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A race is on to save Gabon’s Moukalaba-Doudou National Park and the silverback gorillas that call it home. Once, this area was protected by a thriving oil industry, but now, big companies are moving out and the logging industry is poised to move in. Ecotourism could be the only way to prevent the trees of this rainforest from coming down, but a team of conservationists needs to make the gorillas of Gabon tolerant of humans first. Follow them as they get up-close with the gorillas, study their moves, and journey to war-torn Central African Republic to learn the secrets of successful gorilla habituation.

On April 20 of 1988, six young people stormed the central Banamex branch in Los Mochis and held hostage the people inside the location. 30 years after this incident, the survivors recount what happened.

The sirens blare out; a catastrophe is rehearsed. Hyperreal practice-runs, planning exercises and simulations give rise to the disturbing dystopia of emergency. The film of the hour: thrilling, complex and alarming.

Ever since the 1969 riots on the streets outside New York City’s Stonewall Inn, LGBTQ communities have gathered there to express their joy, their anger, their pain and their power. This film explores what more than half a century of LGBTQ history in the United States looks like when viewed through just a few blocks in New York City’s Greenwich Village.

Have you ever wondered how extremely difficult search for the right soulmate is? The documentary film from the minds of Jakub Kuthan and Elias Gaydecka focuses on the life of a group of exceptionally peculiar creatures - the community of Jewish Orthodox matchmakers. What does Gimpl Beynish, an agile second-class matchmaker, have to do in order to find a proper counterpart?

We'll discover exactly what happened in the studio when they were recorded; what inspired them; the cultural and personal circumstances; and crucially, the drama that surrounded them as they were created.

Lotte (18) and Roos (16) are sisters and both have Usher syndrome. That means they will soon become deaf and blind. It is not known how fast that will go, but they already see and hear a lot worse than their peers. How do these two high-spirited girls deal with their development into adulthood, while the time bomb of deafness and blindness ticks inexorably? They are not deterred from getting the most out of life: Lotte is studying to become a photographer and Roos is passing her final exams. At the same time, they also want to do a few things before it is too late, such as seeing the Northern Lights with their own eyes. Director Kim Smeekes followed Lotte and Roos for the film for two years.

A look inside the Batanes traditional house and how the Ivatans preserve their custom of constructing their vahay (house).

A non-narrative documentation on the humanity of youth in their early 20s, the situations they find themselves in, the way they look at their futures, in years to come will they look back at these days?

'Rock is Dead?' is my most recent music documentary. It features musicians and/or producers from KISS, Nirvana, Scorpions, Greta Van Fleet, Sum 41, Nightwish, Kamelot, Dream Theater, Grand Funk Railroad, & more. The cast in alphabetical order: Steve Albini, Ellen Allien, Tyler Bryant, Gary Cobain, Black Coffee, Courtney Cox, Troy Donockley, Jack Endino, Waka Flocka Flame, Emma Hewitt, Sam Kiszka, Dylan Kongos, John Kongos, Bruce Kulick, Cone McCaslin, Linda McDonald, Wanda Ortiz, Charles Peterson, Mike Portnoy, Kristen Rosenberg, Eddie Trunk, Danny Wagner, Alice Wheeler & Thomas Youngblood. My original music documentary, 'What is Classic Rock?', features musicians from Guns N' Roses, The Doobie Brothers, Twisted Sister, Jethro Tull, Billy Talent, Grand Funk Railroad, The Guess Who, Korn, KISS, Triumph, Styx, Alice Cooper, Suzi Quatro, Randy Bachman, Country Joe McDonald, Megadeth, Blood Sweat & Tears, Mr. Big, Black 'N Blue, OHM, LA Guns, Sweetwater, Vince Neil & more.

In small-town Pala, a ninety-year-old farmer goes about his retired life. Located in the southern state of Kerala in India along the western ghats, Pala is known for an economy based on the cash crop of rubber, strong presence of the Catholic Church, and for electing the same legislator for a record fifty-four years straight. Though ageing limbs and failing eyesight have slowed him down, Chachan's (grandpa) days are full, as he tends to the household farm and cows, makes visit to the church, and follows daily news and soaps on TV. In conversations with his grandson, a film student who's visiting from Kolkata, Chachan reflects on his long farming life, how the fortunes of men and the rubber crop are intertwined, the oft-repeated patterns in local and national politics, and the essential nature of human beings. In depicting a typical day in Chachan's life, the director experiments with a non-linear, observational style, drawing inspiration from the works of Jonas Mekas.

Between 1865 and 1920, Finnish immigrants brought traditional arts to America, including woven and braided rag rugs. As a hallmark of Finnish ethnic culture, rag rugs and their makers hold special places in the hearts of Finnish America. Cultural sociologist Michael Loukinen brings us into the homes and to the workrooms of traditional weavers in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. He portrays the interwoven world of cultural beliefs, aesthetic practices, and family history that each rug represents. From the treasured family-memory heirloom, from each carefully protected rug to its threadbare, tattered clump on a tractor seat, these rugs are an art form that embodies several Finnish American cultural values.

Empire Valley contemplates cinema’s ability to transmit a confluence of times through landscape—whether that time be geological, personal or political. Situated within Tsilhqot'in territory in central British Columbia, the film addresses the way in which a landscape is carved out and altered in order to suit particular economic conditions. Further than solely contemplating the environmental, economic and social implications of this site’s history, this film is an attempt to grapple with the aesthetics imposed on the landscape by agricultural practices, erosion, and the traces of colonial ideologies.

About the ancient folk art of Kalamezhuthum Pattum Ritual of Kerala, India, featuring veteran Kalamezhuthu artist Kallat Manikandan. Kalamezhuthu is the art of drawing images of deities with five natural colour powders.

The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the challenge of representing the reality.

Part of Crime & Punishment strand, Susanna Reid gains exclusive access to police evidence from the investigation into one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers, Joanne Dennehy, who murdered three men on a killing spree.

Artificial intelligence and new technologies are reaching our mental and physical existence like never before in the history of human kind. The film is a journey that leads us to the world of cyborgs, sex robots and Androids. It challenges us to face our values, ethics and rethink our position. The main character of the film is young researcher Dr. Michael Laakasuo whose work Moralities of Intelligent Machines has gained international recognition.

The documentary about Toomas Edur tells us an intimate story about the most outstanding Estonian ballet artist, his searches, changes in his life and adapting to those changes. Choreography and dancing partners may change but the simplicity, passion and belief in fairytales still remain...

On the half-way of his worldly journey, Toomas Edur looks back to his significant dancing career. High jumps on the world stages made him great also in the eyes of his own people, although the most remarkable footage of his performances have only recently been shown to his home audience. Where to go on and with whom, when it is time to leave the stage? Where is the home where a fairytale man to return after searching for fortune in the wide world?

In a remote training camp in Butler County, Ohio, we meet school teachers who are learning how to shoot, and if necessary, kill. This feature documentary explores the heated and divisive debate around how best to protect pupils, as schools prepare for gun attacks and school boards in America seriously consider arming their teachers. The film follows a group of teachers who attend FASTER, one of America’s most controversial summer schools where teachers are trained to use guns, deal with potential school shooting scenarios and if the situation demands it, kill.

"The movie is really about capturing sessions and the movement of the life and happenings in these situations. Part of the theme and vehicle that propels the film is the driving of two old cars (one 70s Cadillac and one black Ford station wagon), with two squads traveling around in these cars skating, building spots, creating different skating scenarios, sometimes skating the cars and basically wilding out in said vehicles. In some ways, the movie falls into the classic genera of the car movies movie motif, like Bullitt, Mad Maxx or Brown Bunny."

The sensational true story of the most infamous tabloid in US history, a wild, probing look at how one newspaper's prescient grasp of its readers' darkest curiosities led it to massive profits and influence.

Video essay on the film’s stylistic influences of Diamonds od the Night by scholar James Quandt.

When Bruno discovers infidelity in his relationship, he decides to explore why for so many people it is impossible to remain strictly monogamous.

Documentary about a women's refuge in southern India.

Four Indigenous leaders embark on an extraordinary trans-continental adventure from the Canadian plains to deep into the heart of the Amazonian jungle to unite the peoples of North and South America and deepen the meaning of "Climate Justice". Their path through the jungle takes them on an unexpectedly challenging and liberating journey, which will forever change their attachment to the Earth and one another.

Games of “socialist” Monopoly were played in the Soviet Union: for the Hungarian version, called “Manage your money wisely”, the first to furnish an apartment would win the game. Four players meet before Thiago Carvalhaes’s camera to throw the dice once again, reliving, through interspersed archives, their memory of communist Budapest and what it has become under Orban.

Salam is a feature length documentary about the Nobel prize winning Pakistani physicist, Abdus Salam. The film reveals the extraordinary life of the charismatic Abdus Salam, in all its color, vitality and tragedy. It is the story of a man who traversed two worlds with ease: one of science and religion, modernity and tradition, war and peace and obscurity and celebrity.

The documentary is an investigation into why disputes and passions around the personality of Alexander Kolchak are still boiling, as a generalization – questions of historical truth, rewriting history, new views from a new time.

“Canapa Nostra” is a shout of the people that wants truth and justice, it is the troubled and passionate story about a forbidden plant that has accompanied humanity in his entire evolutionary history.

Not only has Nile Rodgers mastered the art of producing, song writing and composing – he’s also the lead guitarist and co-founder of the greatest ever live dance band, CHIC. Once In A Lifetime Sessions with Nile Rodgers sees Nile discuss the passion and faith he holds for his music which lead to the rise of CHIC, the careful politics of working in a recording studio and his relationship with legendary bassist Bernard Edwards. In this Session Nile performs live on stage, with his legendary band, CHIC, in London, raising the roof with classic hits including I’m Coming Out, Dance Dance Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah), Le Freak, Lost in Music, We are Family and freestyling while ending the show with an audience immersive medley take on Good Times / Rapper’s Delight.

WHAT TO DO WITH ALL THIS LOVE - THE ZAKARIA PALIASHVILI MUSIC SCHOOL IN TBILISI is an observant and character-based documentary about a magical place. A film about growing up and aging, about farewells and new beginnings, about great dreams and the art of improvisation.

The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registered through the keen and sensitive perspective of photographer Orlando Brito, in a career spanning 50 years as a professional. From the political sidelines to the lives of Brazilians from the interior, Brito recalls experiences and discusses the role of the photographer and the pain of registering someone’s grief.

After 16 years in Brooklyn, working three low-paying jobs and sending the bulk of his earnings to his wife and children, undocumented immigrant Felipe decides to return home to his family in Mexico. But when he informs them of his plans, he discovers that they've squandered the money, are deeply in debt and don’t want him to return. They need him to stay in the U.S. and continue to earn.

Take a look behind the scenes as the Devils prepare for the 2019 NHL Draft, where they will pick first overall, and follow Jack Hughes after he's selected by the New Jersey team.

Prince and the Revolution perform live at the Summit in Houston, TX on 12/29/1982

César Benjamin was arrested in August 1971 during student protests against the Brazilian military dictatorship. Although he was a juvenile, he was tried as an adult and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Thanks to the ardent campaigning of his mother Iramaya, working closely together with the Swedish branch of Amnesty International, he was released five years later.

In the ultra-competitive indoor sport of elite, stunningly-designed model airplanes, a wild-card newcomer threatens to knock a teammate off his world champion throne.

An overview of Brazil's riots of June 2013, which were the beginning of a great political change that would take the country in the following years.

Spank the Banker is a story about the biggest bank robbery in history of UK - the looting of 100,000 small businesses by their own corporate bankers. Made by BAFTA award-winning director Samir Mehanovic, we follow the intimate stories of six ordinary individuals who fought back against a corrupt financial system.

A group of inmates decide to take on a workshop to act the life of Andrés Bazán Frías. Bazán Frías was born in poverty at the end of the XIX century and was known for stealing food to give to his neighbors. In 1923 he was murdered by the police. He became known as the "Robin Hood tucumano", and is now hold as a saint amongst the inmates.

The documentary highlights the perils of today’s energy policy in the so-called post-lignite era. At the heart of the research lies the concept of energy poverty, in other words, the population’s limited access to energy resources that leads to an even greater energy deficiency in society. The movie features experts’ interviews (professors, technocrats, union members, etc.) as well as field research and in situ shooting.

Hosted by Bette Midler, enjoy a musical tribute to the man who wrote some of the most enduring songs in American popular music. Lyricist Hal David and composer Burt Bacharach dominated the pop-music charts in the 1960s and early ’70s, crafting dozens of timeless Top 40 hits.

The Sonidero movement echoes throughout the streets of Mexico City with waves of tropical rhythms, neon lights and dance moves. Two brave and touching characters, La Cigarrita and El Duende fight to keep this tradition alive, opposing the government’s initiative to gentrify their neighborhoods. During the festivities that celebrate la Virgen de la Merced (The Virgin of Mercy) -one of the city’s most popular events- sonideros face a wall of anti-riot police.

The Film takes us to rural schools in the predominantly tribal district of Dungarpur in southern Rajasthan. With two Government school teachers as focal points, it explores the challenges of being a teacher and a student in fairly adverse circumstances. Children come from difficult contexts with very limited material resources, absentee fathers and younger siblings to attend to. How do teachers respond to this situation? How do they bring children to school and create an environment in which they are motivated to learn?