DIR. REBANA LIZ JOHN - 82min - 2021 - INDIA, GERMANY

“What makes you angry?” asks the filmmaker. A small film crew enters the ladies compartments of the local trains in Mumbai. Chance encounters and acquaintances are invited to reveal their opinions, their confessions and their stories in a ‘pub...

Dir. Elizabeth Mirzaei, Gulistan Mirzaei - 2018 - Canada, Afghanistan - Languages: Dari, Pushto, Persian, English - Subtitles: English

In a country offering almost no treatment services despite a crisis of addiction, Laila Haidari took the highly unusual decision to found her own pioneering addi...

Dir. Catherine Legault | 103min | 2024 | Canada

A look at the intimate world of young non-binary trans photographer Laurence Philomène as they put together their first book, Puberty, a series of self-portraits documenting their transition during hormone therapy. Mirroring Philomène’s autobiograp...

Dir. Venice Atienza - 72min - 2021, Philippines, Taiwan

12-year-old Reyboy lives in Karihatag, an isolated fishing village in the south of the Philippines. Every morning, the men set out to sea. Their daily catch is shared upon their return and the area close to the shore has been turned into an...

-- Dir. Cyrielle Raingou - 75min - 2023 - Cameroon --

Since 2014, the terrorist organisation Boko Haram has led strikes against the villages and people of the Far North Region of Cameroon. Today, this constant threat of violence has woven itself into daily existence.

In her profoundly affecting...

Dir. Maíra Bühler - 85min - 2019 - Brazil - Language: Portuguese - Subtitles available in: English, French, Spanish

Downtown São Paulo, Brazil. An Apartment Building: 7 floors, 28 rooms, 107 residents who all have in common the addiction to crack. Over the course of several months, life in a ...

-- Dir. Elene Asatiani, Soso Dumbadze - 125min - 2023 - Georgia --

"When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 it became clear to anyone that the aggressor was conducting a hybrid war against Ukraine. It conquered Crimea with a combination of disinformation, propaganda, and secret military support for r...

Dir. Vasco Viana, Rita Maia - 2019 - Portugal

This exuberant documentary portrait of a city and its musicians highlights the innovative Afro-Portuguese music scene thriving on the outskirts of Lisbon.

Cinematographer Vasco Viana and Lisbon-born, London-based DJ Rita Maia depict a vibrant commu...

Dir. Abdallah Al-Khatib - 89min - 2021 - Lebanon, France, Qatar

The district of Yarmouk (Damascus, Syria) sheltered the biggest Palestinian refugee camp in the world from 1957 to 2018.

When the Syrian revolution broke out, the regime of Bashar Al-Assad saw Yarmouk as a refuge of rebels and res...

Dir. Daniel Draper - 125min - 2024 - UK

Liverpool Story is an intimate year-in-the-life documentary centred around Liverpool, its communities and culture, we find beauty in the ordinary and see life in the city from a fresh perspective. Mirroring the ebb and flow of the River Mersey, themes of ...

-- Dir. Thomas Fuerhapter - 90min - 2022 - Austria --

There was once a place in Vienna where people could study and learn how to live together. Under the auspices of the City of Vienna, modules were developed in an EU-funded joint project to make it easier for refugees – but also newcomers in ge...

Dir. Stefan Pavlović - 88min - 2021 -- The Netherlands, Bosnia & Herzegovina, France

‘Looking for Horses’ is a film about a friendship between the filmmaker and a fisherman, who lost his hearing during the Bosnian civil war and retreated to a lake to live in solitude. The filmmaker, son of Bosni...

Dir. Helena Třeštíková - 101min - 2015 - Czech Republic

Life hasn’t been easy on Mallory, but after the birth of her son she tries desperately to kick her drug habit, and to stop living on the street. She wants to turn her back on her dark past and help those she knows best – people on the ...

Dir. Helena Třeštíková - 82min - 2006 - Czech Republic

The life of Marcela, an ordinary Czech woman is explored throughout several decades of her life. The documentary observes several important societal issues. We are engaged to struggle and fight back with Marcela as her tragic life unfol...

Dir. Xun Sero - 80min - 2022 - Mexico

As a Mexican Tzotzil I grew up between the sacrality both of Guadalupe Virgin and Mother Earth. As a son, I grew up among the derision of not having a father and blaming my mother for it. ‘Mom’ is a dialogue between mother and son exploring their contradicti...

Dir. Sebastian Brameshuber - 2019 - Austria/France - Languages: Igbo, German, English - Subtitles: English

In a remote, abandoned industrial site near a centuries-old ore mine in the Austrian Alps, a self-taught mechanic runs a business exporting used cars to his native Nigeria. As he pursues hi...

Dir. Bojana Burnać - 2017 - Croatia - Languages: Croatian, English - Subtitles: English

Goran is the world champion in free diving – a man whose most important moments in life take place underwater and whose willpower goes beyond his humanity, in order to seemingly find a place for himself in et...

Dir. Victoria Fiore - 88min - 2022 - Italy

Nascondino follows four years in the life of “scugnizzo” streetkid Entoni as he fights for freedom during a state crackdown on children at risk of entering organised crime. Meanwhile his grandmother Dora, the family matriarch, watches him roam the narro...

-- Dir. Fernanda Faya - 72min - 2023 - Brazil --

Neirud died shrouded in mystery, leaving behind no trace of her past. Confronting family secrets, the filmmaker pieces together the life of her enigmatic aunt, who toured Brazil as a wrestler in an underground all-female circus troupe throughout t...

Dir. Lennart Hüper - 2021 - Germany, Austria

The crew of the emergency rescue ship Lifeline has to wait for months in the harbour of Malta. After saving hundreds of people who have fled their homelands from drowning, its captain Claus-Peter Reisch is being tried locally on a dubious technicality...

Dir. Nikolay Stefanov - 81min - 2022 - Bulgaria

'No Place For You In Our Town' pulls you into the heads of the football hooligans from the roughest city in Bulgaria — Pernik. A once flourishing industrial center, today all that’s left is the urban legend about its citizens’ toughness — an echo o...

Dir. Mark Lyken - 90min - 2022 - UK

An affectionate portrait of the local communities, rituals and routines of Hawick in the Scottish Borders that is deeply invested in the sometimes absurd ways in which a town’s cultural identities are shaped, intuited and lived.

Dir. Rozálie Kohoutová, Tomáš Bojar - 2019 - Czech Republic - Languages: Arabic, Czech, English - Subtitles: English

In the summer of 2017, young ice hockey players from the town of Náchod in East Bohemia set off on a long distance trip to Morocco, to participate in what was surely the most...

-- Dir. Nicolas Peduzzi - 93min - 2023 - France --

In a hospital in the Paris region, a psychiatrist devotes himself to his mission at the risk of going out of his depth.

How do you provide good care in a sick institution? In a hospital in the Paris region, Dr. Abdel-Kader, a liaison psychiatri...