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- DirectorEylem KaftanTwo young women are joined by their shared experience of being abused. Their unexpected meeting forms a strong bond which gives them both the strength to take on their abusers in court and to help other young women to seek justice.
- DirectorAnders Skovbjerg JepsenFrom the time Anders was 6, he was sexually exploited by his 13-year-old friend, Peter. Today the adult Anders confronts Peter, and the two men engage in a challenging dialogue in which they revisit repressed memories.
- DirectorChristoffer GuldbrandsenStarsChristoffer GuldbrandsenRoger StoneJoe BiggsWith Trump's political godfather, Roger Stone, as the film's central character the film documents how Trump's presidential period had to find its logical end point in The Storm at the Capitol.
- DirectorMark CousinsStarsMark CousinsBenLauraA Story of Children and Film is the world's first movie about kids in global cinema. It's passionate, poetic, portrait of the adventure of childhood: its surrealism, loneliness, fun, destructiveness and stroppiness: as seen through 53 great films from 25 countries. A story of children and film is an eye opener, a landmark film and a celebration of both childhood and the movies.
- DirectorDavide RizzoMarzia ToscanoStarsValeria CollinaIn the hours after the 2017 London Bridge attack, TV crews swarm Valeria Collina's small house in the hills of Bologna as she discovers her son Youssef was one of the assailants and has been killed.
- DirectorSreemoyee SinghStarsMina Mohammad KhaniAida MohammadkhaniJafar PanahiA passionate declaration of love for the cinema and poetry of Iran, which also offers a frank view of the precarious situation for critics of the regime and shows the uncompromising daily struggle of Iranian women against their oppression.
- DirectorSophie ComptonReuben HamlynStarsAva BreuerFaith QuinnJulia Weinberg"Another Body" follows a college student's search for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.
- DirectorAnu KuivalainenStarsKimmo KahmaSatu ViitasaloMatti Rasa
- DirectorAnu KuivalainenStarsUuno F. InkinenJari Virman
- DirectorJuan PalaciosThe 27 residents on the tiny Danish Wadden Sea island of Mandø are used to severe weather and flooding. But climate change and increasingly extreme weather now pose a serious threat to the eight-square-kilometer island. Its last farmer, Gregers, bravely faces the inevitable catastrophe. He refuses to build a life elsewhere and instead hopes to find a wife to manage the farm with him.
- DirectorCatarina MourãoStarsMartim Santa RitaMasariMateus M Santa Rita1979. Flicking through pictures from a Soviet magazine, 15-year-old Martim dreams of building a new society. His radical communist parents send him to study at Astrakan for one year.
- DirectorMark CousinsExperimental documentary that looks at the Hiroshima nuclear bomb and its legacy.
- DirectorBen DigiacomoDutty VannierStarsShaggySean PaulKool HercThe dancehall music scene that reverberated across Brooklyn in the 90s and its ever-present influence on a younger generation
- DirectorCamilla RoosAbout child protection based on the director's own childhood in the 60's and 70's Finland.
- DirectorVlad PetriStarsIlinca HarnutVictoria StoiciuTwo women separated by political revolutions find connection through letters, defying distance and turmoil.
- DirectorVladimir LoginovFor the first time ever, the President of Russia, Putin, delivered New Year's greetings on TV, typically filmed at the Kremlin, but this year, he addressed military personnel.
- DirectorMadeleine GavinStarsHyeonseo LeeSung-eun KimSo-yeon LeeThe story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.
- DirectorGreta StocklassováStarsHans BlixIn an interview with director Greta Stocklassa, retired diplomat Hans Blix reflects on his career as the as the head weapons inspector for the UN during the war on terror, and the legacy he will leave for future generations.
- DirectorChris KasickStarsEmily NestorA true crime podcaster from Appalachia blurs the line between fact and entertainment as she investigates a mysterious local death
- DirectorVita DrygasStarsKolja SpöriRick Sweeney
- DirectorMaxim ArbugaevEvgenia ArbugaevaStarsMaxim ChakilevFollows a man waiting in his hut in the desolate expanse of the Russian Arctic. He is holding out in order to observe a natural event that occurs here, every year, but ocean warming is taking its toll.
- DirectorMatti Hämäläinen
- DirectorMarie LidénAn intimate window into William's isolated world and a moving and poignant depiction of a family, devoted to finding a way to save their son.
- DirectorLeonhard HofmannRiccardo Dejan JurkovicStarsFrank MeyerLeonhard Hofmann and Riccardo Dejan Jurkovic filmed an amateur bodybuilder, Frank Meyer for over 10 years documenting Mr. Meyer's dedication to the sport and lifestyle.
- DirectorYosr GuesmiMauro MazzocchiStarsAbderahmane Al GouzayliLalySinghThe mundane quotidian experience of a man who fled Libya and awaits permission to remain in Italy, a period of limbo plagued with indignities.
- DirectorAndres PeyrotStarsOlonigdi ChiariLaida Diaz de PrestanDemetria Prestan DiazThe Kuna indigenous people of the Guna Yala islands of Panama intend to claim a 1975 documentary that portrayed their community, but was not ever shown to them.
- DirectorIbrahim Nash'atImmediately after the US pullout from Afghanistan, Taliban forces occupied the Hollywood Gate complex, which is claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul.
- DirectorGraeme ArnfieldA nightmarish essay film on the history of the doorbell, tracing its invention and constant reinventions through 19th century labor struggles, the nascent years of narrative cinema, and contemporary surveillance cultures.
- DirectorDennis HarveyStarsTobias Janson
- DirectorMaciek HamelaA small van traverses war-torn roads, picking up Ukrainians as they abandon their homes at the front. Shuttling them across the battered landscape into exile, the van becomes a fragile refuge, a zone for its passengers' confidences.
- DirectorLuka PapicSrdja VucoThe landmark free elections in Serbia in 1990, reimagining through montage how history might have otherwise unfolded.
- DirectorRoman LiubyiStarsAnastasiia AnykevychBridget FiskeSofiya GakhAn investigation into the circumstances surrounding the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014.
- DirectorTuki JencquelStarsJacqueline JencquelJacqueline Jencquel plans to have an assisted suicide. The 74-year-old mother, grandmother and right-to-die activist confidently defends her decision before the camera of one of her three sons. Until an event upsets her plans.
- DirectorDavid RedmonAshley SabinStarsIsabel GilliesRobert GreeneEric HynesPlaying with the forms and tropes of various cinema genres, the filmmaker sets off on a quest to find a legendary lost video collection of 55,000 movies in Sicily.
- DirectorEkiem BarbierGuilhem CausseQuentin L'Helgouac'hSomewhere on the internet is a land where communities pretend to live out a survivalist fiction. The players reveal their fears and fantasies, in an at times unsettling blurring of the real and the virtual.
- DirectorPaloma ZapataStarsAntonia SinglaAdelfa CalvoHelena KaittaniAntonia Singla, a 17-year-old flamenco dancer, made an impact on the international music scene in 1965 and was considered "the best flamenco dancer in the world" in Germany. Meanwhile, in Spain she was practically unknown.
- DirectorAnu KuivalainenStarsAhtiPaavoSirkkaDocumentary film about love, relationships and sexuality of elderly men and women. Five couples show how intimacy is still strong even though age and body has changed.
- DirectorSonia Ben SlamaStarsFatma KhayatNajeh GharedWaffeh GharedIn Tunisia, Fatma and her daughters, Najeh and Waffeh, work as "machtat", traditional musicians who play at wedding ceremonies. Their music evokes love and its promises, but the reality is much more complex and painful.
- DirectorMariam ChachiaNik VoigtIn a crumbling palatial building high in the Georgian mountains, people who are chronically ill with tuberculosis live in complete isolation - until they find out that their unloved home is to be demolished.
- DirectorTana GilbertA collective memory of the abandoned community, and shows how these mothers and their love - withstand the trials of life in jail, far from family and loved ones.
- DirectorAngelos RallisStarsAfrin KhanomBonna AkterFeroza BegumIn the desolate wilderness of the disappearing islands along the Brahmaputra river, 12-year-old orphan Afrin is coming of age. When heavy rainfalls and flood waters ravage Afrin's island, she refuses to surrender to its deadly tides. Afrin rows herself in a wooden boat toward the teeming metropolis of Dhaka to find her estranged father among the millions of climate refugees. Forced to grow up fast, Afrin must confront the mysteries of a sinking world.
- DirectorHanna BadziakaAlexander MihalkovichAfter the loss of her son, Svetlana investigates the violent culture of the Belarusian army. A group of friends soon to be enlisted, they go to rave parties and protest march following the re-election of Aleksandr Lukashenko.
- DirectorAnu Kuivalainen
- DirectorAnu KuivalainenStarsAnu KuivalainenJuha-Pekka InkinenThe director documents the events leading to a reunion with her estranged father.
- DirectorIan WhiteStarsPhil CalvertNick CaveMick HarveyMutiny In Heaven is the first fully authorized telling of the history of The Birthday Party, one of underground music's most notorious and influential bands. Narrated exclusively by the original band members, this film delves deep into a band's psyche, chronicling how Nick Cave and his school friends startled audiences with their confrontational performances, primal screams, outlaw gothic horror, and anarchic lifestyle. Featuring never-before-seen personal footage from band members, dynamic animation sequences, and jaw-dropping concert clips, the film provides a sweaty, electrifying front-row seat to one of the most legendary live acts in rock history.
- DirectorMehran TamadonStarsZar Amir EbrahimiMehran TamadonAs an experiment, Mehran Tamadon asks exiled Iranians to interrogate him as if they were an agent of the Islamic Republic. A renowned actor with first-hand knowledge of such mistreatment takes up the challenge.
- DirectorFrançois YazbeckStarsSara NahasMariah TannouryA cosmic odyssey of consciousness in a post-human Beirut. It follows two souls trapped in an underground purgatory, blurring the lines between reality and nightmare.
- DirectorBrigitte WeichFour women's football stars have toured the whole world. Now they are pensioned and back leading ordinary lives behind the impenetrable walls of their homeland North Korea.
- DirectorCara HolmesOrla's preparation for a breeding competition and her struggle to reconcile her creative exuberance with her daily rural responsibilities.
- DirectorCiara Nic ChormaicStarsStrange BoyFehdahOisín Mac
- DirectorClaire SimonStarsClaire SimonFollows doctors and patients at a gynecology ward in France.
- DirectorJesse JokinenPetri LuukkainenIt follows Verneri Junkala, a CS:GO e-athlete who wants to be the best in Finland. He always comes in second until he begins working with the world's best Esports psychologist.
- DirectorJakub PiatekStarsLeonora ArmelliniAlexander GadjievEva GevorgyanYoung pianists take part in the legendary International Chopin Piano Competition. A unique chance of a lifetime, portrayed from backstage and set to Chopin's music.
- DirectorSinéad O'SheaThrough the stories of everyday citizens resisting the status quo, the new documentary from filmmaker and journalist, Sinéad O'Shea confronts Ireland's recent history of brutality against children and women.
- DirectorTonje Hessen ScheiMichael RowleyStarsArik AschermanGary BurdRalph DrollingerAn influential movement of Christian fundamentalists in the US, who with millions of dollars in backing and threads into the government are fighting for the end of the world.
- DirectorAgniia GaldanovaStarsGena MarvinGena, an artist from a small town in Russia, dresses in otherworldly costumes and protests on the streets of Moscow. She stages radical performances in public, which becomes a new form of art and activism and puts her life in danger.
- DirectorPanu SuuronenStarsThomas KearinsRegina is a young feminist wrestler who fights men to become an international star. However, the true battle takes place outside the ring - in the story team meetings. The film is a portrait of the '20s woman and a close look at wrestling: the meetings, the fights and the true grit behind the theatre.
- DirectorVinícius GirnysA family living in Paraty (a small village on the coast of Brazil) experience changes to the established rhythms of their life with the arrival of electricity and tourism in their community.
- DirectorSteve J. AdamsSean HorlorStarsBlanche BartonCharles EnnisKen LanningIt tells the story of how the Satanic Panic of the 1980s was ignited by "Michelle Remembers", a memoir by psychiatrist and his patient. The book relied on recovered-memory therapy to uncover Michelle's abduction by baby-stealing Satanists.
- DirectorSteffi NiederzollStarsReyhaneh JabbariShole PakravanFereydoon JabbariFollows a female student in Tehran who was hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defense against a rapist. For a pardon and after seven years in prison, she would have had to retract her testimony.
- DirectorLuka BeradzeDuring its 2012 election campaign titled "Smiling Georgia," the governing party promised its country's poorest residents new teeth in exchange for their vote. Dentists began to pull people's decayed teeth, but after the election defeat, the trusting public never received their new pearly whites... In his bitterly humorous documentary, Luka Beradze takes us to a sleepy Georgian village, introduces us to its inhabitants, and shows that it rarely pays to believe the promises of populist politicians and to vote for purely selfish reasons. In the broader context, the film asks questions regarding the value of ordinary people in the eyes of political leaders.
- DirectorMargreth OlinStarsJørgen MykløenMagnhild MykløenBeing connected to nature, what does it mean? Father knows and father shows. The director's father is 84. We follow in his footsteps into the mountain home. Into nature's smallest life and out to grand panoramas, where he grew up.
- DirectorTommaso SantambrogioStarsLav DiazGustavo FleitaMario LimontaA taxi driver and a passenger drive through Cuban villages and talk about travel, Heartbreak and human destiny. The passenger reveals taxi driver the shocking reason why he is in Cuba and asks for cooperation in his search.
- DirectorMedhin Tewolde SerranoStarsÁlvaro Nel Hernández AlmarioNyanga, captured while hunting, transported to America. Forced to work in Mexico, he escapes with others, gaining freedom but not returning home.
- DirectorElvis Sabin NgaibinoRodrigue and Reine live with their three children in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. They make their living from a meager yield of cassava flour and are very active in the local church, where the battle between God and Satan is central, and believing in evil spirits, curses and witchcraft is common.
- DirectorThierno Souleymane DialloStarsThierno Souleymane DialloPenda LamAboubacar CondéDiallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea. Charming and determined, he traces his country's film heritage and history and reveals the importance of film archives.
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsJoe PerrySteven TylerGene SimmonsDocumentary showcase, what life was like for the music artists living during the Los Angeles Heavy Metal scene in the mid and late 1980s.
- DirectorMaria FredrikssonStarsOlaug BakkevollKari KloMay-Elin StorslettenTwo pious sisters buy an apartment after having witnessed a divine sign - only to realize that the seller of the apartment looks identical to their other sister, who committed suicide some thirty years before.
- DirectorLisa GerigStarsLiving Smile VidyaFour rejected asylum seekers relive their reasons for fleeing their home countries and question the core of the asylum process itself.
- DirectorBruno JorgeA few members of an uncontacted Amazon tribe get lost and accidentally make contact. A research team is then tasked with bringing them back and making contact with their tribe for the first time.
- DirectorBen MullinkossonBass-heavy and neon-coloured portrait of the alternative Chinese youth in a country in constant state of change that now threatens the underground club Funky Town.
- DirectorMark CousinsStarsAlba RohrwacherDonald TrumpMark CousinsDepicts the ascent of fascism in Italy, and its fallout across 1930s Europe.
- DirectorAsmae ElMoudirStarsMohamed El MoudirAsmae ElMoudirZahra JeddaouiA Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history. As a daughter and filmmaker, she fuses personal and national history as she reflects on the 1981 Bread Riots, drawing out connections to modern Morocco.
- DirectorArmel HostiouStarsTshisambu FellyPeter Shotsha OlelaSarah NdeleFrench filmmaker Armel Hostiou discovers he has a double in Kinshasa. Someone has created a fake Facebook profile in his name to hustle aspiring actors. So Armel heads to Congo's vast capital to track him down.
- DirectorLukasz KonopaEmil LangballeStarsKrispus AyenaDominic OgwenAs a nine-year-old boy, Dominic Ongwen was abducted and conscripted into Joseph Kony's army of child soldiers. Some 30 years later, he is the first former child soldier to be indicted in International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes.
- DirectorYusef SroujiThe story revolves around three critical moments when Suha negotiates her family's safety with God amid the abandonment of dear friends, her son's fleeting childhood, her daughter's mistrust, and directly facing her own mortality.
- DirectorTaku AoyagiStarsTaku Aoyagi
- DirectorJialing ZhangStarsZijuan ChenTutuWenzu LiTwo families fight for justice from within the digital prison of the Chinese surveillance state.
- DirectorJordan BryonMonica VillamizarStarsJordan BryonFarzad FetratKiana HayeriFilmmaker Jordan Bryon from Australia is followed as he goes through a transformation while working with Taliban soldiers.
- DirectorLin AllunaStarsAleqa HammondPaninnguaq HeilmannAsta HelmsRenowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter who has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. When her youngest son unexpectedly passes away, Aaju embarks on a personal journey to bring her colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to justice.
- DirectorTonislav HristovIvan, 58, is a seagull, a Bulgarian ladies' man hooking up with female tourists at a Sunny Beach resort. He has done this for forty years, ever since the Communist times. Ivan wants to settle down, but that's not so easy for an old Seagull. He's got no savings and the pandemic makes things even more difficult: there are no tourists. Ivan supports himself by washing cars and windows. He tries to connect to Russian ladies to help them get visas to the EU and buy property in Bulgaria. He soon understands that he's not really credible as a serious male companion. Ivan's real wound is an adult son in Ukraine who refuses to talk to him. Maybe now, in spring 2022, would be the right time to reconnect.
- DirectorAgnieszka ZwiefkaStarsWirginia Szmit84-year-old DJ Vika is a star of Warsaw nightclubs. Charismatic and colorful she refuses to grow old. But can this last forever? "Vika!" is a bitter-sweet portrait of a woman who has to face aging, yet celebrating life till the very end.
- DirectorCarl OlssonThe human comedy unfolds in an aesthetically uncompromising and unmistakably Nordic saga in 24 chapters. A film that probes the Scandinavian mind in the dark months with dark humour and a sociological gaze.
- DirectorJulia GutwenigerFlorian KoflerA poetic and surrealist documentary that exposes the unseen work that goes into creating "a holiday in the sun" in northern Adriatic seaside resorts in Italy.
- DirectorMaxim GolomidovYoyogi is a place of freedom and going beyond everything human. Like the first flight to the sky. This film combines two strange and seemingly overlapping peculiarities. On the one hand, there is a distant, almost scientific in its dryness, observation of ordinary scenes of people's life in the park, on the other hand, a feeling of some kind of magic and the impossibility of what is happening.
- DirectorKari AhotupaKatri Ilona KoppanenMari KoppanenThe morning rises in a small Transylvanian village. One of the oldest amadou artisans in the village, Imre, sets out to the mountains with his apprentice to harvest tinder mushrooms. Imre has dedicated his entire life to practicing the rare amadou craft, which is now at risk of disappearing because there aren't enough tinder mushroom artisans to continue the tradition.
- DirectorKaroliina GröndahlThe Finnish man's name Urpo derives from the Latin name Urbanus which means 'cultivated' and 'city dweller'. Urbanus has been a name of 8 popes and even the Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán's name has the same roots. But in Finland, people have started using the name Urpo as a synonym for idiot. In this warm-hearted and humorous short documentary, four men all called Urpo gather to reflect on the meaning and impact of their name on their lives.
- DirectorElina TalvensaariStarsWed Al-AsadiAfter escaping the Iraqi civil war, Wed requests asylum in Finland. It is denied even though his attorney is optimistic. It appears to be a mousetrap that drives Wed from pillar to post and into hopelessness.
- DirectorHanna HovitieStarsHanna HovitieHow to be a circle in a square world? In a two-dimensional space, out of time, a person seeks their belonging to the world through a journey to infinity.
- DirectorIivo KorhonenStarsHenry Wuorila-StenbergAn intimate portrait of the Finnish painter Henry Wuorila-Stenberg, in which he discusses his identity as an artist, his relationship with making art, and the corruption of the creative process, in a monologue recorded in deep meditation.
- DirectorAnna Kekkonen
- DirectorKirsikka SaariDancehall dancer Evaleena Vuorenmaa gains 40 kilos and is forced to face the judging gaze of her employers, society and even herself. Fat Dance is a short documentary about a woman, who decides to take the power into her own hands and build her image the way she wants it to be. Is it really true that sexiness is not about size?
- DirectorMervi JunkkonenMia MalviniemiStarsRauno MännistöNanna RahikainenA film about the limits of the aging body and the boundless mind. Rauno's story takes us on a boat trip with his father. A journey of misadventures and his father's new Finnish record in cursing.
- DirectorRonja ArvilommiBehind the Mask is a survey into the political landscape of Finnish youth on the eve of The Finnish Parliamentary Election of 2023. What does the average young person think about politics? Who do they vote for?
- DirectorNina Forsman
- DirectorJoona MäkeläThe meditative essay film studies the human inflicted changes in the environment through human perception and experience.
- DirectorLeevi Pienihäkkinen