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Patrice is an inmate in the french prison Bois d’Arcy. As an actor and at the same time a silent spectator he hides his drama through a routine of daily gestures and ambiguous postures.

A documentary short film about Diogo Rembold's passion for cinema.

In a first-person documentary, Diako Yazdani, a political refugee in France, returns to see his family in Iraqi Kurdistan and introduces them to a 23-year-old gay man from Kojin who seeks to exist in a society where he seems unable to find its place. With humor and poetry, the director delivers a moving portrait where the meetings of each other invite to a universal reflection on the difference.

August 24, 2018. The opportunity to recreate the entire White Album at the Royal Philharmonic Hall is a dream come true. And yet, it is a dream that could easily turn into a nightmare. Because this week, the Royal Philharmonic is home to the very best Beatles-bands on earth, and the house is packed with the most dedicated Beatles-trainspotters to walk the planet. It is in this lions' den that a Dutch band is slated to show the world just how The Beatles should sound live. Follow the journey of The Analogues in Liverpool in this remarkable documentary.

Recounting the dramatic story of the Nuremberg Trials, using over a thousand archive clips, including recently digitised film footage from the courtroom. 21 Nazi leaders were charged with crimes that caused the deaths of millions of innocents.

The fourth film in the series "The Second Front: Stories of LGBT Military Personnel" is about openly transgender volunteer Sebastian Romanov and his gender reassignment surgery.

Casablanca, vibrant and diverse, always ahead of its time, is the star of this exceptional show bringing together leading speakers and contributors to tell the story, experience the present, and build the future of Metropolitan Casablanca.

A documentary about the life of the filmmaker’s grandfather and his life growing up in Fascist Italy to meeting his wife and immigrating to America.

Meet influencer, online personality and Internet sensation PolarBarry: The mischievous Polar Bear who knows how to make the North Pole rumble. PolarBarry introduces his followers to the Climate Change debate. VLOG #207 sheds a light on the likeliness that humanity cannot act as a collective.

In a dilapidated village in south-eastern Turkey, a Syrian Orthodox nun endures alone with her animals. However strong the hostility of her predominantly Muslim neighbourhood may be: she won’t be driven out, for she has sworn to protect the church and not to leave the sacred place. This quietly filmed observation of everyday life focuses on an isolated woman who carries the pain of a whole community inside her.

“Como corre Elisa” tells the story of Elisa Forti, who at 82 years old is ready to run the race of her life: 25 km through her hometown in the north of Italy, by the Lake Di Como.

When filmmaker and musician David Porteous first encountered FatBoy Racing at the NTT IndyCar series race in Toronto, he discovered a team lounging on a black leather sofa wearing green paisley team shirts complete with team logo of a man sipping a martini and puffing on a big cigar. And then there was the team motto: ‘A race team hell bent on having fun’

A documentary about Erin Wilkerson's family history in Los Angeles. It seeks to honor the indigenous people who have been treated as migrants in their own land since Spanish colonization. With their generosity, friendship, and hard work, they are the backbone of the city. Seeing them persecuted in the streets and living so far away feels like a failure.

A documentary about the Dallas punk scene from late 1970s to early 2000s.

Marina is a 35-year-old woman from Odessa. Daughter, wife, mother and breadwinner of the whole family. Despite the frequent change in life of black and white stripes, she never gives up. The father's illness decays all relatives, but not Marina, for her this is another new test.

After conducting for 65 years, Bernard Haitink has retired at the age of 90. The musicians he has worked with are puzzled by the secrets of his technique. He himself says his job is to embrace the orchestra without suffocating them.

Virtuoso Afro-Cuban-born brothers—violinist Ilmar and pianist Aldo—live on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half-century wide. Tracking their parallel lives in New York and Havana, their poignant reunion, and their momentous first performances together, Los Hermanos/The Brothers suggests what is possible when walls come down, and borders are crossed. A nuanced, intensely moving view of nations long estranged, through the lens of music and family. Featuring an electrifying, genre-bending score composed by Cuban Aldo López-Gavilán, performed with his American brother, Ilmar, with a guest appearance by violin maestro Joshua Bell and the Harlem Quartet.

Americart is a documentary film filmed in ten cities across the U.S., from NYC to Sonoma County, CA, featuring interviews of artists, art teachers, museum curators, and everyday Americans talking about how art has an impact in their life.

On November 7th, 2005, Sandra Smith died at the age of 47 taking 21 different medications. Now her son, Tabor Smith, vows to change the way America thinks about health. Amidst the ongoing opioid crisis, Tabor travels around the country to interview medical experts, political figures, and ordinary people in order to uncover the conspiracy behind America's drug-obsessed healthcare system - and most importantly, find out what can be done to change it. —Dr. Tabor Smith

Discover a tale of unrelenting human spirit, beyond limits. Find out just how much sport can change lives.

Through thirteen images and an equal number of stories, little Melina-Amalia, the teenager, the woman, the fighter, Blanche, Stella, Ilya, Phaedra, Medea, Clytemnestra, Minister of Culture, the stoic Melina in Memorial Hospital, all aspects of the "last Greek goddess". Shot on the stage of the National Theater Rex - Marika Kotopouli, it captures, balancing between theater and cinema, important historical events that make the myth that surrounds the glamorous protagonist even more powerful and charming.

See the ups and downs, talent and determination of the exceptional LeBlanc Family of New Brunswick. Guided by their father, three young sisters are preparing a trip to France to present their Acadian musical roots.

In this conversation, filmed by the Criterion Collection in 2019, animator and visual-effects supervisor Phil Tippett and visual-effects artist Jim Aupperle discuss their appreciation for director Karel Zeman and his cinematic techniques.

Pavel, 28, moved Crimea to a Ukrainian village after the annexation of the peninsula. But it is not easy for him to integrate into the new society. It's easier to be alone.

Danny Lyon's SNCC (2020), brings together hundreds of never-before-seen black-and-white photographs made by Lyon during the years that he was employed as the staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC. Beginning in 1962 in Cairo, Illinois when Lyon, then a University of Chicago student, met John Lewis, Freedom Rider, the film traces the story of their friendship alongside the ongoing struggle for civil rights in the United States. The images are layered with archival audio recordings of speeches by and conversations with Lewis, Julian Bond, and Dotty Zellner, among others, as well as freedom songs that were recorded by Alan Ribback in churches and meetings in Atlanta in the 1960s and recently rediscovered by Lyon.

"Unarchive" juxtaposes the filmmaker's father's life with the political history of Chile – his birthplace – over the past century. It reflects on how we remember and how we forget, and the role of the camera in transcending the complex space in between.

Experimental film utilizing collage treatment of footage from the 1987 Short Film "The Ledge". Featuring The Replacements.

In this compelling two-hour special, investigative journalist Beth Karas follows Sam Little, America's most prolific serial killer who confessed to murdering over 90 women in 17 states, in hopes to identify how he got away with murder for so long.

Shots of Turin, deserted because of the pandemic, interweave with images of the movies that have been shot in the city ever since the dawn of cinematography.

The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of Norman Borlaug, a man who not only solved India's famine problem but would go on to lead a "Green Revolution" of worldwide agriculture programs estimated to have saved one billion lives. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work but spent the rest of his life watching his methods and achievements come under increasing fire.

An autobiographical collection of instances that describe the action of living in a post-industrial landscape, the end of a love story and the politics of what is private and what is public. The camera, as a device for recording and recollection, goes beyond evoking the past to become a tool for the appearance and exorcism of spectres.

Filmed across eleven states, this documentary explores the life of the greatest judge in American history, John Marshall, who built the Supreme Court into the third pillar of American government. With in-depth interviews with scholars, judges and Chief Justice Roberts, the film brings to life a time of transition and turmoil when the success of the American 'experiment' was still in doubt

"plant portals: breath" is an experimental meditation on the unspoken history many queer and trans people of colour carry daily, connecting bumblebees, colonial trauma, alternate universes and the complicated concept of "rest" to ask: Can nature heal us? Shot entirely on an iPhone, the film is intentional in imagining what is possible, and manifests a reality rooted in mindfulness.“

Zapata el Gran Putas delves into the life of Colombian writer Manuel Zapata Olivella, exploring his diverse perspectives, adventures, and relationships with prominent intellectuals and black artists of the 20th century.

What is life like with dyslexia, which does not only mean problems with reading, writing or mathematics, but also manifests itself in coordination, balance, concentration, among other things?

A genre-bending documentary using dance and physicality to explore themes of youthfulness, fear, regret and aging. The star of the show is New York. The perspectives of elderly citizens of NYC are interpreted physically by a younger generation. The words come from real-life interviews recorded with a diverse selection of aging New Yorkers.

Nuovo cinema paralitico is a project that came about through the collaboration between Davide Ferrario and the author and poet Franco Arminio. Using numerous short films, the project offers a poetic image of a “marginal” Italy, far from residential areas and forgotten by the official media.

Part of the Cause of Life series. When his son-in-law was killed in a tragic car crash, World War II veteran Calvin Haworth became a surrogate parent and an activist against drunk driving in Minnesota.

A journey to find the beauty of the body I wrote my question about aesthetics. Pretending to be great, Why is Idea hiding in shabby? Pretending to exist separately, Why is beauty parasitic to pain? Is there no ldea of ​​beauty? Why does it only appear like this? Why.

A reporter uncovers a file that reveals a shocking series of child abuse allegations in Idaho's Boy Scouts, which rattle the community and implicate the Mormon church. The story reveals long-running crimes that threaten to bankrupt the Boy Scouts.

Mo Gilligan goes on a journey through his comedy roots, shining a light on the British Black comedy circuit that's been vibrant and thriving for the past 30 years, but that most people know very little about.

A documentary about Tibetan divorce and orphan issues

The fifth cartridge exposed by Yonay Boix’s super 8 camera offers a continuation of the author’s filmed journals that he carefully composes frame by frame, exploring the potential of celluloid and in-camera editing. This time, the leitmotiv is either a spot of light or a dark spot that he generates using a pierced piece of paper and a glass filter onto which he has previously painted a black dot, respectively. These procedures trace back to the mechanisms of early cameras, reminding us that what we see is not the world but the glimpse of it that a contraption was able to catch.

Otis Hughes is the 73 year-old captain of the Brooklyn Red Caps, a multi-generational cycling group that includes cyclists of all levels.

A short documenting the pathway to inner peace with self, the unfortunate burden of accountability, grief and growth come crashing together with the help of a worldwide pandemic. Unified struggle can create an isolating disconnect.

The documentary focuses on the daily life of the director’s father, an 85-year-old man. It addresses the difficulties of old age, loneliness, fear of death, and grief prompted by the loss of a lifelong partner, as we follow the protagonist experiencing the loss of his spouse, with whom he had shared a 57-year life journey. The film captures the strong feelings that prevail, as well as the initiatives taken by the elderly protagonist in his effort to overcome loneliness.

Considering himself a reincarnation of a dead soldier, historian Bassel Abi Chahine has the remarkable ability to recall details from the Lebanese civil war, which mostly took place before his lifetime. Standing in front of the projected photographs from his personal collection, Abi Chahine embodies the suppressed trauma hidden to his generation.

The story of a vellum manuscript featuring the works of many great Irish artists across an array of disciplines.

The short film deals with the events of the 30th July 1749 which have become known as the »Great Raid«, the detention and expulsion of the Roma by the Spanish authorities. The film uses the means of music, especially the instrument martinete with its repetitive sound, to show the feelings of powerlessness and injustice.

It is a cold case that after 50 years still haunts Italy today - an epic travesty of justice shrouded in mystery and deception involving he ritualistic serial murder of eight young couples in the country lanes around Florence in the 1980s.

A group of Chinese students discover a series of eye-opening mysteries during a tour of the prestigious Columbia University campus in the heart of New York City.