Devi is a rebel warrior, mother, and sexual violence survivor – for her, Nepal's Civil War did not end in 2006. As those in power try to erase rape from the history of the war, Devi has to battle her own demons before she can begin to build a movement to fight for justice. In 1997, 17-year-old Devi's life took a harrowing turn. Arrested during the onset of civil war in Nepal, she was accused of being …

When a woman’s body is discovered on the banks of a river near a small town in southern China, it’s up to police investigator Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong), working out of an abandoned cinema, to find the killer—but what at first appears to be an open-and-shut case turns out to be only the first layer of an ever deepening mystery, as Ma’s inquiry reveals the hidden life of the rural community. Based on Yu Hua’s …

At the end of 2021, sparked by an unprecedented influx of migrants from Venezuela, Chile experienced a remarkably violent anti-immigrant protest. The last decade’s economic collapse has driven close to 8 million Venezuelans to flee their country—the second-largest migration crisis worldwide and the first of its kind in South America. For those who chose to migrate south, traversing thousands of kilometres …

How would you reinvent some part of your world using nature as a model? In BIOCENTRICS, this and other provocations are answered through the eyes and voice of biologist Janine Benyus. Traveling to different corners of the planet, it reveals the birth and principles that guide biomimicry, a multidisciplinary methodology of technological innovation inspired by a master with 3.8 billion years of experience. …

After Katie is assaulted by a predator in Roblox—a virtual world with 78 million daily users—she teams up with Alex and Janae to expose what’s really happening in the metaverse. Their investigation uncovers disturbing truths: explicit games, hate groups, and unchecked predators thriving on platforms meant for kids. When a young gamer is kidnapped and a mass shooting occurs, their mission takes on …

Joseph (Alexis Manenti) is the last shepherd on the island still grazing his goats on clifftop pastures overlooking the sea. But his land—passed down through generations—is coveted by the mafia and the forces of unchecked greed. When a group of menacing strangers arrives at his door to pressure him one final time, the standoff turns violent. A gunshot shatters the calm, and Joseph flees into the wild. …

Television broadcasting debuted in Sweden in 1957. And Swedish public broadcaster SVT began covering Israel and Palestine almost from day one. In ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989, filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975) masterfully weaves together some of this footage, telling the story of the rise of the Israeli state and the Palestinian struggle for self-determination … More

The Mediterranean Diet is the world's most sustainable food tradition. Developed across the centuries along the shores of the Mediterranean, it is based on seasonality, locality, freshness and minimal processing - helping to give answers to some of the most urgent problems today. Award winning ‘green chef’ Xavier Pellicer visits an organic vegetable field outside Barcelona, which supplies his restaurant … More

It's lunch time at an elementary school in Gothenburg, Sweden. In the school canteen, the manager checks a list by the Ministry of Health of the daily food that must include five categories of vegetables. Roots, fresh pulses, leafy vegetables, bulbs and vegetables rich in vitamin C, in different colors. Sweden is the country in Europe most faithfully following the Mediterranean diet. Children here … More

How can food be used as preventive medicine? At Harvard University, Dr. Walter Willet has been tracking the diets of 300,000 people for 40 years. “We found that what you eat is incredibly important and that the Mediterranean Diet lowers the risk of heart disease, cancer, cognitive dysfunction, diabetes, obesity, infertility and even improves sexual function,” explains Willet. “In fact, there is growing … More

In Pamplona, Spain, a group of scientists have been researching the connection between our health and the food we've been eating since the 1980s. Led by Dr. Miguel Ángel Martínez-González and Dr. Miguel Ruiz Canela, they argue that young people in Spain have adopted a Western diet and abandoned the culinary traditions of their grandparents. We discover the results of the ground-breaking Predimed study, … More

Upcoming London cook Marianna Leivaditaki returns to her homeland in Chania, Crete, reconnecting with her family and seeking inspiration for her new menu. “People are always looking for the next best diet and the superfoods that will make them live forever. And at some point, I thought ‘I know what the healthiest food is, I grew up with it!’ That’s when I started concentrating on the cooking traditions … More

This documentary serves as Zakaria Jaber’s personal diary, capturing moments of revolution, destruction, and protest in Lebanon. Living with constant anxiety, Zakaria narrates his own life as a series of unfortunate events prevents him from leaving the country. These recurring events reflect the cyclical nature of the city and prompt a deeper look at the systemic issues fueling Beirut’s collective … More

A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying Father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival, Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund and run by a dubious Doctor Gotard, who tells him that his father’s death, the death that has struck him in his country, has not yet occurred and that here they are always late by a certain interval of time … More

Czech director Jiří Barta's stop-motion animated masterpiece, based on "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches inspired by German Expression. A savage portrait of greed run amok and one of the great masterpieces of stop-motion animation.

A unique and almost indescribable mix of Gothic fiction, steampunk gadgetry (designed by Czech animation wizard Jan Švankmajer), slapstick comedy and romantic opera, director Oldřich Lipský's wonderfully bonkers mystery has elements of Terry Gilliam, Mel Brooks and "The Benny Hill Show." Based on an 1892 Jules Verne novel about an opera singer searching for his lost love in an eerie castle.