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A Malayalam biographical documentary film on Philipose Mar Chrysostom.

An insider's look into Francis Ford Coppola's latest Live Cinema project, Distant Vision.

Three women in a re-entry house experience the reality of reintegration and attempt to acclimate to life after being released from incarceration and battling addiction.

This documentary looks back on the life of legendary flamenco singer Camarón, who went from humble roots to rock star status to a tragic early death.

A documentary about Romani people who, through their work, have made efforts to eliminate stereotypes towards this community, and all of these characters come from the oldest Romani settlement in the Balkans and beyond - Topaana, and are internationally known personalities.

Using C.S. Lewis's own words, award-winning actor Max McLean inhabits Lewis to take us on his rigorous journey from hard-boiled atheist to "the most reluctant convert in all England." Discover how the "Hound of Heaven" purued Lewis relentlessly until he finally "gave in"... only to become the most influential Christian writer of the 20th century.

We trace the course of internationally renowned Greek musician Gus G. across seven countries in three continents. We follow him on his tour with his band, Firewind, but also on his solo projects. With him and his colleagues, we travel into the magical world of hard rock, where many taboos, social and other issues are being analyzed, while at the same time a very special personality is revealed. This course of 20 years was not paved with rose petals. It was a hard road through persecution, sweat, hunger and immigration, until the final vindication of his close collaboration with Ozzy Osbourne.

Travel across Vietnam on a breathtaking cultural and historical journey. Uncover ancient Chinese influences on Vietnamese traditions and striking examples of French Colonial architecture, and trace the impact of the Vietnam War in the north and south. Visit the country’s lively modern cities, taking in temples, floating markets, and the world heritage sites of Huế and Ha Long Bay.

Documentary that reviews the life of Jorge Di Cicca, who played eleven characters in the TV show Titanes in the ring, including Dink C, El Leopardo, El Hombre Vegetal, El Caballero Rojo and El Griego.

Peer into the day-to-day tasks of those on the frontline working to rescue and provide humanitarian support to migrants fleeing to Italy's shores.

Fascinating story of the Collins Family, who founded the first theatrical agency in Scotland and played a vital role in British entertainment history.

'Dark from Light' was shot in Arkadia and Messenia, Greece, in August 2018, in 16mm, and is silent.

Director Damien Roz was twelve years old when he attended a conference by mountaineer Jean-Marie Choffat who told of his passion for the mountains and his fight against cancer. Shocked, the young boy said to himself that one day he would tell the story of this extraordinary man. 29 years ago Jean-Marie Choffat, a seasoned mountaineer, suffered from liver cancer. It was then announced to his parents that he only had a few months left to live. But Jean-Marie, who had just had a son, promised himself that he would see his son grow up until he was at least 20… His son Marcelin is almost thirty today and Jean Marie is still there. Jean-Marie lived through the golden age of mountaineering with some 1,200 ascents around the world and many firsts... If he remembers an ascent of the north face of the Grandes Jorasses between two chemotherapy sessions, he evokes his strong friendships with Yannick Seigneur, René Desmaison or Gaston Rébuffat...

This documentary portrays the way in which attacks against a twisted concept of “gender ideology” in four countries are being used to gain political power by right-wing conservative politicians supported by conservatives in the Catholic and evangelical churches.

An artistic pioneer, Agnès Varda has never stopped looking for the next way to tell a story. Here the 90-year-old explains how Instagram, with a majority of users in the 18-24 age range, followed photography and film as her medium of choice.

There was a time when the DC-3 was the world's most successful aircraft and an indispensable tool: its military version became a crucial factor in achieving peace in various wars and helped many people rise from the ashes during the inevitable humanitarian crises that follow every conflict. But now the Basler factory located in Oshkosh, near Chicago, in the United States, seems to have become a sinister airplane boneyard.

Mikhaylo Nigmatullin, a scout sniper with the 43rd Separate Motorized Infantry Battalion "Patriot," was captured by militants in January 2015 in Horlivka during a combat mission. The volunteer spent 171 days in captivity, was sentenced to death but "pardoned," tortured during interrogations but not broken.

A platinum-selling pop dissident turns her back on the music business and learns how to survive as a punk renegade, TV wrestling queen, and DIY leader of an all-girl band. This high-energy, female-centered rock odyssey reveals the treacherous line that today's artists must walk to survive while making art on their own terms in the modern digital economy.

Feature-film directorial debut by Nobutomo Naoko, who has made numerous TV documentaries based on her personal experiences, including her own struggles with breast cancer. The film patiently captures her 95-year-old father caring for her senile mother as seen from her perspective as their daughter.

After the jail, Isaura tries to reconnect with the world. In prison he participated in a literary initiative and through the reunion with comrades of the project, he talks about his anguish. The difficulty of reconfiguring herself as mother, woman and human is constant.

The most crude and atrocious institutional violence of the Spanish State hides behind a true dark figure, an abyss into which this documentary peers through 30 firsthand accounts.

A short documentary portrait of the greatest pet cemetery in the world.

A documentary about the Varos district in Sibenik, Croatia, which once was a home to Arsen Dedic, Vice Vukov and Miso Kovac - three singers who marked 50 years of pop music in former Yugoslavia.

Art is merely a label of no relevance according to the artist Christian Eisenberger. At the age of 40 he has created over 45,000 works. He deposited thousands of them on streets and squares, where anyone could gather them up. He defies galleries, art fairs and museums with his unrestrained production. His art runs rampant, eluding all control. In a milieu that desperately struggles for attention and recognition, Eisenberger again and again asks, "What really constitutes artistic freedom? And does it require artists at all?”

People have different ideas on how to get closer to God. The makers of this fascinating Swiss documentary follow two Pakistani men. One is a dervish or mystic, undertaking a life-long pilgrimage with heavy metal rings on his legs. He walks through the desert until his feet are raw, praying at every shrine he comes across along the way. The other is the custodian of a centuries-old musical tradition, for whom the idea of God lies in self-knowledge, insight and harmony with the environment – a harmony that he strives to achieve through life-long study and passing on his knowledge to new generations. In Pakistan, it is impossible for them to act together as the risk of attacks means any large meetings are prohibited. The film follows the men as they visit impressive holy sites, as well as in their everyday conversations, and provides a beautiful, sideways look at Pakistani society.

Gitai pays homage to Albert Camus and explores the return to Palestinian villages while interjecting texts by Izhar Smilansky, Emile Habibi, Mahmoud Darwish, and Amira Hass.

Documentary about the later works of director Lucio Fulci with special focus on "A Cat in the Brain".

UK filmmakers Debra and David Rixon explore Ireland's beautiful west coast, hiking on the Dingle Way. Local folk give a wonderful outline of the history, music and culture of this remote gaelic-speaking region. In part 2, the couple enjoy Dublin's historic streets on a spirited walking trail, visiting the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin Castle and take a ride on a USA-built DUKW

AeroPress Movie is a documentary revealing the story of AeroPress - from its inventor's workshop in California to the stages of the AeroPress Championships around the world. It explores what makes people so excited about this odd looking yet iconic coffee maker.

Dispatches goes undercover in the secretive world of the people who decide what can and can't be posted on Facebook, exploring how their decisions are made and the impact they have on users.

The greatest skater of all time, John Curry transformed a dated sport into an art form. Coming out on the night of his Olympic win in 1976, he became the first openly gay Olympian in a time when homosexuality was not even fully legal.

Blood Line follows the life and career of motocross superstar, Brian Deegan, as he transitions from a gravity-defying rebel, to the father of the next generation of motorsports stars.

Ten years after the tragic disappearance and mysterious death of three year old Caylee Anthony, her grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony, open up to Elizabeth Vargas about their lives.

"Out of Plastic" is a documentary film that sets out to explore the obscure depths of plastics in the Mediterranean. The film is set in the Balearic Islands, and offers viewers a moment to reflect on the profound presence of plastic in our lives and in our natural environment. The film also offers sweeping landscapes and mystic ocean depths - the point-of-encounter between man and nature – and intends to demonstrate how our over consumption of single-use plastic has tipped the scales, to the detriment of nature, and ultimately ourselves.

Shokri is in prison because of a debt, he wasn't able to repay. One day during his day pass out of the prison he found a black purse full of money and he tried to find the owner, in order to return the money back. Shot in 2015.

A short film about the enduring meaning of a beloved chocolate soda drink born on the Jewish Lower East Side. The egg cream contained neither eggs nor cream—it was a product of necessity and hardship, but a source of joy and sweetness. Through a tour of egg cream establishments led by a filmmaker and his young daughter, exhaustively researched archival imagery (and an eponymous song by Lou Reed!), EGG CREAM examines the Jewish experience in America and the mythology of a simpler time.

Chef S. Namae ventures from his fine dining restaurant in Tokyo to the extreme ends his home country to discover the origins of the invisible but ubiquitous foundation of Japanese cuisine: Dashi broth. As he immerses himself in the lives of fishermen and food craftsmen, he is moved by the dignity, humor, and generosity of people who themselves are invisible to society.

We all share the same kind of brain yet everybody has a different view of the world around us. As a very intriguing example, Carlotta vividly explains how a world without faces does look like. She suffers from the miswiring of a tiny brain region that makes it impossible for her to see and remember faces as a complete construct, called prosopagnosia or face blindness.

Denise, Dilma and Teresinha are three women with visual impairment who live in Teresina. Each one with a type of impairment, they share their experiences, challenges and hopes as women who feel the world beyond what their eyes can see.

The #MeToo movement has shined much-needed light on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse and created unprecedented demand for gender violence prevention models that actually work. THE BYSTANDER MOMENT tells the story of one of the most prominent and proven of these models - the innovative bystander approach developed by pioneering scholar and activist Jackson Katz and his colleagues at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society in the 1990s.

“Seeds of Deceit” tells the story of fertility doctor Jan Karbaat, who secretly used his own seed instead of donors’. An intimate film about two mothers and their children, who must face this new reality and try again to live with each other.

In July 2016, Seth Rich, a young staffer working for the Democrats, was shot in the back in a Washington street at 4am. The police said it was a robbery but nothing was stolen - his watch, phone and wallet were found with him. The murder took place during one of the ugliest and most vicious presidential campaigns in American history. Within weeks of his death, stories emerged that Rich was behind the Wikileaks leak of thousands of damaging internal emails detailing the inner workings of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign - and that his murder was no random robbery.

Is it a Drama? A Comedy? Or Music Hall dream? Director Julien Temple (The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners) takes a stage show, adds some drama, archive, animation and music, then shakes it all up for MY LIFE STORY where singer Suggs, takes a hilarious, yet moving, look back at his life in music and words. The death of Suggs' beloved cat on his 50th birthday triggers a personal quest to discover what happened to the father he never knew. Stunned by what he learns Suggs is taken back through his life to a childhood on the streets of Soho featuring music written by The Kinks, Ian Drury and, of course, his beloved Madness.

Why show a protest artist’s 1990s radical murals? Are they still relevant today? Mary Perry Stone, a former WPA sculptor, didn’t drink, smoke or lead a wild life. Her passion was being a social protest artist; it remained so throughout her life. When she was in her eighties and early nineties, Mary painted many murals depicting what she deemed the horrors of Capitalism. Her art was her own, expressive and powerful.

"Detroit 48202" examines the rise, demise and contested resurgence of Detroit through the lens of mail carrier Wendell Watkins and the residents he has faithfully served for 30 years. The resilient Detroiters on Wendell’s route share stories of pushing against racial segregation in housing, challenging industrial and political disinvestment and living on reduced pensions as a result of Detroit’s bankruptcy. They also share stories of hope and propose creative ways to re-imagine an inclusive, equitable and productive city. Foregrounding the voices of African-American working class Detroiters, it offers a nuanced and complex understanding of a city at the crossroads.

El Pantera is a documentary film that chronicles the rise of Mexican UFC star Yair Rodriguez as he strives to become the first ever Mexican born UFC champion.

Aroak is a documentary about the cycle of life through the passing of the seasons and the stories of 10 people from different generations, and the environment in which they live, closely connected to the land and animals. How they experience the passing of the seasons, how it was before and how they experience it now. They talk about their interaction with the environment, their feelings towards animals and plants. Aroak is also an audiovisual poem about nature and its magic, its sounds and its inhabitants.

Interview with Composer Colin Towns

In the mountains of Western Iran, the land of Bakhtiaris, the tradition of natural yarn dyeing and carpet weaving is still practiced by some.

In Search of Voodoo: Roots to Heaven captures the vibrant tales of Voodoo in West Africa. Following actor Djimon Hounsou back to Benin, the country of his birth, the film shines a positive light on this way of life that has been misrepresented and diabolized in Western culture for many years.

Masato Hara made his directorial debut in high school in 1968 and achieved a reputation as a young prodigy. Many years later, he continues to make films and show his old experimental 'live-screening' films, but is saddled with massive debts. This film follows eight years in his life.

The Official Wimbledon Film 2018 delivers an engaging insight into the very best action, on and off the court, at the most famous and revered tennis tournament in the world. Documenting the progress of former champions, challengers and eventual winners as they progress through the fortnight, witnessing the shock results unfold and delving into Wimbledon's unique attributes across the grounds.

Polish emigrant—Martynka—living for 15 years in Manhattan, divorces her American husband and decides to look for her new home in Greenpoint. This is a district that reminds her of folksy Polish people and the type of emigrants she does not want to identify with. However now she realizes that the longing for the family draws her just here. Moreover, the district is changing into an intercultural melting pot and this is the last moment to taste life among her fellow Polish people. Martynka makes contact with people who came to New York 20, 30 years ago, completely unprepared for the reality overseas. Her neighbor, Henryk, becomes her friend and helper in difficult times. Helena—an elderly lady living in a senior home—inspires her to create an artistic project. Martynka listens to stories of determination, loneliness, fear, but also stories of finding their place on foreign ground as she deals with her own past, hoping to overcome the feeling of loneliness and alienation in New York.

A short documentary about village residents and their vegetable gardens set in the community that started urban farming in metropolitan Manila. It talks about its benefits, their successes in promoting it across other cities and abroad, and the growing awareness of Filipino citizens to sustainable living.