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A Marine vet runs to be the first openly gay man elected to the Alabama State Legislature.

A roll of super 8 given to a first time filmmaker at the age of 68 by her son in law. She is asked to use the roll to take photos of her garden. She says the following about her film: "What do I see in my garden, through my windows? The plants and flowers that I love and the bird that I admire."

"War, why have you taken away my childhood?" Over the last seven years, the people of Eastern Ukraine have forgotten what a calm and peaceful life is like. The military attacks do not stop, and the sounds of shelling dictate the rules. Krasnohorivka is a small town near Donetsk that regularly suffers from shelling. Everyone who is here has experienced their tragedy, so has the family that told their story.

Set in the mountains of northeast Italy, this film may be considered an observational documentary about rural life. Although this is undeniably the case, at the same time Under the cold stars can hardly be considered a documentary: the microcosm on which it focuses appears to be a reflection of a broader reality and perhaps a way to deal with the themes of man’s existence and his relationship with animals, nature and, most importantly, with time. As written by Franco Piavoli "it is a film which essentially relies on images and sound, where words themselves are sound and the music of life, of the relentless flow of time."

A sensual and insightful film about three elderly dancers from Budapest. Irén, Éva and Ágnes - all between 90 and 100 years old - were once part of the early modern dance movement in Hungary. Taking the role of a dance student and dialogue partner Boglárka retraces how each of the elderly dancers transformed their lives and movement practices in order to survive the major socio-political changes of the last century. The film takes us into a personal and bodily encounter with three very different personalities and their relation to their past and present. Returning to the stage and performing in their private rooms, Irén, Éva and Ágnes reveal us an incredible richness of experience stored in their bodies. A choreography of memories.

Jo is a 40-year-old transgender man addicted to cocaine. This addiction prevents him from achieving his transition in good conditions, and from maintaining fulfilling relationships. He is trying to quit drugs and to make a fresh start.

A portrait of a happy cynic and lateral thinker who has persevered for years in a legal dispute over his dilapidated house with authorities in the luxury spa town of St. Moritz.

Passenger is an experimental documentary film about the feeling of exhaustion, isolation and fear that accompanies the daily commute of a woman getting through Metro Manila.

Following the everyday life of 21-year-old Samira from Zanzibar for 7 years, NDOTO YA SAMIRA depicts the quiet victories of a determined young woman.

Booklovers, booksellers, storytellers and writers can easily squeeze into various demos of important issues. This documentary brings this group of people in the limelight, discussing the value of art space in bookshops. The book-loving director Kong King Chu visited independent bookshops in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia for three to four years, tried to understand how a bookshop can become a dynamic, inspiring and heartwarming space, even these booksellers carry different attitude towards life, books and community, as well as management beliefs. These booksellers do not care about the commercial value emphasized by the capitalist society and they are content in their own way by sharing their enthusiasm about books with the others in spite of all difficulties. Thus, they keep trying new methods to sharpen their touch on social issues and become an important starting point for the general public to reflect upon conflicts in our society.

Arroz, Feijão e Cinema is a record of the transformative impacts that a popular movie theater, Ponto Cine, brought to the lives of the population of Guadalupe and adjacent neighborhoods in the Rio suburbs through a program exclusively of Brazilian films and projects from audience formation.

Somi is pregnant with her second child. A girl, she hopes. Together with her husband she prepares for this new phase of their parenthood. It means that their son has to go to school, but as an ex-Naxalite that is tough to achieve in contemporary India, where people like them are third-rate citizens. They lack the certificates and an opaque bureaucratic process doesn't help. Directors Isabella Rinaldi, Cristina Hanes and Arya Rothe of the NoCut Film Collective concentrate on Somi's close family ties, painting a portrait of ex-Naxalites in India. Once, Somi and her husband were communist rebels fighting for the rights of Indian tribes. However, to safeguard their family's welfare, they surrendered to the government in exchange for marginal compensation and simple accommodation.

A documentary that shows a body in social and family isolation, but the distance is not caused by the coronavirus, but by being a transvestite. Renata Carvalho is a character of herself, her voice tells us the historicity/transcestrality of her body and the structural transphobia.

A collection of reports from people who lived with four former patients at the Juquery Psychiatric Hospital (located in Franco da Rocha, Brazil). A poetic tour through the lives of these characters, in the midst of one of the deepest scars in Brazilian history.

Early/alternate edit of what became the final sequence of the film I'll See You Again.

Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo follows Native artists for a year as they navigate their careers in the US and abroad. The film explores the immense complexities each artist faces concerning their own identity as Native artists, as well as pushing further Native art into a post-colonial world.

Trump Card is an expose of the socialism, corruption and gangsterization that now define the Democratic Party. Whether it is the creeping socialism of Joe Biden or the overt socialism of Bernie Sanders, the film reveals what is unique about modern socialism, who is behind it, why it’s evil, and how we can work together with President Trump to stop it.

When a historic comet strikes planet earth, the incident changes life as we know it. This new documentary, The Comet That Destroyed The World examines the younger dryas impact that is said to have occured around 12,900 years ago. This extraordinary history is rarely examined and changes our perspective on the past and possibly the future of our planet.

When Women Won tells the emotional inside story of the Together for Yes campaign to repeal the 8th amendment and change Irish society forever.

A group of ex-combatants and their sons and daughters spend the night of October 15, 2014 camping in Monte Longdon, Falkland Islands. Thirty-two years earlier, in that same place, a battalion of Argentine soldiers was defending themselves from the British invasion on June 11, 1982. In the voice of Carlos Giordano, the present and the past intersect in a story that seeks to denounce the usurpation of the United Kingdom and the actions of the Argentine armed forces. Through animations, archival images and fictionalizations, this film recreates that night of camping captured in the digital book ViajeMalvinos.

Nathan Quinell is a fully trained chef… he also happens to be legally deaf and blind. That’s never stopped him from chasing his dreams to become a full-time cook, but now Nathan must prove himself to his peers, his students and potential employers.

A portrait of the artist and piano tuner Jerome Ellis, and a meditation on intervals in music, nature and language. The act of tuning harmonizes the world, at least temporarily, but time brings suffering and instability.

This film begins with a Nepalese person named Minu who sings “Tears of Mokpo”. He came to Korea for a living in this 20s and made the band “Stop Crackdown” known for expressing the lives of migrant laborers through song. But being an illegal alien, he is deported after 18 years.

On a sailboat in the middle of the Ocean, five teenagers in rehabilitation are travelling with adults of different ages and backgrounds. Off unknown coastlines, the boat’s space becomes a huis-clos in which everyone faces their own difficulties, the challenge of living together and also the manoeuvres of sailing, the Ocean and its turmoil—until the arrival on land.

Sunchica and her retired friends enjoy the many cultural offerings of Skopje, on a daily basis—not to mention the free food and drinks that come with these events. But when societal judgment threatens to stop their fun, they realize just how much they need these get-togethers.

Like a trauma therapist, the camera accompanies Javad Soleimani whose wife, Elnaz Nabiyi, was killed aboard flight PS752 after missile attacks by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Javad's personal and political memories are interwoven as the camera crew and his friends follow him through the complex labyrinth of healing and mourning. Javad's fury and sorrow is gradually geared towards a loud cry for justice.

Umbrella drinks and genocide. More than 24.000 Rohingyas have been killed. Over 900.000 Rohingyas have fled their homes. Rapes and beatings are unaccounted for. Myanmar’s sivil leader Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She is calling it an «internal conflict».

This hushed, pared-down essay weaves together different facts and myths surrounding the moon: images, texts, and sounds are spun into a dense, delicate tissue of ideas, with humans both at the centre and infinitely small in this celestial context.

T H R E E S O M E is a collaborative film performance developed during the confinement between John Herman (Cologne, Germany), Thaís Almeida Prado aka Filmes de Infiltração (São Paulo, Brazil) and Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi aka crazinisT artisT (Kumasi, Ghana).

Eyewitnesses to the Holodomor famine of 1932–33 recount the terrible tragedy they experienced as children.

In April 1940, German Nazi forces arrived at Haugsbygd, Ringerike. Thousands of Norwegian solders and volunteers gathered to fight against them in fierce battles.

A documentary about the 2020 racial justice protests in Portland, Oregon, based on interviews with various individuals.

Does the Skunk Ape exist? This is the question researcher Stacy Brown Jr. poses to you, presenting you with the best historical accounts, eyewitness testimonies and evidence that he has collected throughout the first eight years of his journey.

The story of the transformation of traditional cooking into nouvelle cuisine through 100 years of history at Donostia's Arzak restaurant, run by Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena Arzak.

The voices of Zak Kostopoulo's community in a film about her, life and the after. This is Right: Zak, Life and After is a portrait of Zak Kostopoulos, a well-known queer AIDS activist who was publicly lynched to death in Athens in 2018. Zak's chosen family and community highlight Zak's activist life and the response that his murder has galvanized. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2020 as part of TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States.

After a decade of making music together, Jim and Sam, a recently married singer/songwriter duo from Los Angeles, were not the conventionally successful band they hoped they’d be. Feeling stuck and anxious about their future, the duo made a spontaneous decision to go “all in,” making a pact to play one show every day for a year. With suitcases and a guitar, the troubadours ventured out for a 365-day tour down unexplored roads, and onto unexpected stages, bringing their music to new audiences throughout 14 different countries. After So Many Days, is an intimate front row seat to the highs and lows of what it’s like for two people to pursue a dream, together.

Sabahattin Parlar makes old Ottoman figures from electrical cables in his house on the island of Avşa. He travels to the memories of his childhood days by making these figures, which can be played like toys, in his small workshop at home, whenever he finds time.

Scientists are coming to understand fat as a dynamic organ—one whose size may have more to do with biological processes than personal choices. Explore the mysteries of fat and its role in hormone production, hunger, and even pregnancy.

"Fish Also Jump" is a documentary that attempts to capture the public space of the Chacarita cemetery, its architecture, and the vastness of its 95 hectares dedicated to death. The film emphasizes the present, the stories experienced by the characters, their jobs, rituals, and their specific ways of dealing with the otherworld.

Cyril, a Parisian writer, never imagined that Lacoste, the village of his childhood, could one day be privatized by the billionaire Pierre Cardin. Pushed by his son and when nothing intended him for that, he decided to take action against this takeover of a new kind and began a real showdown with the famous fashion designer.

Harrowing color footage and narration by veterans of World War II put the focus on the most intense battles fought in both Okinawa and Guadalcanal.

Imprisoned by the Soviets. Orphaned by the Holocaust. Elected Prime Minister. Crowned peacemaker by the Nobel Prize Committee. Haunted by the Lebanon War. Menachem Begin was a pillar of the State of Israel and a tireless fighter for the Jewish people. He was, at the same time, a controversial leader. His life is a nuanced and complicated canvas that tells the story of key events in the history of modern Israel and its relationship to its Middle East neighbors. With evocative imagery, rarely seen archival materials, and revealing interviews with those who knew him, Upheaval portrays the life and essence of this brilliant, tough, complex, loving, and proud man who never compromised when the survival of Israel and the Jewish people were at stake.

A vivid portrait of David Cherkassky - prominent director, animator, People's Artist of Ukraine - in his life and work. He is famous not only for his classic works such as Doctor Aybolit, Adventures of Captain Wrongel and Treasure Island, but also for his multifaceted vivid personality. The film tells the story of the author through his works: from the first to the last and incomplete ones. It is worth noting that close friends and co-authors of David, who have worked with him for many years, were invited to contribute to the film. The film used many materials: fragments of original cartoons, photographs, drawings, sketches, and newsreels of different years. Esthetically, the film is made in the spirit of Maestro Cherkassky himself, and is dedicated to his cherished memory.

President Trump, the 45th President of the United States, the most polarizing figure to ever hold the office. Some have called him the worst thing to happen to America. A racist, sexist, crazy, and unhinged. Others call him a man of integrity, a true patriot, appointed by God to lead the United States. Love him or hate him this film answers the question; What will the world look like in 2024 after Trump as he battles to maintain the foundational values and the independence of the United States against a global community.

Young architect Dina Vecāns ran 1,740 km around Latvia in 21 days, running two marathons every day. The film is about a run that was initially Dina Vecāns' personal physical challenge and a gift to Latvia on its centenary, but grew into a globally unique ultramarathon and personal endurance test, running around the Latvian border through 43 districts. A unique and inspiring local story that proves that nothing is impossible if you have determination, a goal, and a big heart!

The magnificent tiger is one of the world’s most beloved, and threatened creatures. Filmmaker Karl Ammann uncovers their illegal breeding in secret South East Asian tiger farms. His nine-year investigation exposes how body parts are harvested from both live and butchered tigers, and then traded for sale in China’s underground pharmaceutical and jewelry industries.

To coincide with the 1000th Formula 1 Grand Prix on 14 April 2019 in China, Canal+ is releasing a ground-breaking documentary reliving the 100th, 200th and subsequent races with incredible archive footage, enriched by the testimonies of the drivers, race directors and close friends who took part in these events.

An exciting look back at the major stages in the conquest of the underwater depths, from the end of the 1950s to Laurent Ballesta's great adventure in the summer of 2019.

After being born Georgina in the outback of Bahia, she became known as Diva Rios in São Paulo’s Boca do Lixo and Rio de Janeiro’s Lapa, as well as Suzy King in the nights of Copacabana, but died as Jacuí Japurá on the border of the United States and Mexico. Four names for just one woman: fascinating, moody and very creative. Singer, songwriter, actress, ballet, folk, burlesque and exotic dancer, snake charmer and fakir were only some of the artistic endeavors she tackled during her life. Found dead on the trailer where she lived in August of 1985, in California, she left behind stories without conclusion, lost remainings of her troubled trajectory and a trail of mystery. Three decades later, two historians gather fragments of her tale with the goal of piecing together the complex puzzle that was her life. Actresses, singers, musicians and performers join them to rescue the poetic aspects of her unique personality. A question resounds throughout the entire movie: Suzy King, who are you?

YASUNI MAN is the award winning documentary feature about a conflict raging deep within the Ecuadorian Amazon. It's a real-life Avatar story. Once under siege by missionaries seeking to civilize them, the Waorani people battle industry operatives and their own government in a fight to survive. Join filmmaker Ryan Patrick Killackey and his Waorani friend Otobo as they embark on an expedition into the most biodiverse forest on Earth. Witness what may be lost as oil companies encroach, human rights violations run rampant, and a forest Eden is destroyed - all for the oil that lies beneath Yasuni.

Decolonising the Curatorial Process is a forty-minute documentary which explores decolonial strategies in an academic and curatorial context. The film features academics, activists and practitioners, and contains case studies of institutions that are deploying critical, self-reflective forms of curatorial practice. The Museum of London Docklands exhibition on slavery and the sugar industry is examined as an example of how an institution can decolonise the curatorial process, utilise the work of artists in a museum context, and critically examine East London's imperial history. The Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford, who are working with Maasai activists from Kenya and Tanzania on a project centred on repatriating the museum's collection of sacred Maasai artefacts, also features in the film.

The film tells about the work of the ambulance crew during the New Year holidays in Kyiv. Three crew members, a doctor, a paramedic, and a driver, respond to calls and receive patients during the work shift.