Mediha, a teenage Yazidi girl who has recently returned from ISIS captivity, turns the camera on herself to process her trauma while rescuers search for her missing family members.

Brittany's Town has unanimously decided to accept Ukrainian refugees in exchange for government subsidies. However, instead of seeing Ukrainians arrive, they now see Syrian migrants, which has caused some conflicts.

Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski found her attention grabbed by an old photo of two Indigenous men: taken to London to be “civilised” around the turn of the 20th century, their names were known, but little else – Omarino and Aredomi. Sadowski felt compelled to dig deeper into the past.

A Guatemalan activist battles a corrupt dictatorship in 1976 and flees to Mexico, leaving her son. Ten years later he joins her, forcing a choice between motherhood and her cause.

Andie saves Ryan from a car wreck, sparking a tumultuous year that might just prove life could be great.

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.

A man and a woman meet by chance and stroll through Seoul's changing streets.

A documentary exploring secret lives, behavior and extreme levels of human-beast intimacy and communication, focusing on the 'only in New York' story of Antoine Yates and his cohabitation in a Harlem high-rise with Ming, a five-hundred-pound tiger and Al, a seven-foot alligator, combined with filmic observation of predators in domesticated geographies.

A traveler documenting global activists fighting for equality, LGBTQ+ rights, and more. Gain insights into their challenges and strategies for change through interviews and frontline photography.

Misfire: The Rise and Fall of The Shooting Gallery is a documentary about the independent film company that rose to the top of the 90s film scene before financial risk-taking caused its spectacular crash.

The case of Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, a Native-American woman who disappeared in 2020, exposing how hundreds of indigenous women continue to go missing in the US, perpetuating trans-generational trauma on Indian reservations.

Misty, a gifted actress, struggles with vices hindering her career revival. Jordan, a director with a perfect role, presents a golden opportunity complicated by their turbulent history.

A documentary exploring the life and influential works of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, known for films like My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away, focusing on his passion for animation and advocacy for the natural world.

Follows Oana Pfifer, her brother Mihai Dumitru, Oana's husband, and Narcis Patranescu, an organized crime inspector, showing moments that capture their wanderings.

Oom has no papers or formal training but is good at caring for the elderly and disabled. When his situation as a caregiver in the mountains becomes too much for him, he has to choose between survival or dignity.

A former martial artist hired to train three wealthy Jordanian sisters finds her "dream job" turning unsettling as the isolated young women are under constant surveillance and show no interest in the sport. Why was she really hired?

Claire is approached by the father of her murdered childhood friend to help investigate the haunted moor he believes is his son's final resting place.

Chronicling the life and times of former FIA president Max Mosley, who reigned at the head of F1's governing body from 1993 to 2005, the project takes a no-holds-barred approach to the story of his career.

Billy (Adam Pally) comes back to his hometown expecting to be beloved like he used to be. Instead he finds his ex (Rachel Bloom) is dating the former high school outcast (Vincent Kartheiser), so Billy becomes obsessed with proving the outcast is actually the killer behind a mysterious local death.

In a farming community straddling the Malaysia-Thailand border, recently widowed Hong Im resorts to black magic to help locals until a ghost unveils a disturbing truth about her husband's death.

Mother's Little Helpers is a family drama about four adult siblings who reluctantly return home to say goodbye to their compulsively lying mother in the twilight of her terminal illness. It's based on the premise that no matter who dies, we always find a way to make it all about us.

On the Annapurna Massif, Tukten, a young Nepali man setting off for a new life as a laborer in Dubai, encounters an older Australian woman who causes him to change course and discover his homeland in a new light.

It's 2002, and best friends Minnie (Katherine Mallen Kupferer) and Callie (Chloe Coleman) are heading into their senior year of high school, with Minnie long living in the protective shadow of the charismatic and admired Callie. When their friendship is suddenly upended at the start of the summer, Minnie struggles to define her own identity and forms a complicated relationship with Callie’s poised, attentive mother (Sophie Okonedo), pulling her further from her own chaotic home.

Out of the underground dance clubs on the South Side of Chicago, a group of friends turn a new sound into a global movement.

A poor young girl living in Chile with her wheelchair-confined father and four siblings tries to save up enough money to watch movies at her local cinema.

Mr. Wonderful tells the story of three generations of men-a millennial on the run from a drug dealer; his father, a jaded professor trying to keep his job; and the family patriarch fighting senility- all struggling to find meaning in life.

Meet Muhi (Muhammad), a brave and spirited Palestinian boy, and his devoted Moslim grandfather Abu Naim, who for the past seven years have been living in an Israeli hospital. Caught between two homes and two peoples, Muhi is unable to return to Gaza, and is saved and raised by those considered enemies of his people. Muhi's story is a tug-of-war of pressures that challenge identity, religion and the conflict that divides his world.

Filmmaker Barbara Kopple explores the legacy of the 1989 murder of Noreen Boyle in Mansfield, Ohio. Her 12-year-old son Collier gave a devastating videotaped testimony blaming his father for the murder. Now, over two decades later, Collier returns to Ohio seeking to retrace his past and confront his imprisoned father, who remains in denial of his guilt. Collier's depth of character is a wonder to behold from childhood to adulthood. Out of this tragic story, we witness the power of human resilience.

When Konstadinos misses a flight and returns home unexpectedly, he finds his wife in bed with his best friend. Shocked, he leaves the house without letting them know what he saw and begins wandering in the streets of Athens.

Award-winning filmmakers, Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi, present a real-life epic of boyhood and manhood, filmed across twenty years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe.

Fifteen-year-old Fanny spends the summer with her parents at their vacation home, cherishing time with her terminally ill mother through simple pleasures like swimming and walks, creating final memories before an impending loss.

Late 1980s. Summer. Thirteen-year-old Felice, shouldering all his father’s expectations, after years of hard training and strict rules, finally gets to compete in national tennis tournaments. To best prepare him, his father entrusts him to selfstyled former champion Raul Gatti, who even boasts a round-of-16 appearance at the Internazionali d’Italia tennis tournament at the Foro Italico. From match to match, the two begin a journey along the Italian coast that, amidst defeats, lies, and bizarre encounters, will lead Felice to discover the taste of freedom and Raul to glimpse the possibility of a new beginning.

Forty-year-old crane operator Thomas receives a call from his wife, Carla: he has to pick her up from the hospital. Once there, he finds her crying and discovers that she has had a car crash.

A fight between an Imam and his powerful brother over their childrens' marriage. At stake: how a small community slowly drifts towards extremism.

Narcosis is about a young family that is hit by a family tragedy and has to deal with it in its own unique way.

1972 was a turning point in Ilie Nastase's career: winning US Open, reaching Wimbledon and Davis Cup finals. It portrays his victories, controversies, rebellious persona challenging tennis norms, and his influence as a tennis rebel icon.

Nelson Algren: The End is Nothing, the Road is All, is an in-depth feature length documentary of one of America's greatest and least understood authors, Nelson Algren. This never before told compelling life story reveals a unique literary voice through rare interviews, archival footage and the gritty noirish voice of Algren on Algren. Kurt Vonnegut and Studs Terkel, literary giants in their own right, sing songs of praise along with many of his old friends, which makes this film seem like a hymn from the grave. This stylishly produced film embeds us in the 1950's cold war world when Algren worked. Algren's touching love affair with Simone de Beauvoir weaves it's way through the film along with the damaging impact of FBI and CIA surveillance.

After the death of his beloved wife, textile artist Allan Brown embarks on a seven-year endeavor to weave a hand-spun dress from stinging nettles foraged in the woods surrounding his home.

Airi (Moeka Hoshi), a wandering medium who spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living, is summoned to an isolated country house, where she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy her experience. As she digs deeper into the house’s past, a secret comes to light — and Airi finds herself hunted by a far more unpredictable force. For the first time, her greatest adversary is not the supernatural, but the living.

Filmed during a hot summer night in Athens, Greece, New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization, captures the final performance of Bill Murray and Jan Vogler's 2018 European "New Worlds" tour.

Through performances at the Newport Folk Festivals 1963 to 1966, Newport and the Great Folk Dream revels in a generation's discovery of its voice through their rediscovery of American musical traditions.

In the heart of Riyadh, where desperation and opportunity collide, MANDOOB brings forth the gripping tale of Fahad Algadaani, a mentally fragile man racing against time to save his ailing father.

The country is plunged into darkness. The abandoned city is like another planet. Lonely figures move through the streets like shadows in a theatre. We are in two Asian megacities in the surreal time after 2020. ‘Night of Nights’ takes place at night, and the images fill the screen with an hypnotic intensity and documents the radically changed reality that the people in the megacities of the world suddenly found themselves in. The urban landscapes are illuminated by yellowish neon and the concept of home has lost its familiar meaning. An endless pedestrian tunnel has become a mini-community of igloo tents, where people stranded in the harsh restrictions have set up camp while waiting to move on. But when the restrictions are lifted, everything is changed forever. [CPH:DOX]

Hospice nurse Julia Rowe is hired to be caregiver for Lillian Gresham, who lives in an isolated house in a remote area. Although she is terminally ill, the elderly Lillian is a cordial and sweet lady. However, as the night goes on, Julia suspects something demonic is also dwelling in the house causing she and Lillian to be in grave danger.

With dreams of starting a perfect family, Saga and her British husband Jon move to the isolated house deep in the Finnish forest where Saga spent much of her childhood. But as soon as their baby is born, despite the reassurances of everyone around her, Saga knows something is terribly wrong. As their marriage starts to crack and Jon struggles to support his wife, only Saga suspects the disturbing truth about their newborn child.

The lives of a wealthy married couple radically change in an instant. While the husband is in critical condition after an accident that occurred under strange circumstances, the wife tries to understand the situation and to salvage what she can. [KVIFF]

All begins in a rundown bar outside of Paris where a regular man realizes he has a winning lottery ticket only to be shot in a crime that needs to be quickly covered up.

No Small Matter confronts America's most pressing problems with an unlikely but powerful weapon: babies and young children. From home to childcare to preschool, high-quality early care and education has far-reaching impacts, and groundbreaking science to back it up. With a healthy dose of humor and a surprising edge, No Small Matter reveals the tragic cost of getting this wrong, and the huge payoff-for our kids, our families, and our country-of getting it right.

Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds and nurtures a secret friendship with Pete, an older man who's apparently obsessed with her.

Two star-crossed lovers navigate through all-out war between the North and South criminal underworlds

A diverse group of people with a chronic fear of flying are stranded in the wintry north.

Northern Soul's enduring movement turns forgotten, black, American soul artists into UK legends. From its working-class roots to iconic clubs like Wigan Casino, a new generation keeps the music, fashion, dance and soul community alive.

A group of 8th graders confront the meaningless of life and leave behind the innocence of childhood.

Resurrected through UK-led archival restoration NOVA 78' shows never-before-seen footage of the legendary Nova Convention where William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Zappa, Ginsberg and more collided in an explosion of ideas, art and rebellion.

Profound portrait of immigration, disillusionment, and the elusiveness of home.

Muriel Bayen, a divorced beautician and mother of two, loves to tell stories. She is a huge fan of this singer Vincent Lacroix, in fact she is a dedicated fan. One day Vincent knocks on her door and asks for her help.

Based on the Hailak short story and other works by Polish writer with experience of Siberian exile Waclaw Sieroszewski, the plot revolves around the poor Yakut peasant couple Khabdzhiy and Keremes struggling to survive in the taiga area of the most remote East corner of the Russian Empire at the end of XIX century. After the death of the second newborn child both young man and woman obediently get back to their chores to make it through another day and get ready for a lengthy and exhausting winter. The local Yakut ruler orders the family to admit to their house the Russian political convict Konstantin and keep him till further notice. The worlds of the family and the Russian unwelcome guest are colliding from the first days due to completely polar backgrounds. Despite the mutual challenge of the household against surrounding wild nature, Konstantin gradually settles in and claims the position of master of the house.

Two sisters care for their ailing father.

A peculiar team of three handymen has to face a series of eccentric clients. Their everyday job becomes a surrealist and exhilarating experience.

Highly influential and a fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau's aquatic adventure covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.

Jan, a mysterious character haunted by a deep feeling of guilt, tries to get Violeta back, a youth love he lost 20 years ago, with a sickening plan.

A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional journey to recover a family tree.

Chronicling the life of Lay'n Pipe, a 47 foot TopGun Cigarette speedboat, from its conception through the end of human civilization. It's not just a speedboat ride, it's a Miami adventure.

A Juilliard-trained violist navigates the New York City freelance classical musician scene, playing gigs that often draw her into the personal lives of strangers, all while living in her oddball family's NYC apartment.

The story focuses on Aurora, a Portuguese worker in a Scottish warehouse, navigating loneliness and alienation in an algorithm-driven gig economy as she seeks meaning and connection amidst solitude and workplace confines.

Brings us into the lives of three Latinx people in McAllen Texas, whose different beliefs end up coming to a head at the last abortion clinic in the US/Mexico border.

This sequel to On the Job (2013) focuses on corruption and media censorship now that a new strongman, Duterte, is in power in the Philippines.

Told in his own words using interviews spanning from the 1980s through now, father and tennis coach Richard Williams retraces his family's journey from the courts in Compton to the grass at Wimbledon, defying every custom of the lily-white tennis establishment and fighting back against a system of oppression to raise two of the greatest champions in history - Venus and Serena Williams.

A story that stretches across war, blossoming love and living as a recluse.

A chronicle of life in the Russian village of Troubtchevsk.

As three of the filmmaker's loved ones confront the possible end of close friendships, One Another follows their life changes, heartaches, and attempts to reconnect as they find a way forward.

Iris has been expelled from school and spends her days with her cousins. When she meets Renata, she's fascinated, and they soon start flirting in spite of the growing rumours about Renata's past.

After going bankrupt, Eyüp leaves Izmir to work at a tomato field. Unpaid wages frustrate Eyüp, leading to a confrontation with his foreman Hemme. He decides to kill him but is unwittingly diverted in town, cooling his anger.

The third entry in secret agent OSS 117's parodic spy adventures.

A coming-of-age story about of a group of Rwandan schoolgirls at a Belgian-run Catholic boarding school.

A journey over the walls that divide England, to explore the age-old debate of land and power, amid the fight for greater access to nature.

This documentary examination of the controversial Church of Scientology focuses on its fringes: alien abductions,art dealing,E Meters, and the Sea Organization, and weaves together interviews with both active and inactive members.

It follows the untold story of how a network of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and retailers worked together to orchestrate and perpetuate the opioid crisis that has killed over half a million people in America.

In the wake of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, Indigenous people across the nation are using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them in an effort to wake up the world and embark upon the process of decolonization. Following key figureheads of the #NODAPL movement, OYATE weaves together the story of colonization and the battle for decolonization that continues after the news cameras have stopped rolling.

In 1973, Cuban poet, Heberto Padilla, was arrested by state security accused of counterrevolutionary. Faced with international pressure, the Cuban government forced him to incriminate himself in the purest Stalinist style.

Set in the contemporary art world of Los Angeles. Joanne Marco, a wealthy art collector and benefactor, has been searching for an artistic genius. When she discovers a young, unknown painter named Aldis Browne, she becomes obsessed with him and his talent. Joanne invites Aldis to move into her mansion where she can watch over him and foster his talent. When Aldis' first solo show is deemed a critical failure, Aldis flees Joanne's home and the city. But Joanne swiftly lures him back with a frightening gift from his past.