Local filmmaker Anthony Frith lands a gig with The Asylum, the studio behind Sharknado. Tasked with directing a schlock film, The Land That Time Forgot, in Adelaide on a shoestring budget, he turns the camera on himself, filming a behind-the-scenes documentary. Both productions will push their director to the brink.
The same circumstances led three people to flee: they are Russian and queer. But their experiences in exile in Germany could not be more different. David longs for community, Evgeniy struggles with professional and language barriers, while Sanya experiences the feeling of being normal for the first time. The film accompanies the three protagonists in a kaleidoscope of memories, belonging, and the future.
Leopold Trepper, a former Red Army officer and hero of the anti-Nazi resistance, faces a Kafkaesque struggle in 1970s Poland as the demons of anti-Semitism resurface. Stripped of his job and under constant surveillance, Trepper leaves with no hope of return.
After more than 20 years of not acting, a former child actor ventures deep into the forest in the middle of the night with the power of his faith and body to try to overcome collective war trauma and finally feel fearless. But is it even possible to heal after so many dead bodies in similar settings and the blurry VHS footage of executions we grew up watching on the news?
A "beneath the surface" look at the story of the band Snah Morfar, how it came to be, and how it all fell apart before it even began. Through one-on-one interviews with each member of the band, and statements made by people from the same circle, this is the real story of Snah Morfar.
A former ping pong player tries to make a comeback through the sport of pickleball after a shameful televised loss, hoping to save his family home while confronting his past trauma and a rival player.
Jeff Minter has remained an extraordinary independent video game developer in an industry dominated by corporations. Heart of Neon maps Jeff's unique career and the shifting landscape of the video game business, and shines a vivid light on the bond between artist & audience that has sustained Jeff for four decades.
Maverick soulmates Ged and Dave are on a mission through the winding lanes and hidden tracks of North Devon, to record the lives and experiences of people living without mains electricity.
When an ambitious experiment between a textile activist and a celebrity clothier meets inevitable challenges, one woman is propelled into an initiation that makes British fashion history. With a community of volunteers, they envisioned homegrown jeans sold through a social enterprise, but their work exposed uncomfortable truths about the systems controlling industry. Despite its sophistication, the U.K. can no longer produce clothing without importing materials or causing harm.
For decades, the American education system has subscribed to the “college-for-all” ideology, prioritizing four-year degrees while often overlooking the value of vocational training and career-based learning. Emil Grace Shihadeh Innovation Center, a pioneering vocational school in Winchester, Virginia, flips this script by offering a bold, integrated approach that treats career-based learning and traditional academics as equally essential paths to success.
José Alejandro González traveled the world with a camera, capturing faces, voices, and fleeting encounters with strangers. On one of those trips, while working as a cleaner in a hotel in the north, the camera turned on itself. Habitante was born from that gesture: an intimate logbook made up of personal archives, fragments of travel, and shared silences. Through a sensitive and fragmented montage, the film explores the resonances between the filmmaker's life and those he encountered along the way, revealing common echoes of migration, uprooting, and searching. More than a portrait of the other, Habitante is a question about how we inhabit the world, about the sometimes impossible desire to belong. Between tenderness and discomfort, between observation and self-exploration, the film becomes an emotional diary that, by looking outward, ends up revealing the inner landscape of the filmmaker.
Camila, a lonely communications student, is rescued from a street robbery by Ruco and Alexa, two young anarchists and street vendors who use violence to punish thieves in the neighborhood. Through her growing friendship with Ruco and Alexa, Camila meets Leonor, with whom she forms a deep mother-daughter bond. When Leonor mysteriously disappears, Camila embarks on a quest to discover the truth.
Tskaltubo, once a famous Soviet spa town, has been transformed into the largest refugee camp in Georgia after the war in Abkhazia. Three decades later, the government is trying to restore its former glory, moving most of the displaced families to new apartment blocks on the outskirts of the city. The film follows the last residents of a sanatorium. Gia stays for her cats, Nunu for the plants and the fragile remnants of nature she cares for. In small daily rituals, they have created not only a home, but also a family - united by memories, resilience and the hope of one day returning to Abkhazia. For them, leaving would mean severing their last connection to the idea of home.
A Brazilian development project, initiated during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, encouraged the “exploration” of northern Brazil by settlers from Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul. Based on a German-inspired festival held in Sinop, Mato Grosso, where an anonymous, fictional, and suspicious character wanders through forests and plantations, the narrative offers a free-form account of an immigration process that caused, and continues to cause, cultural, environmental, and political changes in a region once inhabited by diverse Indigenous peoples.
WOMEN WHO DIG showcases Canadian women on a journey to combat food insecurity and the industrial farm system by utilizing traditional farming techniques rooted in ancestral history. The small family farm is often perceived to be an occupation of the past that is being overtaken by large-scale industrial farming practices. Big Ag wreaks havoc on our global climate, all the while creating a GMO monoculture that contributes to an enormous loss of our planet’s biodiversity.