Full-length documentary
Carmela helps thousands of Venezuelan refugees, bravely doing so often at great personal cost. This black-and-white documentary shows how exhausting it can be to do good while trying to keep your own life in one piece.
Full-length documentary
Comedienne Noam Shuster-Eliassi takes up the fight against prejudice towards the Palestinian people. Her weapons are a microphone, courage, and humour. But can an Israeli celebrity change her own society through stand-up?
Full-length documentary
Kuba and Alaska enlist as paramedics on the front lines near Kharkiv, Ukraine, where the brutality of war tests them daily. Humor and friendship keep their faith in victory alive amid the chaos.
Full-length documentary
Sara lives in an Iranian village, where she becomes the first woman elected to the local council. Charismatic and determined, she carves a path through a conservative society on her motorcycle, fighting for the rights of women and children.
Full-length documentary
Japan has recently become a hot tourist destination—a place everyone wants to be. But behind the neon lights of its big cities lies a major loneliness epidemic.
Short documentary
Two little girls are playing together with a balloon. After a small disagreement, the friends get angry at each other. Eventually their anger swells so much they become floating balloons themselves.
Full-length documentary
They forced her to teach Mandarin at a Uyghur internment camp. Now, safely abroad, this eyewitness to Chinese tyranny exposes the oppression that also struck her own family.
Short documentary
Jools’ dream is to become a dancer. With the help of her teacher, the twelve-year-old gradually discovers how to overcome her physical limitations, gain self-confidence, and find joy in movement.
Full-length documentary
Is assisted dying a free choice, or the result of systemic failure? A chilling probe into a reality where death is cheaper than dignified care.
Full-length documentary
A mother and daughter share a quiet evening ritual that gradually transforms into a dark tableau of memory and fear. The film sensitively observes how motherhood becomes a journey toward protection as well as a return to a painful past.
Full-length documentary
She won an Oscar at just twenty-one, yet as a deaf actress, she has had to fight constantly to maintain her place in Hollywood.
Full-length documentary
Pavel “Pasha” Talankin is a popular enthusiastic Russian school teacher who likes small-town life, bad weather, and even dirty panel buildings. His life is disrupted by the war, as he, an employee of an educational institution, must become its instrument.
Full-length documentary
Humans can act as nature’s defenders or as an invasive species. While conservationist Pavel strives to ease environmental anxiety and become one with the land, Klára is hot on the trail of a bird poisoner.
Full-length documentary
The mountains between the hostile nations of Azerbaijan and Armenia are the only place where a rare butterfly can be seen. The daughter of the entomologist after whom the butterfly is named embarks on an adventurous expedition to capture it.
Short documentary
A curious and imaginative boy, Simão creates his very own comic book, Game Over.
Full-length documentary
Sarah McBride is the first openly transgender politician running for a seat in the U.S. Congress. Her historic candidacy, however, is shadowed by transphobic attacks and relentless media scrutiny.
Full-length documentary
No known diagnosis can explain what’s happening to this group of Norwegian girls. Numbness in the limbs and fainting while fully conscious are just some of the symptoms of an illness that has disrupted their adolescence and demands urgent attention.
Full-length documentary
A documentary fairy tale about a farmer who rediscovers life’s joy through an unexpected friendship with a stork.
Full-length documentary
A coming-of-age documentary from Bosnia and Herzegovina about three young boys chasing their Olympic dreams and a chance at a better life.
Feature film
Red Crescent volunteers answer an emergency call: a six-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While keeping her on the line, the humanitarian workers do everything in their power to get an ambulance to her.
Full-length documentary
The gray social reality of today’s Belarus shines against the archetypal story of adolescence and the search for independence. Can a young welder piece together the dark fragments of her past and her fractured family?
Full-length documentary
This intimate portrait of the relationship between a father and his son on the autism spectrum captures both the difficulty and the strength inherent in everyday caregiving. At the same time, it exposes the limits of a system that too often relies on the sacrifices of others.
Full-length documentary
Lithium is found in almost every electronic device, from mobile phones to computers. It’s, thus, no coincidence that it has earned the nickname “white gold.” But what is the true cost of its extraction, which takes place primarily in countries of the Global South?