The Underground Astronaut

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.

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 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.

Tóxico

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Phases of Matter

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The Last Artifact

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The Colony

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Empty Horses

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The World of Thinking

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Air Conditioner

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Ticket to the Moon

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Woman and the Glacier

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Kmêdeus (Eatgod)

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To Dust

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SCIENCE NEW WAVE FESTIVAL XVI

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