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Diana Apcar, a 19th century Armenian writer living in Japan, becomes the de facto ambassador of a lost nation.

Danielle de Niese explores the lives and works of five female composers - from the Middle Ages to the late 20th century - who were famous in their lifetimes, but whose work was then forgotten. Western classical music has traditionally been seen as a procession of male geniuses, but the truth is that women have always composed. Hildegard of Bingen, Francesca Caccini, Clara Schumann, Florence Price and Elizabeth Maconchy - all these women battled to fulfill their ambitions and overcome the obstacles that society placed in their way. They then disappeared into obscurity, and only some have found recognition again.

A small district in the north of Yogyakarta City famously called "Italy" is home to a football team called PSS SLEMAN, which is supported by its fans. Brigata Curva Sud, also known as bcsxpss.1976, is a group of PSS SLEMAN supporters who embrace the "ultras" path. A group of supporters whose motto is "Give us 90 minutes, and we'll give you a lifetime." The motto is more than just a phrase; their support doesn't end after 90 minutes. Brigata Curva Sud is well-known in Indonesian football because of their creativity in supporting their team. It has eight influential manifestos that help them stay in line and loyally support PSS SLEMAN.

Autism And Me is a revealing observational documentary that explores the autism spectrum through the experiences of a number of Irish children, teenagers and young adults. We hear directly from a range of diverse and engaging participants about what living with autism is like and about how they feel they are perceived by the rest of the world.

After the disaster of March 2011, the Japanese authorities decided to build a gigantic 15 meter high, 500 kilometer long, anti-tsunami wall, separating the land and the ocean. But what is the environmental and human impact of this wall? The population is divided on their opinion: should they cut the island off from the sea or stay vulnerable to tsunamis? Is there another way?

"Seasonal farm worker families talk about their "seasonal life" in the fertile land of Çukurova, Adana."

The soul behind an artist who gave us so many unique songs.

This one-hour special goes inside Ford’s historic Rouge Complex, where F-150 pickup trucks come to life. From stamping raw aluminum to the body shop to final assembly, cameras follow the high-tech descendants of Henry Ford’s groundbreaking assembly line, revealing how innovation has kept the F-Series America’s best-selling truck for 41 years.

Three characters search for meaning in the growth of an overlooked urban weed. The Narrator pursues the plant to find the elderly woman first seen picking it, yet as observations accumulate a shadow researcher emerges. Their methods entangle and the focus blurs. Is the Kyria’s knowledge being sought, or the Collector’s? And, other than the symbolic plant, do the other figures exist at all?

Covers the legacy of hate in America and how it shaped the country as it is today. Reporters follow characters and experts from across the U.S. including the families of James Byrd, Vernon Dahmer and Medgar Evers, organizers of rallies in Charlottesville and Portland, and a reformed Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.

Award-winning photographer Ben Thouard invented a new perspective of our world-shot underwater from inside a wave looking back at the landscape as never seen before. His love of the ocean, surfing, and windsurfing brought him to the small village of Teahupoo, Tahiti, where he can see the legendary surf break from his backyard.

A documentary on the mass shooting at a concert in Las Vegas.

The first and only documentary telling the story of the inspiring women at the forefront of the global AIDS movement. Combining archival footage and interviews with female activists, scientists and scholars in the US and Africa, this documentary reveals how women not only shaped grassroots groups like ACT-UP in the U.S., but have also played essential roles in HIV prevention and the treatment access movement throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

Ten years on from the global financial crash, this documentary tells the extraordinary story of how a small Scottish bank briefly grew to become the biggest in the world before collapsing and triggering the largest financial bail-out in British history. It focuses on a single day, 7 October 2008, when the Royal Bank of Scotland collapsed and almost took the entire UK banking system down with it. This dramatic financial thriller, set over 24 hours, is intercut with the story of the amazing rise and shocking fall of RBS.

The tale of how in St. Petersburg watched the match "Russia-Croatia".

This beautiful film shot on 35mm captures the ebb and flow of daily life in a small Scottish coastal town.

No warheads, no jackbooted soldiers, no statues of the god-emperor – instead, this is a poetic, evocative snapshot of everyday life in North Korea, the country ruled by the world’s most paranoid and secretive regime.

A documentary road-movie following the journey of a grave-robber, who travels in a caravan to Vienna, to return stolen teeth of Strauss and Brahms. The teeth, which he stole himself.

A documentary short detailing the path of rapper G Herbo from Chicago's East Side "Terror Town" to a successful rap career, and back to the community he came from in order to inspire others to not lose faith despite their hardships.

This is the story of a land where the sun never shines. Olga, a young singer, escapes the fog of the city to rediscover her faith and keep on singing.

The filmmaker as an outsider on the refugee-affected Greek island of Chios, in a film that is closer to photography and poetry.

Nothing is more relaxing than watching a campfire flicker at night. The crackling wood and orange glow will put you in a deep state of rest.

Lida Blinova is well-known in the scene of the first contemporary art wave, particularly amongst architects who were very much engaged in arts in 1970s Almaty. However, almost no legacy of her art practices is left for researchers, historians and following generations of today. Being in many senses a shadow-artist of a bigger star, her husband Rustam Khalfin, directors of the documentary are questioning the possibility of the freedom of choice among Kazakhstani women artists like Lida Blinova, embarking on a biographical journey through the genealogy of contemporary art and its formation in Kazakhstan. So, the fundamental question is whether Lida Blinova was a shadow artist or an alter ego?

A look at contemporary Paris through the lens of theories and ideologies of the past two centuries, with a particular focus on the utopian socialist ideas of Charles Fourier.

Documentary about a man who starts bodybuilding to start anew and make his sons proud of him.

Intimate true stories from St Kilda's Gatwick Private Hotel. Meet the incredible characters including sisters Rose and Yvette who dedicated their lives to caring for the forgotten.

The soul is like the wind, and the wind is in the mountains. Walk into the no-man 's land and say farewell to the regretful past...

A documentary about Dona Ana, a lady who created a nursery and saved and helped the lives of many people.

The Seawolf is the latest from awarded filmmaker Ben Gulliver, who follows seven professional surfers on a two-year, jaw-dropping, cinematic journey in search of remote, frigid waves. This cold-water surf film documents the best of the best as the navigate icy waters in Norway, Scotland, New Zealand, Canada, Australia and The Faroe Islands. For decades, the search of new and isolated waves has been inspiring surfers and filmmakers alike. With the progression of wetsuit technology and the desire to go further, the possibilities of triumph in visual cinematics and surf are exceeded with The Seawolf.

Leah, Teddy & the Mandolin’ showcases the many highlights of the annual festival and features the people involved in this remarkable celebration of Yiddish song. From 4 soloists in 2001, the Annual Leah Todres Yiddish Song Festival featured 10 soloists and 120 voices singing in Yiddish on the stage of the Baxter Theatre in 2010. Originally conceived as a fund-raiser for the Cape Jewish Seniors Association, the festival took on a life of its own. The songs reached out and there was a fascinating re-engagement with both the language and the genre. Enjoy the wonderful songs and engage with the many people whose abundant talent and commitment made the festival possible

Many people in Germany have decided to phase out nuclear power plants and switch to renewable energy sources by 2022. The film traces the postwar path of German citizens who continue to think and act on their own initiative, and explores the hope for “Morgen” (German for “tomorrow”) that they have found.

Dumisani Ntombela has never seen a football stadium, but coached a women's football team for the Premier League. She has lost her funding and her team, but wants to attract her back on the field.

At the Basque Culinary Center, 5 young talented students of cutting-edge gastronomy from all over the world will go back to the past to create the menu Bihar dok 13. They will travel to 1966 to discover the decade that would change everything in Basque culture. With five special events, we will discover the movements Gaur, Ez dok amairu and the spiritual father of the BCC, the Basque Nouvelle Cuisine. The “Bihar dok amairu” menu prepared by the young chefs will be served during a special meal and enjoyed by the most relevant personalities in Basque culture today, uniting new artists and musicians. The old generation will symbolically open the door to the new.

The concept of work is understood as the human activity carried out with the aim of producing a way of obtaining subsistence connected to the passage of time. The question that arises is how work can be the surrender of one's life (Make a deliberate incision in one's flesh, as a symptom of psychological or emotional distress.) In this vídeo, Silvio Eduardo Crisostomo exposes workers in activity alluding to bodies as ready-to-cut meat. Work as such activity sounds like repetition: the act of demolishing, building, living, and dying make up the simultaneous quadrilogy on a polyethylene cutting board.

They live on the edge of the known world - far from civilization but affected by its consequences nonetheless. The photographer Markus Mauthe visited these last indigenous peoples to capture the inherent beauty of their cultures, before they too fall victim to ever-advancing globalisation. The journey leads from South Sudan and Ethiopia to Malay sea nomads and Brazilian Indians in Mato Grosso, who have started to defend themselves against the destruction of their natural habitat. The result is a film that captures intimate and unadulterated encounters with sumptuous photography – while also serving as an appeal for the preservation of indigenous cultures, which will surely perish unless we rethink and act accordingly.

This concert documentary blends the full live performance of the final hometown show of mewithoutYou's "[A→B] Life 15th Anniversary Tour" with interviews and archival footage to tell the story of the band's evolution and emotions as they revisit their debut record.

Andrés Pérez Araya, one of the most outstanding Chilean artists. Through his own voice, makes an exciting retelling of his life and his final years.

Some consider television to be just a marginal entertainment, but for others it’s an essential part of everyday life. The film follows two friends – social actresses – who entertain themselves by participating in various TV shows.

Histories of Hunger in Brazil is a documentary that sets a timeline of hunger in the country. From Colonial Brazil, where the seeds of social inequalities were planted, to the recent public policies that culminated with Brazil finally exiting UN official World Map of Hunger, we portray how the confrontation of this evil on the part of the society and of the government took place.

A broad-ranging examination of Indian society, where secular rationalists are hunted down as they attempt to stem the rising tide of religious and nationalist fundamentalism.

The story of the family at the heart of Syria's civil war and how President Bashar Assad and his wife, who were once welcomed as reformers, came to preside over a brutal war that has led to some of the most horrifying crimes in modern times.

What happens when what you believe doesn't match up with the facts? This thought-provoking doc is about gossip, false news, and the untimely death of a jazz singer.

The suicide rate among Canada's first responders has reached crisis level and continues to rise each year. What's behind this?

Mouth-watering and entertaining, The King of Börek follows the rise and fall of the Alkolombris family – Bulgarian bakers that immigrated to the newborn state of Israel with their famous bourekas pastry. The family enjoyed rapid success, and their bakery in Jaffa soon became a well-known establishment, drawing crowds from all over the country. This led to the first franchised food chain in Israel – Sammy Bourekas & Sons. Run by patriarch Sammy’s two sons and son-in-law, bakeries selling bourekas popped up all over Israel. Money started to flow, accompanied by an extravagant lifestyle and parties with Israeli high-society: politicians, soccer players, actors and models. But as the rival siblings began to clash, jealousy, honour and greed threatened to tear down the family empire.

The film depicts the Lumière Brothers discussing and examining their Cinématographe machine. This film has traveled through time since 1925, moving between different conservation sites before finally being stored in the Moving Image Research Collections of the University of South Carolina. Every degradation of the image is the result of a natural decomposition, and the filmmaker presents the material sans alteration.

Testimonies of six survivors from the clandestine detention and torture center known as "Venda Sexy" (AKA "Discoteque"), located in the Macul district, operated by intelligence agencies of the civic-military dictatorship in Chile.

In mid-2016, almost two thousand inmates obtained the benefit of probation. Some of them were participating in an artistic workshop held in the Valparaíso prison. Through various artistic techniques they deepened their poetic voices, opening new spaces for artistic and cultural manifestations in a sector permanently excluded by society.

Animated testimonies of people with different gender identities, that relate their life experiences and create a single voice with many voices.

Full feature documentary giving insight into Dallas nightlife. Interviews from well known exotic dancers not only about the strip club but also the business ventures and lifestyles. Solo perfomances from girls, rap concerts from major artist, djs and music. This project is filled with Entertainment. Alpha Mind Productions and Hood Survivor Filmz

For a year, the director of the film follows the construction of a luxury hotel through his kitchen window. Fragments of the dissolution of his relationship sneak into the recorded material uninvited, shaking the very foundations of the film.