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Follows the lives of 6 adults with a disability in a care center. Over a year's time, each of them share their view of the world and how they cope with moods and looks.

New historical documentary on the largely unknown period of South African B-movies, and the later cinematic identity of the nation that was established under the apartheid regime.

Every child has the right to education in China. But ten-year-old Anni is not allowed to go to school. Why? Her father is a dissident. Anni and her father moved to be closer to her older sister. The little girl was not in her new school long enough to get settled – the secret police took her away after three days. Her father was, as so many times before, being interrogated. The school preferred to not have anything to do with such a family, so they have refused to continue educating her. Independent Chinese director Zhu Rikun, camera in hand, follows the movement of activists who have joined forces through the Weibo social network to support Anni. Will peaceful protests in front of the school and a petition be enough to pressure the school to take her back?

A golden summer dress in XXL, the ice-lolly drips slowly onto the hot ground. RIOT NOT DIET creates a queer feminist utopia far away from BMI norms and male* gaze. The fat women* and queers in this movie are not ashamed of their expansive body dimensions, but confidently claim space for themselves. They use their bodies to blow up patriarchal structures and enjoy their corporeality beyond the neoliberal logic of exploitation. In times of self-optimization, your belly is a statement!

During the darkest hours of the night, while the rest of the world is sleeping, outdoor photographer Paul Zizka ventures out into the wilderness in search of the world's starriest skies. His journey to photograph the celestial wonders takes him from his home amongst the peaks of the Canadian Rockies to the wild, desert dunes of Namibia and remote ice caps of Greenland. Ever the adventurer, he must balance his work and passion for photography with his equal devotion as a family man. In the Starlight is an intimate portrayal of Paul's quest to capture the night skies, and what his time spent under the stars has taught him about life, love, adventure, and our place in the universe.

"Basically being a paparazzi is just a kind of press work. But an incorruptible one. Because we photograph what is really happening," says paparazzo Andreas Meyer. Shooting Stars accompanies him while carrying out his rather controversial job.

A documentary exploring Denmark's secret to happiness. Hygge has exploded in popularity amidst growing division and distrust around the world, but the Danish word and its definition are more complicated than it seems. For those who seek happiness, this exploratory documentary travels around the globe to discover the true meaning of hygge and how to find it.

This minimalist six-minute film looks at the creation of animal life through video and time-lapse footage of an embryo’s development – a process universal to all animals, including people. The film follows, in microscopic detail, the development of an alpine newt in its translucent egg all the way from first cell division to moment of hatching.

11 days, 10 cities, 5300 km - the author of the film traveled so much from Moscow to Baikal, without spending any money on lodging or on food. The purpose of the experiment is to test the community for responsiveness. The film is a journey, changing the mind about compatriots and a look at their daily lives.

Exploration of the internet and our current era through YouTube videos. Dominic Gagnon reconstructs the south as seen through vlogs, found footage, video games, raging storms and burning palm trees.

A wily 87-year-old New Yorker, Judith Godwin is one of very few women of the Abstract Expressionist Movement. A creative awakening in college led her to produce the brilliant, gestural paintings for which she is renowned.

An American who has lived in South Africa for the past thirty years, Roger Ballen began his career as a geologist. He is now one of the most important and influential photographic artists of the 21st century.

Long before there were fast food and burger chains, Goody Goody® captured Tampa’s hearts and taste buds. From 1925 on, generations loved it. First dates and marriage proposals. Pre-work coffees and post-game meals. A community connected over an unpretentious diner, its signature hamburger (with secret sauce!) and some butterscotch pie. This sweet documentary by the award-winning team of Lynn Dingfelder and Larry Larry Wiezycki (JFK in Tampa) chronicles the reimagining and rebirth of Goody Goody® in 2016 after its closing in 2005. Come hear stories from longtime customers. Discover what’s in the restaurant’s “secret sauce.” Savor all the interesting ingredients that make up this iconic Tampa eatery. Goody Goody®: Past Present and Future … the documentary for people with good taste.

The tropical climate and contrasted topography of Costa Rica has fostered exceptional biodiversity, hosting wildlife from both North and South America. From the peaks of the volcanoes down to the Pacific and Caribbean shores, and amidst the dense Cloud forest, the country is home to the most remarkable mammals, beautiful birds, and astonishing reptiles… all in for a beauty contest!

A New York Times documentary mini-series revealing the dark and troubling history of Soviet and Russian misinformation campaigns on foreign governments.

‘Special Works School’ was the codename used by the British War Office between 1917-1919 for a group of artists tasked with the job of ‘camoufleur’ - painters, textile artists, scenographers, designers, sculptors and scenic painters who were employed by the military to work specifically on developing camouflage technology. The artist, armed with the skill of rendering their surroundings with utmost acuity, was appointed to remove things from the realm of perception. Bambitchell’s ’Special Works School’ takes its name from this military unit to investigate the connections between artistic practice and surveillant technologies. With this video, the duo ask what an overtly aesthetic approach to surveillance can render visible, or invisible. By framing surveillance as an aesthetic practice, ‘Special Works School’ hones in on the psychic, embodied and material dimensions of surveillance - both from the position of the surveillor and the surveilled.

The Great Unity of the new Generation of Chinese modern Artists since 21st Century. 50 new Chinese artists of new Generation came to Xinglong County, Hebei Province, where is 110 kilometers away from Beijing. Here, they have given their own answers to the same question: what is art? Through focusing on varied perspectives of emerging artists on creating, how the environment impacts them and challenges artist are experiencing and have experienced from art itself and society. Artists demonstrate the complex relationship between art, environment, art creating and individuals, and they are intended to deepen an eternal question –What is art?

The last concert of "Grazhdanskaya Oborona", held on February 9, 2008 in Yekaterinburg.

A video-essay with movie fragments.

This is the fascinating story of Venice from the late 19th century to the rise of Mussolini through the saga of one of its richest families: the Stucky family. A forgotten Venice, with incredible unreleased archives in original colour and amateur films shot in the early 1900s.

Oklahoma is home to thirty-nine federally recognized tribes. Nowhere in North America will you find such diversity among Native Peoples, and nowhere will you find a more tragic history. Host Moses Brings Plenty (Oglala Lakota) guides this episode of Growing Native on a journey through Oklahoma’s past and present.

Through one year we follow the Norwegian artist Vebjørn Sand towards his exhibition: Guernica a turning point.

“The European Dream: Serbia” is an investigative documentary by journalist Jaime Alekos about the tortures of Hungarian police to the refugees and migrants they catch trying to cross their border and the harsh living conditions in which they survive in Serbia awaiting an opportunity to enter the EU.

How do you define classic rock? Is it a genre, a radio format, or music from a specific period of time? Filmmaker & lifelong rocker Daniel Sarkissian travels the world, interviewing iconic artists in search of an answer.

Are we really the first advanced civilization on Earth? This is the bold and controversial question raised by this movie. Embark on a great and fascinating tour of the most amazing archaeological sites on Earth, as you have probably never seen them before, for a great journey, deep in the origin of our civilization a trip that may change forever your vision of our past and more.

Danish colonial history is finally being debated. An overlooked chapter is that of the Christian, Danish missionaries and their efforts to convert Africans to the right faith. But if you think that this is a thing of the past, you can think again.

Sereena confronts stigma and stereotypes on a daily basis being a transsexual in today’s society. In this short hybrid documentary, Sereena refuses to justify who she is and turns it back onto us and asks – what do you see when you look at her and can you look past the superficial and see the real her?

Filmed over a year in Ambedkar Nagar, a dense, largely working class area in South Delhi. It moves between the two very different worlds of its protagonists, Sachi and Parveen, and tries to keep up with the currents and swings of their respective loves. Sachi works at a local beauty parlor, Parveen runs the family’s small cigarette counter at a crowded intersection. They are surrounded by a cacophonous city; they are both in love with other women. The film accompanies them through their desire to find and live, according to Sachi, their ‘freedom lives’—lives that are outside society and family’s constant scrutiny and sanction. But this ‘freedom life’ also leaves them vulnerable to the precariousness of love, when it refuses such constraints.

A Pope, the Pill, and the Perils of Sexual Chaos

In this fluid dance film, director Sophie Fiennes collaborates with choreographer Lucy Bennet to reimagine Stopgap Dance Company's performance piece Artificial Things.

An examination of weaving and the loom as the predecessor to modern-day computing. Using punched cards, weaving programs were designed for looms in 18th century, and by the dawn of the 19th century, the process was automated. This was the percursor of modern computing hardware.

The seats in the theatre are still empty when the performer – the artist – enters the frame. She speaks about a colonial flashback. She is haunted by a series of historic photographs of or taken by the Austrian ethnographer Paul Schebesta in the 1930s, in the Belgian colony of the Congo.

Four women, four stories: Anissa, Fatiha, Malika and Sarah share in intimate portraits their journey of practicing the youyou or zaghareed, the cries of joy and emotion that women express in North Africa and West Asia. Through their life stories, interspersed with songs and personal narratives, they express the strength they draw from their voices and the legacy they carry with them.

The heroes of the film, a father and a son, seem to have lost their sense of time. Their life flows day by day, from one year to the next. They are separated by space and united by love. Two individuals, who may never see each other again.

A series of interviews between film historians Jonathan Rigby, Kevin Lyons and John J. Johnston as they discuss the troubled production of the film and how it relates to the end of Hammer’s horror run for some time.

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney Passé, who has previously worked with powerhouse music video director Khalil Joseph. Reading from her own works, Lincoln’s voice sets the tone for a film that explores the African American experience through fathers and their sons.

A loving meditation on the ugliest truck stop diner in 1960 industrial Saint-Boniface, run by Joe and Roma DeGagné and their eight children.

Arab-American filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi embraces the rhythmic rituals that have run alongside Islamic tradition throughout the centuries in this surreal and poetic short film. Piecing together old and new, Al-Rashi's dream-like imagery breathes fresh air to a subject hardly seen in positive light.

A short poetic documentary about indigenous identity.

Filmed in five locations on a single day, One Vote captures the compelling stories of diverse voters on Election Day 2016. At times funny, surprising and heart-wrenching, the film eschews partisan politics in favor of an honest portrayal.

A reworking of parts of 'Views from a City' with additional footage added (although this version is much shorter than the original film, made fifteen years previously).

The documentary Entremarés discusses the daily life and work of women who survive fishing activity in the Ilha de Deus community, located in the neighborhood of Imbiribeira, in Recife (PE).

Documentary ENERC 2018

A nostalgic look back at the heady days of Irish Eurovisions.

The Film travels across some fascinating forests of India to explore the amazing ways in which nature affects the body, mind and spirit. It uncovers some ancient wisdom and examines new findings, through inspiring stories of people whose lives are intricately woven with forests.

Wall Street short-sellers expose a scam that regulators overlook: how Big Pharma gouges patients in need of life-saving drugs.

A dialogue between East and West unfurls through the audio letters of an immigrant family in Molenbeek. They bear witness to the pain and yearning of the ones who stayed behind. It's a haunted audiovisual mantra, reflected in the moody black-and-white images of social housing blocks in Brussels.

A mockumentary about a man who frolics through the fields.

The lives of Ruth, Philipp, and Anja are directly linked to coal. And so they are also directly affected by the debate surrounding the coal phase-out. They are concerned about their future, but from different perspectives and in different ways. The days of coal are numbered. A coal commission is currently working on a concept for phasing out coal that includes an end date for lignite mining and power generation while ensuring that the climate protection target for 2030 is achieved. Germany already generates almost 40 percent of its electricity needs from renewable energies.

A short ciné-tract made by Boris Lehman in homage to the films of May '68.

Ziemia (“Earth” in Polish) is a public art project created by artist Martynka Wawrzyniak in collaboration with the Greenpoint, community. The project takes the form of a ceramic orb atop a meadow in McGolrick Park, which will be unveiled in June 2018. The orb is glazed with a mixture of clay excavated in Greenpoint and soils from around the world contributed by residents. The artist spent two years reaching out to fellow Greenpointers to invite them to gather soil from locations symbolically representative of their identity. This film is an abbreviated version of a film which documents Wawrzyniak’s journey to Poland in August 2017 to collect soil on behalf of Polish seniors and undocumented immigrants who were unable to personally collect the soil themselves. This film and the fabrication of the ceramic orb were made possible by the generous support of The Polish Cultural Institute in New York.

Symphonic documentary exploring the Miami identity in six movements. It was performed and projected live by the New World Symphony, led by Michael Tilson Thomas on Feb 22, 2018. The film is made up of five separate and synchronized video channels, projected onto the walls of the New World Center concert hall, above a full symphony orchestra.