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The main character of this story has been chosen to receive a one-way trip to Mars. He reflects on his big upcoming adventure before it takes place in ten years.

A touching story of friendship, struggle and triumph, the film follows the journey of two Somali national soccer team friends chasing their dreams in the face of impossible odds. After surviving two decades of war, Saadiq, 17, and Sa’ad, 19, the team’s most promising stars, enter the only televised match of the year hoping scouts will be watching. With passports of no value on the world stage, soccer may be their only shot to escape a growing terror threat, persecution and poverty. Against the backdrop of fear and shared sacrifice, they embark on separate but equally improbable journeys. In the opportunity of a lifetime, Saadiq sets off for America with dreams of an education and a soccer career. Sa’ad continues his career in Mogadishu with the hopes of someday being reunited with his friend. Their biggest dream is shared – to be symbols of hope to generations who have only known war.

For all my colleagues, friends and family, who supported me during the production process. On our 17th anniversary, I share our experiences on the Channel for All Venezuelans

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that defined this radical religious revolution in England.

Travel journalist Rudy Maxa and Washington, D.C. restaurateur Daisuke Utagawa present three distinct regions of Japan, focusing on the nation's food and food producers. From the ramen of the northern island of Hokkaido, to the sushi of Tokyo, to the Wagyu beef raised on the southern island of Kyushu, food is a window on the soul of Japan.

Canadian icon Shane Koyczan has brought his spoken word poetry to stages all over the world, including TED Talks that have gone viral and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. This documentary, both an introduction to his poetry and an exploration of his relationships with those around him, highlights his journey of seeking reconciliation with his father who abandoned him at an early age, and how in order to accomplish this, Koyczan has to rely on his poetry's vulnerability like never before.

Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It has oscillated between dictatorship and democracy for over a century, and its citizens have faced brutal oppression and economic disaster. Throughout all this, successive generations of activists and artists have taken to the streets of this city to express themselves through art. This has given the walls a powerful and symbolic role: they have become the city’s voice. This tradition of expression in public space, of art and activism interweaving, has made the streets of Buenos Aires into a riot of colour and communication, giving the world a lesson in how to make resistance beautiful.

During the Pinochet dictatorship, Jorge Lübbert became an instrument for the Chilean secret services, who forced him to work for them in an extremely violent way. He was able to escape from Chile and became a war photographer based in Belgium. Today, his son Andrés takes him back to the places of his unfinished past.

Remember Baghdad is the untold story of Iraq, an unmissable insight into how the country developed through the eyes of the Jews, Iraq's first wave of refugees.

Armed With Faith follows the men of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bomb Disposal Unit (KPK BDU) to the front lines of the war against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan. The lawless province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa -- considered the gateway for terrorists from neighboring Afghanistan -- is the backdrop of our film. The battle for control of this porous border area remains critical to the stability of Pakistan and global security. Should Pakistan, a nuclear power, fall into the hands of terrorists, the entire world is at risk. We witness firsthand the dangerous struggle undertaken by the men of the KPK BDU to protect their country against the Taliban threat in the land they both call home.

Is cotton really as pure as it seems? After claims of forced labour, pollution, and even slavery, we follow the production chain to find the truth.

He was the best. He was everybody's favorite. He was the European champion. He was Italian. But Leone Jacovacci wound up being none of the above. Because he was a black Italian. An unsung yet extraordinary tale about a fight in the ring postponed for 90 years: a fight against racism.

Across three trips to the front-line beginning last October, and under the echoes of snipers and shells, two film-makers tell the story of the Iraqi assault on Mosul: 'the biggest battle anywhere on the planet this century.' At the centre of IS power, the battle's result will have a huge impact on the future of IS and terrorism across the globe.

As California's largest lake approaches a point of no return, one man will attempt to become the first person to walk around its hazardous shoreline in order to prevent an ecologic disaster that could impact the entire western hemisphere.

Documentary follows five young Ukrainians from Donetsk suburbs, Luhansk camps, Mariupol block posts, Kharkhiv oligarch estates, and Maidan Square. Amid referendums, elections, and mass propaganda, their diverse backgrounds reveal how a new generation navigates values, dreams, and turmoil in Ukraine’s East–West crisis.

A documentary following Army Sergeant Nick Mendes as he adapts to life after surviving a massive improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.

Striving for a professional skiing career means you are going to be subjected to great pressure. The main character, is struggling to find his place in the world after giving up his career as a potential professional skier. This animated documentary explores how high expectations can lead to frustration and anxiety.

In 1937, at a school in the Trastevere district of Rome, a class photo was taken. Nobody could have known that two of the boys in the picture would go on to make film history: they were director Sergio Leone and composer Ennio Morricone. Another boy sat between this duo destined for world fame. What could have become of him? Denise Janzee took the photo back to Trastevere to discover the identity of the unknown boy. A taxi driver, an old barber, a retired lawyer, a doctor, a priest, another filmmaker—these are just a few of the locals who puzzle over Janzee’s question. But not everyone sees its importance. Why would you make a film about an ordinary person, when you can see ordinary people anywhere? As the picture of this unknown man gradually emerges, My Name Is Nobody also profiles the interviewees, the neighborhood and a society in which fame is regarded as the utmost virtue—so if nobody has ever heard of you, what do you have left?

In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski – great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor – runs the tailor shop she’s owned for more than 30 years. But when she’s served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to resist her harrowing past as a refugee and witness to genocide.

"It is always, out eyes alone, our way of looking at things. Nature alone knows what she means now, and what she had meant in the past" (J.W. Goethe – Aphorisms on Nature)

Awe inspiring and majestic, Churches and Cathedrals have been the place of gathering and worship for centuries but many of them hold secret mysteries and meanings (far beyond the allure of 'The Da Vinci Code') that are waiting to be rediscovered.

"Todo" (Everything) gathers the impressions of the filmmaker in her new surroundings, where she watches, classifies, and re-organizes everything that catches her eye. From a place of curiosity and amazement, she organizes an inventory of objects, characters, and situations. A tireless flow of images of the popular, the eccentric, the traditional, the new, the beautiful, and the ugly of the Matta Sur neighborhood of Santiago, Chile. An exercise of reflection on the destiny of images, their accumulation, classification, and order, modes of structuring the material, and the filmmaker's gaze.

An independent documentary telling a story of how the video game Call Of Duty grew into one of the biggest global entertainment blockbuster franchises of all time. Featuring developers,experts and pro players,the film looks at how a single video game gained millions of fans,broke numerous records and battled through the years to establish itself as one of the greatest video games of all time.

Explore the legal roller-coaster ride of LGBTQ family rights in the South over the last decade with an intimate view into the lives of three lesbian families in Alabama as they set precedents and fight the courts for their children during the time that federal marriage equality comes to a head.

The Dresden Sinfoniker and Pet Shop Boys prepare for a unique screening of Battleship Potemkin utilising a prefabricated building in what was once East Germany.

The Nazi's possessed technology that was 100 years ahead of the allies. After being captured, many top scientists and psychiatrists of the elite Nazi regime, admitted that an outside force assisted them, and that the 3rd Reich's ultimate mandate was to create "the most powerful weapon." Hitler's UFO's is the story of the Nazis and the Aliens from outer space. Dark Secrets of the Nazis: Researchers now believe WWII was the result of a massive, worldwide conspiracy by an elusive secret society known as the Illuminati. A secret sect so powerful they not only control economics and politics, but may very well be involved in manipulating society itself via advanced technology; while controlling staggering secret knowledge not shared with anyone, including the heads of nations.

Examining the translation of poetry told as a kind of endless hide-and-seek with beauty, this film is following three virtuoso literary translators who take on the challenge of recreating poetry in another language, here French.

Livvy Haydock explores the secretive world of gang girls, to understand the real stories behind the rising trend in sexual exploitation and violence against girls by gang members - and discovers how quickly female victims turn perpetrators.

Fasli is a child born and raised in Kampung Kalo, Lengko Ajang, Manggarai Timur, East Nusa Tenggara. This film is about Fasli and his family; a conversation among the sounds of candlenuts.

JOSÉ BESSA, an artist who saw his life directed to another path with his wife´s death and the birth of his son, with mental disability, tells us his life story and his ideals. It is a story of love and complicity between a father and a son.

The film deals with the mysterious murder of Lieutenant General Ali Razmara and examines the factors affecting his assassination and the figures involved in the incident.

I Think You Should Come to America explores a paradoxical fascination of the Poles behind the Iron Curtain with the ideal of America as a "land of freedom" and investigates the cultural conditions in which memories are created. The film uses numerous American educational films to expose the patters of cultural (mis)representation.

Ever since they were kids practicing in the snow in Iceland, they were told they would never play in a major football tournament. This is a true underdog story of how a nation of only 330.000 defied the odds with attitude and a new head coach. The filmmakers had unlimited access to the Icelandic national team from the beginning of their journey to their ultimate childhood dreams - Euro Cup 2016.

A story from the very center of events about the birth of a new country, the Donetsk People's Republic. Filming took place over six weeks from April to May 2014. The camera follows 300 revolutionaries who took over the building of the Regional State Administration in the center of Donetsk and declared the independence of the region. The revolutionaries see themselves as the saviors of their people from the bloodthirsty fascist government based in Kyiv. This is a story about how to make a revolution and what happens after that when you get the power. The heroes of the film are Andrei ("Lenin"), who leaves home and mother to change history; the speaker of the new government, Vladimir, and the head of the internal anti-corruption security service, whose task is to capture and interrogate traitors, fascists and enemies of the Revolution. When the heroes believed they had won, their fates abruptly changed course.

A heartbreaking, yet redemptive journey into the history of the Amish People. The year 2017 is the five hundred year anniversary of Martin Luther nailing the 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg and starting the Reformation in Germany. This film considers the impact of the Reformation Era on the Amish Church in America today.

The Czech Republic became a member of NATO and the EU 25 years ago. This change of course heralded a clear affiliation with the West. Today, however, there are considerable deviations from this course. Many Czechs are now skeptical of the West. In this situation, the country is an ideal target for pro-Russian propaganda and targeted disinformation.

When my mom wants to burn all her wedding photos.

One in five families in Croatia lose their apartment or house due to being unable to pay back credit or keep up with overhead expenses. The rigorous Seizure Law provides banks and other institutions with an easier way of gaining real estate. When the system fails, when a citizen has nowhere to apply for assistance and when the unscrupulous administration dislodges them from their flats or houses, then young activists arrive to help and with their bodies prevent the execution of the eviction. HOME has recorded grievous scenes from the very places where the cordons of special police use force to drag away children, women, the young and the old - whose one and only wish is to stay and live in their only home.

Tesa Arranz, a key figure in the 1980s Madrid scene and the lead singer of the Zombies, has painted over 500 portraits of outer-space creatures. Confronting the singer’s paintings with the memories of her youth, her poems and diaries, ALIENS depicts an emotional landscape in Spanish history where happiness, nightmarish experimentations and alienation walked hand in hand.

Joe tells the story of his slowly unraveling military trauma and what it feels like to live with invisible wounds that others can hardly empathize with. The film seeks to illuminate the inner conflicts that veterans experience throughout their reintegration by following Joe's individual struggle and life in Pittsburgh.

A Slovenian documentary film.

More than 50 years of armed conflict among the FARC, the ELN, paramilitary groups and the Colombian government have left behind eight million victims. During this time, thousands of minors have been part of the armed groups. They are also consider victims because their childhood is always going to be linked to a weapon; the jungle was their home and the battalion, their family.

The Northside Skull and Bone Gang is an African American Creole tradition that dates back 200 years. These deathly skeletons will wake you up at the break of dawn on Mardi Gras morning with one intention; to scare you straight and make sure you know-the bone man is out to get you, so play your cards right and stay away from trouble.

A stylistic documentary about homosexuality. Follow four completely different individuals, each with their own story. The oppression, the freedom, the fear, the happiness, the taboo, the acceptance.

The film chronicles the life of Brooklyn teenager Miasia Clark as she navigates her everyday world and prepares to present at the first-ever Black Girl Movement National Conference. Miasia is joined in this effort by members of her activist group, Girls for Gender Equity.

Sibila leaves Constantinople for Naraío to spend his last days consumed by melancholy due to the evil of love produced by his twin brother Silván. Starting from one of the multiple narratives that in a syncopated way follow one another and interpolate in the story of Álvaro Cunqueiro "El Caballero", we recreate a small story through a refined aesthetic and based on the ellipsis to counteract the obvious vacui horror that characterizes his work .

The eyes of the world are watching after the death of a dictator. Albanian artist Adrian Paci constructed Interregnum using footage from official state and national television broadcast archives. Spanning an entire century, the film connects different Communist societies through the shared language of grief. Shifting from close-ups to wider views of the masses, the film makes us witness to a crescendo where the manipulation of these masses and the depersonalisation of individual identity become increasingly evident.

A documentary about an Interracial American gay couple who move to a fishing village in Cape Breton, only to find out that the community is under threat from climate change.

ZOOM was made from videotapes stolen from a house. The selected sequences depict an absurd relationship with others and with nature through video excerpts filmed by an unknown person in Antoine Larocque's hometown (Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada) in the 1990s. The man who filmed these images was found dead a few years ago. He lived alone, isolated, and had developed a compulsive hoarding disorder. He died of a heart attack while playing the video game DOOM on his X-BOX. The images added to this question challenge our relationship with images.