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The Landscape and the Fury

Nicole Vögele

The Landscape and the Fury Along the Bosnian-Croatian border near Velika Kladuša, bomb disposal experts, migrant…

Once Upon a Time in a Forest

Virpi Suutari

Once Upon a Time in a Forest Once Upon a Time in a Forest is a film about brave young people who are defending one of…

Architecton

Victor Kossakovsky

Architecton From filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky comes an epic, intimate and poetic meditation on…

At Averroes & Rosa Parks

Nicolas Philibert

At Averroes & Rosa Parks “Averroès” and “Rosa Parks” are two psychiatric units at the Esquirol Hospital in Paris.…

Bogancloch

Ben Rivers

Bogancloch Bogancloch is Jake Williams’ home, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The…

The Cats of Gokogu Shrine

Kazuhiro Soda

The Cats of Gokogu Shrine Steep steps lead up to the Gokogu Shinto shrine in Ushimado. The local children play on…

Dahomey

Mati Diop

Dahomey November 2021. 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to…

Direct Action

Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell

Direct Action Direct action is a tactical strategy of protest that seeks to achieve an end directly and…

Eight Postcards From Utopia

Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz

Eight Postcards From Utopia Opt ilustrate din lumea ideală is a found-footage documentary assembled exclusively out…

Eno

Gary Hustwit

Eno Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking…

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Raoul Peck

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found Drawing upon a trove of unpublished images, this moving portrait of South African…

Farming the Revolution

Nishtha Jain, Akash Basumatari

Farming the Revolution Farming the Revolution takes us to the heart of the massive year-long protests against…

Favoriten

Ruth Beckermann

Favoriten “Beid, Hafsa, Melissa, Manessa, Mohammad… 25 children and their dedicated teacher. We…

A Fidai Film

Kamal Aljafari

A Fidai Film During the military intervention in Lebanon in the summer of 1982, the IDF seized the…

Riefenstahl

Andres Veiel

Riefenstahl Explores Leni Riefenstahl’s artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime,…

Sleep #2

Radu Jude

Sleep #2 A fallen flower Returning to the branch? It was a butterfly. (Moritake)

To Be Continued. Teenhood

Ivars Seleckis, Armands Začs

To Be Continued. Teenhood After a break of seven years, Latvian filmmakers Ivars Seleckis and Armands Zacs return…

The Belle from Gaza

Yolande Zauberman

The Belle from Gaza They had a fleeting vision one night during the filming of Mr. Beautiful. One of them…

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

Mark Cousins

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things One of the most important women in British modern art, the painter Wilhelmina…

At This Moment, in the Nation’s Sky

Sandra Kogut

At This Moment, in the Nation’s Sky The documentary closely follows the turbulent months of the electoral period that…

The Invasion

Sergei Loznitsa

The Invasion 10 years after the release of his epic film “Maidan”, Sergei Loznitsa resumes his…

One to One: John & Yoko

Kevin Macdonald

One to One: John & Yoko Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's world amid a turbulent…

TWST / Things We Said Today

Andrei Ujică

TWST / Things We Said Today TWST takes as its starting point the arrival of the Beatles in New York for their August…

Acting

Sophie Fiennes

Acting An immersive documentary from acclaimed director Sophie Fiennes, looking behind the…

All Is Well

Petra Lataster-Czisc, Peter Lataster

All Is Well At the opening of a new shelter for Ukrainian refugees in the Dutch city of Weesp,…

Apocalypse in the Tropics

Petra Costa

Apocalypse in the Tropics Evangelical fundamentalism is rapidly on the rise in Brazil, with popular TV evangelists…

Reas

Lola Arias

Reas Yoseli has a tattoo of the Eiffel Tower on her back and has always wanted to travel to…

The Typewriter and Other Headaches

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Nicolas Philibert

The Typewriter and Other Headaches Nicolas Philibert’s On the Adamant (2023) and Averroès & Rosa Parks (2024) focus on two…

Elementary

Claire Simon

Elementary In the Makarenko public elementary school in the Paris outskirts, children want to learn…