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Ken Bone became an overnight sensation after participating in a Clinton-Trump town hall in 2016, but the excitement of the moment came with some unexpected consequences.

A documentary about efforts to restore and maintain biodiversity in Campanarios de Azaba Nature Reserve in Western Spain.

A specific picture shot about the rap artist Chipinkos, who in this film his autobiography with various shots and ideas. He immerses you in his rap world, the picture differs from the standard cinema with its unusual shots and eerie black and white style. Voiceover throughout history about the difficulties of his life, about the world and people he met on the way...

The School of Housewives is a documentary film about the self-image of the Icelandic housewife and how the role of this school has changed over the years. In the film, the past is reflected in interviews with senior students alongside old 16mm footage that show how important role the school played to expectant Icelandic housewives around the middle of the last century. At the same time, recent students are monitored showing how much change has taken place in the school, regarding the role of housewives today in terms of gender role and the basic values such as all kinds of efficiency, maintenance of clothing, protecting the environment and preventing food waste. The film is a unique contemporary documentary about the Reykjavík school of housewives, running since 1942 and still open for those students who are interested, despite the uncertainty about the future of the school and its possible imminent closure.

For the 25th Anniversary of her debut album 'MISS THANG' Monica reflects on 25 memorable clips, as well as highlights how starting in the trenches inspired her new music.

A desktop documentary investigation of what it means to watch David Lynch films as a pre-teen and get lost in the image regime of the internet.

A film based on the reports of children appropriated during the last civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983). To rest the look on a face was an impossible task. The glow of the memory swallowed everything. Dancing movements, calculated, but wrong.

In the midst of the worst period in his company's history, a lone physicist shines as a beacon of hope thanks to his ingenuity and hard work. But soon, Bell Labs will be making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

A modern day Citizen Kane, told from the worker's point of view. The story of a strike / lockout caused by tycoon Murdoch sacking 6000 of his workers to increase profits. The film exposes the deep and enduring immorality at the heart of the News International Empire. The defeat of this workers strike led to the falling wages and corporate control of the media of today. The loss of this historical struggle has affected the lives of the 99% for the worst. The film is totally funded by donations with no corporate support.

Silvio Tendler goes through his life remembering the movements he was part of during the brazilian dictatorship and his adherence to socialism.

The film features three couples from different faiths and nationalities. But what stands out as unique is the conveying of the idea that in this globalized world, no one should or should feel special or superior to another.

Revisit photographs created by Kentucky school children in the 1970s and the place where their photos were made. Photographer and artist Wendy Ewald, who guided the students in making their visionary photographs, returns to Kentucky and learns how the lives and visions of her former students have changed.

Young people are protesting on the streets of Hong Kong in order to bring about change. Air soaked with tear gas, the dark uniforms and loud commands of the police officers in the colourful umbrella sea of the protesters. In the midst of the action, the film documents a brand new protest movement.

Early summer 1990: West German money transporters carrying billions of Deutschmarks roll towards the former GDR. From the inner-German border, the People's Police and the heavily armed National People's Army take over guarding the transports. Over 25 billion Deutschmarks are transferred from West to East within a few weeks. On July 1, 1990, the German-German monetary union takes place. The citizens of the former GDR were to hold the D-Mark in their hands from this point onwards, but a huge amount of work had to be done before this could happen. 441 million banknotes had to be printed and 102 million coins minted. This is because the organizers of the Bundesbank barely had time to prepare for the largest money transport in history. Many contemporary witnesses describe their experiences in the documentary, which gives an insight into the exciting months before monetary union, the consequences of which still have an impact today.

A documentary that tells the story of doctor Paulo Cesar Fructuoso who carried out his work as an oncological surgeon in parallel to the materialization sessions and spiritual surgeries held at the famous Lar de Frei Luiz.

In April 2014. S/Y Selma Expeditions sailed off for a trip called 'Selma - Antarctica - Perservance'. This one year-long trip started by sailing around Cape Horn from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean to Australia. There, in December 2014, the Selma crew took part in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. After that they started their sail to the coldest and most inacces...

Year 2003, footage from TV archives, the future president of Turkey speaks to his folk. An everlasting catchy tune from a juice commercial. In an instant of remembrance your memory gets you to fall through its own time and space.

You know that feeling when the eye starts to twitch and what you see scrolls back and forth for a while? Or when you wake up and can't move? Or when everything around you subsides?

A creation myth centered around a canal in Mesa, Arizona.

The annual continuation of Air Jaws on Shark Week, this time involving a competition for most breaches.

Dima lives in a usual Belarusian village. He goes fishing, stokes the fire, visits his friends and neighbours. However, there is something that makes him different. He is a thief. Observing the mysterious world, full of disturbing parallels, Dima has to answer the crucial question of his life: has he been honest? And has it been his life after all?

As President Trump’s decision to drastically shrink Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is held up in courts, three people with deep ties to the monument — a Paiute grandfather who helped determine its original boundaries, a Mormon rancher whose livelihood is entwined with the land and a former backcountry ranger who found solace in its vast folds — contemplate what’s at stake.

Zapata el Gran Putas delves into the life of Colombian writer Manuel Zapata Olivella, exploring his diverse perspectives, adventures, and relationships with prominent intellectuals and black artists of the 20th century.

The day of the “Event” has arrived and Dalila, Jano, Daph D, Megan, Putricia, Ciara, Barbara and Zodoma, are here to climb on heels higher than the walls of the genre and the identity. Together they will expand the limits of imagination; the makeup will be their war paint and their dresses the armor.

New movie by Olga Privolnova

Asian American creatives pay passionate tribute to the iconic, stereotype-busting "Baby-Sitters Club" character in this heartfelt documentary short.

A reporter uncovers a file that reveals a shocking series of child abuse allegations in Idaho's Boy Scouts, which rattle the community and implicate the Mormon church. The story reveals long-running crimes that threaten to bankrupt the Boy Scouts.

In this seminal performance-lecture-film, artist Zina Saro-Wiwa navigates the moral, philosophical and cultural conundrums that arise from the very existence of contemporary traditional African art. A large part of Saro-Wiwa’s artistic practice explores the masquerade traditions of Ogoniland, her ancestral ethnic group from the Niger Delta. Yet Saro-Wiwa’s hybrid identity has forced her to consider how African masks live concurrently in the West and in present-day Africa and how these African art worlds impact one another especially at a moment when restitution is being demanded. In Worrying the Mask, Saro-Wiwa challenges the call for the restitution of African art by privileging storytelling over geographical location.

With the intention of selling opium to the Chinese, and in the name of free trade, the British declared war on the Chinese Empire in 1839. Since then, disagreements between nations can be understood as economic disputes. A history of trade wars.

‘Do No Harm’ is an abiding principal of psychiatry. It is abandoned time after time in this shocking, utterly compelling exploration of the profession’s collusion with state sponsored torture over the past 70 years. Director Stephen Bennett untangles a web of secrecy, denial and complicity to explore the legacy of Scottish-born psychiatrist Dr Ewen Cameron and the experiments that helped devise systems of torture employed across the globe, from Northern Ireland to Guantanamo Bay. Experts, victims and families provide chapter and verse on fundamental violations of human rights.

At Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, “Near Earth Asteroids: Dr. Anne Virkki” tells the story of Research Scientist Anne Virkki and her ongoing studies on asteroids and their threat to humanity. Originally from Finland, Anne Virkki shares her experience in education as well as her studies on asteroids, including her work hunting and tracking asteroids headed for Earth.

A team of experts travels to Shark Bay, Australia, to unlock the secrets of shark and dolphin combat; cutting-edge technology provides a window into this seldom-seen conflict.

In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster research station in the Antarctic. During their expedition the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th. Cut off from the images that go around the world, the men can only experience the historical events passively. When they returned in the spring of 1991, their homeland was a foreign country. The documentary reconstructs the thoughts and feelings of the East German researchers on the basis of eyewitness accounts, diary excerpts, letters, film material, grandiose landscape shots from the location of the action and unique photos to make the consequences of the events tens of thousands of kilometers away on the small GDR expedition in the middle of the eternal ice tangible.

Between pop petulance and abysmal creative depressions, a dive into the career in roller coaster of the Kinks and their brilliant leader, Ray Davies.

Something unsuspected brings these people together. And now they are reunited.

In 1987, the directors of this film were students of cinema in Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Artístico Árvore I, current ESAP-Escola Superior Artística do Porto. While in their first year of studies, they decided to invite Henrique Alves Costa, a scholar of Portuguese cinema and historical manager of Porto’s Cineclube, to guide them on a visit to Invicta Film (1917-1928), the first major Portuguese film producer. In another epoch, in Porto of the 80s, the shooting recorded this wandering by the former studios of Invicta and also by Quinta da Prelada, whose exteriors served as setting for Frei Bonifácio (1918) – film directed by Georges Pallu. Memórias (Memories) is released 34 years later of these shootings with Henrique Alves Costa.

A philosophical meditation on a young Tomaž Pengov, one of the greatest musicians in Slovenian history and the author of many timeless songs, some of which will accompany him on this cinematic journey through his world. Pengov’s legacy features ‘Odpotovanja’, the first singer-songwriter record released in the former Yugoslavia.

In 1946, shortly after the atomic bombings, an American army team shot a documentary about ‘defeated Japan’. Reel 11004 concerning Hiroshima and Nagasaki would be classified top secret for 36 years. Mirabelle Fréville has found it and edited it to denounce the first censorship in nuclear history.

A forensic psychologist reviews the tapes made of the interrogation of Mark Bridger.

Thirty-five years since his legendary stage direction of the Bacchae, Theodoros Terzopoulos is part of the elite of theater innovation. The film follows Terzopoulos’s footsteps to stardom, from his home village in Northern Greece, all the way to the Berliner Ensemble, Russia, China, the US, Attis theater in Athens –his brainchild and foothold–, and finally, Delphi: the birthplace of everything.

In 2020, most residents on the planet were forced to live indoors for days and months due to the epidemic, which has influenced our usual work and life to some extent. In this isolation, people tend to create ways of self-entertainment and take limited exercise at home. As a result, a large amount of ordinary people emerged on the Internet and started to show the interesting bits of living indoors in their own way. They straddled the differences in time and space, and built vast webs of data in live form, in which they connected and influenced each other.

20 years ago, Vila Verde found the path to community autonomy in lowland football. Through Carlinhos' passion, we see the trajectory of the Vila Verde Football Championship.

Unanimously considered the greatest choreographer Polynesia has known, Coco Hotahota is a dance master. He is one of the rare group leaders, if not the only one, to actually take care of the entire production chain of a show, whether it is writing the theme, writing the songs, composing. , costume creation, choreography. In 1962 he created his troupe, Te Maeva, which in 55 years of existence will have been the most successful troupe in the history of Heiva i Tahiti, and also the largest troupe in terms of number, more than 150 dancers in peak, in the 80s. Today we have the impression that Coco, who has long represented modernity, has become a bit of a reference for tradition. It's the whole contradiction of the character that we also admire for that. This film traces the long history of Te Maeva.

Largely ignored and left to their own devices, a group of unassuming teenagers in late 80s and early 90s Sioux Falls, South Dakota created their own culture, community, and economy. And when they moved out into the world at large, they brought what they learned along with them. I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk is a story about the tenacity and ingenuity of youth, finding and following your convictions, and how the kids you least expect often make the most noise. Shot on location in eight cities and assembled from dozens of hours of archival video and hundreds of photos, the documentary features interviews with Larry Livermore (Lookout. Records), Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), Mike Park (Skankin' Pickle), Rebecca Hanten (Cadillac Blindside), Terry Taylor (Hammerlord), and dozens of current and former members of the Sioux Falls all ages music scene.

Kenneth Williams's comedy career highlights are celebrated in a documentary narrated by his friend and fellow wordsmith, Gyles Brandreth. Showcasing Kenneth's very best bits and greatest hits, it is a journey through the life of a veritable British comedy genius - stopping at all of the comedy milestones of his career. The documentary features exclusive access to Kenneth's never-before-seen photograph albums and exclusive correspondence from the star and his family.

Follow the high school's students and families who became fierce leaders of a national movement for gun reform following the shooting of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.

A bleak look into Ural's art underground after the closure of the Narodnaya gallery, probing into the position these artists hold outside the ambit of institutions and community.

About twenty young adults engaged in civic service by the Unis-Cité association are trying to carry out civic missions in schools and institutions in Poitiers. But the reality on the ground brings its share of disappointments. Everyone reacts in their own way: adhesion, indifference, resignation or critical positioning. What prospects does civic service offer young people?

In the collective imagination, mountaineering is seen as an elitist and dangerous activity. When the mainstream press talks about mountaineering, it is generally related to a drama or an exploitation. The mountaineers are then placed in two categories. On the one hand, reckless supermen, engaged in a death struggle with the mountains.

The coming of age story of Shéár Avory, a 17 year old trans* aspiring social justice advocate in Los Angeles who navigates housing instability and familial dependency on their journey to adulthood. Shéár depends closely on their mother for continued access to their medical transition, though struggling in her recovery from addiction, she is unable to always offer Shéár the support they need. An observational piece, the film aims to ask, what does coming into adulthood actually look like, for a young Black trans* femme in today’s America?

Rapper XXXTENTACION's iconic 2017 concert in Los Angeles, California.

Shot from 1972-75, Anna observed a young drug addict expecting a child. Ruhm’s essay film draws on this previous work and asks about the place of women in a world that was full of discrimination back in the 70s and remains so today.

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens was the deadliest in U.S. history. Survivor testimonies and rare images reveal the cataclysms it unleashed.

An actress takes a stand against the prosthetic mole that is preventing her from reaching cinematic brilliance.