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With a massive, unrestricted salvage area, the Yellowknife dump is one of the last and largest open dumps in North America. People from all walks of life go there, to search for everything from tools to clothes to home décor. This documentary follows a group of passionate salvagers over five years as the dump evolves and eventually succumbs to the inexorable efforts of city bureaucrats to subject it to sensible regulations and controls.

Short documentary created as a eulogy for infamous conversion therapist Joseph Nicolosi, most known for writing the book "A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality".

Panama's first collective film. It begins at midnight on August 15th and ends at midnight the following day, celebrating the 500th anniversary of Panama City's founding in 1519.

Goats are not just cute and somewhat comical. They are also surprisingly intelligent! What if they were as clever as dogs? Meet four of them, evolving in different environment, and discover this sensitive and clever animal.

Filmed over 17 years across Southern China, this remarkable film is an intimate and heart-wrenching portrait of Li Ermao, a transgender migrant worker, who performs in clubs looking for love and acceptance. Living as a “ladyboy” with a string of boyfriends, she faces repeated encounters of prejudice and aggression with equal measures of resilience and vulnerability. With a flair for the dramatic and her budding career as a popstar, Ermao’s story takes many dramatic twists and surprising turns as she moves between the urban and the rural, searching for identity and fighting for a better life.

"Stolen Childhood - Chronicle of Denial" - built on the testimonies of victims, magistrates, psychiatrists, and archives showing the decisive role of television in this matter, the film tells 50 years of society's responses to pedophilia.

The film UMBRA deals with rare and common optical phenomena that occur in nature. These phenomena evoke familiar images such as shadows or reflections on a water surface; but also unusual ones like the "Brocken spectre" or the pinhole effect during a solar eclipse. These ancient and natural projections can be considered as precultural and independent of any apparatus. They occured even before mankind and are united by their intangible, ephemeral presence. In their immateriality and fragility, they are precursors of the cinema image. UMBRA develops a visual dialogue between phenomenon and apparatus, archetype and image, self and self-perception.

A small mountain village sees its traditional way of life threatened. It's difficult to live off the land, and there's also a lack of water. A tourism project and the promises of politicians in the midst of their campaign are forcing them to question where to go next.

The duo made up of musician and actress Julia de Castro and double bass player Miguel Rodrigáñez thus premieres their latest show, Exhalación: vida y muerte de De La Puríssima. With it, they intend to put an end to the ten-year revolution of EL CUPLÉ this scenic musical genre, which the singular tandem has merged with jazz, cumbia and electronics on stages around the world. Show nominated for the Premios Valle Inclán. As the duo explains, De La Puríssima was born in 2009 “as a transit project, in which music was the most direct and ritualistic medium from which to raise core issues such as sex, bullfighting, folklore or religion”. Now, a decade later, it is time to remove the peineta and celebrate the end of a stage in which the provocative lyrics by Julia de Castro have traveled through numerous audiences to bring up to date a genre that was in the forgetfulness of national folklore, the cuplé.

A story of an extraordinary artist who has unintentionally signed a deal with a devil. Jiří Trnka was one of the biggest Czech artists of the 20th century and one of the founders of the puppet animation. His work demonstrated the world that communist society can provide better conditions for extraordinary artistic creations. The ideological clash between West and East didn’t leave children and their stories apart from their struggle in ideological and political positions.

A documentary without comment that shows life in a shopping center during a year. It shows the center and the seemingly effortless ways it pushes humans to consume.

The binary interplay of light and shadow as experienced through the sculpted form.

In this nostalgic documentary, restaurant critic Giles Coren challenges Heston Blumenthal to take his restaurant The Fat Duck back to 2001 for a magical feast.

A historical and personal story, based on the director's own experience, family, friends and acquaintances. We follow them and depict different situations throughout their lives - the sad, the vile, the emotional and the comical. A universal story of a family that has arisen from a simultaneously beautiful and tragic cultural encounter; as is the case in hundreds of thousands of families around Europe and the rest of the Western World.

This film takes us behind the scenes of the magical events of the world famous Vienna State Opera. These one-of-a-kind scenes and fast-paced, brilliant moments are intense, vivid, full of passion and captivating music.

Joe Strummer was one of the most memorable figures of the 80's as singer for The Clash. His angry on-stage energy made him stand out as one of the most inspiration frontmen of all time.

A short documentary about the history of the fishing industry in Leigh-on-Sea which also raises concerns as to how it will survive in the future.

Swedish actor Adam Lundgren is a skeptic of social media. He goes to Silicon Valley to look for answers.

Abbey Road is a masterpiece filled with such classic Beatles songs as “Come Together,” “Something,” and “Here Comes the Sun.” Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side One takes a track-by-track journey into their inspiration and evolution in the studio with the man who’s been presenting his beloved, exhilarating multimedia deep dives into the band’s work here for years. Because of the depth of the Abbey Road songwriting, he created two separate presentations for this album.

Are record collectors simply purveyors of popular culture or are they its greatest protectors? The film Forty-Five: The Search for Soul, sets out to answer that question as we follow one DJ on a quest for black gold. For Johnny Starke digging through dusty thrift shop bins to find lost wax and forgotten sounds is not simply a hobby... It’s his chief obsession and his life’s work. This is a film about record collecting and more importantly, it’s about saving forgotten pieces of popular culture and returning them to the turntable, the dance floor and ultimately back to their historical relevance. Director Anthony Ladesich brings to life the story of one collector, one 45rpm record, and one song.

Critic Sara Imogen Smith discusses the visual style of The Story of Temple Drake and Miriam Hopkins' performance.

In this documentary we see Khyentse Norbu (director of The Cup, 1999) in Nepal during the filming for his latest film Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache, where he effortlessly switches between working with the hip film crew and performing ancient Buddhist rituals.

Somewhere in the Ukrainian hills, near the Romanian border, Gigi celebrates Malanka, a pagan festival whose bears are heroes.

Documentary about middle-aged men's ballet group.

Europe was still split in two — the Berlin wall separated families, friends, relatives. The wall, built by people to divide people, was more than a physical barrier. East of it there was a regime restricting freedom of speech, access to education and information and career opportunities. It made simple things, such as the movie you are now going to watch, unthinkable. Those times are gone, but must not be forgotten.

In this extraordinary documentary, we get a glimpse into a world most of us never consider until it’s thrust upon us by bereavement. But, far from morbid or dark, this is a life-affirming story, full of empathy, unexpected revelations and strangely, hope.

The author's documentary film by film director, screenwriter, actor, Honored Artist of Russia Vitaly Maksimov is dedicated to the memory of the feat of ordinary artillery driver Stepan Perederia, who alone opposed a huge motorized infantry column of fascists on the outskirts of Krasnodar in August 1942.

Documantary film on the dispute for the hegemony of the Latin American continent between conservative forces and popular movements.

John Banvard and Jerry Nadeau are military veterans who served in World War II and Vietnam, respectively. John, 100, and Jerry, 72, sat down at the veterans home where they live to reflect on nearly 25 years together.

"A Postcard from Pyongyang" is a journey into a deeply enigmatic and completely isolated country that keeps the world in suspense: North Korea. Friends Gregor Möller, Philip Kist and Anne Lewald visit in 2013 and 2017 and do what is strictly forbidden and for which they might have ended up in a forced labor camp: even though accompanied by state watchers, they secretly film their travels, accompanied by state watchdogs. We get an extraordinary insight into one of the most closed societies in the world and experience the 'beautiful new world' as the state propaganda machinery displays it.

John Pilger unearths the hidden agenda behind the NHS crisis.

The documentary "Juanas, bravas mujeres", by Sandra Godoy, portrays the life of Juana Rouco Buela and her fight for women's rights.

A sensitive look over multiple sclerosis.

Celebrating 15 years in showbiz, powerhouse vocalist Sarah Geronimo performs original hits and contemporary favorites at the Araneta Coliseum.

Two siblings go to Vigo to see a movie. In Cangas the cinema closed a long time ago.

On August 17, 1993, a unique and, to this day, unrepeatable social and cultural event took place at Lisandro Olmos Prison: a rock, punk, and metal festival for inmates. A quarter of a century later, with the recovered images, we can try to understand what it was like to be part of such a risky yet significant endeavor.

Women who live in Ciudad Juarez organize safe havens for children in some of the most violent neighborhoods in Mexico. There, Diana, Joseph and Gael seek out the freedom that they once had on the streets, and try to heal the wounds that the violence of organized crime has caused them.

It walks us through the various Edgar Allan Poe adaptations in cinema from the early days of silent movie-making on through to the Roger Corman Poe cycle of films and slightly beyond.

Facts about American police officers

Homophobia didn’t just happen. Orchestrated campaigns by cultural institutions and public figures have systemically instilled anti-LGBTQ prejudice into American culture by shaping public opinion.

California Dreaming explores the unusual town of California City, the third largest city by area in the state of California, though only about 14,000 people live there. Grandiosely conceived in the 1950s as a new metropolis to rival Los Angeles, a mere two hours away, it is now a small town within a much larger ghost town in the desert. The film follows several locals, including Quebec-born blue-collar worker Jean-Paul LeBlanc, and explores how the American Dream has changed over time, drawing parallels between the American Dream of the 1960s, when the city was founded, and the dreams of those living there today.

In the far reaches of the North, wolf and bear come head to head. Winter has been long. The melting ice reveal scattered carcasses in the Swamp: a feast worth fighting for. The bears must fatten up before Winter comes again, the wolves must strengthen their pack. The Swamp has been their battleground for decades, who will rule the North?

A documentary about the life and the work of the Costa Rican artist Guadalupe Urbina, one of the most important Central American singers and poets. Her songs and reflections explore the meaning of love, eroticism, nature, and the sacred; helping to strengthen an endangered communal identity.

This short film brings light to the reality of transsexuality during childhood and aims to emphasize the importance of the role of grandparents.

The Color of Ultimate: ATL was an All-Star ultimate frisbee that showcased many of the sport’s most talented players of color from across the United States and Colombia, South America. This documentary details the stories of players who participated in the game. The stories include why the players enjoy ultimate, what the Color of Ultimate: ATL means to them, and how race and socioeconomic status have influenced their lives, both in the sport of ultimate, and in life at large.

Fifty years ago, on Sunday, 2 March 1969, Concorde flew for the first time. Starting from this inaugural flight, the film goes back in time to the origin of the conception of Concorde.

Cold times, people are looking for a place to sleep. A car rambles through the night, to bring out of the dark, what could get lost in there. The film tries to grasp the perception of people who are constantly on the run, who can't remember the last time they've slept in a real bed. The things we witness are turning into inner landscapes. Fragments of conversations become collective thoughts and somewhere in the distance, Kepler 452b is orbiting a sun that is warmer than ours.

A story following the HEART of coffee and tea around the world as a universal means of connection. What started as a fascination with coffee, turned into a journey revealing the beautiful, harsh, and captivating intricacies of the human experience. A narrative that incorporates communities and individuals in 9 countries with interviews in 9 languages throughout; proving that we all speak the language of sharing a coffee or tea together. Journalist Brooke Bierhaus takes viewers on an intimate journey to better understand the human experience and cross-cultural unification by sharing a connected cup.

One was a Black human rights leader who had achieved global notoriety. The other was a young Marxist Oxford student from Pakistan looking to bring radical change to the British establishment. When they met in December 1964, Malcolm X's life of activism was about to come to a tragic end, but Tariq Ali's journey was just beginning. This is the story of a brief but impactful friendship that, 50 years later, still ripples through England today, told by Ali, civil rights historians, and rarely seen footage of Malcolm X's overseas visit.

On the 11th of November 2018 the elections were held in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic. One of those who came to vote is a former locksmith Alexander Zaslavsky, a participant under the call sign "Old" in the battles in 2014 and 2015.

A documentary about Tonino Delli Colli, a man of cinema and cinematography, and one of the greatest performers of the Arte della Luce and of photography in movement.

Jules Deelder turned 75 on 24 November 2019 and died less than a month later. Shortly before his death, 26 other unique characters from Rotterdam paid homage to him by reading part of his 'Portret van Olivia de Havilland': the epic 891 line poem in which Deelder reminisced about the 1950s.

Granting unprecedented access, Joan Armatrading tells her life story, both as a songwriter and as a performer. Features key performances from Joan and many of the musicians she has influenced.

What happens behind the walls of our hospitals? How do doctors treat us? How can a healthy child become a lying wreck? All this was revealed by a hidden camera in the next episode of Infiltration ... (Česká televize)

A documentary about Beşiktaş and soccer.