This is the untold story of Ali Shariati, an influential Iranian scholar whose revolutionary ideas helped shape the ideological basis of the 1979 Islamic revolution. This documentary explores how Shariati’s radical interpretation of religious thought in the Shah’s Iran recast Islam as a revolutionary force against authoritarianism and repression – and inspired a generation that increasingly demanded change.
Adult content creator Bonnie Blue announced that she’d slept with 1057 men in 12 hours. Exploring the polarising debate around Bonnie and the pornification of our society, the film follows her over the most eye-opening six months of her life.
Set in the hallways of Bel Air High School in El Paso, Texas, the documentary follows an all-girl Color Guard team as they balance the pressures of adolescence with the demands of competitive performance. As they prepare for the WGI World Championships, a devastating mass shooting strikes their hometown. In response, the team creates a tribute performance, transforming their sport into an expression of collective grief, pride, and resistance.
Adriana, a woman of Indigenous heritage and an advocate for ancestral medicine, believes that Yagé, the sacred plant, is trying to deliver a message that could transform her life. As she reconnects with her roots, she begins to ask: How can ancestral knowledge survive in a world that’s always changing? What does it mean to belong, to remember, to heal? In seeking these answers, she’s forced to confront her identity and redefine her purpose. What she discovers may reshape not only her own path, but the future of Indigenous legacy in the modern world.
In the summer of 2024, dozens of cameras captured a rare outbreak of shark attacks along America's Gulf Coast; told exclusively through first-hand accounts of victims and eyewitnesses, nobody has seen all these perspectives unfold in real time.
In a world that spins faster and faster, bibliomaniacs take refuge from the rush and the noise inside the library. Amid whispers, they confess the meaning of life. A celebration of thought and obsession, where libraries reveal their inhabitants
At the Myrtle-Wyckoff intersection, transportation arteries and the community overlap and interact, connect and collide, react and respond. Where are people going? Where are they coming from? And, what lies underneath all of the activity?
Through the mountain mist, lies the history of the land and the memory of men, where we can still hear the prayers and songs of the shepherds, who followed in the footsteps of the monks and declared the paths of the mountains.
In Melgaço, a transmission tower may or may not be built. On the horizon, the wind turbines of Alto Minho. A vast landscape in northern Portugal where everything and nothing changes, as told by the eyes and memories of its people. In a film-diary, three Brazilians record the literal and imaginary lines that cross this territory.
A land is made and created by its inhabitants and by what they do and leave behind. In Melgaço, we meet three people who share the same passion. Each one has different stories and values, but they all come together in the same place and on a four-wheeled vehicle. Thanks to this passion, every year people gather in Melgaço with the same love and the same desire to leave memories and see something old come to life.
The voices that emerge from the shadows of words scrape the liquid skin of memory. Fragments of tradition in breaths of silence. Living bodies that walk through time Only to imagine. Slow fluidity, creation that transforms between gestures and absences. The changes do not scream—they whisper. Now the horizon shaped by eternity and dirt flows slowly. It transforms. It persists.
On the Pacific front, towards the end of World War II, Japan's imperial armed forces launched 'kamikaze' attacks - suicide missions by aircraft laden with bombs. It was a mad operation with no hope of returning alive, but the nation went wild, and the attacks continued for ten months, literally until the very last day of the war. Close to 4,000 Japanese airmen died, and nearly 7,000 Allied military personnel were killed, and thousands more were injured by the attacks. How could this happen? Utilising 15 years' worth of extensive interviews with US and Japanese World War II veterans, Takayuki Oshima’s film delves into the mechanism of how a crazed madness swept through an entire nation.