advocating for Christian values, the importance of the patriarchy and enforcing limitations of women's rights, treating these squares as their own personal battlefield, upon which women have no place. Through the documentations of the reactions of law enforcement officials, ordinary passerbys and the 'Knights' themselves, as well as the defiant pieces of multimedia artist Arijana Lekić, Holy Defiance creates a vivid, lively, energetic and varied portrait of women's rights in post-war Croatia.
At just twenty years old, the rapper has already gone through several identities. As a child, he dreamed of becoming famous. Today, he sells out stadiums. But living with ADHD and achieving success at such a young age has begun to take its toll. Pogány Induló struggles with panic attacks and physical collapses, suppressing his condition through drug use and alcohol consumption. With the recent passage of a Hungarian law criminalizing drug possession and the promotion of drug use, he has also become a political target and finds himself living on the edge of the law. A dynamic montage of images, memories, and thoughts mirrors the rapper’s chaotic mental state, underscoring the dark side of fame at such a young age, as well as the loss—and ongoing search—of one’s identity
Soberly and with restraint, the director reconstructs the attempted femicide she survived fourteen years before. Intense conversations with people from her past provide an external perspective on an act subjectively and objectively impossible to grasp.
Twists and turns through Giorgia Meloni's Rome, a two-voiced letter addressed to the Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha fifty years after his Roman film Claro; political voices and gestures from the Rome of 2023-2025. "The bird of eternity does not exist — only the real is eternal."
A meeting of media, director, and artist, Nos coeurs sur la main is a musical adventure following Ino Casablanca. The project captures a day-long performance blurring the lines between music and fiction, retracing the live recording of a discography in perpetual motion, all within a race against time orchestrated by a peculiar producer, Franck. Across over an hour of music, director Toxine fictionalizes Ino Casablanca's repertoire while upholding the rapper's core values: playing from the heart, unity, and sharing. It serves as a powerful reminder that every musical journey is, at its core, a collective one.
For around fifteen years, I have been filming a forest of imburana de cambão trees that has been progressively disappearing, located on the border between the states of Bahia and Pernambuco. The visual saturation created through image overlaps and the division of the screen into three parts fosters the emergence of a particular rhythm, in which pulsating texts impose other forms of escape.The gradual disappearance of this forest echoes texts evoking the consequences of climate change, while also inscribing fire and logging as human acts contributing to this impoverishment.The basis of this film was the installation of the same name presented as part of an exhibition at the Frans Krajcberg Space in 2025. The film is denser. The imburanas de cambão burst into flames as the sertão turns into desert.
In São Paulo, the Ueinzz theater company — formed by actors living with psychological distress — creates a play about the extinction of the Earth and the human desire to endure. During rehearsals, dreams, words, and ways of being emerge as fragile species to be preserved. As they perform, the group reflects on survival, belonging, and the ongoing preservation of their own community.
How did PFAS chemicals once used in popular stain-resistant carpets end up in the water and environment in parts of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina? FRONTLINE, The Associated Press, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Post and Courier and AL.com investigate what happened with these forever chemicals and the ongoing health impacts. The joint investigation draws on thousands of pages of documents and court depositions and interviews with former regulators and industry insiders, as well as doctors, scientists and people who have the kinds of illnesses that researchers have linked to PFAS contamination.
Sebastian Socorro recently moved back to the United States after being in Venezuela, this short film shows how his life is now, and what is important to him now.
We want cheap fruit and veg, all year. No problem. The Pickers deliver, but they are paying the price for us: Exploited migrants harvest our oranges, strawberries, olives, blueberries and other fruit and vegetables in Greece, Spain, Italy or Portugal.
As America's most notorious serial killer Ted Bundy awaited execution, he exchanged a series of death row letters with the woman who loved him like a brother - his cousin, Edna Martin.
Obsession, control and betrayal. This powerful true-crime documentary tells the story of Stephanie Hansen, a young woman who was murdered at the hands of her fixated flatmate.
In the midst of the most horrid stagnation era in the Soviet Union – at the end of October 1982 – the Monk (Ivo Uukkivi), Allan Vainola, Peep Männil, and Villu Tamme gather for band practice in a room above the garage of a private house in Pääsküla and form one of the most (politically) heavyweight punk bands in history – Velikiye Luki. For the 60th jubilee of the Soviet Union, Ivo and Villu bake a voodoo ginger cookie and while they gobble it down, they demonstratively establish their programme of action: to destroy the Soviet Union.
Three journeys from Belfast to Glasgow uncover how a football club’s disappearance reshaped a community. Through intimate character portraits, the film examines identity, memory, and belonging in the shadow of conflict.
In the mountains of Chiapas, México, a Tzeltal Mayan village organizes into Gobierno Comunitario, participating in a movement that seeks to maintain and recover the millennial community practices of Lekil Kuxlejal, or “right living”. Lekil Kuxlejal seeks a holistic way of living that promotes mutual care and respect for nature and is rooted in the belief that all beings are interdependent.
A Hi8 video recording of a journey through Mongolia and China as part of the author’s own photographic project, “What Remains”.
Take a ground-level view of 2024's Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti, one of the largest movements of people in Aotearoa’s recent history; reflecting on identity, unity, and the enduring significance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi for Māori today.
Neo was three and a half years old when a devastating car accident left him with a severe brainstem injury. After five days suspended between life and death, he wakes up unable to breathe, speak, walk, or eat on his own. In the hospital, his parents, Lior and Galit, pick up a camera and never put it down. Shaped from hundreds of hours of intimate footage, 'I Am Neo' is a portrait of a child and his family slowly rebuilding their lives, revealing both the fragility of life, and the strength of the human spirit.
Five private chefs to fearsome dictators all over the world share their experiences of the kitchens and circumstances that led them to these sometimes dangerous and often morally compromising workplaces.
Searching for answers about her Algerian family's ties to both sides of the Independence war, a filmmaker uncovers a tangle of contradicting buried histories.
In Singapore, executions take place at dawn. Years after her brother’s death sentencing for drug trafficking, a sister duo continues their early-morning journeys, carrying the quiet aftermath of a punishment the city no longer sees.
Documented in February 2025. Amsterdam. Paris. London. Berlin. Prague.
Unfortunately topical socio-political songs from Tuomari Nurmio's catalog spanning over 40 years. The themed concert "Songs of War and Dictatorship" was performed at the Helsinki Festival's Huvila pavillion, Tampere's Tavara-asema, and again on September 30, 2024, at the Tavastia Club, where this documentary was recorded.
Dar Al – Kalima University College Of Arts & Culture – workshop di Salim Bujaba
In the rural Liangshan Mountains, 14-year-old Qihuo and her friends embark on a road trip to find a skirt for her traditional menarche rite of passage.
In an isolated village in the high plains of southern Georgia, three lifelong friends from the Armenian community discuss their future.
Follows the improbable team of Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, who, in 1999, competed against the world's finest pilots and extremely wealthy adventurers to become the first individuals to fly a hot air balloon around the globe nonstop.
Sunčica, an author and veterinarian, re-examines her own ethical position on her journey, building a portrait of the Croatian islands through the attitudes of the local population on the castration of free-ranging cats. When faced with surgery on her own body, her empathy deepens, as she begins to relate her position to the fate of the animals she cares for.
During The Blitz, the British government had plans in place to evacuate approximately 3.5 million people, but only around 1.5 million left towns and cities for the countryside, with the majority of those being children. Children of the Blitz tells the stories of those who remained at home, often to help their families, or because their parents couldn’t bear to send them away. Through the eyes of survivors who were children at the time, the film will explore how The Blitz contributed towards our sense of national identity and how the ‘Blitz Spirit’ is still held up as a defining characteristic of Britishness today. The film will also examine the starker reality for children whose homes were destroyed, including those who lost parents, and some who were left to fend for themselves - many grew up with their stories unheard.