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- DirectorClaudia SparrowStarsMaxima Acuna Atalaya ChaupeA multi-billion dollar corporation meets their match in a fearless Indigenous woman who remains uncowed after years of violent intimidation.
- DirectorWaad Al-KateabEdward WattsStarsWaad Al-KateabSama Al-KhateabHamza Al-KhateabFOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
- StarsWilson CruzWanda SykesMichaela Jaé (MJ) RodriguezInvestigates the importance of TV as an intimate medium that has shaped the American conscience, and how the LGBTQ movement has shaped television.
- DirectorHugh DaviesHelen SpoonerIn the wake of a vicious anti-LGBT government crackdown in Azerbaijan in September 2017, this experimental documentary follows the plight of three young LGBT Azeris fearing for their lives.
- DirectorBernd SchochStarsIleana ManiceaMarian MarunteluMihaela MarunteluOLANDA tells the story of mushroom pickers who, in the summer and autumn months head, to the southern Carpathians of Romania to begin their search. The film takes a look at the coexistence of a temporary community over a whole season and uses the rhizomatic structure of the fungus itself to describe a precarious sociopolitical structure in which the smaller and the larger stories, the different motivations and circumstances of the protagonists cross paths and connect again and again.
- DirectorAgostino FerrenteStarsAlessandro AntonelliPietro OrlandoAlessandro and Pietro, both aged 16, film themselves with a cell phone to tell the story of their friendship, the tragedy of Davide, and their everyday lives if the difficult Traiano district of Naples.
- DirectorTonje Hessen ScheiStarsMax TegmarkZeynep TüfekçiElenore PauwelsThe documentary follows the booming artificial intelligence industry, what opportunities and challenges it brings and its impact on the global community.
- DirectorRaúl de la Fuente
- DirectorBen LewisStarsBrendan PriceNicolas ChapmanMolly MalcolmThe most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet: Google's master plan to scan every book in the world and the people trying to stop them. Google say they are building a library for mankind, but they also have other intentions.
- StarsSyra MadadJake GlanvilleSarah IvesIn this docuseries, meet the heroes on the front lines of the battle against influenza and learn about their efforts to stop the next global outbreak.
- DirectorKarim AmerJehane NoujaimStarsBrittany KaiserDavid CarrollPaul-Olivier DehayeThe Cambridge Analytica scandal is examined through the roles of several affected persons.
- DirectorWang BingA dozen aging survivors are interviewed from Jiabiangou, a complex of three work camps in Northwest China where supposed rightists were sent for re-education in the 1950s and 1960s under Mao Zedong.
- DirectorNikolaus GeyrhalterWith precisely composed shots and detailed interviews with local police officers, hikers, farmers and small business owners, the film explores the few square kilometers at the Brenner Pass, telling an urgent story of Europe in the process.
- DirectorKristian LandmarkAndrè LøyningStarsFrank Tønnesen
- DirectorMark LinfieldVanessa BerlowitzAlastair FothergillStarsMeghan MarkleAfrican elephant Shani and her spirited son Jomo set out on an epic journey with their herd, traveling hundreds of miles across the vast Kalahari Desert from the Okavango delta to the Zambezi River.
- DirectorMark DeebleVictoria StoneStarsChiwetel EjioforAthena is a mother who will do everything in her power to protect her herd when they are forced to leave their waterhole. This epic journey, narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor, takes audiences across the African savannah, and into the heart of an elephant family. A tale of love, loss and coming home.
- StarsJoe ExoticCarole BaskinJohn ReinkeA rivalry between big cat eccentrics takes a dark turn when Joe Exotic, a controversial animal park boss, is caught in a murder-for-hire plot.
- DirectorLuis AlfaroPablo LejarretaStarsÚrsula CorberóRodrigo de la SernaMiguel HerránA documentary on why and how "Money Heist" sparked a wave of enthusiasm around the world for a lovable group of thieves and their professor.
- DirectorRobert MillerHenry SingerStarsRatko MladicCamille BiblesElvedin PasicThe war crimes trial of one of the most infamous figures from the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
- DirectorTheo AnthonyStarsTheo AnthonyDan DeaconMatt FouseAcross walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. This documentary uses the rat to explore the history of Baltimore.
- DirectorLouis MalleRené VautierStarsGeorges PompidouA documentary with almost no words following the production of Citroen cars at a plant in Northern France and their later sales.
- DirectorWerner HerzogAndré SingerStarsMikhail GorbachevWerner HerzogAndré SingerThe life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
- DirectorRachel MasonStarsKaren MasonBarry MasonMicah MasonIn 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times. Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine. What was expected to be a brief sideline led to their becoming fully immersed in the LGBT community as they took over a local store, Circus of Books. A decade later, they had become the biggest distributors of gay porn in the US. The film focuses on the double life they led, trying to maintain the balance of being parents at a time when LGBT culture was not yet accepted. Their many challenges included facing jail time for a federal obscenity prosecution and enabling their store to be a place of refuge at the height of the AIDS crisis. Circus of Books offers a rare glimpse into an untold chapter of queer history, and it is told through the lens of the owners' own daughter, Rachel Mason, an artist, filmmaker and musician.
- DirectorCamila KaterStarsHelena IgnezRachel PatricioLarissa RahalFive women, each in a different stage of their life, share experiences about their relationships to their bodies and how others perceive them.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogBruce ChatwinKarin EberhardA journey where the viewer can see Werner Herzog's creative and personal vision which was shared with iconic travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of 'In Patagonia' and a champion of the nomadic life.
- DirectorLaura Herrero GarvínAt the Barba Azul cabaret in Mexico City, The women dance and drink with the men who can afford it. In the upstairs toilets, "Mami", in exchange for a trip looks after their bags and even tries to support them.
- DirectorLina MannheimerStarsEdvin KempeNaomi CarterA year in the life of a young millennial couple.
- DirectorChris BolanStarsTerry DonahuePat HenschelDiana BolanFalling in love in 1947, two women -- Pat Henschel and pro baseball player Terry Donahue -- begin a 65-year journey of love and overcoming prejudice.
- DirectorPere AlberóStarsCarlos Garriga
- DirectorJorge JuarezThe film describes in first person the transition from the youth of Jorge, the director of the film, to adulthood (increasingly postponed). A traumatic transit, where the innocence of the first days is abandoned based on breaks and disappointments at work and in art, and where the weight and double nature of the family nucleus are understood as a repressive entity and refuge.
- DirectorEmma TusellStarsJavier CerdáRosi CuerdaAna Luisa Figueira
- DirectorAndrey A. TarkovskiyStarsAndrei TarkovskyThe documentary recounts Tarkovsky's life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares with us his memories, his view of art and his reflections on the destiny of the artist and the meaning of human existence.
- DirectorMarc di DomenicoCharles AznavourStarsRomain DurisMarie MontoyaMichel KlochendlerIn 1948, Edith Piaf offered a Paillard-Bolex camera to Charles Aznavour, which would always be with him. Until 1982, Charles would shot hours and hours of material which would become the corpus of his film diary.
- DirectorAldemar MatiasJenniffer is a young athlete who questions her commitment to the Cuban national athletics team. Her mother Marbelis rules a health care facility in Havana with an iron fist. When her younger brother wants to leave the country, Jenniffer's doubts get bigger and bigger. This intimate and sensitive family chronicle shows a teenager in a country with an uncertain future.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyWater and ice are shown around the world, in all of their many powerful forms.
- DirectorLeon LeeStarsAnonymousJulie KeithFu NingWhen a desperate SOS letter penned by a political prisoner turns up in Halloween decorations sold in Oregon, it sparks a nail-biting chain of events that exposes appalling human rights violations and leads to sweeping labor reform in China.
- DirectorIsabella WillingerStarsDavid ChalmersChuckMark CoeckelberghHow will we live together with artificial intelligence? What will we win, what will we lose? The documentary shows us tomorrow's world today.
- DirectorJeremy PerrinHélène RobertStarsHorii KenjiIn 2011, Japan was hit by a tsunami that killed more than 15,000 people. This sensitive trip along several coastal communities reveals how traumatizing the disaster has been.
- DirectorArtemio BenkiStarsMartín PerinoSoledad MadarietaFederico Daniel BustosMartín is a young Argentinian piano virtuoso and composer, who since his breakdown four years ago is a patient of El Borda, the largest psychiatric hospital in Latin America. While working on a new composition, the former child prodigy and most promising talent of his generation, Martín is now trying to to overcome his mental illness (schizophrenia) and return to life outside the walls of the asylum and back on the concert stages. SOLO tells unique, yet universal story about the obsession with perfection and creation, narrating the evolution of a human being who draws his strength from his own fragility.
- DirectorPedro BallesterosStarsJaume PlensaCan You Hear Me? is an in-depth exploration of the work and personality of the sculptor Jaume Plensa. Together with Plensa we visit some of his most representative pieces, sited in public spaces in Spain, France, Sweden, the US, Canada and Japan, on a series of trips that also take in the ideas that nurture his works. We also witness the genesis and construction of a major project for the lobby of a New York skyscraper, the preparations for a retrospective of his work at the MACBA in Barcelona, the inauguration of a major open-air exhibition in Stock- holm, and the siting of large sculptures in Madrid, the island of Porqueroles and, once again, New York. Making the most of the access and intimacy provided by one of the most import artists active on today's art scene, this documentary deals with the mechanisms leading to artistic creation, the questions that arise from our engagement with it, and how art, that thing which has no use, can transform our ways of seeing and being in the world, if only for an instant.
- DirectorMarianne Hougen-MoragaEstephan WagnerStarsHorst SchaffrikJürgen SzurgeliesHelga BohnauThe inhabitants of a German colony in Chile share a dark past with violence and sexual abuse, but react in widely different ways when confronted with it today.
- DirectorElsa KremserLevin PeterStarsAleksey SerebryakovNatalia KuranovaNadezhda SobetskayaThey are Moscow's stray shadows: a "pack" of dogs and humans, claiming their territory where the city is crumbling and yet reveals a magical landscape.
- DirectorArthur FranckStarsOlliver HawkLaila HakasaloValto KäkeläLife story of Finnish hypnotist Olavi Hakasalo, aka. Olliver Hawk.
- DirectorMariana ViñolesThrough the years and from a very intimated point of view, this is the story of the adaptation process of two Syrian refugee's families to a faraway country called Uruguay, they completely disown.
- DirectorFederico FerroneMichele ManzoliniStarsEmidio Clementi1941. An Italian soldier heads to the Eastern Front, the bloodiest theater of conflict of World War II. 2018. Another war starts in the same area, reopening old wounds in Europe.
- DirectorLuis OrtasStarsPascal Comelade
- DirectorThierry DemaizièreAlban TeurlaiThe rock of the Grotto of Lourdes is caressed by tens of millions of people who left there the imprint of their dreams, their expectations, their hopes and their sentences. In Lourdes converge all the fragilities.
- DirectorSimón UribeDeep in the misty jungle of southern Colombia, between treacherously steep mountain slopes, stands an unfinished concrete bridge as an absurd symbol of human folly. Once intended as a link in the new "bypass" that was supposed to replace the perilous old road from Pasto to Mocoa, it's now a bizarre attraction for day trippers taking selfies and kids doing motorcycle stunts. In 1991 a devastating landslide hit the old road, known as the "trampoline of death", killing dozens of people. An engineer in his jeep describes it as madness that this lethal road was constructed like this back in the 1940s. After all, Catholic missionaries had already found a better route decades earlier. Local residents view the futuristic design of the new bridge under construction on their laptops. Workers pour concrete in the midst of mud and fast-flowing waters, unaware of the impending doom. It's as if there's a conspiracy between nature, politicians and foolish arrogance.
- DirectorAnders ØstergaardErzsébet RáczStarsBruno GanzMartin GoldsmithHarvey FriedmanMartin Goldsmith never knew what happened to his parents before they escaped from Germany in 1941. Over a weekend, he confronts his father and we are brought back to the complex and confusing 1930s when the parents were young musicians.
- DirectorPhilippe BellaicheRachel Leah JonesStarsLea TsemelYasser JoubehSuheila DweikA look at the life and work of Jewish-Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years.
- DirectorNicole CostaAfter 17 years working as a sex worker in New York City, undocumented immigrant Iván Monalisa reunites with a former college classmate and re-flourishes in the search for identity as a transgender performer and writer.
- DirectorFernanda PessoaHow is it to live in United States' most conservative city? Arid Zone gives the experience of being in Mesa, Arizona, considered by the MIT and the UCLA, U.S's most conservative big city.
- DirectorSung-a YoonStarsWela Mae C. BundaMary Beth C. CampoHilda D. CoronelThe question of domestic slavery in our globalized world, while emphasizing those women's determination, sisterhood and the strategies they find to face the obstacles that awaits them in the near future.
- DirectorAya KoretzkyStarsAya KoretzkyJiro KoretzkyAtsushi SugitaThe portrait of a father as seen through the eyes of his daughter by means of a photo album. A travel diary from the 1970s, starting in Japan and around the world. Father and daughter cross views on the memories of the old images and words, sharing the will to bring them to the present day.
- DirectorTonislav HristovStarsVeera LapinkoskiHeikki OksanenVille OksanenWhile trying to become more independent and to help her mentally disabled brother through live-role-playing, a young woman haunted by her childhood traumas learns how to face her own past.
- DirectorAlexe PoukineStarsConchita PazEpona GuillaumeAurore FattierAlexe Poukine tells the story of Ada, 19, brutally abused three times a few days apart by the same boy.
- DirectorValentina PediciniWarriors of Light is an over 20 years old religious sect consisting of mostly former martial arts champions.
- DirectorVentura DurallStarsMarina GarcésRoger Torrent
- DirectorJakub HejnaHelena TrestíkováStarsMilos FormanMiroslav OndrícekA look at the life and work of director Milos Forman, from the Czech New Wave to Hollywood.
- DirectorFrancesca MazzoleniStarsSilvia BianchiChiky RealezaFranca VanniniA family of women drive stories centering on the Sacred Point, the last bit of habitable land at the mouth of the Tiber River, a precious triangle of soil they want to cling to.
- DirectorEva Marie RødbroA harsh and dreamy story of a young girl from the American West and her longing heart. Through Betty we experience a tight family clan of children born by children born by children where love and dependency go hand in hand.
- DirectorPawel FerdekStarsPeter BogdanovichRichard N. GladsteinMichael GruskoffOver a century ago, such people as Sam Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, or the Warner brothers left Polish shtetls and became moguls after numerous adventures and hardships they had to face on their way.
- DirectorFederico BorgiaGuillermo MadeiroStarsAntonio OstaJuanjo OstaTen years after winning a world title in bodybuilding in Russia and becoming a star of said discipline in Mexico, Antonio Osta (43) leads a life of austerity in the Uruguayan rural town where he grew up. He resides there with his son Juanjo (17), a sensitive teenager who keeps him company and confronts him openly. Suffering from acute kidney disease which keeps him from competing professionally, Antonio is stuck in limbo, halfway between his glorious past and the impossibility of being who he once was. However, he is unwilling to give up his lifestyle, even if it kills him. In an attempt to reinvent himself, and seeking a better future for his son, Antonio plans a comeback to the Mexico bodybuilding scene, where he may relive his glory days.
- DirectorKatja HøgsetMargreth OlinEspen WallinStarsLene Marie FossenTorill FossenGeir FossenThe Self Portrait is a film about choice - choosing life. This is a choice no one can make for you, you will have to make it yourself. The Norwegian artist Lene Marie Fossen (32) is an up and coming, unique talent in the world of photography, facing an international breakthrough. Critics claim she is among the best still photographers in our present time. At the same time she appears to be dying from anorexia. Lene Marie stopped eating when she was ten years old. She didn't want to grow up. Over time the disease has gained control over her body and poisoned her thoughts. The main conflict of the film is the one within Lene Maries's mind, always waging war on itself. Galleries in several countries want to exhibit her art. Lene Maries biggest goal is to have a solo exhibition. Will she be able to travel the world? Can she rid herself of shame by exposing it? The use of Lene Marie's self portraits in this film will offer a unique perspective on the complexity of this illness. The anxiety. Death just a breath away. Raw, naked, honest. Lene Marie has come to a turning point. She has realized that she needs help to control her disease. If not, she will die. Her sensitivity made her ill, but will that also be what saves her?
- DirectorMehrdad OskoueiIn an Iranian juvenile detention center, a group of adolescent girls are serving time for having murdered their father, husband or another male family member.
- DirectorHasan OswaldA blue collar worker tries to rescue his pregnant, heroin-addicted girlfriend from the notorious streets of Camden, NJ and her close-knit group of drug users. Once their son is born, he forces her to choose between her life with her drug "family" and one with him and their child.
- DirectorRadu CiorniciucStarsGica EnacheVali EnacheRica EnacheIn the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, nine children and their parents lived in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years until they are chased out and forced to adapt to life in the big city.
- DirectorAndrei GryazevA compilation documentary consisting of public access YouTube videos, in which ordinary Russian citizens, lacking any other means to vent their grievances, address president Putin with a host of their complaints.
- DirectorBoris B. BertramStarsJan GrarupMarie Bitsch-LarsenElias Sekjær GrarupA photographer struggles to balance life in war zones with being the father of four.
- DirectorLouise DetlefsenLouise KjeldsenStarsHelene ThyrstedMarte NymannPauline LindborgFour young women, two from Norway, one each from Denmark and Sweden, on being overweight and beautiful. How to be comfortable and proud of your body, even though it doesn't fit into the norms dictated by the media.
- DirectorJerzy SladkowskiOn a Russian cruise ship of the cheaper kind, everyone is looking for love - and luckily find it.
- DirectorArwen CurryStarsMichael ChabonMargaret AtwoodNeil GaimanDecades before Hogwarts, Ursula K. Le Guin invited young readers to wizard school in her classic Earthsea fantasy series, and dazzled the science fiction world with masterworks like The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin tells the groundbreaking author's story in her own words, sprinkled with stunning animation and commentary from literary luminaries like Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, and Michael Chabon. Produced with Le Guin's participation over ten years, Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin is a breathtaking journey through the late writer's career and her worlds, both real and fantastic.
- DirectorMarta RodríguezJorge SilvaThis film documents the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, using the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva worked on this documentary from 1966 to 1972, establishing a relationship with the family which allows the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.
- DirectorMarta RodríguezJorge SilvaA Colombian documentary that expose the context of the indigenous-farmer movement in the early 70s.
- DirectorMo ScarpelliStarsJorge Thielen HedderichJorge Thielen ArmandA father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.
- DirectorMaciej CuskeA 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.
- DirectorAndrea TestaIn shades of gray, the calm, static shots show young female visitors to a public hospital in Argentina. This is the place where teenage girls have to make a decision about the new life growing inside them. A few of them have, at a very young age indeed, already had children. For others, the idea of a future as a mother is new and terrifying. In many cases, though, having an abortion isn't a decision to be taken for granted. Some of the girls have learned from childhood that getting pregnant is your own fault, and you have to accept the consequences. What they know about abortion comes from horror stories of clandestine practices in backstreet clinics. The hospital gynecologists and other staff, who can be heard but not seen, ask the girls about their well-being, their relationship, their family ties, and how they see the future-with or without a child. In these intimate and non-judgmental conversations, the girls respond with powerful candor in their most vulnerable moments.
- DirectorBoaz GoldbergStarsCharlie MegiraBoaz GoldbergMichal KahanIn the early 2000's, Journalist and Musician Boaz Goldberg began to document his friend Gabi Abudraham - a dreamy young man from the Beit She'an periphery, with an obsession for Elvis, a fascination for mystical teachings and virtuoso musical abilities. The shy Abudraham creates an eccentric character named Charlie Megira, embarking on a stormy musical journey and reaching the large stages in the United States. Together with his struggle for worldwide artistic recognition, Abudraham was forced to deal constantly with the inner demons that he tried to silence with the larger than life figure he created. Meanwhile, Goldberg struggles to eliminate his personal demons in order to finish the film, moving along a timeline of nearly two decades and examining what happens when an artist crosses the boundaries he has set for himself.
- DirectorTod LendingIn a South Florida retirement community, 91-year-old Saul Dreier starts a klezmer band with fellow concentration camp survivor Ruby Sosnowicz, hoping to use music to celebrate life and memorialize those who perished in the Holocaust.
- DirectorGrit LemkeStarsGerhard GundermannIn her first feature length documentary as a director, author and curator Grit Lemke turns her attention to the life of the cult rock poet and coal excavator driver Gerhard Gundermann who was initially called "the Bob Dylan of the opencast mine" before becoming the "voice of the East Germans". The film biography is told against the background of a region where global issues of our time are focused as if in a concave mirror. They permeate the artist's oeuvre: home and devastation, the end of industry and work, utopia and individual responsibility. Observations and conversations, images of a post-mining landscape, and a first-person narrator from the coal region enter into a dialogue with Gundermann through his songs, texts and largely unknown archive footage.
- DirectorMarta RodríguezJorge SilvaThe documentary outlines the social features of workers at flowers plantation at Bogotá, Colombia and his claim for a better lifestyle and health conditions among the females stories of life and love.
- DirectorDaniel RoherStarsThe BandRobbie RobertsonBruce SpringsteenA confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band.
- DirectorPushpendra SinghStarsMoti Khan ManganiyarNijre Khan ManganiyarAnwar Khan ManganiyarMoti Khan, a musically gifted child from the lower caste Muslim Manganiyars of the Thar Desert, is forced to sing and play music for their ancestral patrons in order to survive.
- DirectorBehzad NalbandiWhen foreign dignitaries are expected in Tehran, the local authorities dedicate themselves to an "urban beautification" process which includes the rounding up of unsavory characters - drug addicts and prostitutes - from the streets. The men are released after a few days, but the women are kept as wards of the state in perpetuity. They are sent to holding centers on the outskirts of the city where no records are kept by the social workers. This animated documentary attempts to give a voice to homeless women taken off the streets against their will, stripped of their rights and kept incarcerated until their death.
- DirectorNarges KalhorStarsFaezeh NikoozadForget everything you think you know about storytelling. And get ready for a very surreal trip. Narges Kalhor plunges us in a funny and deconstructed joyful apocalypse of a web of stories while following four characters who moved to Germany in order to escape the dire and dangerous political situation of their countries. A Syrian gay teenager fears that his visa might be refused and that he might have to return home. An Iranian girl dreams of a Beergarden in the heart of Tehran. Another one struggles with her film project and her teacher that offers useless advice about the ways of making her work more understandable. And, while Scheherazade spins her stories night after night, the world turns gently upside down. A film that offers new meanings on getting lost in translation, while proposing also new perspectives on communication and multiculturalism. A hymn to the sheer force and freedom of creativity. A film that weaves together many layers of reality, juggling with fiction, mocking documentary and its rules.
- DirectorPelin EsmerShakespeare's 'King Lear' travelling on the dusty and risky roads to the remotest forgotten villages in the mountains of Turkey where even drinking water can hardly reach, turns delicately into 'Queen Lear' in the hands of a peasant-women theatre group.
- DirectorMarta RodríguezJorge SilvaStarsFernando VélezEulogio GurruteJulian AviramaThe struggles of the community of the Coconuco indigenous reservation in Cauca, which by the eighteenth-century royal card is entitled to 10,000 hectares, and in 1971 it barely has 1,500.
- DirectorValentin RiedlStarsCarlottaValentin RiedlThis extraordinary portrait reveals artist, sailor, horse trainer, filmmaker, and projectionist Carlotta, who has never been able to recognize a single face, not even her own or her mother's.
- DirectorCatherine PancakeStarsCamae AyewaJibz CameronBarbara Hammer"Queer Genius" is a cinematic exploration of four visionary queer artists breaking down barriers in their creative fields as they confront fame, failure, censorship, family, gender, and sexuality. The film embraces the communal possibilities of "genius" from a particularly queer perspective crossing genre and generational perspective. The film features intertwined portraits of Eileen Myles, Barbara Hammer, Jibz Cameron, and Black Quantum Futurism.
- DirectorSabine HerpichStarsGabriele BeerAdolf BeutlerTill KalischerThe film observes artists of the art workshop Mosaik in Berlin-Spandau at work. At first glance, the project appears to be an employment scheme for people with disabilities but it turns out to be a place of transgression. A visible metamorphosis happens, a world is appropriated and engaged into an artistic dialogue.
- DirectorIlze Burkovska JacobsenA personal, animated documentary about the director's life growing up in Latvia during the Soviet era 1970-1990, where Sovjet used WW2 as an ideological weapon to suppress and scare the population.
- DirectorDavid FranceStarsOlga BaranovaDavid IsteevRamzan KadyrovA group of activists risk their lives fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in Chechnya.
- DirectorNicolas BliesStéphane Hueber-BliesDenis LambertStarsOmar GuerreroNour JarraCaty BaccegaAn artistic hybrid documentary, ZERO IMPUNITY is the centerpiece of an ambitious global transmedia project. ZERO IMPUNITY sheds a powerful spotlight on the seemingly total Impunity for the use of sexual violence in armed conflicts worldwide. ZERO IMPUNITY is an important and necessary eye opening Scream, raising awareness and outrage. Galvanizing us into Action. Join the Movement.
- DirectorKiko GoifmanClaudia PriscillaStarsLinn da QuebradaJup do BairroLinikerA documentary that follows Mc Linn Da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying performances (with plenty of nudity) brazenly take on Brazil's hetero-normative machismo.
- DirectorJoanna Reposi GaribaldiStarsPedro LemebelWriter, Visual Artist and pioneer of the Queer movement in Latin America, Pedro Lemebel shook up conservative Chilean society during Pinochet's dictatorship in the 1980s. Body, blood and fire were protagonists in his work that he attempted to perpetuate in the last eight years of his life in a film he was never able to see finished. In an intimate and poetic journey through his risky performances dealing with homosexuality and human rights, "Lemebel" portrays a culmination of yearning immortality.
- DirectorSam FederStarsLaverne CoxBianca LeighJen RichardsAn in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture.
- DirectorDavid FranceStarsKurt WolfeSue YackaCatherine Shugrue Dos SantosVictoria Cruz investigates the mysterious 1992 death of black gay rights activist and Stonewall veteran, Marsha P. Johnson. Using archival interviews with Johnson, and new interviews with Johnson's family, friends and fellow activists.
- DirectorLynne SachsStarsYi Chun CaoLinda ChanChung Qing CheIn "Your Day is My Night", a collective of Chinese performers living in New York City explores the history and meaning of "shiftbeds" through verité conversations, autobiographical monologues and integrated movement pieces. On screen, the seven performers play themselves, while living together with a young Puerto Rican woman in a shift-bed apartment on Hester Street in the heart of Chinatown. The concept of the shift-bed allows us as viewers to see the private become public, as the bed transforms into a stage for our characters to reveal the struggles and joys of their lives. "Your Day is My Night" is a provocative hybrid documentary that looks at issues of privacy, intimacy, and community in relationship to this familiar item of household furniture.
- DirectorLynne SachsStarsJulia Buchwald-SachsIra Sachs Sr.Adam SachsOver a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings. With a nod to the Cubist renderings of a face, Sachs' cinematic exploration of her father offers simultaneous, sometimes contradictory, views of one seemingly unknowable man who is publicly the uninhibited center of the frame yet privately ensconced in secrets. In the process, Sachs allows herself and her audience inside to see beyond the surface of the skin, the projected reality. As the startling facts mount, Sachs as a daughter discovers more about her father than she had ever hoped to reveal.