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A brief experimental journey through the night on the outskirts of Copenhagen in the company of a group of young, carefree dreamers full of loss and compassion.
A documentation of an artistic experiment set within a state-of-the-art climate simulation facility at the scientific campus of Risø, located in the picturesque surroundings of Roskilde fjord.
When Hungary's largest newsroom collapses under political pressure, one journalist keeps filming, capturing the inside story of a collective stand for press freedom in an increasingly authoritarian state.
The profound desire to become a mother and pressure from her surroundings drive Alejandra to fake a pregnancy. What begins as a simple lie turns into a complex charade and unleashes a media scandal that makes it impossible for her to continue the pretence.
At just 16, Soraya is already creating stunning drawings and sculptures that are as beautiful as they are dark. This strong-willed Afghan sculptor and illustrator has been trying for five years to escape Iran and join her mother in Austria.
This subtly textured self-portrait interweaves chilling scenes of her escape attempts with political news from Afghanistan and videos in which she sings and dances—or shows her bruises. Soraya is married to a violent man, and she is determined to shape her own future. Mehrdad Oskouei directed this film entirely remotely, with Soraya filming all the footage herself over five years using her phone.
This material is interspersed with shots of her drawings and surreal animations. Making art is no idle pastime for Soraya: she puts all her worries, joys, and fears into her drawings and the sculptures she makes from soaked egg cartons or clay that she finds along her escape routes. Many of her drawings feature recurring figures: a loyal fox who is her traveling companion, a pink moon that always watches over her, and a clown who never laughs—a character Soraya identifies with.
Marine biologist Dr. Edie Widder goes on a journey to the ocean depths hoping to capture the phenomenon of bioluminescence like it's never been seen on camera before, from director Tasha Van Zandt and the production company behind Fire of Love.
Alice calls her mother's work propaganda, but Zhanna believes that she is working for the good of her homeland. As a foreign correspondent for Russian TV she covers the major events in the Western countries from the Kremlin's perspective and she wants to make Alice more Russian. So Zhanna decides to show her the biggest country in the world. Over four summers and one winter, mother and daughter travel across the length and breadth of Putin's Russia. But as their journey unfolds, Zhanna grapples with her past, her secrets, and her identity as both a journalist and a mother—while the country edges closer to a war. A Little Gray Wolf Will Come is a powerful tale of love, lies, and the loss of homeland.
After 11 years locked up in her family home, Adelina flees from a Georgian village to Vienna in the hope of finding the freedom to be herself. But even in exile, the chains of the past prove difficult to break free from.
A performative and visually explosive film, where lived experiences take shape in a constant state of becoming.
An aging French gay porn icon recounts a life story worthy of a novel. A beautiful and existential film that also tells the forgotten story of the gay rights movement with erotic power and style.
The Swedish author's early years during World War II, told through her own diaries in a beautiful and thoughtful film about life, death and art in the shadow of war.
Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place. Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] documents the emotional and vital work of MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance). This alliance, made up of repatriation specialists representing all Michigan tribes, fights to bring their Ancestors and funerary objects home from settler colonial institutions like museums, libraries, and archives. Adam and Zack Khalil's monumental and formally daring film follows the pressing struggle to rebury Indigenous human remains that have been held in sterile storage, laying bare the history of Indigenous collections and the battle to recognize and enforce the laws intended to facilitate their repatriation to the communities they were originally stolen from. Using an essayistic approach alongside vérité portraits, the film celebrates the courageous individuals who carry out this hard and emotionally draining labor of return. — AP
"Adam's Apple" is an intimate, collaborative documentary told through the dual perspectives of Adam, a transgender teen, and his mother, visual artist Amy Jenkins, that offers an authentic and tender counterpoint to the hostility facing trans youth today. Adam's journey balances the milestones of gender transition with the rhythms of adolescence. As Adam asserts his identity and steps out into the world, his parents grapple with the challenges of raising a teen while learning to let go. Through a visually poetic approach, the film transforms a deeply personal archive, collected over two decades, into a powerful, joyful testament to the beauty and difficulty of reckoning with profound change.
A ritualistic and dizzying audio-visual poem, following singer Lei Lowe on an eruptous pilgrimage through ancient Sicilian landscapes where she communes with the Earth in search of emancipation.
A son of one of America's wealthiest families creates a communist revolutionary base in rural Massachusetts as a means of disrupting the capitalist system he grew up in, but has now come to despise. It's the starting point of an astonishing journey. Fergie Chambers is a communist who, as heir to one of the wealthiest families in American history, has the ability to create his vision of the world in a way that few do. He funds people and projects, like a Marxist-Leninist collective in Massachusetts, that seek to destroy the hypercapitalist structure that he himself is a product of. With his resources, it should be easy, but why isn't it? From director Sinéad O'Shea comes a fascinating study of the power money has to make and destroy, and what access to astronomical wealth does to a person and those around him. All About the Money is a documentary for our times of concentrated wealth and power, and the dream of creating another world while still being mired in this one.
A wave of biblical plagues is crashing down on north-east England, where fishermen, eco-activists and politicians are fighting for different futures after Brexit. A highly topical tale with a strong local accent.
From the carefree summers of childhood to the turbulent teenage years. Five formative years in a young group of friends in Stockholm, where their bond is put to the test as they navigate their way into adulthood.
The unlikely love story of two blind Malian musicians, Amadou and Mariam, who have toured all over the world. Now they are returning home to Mali to play a big concert and record one last album.
A hazardous expedition in the Amazon becomes a moral minefield in a thought-provoking film about the white man's gaze, as the project turns the camera on itself and the colonial legacy.
American Doctor is a vérité non-fiction film following three prominent physicians–Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian—friends who couldn't be more different but are bound by their shared oath to save lives. Dr. Thaer Ahmad is measured and strategic, Dr. Mark Perlmutter is blunt and wears his heart on his sleeve, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is media-savvy and prolific. Filmed in unfolding, on-the-ground scenes, the story follows them from a Gazan hospital under siege, to the halls of Congress. Together they fight to keep a promise to their Palestinian colleagues and patients, to continue the struggle where it matters most: the United States.
Poet, agricultural engineer and revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was born in Guinea-Bissau to Cape Verdean parents. After studying in Portugal, he emerged as the charismatic leader of the anti-colonial struggle against Portuguese rule. With his utopian ideas, he sparked a cultural and an armed uprising that went on to inspire other African liberation movements.
His poetry, letters to his two successive wives, and political pamphlets form the basis of a journal-like film narrative. Associative atmospheric images with a charged soundtrack are interwoven with police reports and archival footage. A layered portrait gradually emerges of a visionary who could be both diplomatic and ruthless.
As the dream of a free Guinea-Bissau and unity with Cape Verde draws ever closer, the threat also increases, not only from the Portuguese army and secret service, but also from undermining forces within Cabral's own party. This culminates in the question: who was behind his assassination in 1973? A portrait encompassing interracial love, ambition, terror and betrayal.
Understated Icelandic humour and breathtaking landscapes in a charming and picturesque film about birds and people – and about a deeply lovable elderly couple and their friends.
Convicted of murdering her husband, Tahereh served her sentence and now faces a ticking clock to negotiate with her in-laws who, under Sharia law in Iran, have the legal right to either execute her or forgive her- for a price.
A journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone, and their impact on a changing planet.
A remote corner of Alaska is finally connected to the internet, but what does that mean for the islanders? An epic debut film about the technological imaginaries of a changing world.
On the trail of the earthly remains of the victims of Franco's regime in a film that combines modern technology and paper archives in a historical investigation based on the director's own research through Forensic Architecture.
In the gritty outskirts of Medellín, Barrio Triste captures a hallucinatory day and night in the lives of youth navigating the raw edges of survival, desire, and escape. Through hypnotic imagery and a pulsating score by Arca, Stillz crafts a poetic portrait of street life where violence and tenderness coexist. With a loose, dreamlike narrative, the film drifts between moments of silence, chaos, and intimacy, as its characters search for meaning amid a crumbling urban reality. Executive produced by Harmony Korine, Barrio Triste is an audiovisual descent into the textures of marginalization and resilience, blurring the line between fiction, documentary, and music video.
A cinematic essay on perception and the afterlife of ideas - told through a place in transition. A film of magnificent intellectual scope and uncompromising formal integrity.
A young woman defies her parents' wishes and the pressure of society, and moves to the forest to start a family close to nature. But the road to becoming herself is long and difficult.
It's summer in Paris, and at a youth club in Belleville the young people have an idea: they want to organize a music festival in a park. A fast-paced film where the positive energy comes from within.
Documentarian Gianfranco Rosi's monumental latest details with pointillist precision and unnerving beauty a region in Naples living under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius and above the simmering Campi Flegrei volcanic caldera.
The uniqueness of filmmaker Miro Remo resides, among others, in the originality of the questions his films raise. His latest outing, a work which loosely develops the theme explored in the book of the same name by Aleš Palán and Jan Šibík, provocatively asks whether it's possible to spend your whole life in a single place. As if harking back to a bygone era, twins František and Ondřej Klišík have made the stubborn decision to do just that. Crazy eccentrics or charismatic, possessed storytellers? It seems that they never grew up; viewed through the lens of so-called civilisation, their world shows signs of absurdity. Yet, in their genuine bucolic enchantment, they offer us all the chance to distil our source of inspiration, those of us who sometimes tire of conformist adherence to order.
Shot using 3D animation, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani's singular and affecting debut feature Bouchra combines documentary techniques with an inventive narrative structure, exploring the relationship between Bouchra, a queer Moroccan Coyote filmmaker, and her cardiologist mother (also a Coyote), who lives in Casablanca.
Performative video work recorded in an underground tunnel, where an artist explores authority and obedience.
With humor, heart and a lot of glitz and glam, Boy George & Culture Club is an endlessly charming documentary that dives headfirst into the chaos, charisma and enduring bond of one of the most iconic bands of the '80s. Straight from the mouths of its four legendary members, Boy George & Culture Club is a love story about the undeniable fondness that flowed beneath the surface of these musical legends — and the drama and heartbreak in between.
Brains in the State of Suspension' is a live performance horror film exploring disembodied intelligence, domination, and horror as self-aware brains confront the monstrous consequences of their own drive for control.
A new film by British artist–filmmakers Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth, showcased Out of Competition at the 2025 Venice Film Festival. Running at 96 minutes, this narrative–documentary hybrid continues their lyrical exploration of music, memory, and experimentation in moving‑image form.
An observation of post-colonial economic relations through the intersecting trajectories of two Filipino women: one preparing to leave her native island to work as a domestic in Europe, the other to return for good.
Burden of Other People's Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede' is a surreal, abstract memoir of Joe Bini's life as a film editor and storyteller, presented as a live cinema experience for one audience member at a time.
Alongside her studies, 35-year-old Tamara Amer is fighting a fierce battle against negative social control, a culture of silence, and the oppression of women in Iraq where she grew up.
What happens to people, ethics, and morals when alcohol and capitalism are unleashed in a poor and corrupt country with few restrictions? One man takes up the fight against a corrupt system.
Falkenstrøm's work aligns the Gold Rush with today's space race, examining how corporate power in asteroid and lunar exploitation threatens to replicate Earth's inequalities across the solar system.
After 100 years of independence, a bold new wave of young Irish artists redefine folk music and reflect over the impact of their colonial history.
Christiania is one of the world's most iconic social experiments. After 50 years of big dreams, strong tobacco and anarchy, this colourful neighbourhood finally got the film its colourful history deserves.
Cinema Kawakeb follows a filmmaker's struggle to document the fading existence of a crumbling cinema in Amman, Jordan. Through the stories of its last two employees and its only loyal patron, a homeless scrap collector who lives for classic Indian films, the film becomes a meditation on loss, memory and conflict. As the theatre nears demolition, the film delves into the roots of its demise, tracing tensions from a family feud to regional and global power struggles.
The earth beneath Paris is a twilight world of fungi, data centers, and secret communities that meet in silence beneath the city. An underground network of connections is mapped out in a dark film.
One morning a young girl wakes up on the plantation where she's being kept as a slave and sees that her sister has disappeared. This marks the terrifying starting point of a dark, atmospheric desktop game about the history of anti-Black racism in the US and the UK.
The girl takes you into her life on the plantation. Her story—based on historical facts and events, and on real lives—is enriched by fascinating archival materials and gripping eyewitness accounts. In the second part of the game, you explore a British city, sometime in the 20th century. Here, too, there are stories of injustice to be found on every street corner.
Alongside its educational aspect, this intentionally uncomfortable game provides space for personal reflection. But there are triumphs, too, along with the horrors, and heroes and successes in both worlds. There's the story of Nanny Griggs, for instance, who led a rebellion in Jamaica, and of Oscar Micheaux, the first major African-American filmmaker.
Shortly after 7 October 2023, an Israeli filmmaker returns to her destroyed kibbutz and documents life along the fence to Gaza. An essayistic testimony about war and loss.
Aya, a young artist from Gaza, lost her father and brother and was displaced with her mother to a tent in Rafah. Amid the destruction and war, she insists on composing and recording her new song.
After years of silence, the director and his friends return to fragments of a shared youth shaped by imprisonment, revisiting memory, friendship, and the images that refuse to settle.
Behind the closed doors of an exceptional construction site, the film portrays, in real time, a microcosm of society united by a shared goal: building cinema halls for the next century. It follows architects, carpenters, project managers, Pathé executives, sound designers, and future projectionists—capturing a living portrait of collaboration at the human level.
Dreams as motors of human revolution: this is the theory of Sidarta Ribeiro, a Brazilian neuroscientist who has spent 20 years studying the mysteries of dreaming.
Daughters of the Forest is a story of entanglements: between humans and mushrooms; the visible and the invisible; generational knowledge and modern science. This sci-fi documentary invites us to reconsider the experiences of both human and non-human inhabitants of our world. We follow Lis and Juli, two young scientists from indigenous communities that have long lived in symbiosis with the many mushrooms in their regions. The world they know is changing, and their pursuits are threatened by deforestation, lack of opportunity, and loss. Still, they share how mushrooms show us different possibilities of coexistence, helping them overcome obstacles to reshape their lives and futures.
Branko obsessively trails his brother through neon-lit Belgrade nights, trying to fathom his unusual behavior. Eventually, he realizes that he himself is the strange one—an observer or apparition. Leaving the city behind, he crosses landscapes and borders toward a special place where every being and thing has a story to share
Do You Love Me is a playful and personal journey through Lebanon's audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage. It is a love letter to Beirut, spanning 70 years of film, TV, home videos and photography, exploring the Lebanese collective psyche—marked by joy and intimacy, destruction and loss. Through the eyes of citizens, filmmakers and artists, the film pieces together a fragmented history in a country without a national archive, celebrating creative expression as a form of resistance and renewal, and as a means of preserving memory.
Once upon a time in a Polish village in Romania, Hanka and Bronka, left behind by their deceased husbands and their children who have emigrated for work, face everyday life with humour and persistence. Fighting to stay independent, they will soon need to make a life-changing decision. Is the world of these two lifelong friends coming to an end?
Set in contemporary Transylvania, the film opens with a Dracula actor fleeing a restaurant show, triggering a chaotic chase by tourists and staff. Parallel stories—some AI-generated—offer diverse takes on the Dracula myth, blending pulp, avant-garde, comedy, action, and political satire in a playful, multi‑layered mosaic
A dreamlike exploration of Beirut as a state of mind, where every shadowy image is a moving photograph and the intimacy is like lines in a diary.
Danish-Ugandan Luba returns to her father's rainforest in Uganda to save what is on the brink of being lost. A personal story about climate struggle, identity, and belonging.
Sports photographer Lisa vanishes without warning, leaving behind a letter asking not to be found. She was last seen photographing rural football fields in remote Georgian villages. Her father, Irakli, unable to accept her disappearance, sets out on a journey to find her. He teams up with Levani, Lisa's enigmatic best friend, and together they travel across the countryside, retracing her steps through quiet villages, meeting kind strangers, and speaking with children playing football along the way.
Elon Musk wants to lead the race to develop self-driving cars, but it comes at a price. A docu-thriller about Tesla's fatal safety breach and the mindset behind it.
Thirty years of war, seven million displaced, ten million dead. is a plunge into the chaos of the city of Goma, capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
An experimental and beautiful 16mm film about an organic Italian farm, where soil, weeds, and microbes leave their mark on both the fields and the film itself.Agriculture, Soil, Ecology, Analogue, Microbes
In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland's most diverse neighborhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbors. The morning in Glasgow, the first day of Eid, started as any other. However, when neighbors heard through community message networks that two local men were snatched up for deportation, hundreds of people left their breakfast tables, work Zoom calls, and daily lives to rush down to Kenmure Street to save them by putting their bodies on the line. Though mostly strangers, and with almost no planning, this extremely diverse group organized themselves, taking on essential roles to allow the collective to achieve their goal: protecting their own from government forces going after the weakest among them. An inspiring and profoundly moving portrait of what "normal" citizens are capable of in the face of injustice, Everybody To Kenmure Street reminds us of the power that is always inherent in the people.
With any and all things crypto being pushed by celebrities, influencers, and politicians alike, actor-turned-author and director Ben McKenzie decides to investigate. Leveraging his celebrity status to gain access to eager prospectors, McKenzie finds himself unraveling the loosely regulated world of cryptocurrency. This skeptical but evenhanded take on the present and future of what we consider money gives a firsthand account of the chaotic financial frontier of our time.
Artist Kamil Dossar's new film is an elliptical work from Iraq, where people with lizard heads appear in a film that we piece together ourselves as we experience it.
A fragmented love, a fallen system, a drifting city: in the quiet unrest of Hanoi's youth, memory flickers; tired, persistent, and endlessly returning.
Lost in her fears and fantasies, a young woman writes in a notebook. A young man finds this notebook on a train. Suddenly, they find themselves in the heart of a forest, in a nocturnal reality where dreams come to life.
What do you want in a relationship? And what exactly is a relationship? When people fall in love with robots, an avalanche of existential questions is set off.
Four stories from the Nordic region paint a picture of a changing natural world, where the elements rage and where being prepared proves to be much more than sandbags and fire extinguishers.
The research team led by Consuelo De Moraes is on the verge of discovering florigen - a substance that could make plants bloom instantly. While Florianne Koechlin uncovers that plants "speak" through scents, the artist duo Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger question the boundaries between nature and artificiality. United by their passion for the plant world, the protagonists illuminate the complex interactions between plants, insects and humans.
A renowned Danish actor reenacts his own heart attack, prompting a disturbing reflection on the mundane nature of everyday life and the fragility of existence.
Twenty years ago, believing she was doomed, Irma took a trip to Greece. Today, she retraces that journey, accompanied by three young men. From island to island, between sky and sea, the travelers read, listen and live, carried by a longing for beauty and clarity.
The Fukushima disaster, recounted hour by hour by the people who stayed behind to prevent a meltdown. An ultra-intense and gripping epic from the director of 'Antidote'.
When the Israeli army invades the Gaza Strip in 2023, Rania is eight months pregnant. She gives birth to triplets just as her hometown in northern Gaza is bombed. One girl dies at birth, while the other two babies, Jowan and her brother Hamoud, are so weak that they have to be placed in an incubator. When the hospital is evacuated, the twins are moved to southern Gaza, where Rania's sister Nisreen takes over their care. A travel ban prevents the babies from returning to their mother.
It's nothing out of the ordinary—just another Gazan family torn apart by war. The story told here by director Mohammed Sawwaf illustrates how the conflict affects every Palestinian. But first and foremost, Rania herself, who can only watch her newborns grow up on video. Her family, forced to flee five times during this period, and her sister Nisreen, who becomes ever more attached to the twins. And the babies themselves, with Hamoud clearly in need of extra care. Strong family ties provide a lifeline time and time again—but for how much longer?
Follows a mysterious herd of ghost elephants in the jungles of Angola.
Hair, Paper, Water... is an intimate correspondence film between two filmmakers, Nicolas Graux in Belgium and Trương Minh Quý in Vietnam, made during the pandemic. They exchange letters in audiovisual form, exploring themes of isolation, identity, and memory. This poetic dialogue moves between personal landscapes, distant homes, and the temporal suspension brought about by confinement.
A 17-year-old Palestinian is trapped by need amid Gaza's starvation war. His dangerous attempt to fetch a sack of flour ends with a lone fifteen-month journey from north to south Gaza.
A dissident Russian journalist chases the world's most feared mercenary army, Wagner, across the globe as she races to unmask a new model of violence that is transforming the world for all of us.
A cinematic diary from the West Bank and the Golan Heights – places caught between occupation, oppression, and a lived, collective experience.
Three young Norwegian women form a coven and start the black metal band Witch Club Satan. Before they know it, they are playing at major international festivals, but the battle has only just begun.
Liat is one of the hostages taken on October 7th. The film follows her relatives from right up close, with a focus on her father, as he tries to stay on the path of pacifism and humanity amidst war, trauma and diplomacy.
While humans try to prevent matter from decaying, microfungi remind us that everything must perish in order to continue to exist. This conceptually designed film tells a story of transformation with religion as its backdrop and fungi as its metaphor.
A Danish-Korean director explores her life as an adopted child and discovers a family history full of shadows, stretching from the west coast of Denmark to the mountains of South Korea.
Young love and intertwined lives in Taipei in a romantic and charming debut film with a colossal creative energy that dissolves the boundary between fiction and reality - just like when you are in love.
Two women stand facing each other amid the ruins of a Roman theater. Under the watchful eye of the local police and the family to which they both belong, Luisa and Imma air their mutual grievances. The heated argument that follows reveals just how deep the rift runs between the two sisters-in-law.
Director Gianluca Matarrese used a decade-long conflict in his own family to explore the meaning of blood ties in a Calabrian village. Contrada Viscigliette has only seventy inhabitants, all of whom are related. Disputes like the one between Imma and Luisa therefore have a major impact on the community. Matarrese introduces a group of aunts who try to reconcile the two women.
This allows the viewer to learn more about the background of the conflict. A mother who turned her back on her daughter. A difference in social status that bred contempt. Kevin Brunet's camerawork captures the conversations, dinners and arguments so vividly that as a viewer you sometimes feel like you're watching a tragicomedy by Ettore Scola. A folk song plays: "The real winner is the one who forgives." Will either of them be able to do so?
Through beautiful images and with a camera at eye level with its young protagonists, we gain a rare insight into what it means to grow up in Afghanistan after the Taliban took power.
The tragic killing of a Norwegian man in urgent need of psychiatric help is recounted in a film that uses his own tape recordings as a guide to ask what happened and how it could have been avoided.
The ideological war between Russia and the West takes on a highly dramatic form in Finland, where three Russian women are locked in a bitter dispute over Putin's regime and their own heritage.
This haptic VR experience shares the true story of Carolyn Mercer, a survivor of electroshock conversion therapy aimed at 'correcting' her gender identity. Through wearable haptic vests, sleeves, and gloves, participants physically connect to the rhythm of Carolyn's heartbeat, the cadence of her breath, and the tremors of the procedures she endured. Her journey confronts the inhumanity of these practices and highlights the extraordinary strength it takes to live authentically.
Juliette Binoche visits CPH:DOX with her debut film as director: An intimate film about the demanding creative process of developing a dance performance with herself on stage.
Thinkers such as Yuval Harari and leaders from the EU, China and the US participate in a war game on AI, where they are confronted with geopolitical scenarios for possible future crises.
A journey to Michoacán's hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
What happens when an experienced climate scientist becomes an activist? In Greenland, scientist Jason Box and his local colleagues are launching a radical project to raise global awareness.
An intimate portrait of an uncompromising feminist artist and musician, depicting both her fierce creative drive and the personal costs of using her own life as raw material.
A beautiful Colombian film that draws parallels between native bee species, the country's colonial past, and a female biologist's family history.
As the seasons change, three young siblings build a knight figure as a target in a field on the edge of the world. A minimalist and very funny film by Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason.
Michael Greenberg is a defiant young visionary and climate activist in the US. With the timing of a stand-up comedian, lightning intelligence, and the charisma of a young Bob Dylan, he is rallying a generation in the fight for a livable future.
A devoted soldier of the Taliban's ideology that has shaped his destiny since birth, Samim (23) struggles between the alluring promises of martyrdom and the mundanity of his daily existence as a husband and farmer. Samim's younger brother, Rafi (14), idolizes his big brother as he navigates the confusion of adolescence, leaving behind playfulness to enter a world shaped by decades of military intervention and resulting radicalization.
A captivating portrait of legendary Liverpool player Sir Kenny Dalglish, told by the man himself, and directed by the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind 'Amy' and 'Maradona'.
As a Nairobi journalist probes a land battle entangling the local government and a powerful multinational corporation, covered wounds are revealed and family secrets are exposed.
A shocking video from Syria leads to an unusual detective story when a Syrian woman makes up a fake name to catch war criminals - on Facebook. A psychological thriller with a brave woman as a virtual Sherlock Holmes.
While preparing to play Hamlet in an intense NYC production, actor Oscar Isaac learns that his mother has fallen ill with an aggressive cancer—at the same time he and partner, filmmaker Elvira Lind, are imminently expecting their firstborn. As Elvira's camera quietly captures Oscar at rehearsal, at home, and with extended family, her observations become a meditation on love, grief, and the porous boundary between performance and private life—as Oscar shapes his very personal take on the legendary Prince of Denmark.
Step inside Berlin's legendary sex club, KitKatClub in a gorgeous black-and-white film. An intimate and generous tale of freedom, lust, boundaries, and sex in all its varieties.
Previously unseen footage captured by Salman Rushdie's wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, documents his journey. Following not just his physical rehabilitation, but also the restoration of his spirit and optimism. Inspired by Rushdie's memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.
Revisiting a teenage crush on a teacher, Angelica Ruffier embarks on a delicate journey of memory and desire. A finely woven, reflective essay on past longings and present selves infused with the subtle glamour of French cinema
The murder of a defenseless leader of an indigenous people draws parallels to decades of land theft and centuries of colonialism in Lucrecia Martel's documentary debut.
Film history from Kafka to Kurt Cobain: A darkly humorous, alternative timeline based on the last films iconic celebrities watched before (and sometimes while) they died – narrated by Jeremy Irons.
The Norwegian government prioritizes green energy and economic gain over the Sami people's rights to land in a tense courtroom drama about power, land, trust, and cultural heritage.
On a distant planet, a lonely robot roams around looking for signs of life, while scientists search for unknown life forms in Andalusia. A visionary journey with deep philosophical resonance.
20 years of deeply personal recordings compiled into a raw and unfiltered journey from Damascus to Denmark, depicting a Syrian woman's relentless struggle against violence, betrayal, and her own past.
An elegant and thought-provoking film shot in graceful black-and-white images that move from room to room in an exploration of location, architecture, and monuments.
The climate movement and two lawyers are challenging the Danish state in a high-profile court case to stop a new artificial peninsula in Copenhagen Harbor.
A film set in a fictional world where there are no longer adults. The kids live without governance and do what they please.
Young Ukrainians from the frontline town of Mariinka face a decade of war that divides their families and derails their fates. An epic and visionary masterpiece filmed over 10 years.
The Bolivian Andes are rich in both lithium and drama in a film about a new gold rush, where global interests collide and 500 years of colonial history continue to haunt the present.
An enchanting film about an entire British village reenacting the myth of the Holy Grail over the course of a year. A striking debut film with enormous imaginative power.
Set in Umata, a futuristic African country, Memory of Princess Mumbi recounts a love triangle between a film director, an aspiring actress, and a prince.
A personal and investigative documentary about a phase of life that half the world's population goes through, yet we know surprisingly little about.
Eddy Merckx is more than a champion cyclist; in his time of unprecedented sporting victory during the 1960s and '70s, he represented the fusion of Belgium's Walloon and Flemish cultures. This loving, impressively assembled portrait of a somewhat shy, reserved star captures Eddy's peak years.
A journey through Lars H.U.G.'s creative mind and musical universe with the man himself as tour guide, and with brand new songs on the soundtrack.
The responsibility of tech giants for young people's mental health is put to the test in a film in which a tragedy in a British family leads to a court case where a heartbroken father takes legal action.
A daughter attempts to pull the monster of her childhood out from under the bed in an original, deeply personal and creative film about her mother's mental illness.
Gold fever has gripped northern Niger. In search of the precious metal, and despite the risks, an army of researchers has invaded the sites of interest. While camps are set up and dismantled as rumours of new leads spread, Moussa and his companions are banking on the Ikazan vein. A film packed with palpable tension, brimming with dreams of fortune and friendship.
A French school class from the provinces goes on a trip to the Centre Pompidou in Paris in a film that explores what art and culture mean – and to whom.
In 1993, Mansur Rashid Kikhia, Libya's former diplomat and peaceful opponent to Qaddafi vanished in Cairo. His daughter Jihan investigates his disappearance while documenting her mother's 19-year search for truth.
Stitched from the artist's own clothes, a fragile tent becomes a haunting memorial for Gaza, and a powerful symbol for people who are still living in tents over the rubble of their destroyed homes.
Through performances at the Newport Folk Festivals 1963 to 1966, Newport and the Great Folk Dream revels in a generation's discovery of its voice through their rediscovery of American musical traditions.
Friends, colleagues, and spiritual companions paint an intimate portrait of Nick Cave - an artist in transformation, shaped by grief, curiosity, and the search for meaning after the loss of his son.
No Place at Home' follows a mother and her trans teen deciding to leave the US after gender-affirming care restrictions, allowing us to feel the pain of leaving their world behind.
NOVA 78 resurrects the electrifying atmosphere of the Nova Convention of 1978 through restored, never-before-seen archival footage featuring icons like William S. Burroughs, Frank Zappa, and Patti Smith—reimagined as a vibrant cinematic event for contemporary audiences .
His father's diaries from his final months in hospital, minimalistically staged by artist Ed Atkins and by Steven Zultanski as a performative film in two acts.
Filmed over 10 years, one girl's epic journey from Syria to Germany and back again. She and her family navigate war, exile, and heartbreak in a foreign land, illuminating the complexities of the refugee experience.
Experimental, psychedelic therapy is put to the test in a film that is equal parts scientific and deeply personal, with the protagonist himself serving as the guinea pig.
The story of Greenland's national flag is a story of cultural identity, pride, and unity. In 'Our Flag', we meet the artist who created the iconic motif of a red sun rising over the sea.
Our Land seamlessly juxtaposes the two sides of the debate around our access to nature, giving voice to the different perspectives: those fighting for greater access to the countryside and the landowners who claim to be stewards of the land. Blending history with an eye on the future, Our Land charts the conflict, exploring the complex issues of access, custodianship and conservation. Articulately presenting arguments from both sides, the film challenges age-old beliefs around property that have shaped our relationship with the land for over a thousand years. And as the battle for nature continues the film asks the vital question, who truly has the right to roam?
In a remote village high up in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a brother and sister are forced out of education before their childhood is over.
Pacífico is the name of a region, but also that of a force. A land where music accompanies life, where one can be reborn.
During the bombardments of Gaza, a Danish-Palestinian filmmaker tries to raise awareness among the Danish public while struggling to keep himself together. A deeply personal film with a mission.
Onyeka Igwe's new film work is a post-colonial analysis that unfolds the complex history of a university in Nigeria, built under imperial rule.
Two very special friends on a road trip through Denmark in search of a used Honda Civic that might make life just a little bit more normal. A warm film that goes straight to the heart.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film featuring Tilda Swinton visits her at her family's home in the Scottish countryside, allowing two images to overlap in a simple but immensely suggestive gesture.
A psychedelic odyssey into the fabric of the universe, guided by a filmmaker's immersive practical experiments that transcend into a deeply hypnotic audio-visual experience (re)connecting us to the natural world.
Powwow People is a radically immersive, durational portrait and cinematic celebration of a contemporary powwow by Sky Hopinka, one of the most vital artists working today.
A British chef paddles 3,000 kilometers along Greenland's west coast, surviving on nature's bounty and discovering the power of community in a country surrounded by geopolitical tensions.
A man builds a bunker out of junk on a field in the Swedish countryside to be ready when the enemy comes. A modern myth based on reality, by former CPH:DOX winner John Skoog.
A young filmmaker's graceful and courageous film from the Dominican Republic, where women speak openly about living in a country where abortion is banned - without exception.
After #MeToo broke the cultural silence on gender violence, international human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson fights against the weaponization of defamation laws to silence survivors.
For decades, members of a pacifist, traditional religious community have been living in isolation along the Dniester River in western Ukraine. Their peaceful existence has often been disrupted by the fluctuating levels of the river, but since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, their way of life has come under pressure from a far greater threat.
The first part of Silent Flood shows beautiful, poetic images of their idyllic surroundings. The farmers, who split from the Amish in the distant past, work the land with horse and cart, their children play or do laundry in the river, and in the evening families dine by candlelight—there is no electricity. The film then leaves the village, following a special shipment to the front.
When the lens shifts from the community to the Ukrainian soldiers longing for home, we see how, under the pressure of war, the two worlds converge. The peace-loving farmers find a way of their own to contribute. Without ever showing a soldier in combat, the film offers a unique perspective on a country and its people at war.
Sabine Lidl presents Siri Hustvedt's journey from her first novel to being a leading voice in contemporary literature – a film about feminist perspectives, Hustvedt's soulmate Paul Auster, and the power of thought.
A virtual trip around the world, with commentary exclusively from TripAdvisor. A deeply original film of true satirical wit that confronts us with a world where mass tourism has triumphed.
From a montage of visual archives gathered from YouTube emerges the social and cultural landscape of an American high school, along with a story centered on Eva, a typical cheerleader at the heart of a strange collective episode.
While trying to help a stranger find her birth mother, a filmmaker is drawn into the shadows of her own family history, uncovering a dark legacy that has loomed over its women.
Step inside the eye of the storm. "Stormbound" thrusts audiences into the heart of the world's most powerful hurricanes with breathtaking, never-before-seen footage captured from within. As wind, water, and land collide, the film follows storm chaser Jeff Gammons, who for more than thirty years has pushed closer than anyone else to document every major hurricane to strike the United States. Now tested by a near fatal disease , Gammons continues his pursuit—revealing the personal cost of chasing nature at its most extreme and the larger environmental forces shaping our world. "Stormbound" is a high-stakes, immersive experience that places audiences face-to-face with nature at its most powerful.
Let your hair down and join an acid-fueled road trip through the summer with two young 'Deadheads' as they follow Grateful Dead on their final tour.
A visually explosive, musical journey into the Arctic, where musicians and researchers share their personal stories about nature, culture, and rapidly changing identities to a dizzying score by BICEP.
This VR experience, co-created with Nouakchott youth, artists, poets, and scholars, weaves personal stories, archives, and immersive sound to portray the city's complex history and ongoing urban transformation.
Greenlandic Inuk Arina is witnessing that their ancestral Inuit beliefs are disappearing in her community, and it must be one of the reasons why climate is changing. We don't respect Nature the way we used to, and consumerism and pollution have taken over.
From freedom of speech to fake news and AI. In a largely unregulated digital world, a 33-year-old Danish woman is appointed tech ambassador with a global mandate.
A father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with the AI insanity, exploring the existential dangers and stunning promise of this technology that humanity has created. There's something deeply compelling about art born out of acute anxiety — perhaps because it stems from vulnerability and a need for clarity. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist grew out of co-director Daniel Roher's profound unease about the future, especially the role artificial intelligence will play in shaping it. Together with Charlie Tyrell, Roher explores both the dazzling possibilities and risks of these fast-evolving tools, along with the price they may carry. Combining expert interviews, home videos, and animations, the film meets this pressing AI discourse with curiosity and heart, clarifying complex ideas while acknowledging how much remains uncertain and deeply human. Rather than claiming to have all the answers, The AI Doc offers a conversation that feels urgent, hopeful, and impossible to ignore.
In Finland, a middle-aged couple of potato farmers must agree on the rules for living together, as the man's bisexuality puts the limits of their love to the test.
follows heavy metal pioneers Judas Priest and their half-century journey from working-class origins in England to their recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
A beautiful fable from India, where the inhabitants of a small village play themselves in a simple and enigmatic tale about a retired professor and his cow.
Venezuela: In a broken health system where life hangs by a thread, Carolina rises as a maternity warrior. Drawing strength from her past, she relentlessly preserves the vital cord between pregnant women and their babies.
A young Indian man cycles 10,000 km from Delhi to Sweden to find the love of his life. An epic adventure film and an incredible but true story – and one of the biggest romantic hits of the year.
Connecting traces of hypnagogia, fragmented geography and childhood sci-fi media, through senses of time belonging to translucent dreams, shadows, fantasies and family owned workshops. the images drift into the peripheral glimmers of a nocturnal city and slip into another world.
A cinematic time capsule depicting one of the most volatile eras of American history - a historical record, non-fiction experiment, and intimate observation of the state of American democracy.
After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, filmmaker John Wilson tries to use the same formula to sell a documentary about concrete. Documentarian and observational humor connoisseur John Wilson makes his feature directorial debut with a film that is effortlessly hysterical and genuinely hard to describe. The How to With John Wilson creator's quick, permeating wit and boundless curiosity clock in, this time through the lenses of urbanism and, somehow, the institution of Hallmark. A heady comedic whiplash emerges as Wilson bounces between (literal) textures of the mundane. Underlying Wilson's well-established, unique filmmaking language are both an intellectual specificity and a strangely leveling impulse — a fascination with the breadth of American life and the built environment that contains it. The History of Concrete rests on a pure, generative desire to give warmth to the invisibly ubiquitous, answering key questions such as: "Who removes the gum from our sidewalks?" This is an unassumingly strange, joyful documentary that no one else could have made, perfect for the chronically online, the studied philosopher, and everyone in between.
He thought his Norwegian father was a journalist. In reality, he was a CIA spy who fired AK-47s in the Kuwaiti desert and infiltrated cocaine laboratories in Colombia. It is time to face the truth, and it's stranger than fiction.
The Lost Golden Lotus' reimages China's foot-binding legacy through multisensory art and Deaf-led performance, connecting historical beauty ideals to today's exacting body standards.
A Palestinian mother-to-be in the Netherlands grapples with emotional and physical challenges during pregnancy. Through intimate reflections, she confronts pain, uncertainty, fear of bodily changes, and an identity crisis, all while challenging societal norms around motherhood. Torn between her personal struggles and the devastation in Gaza, she feels guilt and shame, questioning her right to feel pain and wrestling with her privilege while others endure unimaginable suffering.
Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin and other female thinkers, a Norwegian filmmaker invites us on a sensual and richly philosophical journey of (re)discovery in the deep Finnish forests.
An electronic composer sets out to sea, where his music evokes a deep, poetic resonance in a humpback whale. Can we communicate with animals through music?
A decade-long global journey chronicles the ever-changing record holders of the title of oldest person alive. What begins as a portrait of longevity becomes a meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate, and the joy and profound human experience of being alive. The oldest human being on the planet is not someone you encounter suddenly, nor someone you know for long. As the years go by, and Sam Green meets the next, and the next, oldest person in the world, his personal fascination with what the title means becomes entangled with his own experience of time, and the joys and pains of his own life. Green's work has been a cornerstone of documentary filmmaking for a generation of artists. With one of his most intimate films yet, he returns to the Sundance Film Festival with his unique mixture of wry wit, earnest feeling, and formal play. In The Oldest Person in the World, the profound and silly experience of being alive is articulated in a way only film can do.
Yves Bouvier brokers masterpieces, from da Vinci to Rothko, into the private collection of Dmitry Rybolovlev until Bouvier is accused of a billion-dollar betrayal. Rising ambitions, frayed relationships, and bruised egos fuel a decade-long all-out war between the Swiss art dealer and the elusive Russian oligarch.
Over two long summers, this film spends time at a community park in London and asks what it means to celebrate, play, and belong amid the rubble of empire.
Danish film producer Peter Aalbæk is a self-proclaimed patriarch. Now his daughters are sending him to therapy—but can he really change? A loving, funny, and merciless portrait of a threatened species.
The short film follows a writer who has trouble sitting still, focusing, and finishing things. It mixes real-life moments with simple science about dopamine, the brain chemical that helps us pay attention and find things interesting. By showing how this shapes focus and energy, the film helps explain why some people think and feel differently. It shows what it's like to have a busy, creative brain that's always jumping to new ideas. Instead of calling it a problem, the film celebrates seeing and living in a different way. "See The World in Flashes" is for anyone who's ever felt out of place and wants to see the science behind why.
In a secret house in northern Syria, wounded Kurdish guerrilla soldiers live with phantom pains in the shadow of a failed revolution. An Emmy-winning director's portrayal of five years in a secret community.
The Pledge' is an interactive installation turning encounters with AI bias into a collective digital monument.
A fascinating and original portrait of Stockholm's constant expansion and today's human hustle and bustle, told through a red metro line and its passengers.
Joshua Oppenheimer is back with a short film about technology, self-deception, and the dream of immortality under the dazzling Californian sun.
A botched assassination. A quiet English city contaminated by a chemical weapon. Russian spies on the run. A mother of three killed. A government fearing the start of WW3. The most extraordinary true spy tale in modern history.
The Sanctuary of Dreams' invites audiences into a collective future-dreaming ritual, where imagination becomes a tool to envision new social, spiritual, and cultural realities shaped by shared human desires.
A clear-sighted mapping of the fault lines on the world map of the 21st century. Power politics, migration, and surveillance are violent forces in a global drama, depicted with sharp artistic vision.
The film travels at the pace of the seasons through the real and fictional story of a region in Portugal, the Alentejo, and the peoples who have lived there. It begins at a present with no memory and travels back in time to the immemorial time, before the invention of writing. Along the way, it crosses more or less distant pasts: the work and life of German archaeologists detained far away from home during WWII, through their archives and letters; the occupation of the land by the rural workers after the revolution in April 1974; stories kept in the collective memory. During this journey we meet women and men, old people and children, shepherds, hunters, beekeepers, archaeologist, teachers and storytellers, and also ruins, dolmens and a thousand-year old olive tree. All contribute, with their memories, believes and knowledge, to compose a poetic, political, multi-layered and polyphonic portrait of the region
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where women are denied the right to study, work, and speak freely, a group of young women risk their lives to form a secret reading circle.
Fourteen years ago, Louis Theroux visited the Westbank, following a group of ultra Zionists, infringing on international law by building their homes in Palestinian territory. Now, Theroux is back in the Westbank, in a post October 7th world.
A group of passionate creatives set out to transform the old concrete silo on the harbor in Stubbekøbing into an artistic landmark for the town. Now the community must decide: Should the silo be torn down — or should this small town dare to dream big?
What happens when a select group of young, idealistic middle-class families settle in a Copenhagen 'ghetto' with a dream of developing a new neighborhood?
Three experienced taxi drivers roam the streets of Athens dreaming of art and new beginnings in a nocturnal and poetic film for night owls.
A silent visual poem dedicated to the artist's grandfather, who seeks answers and finds new questions in the organic surroundings.
A young, racialised director's struggles to make his debut film turn into a docu-satire with political punch that takes you by surprise. Entertaining, energetic and intensely unpredictable.
At a time when elements of fascisation are becoming ever more apparent, ever more pervasive, artist Vika Kirchenbauer takes a personal look at what is in the air in present-day Germany.
On a winter night in Berlin, Three of Cups explores love, identity and change among three friends—a non-binary artist, a trans woman, and a queer man—, blending fiction and documentary in poetic moments.
Field recordings of the Atacama desert of Chile and analogue 8mm images explore the grainy, silent textures of sand, dust and noise.
Facing the death of his country's glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time, and water. How do you say goodbye to what you never thought you could lose? That's the question Magnason grapples with in Sara Dosa's ambitious new project following her 2022 Sundance Film Festival breakout Fire of Love. Tasked to write the eulogy for Okjökull, the first glacier to be declared dead due to climate change, Magnason reflects on how glaciers create an archive of deep time within their ice over millions of years. Likening this idea of the depth of time to intergenerational memory, he sets out to pass along the stories of his grandparents for future generations, before they too vanish. Drawing from an evocative mix of photographs, home movies, myths, songs, and folk tales, Time and Water is at once an elegy for what we've lost and an attempt at cinematic time travel to retain it.
In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter proudly defend their ancestral mountain from the threat of becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of the violence that shattered their family. Gara, To Hold a Mountain's guiding light, is living proof that not all heroes wear capes. She spends long days herding sheep, making cheese, and fighting to protect her favorite place in the world — all while ensuring that young Nada grows up kind, capable, and empowered. In To Hold a Mountain, co-directors Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić craft a tender, visually stunning portrait of a remote mountain community of women driven by strenuous work and grassroots resistance. Despite their daily hardships and the lasting effects of generational trauma, they remain loving and dignified, nurturing not only one another, but also the animals they rely on for sustenance. The film powerfully captures the significance of love and persistence at a time when the past haunts and the future feels under attack.
Despite the deep traces of trauma caused by sexual violence and torture at the hands of Russian troops, Ukrainian women survivors are uniting to break stigma and silence, transforming their testimonies into a powerful form of resistance.
Through never-before-seen archival footage and first-hand accounts of those who knew him best, the film traces Archbishop Desmond Tutu's rise as the voice of the oppressed, guided by faith, hope and an understanding of the power of forgiveness.
Follow explorers into places rarely glimpsed by human eyes: caves, flooded drains and underground laboratories, revealing hidden worlds beneath our feet. Narrated by Sandra Hüller and featuring stunning visuals, this sensorial journey offers a humbling perspective on our place within — not merely atop — this planet.
In Gaza's refugee camps, women struggle to maintain their dignity and health amid inhumane conditions, where even the simplest needs become a daily battle for survival.
Smugglers transport people across the border to Europe during an endless, sleepless night. A cinematic film shot in pitch darkness, which should be experienced in the cinema at all costs.
Starting from a hotel in Addis Ababa built by Emperor Haile Selassie, Ruth Beckermann explores a place both familiar and foreign to her. Archive footage and conversations on the ground combine personal reflections with the histories of Ethiopia and Europe.
What if the mysteries of life can be found in the gutter? That question drives an unusual man on a journey to explore our connection to the stars.
Vividly tracing the history and influence of funk music, filmmakers Stanley Nelson (2012 Full Frame Tribute honoree) and Nicole London bring to the screen the stars and stories, the themes and theory, behind the music. Featuring dazzling archival performances from James Brown, Sly & the Family Stone, Parliament Funkadelic, Labelle, Fela Kuti, and more, this energetic documentary has the spirit and spectacle of a concert film. Effortlessly woven throughout the film are interviews with contemporary musicians and ambassadors of the sound, including Questlove, Prince Paul, and David Byrne, who discuss the vast constellation of funk, ranging from post-war politics, sociology, and science to the roots of the legendary rhythms. As infectious and dynamic as the grooves it chronicles, We Want the Funk! honors funk's fantastic voyage with a cinematic journey through the genre.
Would you still be the same if your heart belonged to someone else - even if that someone else was a pig? A philosophical and quietly poignant film about our relationship with our fellow creatures.
With visual elegance, a moving hybrid story of diasporic grief and family reconciliation is told through a Filipino immigrant who wants to return to his homeland before it is too late.
On a farm south of Copenhagen, young elite musicians practice the difficult art of classical music. A beautiful and life-affirming film full of wonderful music.
A young Chilean woman moves into an abandoned house in Valparaíso to piece together her family's history, which has been colored by dictatorship, exile, and silence for five decades.
Only through his camera is Swiss-Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler (The End of Time, Becoming Animal) able to relate to the world, study himself and the people around him, and share his insights. This also applies to his relationship with the phenomenon of time and the finite nature of our existence on earth. He is confronted by this when his mother dies and he knows that his 90-year-old father, despite his cheerful zest for life, inevitably will follow. During Mettler's cinematographic exploration of the meaning of life and what comes before and after, the COVID pandemic breaks out, which puts everything even more sharply into perspective.
While the Green Grass Grows consists of parts 1 and 6 of a seven-part filmic diary that unfolds unhurriedly and meditatively. Mettler asks his parents and friends his existential questions. At the same time, he focuses on nature: the Swiss Alps, where his parents come from, and the forests of his own native country, Canada. Everything flows, reproduces and continues—with great beauty, and without revealing any meaning.
In the remote Liangshan Mountains, 14-year-old Qihuo and her friends set out to find a skirt for her rite of passage. What begins as a small quest drifts into a suspended space of childhood, where time slows and the world is vast.
How many ways can sunlight break through low-hanging mist? How many times can you watch clouds slowly envelop an entire forest? Endlessly, according to award-winning nature photographer and filmmaker Vincent Munier.
After the IDFA hit The Velvet Queen (2021), in which he searched the Tibetan Plateau for the elusive snow leopard, Munier now returns with a new nature film that is just as breathtaking and hopeful. This time he stays much closer to home, in the forests of the Vosges in France. Munier first came here as a teenager; it was here his father taught him about nature—how to look, and above all, how to listen.
Vincent's son is now the same age he was at the time. We follow three generations of the Munier family in the vast forests. Waiting and watching, the silence broken only by their whispers. There are rutting deer and comical young owls. In the evening, by candlelight, they tell each other stories: the last time Grandpa saw a capercaillie, or a tall tale about a lynx. A joy to listen to and, luckily for us, accompanied by beautiful images.
Thermal infrared study of how bodies react, adapt, and seek connections in a world shaped by surveillance and mediated violence.
A stylish and thought-provoking courtroom drama examines sexual assault through institutional and linguistic filters as a young woman recounts her testimony twice in two different languages.
A performative work of fiction set in a contemporary time, where both reality and fiction itself crack open in small, unsettling ways as a couple attempts to help an absent friend move house.
Three young friends from Belgrade drive from New York to Los Angeles in a Yugo – a cult relic of a car from the 1980s. A docu-comedy and a road trip with many unexpected encounters.