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In Praise of Freedom follows a filmmaker on a personal quest to understand what freedom truly means, not through abstract definition but through direct experience. Travelling across countries and speaking with people from a wide range of…

Set against a backdrop of hurricanes, coastal devastation, and apocalyptic fear, the film is an unnerving exploration of evangelical End Times culture.

Another News Story is a 2017 British documentary in which director Orban Wallace turns the camera away from the refugees themselves and onto the international journalists racing across Europe to cover the story. Shot across nine countries…

One of Europe's largest deer farms lies hidden in the hills of southern Hungary, home to more than 1,500 red deer that remain essentially wild. Directed by Robin Petre, Pulse is a short creative documentary that weaves present-day footage…

In a provincial village in Calabria, southern Italy, three young men from different social classes spend the final weeks of summer together before an imminent departure. Director Antonello Scarpelli observes their daily routines, family…

A ferry crosses the wintery Baltic Sea in the dead of night, its metal hull gently struck by drifting ice. Inside, the atmosphere could not be more different: passengers dance in a cabaret, wander through corridors, and sing in karaoke…

Double Happiness takes the Chinese copy of Hallstatt, a small idyllic town in Austria, as a starting point to explore China's rapid urbanisation. Director Ella Raidel travels between the two Hallstatts, interviewing urban planners,…

Roger, My Brother follows Christiane, who devotes herself around the clock to caring for her brother Roger, living with a neurocognitive disorder, enabling him to remain at home rather than move into institutional care. Shot in black and…

In 2011, Swedish director Fredrik Gertten turned his camera on Dole Food Company after the corporation launched a defamation lawsuit and a media pressure campaign to block his earlier documentary Bananas!* from being screened at the Los…

At 96, Miriam Weissenstein and her grandson Ben run the Photo House in Tel Aviv, a legendary shop founded by her late husband Rudi, whose archive of nearly one million negatives documents Israel's defining moments. When the building is…

Paola Shih, a young Taiwanese-Venezuelan woman raised far from her roots, returns to Taipei to live with her father Jimmy after twenty years of separation. Filmed with quiet intimacy by directors Rafael Ortega Velderrain and Bruno Zaffora,…

In the Serra Cavallera mountain range in Ripollès, Catalonia, Carme and her family live according to the seasons, performing the same demanding tasks that generations of women before her have always carried out. The film observes their…

Every year in Spain, approximately 16,000 fiestas are organised during which animals are used, and an estimated 60,000 animals are abused or killed annually in what are known as the Fiestas of Blood. Honouring the Holy Virgin and Patron…

Lucky Lobster takes viewers into the world of a lobster fisherman working the coastal waters of Zeeland, in the Netherlands. The film offers an intimate look at the rhythms of rural and maritime life, following the daily effort, patience,…

Time Suspended follows Laura Bonaparte, an Argentine human rights activist who spent decades fighting against state crimes and historical amnesia, as she reaches the end of her life in a nursing home in Mexico. Her granddaughter, director…

In underserved communities across Africa, millions of girls miss school every month because of period poverty and the deep stigma surrounding menstrual health. Flow With Pride follows their personal journeys through rural regions,…

In Matejevac, a small village in southern Serbia, around 300 men remain unmarried, nearly a third of the male population, because women prefer life in the city. Local accordionist Peca decides to take matters into his own hands and find…

In Fall and Winter, director Matt Anderson travels 16,000 miles across the United States to uncover the deep origins of our global environmental crisis. Drawing on the warnings of Hopi elders and interviews with progressive thinkers,…