A family of three generations lives in a 120-square-meter home. The division of the space articulates five people’s daily lives, which also throws them into different worlds. They talked about the past and probed for a future. Yet, a crack keeps growing with a repeated pattern full of happiness a...

Who can see a war coming? It started with fireworks in the Crimean sky, a strike on a civilian plane with 298 people on board over the fields of Donetsk, the onslaught on the city of Kyiv by Russian soldiers and bombs. Millions of local residents are trying to flee from Ukraine, while thousands o...

An epic, intimate documentary about one of the most important missions ever carried out in the depths of the Amazon rainforest. Bruno Pereira leads the mission to establish first contact with an isolated group of Korubo indigenous people, and broker a reunion with family members they were separa...

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 residents, who organise and salvage value out of this seemingly...

Muzzled by the increasingly autocratic regime of the “depression Federation”, 16-year- old Marusya decides to join her generations’ suicide statistics by year’s end. Then she meets Kimi and an unexpected love story begins between the two millennials caught in the undertow of their oppressive gove...

Soviet cinematographer Leonid Burlaka worked at Odessa Film Studio in the 60s on dozens of films that have travelled the world. Today he’s in his 80s and diagnosed with Alzheimer's. As his memory fades away, his grandson, filmmaker Igor Ivanko, follows the tracks that Leonid left behind via film ...

In Broca’s Aphasia, 23-year-old Cheng and five friends 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. Inevitably, their relationships with their family, girlfriends and ...

Raudel works at a boat scrap yard in western Cuba. With his colleagues, he lives inside the jagged metal and the smoke of the oil when it burns. He talks about spirits, about stories that await him somewhere. In his eyes hope is opposed to that space where the line that separates the living from ...

My father immortalised the most beautiful moments of his life in family films, while my mother’s difficulties hit the blind spot in his images. Today, I revisit these films to tell another story: the one about a woman who sees her role as a mother gradually taking away her freedom.

Dir. Faustin...

Life on Earth begins and ends with Greenland. Researcher Minik Rosing’s landmark discovery of the first life contrasts with the melting ice masses in Ivalo Frank’s tribute to her beautiful homeland.

Our most basic understanding of the origins of life was recently turned upside down when Greenla...

When I left the island where I was born, it wasn’t a departure, it was an escape. Years later, I arrive on another island, a barren place that feels strangely familiar. I have come here for an encounter with a man. He says he is willing to expose the violence that he carries within. But when I ve...

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 made of meetings, short and heady moments. She tel...

Terrain Vague is a 16mm photo-roman, based on the images and accompanying log of a fictional female researcher who, over the summer of 2016, chronicles the development of a new private, university-based innovation centre from the shell of a former colour and coatings laboratory in a poor and work...

Lale gets cloned virtually! Now that our reality mainly takes place on the screen anyway, she sees a realistic chance to make her digital twin work for her.

The real Lale could do something different, could finally take a break from optimizing her self: more and more often she asks herself the q...

Sorious Samura is Sierra Leone’s best-known investigative journalist, making documentaries for CNN, Channel 4 and BBC that have won two Emmy Awards and seen him described by The Independent as “the world’s most fearless filmmaker”. Over the last 25 years, he’s tackled the toughest issues in the r...

Jola and Wiesiek, a couple of extraordinary entrepreneurs, run the biggest pawnshop in south Poland. However, it's best days are behind it, and with the closure of nearby mines and growing unemployment in the city, the inhabitants of "Polish Detroit" pawn increasingly absurd and useless objects. ...

A short voyage across the thirty-year marriage of a Kosovar-Albanian couple, told through archival footage of Kosovo on the edge of war, London at the end of the 20th Century, and their life in present day Walthamstow.

Dir. Ardin Klimenti - 12min - 2023 - UK

"Archival video footage strings toge...

My father was found dead at the beach with psychotropic medication among his things. Despite suicide being a possibility, my mother -a psychiatrist- deemed performing an autopsy unnecessary. I was eight years old.

Thirty years later, equipped with a box filled with his belongings, I begin piecin...

Vladimír Dzuro is the first Czech criminal investigator to have worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. In the 1990’s he collected evidence against war criminals and hunted perpetrators of ethnic cleansing. We join Vladimír Dzuro on his metaphorical and physical ...

Štefan Pongo is a Roma lorry driver. Fifteen years ago, he emigrated from the Czech Republic to the UK with his family, to shield them from open racial discrimination. The children have since graduated from university and the family is doing well, but hateful sentiments from the old country conti...

Celsa covers her skin with roots and leaves from her jungle-like garden. She wants to heal. She still feels prison and torture endured 45 years ago in a concentration camp in Paraguay. However, the past echoes; the country is ruled by the son of the former dictator's right-hand man.

Dir. Sofia P...

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 contradictions, knowing and recognizing each other...

Moosa Lane is a personal family epic, where the director looks back at the history of her two families over the course of 15 years in Karachi and Copenhagen. A cinematic essay of belonging, human worth, life, love and death.

The director grew up in Denmark with her Pakistani father and Norwegian...

Life between waiting and arriving. Joining one of the migrant caravans, Dinora made it to the US. Now she has to deal with an GPS ankle bracelet, constantly reminding her that her time in the US might end at any moment.

PRIMER PAQUETE PARA HONDURAS captures the atmosphere of a transitional stat...