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- DirectorDemetrio GiacomelliDuring the late 1960s, Emilio Sidoti, an elementary school teacher in Albisola, decided to make some movies with his students in order to develop their critical gaze in a free and radical expressive pathway. This was the start of "Cinema dei ragazzi," Italy's first experience of "school and cinema;" it generated over twenty movies, all shot in Super8, and most of them were entirely written, directed, and edited by the children. Starting with the material of the time, this unique experience is put into relation with the present time, as the children of back then - who today are adults - are asked to recount the impression it left on them. Among the cases that clearly show the extraordinary consonance between the children's imagination and their vision as adults, and others that reveal the break between the time of childhood and present-day reality, existential pathways are drawn and emerge against the backdrop of the cultural and social transformations of recent decades, that involve a corner of Liguria but reflect what was happening throughout the country.
- DirectorCéline RouzetThe rough highlands of Papua New Guinea have become the land of plenty for tourists in search of exoticism and foreign oil companies looking for new fields. Tribes get paid to dress up for visitors while a local Huli family and their clan have agreed to sell their land to ExxonMobil with dreams of modernity. But the money never comes and they are now caught between rival tribes, greedy politicians and one of the most powerful multinationals in the world. Tourists point their cameras on dances that have lost their meaning. And a world is disappearing without a sound.
- DirectorMaria LoohufvudLove MartinsenFlorida's most dedicated dance team for women over 60, shaking up the outdated image of "the little old lady," and calling for everyone to dance their hearts out, while they still can.
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsMahamat-Saleh HarounGarba IssaAïcha YelenaSemi-documentary film about a man going to his home country of Chad after many years living in exile in France.
- DirectorHermann VaskeStarsMarina AbramovicMariya AlyokhinaLaurie AndersonA 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, music, filmmaking, acting, literature, philosophy, politics, business and science, are asked the same question: "Why are you creative?"
- DirectorCyril DionMélanie LaurentStarsAnthony BarnoskyOlivier De SchutterCyril DionThe world's climate is changing. Instead of showing the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanStarsMarty WalshA look at Boston's city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.
- DirectorKamal AljafariStarsDarine DibsiThe images contain their chronology, down to the minutes and seconds: In 2006, a surveillance camera in the Arab quarter of Ramla films a car that a short while ago became the victim of vandalism. Neighbours and passersby walk past it as if nothing has happened. Do they have something to hide? Then someone puts his hand on the trunk - An absurdly patient everyday thriller that doubles as an experimental film. Images that change according to the weather become almost indecipherable at night. The device performs its function only half-heartedly. Kamal Aljafari scans its grainy recordings for traces of his late father, who years ago attached the camera to the wall. A search for life and death becomes both a game and a sincere study of what holds the world together.
- DirectorAmel AlzakoutKhaled AbdulwahedStarsAmel AlzakoutMade from images filmed by the Syrian artist Amel Alzakout after the boat on which she was fleeing Syria sank off the coast of Lesbos, Purple Sea reports on the moment in which the co-director and the other passengers are floating in the sea in their life-jackets, waiting to be rescued. Her voice-over accompanies this extremely poignant experience.
- DirectorTellervo KalleinenOliver Kochta-KalleinenStarsEllen van RossumConny BeyerErnst DekkersPeople in White explores the complex relationships between doctors and clients in mental health care, from the clients perspective. In a group therapy setting, nine people share their therapy experiences and re-enact together some of the key moments. Memories vary from beautiful healing moments to the horrors of isolation and abuse. Margreet is one of them. She receives electroshock treatment (ECT) for severe depression. As a side effect of the treatment she suffers from memory loss. She has been in therapy with the same psychoanalyst for 20 years. He knows more about Margreet than she remembers about herself. He is my memory, she says, and worries about him dying before her.
- DirectorBartolomeo PampaloniStarsIsraveleThe story of a bricklayer from the suburbs that one day became a prophet, the story of a man who got out of the world to reveal, from up there, a different, vaster horizon, a path where man, divinity and nature return to be one.
- DirectorOusmane SamassekouStarsEstherAt the southern edge of the Sahara desert stands The House of Migrants: a safe haven for those on their way to Europe, or those returning home. Here they come to terms with their individual migration stories. How do you feel, what do you need, when your dreams have been buried in the sand, or when they are waiting to be lived?
- DirectorChloe FairweatherOver one in three women in Turkey experience domestic violence. Lawyer Ipek Bozkurt's clients risk their lives while fighting the culture of violence in court
- DirectorNicola ZambelliAt the gates of the Negev desert, a group of young Palestinians struggles using cameras and nonviolent actions to defend their villages from the Israeli military occupation, taking back the land and the caves stolen from their families.
- DirectorDavide MaldiStarsMario BurloneLorenzo CarpaniEnrico ColombiniA fourteen-year-old boy's life in the mountains is about to end as he is soon to enroll in catering school. The institution he attends is renowned for its strict rules: the lessons on cooking, dining etiquette, and religion make each student daily confront their weaknesses, insecurities and skills.
- DirectorChase JoyntStarsCarmen CarreraKatie CouricLaverne CoxFRAMING AGNES turns the talk show format inside out in response to media's ongoing fascination with trans people. The film breathes life into six previously unknown stories from the archives of the UCLA Gender Clinic in the 1950s.
- DirectorMira JargilStarsRana AghaJad AlfaresMukhles AlfaresTwo Syrian refugees deal with the hardships of being separated from their children.
- DirectorAnne AlvergueDebra McClutchyStarsMartha MitchellDwight ChapinConnie ChungThe Cabinet wife who spoke out during Watergate and the Nixon administration's campaign to gaslight her into silence.
- DirectorAlice DiopStarsSteve TientcheuA black man from the Paris suburbs seeks to escape the violence of his immediate surroundings by training to become an actor at one of France's most prestigious drama schools.
- DirectorAlice DiopThe daily routine of a doctor who treats refugees at a hospital in Paris.
- DirectorMichael MadsenStarsMichael Madsen
- DirectorMichael Madsen
- DirectorMichael MadsenStarsMazlan OthmanPaul BeaverJanos TisovszkyThis documentary-style film shows how government agencies try to cope with human mankind's first contact with alien life.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzMichael GlawoggerMichael MadsenStarsMeret BeckerGennadi VengerovBenedicte C. WestinSix directors tackle the question "If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" by capturing iconic buildings with narration from the perspective of the buildings.
- DirectorRick RowleyStarsAnita AlvarezDean AngeloAlma BenitezA documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued.
- DirectorAngel EstebanElena GoatelliStarsGuillermo BarrientosCarmen del ConteJosé Luis FerrerThe film "Malditos" is an hybrid experiment following a staged nerve-wrecking competition. Exploring the meaning of success, failure and self-realization, the film interweaves non-fiction interventions and staged representations, constantly blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality.
- DirectorMo ScarpelliStarsJorge Thielen HedderichJorge Thielen ArmandA father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.
- DirectorCamilo CavalcanteA dip in Beco do Inferno, located next to the Afogados market, in Recife, where stories of lives intersect daily in an incessant movement.
- DirectorJoe BerlingerBruce SinofskyStarsTony BrooksDiana DavisTerry WoodA horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
- DirectorJoe BerlingerBruce SinofskyStarsDamien Wayne EcholsMelissa ByersNorris DeajonThe case of the West Memphis Three, its questionable circumstances and the parties involved are followed up years later.
- DirectorJoe BerlingerBruce SinofskyStarsGary GitchellTodd MooreDana MooreA further followup of the case of the West Memphis Three and the decades long fight to exonerate them that finally gained traction with new DNA evidence.
- DirectorKoki ShigenoStarsShôta IidaKumiko IshidaKatsuya KobayashiIn 'Ramen Heads,' Osamu Tomita, Japan's reigning king of ramen, takes us deep into his world, revealing every single step of his obsessive approach to creating the perfect soup and noodles, and his relentless search for the highest-quality ingredients. In addition to Tomita's story, the film also profiles five other notable ramen shops, each with its own philosophy and flavour, which exemplify various different aspects the ramen world. Mixing in a brief rundown of ramen's historical roots, the film gives viewers an in-depth look at the culture surrounding this unique and beguiling dish. This is a documentary record of 15 months in the lives of Japan's top ramen masters and their legions of devoted fans.
- DirectorAndy MitchellStarsNeil WilsonBruce KornriechKristyn VitaleCat experts dive into the mind of the feline to reveal the true capabilities of the pouncing pet in this captivating and cuddly documentary.
- DirectorConstanze RuhmStarsGemma VannuzziMona Abdel BakyKheda DurtaevaPregnant young Anna Azzori is discovered in 1970s Rome and followed by two men who film her.
- DirectorGeorge GittoesSnow Monkey is an epic portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, where art activist Gittoes recruited gangs of war-damaged children to shoot local, Pashto-style films: vibrant, colorful and infused with the violence they experience on a daily basis.
- DirectorMadeleine LeroyerStarsCristina CattaneoLara OlivieriGiorgia MirtoThis is the story of a Greek physician who collects pendants and bracelets. This is the story of an Italian woman who has been fighting for 15 years to «make bodies talk.» This is the story of those who watch over the forgotten migrants.
- DirectorBill Ross IVTurner RossStarsPeter ElwellMichael MartinShay WalkerA look at the final moments of a Las Vegas dive bar called 'The Roaring 20s'.
- DirectorAlberto BougleuxA tiny school of a tiny island. A modern teacher who made it her mission. Her last three unpredictable pupils. In the outpost of the island, a unique story of the battle for education, now close to the end.
- DirectorEric BaudelaireStarsMaxim GvinjaA record of the epistolary encounter between French artist and filmmaker Eric Baudelaire and Maxim Gvinjia, former Foreign Minister of the breakaway Caucasian state of Abkhazia, Letters to Max is both a chronicle of a developing friendship and an ingenious and unusual essay film.
- DirectorRoberto MinerviniStarsMark KelleyLisa AllenJames Lee MillerIn an invisible territory at the margins of society lives a wounded community who face the threat of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents, drug addicts trying to escape addiction through love; ex-special forces soldiers still at war with the world; floundering young women and future mothers; and old people who have not lost their desire to live. Through this hidden pocket of humanity, renowned documentarian Roberto Minervini opens a window to the abyss of today's America.
- DirectorLeo HurwitzConsidered the first cinema verité film, it depicts the life of an aspiring boxer trying to balance his responsibilities to his family and his sport.
- DirectorLeo HurwitzCharles PrattA voyage of discovery among familiar things: the images and sounds of New York Harbor. This film-poem explores the edge of the shoreline, where man and nature persistently confront one another.
- StarsAlistair CookeLeonard BernsteinJoseph N. WelchOmnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.
- DirectorTineJeff WinnStarsJimmie AllenLouis ArmstrongJon Batiste
- DirectorLaure PortierStarsArnaud GomezJacqueline PuygrenierLaure PortierArnaud is my little brother. One day I realized that he had grown up. He was born where people have no choices and he is trying to be what he should have been. Free.
- DirectorReed HarknessStarsDoris HarknessJared HarknessJois HarknessSam Harkness and his half-brother Reed go on a road trip to find their missing mom. But solving the mystery of her disappearance is only the beginning of their story.
- DirectorJacopo de BertoldiStarsThomas ShinceFernando CittadiniIn Rome's most multi-ethnic neighborhood, Fernando - a young man brought up by his aunt, a housemaid who's nostalgic for a neo-fascist party from her youth - and Shince - his best friend, a DOC Roman from an Indian family - fight for the survival of the Piazza Vittorio Cricket Club. From the time they first met as little boys, the camera follows them grow up. After their first games in their neighborhood's parks, and after the international under-18 tournaments, their team falls apart and they make heroic efforts to put it back together. On and off the field, mingling laughter and despair, nights out drinking and rude awakenings, the two twenty-years-old struggle to make way in a city that has no room for them. Sometimes attractive, sometimes repulsive, the reality that surrounds them doesn't give them much of a foothold to pursue their dream: becoming stars in the world of cricket. They fight to keep their friendship alive while coming of age in a world that has always less to offer.
- DirectorJulie HaEugene YiStarsChol Soo LeeJeff AdachiK.W. LeeIn 1970s San Francisco, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee is wrongly convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. After spending years fighting to survive, journalist K.W. Lee takes an interest in his case, igniting an unprecedented social movement.
- DirectorMarusya SyroechkovskayaStarsMarusya SyroechkovskayaKirill MorevTogether, two young lovers create an unbreakable bond within a destructive world.
- DirectorLucien Castaing-TaylorVerena ParavelFocuses on five hospitals in northern Paris neighborhoods. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others.
- DirectorSusanne Regina MeuresThe 14-year-old Leonie, a successful influencer living on the outskirts of Berlin.
- DirectorPierre-Yves VandeweerdIn military terminology, INNER LINES are parallel routes near the enemy lines, enabling evasion. Around Ararat, "the white centre" that illuminates "the darkest times", they are used by messengers and their carrier pigeons to connect the communities scattered by conflict. Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd continues his powerful political and poetic body of work (LES TOUMENTES, LES ETERNELS) with this film shot in 16mm between Iraqi Kurdistan, Turkey and Nagorno-Karabakh. Remaining faithful to a formal approach blending the outline of the film-image with the asynchronous sonic off-camera - harrowing testimonies, biblical narrative, whispered secrets, political discourses and rants, close or distant explosions -, he walks alongside Yazidis or Armenians ravaged by the insatiable Moloch of war. Voices bring humanity to bleak landscapes, bodies lean over to listen to age-old stones laden with memories and gazes burn with inextinguishable inner sorrow. Vandeweerd remains the essential and exacting filmmaker-geographer of lost territories.
- DirectorPierre-Yves VandeweerdGuided by the sheepbells of a flock and by the evocations of the lost, this film is a voyage through storms; those of the mountains and winter, those of bodies and souls, those which remind us that which nature has not obtained from our reason, obtaining from our madness.
- DirectorAnnie ErnauxDavid Ernaux-BriotStarsBlanche Madeleine Dumenil DuchesneAnnie ErnauxDominique ErnauxHome videos shot by Ernaux and her family from 1972 to 1981 and feeds into the themes of her work over the past 60 years.
- DirectorFrank BeauvaisJanuary 2016. The love story that brought me to this village in Alsace where I live ended six months ago. At 45, I am now alone, without a car, a job or any real prospects, surrounded by luxuriant nature, the proximity of which is not enough to calm the deep distress into which I am plunged. France, still in shock from the November terror attacks, is in a state of emergency. I feel helpless, I suffocate with contained rage. I am lost and I watch four to five films a day. I decide to record this stagnation, not by picking up a camera but by editing shots from the stream of films I watch.
- DirectorCristina HanesIsabella RinaldiArya RotheSomi and her husband met and fell in love while fighting alongside the Naxalites, a communist guerrilla group that has been fighting since the '60s for the rights of the tribal communities of India. After a decade of armed struggle, the couple deserted the movement and surrendered to the police. Ever since, they have been striving to forge a new identity, educate their two children, and eventually reconcile their violent past with the fervent desire to integrate into the hostile Indian society.
- DirectorDavid GelbStarsJiro OnoYoshikazu OnoMasuhiro YamamotoA documentary on 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono, his renowned Tokyo restaurant, and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Yoshikazu.
- DirectorVictoria FioreAmong the narrow streets of contemporary Naples, 'Hide and Seek' ('Nascondino') follows four years in the life of nine-year-old Entoni and his grandmother Dora during a critical state crackdown on crime that threatens Entoni's future with forced removal and imprisonment.
- DirectorAlberto GottardoFrancesca SironiIn the Po river delta, a group of teenagers enrolled in a vocational school fight between their fathers waiting for them in the lagoon and the school trying to hold them.
- DirectorAleksandr BalaguraCesare BedognèStarsFrancesco CarraroEmanuele FerrariMaria FrepoliI live in the place where lonely men are afraid to enter, at dusk. My room, when the sun is at its height, is the room of God.
- DirectorTamana AyaziMarcel MettelsiefenStarsZarifa GhafariAt 26, Zarifa Ghafari became one of Afghanistan's first female mayors and the youngest to ever hold the position. Filmed over two turbulent years, the film documents her personal battle for survival as her country unravels.
- DirectorDoug PrayStarsJuliette PaskowitzDavid PaskowitzJonathan PaskowitzDoug Pray explores the life of surfer Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz.
- DirectorGarrett BradleyStarsSibil Fox RichardsonRobert G. RichardsonMahlik RichardsonFox Rich fights for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year sentence in prison.
- DirectorDenis CôtéStarsOlivier AubinTed PluvioseHamidou SavadogoAn open-ended exploration of the energies and rituals of various workplaces. From one worker to another and one machine to the next; hands, faces, breaks, toil: what kind of absurdist, abstract dialogue can be started between human beings and their need to work? What is the value of the time we spend multiplying and repeating the same motions that ultimately lead to a rest - a state of repose whose quality defies definition.
- DirectorGuy DebordStarsGuy DebordLeonid BrezhnevFidel CastroGuy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book "La société du spectacle" (1967).
- DirectorMarco VisalberghiOn August 14, 2018 the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, Liguria, Italy collapsed, claiming 43 lives. Watch archival footage and hear witness testimony of both bystanders and survivors of this horrible tragedy, as well as analysis of the factors leading to the collapse.
- DirectorSébastien LifshitzThe touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still invested in a biological boy-girl way of thinking.
- DirectorPeter W. KunhardtStarsKenan AkanselSaul BishtSusie Buffet Jr.The legendary investor started out as an ambitious, numbers-obsessed boy from Nebraska and ended up becoming one of the richest and most respected men in the world.
- DirectorTatiana HuezoThe emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
- DirectorBiserka SuranStarsBiserka SuranVinko SuranLino SuranJourney through family history while interrogating the construct of Europe.
- DirectorSophie Chiarello
- DirectorEva NeymannPryvoz is one of the oldest and largest European markets. Everyone goes there, everyone finds something. Those searching for miracles or change-in destiny, human soul, time-will not leave with empty-handed.
- DirectorIhor IvankoA young filmmaker Ihor finds a hidden and unpublished photo archive of his grandfather Leonid Burlaka, a famous Soviet cinematographer. Discovering a man that he never knew well enough through the damaged pictures, he gets closer to his dementing grandpa, facing the tension between memory and forgetting.
- DirectorDavid EastealStarsAndrew RakowskiDavid EastealCheri LeCornuEvery evening a man in his late 50s commutes home at the end of the working day in the outer suburbs of Melbourne.
- DirectorStefano SavonaA huge swathes of Northern Italy were hit by a new virus.
- DirectorAxel DanielsonMaximilien Van AertryckStarsChris AndersonFelix BergssonUlrika BergstenFrom the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity's unique obsession with the camera's image and the social consequences that lay ahead.
- DirectorD. SmithStarsDaniella CarterDominique SilverKoko Da DollA raw depiction of the lives of four black trans sex workers as they confront the dichotomy between the black community and themselves.
- DirectorTatiana HuezoStarsMontserrat HernandezMaría de los Ángeles Pacheco TapiaLuz María Vázquez GonzálezIn the remote Mexican village of El Eco, life is rich in privation, work and children. Here, granddaughters movingly take care of grandmothers until they die.
- DirectorManthia DiawaraStarsJean-Paul ColleynManthia DiawaraRaoul FreseIt showcases the contact zones between African rituals of possession within traditional fishing villages and the emergence of new technological frontiers known as Artificial Intelligence.
- DirectorDavide Melis
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaA colony that houses patients, apparently with psychiatric problems. Work and life in the countryside, away from us. And yet the pulse still pulses.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaA remote village in the North-West of Russia. A mental asylum is located in an old wooden house. The place and its inhabitants seem to be untouched by civilization. In this pristine setting no articulate human voice is heard, and pain is muted.
- DirectorBenedetta ArgentieriStarsRojda FelatSelay GhaffarYanar MohammedThe inspiring story of three women risking their lives to incite political, activist, and armed uprisings in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq.
- DirectorPaolo Fiore AngeliniStarsCarla BenedettiVincenzo CaliaGuido CalviAn investigation into the life of Pier Paolo Pasolini and the political background of his murder.
- DirectorJames BenningIt centers on Allensworth, the first self-administered African-American municipality in California, showcasing the buildings of the now-abandoned town and looking for the traces of a Black cultural history.
- DirectorGiovanni Piperno1941: a cosmetics company launches an advertising contest that invites Italian women to send the true story of their life, in order to adapt them for the big screen. Meanwhile Italy is shaken by hunger, bombings, strikes. Now, eighty years later, the film is finally made.
- DirectorJohanna DemetrakasStarsBella AbzugLaurie AndersonPhyllis CheslerFeminists: What Were They Thinking? takes aim at our current culture revealing all too vividly the urgent need for continued change.
- DirectorSuzanne HillingerStarsNoelle PerdueMichael StabileWolf HudsonFollow the rise of the most famous adult entertainment platform and the recent backlash it has received.
- DirectorGillian LaubOne year after the town merges its segregated proms, photographer Gillian Laub documents a divisive murder case in a small Georgia town.
- DirectorGeorge KunhardtPeter W. KunhardtTeddy KunhardtStarsBryan StevensonChristy StevensonHoward StevensonA look at how Alabama attorney Bryan Stevenson struggles to create more fairness in the legal system.
- DirectorFrancesco Del Grosso
- DirectorElia MouatamidStarsElia MoutamidFirst, the idea of a movie about the gentrification of old Fes. Then the pandemic struck.
- DirectorElisa FuksasStarsAlessia CorreaniElisa FuksasLavinia FuksasA personal documentary shot on a mobile phone during lockdown, in which the director reflects on her own illness and isolation, and on how storytelling can be a way of overcoming one's own fears.
- DirectorKevin MacdonaldHoward HongDanica JensenStarsDespina MirouOlivia CastanhoShaira Yasmin BergLife In A Day 2020 will call on millions of people around the world to film their lives on July 25.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsGiulio CagnazzoRoberta De SantisLuigi TuccilloThis documentary takes a close look at what happened when the covid-19 pandemic made Italy one of the most affected countries having to make a complete lock-down and put everyone from nurses to the pope in quarantine.
- DirectorOlivier GuerpillonMichele PlacidoJaco Van DormaelStarsAndrea BocelliRoberto BolleMichèle-Anne De MeyFive directors recount the effects- economic, psychological and social- of the COVID pandemic on their respective countries, in this anthology documentary.