Small Town Universe

Small Town Universe

Small Town Universe paints an intimate portrait of life in Green Bank, West Virginia, home to the world's most powerful radio telescope and the only U.S. town where Wi-Fi and cell phones are banned.

The Edge of All We Know

The story about the first-ever picture of a black hole.

Trees of Rotterdam

A breathtaking journey through the skies, streets and trees of Rotterdam.

Unite for Bissau

agroecology and feminism in Guinea-Bissau

Homo Botanicus

A veteran botanist and his faithful disciple go into the Colombian jungle to examine its flora.

I Think We Begin as Light

Could a collaboration between plants, light and microorganisms show us a new and more fruitful path for agriculture?

Piggy Bank

‘Piggy Bank’ Explores the Climate Crisis Via a Mix of Self-Experiment, Mockumentary, Fact and Fiction

Terra que marca

Terra que marca is an observation of traditional agriculture in the rural areas of contemporary Portugal.

Desert Phosfate

A story about phosphate.

Herbaria

Listorti establishes a parallel between two worlds he seems to know well: that of plants and that of cinema.

Wild Plants

A look at the people who want to live in harmony with nature even in modern cities.

A Visit From a Bird

Observation, migration, mourning and bird ringing

The Great Silence

Musings on life and death, communication and misunderstanding, myth and science.

Game Hawker

Shawn Hayes leads a life of devotion. For him, falconry is more than a deep partnership with raptors: it's his life's work.

All That Breathes

Two brothers race to save one of the casualties: a majestic black kite, a bird of prey essential to their city's ecosystem.

The Falconer

The master falconer Rodney Stotts, whose mission is to build an urban bird sanctuary with the help of underserved teenagers in Washington, DC.

Daughter of Genetics

Her father, genetics and what she inherited.

Invisible People

The hideous and the sublime meet and strange micro-connections emerge

Science Fiction

His dream is to build a flying saucer with renewable energy.

Autism Plays Itself

A film shot in 1957 in at the Maudsley Hospital, London, captures the movements and behaviour of children under observation for atypical behaviour.

The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice

The startling discovery of a long-lost sediment core pulled from the depths of a Cold War-era secret military base

FOTO CINE MAMA & I

an autobiographical rumination on memory, and a philosophical disquisition on the technology of photography, cinema, and AI

I Watched Her Grow

Meet an entity crossed between a plant and a human.

Sun Under Ground

Above, socialism radiates into the future, below, an ancient rock radiates out of the torn up earth.

21 X New York

A documentary essay about human condition in the 21st century western society told through personal stories of 21 people met in the New York City subway.

Kite Zo A

Working hand in hand with the local dancers, musicians, fishermen and priests, this documentary feature provides a sensory immersion into these sacred rites.

The Empty Sphere

This inverted science-fiction journey combines real and fictional archives to steer us to the edges of an invisible place.

306 Hollywood

Two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house.

Geographies of Solitude

Naturalist and environmentalist Zoe Lucas has lived over 40 years on the remote Sable Island, collecting, cleaning and documenting marine litter.

Monisme

Formed between factual and fictional, future and past, material and incorporeal, scientific and magic, Monisme reflects the intermingled relationships between people in Mount Merapi.

The New Ruins

An amateur archaeologist obsessed with e-waste records images and sounds over ten years. His research takes the form of a personal, playful and musical diary.

Ecotone

An ecotone is like a frontier, where two distinct ecosystems interact and communicate.

The Whale of Lorino

A film about the clash of two disappearing worlds; Chukchis civilization and the universe of monumental and majestic whales in a story about the paradox of history and a harsh fight for survival.

A Boy's Dream

These beach animals are almost mythical beings made from manipulated plastic tubes, tie wraps and sails

He Dreams of Giants

Charting Gilliam's final, beleaguered quest to adapt Don Quixote, this documentary is a potent study of creative obsession.

Leviathan

The experiences of the crew aboard a Massachusetts-based trawler illustrate the difficult and often-dangerous lives of commercial fishermen.

Desert Cry

A man decides to lose himself in the Death Valley desert.

Gyres

Gyres 1-3 invents a filmic movement that circulates images and ideas as they pass through the director’s mind.

Focus on Infinity

Focus On Infinity is a cinematic journey to the places, people and machines that are involved in exploring the origin of our cosmos and of our existence

Faded Photograph

A director's montage of family and personal archives

Altered States of Consciousness

‘Who would you like to become?’, ‘what would you like to tell us?’, ‘what is the most important thing in life?’

how we live - messages to the family

Imagine we are sitting at home, the screen is set up, the projector ready, and we start watching home movies together,

Fractures chimiques

A hypnotic audio-visual experience that perfectly blends the essence of cinema with the uniqueness of a stage show

Naked Reality

An Afrofuturistic dystopian fable shot in black and white.

Before Father Gets Back

Two girls grow up in a valley where the outside world of radical Islamization tries to keep them down when they want to express themselves and explore the world.

Born in Evin

Uncovering multi-generational trauma

Fledglings

Fledglings is an entrancing look at a trio of seven year olds who bravely travel far from home to board at a school for the visually impaired.

The Dark Gene

The film does not restrict itself to a scientific view of the subject but also makes use of artistic visions and more playful approaches to genetic blueprints.

Joonam

A young filmmaker delves into her mother and grandmother's complicated pasts and her own fractured Iranian identity.

How to Power A City

Stories from the front lines of the clean energy revolution

Endless

Sybille promises her nephew that they'll see each other again in the future, when we'll know the cure to death.

The Next Guardian

The contrasting dreams of two generations clash within the microcosm of an ancient Buddhist monastery in Bhutan.

The Diggers

The Diggers is an observation journey into various artisanal mining sites in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The One Man Village

In a village that was emptied and destroyed during the civil war, Semaan is leading a quiet life on his farm in the Lebanese mountains.

The New Plastic Road

A local truck-driver's life is forever changed when the Tajik-Chinese border opens.

Pushed up the Mountain

Pushed Up the Mountain by Julia Haslett is a poetic and emotionally intimate film about plants and the people who care for them.

Requiem to the Hot Days of Summer

Through an utterly touching motherhood story, REQUIEM TO THE HOT DAYS OF SUMMER embraces sadness, silence and solitude, which follows every human being as the primordial seal of their fate and brings up reminiscence of a blissful way of life, which is still present in the unconscious memory of humanity.

Climbing Iran

Nasim is the pioneer of outdoor climbing in Iran, where women should train on indoor walls only, during set hours, and only among other women.

She Watches Blindly

After a night of nightmares, a mysterious doctor arrives to investigate the circumstances and help Beth piece together what remains of her life.

Living Water

Water is everything.

King Coal

A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, KING COAL meditates on the complex history and future of the coal industry, the communities it has shaped, and the myths it has created.

Huracanolitos

Exploring climate patterns becomes crucial for Felipe, a passionate scientist in search of answers.

The Treasury of Human Inheritance

The Treasury of Human Inheritance is a poetic film about the experience of living with and alongside genetic disease and disability.

Where Can We Be Found?

'Where Can We Be Found?' focuses on the state of Lebanese Cedar trees ('Cedrus libani') in Lebanon today, exploring the various ecologies that the tree inhabits and co-inhabits.

Rejeito

After the largest mining dam break in history, further collapses threaten millions of Brazilians. A state councillor challenges the government's modus operandi.

Holding Back the Tide

A docu-poetic meditation on New York's oysters and their transformations in the face of an uncertain future.

Tamina - Will There Ever Be What Used to Be?

Wolves are returning to the Swiss Alps, and Beat Oswald is determined to find them.

The Universe in a Grain of Sand

A meditation by the award-winning filmmaker/physicist Mark Levinson (Particle Fever) on how we make sense of the world.

The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain questions whether we can imagine a landscape that operates directly on the body by either healing or killing.

The Spirit of the Spider

Who, as a child, has never played the solitary demiurge, arranging figurines and characters in a makeshift theatre?

The Quiet Zone

Electrically sensitive people move to a remote mountainous region of West Virginia.

Natari

Natari tells the story of the potential conflict caused by climate migration and its impact on local fisher communities such as Ayoub Sehto in the endangered Indus Delta region.

The Invisible Extinction

Two globetrotting microbiologists race to save our vanishing microbes

The Cloud People

The Cloud People’ is a film that will make you look up and change the way you look at the sky and its inhabitants.

a seed a deer a seed

A seed a deer a seed is a short film that examines the conservation efforts at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, in Austin, TX.

Zuckerberg, You Owe/Own Me

A deep exploration into a personal Facebook archive of videos leads to a discovery of the internet’s darker historical roots.

Skopje 2014 According to ChatGPT

An intricate interplay between urbanism, architecture, and nationalistic reconstruction.

Sunrise - At the Frontiers of Feasibility

An international consortium led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research is planning the flight of the most capable solar observatory ever to leave the Earth's surface.

Ongoing Cave

A fascinating exploration of the conditions for grasping the material and subterranean dimensions of the historical process.

Nearest Neighbor

Nearest Neighbor explores the relationship between technology and the living, applied here to birds.

Twig

Planting trees where there were none before

Thermodielectric

Something to do with lightning

What I'm doing in this visual world?

What is it like to produce images in 2020 being blind?

Hunt for the Oldest DNA

The Hunt for the Oldest DNA’ is an epic journey back in time, using the ancient genetic codes as a time machine.

Aeroflux

I surveyed the territory around the airport area of Paris-Charles de Gaulle.

Mushroom in Space

Mushrooms and space...two words that don´t seem to have anything to do with each other.

Angular Momentum

Angular Momentum explores the mysterious and powerful nature of infinitesimal energies within our quantum world by visually expressing their complex and beautiful interactions.

Datura's Aubade

A farmer discovers a fallen meteorite in the high Chihuahuan deserts. The Alien Earth and the Earth Alien commingle under the spell of a deadly nightshade.

The Last

Chaco, Paraguay. The midday sun flattens the landscape. Driving down a dirt road, a pick-up truck leaves a trail of dust behind. Jota (65) is driving. Ulf (75) sits as a co-pilot. From the back seat, I film them.

Homing

The birds that European settlers brought to the Americas drove Purple Martins out of the wild so that now they can only nest in birdhouses built to prevent their extinction. The film follows their migration from the Amazon to the places they are dependent on.

Thief or Reality

Three different characters experiment their own version of reality while a Thief connects their stories and visions throughout space and time.

Fleshwork

At a butcher shop in Jeromesville, Ohio, four meat processors situate their labor within their own minds and bodies.

Coming Home

Coming Home” follows Dr. Mónica Feliú Mójer as she returns to Puerto Rico.

Terranova

Cities do not repeat themselves; they transmute

The Secret Garden

The inhabitants of a city awake one morning to find that never-before-seen trees, plants, and flowers

These Sounds Mark the Placements of an Inner World

These Sounds Mark the Placements of an Inner World brings together the archives and the historical home of the modernist poet from south central Wisconsin, Lorine Niedecker.

American Dream

He wants to become an American wrestler. Will his American dream come true?

A Human Year is 7 Earth Years

Tracing the origins of radio and television across military histories, global politics, and into the human psyche.

Bicentenario

Two centuries after Colombian independence, this medium-length film reveals and exorcises Simón Bolívar's permanent place in the country's collective unconscious.

Midwood Movie

Midwood Movie is a feature experimental documentary about both a Brooklyn neighborhood and about motion pictures and their development.

Changing the Game

Michael Barnett's dynamic documentary takes us into the lives of three high school athletes.

Desert Lights

Strange lights appear at night in the Mexican desert - it seems to be full of life.

Archive of the Future

Archive of the Future informs us about these issues as well – in the form of a visually stunning portrait of institutions and a silent recipe book of life

No Hero At All

Mishka is a boy of many faces – a petty criminal and a promising alpine skier who enjoys life to its fullest despite his physical disability and difficult .

Olympic Village. Memories of a Misplaced World

The 70s. A small Latin America in the heart of Mexico City.

IT WORKS II

it can be managed, it's happening, it's functioning”

Hollow Tree

Three interconnected stories of young women who come of age in Louisiana during a time of rapid climate change.

The Herd

Amateur girls’ vaulting team takes on the overwhelming and costly challenge to become professionals.

Golden Delicious

When basketball-obsessed Aleks moves in across the street, Asian-Canadian teen Jake finds himself trying out for the basketball team to get his attention.

Tokyo

Catrin Freundlinger´s Tokyo accompanies the 12-year-old Viennese gymnast Nicol Wimmer between two competitions.

I am The Tigress

From Harlem to Bucharest, the journey of Tischa "The Tigress" Thomas during the last year of her career as an African American female bodybuilder.

One In A Million

As gymnast and YouTuber Whitney Bjerken from the US struggles with setbacks, she turns to music to express her feelings.

False Positive

A powerful documentary that captures resilience, grace, and courage in its highest forms

The Golden Girl

For the Romanian gymnast Andreea Răducan, the loss of her Olympic gold medal in Sydney 2000 is still a trauma.

First Time Caller

You’re thinking it, he’s saying it.

Dead Horse Nebula

A young boy finds a dead horse in a field.

Under the Sky Shelter

Under the Sky Shelter is a pastoral journey that is deeply grounded in the materiality of its environment but that is not without a touch of rural eerie.

The Mars Academy

Once-in-a-lifetime experiment: the chance to do their own exploring on Mars using an actual NASA spacecraft.

In My Shoes

Universal and deeply human story centered on the figure of the caregiver

Trash on Mars

A romance, moments of absurd comedy, and an existential take on colonizing outer space set inside an authentic simulated Mars habitat.

The Happy Film

Austrian designer Stefan Sagmeister tries to redesign his personality to become a happier and better person.

Summer Qamp

Surrounded by counsellors who relate to them, queer, non-binary and trans teens get to experience the joy of being kids in a supportive camp in rural Alberta.

Chocolate Road

A discovery of where chocolate comes from

Pay Or Die

The United States’ insulin affordability crisis and serves as a call to action

Building Heaven, Remembering Earth: Confessions of a Fallen Architect

The film constructs and deconstructs a digital personality as part of a probing enquiry into the effects of architecture on consciousness and identity.

Mondo Hollywoodland

A groovy mushrooms dealer and a man from the 5th dimension journey through Hollywood to find the meaning of "Mondo.".

Particle Fever

Particle Fever follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking.

Echo of Everything

Echo of Everything follows the source of music's power, explored through science, history, and philosophy.

Energy Island

The materiality of infrastructure space that relates to production and supply of energy resources in the Baltic States is explored through five material as.

Sea Concrete Human

The vanishing of man was not mourned.

The City and the Self

The City and the Self is a study of human relations in the city, based on psychological concepts formulated by Stanley Milgram.

Suspension

This documentary looks at a stretch of road in Colombia known as “the springboard of death.”

Maputo Nakuzandza

In this kaleidoscopic view of a city from dawn to dusk, filmmaker Ariadine Zampaulo guides us through Mozambique's capital, Maputo,

The Experimental City

A futuristic attempt is made to solve urban problems by creating a full-size city from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota.

Anyox

The film depicts the lives of the two sole residents of an abandoned company town while unfolding a complex labour history and revealing the vestiges of environmental degradation.

Homo Sapiens

What will remain of our lives after we’re gone?

Meanwhile on Earth

When we die, there are a lot of practicalities that need to be taken care of before our time among the living is finally over.

City of the Sun

With calmness and integrity, Oneli shares his observations of a depleted society forgotten by the outside world.

Landshaft

By giving a voice to those who watch with concern as the powers on both sides tear each other apart at their expense, Landshaft reveals the profound psychogeography subjected to the deadly logic of post-Soviet ethno-nationalism.

Cosmosapiens

It’s a strange, strange world.

The Lanthanide Series

From the portals of personal computing devices to ancient obsidian mirrors, optical instruments control how people see, foresee, frame, record, and remember their lives. T

I Didn't See You There

I Didn’t See You There depicts, with a hypnotic realism, life from the perspective of a disabled person.

Taste of Cement

Director Ziad Kalthoum takes us into the lives of Syrian construction workers rebuilding post-war Beirut.

Beirut Terminus

How filmmaker Elie Kamal used Lebanon's abandoned railways to explore his country's past.

Two Sides of the Tortoise

An Islands' diary, told through the sombre but loving portrait of its oldest inhabitants.

Techne: Evidence in the Anthropocene

Techne: Evidence in the Anthropocene telescopes between galactic and planetary evidence that is presented by scientists and artist-investigators who contemplate both deep time and the fate of the human species.

Whale Island

Although Taiwan is an island surrounded by the sea, many people there fear it since their politics, history and religious beliefs.

Becoming Animal

The very essence of what it means to inhabit our animal bodies.

maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore

A poetic, experimental debut feature circling the origin of the death myth from the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest.

Birds of September

A glassed van roams the streets of Beirut, home to a camera that explores the city behind the glass.

Light Needs

Light Needs is an experimental documentary about houseplants who cohabitate with people and the surprisingly intimate and complex relationships that can develop between them.

Sea Tomorrow

Sea Tomorrow invites you to the journey around the area that once used to be sea.

Last Days at Sea

Twelve-year-old Reyboy hopes to give his poor family a better future by leaving his home village of Karihatag to attend school in the city.

WhatRemains, Genesis

2048. Google owns most of the planet.

Pigment-Dispersion Syndrome

The diagnosis of an eye disorder incited this meditation on fear and beauty.

Guardians of the Night

A survey of the happenings in Guantánamo, Cuba during nighttime.

TerraForma

TerraForma is the story of the remote volcanic island of Ascension, which sat smoldering for a million years largely devoid of life, until its radical transformation by process of 'terraforming' into a tropical paradise.

Cabbage

Cabbage examines the complexities of bodily autonomy within an ableist paradigm

80000 Years Old

Céline's archaeological research is mixed with more or less probable reunions during her walks.

Picture A Scientist

Leading female scientists discuss the inequalities they've faced as they write a new chapter in STEM for women.

A Black Rift Begins to Yawn

An experiment in steam-of-conscious narrative filmmaking

Listen To the Beat of our Images

The building of the Kourou Space Centre in French Guyana, seen through the eyes of the Guyanese population. An off-screen look at this space adventure.

A Nice Place to Leave

A journey into the social staging of threat and reassurance.

Tellurian Drama

In Riar Rizaldi's eclectic essay film, archival history collides with personal narratives on the history of technology, nature and colonisation.

Violet Gave Willingly

The colorful world of textile artist Deborah Dumka, inviting viewers to witness the unflinchingly intimate details of her artistic process and inner life.

AFREET: Honeycomb Boom

A demon enters the frequencies of a song as it's being recorded and possesses the musician.

Theater of Thought

Herzog casts his gaze on the human brain, looking for clues as to why a piece of tissue can produce deep thoughts and feelings, while also considering the philosophical, ethical and social implications.

The Eternal Memory

The Eternal Memory tells a profound and moving love story that balances vibrant individual and collective remembrance with the longevity of an unbreakable human bond.

Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part 3 Micro Resistances

The ongoing systemic war waged by transnational corporations against one of the smallest and most essential elements of life: the seed

The Face of the Jellyfish

One day, Marina no longer recognizes herself. Those around her take it in stride, but her doctor is puzzled and the authorities block her ID card.

Containment

Can We Contain Some of the Deadliest, Most Long-Lasting Substances Ever Produced?

A.rtificial I.mmortality

If computers could let you live forever, would you? When our minds and memories can be digitized, self-help guru Deepak Chopra and leading robotics engineers envision virtual clones that don't need a body to survive.

Cyborg: A Documentary

Colourblind artist Neil Harbisson is the world's first formally recognized cyborg, with an antenna permanently implanted in his head allowing him to hear color.

Long Live My Happy Head

A Scottish comic book artist with an inoperable brain tumour uses his art to chronicle his cancer experiences.

The Transect in Three or Four Modes of Observation

The Transect is an experimental documentary that began in 2015 when Andy Graydon first followed a pair of ecologists into the field on the island of Maui in Hawai’i.

.TV

TV is a found footage essay film: Voicemails left by an anonymous caller from the future guide us to the remote islands of Tuvalu, a place the global media has described as "the first country to disappear due to rising sea levels."

Une Terre Familière

A familiar land. Une Terre Familière is structured as a series of long-take vignettes, each centered around a site purposing a collision of nature and artifice.

Before the Deluge

The liminal unknown forces that inhabit these lands and speak in shadow memories

Podesta Island

Does it really exist? In a hyperconnected and mapped world, are there still unknown areas?

When You Look Away

The documentary examines the subject of consciousness in terms of quantum physics in close collaboration with scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute..

Terrain Ahead

A hybrid analog-digital experimental documentary exploring the trajectory of human impact on coastlines in the United Arab Emirates.

End of the Line

A group of Indigenous women risks their lives to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which jeopardizes their land, water and entire way of life.

The Father of The Cyborgs

A neurologist known as "the father of cyborgs" confronts the ethical quandaries of self-experimentation and a future where human brains and technology combine.

The Baffin Bay Deglacial Experiment

Over the course of a month at sea, an international team of scientists attempt to gain insights into the Earth’s last deglaciation period.

Seasons of Change on Henry's Farm

An absorbing inside look at the nuts-and-bolts of sustainable farming with a lyrical feeling for nature and a stirring portrait of a down-to-earth idealist.

The Exquisite Corpus

Myriad fragments are melted into a single sensuous, humorous, gruesome, and ecstatic dream.

Caroni

A West Indian nanny in New York City wants to reunite with her daughter back home in Trinidad.

A Conversation with Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall on her life, mission, and the stories of a young Jane on a NatGeo field/film mission in Africa to study primates with cameraman Hugo van Lawick.

Divinations

What kind of futures can be read in the impersonal fragments of our reality?

The Depth Beneath, The Height Above

Conceived as a sensory piece, the film particularly focuses on the existing relationships between the human, animal, infrastructural and natural elements that compose Robiei's specific landscape.

Shaheen

Is it a bird, is it a plane?

Capucine

Nieto's behind-the-scenes look at how a smart monkey made movie history

Jahaji Music: India in the Caribbean

India in the Caribbean follows pop/rock/Indian/fusion recording artist Remo Fernandes as he travels to the Islands to discover the rhythms of India and find potential musical collaborators.

In Crystal Skin

An intimate documentary of four individuals challenged by EB, a skin disease so rare that it is not considered commercially viable to develop a cure.

A Skin So Soft

Two gloriously muscled bodybuilders eye each other with distrust, envy and contempt at the gym in Denis Côte’s A Soft the Skin.

The Mechanics of Fluids

A search for clues in the darkest corners of the net, an essay about pain and loneliness in the age of algorithms.

Pele (Skin)

The interaction between the inhabitants of the city and what is expressed in its walls.

$75 000

How the biological aspect of albinism affects not only pigmentation, but also physical and mental health as people are victims of discrimination, mutilation, and ritual crimes in Africa.

Radiant Exposures—Facts Run on Light Beams These Days

The threshold between creation and destruction where everything exists

The Silence of The Banana Trees

The documentary maker becomes a go-between in an attempt to unite a father and his terminally ill daughter.

Microbiome

Scientists' quest for the secret for long and healthy life

A field that no longer smells of flowers

They live every day in a field that no longer smells of flowers...

Taming the Garden

Filmmaker Salomé Jashi's documentary follows massive and ancient trees being transported -- at great expense and inconvenience -- from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of a wealthy and politically powerful man.

The Underground Astronaut

Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers takes us along on her epic quest to map the world's fungi networks and understand their behaviour, before it's too late.

The Primitive Streak

Abu Dhabi's fossil dunes rise up out of the surrounding desert and speak back at us.

The Digger

Shot in the Sharjah desert, The Digger follows the everyday life of Sultan Zeib Khan, the Pakistani caretaker who has been guarding the ruins of a Neolithic necropolis for twenty years.

REVIR - Everything You Hold Dear

Two adult siblings live together in the shadow of their shared upbringing, until the past visits them and they must confront their family story.

Our Ark

Our Ark is an essay film on our efforts to create a virtual replica of the real world.

Bag Lady

Bag Lady is a comedic period script in the vein of Dickinson or The Great, which tells the story of Margaret E Knight, the brazen inventor of the paper-bag machine.

A Common Sequence

Explores tradition, colonialism, property, faith, and science, seen through labor practices that connect an endangered salamander, mass-produced apples, and the evolving fields of genomics and machine learning.

Hormonal

Hormonal birth control influences women’s brains. Do we care

BUILDING SPACES - A sensory ethnography

Not all knowledges can be found in books, some must be learned through experience and discovered through filming.

THE ZNAMYA PROJECT

Between scientific prophecy and philosophic tale, The Znamya Project leads us through the twists and turns of a future without night

Red Earth

Red Earth imagines a world in the late Anthropocene, where large parts of Earth have become inhospitable to life.

I Am Fine, Thanks

Successful scientist hides her breakdowns that manifest as crazy hallucinations in order to maintain her socially perfect image.

Queerying Nature

Nature is much more queer than we are!

Descending the Mountain

A journey of mystical revelations through magic mushrooms and meditations.

Psychedelia: The History and Science of Mystical Experience

A in-depth look at psychedelic drugs and their ability to induce mystical, or religious experiences.

From Neurons to Nirvana: The Great Medicines

A renaissance in psychedelic drug research includes its uses as adjuncts to psychotherapy.

Huicholes: The Last Peyote Guardians

The urgent story of the mystical Wixarika People, the Huicholes: one of the last pre-Hispanic alive cultures in Latin America.

The Mushroom Speaks

At once earthy and magical, fungi not only link us to the origins of life itself but also open doors to alternate realms of consciousness.

Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey

Peyote to LSD- A Psychedelic Odyssey traces the route of hallucinogens from jungle shamans to the hippie generation.

From Shock to Awe

Two combat veterans abandon traditional medicine and begin experimenting with psychedelics to treat their post-traumatic stress disorder.

Icaros: A Vision

A film shaped like a shamanic journey, steeped in a psychoactive brew, exploring fear and destiny in the jungle of the mind.

Gambling, Gods, and LSD

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

Free Waves

Free Waves is film about all sorts of waves, sea waves, radio waves, waves of human resistance.

Digital Physics

Will Khatchig uncover the secrets of our universe before he loses his home, his friends, and his sanity? Will anybody care??

Black Dog

A darkly comic and twisted story set in the backdrop of the 60s Space Race

Dr. Funque and His Petri Dish

A researcher falls in love with a microscopic girl in his petri dish.

Solar Eclipse

As the sun disappears, Saaghi sees something that should have stayed hidden.

Rain Rain Run Away

Late August. One afternoon, seven-year-old Boubou gets bored at her family's campground. It's a scorching day and everyone's having a nap.

Clebs (Mutts)

In a stray-dog refuge in Morocco, time seems to stand still for the 750 animals waiting to be adopted, their lives following a precise, monotonous routine.

See A Dog, Hear A Dog

Sea A Dog, Hear A Dog takes its title from a sound-design maxim and uses it as a conceit to grasp the desire for connection.

Mimaroglu: The Robinson of Manhattan Island

The story of two free spirits: legendary electronic music composer Ilhan Mimaroglu and his vibrant wife Güngör who migrated to the USA from Turkey in early 1960s.

Canícula

A portrait of the lives and rituals of the native people of the Totonac village of Veracruz illustrates the rhythms of their pre-industrial and deeply spiritual lives.

Lek and the Dogs

Lek and the Dogs was conceived as a crossover project between narrative film, contemporary art piece, performance and documentary.

Köpekçi (The Dog God)

A lover of animals, Şaban makes an effort to feed stray dogs out of working hours in the secluded streets and regions of the city.

Laika

Not easy is the life of Laika, a female dog living on the outskirts of a Russian city. After her capture and retraining, she becomes a pioneer in astronautics. Other animals follow Laika into space, launch.

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

A boat has many powers: to gather a society in its making, to distribute goods, to carry people and ideas across places that, it seems to us, are more different than ever before.

Colors of Math

To most people math appears abstract, mysterious. Complicated. Inaccessible. But math is nothing but a different language to express the world.

The Indicators

Two high school girls trek into the rainforest in hopes of protecting what's left of the biodiversity in their jungle-bordering community.

munkiana

In munkiana, encounters across 12 months of field study trace a blueprint of ecological connectivity around Mexico's Baja California Peninsula.

SILA and the Gatekeepers of the Artic

SILA and the Gatekeepers humanizes the impact of the warming Arctic and brings attention to the interconnectedness between these small Arctic communities and the larger global society.

All the Shades of One Long Night

From someone who moved away to learn about fear.

NIGHT (Watching The Dark)

NIGHT is a stunning and cinematic feature that explores the universal nature of night and how we experience it.

Light of the Night

The global problem of light pollution is growing exponentially every year, but we have not found a real solution to solve it yet.

THE TWO FACES OF TOMORROW

The Two Faces of Tomorrow is an experimental documentary-fiction film about algae; how they have shaped all life on Earth, from the deep past to the near future.

The Clone Returns Home

"The Clone Returns Home" is a compelling meditation on the paradox of life and death, and the meaning of love and family.

The Sacred Spirit (Espíritu sagrado)

When the leader of a UFO association dies unexpectedly, José Manuel becomes the only person who knows a secret that could alter the fate of humanity. Meanwhile, a young girl goes missing in Spain.

Helena From Sarayaku

The film Helena From Sarayaku, directed by Eriberto Gualinga (2021), documents activist Helena Gualinga's efforts to raise awareness about the Kichwa people of Sarayaku's fight against oil exploitation in their territory in the Ecuadorian Amazon and their proposal for an alternative way of relating to nature.

Vida comienza, vida termina (Life Begins, Life Ends)

The film diary of a family, pieces of an Argentinian fiction film that wants to be completed, a tumor that dreams to be loved, two hunters looking for something to kill. The film glides between reality and fiction as the filmmaker tries to grasp the essence of his passing life.

Quarries

Quarries follows the mysteries surrounding prehistoric stone tools from Kenya alongside the neglected labor of stonemasons who paved the streets of Lisbon.

The Human Trial

An intimate journey with the patients and scientists who put themselves on the line.

Of Medicine and Miracles

Chronicles the monumental task of curing cancer, as seen through the harrowing experiences of one young girl, her family, and a doctor on a mission.

The Last Human (Siunissaq - Det Sidste Menneske)

Director Ivalo Frank's new film is a tribute to her vast, scenic country, caught between two extremes: the beginning and the end of life on Earth as we know it.

This Wild Abyss

This Wild Abyss tells the story of Milton who forms an unlikely friendship with world-renowned astronomer Edwin Hubble and assists him at Mt. Wilson Observatory in the 1920s, leading to the discovery that the universe is expanding.

Scales

Hayat is a strong-willed girl whose fishing village is governed by a dark tradition: every family must give one daughter to the mermaid-like sea creatures that inhabit the waters. When Hayat's father refuses, the girl becomes a pariah, considered a curse by the village and urged to sacrifice herself.

Derek Changes His Mind

Traumatic Brain Injury survivor Derek Dabkoski enrolls in a dangerous and experimental stem cell surgery to hopefully repair the damaged area of his brain as he and his wife Nadia, who has lived in the US for 30 years without ever being granted a green card, expect the birth of their first child, a daughter named Carmen.

As We See (Cómo miramos)

Between the microscopic and the macroscopic, the most remote past and the future, this short film investigates the observation practices of four scientists: a neurologist, a paleontologist, an astronomer and a molecular biologist.

Playing Apocalypse

A group of enthusiasts explore different versions of the future designed as a post-apocalyptic world.

The People There To Catch Us

Two people who have had cancer work alongside scientists in research and support groups to improve the lives of others living with the disease.

The Great Refractor

The film contrasts histories of mapping, visualizing and territorializing with contemporary practices centered on sounding, listening and collective resonation.

Pablo from Neanderthal

This film is neither a documentary nor a portrait of the artist Pablo Echaurren; it's a kaleidoscopic meditation on our past, present and future.

Terrain Vague

A film between a short story and a social documentary, combining stifling atmosphere with humour and reflections of the millennials.

I am a Mobile Element

Hybrid identities and genetic scissors

Battle of Blister

We are the body. We are under attack.

Sequence of Life

Childhood trauma and stress can lead to the shortening of the chromosome which eventually shortens your life span.

abNormal

Are you normal? What does it mean to be normal?

Bidesia in Bambai

Bidesia is Bhojpuri for ‘the one who leaves home’.

Dusk Chorus

Eco-acoustic composer David Monacchi tries to record continuous 24-hour 3D soundscapes in the area with the world's highest biodiversity in Ecuador's remote primary forests.

Neuroscience & Emotions: The Life, Work & Music of Dr. Joseph LeDoux

​What happens in the brain when you are afraid? Joe LeDoux decoded the unknown and unwritten map between the senses and the Amygdala, a tiny, barely understood seed-like object in the brain that is mission control for our feelings. And then he wrote books and music about it.

Get Out Alive

GET OUT ALIVE is an autobiographical musical detailing an artist's recovery after a suicide attempt.

After Nature

In 'After Nature', four prominent scientists and one artist unfold how humanity's pursuit of wealth and prosperity has degraded the living conditions of virtually every other species in the world, and how they are fighting to preserve the planet's biodiversity.

The Hero’s Journey to the Third Pole – A Bipolar Musical Documentary With Elephants

Part road movie, part musical, part serious inquiry into the caverns of the mind, The Hero’s Journey to the Third Pole is at once an artful, sensitive and amusing examination of mental health, told through an unexpected story of friendship.

Observar las Aves

‘Observar las Aves’ Is a Poetic Eulogy of a Woman With Alzheimer’s Who’s Not Yet Gone.

The Prediction of Extreme Events

E. J. Gumbel was one of the first to describe and understand extreme events through extreme value statistics, but forgotten is his political life that made him once one of the most exposed enemies of the Nazis, fighting against populism and the rise of fascism.

The Other Tom

A mother risks losing custody of her son when she refuses to continue medicating his ADHD, after an accident alerts her to the drugs' side-effects.

Moving so slowly: Avanzaré tan despacio

People who wait in endless queues at the Immigration Office in Costa Rica go through different sensations and emotions produced by the confusing bureaucratic framework. In there, time and processes can be felt eternal.

Ghost Amber

A poetic reflection on the slow vanishing of analogue film.

Carbon: The Unauthorised Biography

Carbon tax. Carbon footprint. Carbon emissions. Carbon is in the news every day, so you’d think we’d know everything about it — but you’d be wrong. Carbon could be the most misunderstood element on earth.

The Power of Science

Discover the never-before-seen story behind the development of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.

Cult Hero (Héroe de culto)

The tradition to make busts of the National Hero of Cuba, José Martí, continue today through an industrial process where those are made in plastic. Its disproportionate presence in the country turns the hero bust in an invisible thing.

It's Quieter in the Twilight

Fighting outdated technology and time, Voyager's flight-team pursues humankind's greatest exploration.

The Mount of Ants

For the feast of the Nativity of Mary, every year for centuries, swarms of winged ants from all over Italy and even from Central Europe, coming on top of the “Mount of the Ants” to mate.

Cinema Futures

Cinema Futures oscillates between a technocratic belief in progress and apocalyptic visions of the total erasure of our audiovisual memory:.

Waters of Pastaza

On the banks of the Pastaza River, the border between Ecuador and Peru, a group of children from the indigenous Achuar tribe live autonomously.

Beyond Tomorrow

A documentary about the idea of the future as explored through the life and art of futurist illustrator Roy Scarfo

The Tree House

Several decades in the future, an astronaut on Mars contacts his father on Earth and asks him about how things were in the past, in Vietnam.

The Philosophy of Horror – A Symphony of Film Theory

An experimental analysis of the horror genre, as it was a lesson in college.

Tell Me About the Stars

One thing only is clear: no need for other worlds, only mirrors.

Medusa

When white is the real dirt

Burial

With striking images and meticulous sound work, Burial reminds us of the paradoxical relationship between scientific development and the destruction of nature. Questioning the effects of human activity on the planet we inhabit and which we have put at risk, the film focuses on the unsolved issues of nuclear plants and nuclear activity.

The Sacred Spirit

A collision of science fiction, crime, and documentary realism. If you are an adventurous viewer with the patience to let this film weave its peculiar magic, it will live rent-free in your brain for a long time.

O, Collecting Eggs Despite the Times

Close-ups of the eggs from Schönwetter's collection (he had 19,206) are timeless in all their mottled, speckled, and colorful beauty.

Maika: The Girl From Another Galaxy

Vietnam's first-ever children's sci-fi feature

Zoo Lock

The pandemic brought society to a standstill, but from an animal’s perspective the world didn't change that much. Unless, of course, you live in a zoo.

White Noise

A reflection on the fate of humanity in the Anthropocene epoch

Time Theorem

Director Andrés Kaiser combines hundreds of amateur films and photographs from the treasure trove of images belonging to his migrant grandparents creating a cinematic firework of analogies.

Karmalink

Jake Wachtel's KARMALINK is a mind-bending tale of reincarnation, artificial consciousness, and the search for enlightenment.

Tigre Gente

Director Elizabeth Unger exposes the illegal trade of jaguar teeth across two continents in this harrowing eco-thriller.

Neptune Frost

Set between states of being – past and present, dream and waking life, colonized and free, male and female, memory and prescience

The Last Human

Life on Earth begins and ends with Greenland. Researcher Minik Rosing’s landmark discovery of the first life contrasts with the melting ice masses in Ivalo Frank’s tribute to her beautiful homeland.

A Language of Shapes

An enchanting fairytale film in the magical, microscopic world

Unliveable (Inabitável)

UNLIVEABLE is a tale about the wish for a world where life can be truly possible.

The Sound is Innocent

A playful and poetic journey through the history of electronic music

Tundra

A lonely electrical inspector, dreams of the Red Woman

Goodnight Goodnight

Hydroelectricity, romance and alienation

Holgut

As the permafrost recedes faster and faster on the Siberian ice plains, the remnants of the mythical animal from a distant past emerge

Switch On

Energy visionary Dr. Scott Tinker crosses the globe to investigate alternative sources of energy.

Clarita's Universe

Clarita's unbounded curiosity and defining passion: astronomy.

Dust Rising

From human health to ecosystem function, discover the astonishing impact of tiny particles – and how that’s shifting as Earth’s climate changes.

The New Hospital

Rejuvenation, robotization, genetic alteration and organ cultivation will change our society forever.

The Golden Harvest

Filmmaker Alia Yunis explores the relationship between the people of the Mediterranean and olive trees.

Galapagos: Secrets of the Ocean Giants

The scientists of the Galapagos Whale Shark Project head north to Darwin Island to uncover the secrets of these ocean giants.

A Mirror of the Cosmos

The lagoon is a microcosm of the so-called Anthropocene, or ‘the Age of Man’.

The Creeping Garden

Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds

Shell and Joint

The thin line between existence and non-existence

Camagroga

An elegy of work, land, heritage and resistance

Dear Future Children

The new generation at the heart of this seismic political shift

Silent Forests

An intimate, character-driven portrait of conservationists and activists who are struggling to stop forest elephant poaching in Africa's Congo Basin region

Of the Basin

An intimate portrait of a unique environment and one of the last fishermen of the Basin.

The Lake At The Bottom of the World

Hidden truths about our planet's dynamic past.

Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat

a brilliant and radical scientist who changed how we look at our selves, evolution, and the environment.

Work Or to Whom Does the World Belong

A mining community through the prism of ethno-fiction

Once You Know

A Personal Story at the Edge of Climate-induced Collapse.

Zero Gravity

The Next Generation Fearlessly Lead us into the Future

My Voice Will Be With You

Hypnosis as anesthesia. It not only speaks to our imagination, it is already happening in practice.

Into the Polar Night

Take an epic expedition to the Artic Ocean

Jim Allison: Breakthrough

A Visionary Quest to Find a Cure for Cancer

Window of Time

A scientific walk into the soul.

Rebel Objects

Our Connection to Mysterious Stone Spheres and Family

The Quintessence

The Visual Imaginary of Astrophysics and Space

A Mild Touch of Cancer

A tale of optimism and positivity

Son of Monarchs

Of Butterflies and Belonging

Her Name Is Europa

A meditation about survival

Bile

How thin is human skin?

Speak So I Can See You

A unique soundscape of one of Europe’s oldest radio stations

Campo Experimental

The state of science and art in Brazil during the 2014 World Cup

At the Bottom of the Sea

The many meanings of imposing landscapes

Mosaic

A creature called Mosaic in 10 parts.

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