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A dark Saturday night in Skellefteå. A mother of four offers all girls in the streets a free ride in her private car.

1983: O Ano dos Videogames no Brasil tells the story of how video games, as a new form of entertainment, officially arrived in the country in 1983, but it will also bring information about the before and something about the after. The focus is essentially on devices that preceded the cartridges, such as Casio's game watches, Game & Watch handhelds and PONGs/Telejogos, but mainly - and especially - the first national generation of video games itself, the Odyssey generation, the Atari 2600 and its clones, Intellivision and SpliceVision (ColecoVision).

A queer oddball seeks approval from Black peers despite a serious lack of Hip-Hop credentials. This short animated documentary takes you on a quest for belonging.

Documentary picture describing about the true internal feelings of the band people (singers,musicians and so on) used in his concerts ,efforts made in organizing it, and most importantly the endless joy resting in this work.

A young girl in Konya who fell in love with her teacher marries her teacher, her husband always makes her wear red clothes, the teacher leaves the girl because she has no children. When the woman grows up, she always wears red.

On the heels of two of the most devastating hurricanes in recent memory, Science Channel takes an in-depth look at the reasons why these massive storms continue to get bigger and stronger. Featuring interviews with leading meteorologists, scientists, and engineers, who examine the basic science of hurricanes.

Discover how a small Florida town called Boca Raton was the site of a top-secret military project during World War II. Thousands of airmen were tasked with learning the ins and outs of an emerging technology known as airborne radar. See how this tiny device turned the tide of World War II for Allied forces.

2017 / Japan / color / stereo / a film by Shuhei Hatano. 1 minute documentary. You can't see them from the city side, you can only see them from the river side. Located in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan.

The Human activity and its impact on our planet has overcome the geological forces… thus opening a new era called Anthropocene also known as the Age of man. This new Era inevitably leads to an investigation about how past civilizations have tackled environmental and climate change issues they faced. Whether Mayas, Vikings, Japan… Taking a step aside and looking back resonates with our current challenges and may be inspirational as to what our developed world can do and on what scale to truly cope with this unprecedented Era.

A blind old lady threads an endless thread while her house floats in the sea. Sometimes, she asks her god to wake her up from the dream of being alive. Other times, she forgets which is the dream.

A Documentary that follows a group of Randolph High School Seniors on their trip the Sundance Film Festival in the winter of 2017.

Dance documentary that accompanies three passionate female Spanish dance-artists across Europe: What is the value of Art in our current times of crisis and shortenings?

Stretching from San Diego to just north of San Francisco, the 21 Missions of California forever changed the face of this coastal state. Retrace the footsteps of the early California settlers with this unique look at all 21 of the California Missions.

After 50 years of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and a decade of the blockade on Gaza, John McColgan journeyed through the occupied Palestinian territories to witness the struggles endured by Palestinians and the inspiring partnerships which aim to improve people's lives.

Road movie on the road. Sashko Protyah and Diana Berg are going to explore the Kherson region, trying to find a new understanding travels, creativity, experience.

Commissioned for an event in Glasgow hosted by LUX and LUX Scotland, to celebrate the life and work of Ian White (1971–2013) and to mark the publication of “Here Is Information. Mobilise: Selected Writings by Ian White”, which collects key critical writings by artist and curator. Found footage of a female biologist mimicking the call of the male Great Grey Owl is counterposed with video of the legs of women as they urinate in various wildernesses. The collision of these activities in landscape points towards an exuberant queer territoriality. This work includes a passage from “I am (for The Birds)”, the final text in the book “Here is Information. Mobilise: Selected Writings by Ian White”.

In 2012, Rodrigo Piquet, from the Museu do Índio, showed Marcelo Zelic, from the group Tortura Nunca Mais, a film he had found called ‘Arara‘. The title did not refer to the animal, nor to the people known by that name. Zelic underline it as an important probative record on the teaching of torture during the military dictatorship. They were images of the graduation of the Guarda Rural Indígena, in Belo Horizonte, produced by the anthropologist Jesco Von Puttkamer (1919-1994) in 1970.

With images obtained during an investigation carried out in fifty eight slaughterhouses in Mexico between 2015 and 2017, «Slaughterhouse» is a documentary that takes us into the hermetic world of the meat industry. The footage shows the systematic exploitation and violence suffered by animals in slaughterhouses and that is deliberately kept hidden by the meat industry. In order to carry out this documentary, the director, who for years has been carrying out a project against animal exploitation named as «Tras los Muros», has had to use false identities that have allowed him to access all these places.

Popular science film about modern research in the field of neurophysiology.

Zaitsevo village, is caught between the opposing sides. As hostilities between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) continue, the locals sleep to the sound of gunfire and use their cellars and basements as bomb shelters. They say they simply have nowhere else to go, so they continue to live in this no man’s land, where near constant shelling puts their lives in the line every day.

One of the shortest subway systems in the world, without the crowds of passengers and intrusive advertising, retains purity of underground retro-futuristic city.

This film is about Lyudmila (Lyala) Stanukinas, a documentary filmmaker, widow of director Pavel Kogan. The film was shot for 4 years as a chronicle, in the style of a"home handheld camera". But this is not a story about a director, but about a woman struggling with loneliness, who keeps love in her heart with all her might. The heroine exists in the episodes of the film without any author's comments. Also, the plot consists of fragments, "scraps" of old films, chronicles.

The story of Rita Bo Brown, a working-class butch from rural Oregon, an anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, ex-prisoner and member of the militant, underground George Jackson Brigade, active in the 1970s in the Pacific Northwest.

Documentary about the heavy rock scene in Pernambuco.

Saddam Hussein's arsenal of "weapons of mass destruction" was George W. Bush's main justification for waging war against Iraq in 2003. But after the invasion it was clear that they had been mistaken. Bush claimed it was an error and defended his good faith despite the fact the invasion was based on lies. The power vacuum created by this blunder directly led to the creation of ISIS.

"Dabke Time" explores the background of the Dabke dance and specifically the Lebanese Dabke. Flimmaker Roshdi Alkadri interviews several subjects across two different villages in Lebanon to find out more about this popular dance

A man talking about new ideology called Brahism. it is the official ideology of United Greater Democratic People's Republic of Brah States , described by the government brilliant and revolutionary contribution to national and international thought It postulates that "man is the master of his destiny" that the people masses are to act as the "masters of the revolution and construction" and that by becoming self-reliant and strong, a nation can achieve true brahism.

São Paulo: Three Visual Essays redeems key characters of the city, with photographs taken in 1862, such as the ones by Militão Augusto de Azevedo, then onwards through the 20th century, with shots by Alice Brill, and finally through the 21st century, with pictures by Mauro Restiffe, among others. The visual communication of the city is presented since the painted walls of the 19th century to its neon lights and billboards by the 20th and 21st centuries. It also accompanies the grand transformations the city has gone through. Within the course of a hundred years, São Paulo, which started out as a village, transformed into one of the world's greatest metropolis.

The 19th May 2017 was the last day that first-generation DMUs ran in regular passenger service on Network Rail. These were the two class 121 Bubble cars owned by Chiltern Railways that were used on the Princes Risborough to Aylesbury branch. To record and commemorate the event, Video 125 cameras followed the single units (affectionately dubbed Bubble Cars) in the weeks prior to their withdrawal. The idea for this film came from the former Managing Director of Chiltern Trains Holidays, Tony Parkins, who has been closely associated with Chiltern Railways ever since his involvement with the writing of our Driver's eye view Chiltern Take Two. It was Tony's idea to produce this film and as such has not only co-written and researched the information but actually presents it to camera.

The Essayfilm is a portrait of the accurate climate scientist and professor Torsten Sachs. He examines the climate change and the problem of permafrost, which have led him to distant places in the world. Today Torsten Sachs is the head of his own junior research group at the Alfred-Wegener-Institut in Potsdam and mainly to be found in his office. But the fascination for his work is still unbroken. He still dreams of the undiscovered landscapes that he has overflown for his research and hopes as soon as possible to return to this places.

A stunning and intimate documentary about Barbara, who lays bare her heart, mind and body as she lives her life fully as a disabled woman.

They are 14 years old and have been best friends as long as they can remember. But since Anna-Nora has got a boyfriend, the feelings are completely different.

"Merchandise" is a short film produced by the Carne e Osso Collective that addresses stories of women living from prostitution from the sight of a newcomer.

Gabe Weil is a 27 year old born with the most severe form of muscular dystrophy. For his entire life, Gabe had been told he would be lucky to live past 25. But recently, he learned he was misdiagnosed, and may live well into his 50's.

A tribute to the immigration struggles that have taken place since the 1960s until today on the issue of police violence and an analysis of the role of the police in the French socio-apartheid system.

Fourteen Beijing residents sing a song and tell the story of how it has marked their lives.

Twenty people, from all walks of life, are each locked alone in a room for the length of one 400-foot roll of 16mm film (11 minutes). They are each given the same set of twenty questions, which they can answer at random...if they're not completely distracted by their surroundings. Shot in 1987.

2005, at the corner of St. George and Robinson Streets; the gray observatory at the corner of temptation, my new apartment, where I am about to live an intense and poetic urban experience in the district of the red light fish & chip. Between the horizontal blades of my venetian blinds, the freaky-deaky city comes alive for me, image by image.

'When we were wild' is a free and evoking tour that progressively abandons a classic documentary structure to become a first person essay.

In the span of a short walk, images and information flow ceaselessly into view as our increasingly digitized lives absorb disparate movie and media moments, from the warmly humorous to the coldly clinical.

A Storyville documentary: filmmaker Morgan Matthews records a period of more than ten years in the life of his father Geoff and Geoff's eccentric partner Anna.

For over 60 years, a major choir competition has been held in Tanzania, organized by the Evangelical Lutheran Church and attended by more than 1,500 choirs from across the country. To be eligible to participate in this year's competition, choirs must perform the chorale "Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich" (Grant us peace, graciously) composed by Martin Luther, as well as an original composition. In her documentary film "Sing It Loud - Luther's Heirs in Tanzania," director Julia Irene Peters accompanies six people from Tanzania who sing in three different choirs: Martha and Simon work as small farmers near the village of Monduli and sing in the Neema Choir. Maria and Evarest are married and run a car repair shop in the Tanzanian city of Arusha, and they also sing in the Cantate Choir. And then there are the two young people Kelvin and Nuru from the Kanaani Youth Choir.

Set in Navotas City, Krudo Boys follows brothers Renato and Alyo who sell spilt crude oil scavenged from ships for a living.

Two hundred years ago, a prophetic Figure appeared: Bahá’u’lláh. He brought teachings for this age that represent an end to division and otherness, through which––at long last––the oneness of humankind can be realized.

The art of origami reshapes the world, affecting drug development and future NASA space missions.

If you think all transgender stories are the same - sex, transformation, mutilation, mental illness,... - you can't be more wrong! This tells the story of four very different people in rural Thailand. Four humble ladyboys working in the rubber tree forests at night, in the rice fields during the day, looking for a way to survive, exist and have the others accept them with their difference.

Born into a culture that is forced to collect trash for a living, three kids will attempt to graduate high school and attend university.

Documentary about the Dutch author, illustrator and performer Joke van Leeuwen, who has won various awards for her literature for children which sometimes uses a quest as a theme.

At the age of 26, innovative chef and inventor Homaro Cantu helped put Chicago on the culinary map when he opened his first restaurant “Moto” in the city’s untapped Fulton Market meatpacking district. Virtually overnight, Cantu rose to the rank of celebrity chef and became famous for his “molecular gastronomy” approach to cooking. Cantu’s meteoric rise to fame masked an early life of poverty, homelessness, and even physical and emotional abuse. Filmed over a period of three years with remarkable access, INSATIABLE follows Cantu at a pivotal moment in his career and takes you on a dizzying and thrilling ride, in a story that moves from redemption and inspiration to tragedy and back again.

Between 1652 and 1657, 58 girls were devoured by a wolf in the Essonne, France. Four centuries later, in the same place, young girls vanish.

A compelling feature length documentary about five young people who neither feel male nor female, but rather somewhere in between.

An adventurous ski tour of two sisters, who follow the tracks of their father, across the pristine landscape of New Zealand. 30 years ago, Gottlieb Braun-Elwert set out on an un-chartered expedition. He conquered the major glaciers of the Southern Alps and crossed 40km and 4000 vertical meters, from the heart of the South Island to the Pacific in just 18 hours. A route of astonishing beauty, immense freedom, breathtaking vistas and the danger of the uncontainable nature. He called this route “Symphony on Skis”. Now, his daughters Carla, Elke and a small team of adventurers embark on the same adventure. This film is a homage to their late father who found a love and home in New Zealand's Southern Alps.

In the epic drama that is Chicago’s history, the Chicago River has played many roles, by turns hero, villain, and underdog. The most iconic river scenes lie near the river’s confluence with Lake Michigan, the junction that gave rise to the city itself, where skyscrapers now exalt the river’s banks and form a spectacular canyon of stunning architecture. But there are many more miles to this story, stretching south into the Sanitary and Ship Canal and winding north through the Skokie Lagoons and the Chicago Botanic Garden. And there’s more to the river than scenery. This story is loaded with river lore. It’s been re-engineered on a scale never seen before in American history. It’s seen heart-wrenching tragedies and given us one-of-a-kind characters. Today, people live, work, and play along the river. A few brave souls have even gone for a dip in its waters. Join Geoffrey Baer and WTTW for a journey along the river that gave birth to Chicago, one of the Most Beautiful Places in Chicago.

Dying in Vein is a deeply personal exploration of opiate and heroin addiction through a cinéma vérité style that drops you directly into the lives of an addict in recovery, a couple trying to get clean, a family grieving the loss of their son and an Emergency Room Physician trying to save one patient at time.