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Six dancers from the acclaimed Battery Dance company travel the world, working with young people who've experienced war, poverty, prejudice, sexual exploitation, and severe trauma as refugees.

Many people know of the death of Rudyard Kipling's son John - but few know of the earlier death of his much loved daughter Josephine. This film reveals the true story behind both of these deaths, creating an evocation of a man who had remarkable gifts - and had to bear great personal tragedy. Combining touching dramatizations of three of Kipling's most important works with distinguished contributions from his leading biographers, this is a truly remarkable portrait of one of the world's greatest writers. In Kipling's bedroom at his house Bateman's to this day are his son's cricket bat and his daughter's portrait.

They were planting cabbage in the vegetable garden when the war in Donetsk began... Mother Superior Michaela and Julia suddenly find themselves in the heart of the fighting... in an orthodox monastery. These women live through their eye-witness experience of the fate of this holy place, although they could in effect leave at any given time. The main heroines tell of their lives under fire in the war zone, and their personal struggle withfear and internal conflict .. It turns out that war can be the most profound, intense and thought - provoking time in a person's life.

Documentary about Zvonko Milenković (1956-2008), a vocalist member of Rokeri s Moravu as well as occasional actor.

A look at the impact of one woman's life in the municipality of Cataño, in Puerto Rico.

A silent exploration of light and gesture, finding the light, losing it, moments of exploration, hesitation and connection.

A troubled nature photographer risk his family and himself in the fight against a mining project in the Nordic wilderness, when he faces strong political and economical forces, local rivals and a Sámi collective that hesitate to accept him as one of them.

During the 1980s, claims of satanic ritual abuse ran rife throughout the western world, uncovered by hypnotic therapists and perpetuated throughout the media, including high-rating television talk shows. In Demonic, filmmaker Pia Borg delves into this bizarre chapter of history, examining the elusive line between fact, fiction and the persuasive power of the media.

Short and powerful, like his famous portrait "The Scream" this is a brief biography of Edward Munch, the revolutionary Norwegian painter.

A documentary film that testifies to the power of queer Black sisterhood through the lens of UK-based podcasting trio Sistren. Shot over the course of a week, the film features three queer British Black women dishing on their African upbringing, mental health, and the influences that inform how they love themselves and each other––making for an intimate exploration into the love story behind every Black female friendship.

The creative process behind the danish artist Kirstine Roepstorff's work towards La Biennale di Venezia in 2017, portrayed as a reflection on creation itself.

“We’re beautiful, the whole gang. We’re special,” says Jean of the 15-odd employees at The Artisan—a workshop employing people with intellectual disabilities. Jean is the self-described “handyman and best-looking” member of the group. A moving celebration of difference, The Artisans captures daily life at an organization where the workers are as courageous as they are colourful.

The film follows two teams competing in the 44th annual White Marlin Open, the world's largest and richest billfish tournament. With a total of 353 boats battling for an unprecedented 4.9 million in prize money, the stakes couldn't be higher. For these fisherman, it's all on the line.

More than half a century after independence, the Algerian question remains a taboo subject in France and arouses passions. Whatever the words, whatever the decisions, there will always be a side that feels aggrieved. Why does time fail to cure resentment? From the signing of the Evian agreements in 1962 to the skid of the candidate Macron, who was in February 2017 in opposition to the "Pieds Noirs" community for comparing the colonization of Algeria to a crime against humanity. The story is told through the experiences of exiles, activists, former soldiers and politicians, all involved in the events.

Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder and Creation Records boss Alan McGee reveal a selection of their all-time favourite tracks. Theirs is a blistering playlist of indie, punk and ska classics from Buzzcocks to The Specials, Junior Murvin to Marc Bolan, Orange Juice to Underworld and many more.

A look at Charles de Gaulle, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, and Marshal Petain, and the roles they play in the Great War of 1914 to 1918.

'I Am a Miner's Son' consists of recordings of a flooded mine in southwestern Poland and an abandoned hotel in Greece. It is a wandering through used up spaces which were given a new life, which are infected by chaotic rashes of social subconscience.

The inside story of what happened to immigrant children separated from their parents at the border. The film explores the impact of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, and how both Trump and Obama dealt with minors at the border.

Fathers of Football follows the triumphs and struggles of life in a small town, where football is not only the brightest stage but also the best ticket out.

Shot at the Film Farm in Mt.Forest, this comedy is a quest about performance, educational voiceover, analogue filmmaking, ASCII, language, ethics of ethnography and narrative storytelling under a metaphor of instructions to farm land. Text by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Wikihow/shoot-film.

When he died, Byron Levy left behind a vast inheritance — of drawings.

At the threshold of the 20th Century, a melting pot of adventurous immigrants, creative mavericks, and freedom-seeking African Americans shaped consumerism as we now know it. The new documentary THE CITY THAT SOLD AMERICA reveals, with intriguing insights and wistful nostalgia, the confluence of Chicago's creative talent, business savvy, grit and determination that changed the country and our relationship with popular culture.

A retired teacher investigates the shadowy history of his rural Missouri community, including the origins of a looming structure known as the Rockpile.

This work shows ocean trash on an off-season beach. Many people think it is very unpleasant. It is a serious environmental problem. However, surprisingly it is also captivating and looks like a kind of art work. Human amorality, irresponsibility and big ocean waves collaborate to create these objects. (V-tape)

A father and a son on a trip. They meet to spend some time together after the period when they broke off contacts. But it is not a carefree weekend at a hut in the Bieszczady mountains. The drunk father asks a rhetorical question: “And what, did you think it would be easy?”

Co-directors Michelle Shephard and David York take an intimate journey with the mother of a young Canadian woman named Amina who left home to join the war in Syria and become a member of ISIS. From Canada to Europe and Turkey and back again, they work various channels seeking what a CSIS officer calls the “exfiltration” of Amina from inside the so-called Islamic State and into the custody of Canadian officials.

After the jail, Isaura tries to reconnect with the world. In prison he participated in a literary initiative and through the reunion with comrades of the project, he talks about his anguish. The difficulty of reconfiguring herself as mother, woman and human is constant.

An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig's decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Drawing on over 30 years of unique and never-seen-before footage, 'The Image You Missed' is an experimental essay film that weaves together a history of the Northern Irish 'Troubles' with the story of a son's search for his father. In the process, the film creates a candid encounter between two filmmakers born into different political moments, revealing their contrasting experiences of Irish nationalism, the role of images in social struggle, and the competing claims of personal and political responsibility.

An ice sculpture in a northern city, a marching band, and the bitter silence on the radio.

Intimate stories of one Rust Belt city's struggle to recover in the post-recession economy. FRONTLINE and ProPublica report on the economic and social forces shaping Dayton, OH, a once-booming city where nearly 35 percent now live in poverty.

Skiers and snowboarders embark on a one-month road trip through Europe in a retrofitted school bus, chasing powder along the way.

Opera artist Hira Gasy from Madagascar, Emeline Raholiarisoa tells the story of this unique art that an international group is proposing to include as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Born in an artist's village, the author evokes the life of the troupe founded by her father Ramilison (known as Dadamily, Basigara) and more than six centuries of history of her country. The film is also haunted by death: many of the people filmed died of illness or road accidents, because in Madagascar, the health system is in ruins, the bush taxis are rolling coffins, and the drivers, who most often have bought their license, know neither the code nor safe driving. Why so many deaths? In this country, if you are not rich, and you are injured or sick, you die. A rebellious film that invites us to change things profoundly in the largest island in the Indian Ocean.

North Korea is a country of stark contrasts. On the one hand, it presents real socialist stereotypes like cryptic messages from a frozen time loop, combined with shocking reports on shortages. On the other hand, polished Pyongyang lures with a futuristic skyline, flashy amusement parks and department stores with a range of goods equal to those in western consumer meccas.

Turn up your volume, and let your senses come alive through this cozy ASMR experience as friends gather for the holidays. (Hulu Holiday Streaming)

O Homem Universal is a documentary that claims the memory of Arnoldo Palacios (1924 – 2015), an important representative of Afro literature in Colombia. It narrates his journey lived in the midst of the extreme poverty of the Colombian Pacific; his high ideals of understanding human reality lead him to different scenarios in European literature.

For the first time in history; an eyewitness account to the fact that Egyptian artifacts and giant skeletons were taken from the Grand Canyon and stored in the secret, underground Smithsonian warehouse. This film explores the following questions: Why are the landforms in the Grand Canyon named for Egyptian deities? Why is the DNA of giant mummies and giant skeletons, being extracted by the militaries of the world? Was a live 21-foot giant captured in 1877, with the most unusual features ever noted? Will the giants of yesterday become the super-soldiers of tomorrow? (Revised Edition - January 2021)

A nostalgic voyage through interstellar and subatomic space spanning half a century of scientific knowledge and imagination.

As a child Ibrahim Arslan survived the arson attack on his parents’ home in Mölln in which three members of his family were killed. Today he says that his family suffered not just one, but two attacks. After the Molotov cocktails had burnt out, the Arslan family became a target of attacks again, this time coming from the media, politics and society. These attacks were worse than the incendiary devices because they could have been avoided, Arslan says. In her film, Mala Reinhardt asks why even today many victims of radical right-wing violence are forced to live through the same experience of being treated with hostility and criminalised. The victims, who have formed a network, analyse with impressive clarity which conditions make racism still socially acceptable in our country. The essential thing now is to listen to them. Luc-Carolin Ziemann

German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned far-right protesters who were "hunting down" foreigners in street mobs following the killing of a German man, allegedly by a Syrian and an Iraqi. The far-right movement PEGIDA called for demonstrations for a second straight day after a gathering of around 800 people in the city of Chemnitz in the country's ex-communist east degenerated into violent chaos, forcing police to call in reinforcements.

A timely sociocultural look into the Appalachia region of Ohio and one artist's mission of 'erasing the hate.'

YAYA is a story about a filmmaker who explores the complex relationship between his family and the domestic worker who spent decades away from her family in the Philippines to raise his. This documentary is a tribute to all the domestic workers in Hong Kong, who has served as the backbone of Hong Kong's economy by unleashing a substantial female workforce into the economy and taken care of so many lives with love and care. You are all heroes in the hearts of the Hong Kong people. - Justin Cheung, the director

My grand father Wilhelm was a former Wehrmacht soldier. I have been filming him since my adolescence. After his death, I opened a box with memories from WWII he never showed anyone. Did I ever question him on his past? I can’t remember…

The rising star of Voronezh-based rock music Zakharov dreams of traveling with his group around the world, writing novels and always being the center of attention. And even more - how to fall in love. There are two options for Zakharova.

A tiny porpoise finds itself in a battle for survival against the forces of fish mafias, drug cartels and a Chinese black market.

A nationwide rebellion brought the United States to a standstill in the summer of 1877. Eighty thousand railroad workers walked out, joined by hundreds of thousands of Americans outraged by the excesses of the railroad companies and the misery of a four-year economic depression. Police, state militia, and federal troops clashed with strikers and sympathizers, leaving over one hundred dead and thousands injured. The Great Uprising inaugurated a new era of conflict over the meaning of America in the industrial age.

'NIRVANA' is an intimate journey into the lives of Chinntu Dolly and Aaliyah Khan, two young transgender women, as they journey to Koovagam, the largest transgender festival in the world, to take part in the highly anticipated Miss Koovagam beauty contest. This film is a look at the joys and troubles of transgender life in India.

A documentary on the creative process behind the show TO DA BONE, where 11 dancers were invited to revive jumpstyle on stage.