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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

The film takes us on a nocturnal and subterranean journey inside the TBM, the tunnel boring machine used to dig tunnels and subways all over the world. The departure of the TBM from one station and its arrival at the next mark the stages of our film, a passage that goes from the dark of the work ...

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...

The Secret History of Aviation is a poignant reflection on that which rises and that which falls. Its title and narration are taken from a piece written by Manuel Zimbro, in which he muses on what it is that prevents man from being able to fly, and what impact this limitation has on the natural w...

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...

In 'Casa del Migrante' in Huehutoca, a suburb of Mexico City, refugees find a safe abode. At least for two days. Then they must go on with their journey towards USA in freight train carriages, which everyone here just calls 'La Bestia', the beast.

Dir. Manuel Inacker - 23min - 2018 - Germany - L...

Augusto, a 70-year old man, is dealing with the sudden appearance of a 25-year old woman in his life, Cristina, the filmmaker. Since I first saw him, I had an urge to film this mysterious figure. Our initial fascination with each other unraveled into a seduction game, disclosing fragility, lust a...

The plants are the only ones remaining in the vacant business building. In this large and once lavish space, the gardener still maintains the plants, which have become part of its architecture. She sifts through the ones in pots and prepares them for their relocation.

The plants which used to r...

An old Bedouin riding his camel can’t believe his eyes: a woman dressed in silvery armour and a bizarre helmet is studying an insignificant rock. Astronauts in the desert of Oman... Or is it Mars?

Bedouins, spaceships, desertships, two young Omani girls passionate about space, and a lost directo...