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The Heights depicts the repetitive pilgrimage that hundreds of female porters carry out every day on the borders of Ceuta and Melilla, pondering over the transcendence of the burden, the impossibility of achieving a better life and resignation.

Captured with breathtaking clarity over a period of two years, SKYLiGHT is an observational documentation of the urban and natural landscapes of Singapore that evokes a sense of the celestial.

The story of the investigation into the disappearance of a five-year-old and the challenges the police faced in trying to convict a local suspect.

This one-hour special chronicles the twists and turns of the tragic road trip through the lens of Gabby's social media presence. Told by both the people who knew her best and a community of online strangers and cyber-sleuths who ended up banding together to ultimately solve this shocking homicide. Two timelines were unfolding in the Gabby Petito story–a private one and a very public one. Viewers will get an inside look at both sides of Gabby's life and the chasm that existed between the two.

Biserka Šuran was two when her family fled the former Yugoslavia. At the time, her father thought that their youngest daughter would be the least affected by this sudden departure. In her directorial debut, Šuran enters into a conversation with her father about their shared past, the history of the Balkans and what it means for their identity.

While the Bogazici Resistance in Turkey, which has been going on since January 2021, produces its own visual archive with the efforts of both subjects and outside witnesses, Atlas draws a map inside this archive.

Honest and revealing story about a musician Adnan Saran and his indie rock band Skroz (eng. - Totally). The film talks about their beginnings, war experiences, after-war tours, PTSD, addiction, poetry, brotherhood and friendship.

Plagued by injuries, former world champion powerlifter Kirill Sakharov re-examines his origins and mentality as he seeks to overcome self-doubt and return stronger.

Billy Jensen and Alexis Linkletter unravel the 2009 shooting death of Diane Ward. Although two juries convicted her husband Bob Ward, there may be more to the story.

Poet Jae-ho no longer can write poetry in reality so he belatedly registered on the cyber world. There, he meets Ju-yeon whom Jae-ho knew before but has not thought of for 15 years. Jae-ho came to the cyber world with high hopes but is having a hard time adjusting. Ju-yeon teaches him the laws, the rules, and the living customs of cyber world. In the process, Jae-ho and Ju-yeon go beyond the everyday talk to discover an important memory that has been pushed out. Curiously, it was a file that was drifting in the sea of the cyber world. It was also Jae-ho himself as well as something to be avoided.​

The discussion about public financing of modern art which finds place on "Sløseriombudsmannen" on Facebook (Are Søberg) which takes on all kinds of public waste financing.

A celebration of the comedian’s career that includes tales about shaggy dogs, vintage sketches, and his partnerships with famous people like Roy Barraclough, Shirley Bassey, and John Cleese.

Masha leads a double life: in one she is a photographer, a mother and an unloved wife, in the other she is a medium who daily keeps in touch with the subtle world of spirits using the "phenomenon of electronic voice". One day Masha realizes that the spirit with whom she has been communicating for a year is actually a living person, and really falls in love.

A “filmic ballad” in the heart of the city of Rio de Janeiro in which Angelica De Paula shares her daily life during the first lockdown. Her story and her songs evoke the domination and power relationships which materialize in bodies. It is in this form which they call “documentary dance” that Sacha Rey chooses to respond to the mutism of “necro-liberal” society which produces and makes invisible “sacrificable bodies” (F. Vergès).

Bob has scheduled his own death in eight days. Now he must make peace with his family, the love of his life and himself.

A comprehensive overview of almost all films in which fascism and sexuality are associated: The Night Porter, The Damn, Salo, The Great Error, but also exploitation films such as Gestapo's Last Orgy or Ilsa - (Based on the 260-page work, which is illustrated with 40 photos and has commented filmography) , is aimed at everyone who wants to go into depth "in view of its scientific claim. It is also a major contribution to fascism research.

The writtings of a relegate to the Patagonian archipelago during the chilean military dictatorship are found 35 years later. The notebook takes us into his encounters with the inhabitants of the Guaitecas Islands and their ways of life deeply linked to the sea.

An updated version of John Mulholland’s making-of documentary that explores the remarkable 1952 film starring Gary Cooper, and the gripping story behind its troubled production. Though High Noon was originally seen as an attack on the blacklisting witch hunt gripping Hollywood at the time, it is now recognized as a damning portrait of civic complacency, democracy in peril. High Noon is today considered a classic of American cinema.

Open All Hours is an in depth look at the importance of independent skate shops and gives an insight into their current state within the industry and why losing them is more than losing a store, it's the loss of a community.

Mom N' Pop The Indie Video Store Boom of the 80s/90s is an indie documentary chronicling the history of the video rental market and stores. Beginning in the mid 70s, the documentary will cover the rise in popularity and the fall in success in the mid to late 2000s. The entire documentary will cover the independent video stores, gas stations, tanning salons, etc that provided rental services (both videos and video games). The story will be told via variety of interviews and narration from the people that actually lived the story. Independent Video Store Owners, Filmmakers, Employees, Distributors, and more. The documentary hopes to tell a story of how these experiences shaped lives and built memories. Also we will look into the logistics of how local businesses dealt with rising distribution costs and ask the question of "Why did so many tanning salons also rent videos?"

Audiovisual recording of the 2017 album Tribalistas.

In the Bones is a lyrical documentary that explores the personal and political by interweaving the lives of 12 characters living in Mississippi during a legislative session in which equal pay for equal work and abortion rights are being decided. Although set in three distinct regions of Mississippi, In the Bones is a much broader exploration of our culture, an unsettling portrait of America that shines a light on the weight women live under in this country and also the resilience expressed in everyday acts of survival.

In Conversation was a series of Doctor Who Blu-ray interviews, released as part of The Collection box sets. Each are hosted by Matthew Sweet, where he interviews Doctor Who celebrities about their lives and careers in and outside of Doctor Who.

Meet Benny, an old-school New York City ticket scalper whose livelihood is put in jeopardy during the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The military blockade of Leningrad by German, Finnish and Spanish troops with the participation of volunteers from North Africa, France, Italy, Poland and other countries lasted from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944 — 872 days. The war is moving further away from us. It is incomprehensible to us, living now, how it was possible to survive in those conditions? And not just survive, but act, work, invent, create? The answer is always the same – Faith, Hope, Love... with them, a person reaches the limits of his abilities. We are alive thanks to them. Those who died – by their martyrdom. Those who survived – by their feat.

A crew of five people and one sea dog leave Panama on March 7, 2020. One week into their passage, they receive news on the satellite email that Coronavirus has created a global pandemic.

In the municipality of Cortazar, Salvador Juárez seeks to rescue and share the memory of what it was once like to live there.

Yarokamena, a Uitoto indigenous person, organised an armed resistance to rubber exploitation in the Amazonas. He invokes the spiritual and cosmic forces of war, releasing its destructive power from its container creating a spiral of betrayal and death. Director Andrés Jurado will be present in both screenings.

Ascension Island lay barren for a million years, until it was 'terraformed' by Victorian naturalists into a tropical paradise. Today scientists return in search of answers, as humans begin the process of geo-engineering the entire planet.

The first Muslim woman to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a brutal regime in Iran. Now the film, Until We Are Free, tells her story of courage and defiance in the face of a government out to destroy her, her family, and her mission: to bring justice to the people and the country she loves. The Iranian government would end up taking everything from Shirin Ebadi – her marriage, her home, even her Nobel Prize medallion – but the one thing it could never steal was her spirit to fight for justice and a better future for the women of Iran.

There is a need for our towns and cities to be made more liveable and sustainable. Róisín Murphy’s Big City Plan examines what needs to change in order for that to happen.

There are some 77K foreign students in Ukraine. Naveen S G of India is one of them, studying in Kharkiv and hiding in a shelter. On 1 March, as he goes to buy some food, he becomes the first foreign student killed by Russia in this war. An episode of the web series "Ukraine on Fire 2" by Vyacheslav Bihun , which had a separate festival distribution as an independent work.

Ever since the onset of her dementia, reality, dream and nightmare have become intertwined for Rose, making her something like a maverick time traveler. Her filmmaker daughter Rea Tajiri is also her caregiver. In this fond portrait, she visualizes Rose’s spiritual, philosophical and sometimes surprisingly specific stories in the order they come: a non-linear sequence illustrated by her own footage shot over many years, accompanied by snatches of conversations and images from the family archive. Rose’s eventful journey through time is rich with memories and sensitively accompanied by a fitting soundtrack.

A documentary that tells in a homemade and intimate way a piece of Willy Lemos' life. Willy tells the story of his life: his childhood, his artistic journey, the ups and downs that happen in the LGTBQ+ world and his story of domestic abuse.

Danny Kushmaro embarks on a thrilling journey in the highest city in the world, located in Peru in South America. At an altitude of 5,300 meters, a place without law and without infrastructure - everyone who lives there is looking for only one thing: gold

The Ballad of Clem Snide is a documentary film about the band Clem Snide. The film chronicles the pursuit of an artistic life; and all the trials, the tribulations, the ups and downs, the luck and serendipity, the disappointments and frustrations that come along with it. Clem Snide’s story embodies a “lower-case-s” spirituality in a universal way. The film documents the touring and promotion of the album Forever Just Beyond. Released on March 29, 2020, the record’s unveiling occurred at the precise moment of the first COVID-19 outbreak across the country. Forever Just Beyond was produced by Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers, who features in the film.

Researchers have been searching for proof of extraterrestrial life for years. Earl Anderson, the head of Investigations of MUFON Los Angeles, and his team search for proof of the existence of UAPs and life on beyond planet Earth. The proof is out there.

Explore the mindset of independent professional wrestler Gabriel Skye as he explains Violence X Suffering Wrestling (VXS Wrestling), his indy wrestling league.

I’m on the island, thinking of you, trying to find something familiar that will make you feel less far away. For centuries, a surveying method using triangulation has been used to find the location of a point too far away to measure. By determining the relative angles between near points of a triangle, one only has to be able to see the distant third point in order to plot where it is on a map. Using this method, complicated coastlines have been mapped, arcs of longitude established, and the shape of the earth itself discovered.

Containing exclusive material and interviews, "Bios" dives into the history of Brazilian rock band Titãs. TV host Sarah Oliveira looks back at the band's formation in a São Paulo school and their breakthrough hit "Sonífera Ilha", as well as Titãs' moments of crisis. Also included is footage of the band's performance at the SESC Pompéia music hall, some 40 years after their first concert.

For Mexican and Mexican American communities, boxing is more than a sport. From ring walk-ins to trunks, opponents take full advantage of the theatrical spectacle, narrating their histories and the stories of their individual fanbases. In 1996, Oscar De La Hoya, the charismatic golden boy from East L.A, challenged Mexican-born boxing legend Julio César Chávez in what was billed as the “ultimate glory” fight. Mexicans on both sides of the border were forced to choose their favorite champ: the record-holding immigrant from humble beginnings, or the younger and more marketable Olympian born in the U.S. These rivals felt the pressure to prove their athletic superiority, while the fans’ choice of champion revealed the type of Mexican they aspired to be.

The open road presents a point of departure for director lori lozinski to process deep-seated grief. Revisiting the formative experiences that drove her ambition, lozinski examines the influence of her parents in the present light of day.

The four adult heroes and heroines of the film, who were selected in a casting call posted on TV, speak candidly on camera from the very beginning of their memories. Through individual stories, they describe their childhoods, family backgrounds, life at school, and how they spent their free time. The stories complement each other and are intertwined; we see emotions and hear things that reveal the horrific DNA of domestic violence. The documentary addresses the issue of abuse with an emphasis on the entire social environment of the victims and the societal underpinnings. Typical of domestic violence is that victims often hide it within themselves; they do not talk about it, and sometimes they do not even admit it. But in the documentary, they were determined to speak out.

A documentary that shows the behind the scenes making of of the movie "Yo Sin Ella: versión censurada".

A documentary that immortalizes the attempt to stage a reinterpretation of a seventeenth-century collection of comic short stories.

FOR OUR CHILDREN unites maternal voices of resilience and solidarity in a poignant cinematic journey. Directed, produced and co-written by Débora Souza Silva, this emotional documentary chronicles the powerful convergence of two mothers, Reverend Wanda Johnson and Angela Williams, whose lives were forever altered by the scourge of police brutality against their Black sons.

Seong-ho is a musician with an autistic disorder who has an extraordinary talent in music. But he is trapped in the world of video games and television. His mother has chosen the life of his shadow to groom him into a professional musician. Her only wish is to ‘Live an hour longer than Seong-ho.’ She would like to leave Seong-ho to his little brother Geon-gi, but he still considers his brother ‘bothersome and useless’. Two brothers go on a trip to Europe without their mother for the first time. “It’s a practice for when mom isn’t here.” This family’s cacophony is slowly forming a concerto.

In September 2021, 1500 white-sided dolphins were slaughtered in Skálabotnur. This documentary navigates both waters to paint a complicated picture between those who defend this tradition and those who condemn it.

It’s estimated that 500 to 600 suicide attempts are made each year in Iceland, with a population of less than 370 000 people, and that between 30 and 50 people take their lives. We can’t keep quiet about these high numbers. Through people’s deeply intimate and touching stories, we try to understand what it means that someone takes their life. What happens inside a - human being in need? Sometimes there are warning signs, sometimes the suicide is completely unexpected. When our loved one take their life we are thrown into an abyss of sorrow and pain. As we face life again we also understand the power of love and our ability to heal. Out of the Darkness is a documentary opening up the taboos about suicide.

The journey to stardom begins at 15 for old soul Davis Loose. He forms a country music band with players more than twice his age. No time for girls this teen’s mistress is his guitar.

Filmed over three years across ten Canadian UNESCO World Natural Heritage sites, "Inhabited" transports us to iconic national parks and introduces us to the species that the world has forgotten: human inhabitants.

They were children when they left, dreaming of a life without worry: freedom and wealth. But what awaited them was a nightmare. One of them began to change, leading him to commit a lethal knife attack in Turku, Finland. By following the lives of two of the attacker’s friends, the film delves into the experiences of an entire generation of young Moroccan men who feel like they do not belong anywhere. While their families push them to travel to Europe to find a better life, Europe casts them out.