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José Antonio Sistiaga is one of the greats in Basque contemporary art. Through lively exchanges begun in 1993 with his Salvadoran friend Manuel Sorto, we plunge into Sistiaga's intellectual intimacy and travel through a Basque history, following the steps of this experimental filmmaker and artist. This nearly two-decades-old project was taken up again in 2011, with the filming of the installation of Sistiaga's retrospective exhibition in San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain.

A coming of age story about Harry, a charismatic 11-year old boy, who arrives at secondary school in suburban London unable to read or write. With the help of Sophie, his extremely dedicated teacher, can he overcome the illiteracy ingrained across generations of his family? Against the backdrop of a Britain riven with debates around class, identity and social mobility, the film follows Harry over two years as he fights not only to improve academically but also to believe in a different future for himself.

Freddy Lim is a founder and singer of the famous black metal band Chthonic from Taiwan. Apart from that, he has been a member of the Taiwanese parliament since 2016, sitting on the committees for National Defence and Foreign Affairs. He is a member of a coalition working closely with Taiwan's first-ever female president. The film accompanies the rock star politician for his first year in political office as he opposes China's policy towards Taiwan and Tibet. As an activist fighting for human rights, he meets with the Dalai Lama, but also takes part in Donald Trump's inauguration even though he has many reservations about him. Freddy Lim is on the front line. But he still occasionally puts on his face paint and sings in a diabolical voice at the front of his black metal band. Strangely, the two worlds are coming together.

Laura (23) receives a call from the cementery where she is told she must exhume her father's body who died eleven years ago. From six siblings different perspectives and beliefs.

A mystical place, an enchanted story: A group of knights, imported directly from the Middle Ages, go ashore on the banks of the Río de la Plata. They are searching for a grave where they wish to perform a ritual. As they pass through the jungle, things happen that cause them to land in the present day. They have sex, find a car, enjoy a sunset with beers in their hands. Then an announcement comes over the radio that makes everything appear in a different light, and there’s no going back.

Italian girls live out their passions at places in Palermo and Rome.

Untold Story, – executively produced by Advocate/DJ/Producer, Zeke Thomas, and CEO of crowdMGMT, Brand & Artist Manager EJ Jamele and creator and survivor Kevin Marshall – chronicles stories of sexual abuse from an unsuspecting group of people – black men – and documents how these men, despite their seemingly quiet but torturous struggles, rise above their personal tragic experiences after decades of torment.

A disabled woman obsessively instructs her housekeeper until the oppression becomes something she can’t live without.

Roland Kaiser is considered one of the greats of German pop music. An icon of light music who masters the rules of success like no other. A star you can relate to: approachable and credible. A new WDR documentary now traces Roland Kaiser's eventful, exciting, and sometimes dramatic life and career. Pop star Roland Kaiser has been on stage for 50 years. The 70-year-old singer has sold more than 100 million records with hits such as "Joana," "Dich zu lieben" and "Santa Maria." The documentary shows Roland Kaiser, who has once again conquered the top of the charts with his album "Perspektiven," as a private person and family man.

Following the death of his young wife, a widower has isolated himself from the outside world. He lives solely for her memory, until one day he encounters a dancer who looks remarkably familiar. Working together with the General Music Director Ainārs Rubiķis, Canadian star director Robert Carsen stages his production at the Komische Oper Berlin with Korngold’s musical psycho-thriller, one of the greatest hits of the 1920s.

Igor Stravinsky composed Elegy for Viola in 1994 “so that Germain Prévost could play it in memory of Alphonse Onnou, founder of the Pro Arte Quartet”. Tribute and lament, the piece is played here by Gérard Caussé, assisted, if one can say so, by a garden banded snail. Riding the bow, the gastropod goes from the bottom to the top of the stick during the music. The title, which is a logic expression that imposes a double condition simultaneously, points to the link between animal and human, between music and silence, between seeing and listening, between two astonishments, two sliding virtuosities.

"Royan la Rage" is the crossed portrait of a family facing his visceral need to desire. André, the father, has no more wishes. To feel free to be and to desire, he has to get rid of his money. Miss Canine, a financial domineering, snatched him from his daily hypocrisy. Doubts about his double life gradually contaminate his wife and his daughter. The newfound lucidity at a price. Behind the utopian world of the seaside resorts, it spreads like a virus and makes appearances disappear.

Even When I Fall tells the incredible story of Nepal's first circus, set up by survivors of child trafficking.

Can Evil achieve perfection? In a single, brutal night, the characters of this film will seek an answer beyond any human or divine boundary.

In Russia ladybugs are sitting on the lower third of the flag, since they are hiding there like spies in the cables of a computer. Bugs in the machine. On. Off. The mysterious bug ate the Russian Coccinellidae after they had a sexual intercourse for about 5 hours. A woman caged in her apartment. In the news they are saying no is allowed to leave the building. Ban of going out. Someone is inside. Someone is watching her.

An innocent child narrowly escapes destruction and death in Syria. What she leaves behind can never truly be left behind.

With no family, no friends, ostracized by society and haunted by his past, old Luser spends his days taking refuge in drink. One day he finds Alium, a girl with brown skin and silver hair, unconscious. Her peculiar features make her become an object of ridicule. Faced with this situation, Luser will take charge of his life to protect Alium.

Shaun always feels separate and isolated from the confident, happy world around him. Whilst waiting for his parents in a busy pub, Shaun struggles valiantly to join in with the admirably happy people in the crowd, but the more he tries, the more he goes awry. As everything in the pub goes from bad to worse, Shaun finds himself confronted by the painful memories that made him who he is. His feelings, memories and desires overwhelm him and by the end of the evening he is ready to explode...

The mythical mountain of Monte Adrion (Biokovo) shows us pictures from your life.

A couple spends most of their time talking about their past and their dreams. During this time, they are constantly monitored and analyzed by voices, bodies, and external devices.

The story of the NHS.

In the Peruvian highlands, a father and master of a 300-year-old bridge weaving tradition struggles to maintain his culture as his daughter tries to escape it.

In the pews of an ornately decorated Baroque church, congregants worship a new-age God that challenges the meaning of Higher Power. A Doc Fortnight/Cinema Tropical collaboration.

For fifteen weeks between May and August 2017, Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe travelled to all 2,563 Railway Stations in Britain, producing and publishing multiple videos every week online. A few months after they'd finished they then sat down to reflect upon the journey, talk about the railways and produce this .. the feature length Documentary. Contains new footage, that was not previously published in the daily videos. A huge thanks (as always) to our Kickstarter backers for making this happen!

Kamel, a young man, living in Bobigny, france, gets fired because he is a Muslim. His encounters with an old friend, Khaled leads him to box in a sport club, owned by Karim. But it's a cover for terrorists activities, since Karim sends young adults to Syria. Cops are investigating and find a link between Kamel and Karim...therefore, Kamel is a suspect.

Portrait of Josselin Pietri, a painter passionnate about Bruce Lee and popular movies, who makes cardboard sculptures celebrating his idols.

A group of people from different places, meet in an intercultural event, during 4 days in the mountains of Pucón, Chile; to receive knowledge and ancestral wisdom of some natives. Acquiring new perspectives on relating among human beings, Mother Earth and the cosmos.

Yasmin has lived an almost normal life as a German ever since she was three years old. The family fled from Somalia during the civil war and now lives scattered around the globe. When Yasmin's grandmother no longer wants to stay in her Ethiopian exile, a transnational family drama evolves, circling around the essential question: Where is Granny to live? And suddenly, the family confronts their own aspirations: Have they actually arrived where they want to be? GLOBAL FAMILY is a twistful documentary about a transnational family drama, in which four generations of a refugee family each pursue their own dreams of family, home, and future.

Khonsaly finds his former Khmer Rouge executioners, in the obscure intimacy of the village in which they lived for 4 years. Between past and present, identities are revealed, the forgotten specters re-emerging and the story, facing the other, is finally told.

Don't trust the nightmares

Former fighters of the Colombian FARC guerilla report in letters on their most formative experiences from their time in the armed underground. University students from three continents adapt these personal memories in a parallel collective process to develop a touching film whose visual joy of experimentation is impressive.

An aging aristocrat finds himself with unexpected, and unwanted, company when he vomits up his own doppelganger. Rebuffing the offer of friendship from his new companion, Duke’s petty greed and selfishness will lead to his murder and the beginning of the cycle once again

New Mexico, July 1945. In this land, the paths of an old farmer and a young Navajo boy cross, just prior to a world-changing event. This visual narrative piece features beautiful imagery and composition by Vancouver’s Todd Duym, which won him the award for Best Cinematography in a Short Drama at the Leo Awards in early June. It’s a poetic, silent contemplation of the beautiful landscapes and a memorable day long ago, recalled by the boy, now an old man who knows the implications of what he witnessed that morning. This is a powerful indictment of American military nuclear testing and its effects on Native Americans.

A documentary following a group of school pupils on a trip to Malawi.

Portraits of bird whistlers, the last interpreters of birdsong. From landscapes to faces, from houses to trees, Après l’heure bleue tells the story of the survival of an almost forgotten bond doomed to disappear, a vestige of a bygone era, giving rise to the anxiety of a desperately empty natural world.

A film about an institution called "House of Theater", which lodged retired and forgotten artists and is the home of Oscar, a convalescing actor who longs to reunite with his son.

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