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Real boys skinny-dip, fight with swords and learn to masturbate together. At least that's what the young men in 'Silence and Swords' imagine the boyhood they feel were cheated out of. They are transgender, and now, as adults, they have decided to explore male identity formation in Northern Europe's last wilderness. They have brought along a tent, gas fires and a slightly too clichéd list of all the things they need to experience on an educational journey that turns out to put their loving friendship to the test -- and forces them into a modern existential battle in the middle of the nature they have otherwise always felt betrayed by.

new featurette looking at the film's then groundbreaking effects. Former crews of Fantasy II Film VFX and 4-Ward Productions VFX are featured

Clarence Kane is the last remaining RCA employee still doing microphone repairs. In this documentary short, he shares his life story, details of his one of a kind business, and discusses the passing of his legacy.

Punctuated by 8mm footage filmed in the '60s by Richard Brickell, the East Sussex farmer of 90 reflects on a way of farming that's deeply connected with the land, smaller and more community focused and how we could all benefit from a return to that way.

A compelling portrait of an extraordinary figure, Aboriginal WWI soldier Douglas Grant, featuring acclaimed Indigenous actor Balang Tom E. Lewis (in his final performance). Grant (c.1885-1951) was extraordinarily famous in his day, an intellectual, a journalist, a soldier, a reader of Shakespeare and a bagpipe player who could put on a fine Scottish accent. His life story connects Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Adolf Hitler, and Henry Lawson among other famous figures as he moved from Australia to Europe, UK and back. Lewis’s thoughtful and often playful reflections on Grant’s life, along with guest appearances from Max Cullen and Archie Roach, connect to the larger story of Australia’s tragic colonial history and its troubled relationship with First Australians.

Living in Norway, filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly stays connected to his family in Gaza through a fragile internet connection, turning that digital space into a deeply personal lens on distance, conflict, and belonging.

Rocky is 15 years old and has stopped going to school. His social life is on the internet and he sits up every night to play computer games. One day he gets a friend request on Skype from Jackson. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona and doesn't go to school either. They fall in love, and Rocky starts a journey that will change his life.

Few musicians have made an impact throughout the decades as seismic as Bob Dylan. Retrace his journey, from humble folk beginnings in Hibbing, to the bustling electric Greenwich Village.

Rurutu is a community where traditions forge ties between the inhabitants. In Avera since the beginning of the 20th century, the 'umuai is the biggest festival of the year, when collective weddings that sometimes bring together up to 17 couples, are celebrated together. Friends and families participate uninhibitedly with gifts, food, drinks, and dances: everything including joy is offered in abundance during these festivities that last several days. This is an essential part of the identity of this island.

A group of renters take a look at why housing is hostile, and how we can use social action to make a change.

How far can you ride a bike downhill? To find out GCN PresenterJames Lowsley-Williams has teamed up with adventurer Mark Beaumont for a challenge of epic proportions in the high Andes of Chile. Their goal is to scale the highest active volcano in the world, the Ojos del Salado, with bikes strapped to their backs, before riding the longest descent in the world….300 KM to the Pacific coast. With a depleted team, weather delays and pressure from home to return by Christmas, can they conquer the immense challenge ahead of them? It's all downhill from here... right?

​A documentation of recording "Old Flowers" by musician Courtney Marie Andrews.

Soupalunch Heroes is a film created by Alchemy Film & Arts with Reaching Out, the community-based project of Hawick Congregational Community Church, which coordinates a small team of volunteers to buy, prepare and serve food to 60 people of all ages every Wednesday. The film was made as part of Film Town, Alchemy Film & Arts’ community filmmaking project.

The movie looks at the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting.

In the Brazilian countryside, the village of Monteiros hosts a unique event every year. When a person’s prayers are granted, they offer the village’s dogs a feast. Between religious celebration and popular belief, Lazarus’ Hunger powerfully documents a community coming together.

Italo lives in Saviore dell'Adamello, in Valcamonica. His life changed after meeting some groups of Native Americans, whom he had the opportunity to host: coming from afar, along different but deeply connected paths, their gazes will come together in a new spiritual journey. The anticipation of this encounter makes the passing of time a journey in which Italo slowly experiences the changing seasons, savoring every moment of the cold winter, awaiting the arrival of summer and an Indian chief.

Filmmaker and animator Lilliana Rice explores the complicated identity of being a mixed native. Lilliana finds resiliency in feigning ignorance to accrue power within the industry so as to break down systems that are not made for Indigenous People.

The director Félix Lamarche questions our relationship with the St. Lawrence River during the winter. Aboard the Amundsen, a Canadian coast guard icebreaker, we follow passionate scientists who explore the mysteries of an inaccessible nature. Combining the landscapes of the ice floe and the invisible movements of underwater life, the film takes us on a documentary journey to the heart of this still little known river.

A making-of documentary of Total Life Forever, the 2010 album by British rock band, Foals. The short film, directed by Dave Ma, marks the 10th anniversary of the album.

Freud described the sinister (unheimlich) as a contradictory experience where the strange is presented to us as known and the known becomes strange. A granddaughter discovers that her grandmother's past was very different from what she had been told. Could it be that in times of war, morality is subordinated to survival?

The Wheels of Wonder follows a team of ambitious social impact creators as they enter Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, with a curious project. Their mission: to trial and test an unusual prototype play cart with the hope of improving the lives of refugee children through “loose parts” play. The project is led by Marcus Veerman, founder and CEO of Playground Ideas, a not-for-profit providing open-source playground building resources which benefit children all over the world. Veerman’s passionate and skilled team includes a Product Designer, Play Specialist and Technical Lead. Despite plenty of planning, the group face numerous challenges whilst constructing and trialling a material-based prototype in a country which is currently home to an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees.

An essay film approaching trauma-related memory loss via reflections on light outside the visible spectrum – on what is felt but never seen.

The intimate life of the mythical Candy Dubois, from her childhood in a correctional facility to her success with the "Blue Ballet" in the great "BIM BAM BUM".

Olivier is a hypochondriac pharmacist who regularly consults his fellow doctors. Unable to answer the recurring question about his own family medical history, he decides to investigate his biological roots. Obsessed with his research and worried about the answers he finally finds out, he forgets what matters most…

An inside view at the making of the Golden Globe Nominee "La Llorona" by director Jayro Bustamante, exploring both the technical aspect and a deeper, more complex look into the Guatemalan Civil War and its repercussions.

Disabled artist and film-maker Richard Butchins investigates whether good vision equals great art and looks at modern and historical artists through the lens of their impaired vision.

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a documentary film by Michael Oswald about Colin Wallace, a former Senior Information Officer at the Ministry of Defence, UK. As part of his work Colin Wallace engaged in PsyOps and spread fake news, he and his colleagues created a witchcraft scare, smeared politicians and attempted to divide and create conflict amongst communities, organisations and individuals. Colin Wallace fell out with sections of the British intelligence community, he was framed for a murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison. 15 years after his conviction the sentence was quashed on appeal after the Home Office coroner admitted his report had been influenced by a member of the intelligence community. The Man Who Knew Too Much is a unique and in-depth look at the smoke and mirrors world of intelligence, psychological warfare and fake news through the eyes of a man who stood proudly at the centre of that world.

The inhabitants of Madrid have always been called «cats», but what we did not know is that with confinement we were going to understand the true meaning of being a cat.

The film follows a man who, despite the unusual circumstances,, does his job with great care and love...

Who killed James and Vivian Gray? Scott County KY prosecutors say the Grays' only son Anthony did; he would inherit their riches. And when presented with a pile of physical evidence - he confessed on camera. The problem? The evidence they presented was forged by police. The confession was thrown out by the state Supreme Court. Now, while Anthony sits in prison, determined prosecutors and dogged public defenders must settle a Kentucky murder mystery the story of a broken family, a mysterious gun-running ring that went through the very living room where the murders took place; a mysterious daughter who discovered the bodies and, in real time, a final verdict on Anthony Gray guilty or not guilty? Watch as it happens.

How much can one imagine, feel, and how many times can one gain trust and lose trust, within only 4 minutes and 33 seconds? Using as a starting point her desire to represent a certain kind of silence, the director plays with the spectator's need for reliability. The film is never what one believes it is - until the last revelation. "The Last Name of John Cage" acts as still dialogue between a loud inner tension and the silent one all around.

Someone called Father Arkady a punk priest, some called a hippie priest. Once he really hippie, and then he left with friends from Moscow to a remote Karelian village and began to build a temple. Over time, this remote village became a point of attraction for many people: poets, artists, scourges, withdrawal addicts, musicians, writers, criminals, photographers. Father Arkady was an unusual priest from the generation of the 90s and in some way reflected the fate of this generation. It all started with freedom and endless celebration, but what did it lead to? Is it all over, or is it just that Holiday has changed?

You never know when someone is miscarrying; it could be happening right next to you.

Hidden in American history, all women's medical schools began to appear in the mid 19th century long before women had the right to vote or own property. "Daring Women Doctors" highlights the intrepid, pioneering and diverse women who faced hostility and resistance in their pursuit of medical education. It also demonstrates how women doctors exerted a long-lasting influence on the movement towards women's rights.

46-year-old Džemo lives in a village with his mother, father and brother. He cares for ten cows every day thereby earning a living for his family. Džemo’s day starts and ends with a pushcart, his constant companion on daily more than 20-kilometer-runs. His boyhood dream was to take part in large running events which is why he always applies for city and mountain races. Despite hard labour demanded by a life in the rural area, and the fact that he competes against professional athletes, Džemo wins gold medals regularly.

In the later stages of the epidemic, a young couple who constantly argued over work, a partner who had a conflict, a friend who didn't show up for a long time, their video chats were interwoven and recorded on a computer screen with anxiety, boredom, and hope.

Whistler and Scud, Davy and Sara, Elaine, Gorgeous George, Erik, Matt, Dr Dave, Fordey and Sima have one thing in common, they are obsessed with Newcastle United. We follow their joys and pains, as the black and whites, led by the mighty Rafael Benítez, fight to get back into the Premier League.

"The Challenging Dance"—a lively short film that documents the first dancer of color in Les Grands Ballets Canadiens—tracks Vanesa G. R. Montoya as she mounts her first major solo piece. Conveying a sense of the intense work that goes into each dance production, the film also represents a new initiative highlighting filmmakers from Quebec’s immigrant community: for this first edition, the two laureates were directors Gabriela de Andrade and Alexandre Paskanoi.

Héctor and Alvarito survived a perverse system that deprived them of their freedoms and rights, imprisoned in the Colonia Montes de Oca for more than 50 years. Today, they are part of a project that confronts the mental asylum logic and seeks to give their lives a new meaning.

After 6 months of anti-government protests in Hong Kong, students began to fortify a number of the city's major universities and occupy vital roads nearby. This lead to one of the most violent clashes of the protests...the siege of Poly-U.

Across Indonesia, hundreds of rural communities are in conflict with corporations seeking control of their resources. When they push back, they face the wrath of the state. In Our Mothers’ Land journalist Febriana Firdaus travels to meet women who have risen to lead social movements, facing violence, imprisonment, and judgement from conservative societies as they fight for their rights.

The film presents the trajectory of more than 90 years and the work of one of the greatest architects of the Brazilian Modern Movement, Marcos Konder Netto.

In this short documentary, Vedat Milor tries to uncover the complex processes behind some of the traditional Turkish dishes that seem simple at first glance.

From the makers of the acclaimed series The Game, which examined the rich history of hurling, comes this one-off documentary looking at the life and times of one of the greatest ever exponents of the game, Cork’s Christy Ring.

In Isère, in the mountainous region of Trièves, is the Tournesol farm, an experiential farm totally autonomous in energy, a veritable laboratory for renewable energies. Jean-Philippe and his family live there from sheep farming and organic market gardening. But in September 2017, a violent fire destroyed the farm and its facilities. While the family has lost everything, a surge of solidarity is taking place so that the Tournesol farm is reborn from its ashes.

Jim Marshall was a maverick with a camera. An outsider who captured the heights of Rock’N’Roll music and the seismic changes of an era, from the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, to the civil rights movements and some of the most iconic moments of the 60’s.

A documentary about a long lost N64 game.