-- Dir. Lukas Marxt, Vanja Smiljanić - 85min - 2024 - Austria, Germany --

Among the Palms the Bomb, or: Looking for reflections in the toxic field of plenty

"Where the sandy beach of the Salton Sea, the biggest lake in California, begins to crunch harder, it does not even consist of sand any mo...

Dir. Alvaro Gurrea - 93min - 2021 - Spain

Yono, or Mbah Jhiwo (ancient soul), a Kawah Ijen sulphur miner, sees his routine radically altered the moment his wife goes away. Trapped like Sisyphus into an eternal return, Yono will face similar events that mutate in appearance as his beliefs move f...

Dir. Neary Adeline Hay - 2018 - Cambodia, France

Born from a forced marriage during the Khmer Rouge regime, director Neary Adeline Hay travels back to Cambodia with her father, Khonsaly, to face his former Khmer Rouge persecutors. In Ta Saeng, the detention village that they lived together in as...

Dir. Orban Wallace - Prod. Verity Wislocki - 2017 - UK

The feature documentary debut of Orban Wallace, Another News Story was filmed during the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis. Wallace’s film follows refugees from the Greek island of Lesbos, into Hungary and Croatia and across Europe to a hoped-for s...

Dir. Olivier Magis - 2019 - Belgium - Languages: Creole, French, English - Subtitles: English

Fifty years ago, the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands was expelled by the British authorities. This secret operation took place to facilitate the leasing of the main island, Diego Garcia, ...

Dir. Helin Çelik - 91min - 2023 - Austria, Spain

The film narrates the story of three women who are connected to each other through the invisible string of trauma and isolation. In the absence of motion, the spectator deep dives into a manic silence, into the expansive loneliness of the trauma a...

Dir. Jessica Johnson & Ryan Ermacora - 87min - 2022 - Canada

A former mining town in remote northwest British Columbia, Anyox is now marked by mountainous slag piles accumulated as a byproduct of the early 20th century copper smelting process. Anyox tracks the daily work of the town’s two sole r...

-- Dir. Sofie Benoot - 80min - 2024 - Belgium, Netherlands --

Stones are at once the most foundational and the most overlooked parts of our lifeworld. When a retired nature documentary narrator passes a kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone. A hypno...

Dir. Joerg Burger - 92min - 2023 - Austria

At the Natural History Museum in Vienna, everything that is found on earth, in outer space, and that humans can get their hands on, is collected, archived, and studied in the name of evolutionary research. Archive of the Future captures the aesthetic ap...

Dir. Daniela de Felice - 66min - 2022 - France

Suddenly, a woman needs to write about her youth.

In a curt way, far away from moral, Ardenza is the testimony of sexual liberation and political commitment, during the 90’s in Italy. The young woman moves, bangs, suffers and comes. Her story is ma...

Dir. Esther Johnson - 72min - 2016 - UK

Directed by Esther Johnson and narrated by journalist Kate Adie and actor Alun Armstrong, ASUNDER tells the story of what happened to an English town during the First World War, with almost all of its men abroad fighting and its women and children left beh...

Dir. Moein Karimoddini - 2015 - Iran - Language: Farsi - Subtitles: English

“A Turkman without a horse is not a Turkman”.

The Horse is the most important element in the life of Iranian Turkmen. Ali is a Turkman horse trainer, horses are his life. Ilhan is the name of the horse that has won him ...

-- Dir. Fil Ieropoulos - 92min - 2024 - Greece --

Avant-Drag! offers an exhilarating look at ten Athenian drag performers who deconstruct gender, nationalism, belonging, identity, while facing police brutality, transphobia and racism. As entertaining as it is thought-provoking, Avant-Drag! chall...

Dir. Pablo Briones and The Moving Picture Boys - 90min - 2019 - Switzerland, USA - Language: Spanish

When hot summer comes to their tiny village in the Cuban countryside, Leonel and Antuán intimately explore their universe far from adults. With a considerable difference in age, their unique frie...

Dir. Alejandro Salgado - 2019 - Spain - Language: Arabic - Subtitles: English

Barzakh is the story of the survival of a group of kids trapped between two worlds; Morocco, the hell they think they are running away from, and Europe, the Paradise they expect to find.

They walk alone, unaccompanied...

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Dir. Alejandro Salgado - 2019 - Spain - Language: Arabic - Subtitles: English

Barzakh is the story of the survival of a group of kids trapped between two worlds; Morocco, the hell they think they are running away from, and Europe, the Paradise they expect to fin...

-- Dir. João Pedro Bim - 66min - 2023 - Brazil --

In 1968, Brazil’s military government passed a law that ushered in the most violent period of the dictatorship. The meeting was recorded, but remained secret for decades. The documentary combines these audio tracks with propaganda films of the ti...

Dir. Evgeny Kalachikhin - 2021 - Germany

Three villages are combined in one timeless space - somewhere beyond the Arctic Circle. On the Kola peninsula in the Russian North, a few dozen people still live in their traditional timber houses surrounded by water, forests, and sand. Nature provides f...

Dir. Evgeny Kalachikhin - 2021 - Germany

Three villages are combined in one timeless space - somewhere beyond the Arctic Circle. On the Kola peninsula in the Russian North, a few dozen people still live in their traditional timber houses surrounded by water, forests, and sand. Nature provides f...

-- Dir. Greta Stocklassa - 83min - 2023 - Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany --

Greta had just turned 8 years old when she watched the unfolding of 9/11 on her tv in Stockholm. In the following months and years she saw her fellow countryman, the diplomat Hans Blix, become a major player in the glob...

Dir. Hakob Melkonyan - 85min - 2020 - Armenia, France, Greece, Germany

In the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, for thirty years Chinari’s inhabitants have been trying to survive the war between the Azeris and the Armenians, and the difficult conditions imposed by a blockade. Young people wa...

Dir. Su Ming-Yen - 85min - 2022 - Taiwan

In Broca’s Aphasia, 23-year-old Cheng leads five employees of his own age to run a sex doll service in a hotel, a business with a monthly turnover of more than one million Taiwan dollars. They started working and setting up the company at a young age. Ine...

Dir. Stéphanie Barbey, Luc Peter - 75min - 2014 - Switzerland/USA - Languages: English

Out in desert-like nature, living in the shadows of the immense fence that is erected to control Mexican immigration, seven Americans tell how the border transforms their lives. They observe the haunting trac...

-- Dir. Felix Hergert, Dominik Zietlow - 91min, 2024 - Switzerland --

The buildings in the Brunaupark district of Zurich are about to be demolished. Their owner, the Crédit Suisse pension company, plans to knock down more than 200 still functional apartments, some of which have been renovated, i...