In the Medio Atrato region of Chocó, Ana Panesso and her community grow sugarcane and make viche, an ancestral beverage that was once prohibited but now is in vogue. Through food, river trips, and music, viche and its knowledge not only shape people s daily lives but also raise the question of a just future, where viche serves as food, sustenance, and identity for Black families.
I seek out and speak with the dead. I write to a woman no longer here: Soraya Cataño, murdered in Medellín in 1991. Thirty years later, I find her in an image. Her voice rises as a parade climbs the hillside. The archive reveals her laughter, her gesture, and I choose to call her forth.I too was raised in this valley. I too believed. I believe. This film is not about death. It is a dialogue between the one who narrates and the one who resists through absence. It is a fire that does not fade.
Three generations of the same family equally obsessed with images, those generated by the film camera or by the radiology machine. Ironically, all three died of cancer. A triptych of the gaze that reveals the society we have been over the last century.
I recently rewatched a film Chantal Akerman made while living in New York. In it, we hear the letters her mother sent her from Europe while we see these long, static shots of the city. I thought about how I never really told you things. I’d say: this or that happened, but never: I’m sad, I miss home, I don’t know where I’m going, I’m happy, I’m in love, I love you. I thought about how often you asked me to stay in touch.
A casting director reunites with a young non-professional actor with the mission of re-recording some dialogues to complete the post-production of a film. Surrounded by a forest, in the sway of flickering lights, fantasy, imagination, and play collide in an exercise of repetition and hypnosis, where ghosts wander, complicit in the fiction.
A former stock-car racer confronts memories of his manipulative father, revealing how facing his past helps him break the cycle and become a better dad.
Expelled from football after a series of match-fixing allegations, former Guatemalan player Gustavo Cabrera grapples with the devastating impact on his mental health and the course of his life.
Juan López is going to his first pelota paleta tournament match as a registered player, but he's on the bench. However, there's a chance he might get on the court.
Martyna Wojciechowska and Jowita Baraniecka deliver rigorously reported investigative journalism into a case that continues to stir deep public emotion. The film takes us to Georgia, where the shadows of the post-Soviet past still loom large. At its center is investigative reporter Tamuna Museridze, who sets out to unravel a profoundly personal mystery. As she follows the trail of a widespread 1990s scheme in which newborns were taken from Georgian maternity wards and trafficked across the world, she exposes networks, mechanisms, and long-buried secrets along with family tragedies that remain just as painful today. The scale of the practice is staggering: as many as 100,000 children were stolen from hospitals and sold. Among them were Amy and Ano, twin sisters separated at birth who finally found each other in 2024 through social media.
Saudi adventurer Badr Al-Shibani embarks on a quest: to climb the highest peak on each of the world's seven continents. Seven Summits documents his journey, which is as much a test of survival as it is a personal voyage of self-discovery. From the most remote and toughest peaks to his ultimate challenge on Mount Everest, Al-Shibani's story is a powerful exploration of human resilience, the search for identity and the firm drive to push past both physical and internal limits.
In the film "Beyond The Shifting Sands", the boundaries between the documentary, the real, and the imagined are blurred. Ultimately, it offers no definitive answers but instead positions the viewer on the very threshold where the artists stand: the threshold between what we know and what we are yet to discover. It is there, where the sand becomes memory, the image an indelible trace, and identity a promise renewed with every glance. This is a film about art as a state of life, and the human beings seeing themselves in a sketch that takes shape only to gradually fade away — as if beauty is not drawn to endure, but rather to offer a reminder that everything we seek... may, in fact, reside within the drawing of the sand itself.
The film explores the legacy of Çekirdek Sanat Evi, which sprouted in a corner of Istanbul during the turbulent 1980s, through the research and connections built by a small team. Çekirdek was more than a music venue; it was a unique collective where musicians, listeners, and friends shared their creations, shaped by music, solidarity, and the desire for freedom. The film not only recalls the past but also highlights the continued existence of collective production today, under different names and in different spaces.