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Every two weeks, Carellia meets with her mother, Mónica, both from Lima, in her room in Madrid. Amid conversations about work and migration, their hopes of spending Christmas together are dashed by her mother's demanding job as a live-in caregiver.
Documentary about the publisher 'In de Knipscheer,' and their pioneering work of publishing activist and critical literature from the Netherlands and the Caribbean. Several authors discuss the impact of the publisher as the owner Franc Knipscheer is about to retire.
In this work, the artists assert the fatal link between genocide and ecocide, exposing the colonial logic of 'taming', inherent in European intervention. Video footage and field recordings of the Birrarung are layered with shredded snippets of a score composed in the 1800s, inspired by the river. By contrast, the soundscape features the voice of Jasper Cohen-Hunter, who recounts the Creation Story of the Birrarung as told by Beruk (William Barak, 1823-1903), the Ngurungaeta (leader) of the Wurundjeri-balluk.
Spring, 2025. Brooklyn, New York. One chapter closes and another begins.
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where women are denied the right to study, work, and speak freely, a group of young women risk their lives to form a secret reading circle.
A rural Argentine music teacher and his students fight harmful agrochemical spraying by writing protest songs and staging a large “environmental Woodstock” despite industry resistance.
The beloved, unapologetic Lis/Simón lives between being a mother of two boys and a drag king performer. Navigating the spectrum of their own identity, Simón discovers that validation and their sense of self are much more than just a costume.
A poetic observational documentary set within the remote Scottish therapeutic community ‘Lothlorien’.
Trapped in a hospital bed during a sickle cell crisis, a comedian turns the camera on himself — and his disease — to document the brutal, funny, and deeply human story behind the pain no one sees.
An intimate portrait of Jèrriais, Jersey’s ancient native language, following the voices of its last native speakers and the growing movement fighting to keep it alive – but can it still be done? This documentary is about a people – the people who spoke, and still speak, Jèrriais, Jersey’s ancient language. Passed down through generations of native speakers, it carries the island’s history and identity, yet in recent times has come perilously close to being lost. At the same time, a growing movement is working to revitalise the language – driven by people who care passionately about the importance of Jèrriais as a vital part of Jersey’s culture, heritage and inclusive identity. Ultimately, this film is a call to action. A rallying cry to a new generation of enthusiasts, learners and speakers to take up the challenge and ensure this precious language can thrive once again.
Director Ewan Dunn showcases the making of two surrealist films that almost caused his departure from filmmaking.
Deep in the forests of Vermont, the Bennington Triangle has become a hotspot for the unexplainable-UFO sightings, Bigfoot encounters, eerie light anomalies, and a string of mysterious disappearances that defy logic. This chilling documentary blends dramatic, stylized recreations with gripping eyewitness interviews to unravel the dark and perplexing history of this enigmatic region. Could there be a connection between these strange phenomena, or is the Bennington Triangle simply a magnet for the unknown? Through expert analysis, firsthand accounts, and immersive storytelling, The Bennington Triangle dares to explore the truth hidden within the shadows of New England's most haunted wilderness.
Palestinians are fighting annihilation in maternity clinics, too. Like many wives of prisoners in Israeli jails, Hind is trying to smuggle her husband’s sperm in order to conceive a child and cling to hope for the future. But the operation is risky: sperm has a short shelf life, and she must race against time, checkpoints, and traffic in the West Bank, while bombs fall on Gaza.
Everyone wants to leave something behind. For sculptor Cornelius Pepsi Lyon, this is the driving force behind his creativity. Over the past four decades, he built the largest sculpture garden in America made by an individual artist, with over 800 pieces of his work scattered around his 40 acre property. Everlasting is an examination of Cornelius’ life’s work and the very nature of what inspires us to create.
Convicted as a rioter rather than a documentarian at the Western District Court, what did the director capture? A documentary reflection following the people's gaze that never stopped, even as the world collapsed.
Hyodo lives near Tokyo in a vibrant house filled with hundreds of sex dolls. An unconventional character living amidst the normalcy and conformity of Japan, his life blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. Hyodo’s hedonistic, imaginative world is explored unflinchingly in an affectionate portrait of a deeply complex man.
The film crew of the TV program “Earth and Sky” arrives in the village of Nizhny Arkhyz, home to an astrophysical observatory, to prepare a report on a scientific conference. Their work is complicated by conflicts within the team, the host’s inexperience, and the fact that the events unexpectedly take on personal significance for him, shifting the focus of the shoot.
An audiovisual exhibition of murals and interventions in different territories of Chile, which raise memories and stories of trans lives marked by violence and transphobia.
A mockumentary follows a young man whose uncontrollable addiction to shredded cheese begins to disrupt his daily life and worry the people around him.
A documentary about a women's youth team from Dagestan, whose members find themselves and friends in the world of football.
To get out of a slump, I started filming my household chores, but this ended up as a short film about those months, focusing mainly on the people around me.
Vyksa is a Celebration: A documentary about how an art festival transforms a small town and its residents.
A curious miniature boat sails along the rivers and waterways of Sheffield, observing the people, places, and sights of the Peak District.
Each year, over 10 million students enter Chinese universities. Their first lesson is two weeks of mandatory military training, from combat drills to patriotic education. With youthful zeal, under state direction, they begin learning to become warriors, marking their first political baptism into adulthood.
A summer day. In the middle of a rollerblading ride, you stop by a building long out of use. You don’t come there to swim - there’s no water in the pool. You bring your friend. Besides, neither of you can swim. But what if the pool were filled with imagined water?
A feral cat is caught and her kittens are taken away to be tamed.
A filmmaker uncovers footage of a party where, buried in the background, two people appear to be falling in love, and wonders how many moments like this exist, unnoticed, in tapes nobody has a reason to revisit.
Tucker Carlson reveals how companies use beloved right-wing voices to sell precious metals at astronomical markups, leaving hardworking Americans betrayed by the very people they trust. The scam has run for decades because those who should expose it are often paid to promote it. That ends now.
An experimental short film regarding the director's memories and dreams from an alternate reality.
1956, three photographers embarked on a mission to document the Hula wetlands before Israel drained them. Their rediscovered 16mm color footage reveals a pristine wilderness, vanished by human hands.
For 14 years, Syrian filmmakers Hasan Kattan and Fadi Al-Halabi have journeyed together through war and storytelling. Their bond was forged on the frontlines of revolution where their cameras recorded terror and hope, laughter and heartbreak – moments that defined a generation. Years later, their story takes an unexpected turn. Confined inside a UK asylum hotel, Hasan and Fadi document a new chapter shaped not by bombs, but by waiting, bureaucracy, and exile.
Collective video and performance work based on the book by John Berger and John Christie, I Send You This Cadmium Red. The video creation was made following a series of instructions generated by the group: each member of the Neofòbia collective made 45-second vertical films about previously agreed colours and sent them every 15 days at a specific time. It was not edited except to group the successive submissions into a triptych and play with random placement. No hierarchy is established and there are no individual authorships, only those of the collective. All decisions are made horizontally.
An experimental rendition of Stanley Kubrick’s famous stargate sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Hafiz & Friends: We Were Always Meant to Be Here reflects on the quiet evolution of friendship—how closeness can change, how distance can grow, and how time reshapes the bonds we once believed were permanent. Through intimate moments and unspoken shifts, the film captures the fragile space between holding on and letting go, offering a gentle meditation on connection, memory, and becoming.
Six British orphans arrive in Australia in 1948 looking for a new and better life, only to have the tragedy and heartbreak they left behind repeat itself in their new home.
Somewhere between realism and magic, ordinary people long for the miracle. They instinctively dive into acts of redemption and pursue a moment of freedom so addictive, that they want to experience it again and again. It is this moment of ecstasy that they cease thinking and simply live! An ecstatic experience of Greek paganism, struggling against modern conformity.
A film-journey through fleeting and tender dreams, shot with a “loving” video camera.
Amid mud, sweat and tackles, Crushers follows an inclusive Cologne rugby team where queer identities are embraced — proving team spirit thrives only without exclusion.
Matter of Britain is an ethnographic fantasy which documents an English country village’s performance of the Holy Grail myth. In that myth, King Arthur’s knights quest for the Holy Grail in order to heal their wasted land. The performance took place over 12 months from 2023 to 2024 in multiple locations across the parish of Mayfield, East Sussex. Over 300 members of the community took part as questing knights, angelic choirs, guiding anchorites and tempting devils. The work was supported by an Arts Council England Project Grant, the Lund Trust, High Weald AONB, East Sussex Arts Partnership, the University of Reading and the Museum of English Rural Life.
High above Belfast, an 85-year-old man holds a holy relic linked to Padre Pio. Every 13th night, devoted locals journey up the mountain seeking a sacred cure.
With the Soviet Union’s dissolution dragging down the economy of neighboring Finland, the Scandinavian country was plunged in a period of protracted recession. And with no recovery in sight, a soap opera offered Finns a respite from the grim reality; the debut of The Bold and the Beautiful on television quickly amassed a vast and dedicated following, whereas the arrival of American idols in the country, on tour, elicited unprecedented frenzy.
In an effort to continue using filmmaking as exposure therapy (after conquering her fear of the Tube in Tube Film), filmmaker Orla Smith tackles an even bigger fear: planes. On a trip to Porto, the camera is wielded as a shield against panic attacks. But this time, things don’t go exactly to plan.
10-year-old Lars explores his identity through his various hobbies.
Dressed in her wedding gown, a young Egyptian woman flies to Saudi Arabia to meet her future husband, amidst wedding preparations and uncertainty about the future.
August, who lives in the small town of Blomstermåla, cannot do military service. But as Sweden rearms and Preparedness Week reaches the his small community, he is given the chance to explore both his own and others’ willingness to defend, in a disarming and humorous portrait of one of the defining questions of our time.
In 1979, artist David Greenberger's talks with senior citizens become a word-of-mouth hit 'zine, The Duplex Planet. Four decades on, now a senior himself, he has much to tell us about the nature of art, conversation and growing old.
Crazy women on the loose invading the Europes: a blog from Amsterdam, London, Paris and Madrid
Documentary about Brazilian folk music group Os Tápes.
In July 2025, alongside the official launch of Olduvai Production, filming took place for 4 CORNERS: a project initially conceived as a documentary that, during post-production, evolved into a series of intimate and profound conversations about the life of Tenuun Gantushig, a young man originally from Mongolia. Through four chapters (like the four corners of the ring, symbolizing Muay Thai), the project tells the different facets of his life and personal journey.
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