Songs of Slow Burning Earth follows the lives of Ukrainians during the first two years of Russia’s full-scale invasion. The film captures the everyday resilience and deep personal losses of a country living through war. Through intimate scenes with civilians, children, and aid workers, it reveals how ordinary people endure extraordinary circumstances in the shadow of ongoing violence.

In a Mbyá-Guarani community straddling the Brazil-Argentina border, the legend of Canuto—a man believed to have transformed into a jaguar before his tragic death—remains vivid. Filmmakers Ariel Kuaray Ortega and Ernesto de Carvalho collaborate with the community to reenact Canuto's story, blurring the lines between myth and reality, fiction and documentary. This film-within-a-film delves into indigenous …

BOOMBA RIDE is a scathing comic satire of corruption in India's rural education system - and one 8-year old boy who knows how to rig the game for himself. Inspired by a true story, the film was shot in the state of Assam on the banks of the Brahmaputra River with a mostly nonprofessional cast. The story revolves around an impoverished school where there is only one (unwilling) student, Boomba.

At 35, director Navarrete Rovano, who had grown up fatherless and labeled a “bastard,” discovered his father was Colonel Rodrigo Retamal, a notorious Chilean police chief involved in human rights abuses. This revelation sparked a 13-year journey to confront his father and meet the families torn apart by the regime’s brutality, as he struggled to reconcile with his dark inheritance. Amid the backdrop …

There is a global network of tax-free storage facilities for valuable goods, catering to the super rich – and it's virtually unknown, until now. Freeports feature the highest security levels and confidential record keeping. And through their offshore legal status, they offer loopholes for tax savings, critics fear. With broad access, the film takes a deep dive into the discreet world of high-security …

Although the fighting lasted only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today. The region remains trapped in a conflict as explosive as it was then. For Israel, the 1967 war was a military success, but it also redrew the Middle East map and mired the region in a never-ending cycle of occupation, resistance and reprisal. The Six Day War forever changed the politics …

Saying goodbye to loved ones at the Beirut airport has become an unfortunate tradition in Lebanon, almost a curse. Lebanese emigrants, driven abroad by decades of turmoil, are more than double those still left in their homeland. After civil protests erupt in Lebanon on October 17th 2019, WE NEVER LEFT follows three young Lebanese expats as they take part in the Lebanese revolution from New York fighting …

A perfect summer day ends in tragedy, weaving a cosmic connection between three suburban teenagers. Best friends Colton and Kyle float the river, trade dreams, and spray-paint in the local ravine. Like the boys, Whitney explores the ravine, seeking solace by writing and drawing in her diary. But when her best friend abandons her, Whitney disappears. The kids' lives swirl with natural wonder and beauty, …

A delirious early 1970s space opera produced by the East German state-run studio DEFA and directed by Gottfried Kolditz, SIGNALS: A SPACE ADVENTURE (1970) was DEFA's attempt to outdo Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.

The secrets and impunity of the Franco dictatorship in the former Spanish Guinea continue to be present in the Spanish democracy. The Franco regime managed to hide its crimes and torture against the National Liberation Movement of Equatorial Guinea at the end of the 1950s. One of its main leaders, Acacio Mañe, was arrested and made to disappear. Now his family demands justice and reparation from Africa. …

The highs and lows of a restless youth collide headlong into the concrete realities of adulthood when Leonardo, a teenager from Palermo leaves home for the first time. His studies land him in Siena, by way of London, where he clashes with his instructor, the curriculum, and most chaotically, with himself. Produced by Luca Guadagnino, Diciannove (Nineteen), marks the feature filmmaking debut of writer-director … More

Not long ago the art business was completely dominated by men: patrons, curators, collectors showed sculptors, draughtsmen and painters. When the nudes descended from the canvases and took matters into their own hands, women also went into the business of art. CONQUERING THE ART BUSINESS is a film that informs and entertains seeing women and power in a new, glamorous light. More than the changes of … More

Transhumance was added to the UNESCO world heritage list in 2019. It has been practised on the Cilento mountain Cervati for millennia, and yet institutions seem to obstruct the work of shepherds who have been taking their livestock for the pastures since time immemorial. According to a new local bylaw, herders now have to pay a tax to take their livestock to the mountain, as they’ve done for ages. … More

Set in Serbia during the 1996 protests against Slobodan Milošević’s regime, 'Lost Country' is a deeply personal coming-of-age drama by Vladimir Perišić, inspired by his own experiences. Fifteen-year-old Stefan (Jovan Ginić, winner of the Rising Star Award at Cannes Critics’ Week) faces a profound internal conflict as his peers rise against Milošević’s Socialist Party and his mother (Jasna Đuričić), … More

A Documentary Opera featuring the contradictory life of progressive composer and prominent communist Jan Kapr (1914-88), Stalin award laureate, later banned in socialist Czechoslovakia. While Kapr’s life escalates towards pivotal moments, we follow opera songs reflecting these crucial life junctures, those establishing an artist’s fate. The film explores the nature of memory, and narration, using … More

The extraordinary mind of Florian Yuriev, a visionary Ukrainian architect and artist, visualizes an astonishingly holistic view of the world. His abstract paintings brim with geometric colorful shapes and patterns that also carry a sonic component, as each shade has their own tonality. On his piano, whose keys are marked with their designated colors, Yuriev played out his painterly compositions, breaking … More

In Chile’s Tierra del Fuego, “Toto” has spent 40 years hand-mining for gold in brutal conditions; after a stroke and with no social security, he still can’t stop. His son Jorge sets out to design and build a homemade gold-harvesting machine to spare his father’s labor, turning their struggle into an intimate father-son portrait about work, dignity, and hope.