In pursuit of enlightenment, a platinum selling record producer left his hedonistic life behind to live in a cave. Nine years later he continues to grapple with the question, what does it mean to be free?
In The Outer City (Bayırşəhər), one of Baku’s historically and architecturally significant neighborhoods, large-scale demolition has already begun, placing the city’s memory under threat. For over a year, local residents and architects have been fighting to protect the historic buildings, the urban fabric, and Baku’s unique identity from the excavators’ bucket — yet the scope of destruction keeps expanding day by day. “Beneath the Ruins: The Outer City” is the follow-up to the documentary “Framed: The Outer City.”
Born on May 3, 1943, Drauzio Varella is a physician, writer, and communicator who has built one of the most remarkable and respected careers in Brazilian medicine. His ability to democratize health information goes far beyond the clinic, teaching the public about prevention, exercise, and healthy habits through radio, television, the internet, and more than 20 published books. Now, at 82, Drauzio looks back on his childhood in Brás, his work as an oncologist, his AIDS-prevention campaigns, his volunteer work in prisons, and his deep relationship with sports as a path to balance and well-being.
Sharing a common sperm donor but not a common history, a group of dozens of siblings create a unique annual reunion to explore the dynamics of non-family blood relations.
He was born different, and chose to become unique. Becoming Lucky Love follows how Luc Bruyère turned his “flaw” into strength and his life into an act of creation. Born without his left arm, he faced the violence of people’s gaze from childhood, sinking into shame and self-destruction. “I was born homosexual, without a left arm — I didn’t fit what a man was expected to be: a figure without nuance, categorical,” Luc confides. Instead of giving up, he chose to transform himself and become what he had always dreamed of: a singer and performer. With his angelic face and magnetic presence, nothing seems to resist him — yet his blazing loves and excesses marked him deeply. Now, on the verge of turning 30, he looks back without filters. Becoming Lucky Love paints the portrait of an avant-garde, captivating outsider who proves that destiny can be endlessly reinvented through strength, poetry, and self-invention.
As dancer and actress Souraya Baghdadi revisits her life with her late husband, filmmaker Maroun Baghdadi, through archival whispers and tender introspection, she uncovers the haunting beauty of love that persists even in the silence of absence.
A documentary film that follows five trans people with disabilities living in the State of São Paulo, who share their life experiences — stories of resistance, affection and reinvention. Through their voices and day-to-day realities, the film explores how gender identity, disability, social marginalization and personal resilience intersect. It invites reflection on belonging and transformation, revealing how these five individuals redefine limits, build support networks and reclaim their right to live fully.
Documentary about 30 young people struggling to find belonging and direction. Will a four-week voyage from Portugal to Norway aboard the historic sailing ship Christian Radich help them find a new course in life?
A hybrid short documentary exploring the fracture between a queer daughter and her mother, featuring the filmmaker’s own personal archive. The film blends documentary and narrative elements to depict the filmmaker’s mother’s rigid vision for her daughter’s life, set against the reality unfolding through archival footage dating back to 1995. Through directing an actor to play her mother and fill in the widening gaps over time, O’Connor now attempts to sculpt her mother.
Over a period of 16 months, herders in the Georgian region of Tusheti guide vast flocks of sheep back and forth between the snow-covered Caucasus peaks and the remote Vashlovani steppes. The herders are transient figures in this dialogue-free film, leaving barely a trace in the landscape.
During a stay in her native Greece, Olia hears that her friend Sofia has cancer. Her doctors and family are keeping the illness hidden from her, and Olia isn’t allowed to give anything away either. She decides to investigate the rationale behind this practice.
Amadou grows up in Guinea Conakry, surrounded by domestic animals and the scent of the mango and lemon trees planted by his father. Colorful birds seem to be everywhere, and his best friend Abdoulaye lives just around the corner. Yet at the age of thirteen, Amadou has to leave all of this behind. His uncle wants to take him along with him to a foreign country where he’ll have a chance at a better education. At a young age, Amadou starts an unimaginable journey with no guarantee of a happy ending.
In the mountains of Sardinia and the inhospitable desert landscape of Palestine, shepherds have been herding livestock in the same traditional way for centuries. Experienced men drive bleating sheep and goats across fertile grazing spots. From a distance, the dancing white dots form an aesthetically appealing and meditative image against a background of dramatic mountain ridges.
Two siblings, their queer bodies and the deep bond they share. They read the brown skin they once wished they didn’t have as a landscape. Associatively, with extreme close-ups, animations, projections or razor-sharp nature photography, pores become desert landscapes, skin cells become salt flats.
Old DC-3s are the lifeline for residents of the Colombian Amazon. The film crew joins one of the planes on a flight to remote settlements. But this connection is under threat, and without it communities will face total isolation.
Should she ever see her husband and family again, she would ask them for forgiveness, says Kalbinur Sidik with sorrow in her eyes. The price she has paid for speaking the truth about China's persecution of the Uyghurs in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) is immense. But she cannot remain silent. As a woman of Uzbek heritage who grew up in the Uyghur community, she has seen with her own eyes the methods used by the Chinese state to extirpate the Uyghur population. Her recollections of dehumanizing internment camps are interwoven with monotonous state propaganda describing "training centers" where extremist ideas are "eradicated." State control extends into the private realm too, through a program obligating families to host party members at home.
Who am I? What is real? How to live in the madness of the world? These are questions posed by six people who have had psychosis and speak openly about their experience. They have in common that they think deeply, and that at particular moments in their lives, they were under intense personal and social pressure.
In a remote spot in the Eastern European countryside, far from the reach of the state, marshy earth is plowed, homemade wine tasted, and hunting rifles prepared—all meticulously observed by a slow-moving camera. From clearing construction waste to slaughtering a pig: the existential dimension of life here can be detected in almost every activity. This is a world that feels stable, yet always on edge, as if the structure could collapse at any moment.
An atmospheric chronicle of the 2001 crisis in Argentina, a political, economic, and social uprising fueled by the "Let them all go!" revolt. The film reconstructs this moment using restored archival footage, capturing the spontaneity of the protests and the political instability that led to the resignation of five presidents. Through television footage, it immerses the viewer in a real-time experience of this crucial period in Argentine history.