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The 'Movida Madrileña' movement told by Carabanchel neighboors.

Have A Word's very own Make-A-Wish kid Harry is given his dream day - including body slams, head-on helmet collisions (not a euphemism) and dangerous driving. Happy Harry Day.

The story of a boy who, after being forced to leave Ukraine due to the Russian invasion, returns home to Zaporizhzhia through his mechanical avatar — a robotic dog he controls from his room in Poland.

Saying yes to a stranger who writes to you to suggest that you follow in the footsteps of her childhood in China... This is the crazy challenge that Louanne took on by accepting Laura's proposal. On one condition: travel by train.

Robin Roberts hosts a look back at the top stories, trends and entertainment obsessions that defined the last 12 months.

Through two years of passion, provocation and porn, young artist Frida Retz’s alternative lifestyle collides with the oldest convention of all: becoming a mother. Frida Retz is a young artist who lives her life unapologetically. In this intimate artist portrait, Frida invites us into a limitless world of porn, creativity and courage. Her art and life becomes a manifesto for breaking free from conventions – from open relationships and producing porn to marrying her platonic partner. Frida herself is a celebration of living freely and authentically. But her values and artistic projects are put to the test when she is faced with one of the most traditional milestones of all: motherhood. This debut is a tender and fearless portrait. Capturing Frida’s world of sex, love and art.

Ángeles Blanco is the lawyer of an association that helps people with cerebral palsy. One day she receives a message on her phone, saying: SOS. Nothing else. Ángeles immediately replies. She asks for more information, insistently, but to no avail. After several days without news she receives another message: yet another SOS, this time followed by a crying emoji. Ángeles knows that somebody on the other side of that telephone needs her, but if they want her to help they’ll have to find a way to communicate with her.

My mother is Gong-soon. I was ashamed of her name and spent years looking away. In my thirties, I return home with a camera and begin following her at work.

Ethan takes his broken couch on a roadtrip for one last goodbye.

"Hey Rin, let’s send a jam sandwich to space." Rin came to Kyoto from Seoul, and Sola came to Kyoto from Okinawa. They met at university and have since pursued filmmaking together. They like having fun and they like filming funny things and laughing together. They want to fly a jam sandwich. They want to shoplift a film camera. They want to trace Sora's family roots in Okinawa. The two sublimate their desires to filmmaking. For the two, film is like a magic wand. They transform it into all kinds of genres and put themselves in it. The two desire to know each other, but never compromise and, instead, accept their uncertain identities just to have the greatest conversation.

Exploring the roles we perform to protect ourselves, short dance film Cayendo observes the complexities of group dynamics, with human connection as a bridge between risk and repair. The film centers the group as both a mirror and a judge, and the interplay of giving the illusion of strength against the fear of being truly seen.

Explore the lived experiences of queer players within roller derby, showcasing the sport’s unique commitment to inclusivity and community.

Produced and broadcast by China Media Group, the series invites French director Jacques Malaterre to film at a boarding school in Nyingchi City in Xizang. It authentically depicts how the boarding school positively impacts students’ development. Through a foreign director’s perspective, it reflects local parents’ recognition of the boarding school model and demonstrates the necessity of such education in Xizang, achieving wide influence.

Boxing has always been the sport that best represents Mexican culture's spirit of sacrifice and fighting attitude in the face of adversity. This documentary tells the story of four female fighters who battle it out in and out of the ring to find their place in a sport that was not designed for them.

A 98-year-old WWII veteran, painter, and performance artist drives a tank over a Tesla—and then paints the experience.

Ira Melnichenko, a young Ukrainian refugee in Switzerland with her brother, creates a doll in her own image, through which she revisits the story of a family torn apart by the death of her father, a 2D animator in Kyiv, destroyed by alcohol and dereliction. In her eyes – those of a child forced to grow up too fast – we read tenderness and bewilderment in the face of a vanished world.

Spotify welcomed Robyn to the stage for her long-awaited return with a live performance film from Los Angeles, featuring hits: “Missing U,” “Dopamine,” “Honey,” “Love is Free,” “Dancing On My Own,” and “With Every Heartbeat.”

Bex Clayman, a grad student who has found herself behind on life is in the middle of a huge step into adulthood. A move from Brooklyn to Denver, and a return to school have led to the beginning of a new journey to heal childhood scars left behind by the darkest depths of mental illness.

This documentary explores the centuries-old Arabic poem "The Burdah" - it's origins, profound meaning, and enduring significance in modern-day life.

A crew of 25 moves the largest Richard Serra sculpture in the world across the entire State of Florida.

Strangers is a reflective film that explores memory and the lingering echoes of our last happy moments memories that continue to follow us long after they have passed. The film delves into unfinished dreams and the emotional weight they carry, while observing the current state of the world and the growing difficulty of human connection compared to the past, when interaction felt simpler and more genuine. Through the protagonist’s memories, we witness a time when dreams were modest and people felt familiar. As he comes to understand the reality of the world around him, he finds himself transformed no longer belonging, but becoming a stranger.

An autobiography of Polish artist Malga Kubiak in praise of everything aesthetically in your face, confrontational, against the grist of good bourgeois taste and sense – punk camp trash, tacky, cheesy, cheap and maybe even treacly. An epic ego trip which turns one person’s experience into a tale of many.

At the heart of modern Europe lies a silent paradox: while we celebrate sustainability, we destroy more than half of our wool—one of our most ecological materials. Through 14 interviews in 11 countries and following two shepherds over the course of a year, the film reveals a fragile knowledge interwoven into the landscapes and everyday gestures. Wool is not disappearing due to a lack of quality, but rather under the pressure of synthetic fibers, a byproduct of the oil industry, which releases microplastics into our world and our bodies. What is at stake goes beyond the material: a living connection between the land, biodiversity, and traditions that shape a sustainable future.

In a small quiet town, a documentary crew follows two teenage amateur detectives as they investigate local mysteries around their neighborhood. But when the pair unexpectedly discover a dead body hidden near a path, the investigation slowly begins to shift into something darker and more personal. As the case unfolds, the line between performance and reality starts to blur.

From acclaimed filmmaker Ashok Saravanan, known for his authentic portrayals of rural Tamil Nadu, comes Maadu Pidi Veeran ("Cow Catcher"), a vibrant folk music short set in the high-stakes world of Jallikattu. Co-created with his collaborative ensemble, this visually rich and rhythmically powerful piece blends raw folk energy with contemporary cinematic language to craft a stirring paean to resilience, heritage, and identity.

Politics meets personal survival, in this urgent, courageous and poetic bricolage diary that traces an exiled filmmaker’s escape from violent repression to the West via Thailand – only to face new forms of onerous control. Socrates Saint-Wulfstan Drakos is not the real name of the director who made Unerasable! And when the film is over, everyone in the audience will understand why.

The story behind the intramural basketball team known as "Tha Biggest Tha Largest," a team made for the big fellas, and their road to the championship in their inaugural season.

A poetically structured documentary that follows 2023-24 Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Nicholas Gulig, as he returns to his home state of Wisconsin after nearly two decades away, following five years teaching in Thailand, joins UW-Whitewater as a poetry professor, and moves to Fort Atkinson. Feeling estranged from the state, and in a divided political climate, Gulig finds a steadying presence in the region's ties to lauded 20th century Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker.

While Virtual Reality promises a whole world, in fact it offers only a view within the strictly defined boundaries of a sphere. Is this also the case for the strictly defined boundaries of the European Union? When crossing the borders of the European Union, one is not allowed to film. This also applies to Google and their Street View cars, resulting in gaps in the available Street View coverage within the area of EU border control posts. The Euro dome is increasingly made more visible and intimidating from the outside: high fences with barbed wire stand tall along the border and armed border patrols pass by on a regular basis. While from inside the dome, one can only see a virtual glimpse of its borders. A faint reflection or a delayed feedback version.

A woman browses photographs of a young girl. The child visits Disneyland, celebrates birthdays and poses with her parents. But the woman does not recognise the girl, even though it is her. Filmmaker and visual effects artist Yana Lineva distorts images and memories to draw a parallel with a puzzling event from the 90s, when hundreds of people flocked to a Bulgarian airport to welcome aliens that were supposed to look just like us.

The film goes far beyond the concert stage and delves into the tension-filled space of rehearsals – where the sound is not yet fixed, but alive, fragile, and in the process of becoming. We experience a wealth of musical encounters in which a shared musical language begins to breathe. The focus is on works by influential composers such as Rebecca Saunders, Heiner Goebbels, and Mark Andre, alongside the vibrant voices of a younger generation, including Brigitta Muntendorf and Milica Djordjevic, in collaboration with conductors such as Vimbayi Kaziboni, Bas Wiegers, Ingo Metzmacher, and Enno Poppe. Each year, Ensemble Modern premieres around 70 works, continually venturing into uncharted sonic territories.

A young author investigates the event that changed his family forever: the sudden death of his grandfather Nino. Returning to his hometown in Campania with Luisa, his grandmother and imaginary companion, he is guided in his search for the causes of this untimely demise by the footage Nino himself shot before his death and the fragmented memories of the five children he left behind.

Tucked at the edge of Metro Manila, a 67-year-old fisherman continues to resist and struggle against ongoing reclamation projects at the heart of Laguna Lake.

Part of FIFF's section "Une Histoire de Fribourg : Terre de hockey sur glace"

Material found on an SD card allows a young man to see the world through his grandmother's eyes. It becomes a journey of reflection on grief, unresolved issues, and his own journey as a trans person.

Curtain Call follows a group of young actors as they navigate the chaos, conflict, and camaraderie of a stage production. As the film reveals, the real drama unfolds long before the curtain rises.

Collecting as an act of love and a way to tame time.

The uninterrupted light trail of one year and ten months, condensed down to 20 minutes, filmed on a self-made camera. Daily rhythms accelerate, slowly at first, then more intensely. A structuralist film about transience.

An inspiring and sometimes sad story about the saving power of skateboarding.

In this nostalgic and yet dramatic documentary, choreographer Jiří Kylián creates a final work for his lifelong partner Sabine, a deeply personal performance that celebrates love, creation, and the ephemeral nature of life.

Gun Pilots takes a compelling insider’s view into the rigorous world of U.S. Army Apache flight training. It follows student aviators as they confront the formidable challenge of mastering the AH-64 Apache—the most lethal attack helicopter ever built!

When an unplanned baby enters the lives of a conservative mother, neurodivergent daughter and detached gay son, the trio travels back in time through their diaries and family photos to mend ruptured bonds and prepare for a new cycle of motherhood.

The portrait of a woman and a practice. At 24, Elisa opens her pole studio. More than a career, it’s a step towards healing by reclaiming her body.

An interview with Hisayasu Satô about "Turtle Vision" (bonus feature on the "The Films of Hisayasu Satô: Volume #3" Bluray set released by Vinegar Syndrome).

In conversation over dirty clothes, Paul and Ed air out their true feelings for one another.

A gripping true crime series exploring one of Britain’s most disturbing killers and the confessions that continue to haunt the justice system. Ex-DCI Colin Sutton (Manhunt/The Real Manhunter) and his team re-examine the claims of serial killer Levi Bellfield, whose repeated and conflicting confessions to the 1996 murders of Lin and Megan Russell have reignited one of the country’s most controversial cases. With another man still serving life sentences for the crime, this series unravels a complex web of evidence, doubt and deception, asking whether Bellfield is manipulating the system from behind bars.