Ordinary people suddenly find themselves face-to-face with a mysterious, silent camera operator.

An 18-year-old girl is killed in a bitter family feud in the Albanian highlands. Her christian father is pressured to break the vicious cycle of conflict.

Germany is turning away from nuclear power in 2022. Yet the country's nuclear nightmare goes on: with umpteen thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste.

Siberian permafrost is melting. Instead of living animals, the desolate tundra is home only to the bones of the distant past. Three men with different goals dare to venture into the Yakut wilderness.

The Mushroom Speaks explores the healing qualities of fungi and their ability to regenerate.

For many centuries, in a small town on the southern border of Europe, people have been worshipping a statue of a black Jesus. 19-year-old Edward from Ghana, a resident of the refugee centre which is the subject of great controversy in the village, asks to carry the statue in the annual procession and to stand next to the locals that bear its cart.

An epic investigation into hundreds of murders in Mexico since the 1990s, and the insidious culture of cartel violence and state corruption behind them.

Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of language, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigates the processes of physical and psychological destruction and renewal.

A film about the Swedish artist duo Bigert & Bergström’s climate-related art, which for three decades has been inspired by research on the effects of climate on humanity and vice versa.

Pakistani folk artists talk about their struggle to keep a fading art form a live while reminding the world what they are about to lose.

Hot summer has come to their tiny village in the Cuban countryside, Leonel and Antuán intimately explore their universe far from adults. With a considerable difference in age, their unique friendship is torn between games and fights, conversations about everyday life, existentialist questions, simple pleasures, and boredom.

A documentary about populism and its absurd consequences.

Dora García intertwines politics, psychoanalysis and performance into Second Time Around. This staged documentary orbits the figure of Oscar Masotta, a pivotal theorist in the Argentinian avant-garde from the 1950s to the 1970s...

Extinction is an eclectic patchwork of materials (fiction and nonfiction) drawing the viewer to the collective imaginary of the Soviet Union.

The story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. By turns horrifying and hilarious, the film is a satirical portrait of Russian meddling in the 2016 election that reveals an empire of fake news and the tactics of modern-day information warfare.

In more than 20 years, the Congo War has claimed six million lives. The population suffers from impunity, the war-crimes have never been legally prosecuted...

Shot in Grand Teton National Park, this immersive film essay draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Peter Mettler and Emma Davie and philosopher David Abram to encounter the spaces where humans and animals meet...

In a playfully biographical manner, Anka Schmid recounts her generation’s hairy stories. Whether as a body ornament, political statement or even in the soup, hair is omnipresent – even when shaven...

26-year-old Taelor navigates drug abuse, guns, madness & inherent violence of the rich, white Houstonian ghettos in Trump's America.

An hallucinatory tale which documents a filmmaker’s journey to Canada’s arctic in search of the Northern Lights.

A filmmaker’s inquiry into transcendence becomes a three-hour trip across countries and cultures, interconnecting people, places and times.

A movie about acid techno and anarchism.

A Japanese philosopher writes a letter to a famous German colleague. He asks the German to advise the Japanese people how to deal with the permeation of modern life by technology. More than 50 years later, the same issues are being discussed among academics and aspiring engineers.

One day almost everything turned into a pile of rubble and bush. There remained ghosts wandering through the fields, the ruins and the fog. Some of these ghosts are alive. They are those who stayed, those who came back, those who roam the difficult memories of the most cursed neighborhood of the city. Only that this Tarrafal, the name of the field of slow death of Salazar's dictatorship, is not in Cape Verde but in Portugal.

A dive, the noon sunlight cuts through the water. The air on both longs will have to be enough to rip the abalone from the rocks in the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. With no aid from air tanks or any other tools to enable underwater breathing, the body as a whole is summoned to its limit. In Wagu, a fishing village in the Ise Peninsula, Matsumi, Mayumi and Masumi dive everyday not knowing what they'll find.

New technology raises new ethical dilemmas. One of these dilemmas is brought to a head in the Austrian film ‘The Third Option’. What do you do if a prenatal scan reveals that your child does not live up to modern society’s expectations of normality?

The first festival documentary film about Brexit chooses seemingly the easiest method: it asks ordinary people why they voted, how they voted, and what British identity means to them.

Ahmad is a Syrian child who doesn’t want to remember that he is Syrian. Half traumatized, half trying to escape his reality, he prefers to be silent and asleep. In his silence and refusal to talk, he takes us on a journey where individual and collective Syrian memories collapse.

David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s Do Donkeys Act, filmed over 5 years, subtly subverts the notion of the ‘dumb beast’ as it captures donkeys communicating emotionally with each other in the midst of healing from human cruelty and neglect...