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The vibrant and surprising world of a 35-year-old "policeman", filled with hopes and dreams for love and life. However, reality often falls short of his aspirations.

A portrait of the former Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

International soldiers of the Donbass militia volunteered to fight Ukrainian neo-Nazism. They’re from Mexico, Columbia, the USA, Serbia, and all over the globe. Locals treat them as heroes, while their homelands consider them criminals and mercenaries. If they return, decades of prison could await them. But they don’t regret it – Donbass has become their home. Unlike international military instructors and mercenaries in the Ukrainian army, foreign volunteers of the Donbass militia have strong motivation. They confront neo-Nazism as their ancestors did. Whatdo they do and how doe they feel about what they see?

Portrait of Austrian theater and film actor and director Klaus Maria Brandauer.

At the age of 12, Tanya decides to make her choice, to try drugs for the first time. She will sink to the very bottom, but she will say everywhere through her tears that she is not yet there.

Using poetry, interviews with psychologists and survivors, and corporeal imagery, Broca is an experimental documentary hybrid that explores how the mind-body connection is altered after trauma. The Broca’s Area in the brain is involved primarily in speech production. During a traumatic event or when trying to recall a traumatic event, this area shuts down. This makes it harder for a survivor to talk about what’s happened. Our project is an experimental documentary hybrid that offers a platform for survivors to tell their stories both verbally and non-verbally.

Little Simz, live from Meltdown Festival with Chineke! Orchestra

The lives of Jaipong dancers who persistently uphold tradition amidst economic pressures and changing times. Through their moving bodies and distinctive voices in traditional performing arts, these women dance not only for the stage but also to survive. Their voices, whether vocal expressions, soft utterances, or sinden singing, serve as the living spirit and "voice" that sustain and preserve their cultural heritage. An intimate portrait of resilience, steadfastness, and the voice in traditional arts that is gradually being marginalized.

In this student-produced documentary, the realities of captive orcas are revealed as students Jip Koster and Lara Lustemberg explore the ethical and ecological challenges surrounding these highly intelligent marine animals. Through engaging interviews with animal rights activists and marine scientists, the film explores the physical and psychological dangers that orcas face in captivity. An examination of their natural intelligence and social needs is contrasted with the conditions they live in, leading to a deeper conversation about the ethics of animal captivity and our responsibility as co-habitants of earth.

Four men unite to recapture the youthful joys of drive-ins, afternoon matinees, and Shock theatre.

Paris Marseille

Daughters, sons, mothers and fathers want to break the decades-long silence in their families. They search for files, go to archives, rummage through documents and study photo albums. They come up against powerful authorities, prejudices, overburdened families and desperate struggles of mothers for their children.

Tarasp Castle in the Lower Engadine sits enthroned on a rock and is visible from afar. The castle was managed by the director's family for three generations; she grew up there. Using documentary and animated film elements, she tells the eventful story of the centuries-old castle.

The Valais poet and author Maurice Chappaz (1916–2009) looks back on his career – from his youth in Valais to his commitment to nature conservation.

ESSES DIAS ME VIRAM NA RUA

Through dramatic reconstruction and documentary asides, the spirit of Italian poet, playwright, journalist, aristocrat and army officer Gabriele D’Annunzio is captured, presenting the nascent fascism in his attempts to forge a new state in the aftermath of the First World War.

With unprecedented access, this years-in-the-making vérité documentary embeds with Corey Feldman as he mounts a surreal rock tour with a band of lingerie-clad "angels". The tour goes horribly awry, forcing Feldman to confront his long-held allegations about abuse in Hollywood and his own darkest secrets.

An amateur documentary made as a tribute to the Milanese city. The camera lingers on its most characteristic sites, particularly along the Navigli (the Martesana). It shows elements that today have almost entirely vanished from the modern urban landscape: people washing clothes in the canal, sheep grazing in fields that had briefly escaped the construction of apartment blocks, and a hunting outing that begins on foot from the city—still visibly connected, along its edges, to the rural world.

Espelho de Tarsila

L'Europe des Fronts Populaires