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The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of Norman Borlaug, a man who not only solved India's famine problem but would go on to lead a "Green Revolution" of worldwide agriculture programs estimated to have saved one billion lives. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work but spent the rest of his life watching his methods and achievements come under increasing fire.

In 2012 I started testing a new hydrogen peroxide based bleach with an acid as a stabilizer, citric acid was the first choice, and these were my first positive results with Fomapan R100 on 16mm film.

The history of the 'Misericordia' association of Florence, Italy

48-year-old former snowboarder Bibian Mentel has been living with cancer for 21 years, received the bad news no less than fourteen times that the cancer was back. The result: one leg amputation, five lung operations, three neck operations, four back operations and 74 radiation treatments. In March 2019 she ended up in a wheelchair due to one of the back operations. Despite all the operations and radiation treatments, there are still numerous metastases in her body. Although the situation seems worrying and hopeless, Bibian and her family refuse to let that rotten disease determine everything. Documentary maker Jesse Bleekemolen (22 years old) followed Bibian for a year with a very intimate portrait as a result of fighting spirit and her dance with death.

An all-access journey with veteran NBL QB Alex Smith who suffered a severe leg break during the 2018 NFL season.

2019 – Arsenio returns from exile. Growing up in the western world, he discovered socialist Cuba, plagued by political power games for centuries. The state wants to adapt to the world market with new reforms, but there are many sceptics. Arsenio wants to find out for himself what Cubans think about socialism and politics in the world.

In Nha Trang, Viet Nam, Tống Phước Phúc has made a deal with God—a deal that requires he devotes his entire life to collecting aborted fetal tissue from the local hospitals, naming them, and giving them a proper Christian burial.

A dance between moon and ocean, forests and rivers. A short film by Scott Barley, originally made for a "half moon phase" sequence for Tadhg O'Sullivan's essay film, 'To the Moon' (2020). Shot on iPhone Xs with various rephotographing techniques, combined with superimposed drawings and paintings by Scott Barley. Released as a standalone short film in 2024 as part of 'Short Films (2012–2020): Solo Works by Scott Barley' on Blu-ray.

On 28 October 2015, a migrant boat left the coast of Western Turkey heading to the closest European coast – the Greek island of Lesvos. The shipwreck resulted in the death of at least 43 people, making it the deadliest incident of that period, also known as “the long summer of migration.” One of the survivors, the artist Amel Alzakout, recorded the journey and the shipwreck on a waterproof camera attached to her wrist. This footage – which also forms the basis of her subsequent film Purple Sea – provides a unique situated perspective on this tragic event at the threshold of Europe.

It's an important refuge for animal and plant species and the largest heathland in North Rhine-Westphalia – yet virtually nobody knows it: the Senne. Located between Bielefeld, Detmold, and Paderborn, the Senne is home to rare insects and birds, endangered amphibians, and large herds of fallow deer. Nowhere else in North Rhine-Westphalia are there so many sand lizards. The fact that this natural paradise is known to few is due to its unique history: For 130 years, large sections of the Senne have served as a military training area. Entry to the area is strictly prohibited for civilians.

About the tragedy that occurred on August 12, 1944 in the mountainous Tuscan village of Sant'Anna i Stazzema, where German soldiers of the 16th SS division shot civilians. Total in the vicinity of Sant'Anna killed almost 600 people. This crime, like many others committed by the German Nazis in Italy, has not been talked about for 50 years. All these cases were hidden in the closet of the military prosecutor's office in Rome, which was later called the Closet of Shame.

On a visit home to Idaho, Matt documents family dynamics and recalls scattered memories from childhood. “Here We Have Idaho,” is a witty self-portrait about small-scale resentments and feeling undervalued amongst loved ones. He leaves his “high-octane, balls-to-the-wall” life as a New York City alt comic to spend some time with the fam. But soon he learns there’s no room for him to stay in the house — he’s been demoted to sleeping in a trailer in the driveway, a fact that he stews on for days.

The film is dedicated to the legendary Admiral Igor Vladimirovich Kasatonov, thanks to whom the Black Sea Fleet was preserved as part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Knight of many orders, author of a number of books. The heir of a noble family: grandfather - a full St. George cavalier, father - Admiral of the fleet. I.V. Kasatonov became the last to whom the title of admiral and commander of the fleet was awarded by the President of the USSR.

A poet composes a cinematic love letter to his grandmother as his homophobic aunt and drag queen uncle wage war over her estate in Hokes Bluff, Alabama.

During the Cold War, three Korean women left for the United States to succeed as a pop group. They show off their capabilities by absorbing all the images of Asia. The director connects the story of the Kimsisters and the director herself who is studying abroad, and reveals the voices of Asian women that were ignored by men and Western centered power. When the United States and Russia competed with each other to capture the back side of the moon, three Korean women left for the United States to succeed as a pop group. They show off their capabilities by absorbing all the images of Asia to succeed in the United States. The director discovers the history of other Asian women that took place in 1959, and connects the story of Kim Sisters and the director herself, who is studying abroad. She crosses language, power, history and culture, and reveals the voices of Asian women that were excluded from men and Western centered power, through archived images and collage images of the director.

An experimental film-essay on history and abstract art, the theme of which is Kandinsky's painting.

Juli and Las's relationship is coming to an end. We follow them during their last days of a young love, which is strong one moment, fragile the next. One moment is filled with kisses and happy summer days on roller skates, the next is marked by division and sleepless nights. Victoria Francker's film provides an intimate insight into the most vulnerable sides of a relationship. The two young girls would so much like to have the perfect relationship, but they are filled with insecurity and unrealistic expectations of what it should be like. Francker integrates the girls' own personal footage from their time together in her both intimate and fragile film.

Between September 2000 and April 2007, eight men with Turkish roots, a man of Greek descent and a German policewoman were murdered. The investigations were initially carried out exclusively in the vicinity of the non-German victims suspected of drug trafficking and organized crime. The families of the murdered were thus victims again, this time of prejudicial stigmatization. After a failed bank robbery, the trail finally led to the right-wing extremist terrorist group National Socialist Underground (NSU). After the suicide of the two main perpetrators, the trial against the only survivor of the NSU trio, Beate Zschäpe, and four alleged helpers and supporters began in 2013 and ended in 2018.

This short documentary looks at the efforts of four Italian photojournalists covering the crisis, illuminating more of the juxtapositions created by life in the pandemic.

A group of Chinese students discover a series of eye-opening mysteries during a tour of the prestigious Columbia University campus in the heart of New York City.

On August 18, 1971, First Lady Pat Nixon declared a stretch of land along the US-Mexico border a “Friendship Park,” willing two countries toward a common future. Decades later, this spirited inauguration hangs above the meeting place like a specter, charged by the border’s harsh realities. Vibrant digitized color film from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library along with stirring musical and oral performances from the inaugural event clash against the present, as TOO LONG HERE ponders the implications of an empty promise.

The dullest A-list film festival in the world takes place in Berlin every February. In this experimental film in smartphone format, Jochen Werner takes a look behind the glamor, at Potsdamer Platz and other locations, in-between and non-locations in and around the Neue Mitte.

A look at Jeffrey Epstein's life and background, including details about how he made his money; his relationships with many notable individuals; his decades of alleged sexual abuse; and the federal sex trafficking charges he faced before he died.

Since he was 18 years old, Blake Eckard has written and directed six feature length films in his hometown of Stanberry, Missouri (population 1186). Aside from a short distribution deal in Canada and a few festival screenings, his movies have largely gone unseen.

What is life like with dyslexia, which does not only mean problems with reading, writing or mathematics, but also manifests itself in coordination, balance, concentration, among other things?

If you look into the entrance of one of the huge caves on the Korean island of Jeju, it looks like a camera lens. If you walk into the cave, it looks like a screen, a rectangle showing clouds and white light, just like a film. Director Kim Minjung delves into the bloody history of Jeju, where tens of thousands were killed in a massacre in 1948. The camera follows the traces in the landscape, sometimes transformed by a strident, distance-creating red light, accompanied by a commentary by avant-garde filmmaker Hollis Frampton. Film as a means to address history and its taboos.

On September 11, 2001, one hijacked plane never reached its target when United 93 crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Previously classified streams of evidence are combined to piece together what really happened in a gripping minute-by-minute account. Evidence includes secret service documents; air traffic control transmissions; phone records; voicemails; first-person testimony; and a top-secret audio recording that helps reveal details of Flight 93's crucial final moments.

A contemplative film on the effects a typhoon leaves on a seaside city in the Philippines. Myths are woven in to try to understand how people cope with the devastation and trauma. A girl’s voice divulges bits and pieces of her own memory of her grandmother and mother to tie in the experiences she felt visiting this ravaged port city.

Crossfire is Lauren Southern's third documentary film project focusing on the issues surrounding policing, brutality, race, law and order. A heated debate today which has led to a massive political divide between those supporting officers, those defending reform and even many rioting violently in the streets.

A look back at Switzerland's history in the Eurovision Song Contest highlighted by the two wins in 1956 and 1988.

Bay houses were created in the late 1800s, and are maintained and enjoyed by families for generations. In this documentary, experience the unique and special way of life that, in our time, exists nowhere else in America but on the South Shore of Long Island, New York.

When Melody was a young child, 20+ years away from coming out as transgender, she developed an obsession with movies. One of her biggest hobbies was acting out her favorite VHS tapes, FBI warnings and trailers included, in front of her parents' camcorder. Mom and dad realized this was an easy way to keep their child busy. Thus, the camera became a sort of babysitter, resulting in dozens of tapes featuring Melody performing in front of the (usually stationary) camera.

Charlie Monttana is one of the most renowned rock musicians in Mexico, being a controversial cult figure made on the outskirts of the commercial music business. This documentary explores in his daily life and in his particular ideology.

A long-term resident of Casa Milà, the last house designed by Antonio Gaudí, reflects on the experience of living inside a work of art.

At the heart of the Central Train Station in Tel Aviv stands a grand piano. It watches over the traffic moving to and from the docks, seemingly hearing and seeing everything from its own point of view. For some, the piano is a regular stop on their commute. Others, occasional travelers, encounter it in this unexpected space, inviting them, subject to their will. There, in the most bustling place is a piano that makes people take off their earphones and take part in something magical that requires no words. The piano is unplugged, the people unplug. How many of those who sit and play manage to transcend the external noise, reflecting in a different and challenging way the reality we live in, allowing us to look into ourselves?

Out Deh is a documentary film which portrays the Youth of Jamaica: a new generation in transition, determined to get out of old and set structures in society and culture - and contribute with their fresh mindset and strength to a new understanding of the Jamaican island.

In Las Vegas, they show the sex dolls; in China, they make them.

Born during the lockdown, the film narrates an exodus, through an exiled language like Armenian, and is composed of a single 38-second shot, repeated. The evolution of image and sound become the narration of a border crossing, of a border that the travelers will reach with difficulty and alone: ​​a threshold beyond which it is not known what they will be welcomed by: a metaphor of this historical moment, strewn with losses and of separations, and unknowns regarding the near future.

This film investigates the serious play of historical reenactments and their quest to tap into what has been referred to as “magic moments” or “period rushes." These brief flashes are moments of embodied, performance-induced spatial and temporal blurring that allow the reenactor to feel as if they are within the place and time that they are portraying. How might these living history events act as reverent rituals to evoke and honor the memory of constructed socio-political ancestors?

The incredible journey of Taylor Swift all began with a girl, a guitar and a dream. Taylor Swift is a ten time Grammy winner, and the youngest recipient in history of the music industry's highest honour, the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. She in the only artist in History to have an album hit the 1 million first week sales figure three times. She's a household name whose insanely catchy yet deeply personal self-penned songs transcend music genres, and a savvy businesswoman who has built a childhood dream into an empire.

Haunted by a long-broken relationship with her father, anthropologist Carolina Arias Ortiz returns to her childhood home of Costa Rica to repair their relationship while haunted by the otherworldly mystery of ancient stone spheres in this lyrical and poetic debut feature.

"During several months of this senseless year I went out to the terrace to look at the ceilings. I would go at different times of the day, as in a ritual, perhaps trying to find at those ceilings some kind of explanation. Something that mitigates grief." (Gustavo Fontán)

UK's Hidden Shadows is a new documentary examining the recent history of allegations of child abuse and cover-ups within the British establishment. Filmed over the course of a year, the 90-minute documentary features interviews with victims of child abuse, journalists and police whistle-blowers. Each interview offers a unique insight into the alleged Westminster VIP paedophile ring that has darkened politics for the last five decades.

The history of the mobilizing of a group of 110 employees from Caixa Econômica Federal bank over the course of a year, after being unfairly dismissed in 1991 under the Fernando Collor de Mello government.

The intimate life of the mythical Candy Dubois, from her childhood in a correctional facility to her success with the "Blue Ballet" in the great "BIM BAM BUM".

US student Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years in a North Korean labor camp in 2016. Warmbier was released the following year, but he died of brain damage shortly after his return to the United States. Was he really the victim of torture?

A film about how citizens defended their favorite square in the center of Yekaterinburg.

The documentary captures the struggle of 320 unpaid seamen of NEL Lines, one of Greece’s most historic maritime companies, in 2015. With many trapped in the company’s vessels in Drapetsona, a part of the Piraeus port, and away from the spotlight, the camera captures their efforts to receive their wages for 7 months during the most critical times in Greece’s modern history. To this day they have received less than half of the wages owed to them and their case is still before the court of appeal.

Join Craig McMahon in this episode where he discusses the controversial idea of a pre-birth plan with spiritual experts. Is it possible that we intentionally choose to have hardship and pain for the sole purpose of learning the divine virtues?