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A tree is like a man is an attempt to touch the otherworld through its edges. Shot on 16 mm in the Colombian Amazon, the film serves as personal witness to shaman Don William's lifetime relationship to Ayahuasca and other plant medicines that are native to the jungle. With the rainforest a rich labyrinthine background, this portrait is at once intimate and spare, opening up to alternate realities as dense as the jungle itself, with kaleidoscopic multiplicities in both the natural and the spiritual realms.

Four dancers perform in a violent, wild and organic landscape. A metaphor for what unites human with the biosphere.

Manuel lives and works in a small car body shop in Tijuana. By day he fixes cars, by night he turns into one of the most fearless and extreme wrestler of Mexico: Juventud Dosmil, "El Loco de Tulancingo".

Leo is celebrating his 20th birthday with friends in a gay sauna. He is proposed to do a free HIV test. The test happens to be positive. We follow Leo on his way back home in the night, and for the next few days.

Colonna is a reclusive art-historian who stumbles upon a mysterious woman and a series of landscape paintings washed up on the beach. The shipwrecked woman eerily resembles his late wife, but her attire and face seem to stem from the 19th century. And so the reality and the world beyond begin to blend.

Crushed by corruption and poverty, economic sanctions and hyperinflation, Venezuela, the world's oil-richest country, is on the verge of collapse. Twenty years after Hugo Chávez's revolution, the country has become the scene of a geopolitical power game: The United States, Russia and China are facing off in a new Cold War.

Óscar Alberto Pérez (1981-2018) was a Venezuelan policeman who, after Nicolás Maduro had been sworn in as president, became an active opponent of his regime. In June 2017, he attacked the Supreme Court of Justice from a helicopter. In January 2018, the Venezuelan national guard tracked him down, and although he gave up to them, shot him dead along with five other rebels. The film is his traditional portrait sketched out as a pattern edited documentary with Pérez himself having taken part in its making. Actually, all audiovisual material that the editor Romain Champalaune composed the film of comes from Pérez’s profiles on social networks.

In the curious city of Crato, near the Chapada do Araripe, a young geologist goes up the river to unravel the mysteries behind the stories told by his grandmother. Then begins a journey in search of answers from which the adventurer will not return the same.

In the mid-80s, in Buenos Aires, Blanca Ravenna, sick and ageing, selects young Alma to assist her with the housework, and some personal matters. During the first night, there are strange doll apparitions and a mysterious chest that catches Alma´s eye.

Filippo tries to help his friend Gianfranco, who wants to kill himself, using his powerful washing machine, but something goes spectacularly wrong.

In a small village, Shaul sings while Ivan dances happily around a table with other villagers. A moment of joy they will not forget anytime soon. – Based on a story of the collected ‘Tales of the Hasidim’ by Martin Buber.

Govadas explores the contradiction and harmony between humans and nature through Sámi poetry.

From the makers of "FantastiCozzi", a new documentary about the life and career of controversial Italian director Ruggero Deodato.

40 minute documentary tracking down 3 unique turntable ferries, with Graham Kitchener, a wee boy of just 9 years old, who lived near and played on them when they last operated at Ballachulish in the 1970s.

Local workers and tourists coexist along the entire coast and the historic center of the capital. All fulfill their mission, some discreetly serve while others consume territory and identity.

Jack is a loser who's in love with a girl who doesn't even know his name. His luck changes after finding the book. When he reads it, good things happen to him, but if a whole day goes by without reading the book, horrible things happen.

Maple syrup country is now under totalitarian control, but a strange killer is starting to make some noise in the partially contaminated 13th district. Will its goofy sheriff and mighty bounty hunters prevail against the killer and his mysterious friend?

Documentary about the forced relocation of Chinese farmers.

Who was Franz Fanon and what is his legacy today? Of yesterday and today, documentary maker Hassane Mezine gives voice to men and women who knew and shared with the flint warrior, according to Aimé Césaire's beautiful formula, privileged moments during the struggle but also in a family and friendly context.

Through car rides traversing the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, different young people from different areas and professions give us their perspective of the political and social conflict into which they were born and live. They speak to us about their vision of the future and their day-to-day life.

Enset, which is related to the banana plant, is very drought resistant and a good source of carbohydrates (in the stem and underground bulb). Enset has been farmed from time immemorial in the Gamo Highlands of southern Ethiopia, where women are the main cultivators. The film focuses on Aiye, the filmmaker's grandmother, who shares her knowledge about the enset plant, and shows how it is possible to produce good organic food by using simple farming tools and natural fertilizers. We see how she and a young kinswoman cultivate (using animal dung and organic waste to fertilize the plants), propagate (generating suckers from the corm), harvest (digging up the plant) and process (scraping and fermentating) the enset, and finally produce a variety of nutritious dishes.

Ethan Ryson, a young Formula 1 driver wants to become the best there ever was. To reach his goal, he will have to overcome many obstacles.

Spoken by the collective digital voice of a group of queer artists and activists, this collaborative project speculates about the possibilities of a temporality yet to come.

A portrait about a Cuban family and Jenni, a professional 100 m sprinter…

composites views from a botanic garden.

After his first program (Bärenkatapult!) was a random expedition into the depths of nonsense, Jan Philipp Zymny's new full-length solo show entitled "Kinder der Weirdness" (Children of Weirdness) is dedicated to weirdness itself and those who live it.

The docufilm traces the artistic and human path of the great actor through the living voices of colleagues and experts nostalgic of the theater of Totò.

Leeloo, a young survival from the decay of his home planet, enters in a state of anguish as he remembers the moments with his family.

Activist and model Talia A. Darling invites a group of fat models to take part in a photoshoot and discuss their experiences of being fat in the UK.

Felicity E. Palma’s Medusa and The Abyss meditates on female rite and ritual, using prisms, water and 16mm film to obscure notions of landscape, monument, history and myth in touristic Sicily. Such an exposing portrait questions the ways in which cultural identities are commanded and cultivated by people, nations and policy.

After retrieving their grandfather's map, Allan and Gilbert must find the ancient treasure of Cleopatra. They cannot imagine how much danger and adventures they are about to be part of.

After World War 2, selling nails is the only obsession of the owners of this small hardware store.

It tells the story of honorary consul Porfirio Smerdou, who saved the lives of 567 people in the Civil War.

Jack Docherty takes an entertaining look at Scotland's most memorable adverts.

Part circus, part theater, part poetry and storytelling, pictures turned into music and pictures turned into music: the variety show does not only bear its diversity in its name, it pursues it with pleasure, develops, interprets and reinvents it again and again. "Like Butter On Toast" immerses itself in this world of continuous experimentation, of enchantment through colors, sounds, movement, upside down and upside down, lets the artists tell their stories, accompanies them through their preparations, their training from childhood to old age.

Thierry Ardisson evokes the most sulphurous moments but also the least seen of the emissions which marked out its course.

Two teenagers, trapped in the horrible place where they were born, try to escape from a world in black and white and look for a world in color.

This documentary takes us on a journey to Chile where the cultural diversity is as big as the country itself, made up by a number of aboriginal and ethnical groups. Many of these people possess a unique knowledge about nature, tilling of the land and the symbiosis between all living organisms surrounding them. At the same time Chile is a country with rising financial, ecological and climate related issues, and capitalism cannot find a solution. Rather it’s making it worse.