Deep beneath Sofia lies a heavily surveilled network of tunnels, bunkers, and Soviet-era subway stations, Largely unseen, rarely photographed, and almost impossible to access. Sofia Metro Inside Out is the result of almost a decade spent navigating and documenting this elusive metro system from within. Led by the anonymous photographer known only as Errorflict, and his steadfast accomplice Seco, this striking project blends high-resolution photography with wild tales of struggle, fear, loss, and victory. Not only against the authorities, but also against the artists' internal fears.
In 2023, Virginia McCullough was charged with murdering her parents. Speaking freely to arresting officers, Virginia confessed to killing her parents in 2019 and then living alongside their dead bodies for the next five years in the house they shared.
From Executive Producer Errol Morris, 67 BOMBS TO ENID is an intimate, character-driven documentary about survivors of nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands who relocated to rural America. The film presents intimate access to characters with first-hand accounts of bomb blasts and their descendants who speak to the generational impact these perverse weapons of war have had on humans.
With shrinking newsrooms, media monopolization, weaponized social media, and a president deliberately eroding public trust in truth and reality, STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! offers an intimate counterpoint, showing how independent media is essential to a functioning democracy. Set against some of the most consequential stories of our time—from the war in Gaza to the global climate catastrophe—the film follows the intrepid independent journalist Amy Goodman over 30 years. As she becomes a leader in the movement for independent media that amplifies voices excluded from the mainstream, she faces off against forces trying to silence her.
In 1976, a 14-year-old boy in Sorocaba (SP) builds an FM transmitter and starts "Rádio Spectro", regarded as the first Brazilian pirate radio station. This short film explores matters of resistance and freedom by means of this pioneering initiative in sound communication.
In 1971, Sharon witnessed a glowing cross in her Bronx apartment, sparking belief and skepticism. "The Sight Unseen" explores her memories and Melvin Tapley’s writings, investigating whether the phenomenon was divine or a hoax.
Bringing order to a village is a task with an asterisk. Rafimir has just taken up the post of head of a rural settlement in Bashkortostan, and is already forced to answer a hundred calls a minute from worried citizens. Literally everything needs to be fixed, but the budget is not enough. What to do? Rafimir decides to participate in the "Sober Village" competition, which has been held in the republic since 2011.
"It doesn't matter where you work, the main thing is to save up for a house." Of course, there's no harm in dreaming about the great, but the heroes of the film "Low Tide" have been toiling away in the salt fields of the Indian state of Gujarat since their youth.
In the mid-1980s, Yevgeny Vasin, nicknamed "Dzhem" (aka "Batya"), created the criminal group "Obshchak" in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. He already had criminal experience - he had been tried several times, including for hooliganism. "Obshchak" was destined to become one of the main organized crime groups in Russia and even leave its mark on pop culture.
As you name a boat, so it will float. According to this logic, only happy people should live on Schastlivaya Street in Krasnogorsk (Moscow Region). Authors Maria Safronova and Vlada Platonova went there to talk to locals about happiness. Despite the fact that the street has seen a lot (for example, fires), its residents really are cheerful. And Schastlivaya is also home to many cats, each with its own nickname and character.
Once upon a time, in the early 2000s, Moscow City was not considered the most promising project. Now it is one of the city's landmarks, a powerful business center that continues to grow. In 2024, another letter M was added to it - two Moscow Towers. The long-term construction was carried out by the famous German architectural bureau Werner Sobek, for whom it is important that everything in the project is technologically advanced and justified.
Composer and founder of the Cinematica chamber orchestra Gleb Andrianov once realized that he needed a new creative challenge. And he set off on a ten-day journey across the Kuril Ridge to play a concert on top of an active volcano. It turned out to be a unique journey into two elements – nature and music, which have much in common.
A living cultural monument: a love letter to the legendary St. Petersburg House of Radio, which has served as a place of power for people of art for decades.