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Trent Williams is one of the most athletic and successful offensive linemen in NFL history. The eight-time first-ballot Pro Bowler can go from clearing 5-foot-high box jumps to beating future Hall of Fame running back Adrian Peterson in footwork drills. The 6’5”, 320-pound native of Longview, Texas, is also a skilled hooper, capable of 360-degree dunks and a nasty crossover akin to Allen Iverson’s. Now, the San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle—known as the “Silverback” for his size and speed—is authoring one of the most miraculous comeback stories in NFL history.

Wrenna is a young woman with a fearless dream - a 6’ 2” natural with a body built for the ocean, she wants to be a big wave surfer. But she finds the discipline and sacrifice required to be a professional, extremely challenging. Growing up in New Jersey with hippy parents, her teenage years were spent caring for her younger siblings and schooling herself in the local library. At 19, Wrenna makes her pilgrimage to Hawaii's North Shore risking it all on big waves. She is confronted by the pressures of carving out a professional sporting life as a woman and without a sponsor she works two jobs to support her dream. Filming over ten years, from Oahu’s iconic big wave, Waimea Bay to the cold waters of Mavericks to the ultimate big wave of Peahi (Jaws), we travel with Wrenna through the seasons, the highs and the lows of facing your fears - to find out how much bigger you can be.

If you've ever eaten macaroni and cheese, French fries or ice cream, you've enjoyed the contributions of America's unknown culinary founding father, James Hemings. James Hemings was the first American trained as a master chef; he was also the brother-in-law and enslaved property of Thomas Jefferson.

An e-mail and a found book are taken as evidence for an investigation: through analysis from a forensic software a relationship between what is built by humans and the spread of a virus is sought. What is the secret relationship between stones and pixels?

This film shares the story of Camp Morningstar, a sacred camp established on the east side of Lake Winnipeg that was erected in response to the proposal of a silica sand mine project.

A family’s history mirroring today’s chaotic world as 3 sons and their father are about to get together for the first time. A Serb, a Filipino, an African American and a Croat. A clash of religions, ages, skin colors and nationalities.

Owners of an ice cream shop in South Carolina soon learn that getting a Confederate flag removed, even in the wake of the Charleston Massacre, is not an easy task when the Sons of the Confederacy are involved.

A congregation of images around Newington Green, Stoke Newington, and the surrounding streets form a meeting place for the locals to reflect on their understanding of working-class culture and the local area.

The filmmaker tries to communicate with the sheep living where his parents are buried.

D. Afonso Henriques, D. Manuel I, D. Dinis and Pedro Álvares Cabral promote Portugal's twelve Historical Villages. The four unavoidable figures present traditions, customs, battles and moments that forever marked the History of Portugal.

Can the human brain really handle several tasks at once? The film exposes the myth about effective multitasking and takes a scientific look at its feasibility in the real world.

A Toronto filmmaker returns to his declining hometown to reconnect with his father and grandfather, the two men who have shaped his life. Beautifully shot in black and white, this tender film captures a rural town and family in flux.

Taken from the perspective of the Glasgow Tigers Club during their 2019 season, this exciting, fast-paced and action-packed feature about Speedway Motorcycle racing in the UK.

In a strange and haunted setting, verses are lost, like an echo that nobody can seem to hear. The grainy, blurry images shot with the Super 8 camera and a soundtrack seeming to come from the far ends of the universe give the words of Laurence Olivier the feeling of some alien poem. As if the Other – ghosts or beings from another world – could also be transported by love and loss, by the impoverishment of the imagination and the transience of the material world. The invisible presence of ghosts seems to have found a witness here.

Explores the role of the MTA in New York City and the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic had on the vital service it provides: transporting New York’s essential workers. The film acknowledges the decline of the subway infrastructure as a political issue and captures a tumultuous time that impacted every city in America. This film poses the question: what happens when the lifeline of a city goes flat?

This critically acclaimed Vietnamese documentary portrays the claustrophobic struggles against COVID-19, led by a group of doctors and nurses, in an effort to save the lives of COVID infected pregnant women. Produced by national news channel VTV, "Ranh Giới", meaning "borderline", refers to the line between life and death.

"Until My Fingers Bleed" is an experimental documentary, in which the performance's images intersect with the archival materials of the official government media channels. The spectacularization of the speech and the potential acting of the president are beyond documentary, approaching a fictionalized reality, by bringing out perverse poetics.

This fascinating and odd structure has many experts debating why it exists and how these mysterious people moved such enormous stones. Each year over a million people from around the world travel to Wiltshire, England, to see Stonehenge, the most recognizable prehistoric monument in Europe, and to experience its strange presence.

What are three years in the life of a river, on its coast, in a corner of South America? The seasons follow one another; time speaks of a Río de la Plata that is always different. The air brings voices from the past and the present; we realize that we are also this river.

Nordeste is a fiction, sang Belchior in São Paulo. If the paulista and the northeastern are inventions elevated along a path, they are also the shapers of cities carried in the body of everyone who comes and everyone who goes. The documentary looks at the presence of many northeasters, in this region called Bixiga, known for its Italian presence, claimed in its black and indigenous memory.

A happening about the importance of Yiddish as a mediator of history, cultural and personal identity and the importance of keeping a language alive. Salomon Schulman, Yiddish profile, talks with two young people who seek their identity by discovering the older generation's language.

An exuberant 72 year-old gay artist named Miguel recalls his life of art and community in San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic.

A team of nine "rogue" scientists embark on a journey to Antarctica. Their choice of transport: a small sailboat. An intimately human account of what it means to live and work alongside one another under relentless conditions, set within the wider context of rapidly advancing global change, impending habitat destruction and the current zeitgeist of environmentalism.

A short experimental documentary exploring the insecurities of a model.

The German-French photographer Gisèle Freund (1908-2000) went into exile in Paris in 1933. She witnessed many major events and knew some of the most important personalities of the 20th century. Her works include the famous portrait of André Malraux and the iconic photographs of Frida Kahlo in Mexico City.

In this feature-length documentary, Anthony Wilks traces the connections between the events of Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years in Germany as Hitler came to power and his communist membership, to the jazz clubs of 1950s Soho and the makings of New Labour, taking in Italian bandits, Peruvian peasant movements and the development of nationalism in the modern world, with help from the assiduous observations of MI5.

Apocalypse series such as "Fear the Walking Dead" have shown us all too distressingly that, in the face of the apocalypse, stockpiling may secure your own supplies in the short term, but in no way offers protection against the actual threat. And an end-time classic like “Contagion“ already preached ten years ago that hand hygiene and face masks are essential if a global pandemic is to be contained. In "Fiction for Future", we ask old masters of the genre such as Roland Emmerich, Terry Gilliam and Frank Schätzing what the nightmarish tales of doom tell us about the horrors of our future. How will global challenges such as climate change and pandemics change our lives? Can we master the major challenges of our future? And if so, how?

In 1991, the issue of “comfort women” was raised for the first time through the testimony of the late Kim Hak-sun. One of the first reporters in Japan to write an article about her testimony was Uemura Takashi of The Asahi Shimbun. Since the publication of his article, Uemura has been subjected to blatant attacks from the far-right, including threats on his family’s life, and the issue is still ongoing in 2021. Based on Uemura's defamation lawsuit that began in 2015, TARGET details why he had to be someone's “target.”

A film about climate activism in the suburbs.

In 1975 the Mannheim housing complex Collini Center was build as an utopia for social coresidence. In 2020 the building and its 1200 residents have become a gated community, threatened by demolition. Social isolation, islamophobia and loss of cultural meeting places - an artistic examination of prepandemic Germany in 2020.

After Silvia’s femicide, Yecenia, her cousin, and one of the ñomndaa weavers from the Prairie of Flowers, create a ritual and poetic mourning alongside other weaving women. The ñomndaa women share ancient wisdom about their profession as weavers, rooted in breathtaking myths and the foremothers’ real life experiences. The elders decide that the only way to proceed is to look forward to the future, taking care of the young children left behind after their mother’s murder. Yecenia speaks through the radio, urging her local community to adopt new words, such as femicide, into their local tongue. Through this ritual, threads, dreams, and their craft are collectively woven together as an act of healing and resilience. In Prairie of Flowers, the act of weaving opens up to become an act of resistance in its own right.

A house. A shelter. A man the last one left in the homeland. A woman returns to her community every year. The daughters and husband who have lost all traditions. A rapper who raps in the old language. In 1990 Susanna marries Udo. Their wedding is the last one celebrated between two Saxons in their village. After that the couple emigrated like half a million of Transylvanian Saxons. After 30 years in Germany the relationship between Susi and Udo has gone stale and they haven't taught their native language to their daughters that feel just German. Georg on the other hand is proud of his identity. He hopes with his rap to spread the young generations about the heritage to make them proud of being a Saxon. This is the choral story of a family who is learning to change in order not to disappear.

They have partied through their 20s. Now, Tamara, Ponek and Sierzput have to figure out what to do with their lives. Tamara is a feminist, but also a hopeless romantic. Sierzput has just won his girlfriend back, but is struggling to hold on to her. And out of sheer boredom, Ponek has broken her own rule number one and has started sleeping with her friends. Three lives, intertwined in a fog of cigarette smoke and canned beer during a long summer in concrete-grey Warsaw, where the desire to party to the early hours is never far away. The Danish director Karl Forchhammer’s film is an entertaining and existential tale with raw edges.

THE CRY OF THE SUQUÍA RIVER is a documentary that runs through the Suquía River, a river that is part of the identity of the city of córdoba, in argentina. We decided to embark on a boat trip crossing a 32 km path that allows us at each stop, to connect with life experiences on various socio-environmental realities.

Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1972), and the first Black woman to have her paintings exhibited in the White House (2009). Yet she did not receive national attention until she was 80.

The Garden perform their album, “Kiss My Super Bowl Ring,” live at the Fox Theater Pomona.

Lockdowns and quarantines did not deter sixteen filmmakers from Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and the National Capital Region from chronicling their struggles and triumphs during the pandemic time in the way they know best: through film. ECQ: Eksena Cinema Quarantine (COVID-19 Filmmakers' Diaries), a project under the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, National Committee on Cinema (NCCA-NCC), in cooperation with University of St. La Salle Artists' Hub, features sixteen filmmakers namely Adjani Arumpac, Hiyas Baldemor Bagabaldo, Arbi Barbarona, Glenn Barit, Carlo Enciso Catu, Zurich Chan, Arden Rod Condez, Kristian Sendon Cordero, Khavn, Keith Deligero, Kyle Fermindoza, Bagane Fiola, Mark L. Garcia, Julienne Ilagan, Pam Miras, and Guillermo Ocampo.

As we unravel the mysteries of the deep ocean, we have also discovered the world's largest ecosystem is full of precious minerals. Now, the race to mine the deep sea is posing a serious threat to the last near pristine habitats on the planet. The clock is ticking to stop the largest industrial activity the ocean has ever faced in its tracks.

In the summer of 2021, the Finnish men's national football team played in the World Cup for the first time. Two of Finland's matches were played in St Petersburg, which was simultaneously ravaged by a virulent new variant of Covid19 disease. Despite the advice from the government to stay at home, thousands of fans made the trip to the city. Covid Cowboys documentary tells the story of these supporters and the aftermath of what happened, when on one side of the scale were the historic dream of generations and the health of themselves and their loved ones in the other.

The documentary ‘Together’ or ‘Samen’ in Dutch, tells the story of Sam. Sam was the best friend of Tyson who is also the director. Two years ago Sam passed away at the age of twenty. This moving film portrays the grieving processes of five young adults after they abruptly lost one of their best friends. With story directors Rosanne Gjaltema and Tyson Malaihollo want to break taboos surrounding suicide and emphasize the importance of mental health.

Correspondences are fragments of life seized in the flesh of the great History. The one between Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau explores forty-eight years of a complex and tormented artistic friendship. Through their letters, the film unfolds the story of a talent and a genius, a unique story that sweeps across the artistic and political spectrum of fifty years of the twentieth century: cubism, Russian ballets, Guernica, the Occupation and the purge, Dora Maar, Jean Marais, Cocteau's film poetry, Picasso's ceramics and the Mediterranean sky.

The film tells about the small town of Gubkin and its inhabitants. A little-known settlement in southern Russia has a huge iron ore quarry. Through the mosaic of local stories, we will see the city and the quarry next to it, like a living creature that influences people's lives with its mood.

Through a series of vignettes from the ancient and war-torn Levant, WILD IS THE SPRING captures moments in the lives of diverse ethnic communities who struggle to survive when life descends into chaos.

The picture tells about Alexander Askold and his prophetic film "Commissar", which many researchers compared to the legendary "Battleship Potemkin", and which was subjected to rabid harassment for several decades.

An intimate portrait of the Franco-Iranian painter Davoud Ghanbariha, filmed in the outskirts of Paris. Through a dialogue between his voice and his paintings, Maintenant et ici explores memory, exile, and the act of creation as a fragile bridge between past and present.

Amarillo, the dream of a collective of artists who invested everything in what ended up being a cultural phenomenon of the 90s in Uruguay. Fundamental figures of music, theater, dance, poetry and performance passed through there. After fifteen months of operation, it closed its doors. Twenty-five years later, its protagonists reconstruct their history and that of a whole generation by going through unpublished images.

Cat lovers from all over the Netherlands sent in their own films en mass for Poeslief 2. No fewer than 1001 cats will eventually get their own '20 seconds of fame' from none other than Abatutu, the most famous film cat of the Low Countries (and the first animal winner of an oeuvre prize at the NFF!). Two young studs with the voices of TikTok stars Dreamon.04 and Lxnneke want to become just as famous. Will they follow in the footsteps of their big hero?

Judith is a member of the mariachi band "La Estampa de Calimaya" and the only woman in the group. She's also mother of two kids and lives in Toluca.

The Avalanche story, the biggest wave in Brazil, at Praia da Costa, Vila Velha-ES. The 6-meter tube, faced by Ian, led to gather testimonials and images on the adventures of Surf in Espírito Santo.

Almost three decades after his grisly killing in Germany, the murder of the exiled Iranian entertainer Fereydoun Farrokhzad remains officially unsolved. But an investigation by RFE/RL's Persian-language service, Radio Farda, has uncovered documents that point to Iran's intelligence services. And a former Iranian spy has revealed a possible suspect in the 1992 slaying of the outspoken critic of Iran's hard-line Islamic regime.

Sara Bahai, the first female taxi driver and women's rights activist in Afghanistan, is garnering the recognition in the public sphere she has always aspired. However, her greatest conflict arises in her own home.

Over the course of a year, filmmaker Charlotte Ginsborg filmed the London housing co-operative that she lives in, looking to chart the residents’ diverse experiences of the pandemic, across the daily life of numerous national lockdowns. Some experienced the illness itself, while others faced the stress of work on the front line. Each Saturday, the residents came together to sing with each other from their communal balconies and walkways, and these songs permeate throughout the film. Increasingly frustrated by the government, residents experienced an emotional rollercoaster that is reflected in a film wherein the personal and political interweave, to create an intimate and moving portrait of a unique community during an extraordinary time.