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Entering the political fray of environmentalism versus tradition raging a round the issue of dolphin hunting in Taiji, Japan since the 2009 release of The Cove, Megumi Sasaki’s documentary is the finely balanced film essay the frayed topic has been waiting for. Instead of propping up images of animal slaughter or beleaguered fishermen, A Whale of a Tale focuses on points of contact and communication between the two sides, foreign activists devoting years to the cause and agricultural workers who have developed a first-name familiarity. Sasaki (Herb & Dorothy) collaborates with journalist Jay Alabaster to examine the historical and material conditions that contributed to local whaling practice and the pressures of globalism and localism that keeps this issue in ideological deadlock—at least for now. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

What happens when a rabbinical matchmaker, a Hasidic couple and a single, explore the precise meaning of humanity's most powerful word? Using downright silliness, Kosher Love reveals that we're all the same in our search for love.

Documentary that breaks down the rise of Hong Kong Splatter Cinema.

While traveling around the world as a honeymoon, Kim1 and Kim2 meet Feruza at remote little village in a desert area in Ethiopia. Feruza, dreamy 17years old girl, has to marry soon. The only way that she can to avoid the marriage is go to the city far away and find a job. The Korean couple decides to go to the city with her and find her dream instead of their tour plan.

A documentary about the prominent Macedonian artist Vladimir Georgievski (1942-2017). In his studio, located at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Skopje, surrounded by his numerous works, he talks about the inspiration he received from the Spanish writer Cervantes. Georgievski talks about the portraits he painted of important people in his life. His work, the portrait of Dostoevsky, is on display at the F.M. Dostoevsky Museum in St. Petersburg. Meanwhile, the portrait of Don Quixote has great meaning and symbolism for the author.

Heraldo Rial is the eighty-year-old cattle rancher in charge of one thousand hectares of Patagonian wilderness. He is one of the last 'gauchos': proud, self-reliant cowboys who have lived off the land for generations. But with civilisation encroaching on their traditions, the gauchos' way of life is dying out, and Rial has a lot of wisdom to impart as he prepares for what could be his last winter in the mountains.

Silenciados is a documentary that gives voice to the families of victims of urban violence in Brazil. Through their stories, the film discusses controversial subjects in the public debate: impunity, public security and minimum age of criminal responsibility. Unlikely the majority of Brazilian films that victimize the perpetrators, this documentary shows who are the real victims.

Civic Art follows the rarely witnessed, intricate process of one of the most mysterious and controversial art forms affecting the public at large.

A poetic film about a young woman's life and dreams. A woman who had the courage to change her life and realize her dreams. A movie about Jonna Jinton. Blogger, photographer and artist and nature lover.

Ji-hwang wants to be a farmer rather than an office worker, Ha-seok is striving to find what he truly wants, and Du-hyeon dreams of being the head of his hometown village Gangnu Maeul. These three guys gathered to form a team called the ‘Emergency Rations.’ Determined to live well as farmers in Korea where it’s hard for farmers to make ends meet, the trio decide to go for an agricultural around-the-world travel to explore how farmers in other countries farm and live. The goal: to come up with an ‘acceptable’ business model. ​

The biggest ships... The most dangerous cargoes... The narrowest sea passage through one of the world's mega-cites, Istanbul... A documentary film about the passionate men and women struggling to keep a lid on the explosive mix of shipping passing through the Bosphorus.

For two years, Anatoli and Svetlana have been living under bombardments in their village, Pesky, not far from Donetsk Airport. Aged 72, they spend a large part of their days in the cellar of their house. They are the only ones that stayed in Pesky, which once had 3,000 inhabitants. They no longer have water, or gas, or electricity. But they resist and continue their activity as beekeepers.

A humorous and illuminating series of coffee klatches with 20 friends that proves the old adage, “Where you have two Jews, you have three opinions.” Ranging in age from 18 to 85, and in experience from greenhorn to Pulitzer-Prize winner, the film’s subjects kibitz over all manner of concern, from Israel to tight pants, gay rights, and the place of women at the Wailing Wall.

A film about the ghosts of those letters that never reached their destination.A neighborhood detained in time that nevertheless will change irremediably and that keeps the memory of thousands of secret stories, hidden in its streets, houses and corners. Mothers who seek reconciliation with their daughters, confessions of unrequited love, loneliness and many searches for an answer that will never come.

The Filippov family live in the north of Russia, far from civilisation. Despite the lack of modern conveniences, they live in harmony with nature, create art, support and understand each other like no other people in this world.

This is a surrealistic documentary with a strong format which is based on the point of view of author. Tan can't fall in sleep in the night, is that because too noisy in the world, or it's just her thoughts bothering herself? It seems life itself it's a mixture with the reality and the dreams.

A journey through the customs and traditions of Eros around the world, both the more morally acceptable and the less talked about. On this tour, we'll visit nightclubs, brothels, swingers' clubs, and much more, satisfying your every curiosity and answering those questions you've never dared to ask.

Documentary about a 90 year old farmer living alone in the countryside.

The video installation Behold These Glorious Times! presents two types of images, projected in a mosaic in a fast-paced montage. The first come from gigantic data sets used to train artificial vision systems to recognize objects, faces, gestures, and emotions. The others reveal to the human eye what artificial vision systems “see” when they analyze the data provided to them. The installation is part of a series of works in which Trevor Paglen explores the field of artificial vision in order to analyze its epistemological and political implications.

While shooting interviews about Kentucky's devastating Oxycontin problem, filmmaker Kerry Bailey learned about the legend of the lost treasure of Howard Lekain. Bailey enlists his friend, actor Kevin Alejandro, to lead cameras on a journey to find the treasure. This true story is brought to life with recreations folded into their search and framed by interviews of Kentucky locals talking about the state of the State and it's elusive treasures.

Russian geophysicist Sergei Zimov together with his son Nikita want to prevent the permafrost from thawing due to climate change. The ice in Siberia contains microbes that once thawed could tilt the world climate beyond our control.

Three trainers help acclimate mustangs to their new life in Europe as part of an effort to shed light on the plight of this mighty American horse.

November 8, 2016 marked the 55th anniversary of the airing of the very first KVN program. The "Fun and Resourceful Club" has known good and bad times: for censorship reasons, it was closed in 1972, and revived only in 1986. But even without the broadcast, KVN existed on the student and amateur stages, lived, developed, and changed along with the time and the country. There is no such TV centenarian in the world. So who are they, the inventors of this "perpetual motion machine": Muratov, Yakovlev and Axelrod?

Kabayan Noli De Castro is back in the much awaited Halloween special featuring spine-tingling ghost stories and paranormal phenomenon in Kababalaghan.

The story of the mythical figure Luis Ortuzar, aka El Chincol, one of the most important players of poetry singing in Chile.

Serpent Rain is as much an experiment in working together as it is a film about the future.

Dominican filmmakers explore the most important theme in dominican film history: Migration.

Company Town is an investigative documentary following one man's mission to save his town in Crossett, Arkansas, polluted by Georgia-Pacific, one of the nation's largest paper and chemical plants, owned by Charles Koch and David Koch. They produce Brawny paper towels, Angel Soft toilet paper, and Dixie cups. Neighbors work for the mill and are sick with cancer. Company Town represents hidden towns across America battling illness and pollution by big business.

In this 25-minute-long film, Avci returns to her hometown to make a movie, and as the title already discloses, this does not go with ease.

Documentation vs. imagination. Under the title LDAE (German acronym for “let the others decide”) Christoph Schwarz develops a participative format for an art program. The filming of his new film should be broadcast online and a web community should direct and decide on the plot, locations, and final edited version. Schwarz hopes to reach artistic heights – but comes to a crash landing.

The film follows morning events at Bacvice beach. At dawn, before sunrise, the beach becomes a place of an unusual clash. From nearby clubs and cafes, numerous groups of young people cross the beach on their way home. At the same time, older people start coming. They walk, come, pass by and go.

The documentary RAW CHICKS.BERLIN shows eleven multifaceted portraits of international Berlin-based female music producers with a focus on live acts; women who come on stage with their equipment and present their own songs and compositions. The musical spectrum ranges from experimental via noise-based electronic to electro-acoustic music.

When the innocence of youth culture collides with the skepticism and sensationalism of mass media. Celebrates the life of punk and the true motivators of the original scene, now seen on camera with their legendary stories of how it all began. The teenage youth of the 80’s, whose bigger goal was racial harmony and speaking up against the oppressive establishment. Fighting for a life that’s worth having, as there were no jobs, and utilized music as a way of life and the uniforms set them apart. However, this uniform also made them a target for the media.

The story of Charlus Rex, a poet and iconoclast who wanders the streets of Cali while a group of intelectuals consider him their King. Filmed for a TV Series.

In February 2016, rock 'n' roll trio Thelma & the Sleaze embarked on the world's first “Intra-City Tour”. They played 31 shows in 29 days and raffled off a promotional mini-van in the process, in an unprecedentedly absurd publicity stunt that raised the bar for independent artists everywhere. Exploring the furthest of reaches of Nashville’s music scene, blazing new trails in its wake, the film follows the twists and turns, triumphs and follies of all 29 days as Thelma & the Sleaze bring their raw rock 'n' roll fury through DIY spaces, art galleries, laundromats, screen printing shops, record stores, clothing shops, candy factories, roller rinks and even a McDonald’s.

The organization E. N. O. T. Corp names as its activities "preventive measures against illegal migration, drug trafficking and organized crime, escorting humanitarian supplies to places of combat operations." On its website, you can find letters of thanks from regional administrations, the military, representatives of the church – and from various organizations in the so-called "LPR" and "DPR". But, in addition, E. N. O. T. Corp conducts training camps and war games for teenagers: "We do not forget about such an important matter as the military-patriotic education of young people." This is what the film is about.

The film offers an intimate and fascinating insight into the pilgrim's journey, seeking to probe some of the timeless questions confronting humanity.

Description by Ken Jacobs: Along the Elevated is an expanse of city architecture in delicious depth (depth is not only what things exist in, its ins and outs speak to us). We follow a speedy lunch wagon (fast food) until it turns in another direction. With such near-nothing incidents do I keep my mind off this wicked presidency.

A deeply personal documentary in which film-maker Rebecca Southworth traces her own life, abused by her father and taken into care, and asks why so many people lead troubled lives after leaving care.

It’s time to embrace the shamanistic side of Christmas.

A collage of associations evoked by finds. One’s family, three different Germanys including their insidious subchapters, the taste of life. The mother used to be a passionate Chinese checkers player. On the one hand. On the other she was a tailor and fashion designer in the GDR. Her journeyman’s piece: a showpiece with piping, cording, tabs and embroidery around the neckline. One has to love this film, if only for the tender re-animation of these words we presumed obsolete. And for everything else!

Was Hungary one the fascists’ side in WWII? Why does a hydraulic chair leg cost 245 rubles in Maxidom, but only costs 105 in «Leroy Merlin»? Did they have socialism there too? So they don’t have that wall paper? Did you know that it’s democratic parliamentarian republic? It’s the birthplace of the Rubik’s cube. You’d be better off holding this glue instead of goofing off. What would you do if you found out your father was a collaborator? The father was repressed, while the son was repressing the uprising. You know, I write about you in my scripts, I give out your secrets, so what do you feel? Is it dad’s wrench? Maybe they can think that you just made me up? Well, at first I didn’t like it, but then I accepted it. Can I go now?

KIM Haneuldameun is a young girl who dreams of becoming an underwater photographer. One day in 2013, she encounters a wrecked ship underneaththe water. For some time, she feared of entering the water after the Sewol Ferry disaster. However, she continues her task of capturing images of the wrecked ship on camera. She decides to open an exhibition of her underwater photo works with an underwater photographer. She offers her photos of the sky and clouds as a present to the wrecked ship that cannot see the sky from beneath the water it has sunken into.

This is a film about two women. Both have lost their loved ones. One in the Great Patriotic War, the other in the Afghan War. Each fate released only a few days of happiness. But both carried their love and loyalty through life. Together with them, we reread letters from the front and relive the happiness of love and the bitterness of loss.

FATTO A MANO is a documentary short film that shows how a lot of essential food, from the region in Puglia, Italy, is handmade with a lot of energy, passion and knowledge and the people who produce it.

Schwartz’s poetic 16mm work meditates on the sights and sounds of slowly crumbling glaciers, charting an interior dance between desperation and hope. The carefully deployed superimpositions, strident soundtrack, and contrasting tones of intensity and tranquility suggest the unpredictable rhythms of metaphysical transformation.

BORN TO BE FREE is a revelatory investigation by three intrepid free-diving journalists, Gaya, Tanya and Julia, into the global trade in wild sea mammals. Their journey takes us to the most remote corners of Russia and witnesses, for the very first time, the shocking treatment that whales, dolphins and walruses are subjected to and discovers the corruption at the heart of this cruel international business.

The new face of Europe is encapsulated by the struggles of two Bangladeshi men who hoped that migrating to Portugal would set themselves on the path to a better life. Their reality is a road paved with more obstacles than anticipated.

On October 6, 2012, around midnight, Swiss banker Michel Yagchi committed suicide in the basement of his home in Geneva. That evening, Michel Yagchi's entire family was out of the country, traveling to Brussels to attend the graduation ceremony of Michel's eldest son, Yvann. Three years later, Yvann decides to investigate his father's mysterious suicide and, at the same time, confront his family, friends, and colleagues.

Follow the story of how a skatepark was built in the Maldives and the volunteers who worked day and night for a month to make it happen. See how the project unfolded from initial idea to completion.

In 1937, most members of the Belarusian intelligentsia, including poets, were shot dead in Minsk on a "legal" basis. A few years later, their names were rehabilitated. However, despite this, most of them are still forgotten. 80 years after the tragedy, the young screenwriter begins to collect a portrait of these poets, their life in the 20-30s of the last century. Who were these people? What were their quirks? What inspired them, what they dreamed of and missed the most?

Beth Chapman, the wife of bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman, is followed through her battle with throat cancer. Friends including Shannon Tweed and members of Dog and Beth's extended family offer the couple prayers and support.