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The time of Corona, in which we have questioned the meaning of life even more deeply. It has led us to sought the wisdom of our living legends. They have a special place in our memory from all ages, learning what they have learned from life is essential in our search for meaning. We embarked on a journey to the legends of Turkey. They refuse to stop producing despite the restriction of mobility, they believe that the road to victory begins with defeat, they envision with determination and courage, and leave a legacy in their path. This is their story.

Explores the historical significance of ET presence around the world as well as three specific belief paradigms — biblical, ascension and colonization - that attempt to define the alien agenda.

In August 1991, the Soviet empire collapsed. Yet this colossus seemed indestructible: its power had towered over the world for nearly a century. But a collapsed economy, reforms too late to avoid bankruptcy, an abortive coup d'état and the change of power revealed to the world the pre-existing debacle. The Soviet power and state disappeared. From then on, all rules are abolished. What happens when a state disappears and no longer finances or manages the territory under its control?

I ran from it and was still in it poetically interweaves personal family memories with original and found footage to offer a more complex portrait of familial loss and separation. Kae wades through deep emotions surrounding the death of his father and the sudden relocation of his children, repurposing intimate family scenes from his personal archive by pairing them with online media from a variety of sources to explore how the autobiographical model can potentially extend beyond the personal.

Towards the end of 2021, Jean-Louis Comolli was invited by Citéphilo-Encuentros Filosóficos anuales de la región Hauts-de-France to present his latest book, Una cierta tendencia del cine documental (A Certain Trend in Documentary Cinema). Unable to travel to Lille due to his health, Jacques Lemiére (member of the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Lille, and head of film art at Citéphilo) decided to visit him and interview him at his home in Paris, so that he could then present this dialogue at the conference. Recorded and edited by Ginette Lavigne (a friend of Jean-Louis but also an editor and co-director of several of his works), we are treated to this exceptional conversation, in which Comolli, despite his fragile health, shines with all his sagacity and reflective originality, giving us almost an hour of his brilliant thinking.

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the Scottish Indie feature film Lost at Christmas (2020). The stars and filmmakers take us on their journey from script to screen as the world braces itself for a global pandemic.

For over 85 years, steamship Ste. Claire transported generations of Detroiters to Boblo Island, an amusement park nestled in the waters between the US and Canada. When the vessel comes under threat of ruin, a doctor, psychic and amusement park fanatic unite to save their beloved steamship from the scrapyard. Interweaving local lore and mythology, "Boblo Boats" explores the whitewashed history of amusement parks and one crew's crusade to bring back the memories.

A meeting between two strangers sparks the desire to understand each other through the medium of cinema. They both simultaneously start recording their surroundings on camera and crafting the resulting footage. They, Elettra from Italy and Hazem from Gaza, become the subjects of this film that documents their first moments together. It depicts a multi-faceted reality in which North and South confront each other in a discussion on rights and inequalities, a reality in which we witness a migration towards one another, while capturing an intimate way of making a film together.

The first stand-up special by Kristina Bitkulova was recorded on August 20, 2021 at Stage Stand Up Club, St. Petersburg. Please note: concert contains two or three expletives. If this is offensive to you, I apologize.

The Samatya Sahakyan Choir was founded in 1703 and is the oldest church choir in Turkey. This documentary follows the choir's preparation for their 2020 New Year's concert step by step starting from their first rehearsals. Along the way, the creative history and social role of what is a vital part of Armenian identity and culture is explored through the stories of the choir’s members and their ancestors.

Documentary aims to demonstrate the simple life of older residents, as well as people in love with Serra do Itapeti. Turn your eyes to the Serra's problems and virtues, and discuss solutions capable of preserving it.

Chad Matthews, who lives a simple life of local fame as a Stompin’ Tom tribute musician, is a man whose life hasn’t taken him where he thought it would.

Love in a concentration camp. A young Jewish gay man, Otto, is protected by a "kapo" (a fellow prisoner) and an SS guard who unexpectedly ends up saving his life.

Documentary paying tribute to one of the most successful managers in the history of Scottish football, Walter Smith. A winner as manager for Rangers and Scotland, Walter Smith was a man whose character won respect across the hard tribal lines of our national game. Featuring rare archive, and told with interview contributions from the people who knew him best and who worked with him throughout his long and varied career, the programme explores the numerous successes at Rangers, his experiences as a manager when he headed south to Everton in the English Premiership, his leadership of the Scotland national men’s team and his sensational return to Rangers in 2007. Walter: A Life in Football follows the highs and lows of Smith’s career, exploring the characteristics that made players, fellow managers and supporters venerate him. He was genuinely loved and revered by many, including titans of the game such as Pep Guardiola and Sir Alex Ferguson.

It portrays the work of Carlos Filho, Cafi, a photographer from Recife, who for more than 40 years has dedicated himself to recording a large part of the events of dance, theater and Brazilian popular music. Recordings, concerts, tours and rehearsals by important artists passed through Cafi's lens.

Follows a community coming together to make their own currency, opening a bank in order to examine how money and debt is created in our economy and to ask important questions about how the system of money creation might be altered in their favour.

In a strange and haunted setting, verses are lost, like an echo that nobody can seem to hear. The grainy, blurry images shot with the Super 8 camera and a soundtrack seeming to come from the far ends of the universe give the words of Laurence Olivier the feeling of some alien poem. As if the Other – ghosts or beings from another world – could also be transported by love and loss, by the impoverishment of the imagination and the transience of the material world. The invisible presence of ghosts seems to have found a witness here.

The film portrait of a face made of shit thematizes the individual's ideas about his own freedom. Antonín dolák, philosopher and YouTuber, feels free when he gets rid of all social conventions. He loses his face, takes off his mask and talks openly about the socially taboo topics that line his life. However, a conflict arises between him and the staff, when Dolak loses control over the depiction of himself.

Eric Andersen is widely regarded as one of the most poetic songwriters that sprang from the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s. His artful mélange of love, despair, hope and stirred memory has earned him a passionate international following and the respect and admiration of artists ranging from Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen to Lou Reed and Wyclef Jean. The Songpoet offers a look into the mind, soul and creative process of this multifaceted, complex and singularly driven artist whose career saw great expectations waylaid by misfortune.

In 2017, Andoni Canela, a National Geographic photographer, embarks on a journey with his son Unai in search of the world's big cats.

Alan, a 43-year-old French man living in Barcelona struggles to overcome an addiction to methamphetamine. Picking up filming himself ten years after his first attempt quitting, he intends to showcase his fight to warn potential addicts of the rough road ahead.

The fourth walk follows the course of a river; then it goes up towards a village, still and solitary, until a breath of wind.

Raimonds Pauls is almost 85 years old, rehearses almost every day and performs at least once a week. What drives him? Not only he is the most popular composer in Latvia: his songs are sung all over the world. "Dāvāja Māriņa" is so popular in Japan that Paul received the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun. In concerts, he collaborates with world stars of Latvian origin - soprano Elīna Garanča, organist Iveta Apkalna, conductor Mariss Jansons. The Latvian Television film crew follows him during the pandemic, realizing that the restrictions and threats of Covid-19 hardly stop the Maestro in the course of his eternal engine. How does he cope with the challenges that time imposes on a person's physical form and the loneliness when most friends have passed away? What is the source of his inexhaustible lifestyle and creative spirit?

Some kids get very angry. So angry that they can no longer be home or in school. Parents and teachers call them bad. But are they? We meet some of these kids in the children's hospital at the psychiatry ward. Animated images accompany their voices as we discover why they are here, why they are angry, and how it makes them feel.

La Polla Records, one of the most legendary punk bands, returns to bid its farewell. To celebrate the group's last tour, its singer, Evaristo Páramos, revives 40 years of history from his town in the Basque Country. This is the extraordinary tale of villagers who revolutionised incensed music with songs turned into hymns by their thousands of followers.

When Gabriela finds out that Zoila, the Mapuche nanny from her childhood, does not appear in the family tapes, she begins to inquire about the maternal relationship that unites them.

Nordeste is a fiction, sang Belchior in São Paulo. If the paulista and the northeastern are inventions elevated along a path, they are also the shapers of cities carried in the body of everyone who comes and everyone who goes. The documentary looks at the presence of many northeasters, in this region called Bixiga, known for its Italian presence, claimed in its black and indigenous memory.

The history of prefrontal leucotomy, a brain intervention created by Portuguese neurosurgeon and scientist António Egas Moniz, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine.

"The Sound of Us" illustrates that during this critical time in world and U.S. history, music gives sound to hope and courage, allows us to grieve and be honest, and is the great, universal language that unites us all. "The Sound of Us" weaves inspiring stories about the beauty and goodness of music with interviews and performances by artists such as Ben Folds, Sarah McLachlan, Avery*Sunshine, Eric Whitacre, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Hiromi, Antonio Sanchez, Butch Walker, Will Wells, Patti Smith, Sekou Andrews and many more. Combined, these powerful vignettes illustrate how music heals us, gives us hope for the future through our children, keeps our heritage and history alive, allows us to have the most difficult of conversations, sheds light on current struggles, and continues to invite us back to the thing that unites us all - music.

Jorge Luís Altuve is a young Guatemalan, passionate about mountaineering and a lover of his country. After the COVID-19 crisis and the lack of transparency in the execution of funds by the government of Alejandro Giammattei, he raised a wave of indignation that led thousands of Guatemalans to demonstrate. Jorge Luis attended the central square, when PNC agents began to intimidate the peaceful demonstrators. He and other citizens were arrested without having carried out an act of vandalism.

A forced disappearance doesn't only end with the life of the person who has disappeared, but generates, like the ripples of a stone thrown into water, an enormous emotional scar in their families and in society. In the early 80s, José Miguel Etxeberria Álvarez, alias 'Naparra', a member of the Autonomous Anti-capitalist Commandos, was disappeared. Between crossed statements, numerous vindications and judicial indifference, his family will try to find an answer for his disappearance. More than forty years later, Eneko has taken up the baton of the search for his brother to close the wound that has remained open for so many years.

We accompany a world-renowned transgender surgeon and his patients, each in a different stage of gender reassignment. A film full of feeling that unfolds the full spectrum and radicalness of this transition.

Shot on the streets of New York City, an intimate portrait of the legendary No Wave cinema pioneer.

A documentary about the lives of eight trans people from different parts of Rio Grande do Sul, based on two narrative lines; the first, and main one, is composed of in-depth interviews that seek a multiplicity of experiences, addressing issues related to transition and also to other identity and intersectional crossings, such as class, race, age, sexuality, and body.

People Just Do Nothing went from online comedy hit to Bafta-winning sitcom and a big-screen feature film. This is the story of how.

In 1968, my grandfather - an electrician and an amateur diver - decided to direct the first underwater Israeli film. Fifty years later, after discovering his forgotten film, I went on a cinematic journey in search of the grandparent I never knew, and the only artwork he ever created.

25 years after making his independent film "El Mariachi" for only 7,000 dollars, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez recreates the experience with his micro-budget film, "Red 11," this time documenting his process in order to teach other artists how they can make their dreams a reality.

Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter, he enlisted, like millions of colonial soldiers, in the Free Army out of loyalty to France and the idea of freedom that it embodies for him. A writer, he participated in the bubbling life of Saint-Germain with Césaire, Senghor and Sartre, debating tirelessly on the destiny of colonized peoples. As a doctor, he revolutionized the practice of psychiatry, seeking in the relations of domination of colonial societies the foundations of the pathologies of his patients in Blida. Activist, he brings together through his action and his history of him, the anger of peoples crushed by centuries of colonial oppression. But beyond this exceptional journey which makes sensitive the permanence of French colonialism in the Lesser Antilles at the gates of the Algerian desert, he leaves an incomparable body of work which has made him today one of the most studied French authors across the Atlantic.

The story of famous actor and director Orson Welles is told through his two visits to the Republic of Ireland; first in his youth as a promising young actor and finally in later years as a washed up icon of the silver screen.

Short documentary in which Ivan Barbosa follows Tarikh Janssen's career switch. The actor leaves the movie world behind and returns to top swimming. Together, Barbosa and Janssen explore taboo topics such as white innocence, Black identity and the Black Lives Matter movement to expose the absurdity and seriousness of today's racism debate.

Courageous Warriors; Beauty From The Ashes is a tale of extraordinary women, young and old, who took their recovery from breast cancer a leap beyond medical diagnosis. They created new paths of wholeness through body, mind, and spirit. Now they offer those gifts to others.

A visionary journey, the rise and decline of clubbing Italy, told by the protagonists of this story, between nights on the highway and afterhours that devour the day. Four generations who want to be "put on the list" to enter these places of aggregation and perdition, where it does not matter what you do during the day, but only who you interpret during the night. Forty years in which the disco has produced culture, art, music and fashion.

Hundreds of workers risked their lives in union conflicts during the last civilian-military dictatorship. With an unusual narrative creativity that even includes animated reenactments, The End Will Come… gathers their silenced testimonies and gives an account on their vital resistances.

Voice splinters recovered from different archives recall, with images entirely shot in 16mm and super8, dark and further scenarios, blots difficult to erase.

The documentary ‘Together’ or ‘Samen’ in Dutch, tells the story of Sam. Sam was the best friend of Tyson who is also the director. Two years ago Sam passed away at the age of twenty. This moving film portrays the grieving processes of five young adults after they abruptly lost one of their best friends. With story directors Rosanne Gjaltema and Tyson Malaihollo want to break taboos surrounding suicide and emphasize the importance of mental health.

After 91 years of operation, a camera portrays the last image of the "Nakagawa" photographic studio. Its workers reveal the memory of its founder Masao Nakagawa, a Japanese immigrant, founder of the first photographic studio in northern Peru. This is the portrait of time and the memory of a place condemned to be erased by modernity.

Thomas lost his sight already in his childhood. He kept his sight memory, though. After many years, he comes back, both in person and in memories to his childhood places, the colours and shapes which he still vividly remembers. Starting from descriptions of rooms and furniture, he delves deeper, into feelings, passions, hopes and frustrations. In a combined visual and tactile film essay on the ability of perceiving the invisible details, looking back at his life, he asks the question, along with the filmmaker Lina Zacher, to what extent one’s identity is created by images. Can one understand oneself and one’s surroundings, finding one’s place in the society without actually seeing where one is?

Dallas is a Fire works with an archive of local Dallas news from the year 1970. The loop of anti-Blackness circles and circles through the film, looking at the ways that history repeats itself through words, gestures, and actions.