An invitation to embark on a fascinating journey into the Earth to reveal the vital importance of underground waters and springs. Through evocative images and testimonies, the film highlights how these hidden systems sustain ecosystems, communities, and cultures. By exploring the invisible flows beneath our feet, it calls on us to reflect on our relationship with water, our most essential resource. A poetic and urgent reminder that what is buried can also hold the key to life above ground.
When drought hit Ethiopia in 1983, millions of people in the war-ravaged nation were denied food relief by a ruthless dictatorship. The treacherous war zone didn’t stop Kenyan photojournalist Mohamed Amin or his colleagues. Inspired by their historic global report, musicians chose to stand together as one. 40 years after the recording of "We Are The World", this film reveals what’s possible when creatives come together in a common cause.
Have you ever taken a date to a real haunted house? For Matt and Jessica, that's just a typical Friday night. Starting from hobby to full-blown obsession, this modern couple balances jobs, kids, and hunting down ghosts as paranormal investigators.
In A Tired Dog is a Good Dog, Part Two, pack behaviour is explored along with notions of dominance, submission, trust and consent, both within human and dog relationships and within pup play. Love and bonding become a central theme, weaving together further investigation into pup relationships, training sessions with a traumatised dog and the director’s own relationship to the dogs in his life that he has loved and lost.
The history of arguably the most famous shop in the world, which has been based on Brompton Road in London for more than 175 years, employs more than 6,000 people and still welcomes 15 million customers every year. This documentary tells the story of the people behind the department store, including Robin Harrod, the great-great-grandson of the store's founder, and culminates with the recent allegations against former chairman Mohamed Al-Fayed
Tales of the Diaspora is the debut film from xxiivanu productions, and was conceived as a love letter to Pasifika youth around the world, as they navigate the sometimes tumultuous waves of finding and retaining cultural identity whilst growing up away from their homelands.
I live in Saarland. The place is surrounded by forests and I find it very beautiful and exotic. Almost like a Bob Ross painting. But while hiking I came across a bunker and realized that there were beasts lurking behind the happy trees. A short essay film about war and forest.
In a fading seaside city, a forgotten notebook becomes the unlikely thread connecting two lives. One, burdened by the weight of their memories, fills its pages with raw emotions about lost time and fractured dreams before discarding it. The other, driven by curiosity, discovers the notebook and sets out on a journey to trace the stories it holds. Through its pages, a haunting reminder echoes: “If the whole world forget, never forget. If the whole world forgive, never forgive. Gone, but never forgotten.” As their paths unknowingly cross in shared spaces, both must confront whether to remain anchored in their histories or let go and move forward. A poetic exploration of memory, loss, and renewal, “If We Ever Forgot” asks: can we ever truly leave the past behind?
OGRE, a pre-crash bunker wave earth tone noxious metal rubber tone mathscape grass-fed conglomerate bass post-ego brown noise premeditated deathcore punk rock jazz band from Portland, Oregon takes on their biggest show yet.
Bolivian artist and filmmaker Luciana Decker Orozco delves into ancient and essential acts: eating, masticating and digesting. Her suggestive celluloid slips through mouths, intestines and entrails, as well as experiments in the catacombs of the human being and the Earth. Inspired by the avant-gardist and indigenist Peruvian writer Gamaliel Chumata, the surface and the underground, the real and the extraordinary, mysteriously merge together.
The autobiography of Koki, an immortal parrot. Artist Quenton Miller portrays the life of this unique animal, a loyal comrade of Marshal Tito, leader of Yugoslavia for 35 years. A rich photographic archive relives the caged memories of this cockatoo, who had the honour of meeting Hollywood stars, and bloodthirsty dictators. A funny portrait, non-aligned with the documentary orthodoxy, that deals with the false constructions of history.
What does a day in the life of the most famous painter alive look like? Is it a battleground of colour, a symphony of rebellion, a spectacle of squeegeeing? And what roles do the Sparkasse Bank and mysterious Anselm play in all of that? In his hilarious spoof documentary on the art world, Ulu Braun walks away from his trademark ‘video paintings’ and steps into a full blown AI universe.
It’s more than just adrenaline-infused thrill-seeking. Luuk Sieben’s Neverland depicts the Dutch motocross street culture as a way of life, a niche activity that forges a sense of community amongst fellow riders. Diving head-first into this fast-paced scene, this short documentary conveys what exactly makes these riders repeatedly face risks and push boundaries. Euphoric highs, physical danger and societal taboos are all explored in this loving short, revealing a vibrant and dynamic subculture fueled by camaraderie and a shared passion for life on two wheels.
At ‘t Eethuisje van Delfshaven, connoisseurs have been eating the classics of Dutch cuisine for almost 27 years. Martin and Bea are of the ‘actions speak louder than words’ variety, but there is a physical expiry date on their work ethic. For regular customers, ‘t Eethuisje serves as a second living room, and a new generation is queuing up: tourists from all over the world are eager to try the famous prakkie. Understandably, because this Rotterdam cuisine leaves you wanting more!
Artist Htoo Lwin Myo excavates the lesser-known and wildly joyful history of Myanmar’s horror and genre film industry in the 1950s that has persisted through political turmoil and archival neglect, told directly by the people who made it.
Is a world obsessed with medical diagnostics and pharmaceutical prescription ready for the vivid testimony of Marteinn Helgi Sigurðsson, who defies the label of ‘bipolar disorder’ to give us a glimpse into his shaman-like wisdom? This inventive docu-drama takes us right inside complex mental experiences.
Expressing desire, pursuing dreams, loving oneself, questioning the oppressive confines of patriarchy. Farida Baqi takes us on a lyrical and emotional journey through the life of a young woman from birth to adulthood in an unnamed Arab city.