Dir. Mickaël Bandela - 86min - 2022 - France

For nearly twenty years, I grew up in a foster family, today I am 35 years old and I am trying to start my family when Gisèle, my birth mother, tells me that she is returning to live in Congo, his home country. I have to understand: Why is she still l...

Dir. Toia Bonino - 2017 - Argentina

Don Orione is a neighbourhood in Buenos Aires where crime is part of everyday life. Toia Bonino’s documentary is about Ale, who after a short life of petty thievery, was shot by police at the age of 24, having been turned in by a friend. His story is told in v...

Dir. Martine Deyres - 2019 - France, Switzerland, Belgium

During the Second World War, 45,000 psychiatric patients perished in French hospitals. Only one facility survived this decimation. At the Saint-Alban asylum, the daily routine of an institution was reinvented. Political courage and poetic...

Dir. Joaquín Maito - 80min - 2018 - Argentina - Language: Spanish - Subtitles: English

There's an island far away from the map where there are no more humans, money or work. All that remains is a community of cats that transmit a libertarian message through antennas, which immediately spread th...

Dir. Ruth Beckermann - 1987 - Austria

Ruth Beckermann’s exploration of her own family past is both the story of the Central European Jews and a history of the region. Her journey takes her from Vienna, where her grandmother lived in hiding during the war amongst the Nazis by posing as a deaf-mut...

Dir. Claire Doyon - 88min - 2021 - France

For 18 years I have been filming Pénélope, a young adult with autism. One day I opened the cupboard that contained DV tapes and Super 8 reels. It almost popped my eyes out. We had to bring all these images together.

Pénélope mon amour traces the journey...

Dir. Corine Shawi - 72min - 2022 - Lebanon

When her father becomes suddenly paralised, the filmmaker spends four years in between hospitals finding shelter, behind her camera, away from a family tragedy.

Rehabilitation centres, VR experiments, fervent prayers, voice notes, love making and cemet...

Dir. Marc Isaacs - 70min - 2005 - UK

Is it possible to live like an Old Testament king in suburban Hove? Well, that's what Philip Sharp is attempting to do. Formerly a rabbi, with a sister who is a hairdresser in Golders Green, Phillip has lighted out into the sacred wilderness.

It transpires t...

Dir. Jean-François Lesage - 2019 - Canada

Night has fallen and Montreal is under a blanket of snow. At the City Transit Company, people line up at the lost and found office where upon reflection, losing something becomes a symbol of a deeper loss. This creative documentary is sometimes melanchol...

-- Dir. Janaína Nagata - 91min - 2022 - Brazil --

In 2018, Brazilian artist and filmmaker Janaina Nagata stumbles upon a 16mm footage acquired online. The unassuming footage captures scenes from a white family's trip to South Africa during the 1960s. The seemingly innocent images lead to an ins...

Dir. Helena Třeštíková - 83min - 2012 - Czech Republic

Honza was born in 1974 into the cheerless era of socialism in Czechoslovakia. At that time, his parents Jana and Petr lived in one room in the apartment of Jana’s divorced mother and her widowed grandmother. A few years later, the family...

Dir. Amel Alzakout - Co-Dir. Khaled Abdulwahed - 2020 - Germany

“I see everything,” she says, as if it was a curse. Brilliant sunshine, clear blue skies. The sea is calm, framed by a piece of railing. Buzzing voices. A peaceful moment if it weren’t for the fact that the sea is standing upright, ...

Dir. Ben Guez and Sasha Kulak - 75 min - 2019 - United States, Russia - Languages: English, Spanish - Subtitles: English

Amid the ruins of an abandoned California mercury-mining town, Quicksilver Chronicles follows the daily lives of the outspoken and gifted writer Kate Woods, her brother Kemp, ...

Dir. Juliana Fanjul - 2019 - Switzerland, Mexico

Incorruptible journalist and news anchor Carmen Aristegui is one of the few voices in Mexico with the courage to speak the truth, becoming one of 
the most dangerous voices in the eyes of the government. Millions of people listen to her when she d...

Dir. Helena Třeštíková - 2008 - Czech Republic - Language: Czech - Subtitles: English

René's story begins in prison under socialist posters, continues through the so-called Velvet Revolution of 1989 and gets a seemingly happy conclusion with the amnesty decree issued by President Václav Ha...

Dir. Helena Třeštíková - 102min - 2021 - Czech Republic

Documentary filmmaker Helena Třeštíková met René during communism in a juvenile prison. To make the film René (2008), which won the European Film Academy Award for Best Documentary, she watched him with a camera for twenty years.
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Dir. Diana El Jeiroudi - 2021 - France, Germany, Italy, Qatar, Syria

Twelve years in the making, Republic of Silence bears witness to a tragedy on an epic scale, accompanied by an ever-expanding mosaic of fragile, deeply embedded moments from Diana El Jeiroudi’s life, beginning with the memory f...

Dir. Ruth Beckermann, Josef Aichholzer - 1983 - Austria

A master storyteller remembers his youth in Vienna. Franz West (1900 –1985) recalls his Jewish family, his commitment to the workers' movement in Red Vienna along with the rise of Austro-Fascism and National Socialism. His memories of the d...

Dir. Ilan Serruya - 2018 - Argentina

Roots in the ground, a closed door. A flashlight goes off, I keep
walking. Who is who in this game of silences? The absence of words
does not matter. Narrative will find its way to emerge.

This is no longer just my story. Images opened to be inhabited.

A sh...

Dir. Roser Corella - 73min - 2021, Germany, Austria

Migrant domestic workers from Kenya, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Ghana, hired as maids under the Kafala system in Lebanon, are not considered employees since they are given food and lodging, and ostensibly, live as part of their employer'...

-- Dir. Marta Pessoa - 101min - 2023 - Portugal --

In 1934, the 'New State' took to the world stage with the Portuguese Colonial Exhibition. There, the Portuguese Empire displayed the ultimate symbol of its virility in Rosinha, a native of what was then Portuguese Guinea. ROSINHA AND OTHER WILD ...

Dir. David N. Bernatchez, Sammy Baloji - 107min - 2020 Canada, Belgium, Democratic Republic of Congo

Permeating the daily life of one of the great orchestras of the current generation, Rumba Rules proposes an incursion into the mysteries of a monumental African music. Ya Mayi, Lumumba, Xéna La G...

Dir. Eefje Blankevoort & Els van Driel - 2021 - Netherlands

Every day teenagers who have fled their war-torn countries try to cross Europe’s borders in search of protection and a better life. They travel through a shadow world of minefields, bears, fast-flowing rivers, smugglers and border guard...

Dir. Enrico Masi - 81min - 2019 - Italy/France - Languages: French, Italian, Arabic, English, Tagalog - Subtitles: English

According to the myth, Jupiter seduced a young girl and led her to an island in the Mediterranean Sea. The name of the girl was Europa. Crossing boundaries, wilderness and u...