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Almost all young people in Vaininiore are into sports. Some in the dugout, others in football, volleyball, but most are in boxing. Thai boxing. Behind the Eastern Bridge fire station in Papeete, the Vaininiore district has the reputation of being a red-light district. This is where a hard core of around twenty fighters trains in the evening, but there are new ones arriving all the time... Not all of them last long... Team Arupa is Hentz Tinomoe. He is a good coach, patient, a little tough when it comes to training... There is a good atmosphere, good understanding, a good spirit of cohesion at Vaininiore, VNR for the young people... A united team. Before each international competition, the Team Arupa and Tini Thai Boxing clubs come together for joint preparation. In this film, they are preparing a trip to New Zealand.

The musician Ida Toninato plays the baritone saxophone in reverberated places : from the ship’s hold to the cathedral to a huge concrete building, she explores the musicality of people and spaces.

In Above Our Horizon, we see the artist don a carnival mask of a bird’s head, whose exaggerated size and features hint at an uncanny reality being portrayed onscreen: a hybrid of our known and shared world and a dream world. It encompasses the sea, the air, which is crisscrossed by the flight of birds and bats and dotted with stars, a “sea salt whirlwind”, fire and a burned hill, as well as fish, which is grilled alive to provide sustenance.

Filmed over three years on 16 Island nations across the Pacific & Indian Oceans, this grassroots musical follows the ocean highways uniting ancient musical lineages. From Madagascar to Rapa Nui/Easter Island, Taiwan to Zenadth Kes/The Torres Strait. A heartfelt plea for environmental awareness and cultural preservation from those on the frontline of the climate crisis.

Gita, a girl who was less popular on campus, heard gossip about herself from two of her college friends. Feeling hurt by his friend, he tried to call an evil figure named SARA with certain conditions.

Before starting a family, Soozie Eastman, daughter of an industrial chemical distributor, embarks on a journey to find out the levels of toxins in her body and explores if there is anything she or anyone else can do to change them. She has just learned that hundreds of synthetic toxins are now found in every baby born in America and the government and chemical corporations are doing little to protect citizens and consumers. With guidance from world-renowned physicians and environmental leaders, interviews with scientists and politicians, and stories of everyday Americans, Soozie uncovers how we got to be so overloaded with chemicals and if there is anything we can do to take control of our exposure.

A man comes home and finds the front door wide open.

Diane has to join forces with a group of so called “demon collectors” in order to find and destroy the demon responsible for her mother’s death.

A cute but over-confident wolf cub decides one day that he is big enough to go hunting on his own. He sets out to find a willing prey, but all those he approaches are too big for him... or rather too cunning. This loose adaptation of a Russian children's tale, The Little Wolf is a tongue-in-cheek romp with lots of laughs at the wolfcub's expense.

Disgraced detective Hal Graves falls into a dangerous situation when he tries to help his estranged daughter out of trouble.

When Bruno discovers infidelity in his relationship, he decides to explore why for so many people it is impossible to remain strictly monogamous.

A courageous and determined young woman talks about her experiences going through Female Genital Mutilation and the need to undergo a reconstructive surgery on her genitals.

A woman attempts to obtain the consent of the victim's family to release her husband from the death penalty, meanwhile, the husband is suffering from brain death.

A Western artist is disturbed by sights and sounds hiding a dark homestead secret.

A short film by Tori Pope.

Smart, original and full of black humour, Aussie Laura Davis brings it all to the table with a combination of well crafted jokes, dark, observational story-telling and provocative themes. From dealing with suicidal tendencies, to that existential life question "Gobby or Shark?" Laura finds the funny when life is giving you a crappy deal.

An aging cowboy entrepreneur abandons his native Texas for Montana, migrating north with nothing but his dog, Big Sky dreams, and a truckload of watermelons.

An experimental short dedicated to Barbara Hammer, taking some of Hammer's outtakes from her Tender Fiction as backdrop.

Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence is a 50-minute documentary about the life and work of Georgia writer and activist Lillian Smith (1887 – 1966). This documentary explores her legacy and the life journey that led to her awakening, from her childhood experiences in a small southern town, to her years of living abroad in China, to directing a girls' summer camp in North Carolina. By the time she published a bestselling novel in 1944, her moral compass was finely tuned to the changes needed in the southern U.S., and she spent the next two decades confronting the ugly institution of segregation, saying that it harmed whites as much as blacks. In the decade before her death she wrote about the need for freedom and respect for everyone everywhere.

The feature film You'll Be Sorry is a unique encounter with 55 captivating films. A 2 1/2 hour feature film, You'll Be Sorry weaves together pieces of many movies and results in a brand new creation. The goal of You'll Be Sorry is to evoke similar responses to those predicted by the tuxedo-clad presenter in the opening of James Whales' Frankenstein: "I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even horrify you."

A short musical film on the Old Harp tradition from East Tennessee, shot around a gathering in a church of the Smoky Mountains

A spirit emerges from icy cold water to explore the beautiful snow covered garden she finds herself trapped within.

An experimental intake of Ojore Nuru Lutalo as he recounts the 22 years he spent in political isolation, and the flourishing comradery he built with prison abolitionist, Bonnie Kerness, whose work supported him and other prisoners.

Jonah Tali Lomu MNZM (12 May 1975 – 18 November 2015) was a New Zealand rugby union player. He became the youngest ever All Black when he played his first international in 1994 at the age of 19 years and 45 days. Playing on the wing Lomu finished his international career with 63 caps and 37 tries. He is regarded as the first true global superstar of rugby and consequently had a huge impact on the game. Lomu was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame on 9 October 2007, and the IRB Hall of Fame on 24 October 2011.

Eric Butler’s Dysphoria is a rapid-fire triptych through a past, present and a future self – a dizzying procession through a family album whose would-be after-images are muted by equally intense sequences of mesh and letters.

Don’t disturb the man in the cradle...

Last autumn, a baby was born.

A portrait of one of the most extreme places in the Western Hemisphere - the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota.

Wyatt Earp, one of the most famous lawmen and gamblers of the Old West, is the inspiration behind decades of Hollywood Westerns. This documentary, written by director Plante along with Sam Green and Tim Kirk, highlights the influence of Earp’s legacy on cinema and our perception of the wild, wild West.

Come laugh along with the Smighties in their silliest, spookiest, and slimiest adventures in Smightyland.

Heirs to huge fortunes of tens, even hundreds of millions of pounds, these mega-rich twentysomethings are part of the planet’s wealthiest 1%. This small circle of privileged young people flaunt their lavish lifestyles on social media, reality TV, and in magazines. A golden youth who embrace their wealth, and are not afraid of causing controversy, we follow their extraordinary daily lives.

A family friendly LGBT short film. Connor is out to eat with his family when he sees a married gay couple. He begins to imagine their lives leading up to that point. What was it like for them to meet? To come out of the closet to parents? To have their first gay kiss? Through this daydream, Connor reflects on his own future and identity.

Kara gets a little too obsessed with her book. Will she ever find a love like the characters in her books?

For many, UFO experiences & extraterrestrial encounters have been happening for decades. There are some who believe that a secret entity has been covering up stories and suppressing witnesses in an effort to keep UFO mystery under wraps. This special explores the consequences and potential dangers involved when these secrets are finally revealed.

Sophie Pongrace 'swipes-right' looking for a real connection but encounters something else entirely. 'In Your Area' is a visual and atmospheric film set over the course of one date that explores dating-app culture, gender-dynamics, and ultimately the possibility (or lack there of) privacy in the digital age. (Screamfest)

Even in the apocalypse, nice things do happen. Jessie is a normal girl that is due to get married but during her hen party she is bitten by one of the undead. Will see make it to the church and say I do?

The story follows a young man and woman preparing for a date. The focus is on the grooming and dressing process.

"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.

Betty de Bosch (Zoe Jackson), beautiful researcher from Leiden University in the Netherlands captivates Ali (Dwi Andhika), a Bekasi village boy. Their love journey does not go smoothly because it is blocked by a group of thugs. Their closeness makes Salmah jealous and becomes a new problem, coupled with a strong ban from Baba Jiung, because the Dutch had colonized and controlled the Betawi land.

In 2007, the Braley Family decided to rescue an abandoned and dilapidated Civil War Era home in historic Saginaw, Michigan. Despite the overwhelming need for repair, the Braley's saw nothing but potential; a 6,000 square foot blank canvas to which the large family could pain a future of their own. Sparing no expense, contractors were deployed to the stately and iconic manor, with the mission to preserve its original 19th century colonial architecture. Almost immediately, strange occurrences began taking place within the home; tools coming up missing, disembodied voices and footsteps, and the shocking appearance of a semitranslucent apparition of a young child. Following several weeks of escalating activity, the bewildered family took it upon themselves to find out who or what was haunting their home. That is when they made the unfortunate mistake of turning to a spirit board for answers...

Epoch II takes us on a second cosmic voyage to explore the realms that exist outside the current day theories of space travel and reality.

Live performance from 2018 of the unfinished work by composer Charles Ives. Inspired by the potential of the work, director Christoph Marthaler, stage designer Anna Viebrock and conductor Titus Engel joined forces to stage a performance of Ives' incomplete project, originally intended for more than 4,000 musicians, at the arts festival Ruhrtriennale in 2018.

Before he wrote the book that revolutionized the way people understood evolution, a young Charles Darwin found himself, by chance, on a strange sea voyage. This is the story of the HMS Beagle, which traveled from Great Britain to survey South America's coastline, but also became part of its Captain Fitzroy's flawed social experiment. It's a tale of bold exploration, tragic miscalculation, the death of a civilization, and the birth of Darwinism.

After turning down a long, seemingly abandoned, road in a 1968 Ford Galaxie named Archie, Yuna encounters a philosophical hitchhiker, a girl with (almost) pink hair and an unusual Old Lady who asks her to put all of who she is in a small empty box. Embarking on a journey down this long un-named road, our trio fall into series of mis-adventures in which they discuss the appropriate assemblage of a sandwich, struggle to pee in the woods, build illegal campfires, debate what to put in empty boxes, and contemplate their own existence. This heart-felt quirky drama does not shy away from the truth, whether that be the fragility of dreams, homes and life itself, or the destructive nature of loss and mental disorders. "A Girl, A Boy, A Penny and a Very, Very, Very Long Road" is an indie-film that inspires trust, self-love and bravery.

Two women fight for what makes them happiest, they just can't exactly distinguish if it's each other or their careers. They only have time for one but they try to have it all.

Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1960s, a young San Francisco Chinatown resident armed with a 16mm camera and leftover film scraps from a local TV station, turned his lens onto his community. Totaling more than 20,000 feet of film (10 hours), Harry Chuck's exquisite unreleased footage has captured a divided community's struggles for self-determination. Chinatown Rising is a documentary film about the Asian-American Movement from the perspective of the young residents on the front lines of their historic neighborhood in transition. Through publicly challenging the conservative views of their elders, their demonstrations and protests of the 1960s-1980s rattled the once quiet streets during the community’s shift in power. Forty-five years later, in intimate interviews these activists recall their roles and experiences in response to the need for social change.

Trenton Chappell is joined with Caleb Kubaluka, a local music producer, to discuss their experiences with the music industry. Trenton tells his story about his high school band organization and the dark secrets it holds behind the scenes. Caleb talks about growing up and loving music to the point of becoming a music producer.

Hummer is spun into a dancing journey of self-exploration, but she finds that the journey towards self-discovery is filled with self-doubt. Is it ever possible to truly possess your authentic self?

This film was made from optically printed fragments of footage that I shot during the winter months in Seattle. -JB

A broken-hearted filmmaker navigates an unfamiliar city, an international art fair and his personal baggage in this intimate, playful and unexpectedly comedic documentary.

Eleven time Fiddler of the Year and even a Grammy nominee, but that's just part of the story. Though born with disabilities that left him blind and partially deaf, Michael Cleveland is considered by many to be the greatest fiddler of all time.

There is a language of movement and gesture that is capable of communicating the emotional state of a person in a profound and deeply moving way. The choreography explores an ability to create an authentic way of moving.

As Dave wrote on the bandcamp, this is the very first performance of his solo album. The composition menu is missing again, aaaa! The scrawl on the cover is the maestra's autograph. The cover is 2019, but the credits of the concert are 2021... After "Redemption" there are interviews with Dave and the band for 10 minutes, keep in mind.

Analogue clashes with digital. Rules are made to be broken.

Frankie Bailey, is a black, gay man in his 30's struggling to make ends meet while being forced to confront one of the biggest challenges of his life.

Sibbie the dinosaur wants to get lunch, but her boss has some tasks for her to do first...

Penelope's search for the kind of love that's missing in her life leads her to a motel room with another woman - only to be confronted by the realities of her marriage.

Tale of three men who, after illegally fly-tipping, encounter a rabid monster made of rubbish who will stop at nothing to hunt them down and take their lives in the most absurd ways possible.

A fascinating investigation to meet activists and industrials who struggle to defend the free code, not only in the computer business, but every industry such as automobiles or agriculture. The film is like the logbook of an immersion trip to meet anonymous or public figures from the still marginal world of free software and its ever dominant "proprietary" counter-shoot.