When an environment is dramatically disturbed, what possibilities for life remain? On the slopes of the Navarrese Pyrenees, the construction of the Itoiz dam in the 1990s flooded seven villages and three nature reserves. A strip of bare land, 592 metres above sea level, today marks a dividing lin...

Gonj (Honey Bee) follows workers collecting honey in the extreme Zagros Mountains of Iran. On cliff-faces of more than 150m, with only basic facilities, they risk life and limb in order to collect a particularly pure and clear honey believed to have healing properties.

Dir. Arman Gholipour Dasht...

Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the north east of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea breeze brings me back happy memories.

Dir. Nara Normande - 14min - 2018 - France, Brazil - Language: Portuguese - Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

"plays like casually flipping through a photo album of a...

In a village in West Africa, dreams play a key role. In the evening, on local radio, neighbours call up to recount their oneiric visions. On the other end of the line, the host of the show answers the telephone while a woman, sat next to him, carefully listens to each of the voices criss-crossing...

Leipzig, GDR, 1980s: The Hotel Astoria is a magical, almost sacred place. Business people, prostitutes, the elite of the Socialist Party, and from time to time ordinary people meet here. But lobster, salmon and caviar are not always on the menu – extravagance is also on ration. And the Stasi are ...

Denis visits his parents' summer home in Tuscany, bringing his friend, the director Moris Freiburghaus. These are the last warm summer days, but, struggling with past mistakes and addictions, Denis finds it hard to enjoy them. He grapples with his demons under the watchful eye, and gentle lens, o...

Sixteen-year-old ‘Anonymous’ has been in and out of juvenile detention for the last five years... and he finds himself 'locked-up' yet again. As he moves around the confines of the secure facility in this fully-animated documentary, he tries to make sense of his past and the circumstances that ha...

I started filming my grandparents in 2007. I was fifteen years old. I really loved my grandfather a lot but as the years went by, I turned my camera more and more towards my grandmother who was suffering from a disturbing illness. Alzheimer’s. I filmed a fraction of their lives, as it happens muc...

Krāslava bridge is the first bridge over the river Daugava in the territory of Latvia - gate for the Daugava river from Belarus to Latvia. Every film is about time, but ours maybe a bit more than others as it was shot on Kodak Eastman Plus-X Negative Film 5231, acquired in the year 1997 and disco...

After the closure of the high school and the fish farm, all the men and teenagers have to leave the tiny island of Out Skerries to go to the Mainland, leaving the women by themselves with the younger children.

Julie Powis Arthur is one of those women. First she saw her husband leave and now bot...

Vilnius is a city of notable historical heritage and unique character currently undergoing considerable changes. Some of the life fragments our camera has recorded are no more. The film, therefore, is a testimony to that which has faded into oblivion, and a glimpse into what is to come.

Dir. Eit...

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...

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...

A remote piece of no-man´s land. A dusty, barren area in between the railway line and the highway. A few campfires flaring. Groups of people gathering here and there. Slowly the situation is becoming clear. They are part of the caravan heading towards the US border. Silent images and fragments of...

During the pandemic, Gautam, a 14 year old boy remains stuck in his school dormitory. He yearns for his village while his mother tries contacting him. This impressionistic documentary explores the struggles of a remote tribal community from North East India as it attempts to provide an education ...

Desperately building against the inevitability of time, a restless young woman is awaiting another upcoming loss. But maybe more important things never seem to be told. / Soon after the director moves into her 22nd house, she gets a phone call that her Grandma, who lives far away, is in a critica...

The Grand National, held at the Saint-Hyacinthe agricultural fair, is the biggest truck and tractor pull event in Canada. Over the course of three days, to an audience of 20,000, more than sixty competitors come from all over North America with little to win but the applause of the crowd.

Origi...

Alex Anna’s Scars is an intimate portrait of the director’s own personal battles with depression and self harming. Blending documentary and animation, this film brings awareness and stresses the importance of discussing these topics. Scars has had its world premiere at Toronto International Film ...

As the sun rises above a forgotten pyramid, Mahmoud saddles his horse Asefa beside a desert race track. This is how they prepare for their daily training. Friday, all eyes will be on them. Mahmoud senses the fear inside him. Will he be able to win the race one more time?

On Friday afternoon, men...

Paris, 2017: While the new president is being elected, the state of emergency lingers. It sneaks through the capital, on the lookout for old and new monuments to make its own. As the city struggles to regain its innocence, it gently slips its way into everyday life and seeps into the constitution...

Springtime in northern Albania sparks the herding of goats from the lowlands, up to the towering mountainsides. Prek Gjoni is moving his livestock with the help of Jovalin. Will broken shoes and an umbrella suffice for the 4-day walk?

Dir. Grégoire Verbeke - 15min - 2018 - Belgium

"It is a land...

The uncertain future of skiing in Scotland has inspired Jamie Kunka to make sustainable skis out of wood. Based in his cabin in the Scottish Highlands, Jamie is the last ski maker in Scotland.

Jamie began teaching himself how to make his wooden skis after watching a Vimeo Staff Pick by Wyatt Vis...