When Yvon Rioux, a teacher and singer, witnesses the brutal death of a former student, gunned down before his eyes, his world collapses. Traumatized, he develops post-traumatic stress disorder that turns his life upside down and reawakens old wounds. Haunted by the silence of his grandfather, a World War II veteran, he decides to travel across Europe to confront his fears, understand his past, and begin rebuilding his life. A Last Scar is the intimate portrait of a man in search of inner peace, between memory, transmission, and resilience.
In February 2023 a group of adopted young people from China born between 1999 and 2002 meet in Barcelona. There they pool their experiencies with the family and the environment that have fostered them: the funny anecdotes, the difficult ones, the hegemonic story of adoption... The meeting is organized and recorded by Àlex M. Llorens, also adopted from China, who writes a full-length film about the transition into adult life of people like them and she shares with them her discoveries.
The verdict has been delivered. The appeals denied. But the battle over one of Britain’s most chilling and controversial criminal cases is just beginning. Lucy Letby is serving 15 whole-life sentences after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill seven more. The case transfixed the nation, but following the verdicts, questions about her guilt become urgent and unsettling.
A singer frozen in old black and white photos. Forever young. Encapsulated. Trapped in the frame, just like her voice on her vinyl records. Forgetting that the point of view is chosen. Forgetting that, in addition to being a singer, Lurdes Iriondo is also an essential reference in the transmission of Basque culture. She understood that children were the key, and she worked for them.
Adi vividly remembers the moment his mom left home. He was four. She cut off a lock of her hair, tied a red thread around it, and walked out with a luggage bag. For 11 years, she didn’t return. Now fifteen, Adi resents his mother as much as he misses her. He roams the streets with a biker gang and pours his energy into streaming in drag on social media.
Documentary filmmaker Kim Myung-yoon, a former member of the Dokdo Police Security Detachment, relocates with his wife and son, Noah, to Kumi, a remote village in Japan’s Oki Islands. A UNESCO Global Geopark, the Oki Islands boast majestic natural beauty, but also serve as a politically charged symbol, with Japan asserting territorial claims over Dokdo, calling it, “Takeshima.” As Kim builds relationships with local residents and engages with their perspectives, he explores the histories, ecologies, and memories surrounding Dokdo and the Oki Islands.
‘Ikaino’ refers to a neighborhood in Osaka, Japan, home to a large community of Zainichi Koreans. Though erased from official records over fifty years ago, its name still carries memories and stories.
The film opens with the words of Taebaek's last miners: "I had to earn a living." These are the first words, spoken over the shot of a cage descending endlessly into a mine—the place that the miners of the soon-to-be-closed Jangseong Mining Station call hell. They began working out of poverty, needing to make a living somehow. Though they planned to quit after three days, they ended up staying for over 30 years, and in all that time, they saw nothing good.
Nicknamed the ‘heart of conservatives,’ Gyeongsangbuk-do (North Gyeongsang Province) is the conservative stronghold of Korean politics, having not elected a single liberal Democratic Party member to the National Assembly in the past 30 years. From the 2022 local elections to the 2024 general election, TV-writer-turned-filmmaker Hong Youngah documents the uphill battle of Democratic Party candidates, clad in signature blue jackets, in this ‘land of the red.’
Byung-ye and Dohyun are second-year mechanical students in the skills program at Busan Technical High School. They devote themselves to practice day and night, determined to win a medal at the National Skills Competition — because only then do they even stand a chance of applying to a major corporation. Will they achieve the result they’ve been working toward? And if not, what choices will be left to them? In a classroom that resembles a factory, anxious yet hopeful days go by.
Gifted jazz singer Judi Singh defied expectations as a Punjabi-Black artist stepping onto the stage in the late 1950s. Weaving together moments of struggle and resilience, the film reintroduces a forgotten artist to the spotlight.
Childhood memories of Vila Rabelo, one of Brasília's largest squats, take shape among family photographs, archives, and fabulous images. A 2002 letter reveals affection, absence, fire, and resistance—between the backyard and the city, between a father building houses for others and a mother dreaming of leaving. A stroller, a fire, and an interrupted escape reveal the child's pain and desire to belong on the margins of the Brazilian capital.
In Replika, technology and indigenous wisdom lead us on a spiritual and meditative journey about memory, identity, loss, and rebirth. The resilience of the Wauja people of the Xingu, faced with the destruction of their history, is proof that the power of timeless ancestry can never be erased.
In 2007, Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan took a break and co-created In-I, an original performance that toured the world. Today, Juliette Binoche revisits that exhilarating journey. Through unfamiliar images, she reflects on creation, its challenges, and the personal transformation it brings as a filmmaker.
When filmmaker Sean Cisterna discovers a subsidy to support senior activities, he rallies a group of retirement home residents to create a horror short film.