A portrait of Berlin’s most famous bouncers – Sven Marquardt, Frank Künster and Smiley Baldwin. The three men have been part and parcel of the ...

We follow four Sudanese filmmakers on their journey through dusty archives and bureaucratic institutions. Their dream: To bring cinema back to Sudan.

A woman living in Mauritania is ordered to eat excessively so that she becomes more desirable and finds a husband.

The story of Carlos Marighella, former congressman, poet and militant who was murdered by the military dictatorship in 1969.

A Macedonian woman throws herself into a traditionally men-only ceremony, kicking up a ruckus and standing her ground.

When numerous schools in São Paulo were slated to be closed in 2015 as a result of the worsening socio-political crisis, students occupied more ...

The changes in Chinese society from the 1950s to the ’80s, as experienced by two families.

Serendipity began as a book, published on the occasion of Prune Nourry’s solo show at the Guimet National Asian Art Museum in Paris in 2017. The ...

The triangular relationship between three 21-year-olds – the unnamed narrator, his male roommate Shizuo, and a woman named Sachiko who ...

For Alyssia and Ilaria, every farewell is also a reunion. Just a while ago they were at the Italian Mediterranean coast, now here they are ...

A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.

A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as ‘besleme’ (foster child and ...

Nian is trying to get into shape for the state Gaokao exam. Her chances of getting a spot at university depend on her score and the constant ...

Merata Mita, pioneering Māori filmmaker and international champion of women in indigenous film, is celebrated by her youngest son, archivist ...

The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are traversed by a woman bearing a wooden cross on her back. She is followed by sellers, ...

Haunted by childhood traumas, Veera is trying to become more independent through live-action role-playing. As she guides herself and her mentally ...

On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

The love story of a couple caught up in the gentrification of a neighborhood that is wiping out a seminal African-American cultural legacy and ...

An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he ...

Maryam Zaree was born in one of Iran’s most notorious political prisons. In her documental debut, she embarks on a personal search for clues: in ...

A young woman stands on the Rialto Bridge in Venice; in a cool box is her dead goldfish. Initially she had planned to let it be carried out to ...

Eight-year-old Cody is spending the summer in an unfamiliar setting with his mom Kathy. Though he can’t relate to the neighbourhood kids, things ...

Sophie and Georg once loved each other, but now they have split up. Almost the entire film takes place in front of the same doorway in Berlin. In ...

The Amazon flows lazily through the goldmine-gashed landscape of northern Peru. Using real eyewitness accounts, directors Bénédicte Liénard and ...

KNIVES AND SKIN follows the investigation of a young girl’s disappearance in the rural Midwest, led by an inexperienced local sheriff. The ripple ...

The local S-Bahn train whooshes through Berlin and past the lives of Emine, Marie, Christian and Arthur. Their paths will likely never cross, yet ...

A long time married couple comes to decide within 24 hours, through encounters with strangers, that letting go might be their biggest proof of love.

A bookseller from Seoul travels with a young woman to Fukuoka in Japan to meet a former friend from university. While their reunion is haunted by ...

As the youngest of the family, Sam is haunted by the notion that someday he could become the last remaining survivor, all alone. On a family ...