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A bittersweet and heartwarming short documentary road movie about a Ukrainian Mariia and her mother Liubov, who depart their newly adopted wintery home town of Somero and start on a journey through Europe, towards Mariia’s big dream of visiting Paris and studying in France. The war looms in the background in the form of remembrance, loss and unanswered phone calls, but in its core the film tells a more universal story of the power of dreaming, transition, shedding the weight of patriarchy and the sacrifices parents make to pave way for the young.

Miguel returns to his homeland with anticipation, ready to showcase a film he stars in at a local film festival. His heart yearns for the thunderous applause of adoring fans, yet reality may paint a different picture. In this poignant essay, we delve into the nuanced shapes of loneliness, even amidst company.

Between poetic observation and cinematographic portrait, this film delves into the universe of the sculptor Leo Vinci. At 92 years old, Leo plays at creating and transmuting the sacrifice of daily work into the sacred office of transforming the world with his hands.

This desktop documentary portrays the student movement in July and August 2024, the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime, and its aftermath.

A raw and intimate portrait of Vivian Siu, an amateur female racing driver with a burning desire to race the world’s greatest street track, the legendary Macau Grand Prix. Notorious amongst drivers for being the ultimate test of skill and courage, it’s terrifying blind corners and relentless high speed straights, present a unique challenge that has been the making of champions for 70 years. Senna, Schumacher, Hamilton and many other famous names all took on the formidable Guia circuit. Self-funded and with almost zero driving experience, Vivian leapt from junior karting to becoming the first female driver in Formula 4 Chinese Championship within just a few months. But the gulf between reality and her dream became evident on every level and most gave her little chance of success.

A short experimental documentary on the loss of urban spaces and the fight to reclaim them as pedestrians, commuters, and PUV drivers face a transport crisis in the Philippines.

A documentary short that illuminates the power of comedy, and the lengths comedians will go to inspire laughter while expressing the truth-where freedom of expression is a literal fight for freedom. Centered in Cairo, the entertainment hub of the Middle East, DIE LAUGHING follows 'Saturday Night Live Arabia', which dared to deliver the kind of cultural humor the American version is known for, 'Red Tomato', a troupe of European and Egyptian street clowns, and 'The Street Children', who post satirical sketches to social media. Watch as these artists balance humor with caution, knowing every punchline and each performance could land them in jail.

Corrupt prosecutor, emerald trafficker, demonized transvestite. Omar Bautista "has been" all of these people, but he is also a 60-year-old man who was sentenced to prison for murder. After almost a decade in prison, Omar gets the benefit of 72-hour releases. A documentary filmmaker tries to follow him during these leaves, which turn into a sort of psychological hunt. With a chameleon-like behavior, Omar drags him into absurd situations that mock his way of understanding freedom... and cinema.

Documentary by Celine Danhier shows the creation of the '25 pre-fall Oscar de la Rente collection. We take a look backstage to dive deep into all the tasks that make up a collection. We see the creative process of designers Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia, as well as in-house and external employees. It gives a special look at the, otherwise invisible, hands that ensure the collection is complete and presented.

Exploring the intersections between gendered reproductive labor that keeps the cultural space in motion, and the reproductive labor of motherhood, A Labor Theory of Artistic Value, on Mothering and Art combines video projection, a delivered text, and a performative act of cultural maintenance.

A creative documentary focused on the work and musical career of the artist Carles Cases, an atypical and talented Catalan composer with a long career behind him and who has dedicated his entire life to his passion for music. His co-creators Lluís Llach, Antoni Verdaguer, Gonzalo Suárez, Jaime Chávarri take part.

Milazim, Fatmir and Liridon are veteran manual labourers who experienced accidents in their workplaces in Kosovo, Europe's youngest country. In this poetic experimental documentary tribute to a now almost extinct class of people, Ilir Hasanaj gives voice to gentle, sincere and dignified, but almost invisible individuals, who fell prey to harsh and primitive capitalistic machinery and policy in the Balkans.

The greatest film ever about an innocent boy trying to have some fun

The Road is a deeply personal experimental film by Jana Hammoudeh, chronicling her journey as a nomadic soul, always on the move yet never truly belonging. Shot across three separate road trips, the film blends visual poetry with intimate monologues in multiple languages, reflecting the fragmented nature of the protagonist’s life. The film’s segments—Leaving Amman, Scrambled Eggs, and Postcards to a Friend—explore themes of love, loss, and freedom. The first segment, set in Amman, presents a conflicted relationship with home, inspired by Charles Bukowski’s Let It Enfold You. The second, in French, revisits past romances, while the third, narrated in Kazakh and Urdu, contemplates departure and longing. Through dreamlike cinematography and raw reflections, The Road captures the bittersweet beauty of transient nature of life and self-discovery.

Formed in 1997, Huckleberryfinn is an iconic Korean indie band that has been credited with proving the value of Korea's indie music scene. They have earned recognition through the Korean Music Awards and have been featured in the list of 100 Greatest Korean Popular Music Albums. This video follows the band's frontman, Lee Ki-yong, through interviews and his daily activities, exploring Huckleberryfinn's recent music and band activities, as well as discussing the current state and future of rock music.

A culmination of a body of work Mariah Garnett began in 2020, dealing with an archive of diaries and operatic score written by her great-great aunt.

The film director searches for Gorčin, the protagonist of his film, with the help of his friend Dragan. Their journey takes them to Gorčin’s ancestral village, where they get lost in isolated hamlets, transforming the quest into an allegorical journey into the unknown.

After fleeing the war in Ukraine with her family, Emilia joins a climbing camp in the Belgian Ardennes. Together with a group of teenage girls from diverse backgrounds, she must come to terms with nature and with herself.

Dr. Corine Stern believes everyone deserves dignity in death, including those who die while attempting to cross the border.

A temporal reorganization of the pixel data from a pirated rip of Hollis Frampton’s Lemon, transforming Frampton’s exploration of light and form into an uncanny digital crescendo.

Forty-seven years after they met while serving in the military during the coup, a group of friends continue to celebrate an uninterrupted friendship that reflects the ups and downs of a confused society in which yesterday’s experiences are mixed with political convictions.

There are several eight-thousand-meter peaks on our planet that are far more dangerous and difficult than Everest. The most formidable of them is K2 — 8,611 meters high, the mountain of mountains. This film explores why K2, rather than Everest, is the ultimate dream of climbers, and how extreme altitude changes people. The mountain of mountains is the best place on Earth to test your altitude gene. For the first time in history, the largest Russian expedition ever assembled is heading to K2, and most of its members are amateurs. Each of them already has experience climbing eight-thousand-meter peaks, and many have successfully summited Everest. But compared to this mountain, Everest will seem like a walk in the park.

Father Edward J. Flanagan is a familiar name to many Americans, often for the Oscar-winning 1938 film starring Spencer Tracy about Flanagan’s groundbreaking child welfare organization. But the story extends far beyond that, to a man whose name and legacy are still well-known as far as Germany and Japan. Flanagan gained influence and admiration over the course of his life from Presidents, CEOs, celebrities and more, but none mattered more to him than that of the children for whom he tirelessly worked. A sobering reminder of this was during WWII, as Flanagan saw droves of former Boys Town citizens go off to war. In fact, so many former Boys Town boys named Flanagan as their next of kin that the American War Dads Association named him as America’s No. 1 War Dad.

The late Renen Schorr (Late Summer Blues) turns his camera on the 25-year exchange of letters between himself and his grandfather Rabbi Avraham Heller, hero of the 1948 Battle of Safed. Their correspondence reveals a generational and ideological rift, articulating the contradictions of Schorr’s generation of Israelis.

Following Sir Brian May over a decade-long journey to understand the crisis caused by bovine tuberculosis and his opposition to the controversial badger cull, implemented to curb the spread of the disease in cattle. It’s a story surrounded by controversy, but one little known to many - a tale of tragedy for both humans and animals.

Gregoretti's last film, in which the great filmmaker, documentary maker and journalist retraces his activity with irony and light-heartedness. Through episodes of his personal and professional life, and images of his films and television programs, a humorous story of how we were to understand that now, in reality, we are not so different.

Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen's plans to create an epic work depicting his homeland's tumultuous recent history.

In Dieppe, a small port town on the Normandy coast, stands a cabaret where Diva Beluga and her queens put on drag shows. The place survives thanks to the energy and the unshakeable faith of its team. Behind the parties and the glitter, struggles and resistances rumble. Welcome to The Bearded Siren.

In light of jailed activist Umar Khalid withdrawing his petition from the Supreme Court amid repeated adjournments, journalist Ravish Kumar captures the contours of Delhi in a video letter addressed to him. What comes out is a critical piece reflecting on the cowardice and the deafening silence of Delhi on the whole matter.

Fu-Xuan is my classmate and friend. As a man who yearns for freedom, he has a cat. From January 12 to January 18, 2024, Fuxuan wanted to take me to meet Sesame, but she ran away.

This time-lapse documentary captures the fate of five homeless people who have gained a new chance in life thanks to the Housing First project in the Czech town of Otrokovice. Thanks to the help of social workers and a council flat, they try to reintegrate into society while continuing to fight the demons of the past. Will they be able to return to life?

A garden made with plants and flowers on a roundabout in the center of Rosario serve as a reminder of Gerardo Pichón Escobar, municipal worker murdered in 2015. The pain and anger sprout into love and friendship, in a scream for justice that lives and flowers for Pichón.

This Documentary offers a poetic portrait of the film-maker’s grandmother, Shou Ai Xia, who suffers from dementia. It explores the fading memories of her ordinary life and the vivid hallucinations reflecting her decades of commitment to the Chinese Communist Party, providing a pathway beyond the traditional views of dementia.

We have two news: good and bad. The bad thing is that there was a holocaust and the good thing is that we will have the second movie in the cinema!

The story of how investigators unmasked the most prolific American arsonist of the 20th century.

Reviving the Forgotten River explores water quality and environmental justice issues on the Anacostia River while shining a light on the heroes who fight for a cleaner, swimmable, and fishable river.

Following more than three years of exploratory research, photography, and writing about the singular view from his Brooklyn studio, Groeneboer took up a daily practice over the subsequent two and a half years of filming the panorama through his window. This process entailed a durational commitment to witnessing the presence of architectures and systems that are often hidden from everyday life. The resulting film is a visual meditation that follows the cyclical rhythms of weather and industry to offer a portrait of New York City in relation to the forces that shape it, including late-stage capitalism and environmental crises. [Overview Courtesy of The Kitchen]

We all know photos with painted-over or cut-out faces. The repeatedly inserted hand that works on family pictures with pens and other utensils seems like a refrain. The attempts at eradication are audible. They are a dissonance transferred to the body. Scratch, distort, remove. Usually a woman’s head.

In the winter of 1977, Liz left her husband and four small children at home in Australia and came to New York City on a Fulbright award. There she met Kate, a paradigm-shifting feminist scholar, and they fell in love at first sight. Back then, it was a given that any lesbian mother was deemed unfit to raise her own children. But Liz’s newfound passion and self-discovery gave her the courage to fight for her kids, and for herself. In “Love Letters,” the traditional patriarchal values of the era, in which women and children were seen as possessions of men, collide head on with the newly energized, audacious lesbian feminist movement. The highly charged custody case uses courtroom line-drawing animation and verbatim testimony to tell a dramatic story of social ostracism and personal triumph. This is the story of a blazing lesbian love affair, begun in the revolutionary feminist ferment of 1970’s New York City and still going strong almost 50 years later.

A night of beach crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana

Abandoned on the doorstep of a Montreal orphanage, Johanne Harrelle eventually rose to prominence as a gifted artist, actress, and one of North America's first Black models. Simply Johanne deftly explores her complex and audacious life through archival footage, interviews with loved ones and performances of her writings by three contemporary actresses. The film chronicles the journey of a magnetic and passionate woman who defied the expectations of her time.

Leaving for Myanmar in 2020, the filmmaker could not have anticipated the upheaval the country was on the verge of experiencing. Through the darkness of the Covid-19 epidemic and the violent coup d’état orchestrated by the military junta, a light continues to shine: that of 17-year-old Zu Zu and her steadfast dream of a better future for her loved ones. A four-handed diary and chronicle of a friendship.

As her mother faces the first symptoms of Alzheimer's, the director embarks on a wordless journey through fragmented and unanchored memories, in a desperate quest to capture the pieces that unite their shared history.

Lukas Lelie returns with a brand new stand-up show. In it he talks about his great love, among other things, but besides food, it's also sometimes about his girlfriend. At lightning speed, Lelie serves up one-liners and observations in a show you will enjoy as much as a delicious plate of big-kitchen vol-au-vent. Although, of course, that's a 'matter of taste'.

50-year-old Romanian Sadina Lungu is a 24-hour caregiver. She has been looking after 85-year-old Mrs. Pöschl in Bad Vöslau for years. Sadina's life is monotonous and exhausting. Loneliness gnaws at her. Fitness exercises, smoking and online conversations with family and friends in Romania help her get through the days. For 14 years now, Sadina has endured three to five months at a time before she can go home for a month to be with her loved ones, whom she supports financially, and do what she wants to do. With her long assignments, Sadina is a rare phenomenon in the industry. How does Sadina manage her life away from home? What does she do to combat the danger of alienation from home? How does she manage to stay with herself in the face of various physical and mental challenges and get something out of life herself?

This pseudo diary film is made of found materials from an unfinished 16mm film. Potenciais à Deriva is a film started by a Brazilian artist under a pseudonym while living in exile in Los Angeles, California. Isolated shots and previously assembled scenes reveal an intention to create a mysterious film comprised of disembodied interviews, empty rooms, radio recordings, soccer games, and sudden apparitions of the filmmaker that slowly ruminates on Brazil's colonial past, North American Imperialism and the military dictatorship of the time in a paranoid and anxious manner. Be aware that the film's final version never came to exist. This version presented is my mere attempt to produce a film with these otherwise lost images.

From hazmat suits to saunas, these germophobes take extreme precautions.

In the maximum security prison of Opera, three inmates responsible for murders, Ciro, Giuseppe and Cristiano, were chosen to handcraft, with their hands once stained with blood, hosts which are consecrated in churches all over the world, thus becoming the body of Christ. Their dream is to deliver them personally into the blessed hands of the Holy Father Pope Francis, to whom they write a letter. A true story unprecedented in the world.