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A shocking indictment of Russia; a record of Mariupol’s extermination shot by the only correspondent who remained in the besieged city to the end and risked his life to do so. The film won the crew a...

A shocking indictment of Russia; a record of Mariupol’s extermination shot by the only correspondent who remained in the besieged city to the end and risked his life to do so. The film won...

A picture of the uneasy cooperation among Danish activists and politicians who, during street protests and cabinet negotiations, create a climate law that would become an example for the world....

A young black man befriends his teenage persecutors for his own survival.

A fascinating close-up of one of the most mysterious episodes of the war in Ukraine. What did the Russians want to achieve by occupying Chornobyl – and how did the Ukrainians manage to thwart their...

An experimental and sensual animated film. Just possibly, with the right attitude, childbirth can be completely different than we imagine.

Dalton’s Dream narrates the steep cost of authenticity. In 2018, Dalton Harris, a Jamaican singer, made history on the X-Factor UK as the first black, non-British victor. His candid revelation about...

The phenomenon of war tourism; who are the people willing to pay a lot of money to taste the "real masculine adventure" on the front lines?  

Can the dream of energy transformation threaten the future of ocean ecosystems? A visually stunning documentary essay on the price of treasures from the abyss of the sea, with a voice-over by Jason...

Memorial targeted by the KGB. A Russian human rights defender fighting for the memory of Stalin's victims goes to prison on a trumped-up and extremely serious charge. 

The situation gets out of hand when a Colombian housekeeper, British laborers, a Slovak homeless man and Pakistani neighbor meet at the director's house.

Millions watch the funny videos shot by an influencer in anti-aircraft shelters. As Valeria unexpectedly becomes the face of an entire generation of young Ukrainians, she tries to put it to good use....

Millions of veterans of American wars pay an extremely high price for their duty on a daily basis. As a rule, their deep psychological wounds can’t be healed by pharmaceuticals or even traditional...

A funny and poignant film by the icon of French cinema. Starting from the theme of collecting, Varda creates a holistic metaphor of modernity, combining aesthetics, counterculture, and ecology. 

Sometimes good news can bring hope for survival.

Cricket hunting in Uganda – instant fortunes, deadly working conditions and the unearthly beauty of insects, which may one day form the basis of our diet. 

The dramatic fall of the last bastion of freedom in China. The history of protests in Hong Kong – this time in the context of an unusual explosion of street art in the revolutionary megalopolis. ...

An Iraqi refugee faces the Kafkaesque Euro-bureaucratic labyrinth. 

From Ukraine to Poland, Maciek Hamela extracts people fleeing the conflict zone and immortalizes their stories along the way. The most important Polish film about this war, touted by viewers of the...

The rise and fall of a famed political marketing agency specializing in mending the image of compromised regimes.

The strange rise and fall of Germany's biggest journalist showing just how thin the line between truth and fiction has become. 

A breakthrough film by the master of insightful observational documentary; 14 years in the life of the eponymous Katka, trying unsuccessfully to break free from the vicious circle of addiction. 

An undisputable milestone in the history of documentary filmmaking. A magical film in which Herzog does the impossible by portraying the world of people who communicate with the world only by touch....

This continuation and complementation of the monumental Shoah is also one of the most important Holocaust documentaries with Lanzmann once again plunging into the heart of darkness to understand the...

Far from simplification, the feature-length reconstruction of the fall of the Ceausescu regime in December 1989. Was the Romanian revolution a popular uprising or was it provoked by the country's...

Young activists work to save a forest, blocking an energy corporation's expansion plans. A shocking film where facing the death of the filmmaker tests the limits of sacrifice in defence of nature....

Young activists work to save a forest, blocking an energy corporation's expansion plans. A shocking film where facing the death of the filmmaker tests the limits of sacrifice in defence of...

A tuberculosis hospital among the Caucasian wilderness. In a monumental, crumbling building, the surreal atmosphere of a place beyond time has patients unaware of their very location. 

The Austrian master's camera follows the people who do our dirty work – from sterile alpine peaks to monstrous landfills that have taken on lives of their own, through underground cave corridors...

A visual masterpiece that exposes the darkest secrets of the Belarusian army; mothers of dead soldiers in a David-and-Goliath struggle against a corrupt system and young recruits' final moments of...

Hilla Medalia brings us closer to the story revealing the intricacies of the conflict, the latest installment of which is captivating the world. The families of two accidental victims of the conflict,...

Acclaimed for Holy Spider, Zar Amir Ebrahimi in a controversial project to reconstruct an interrogation in an Iranian prison. An emotionally charged psychodrama. 

This gripping film, rich in detail, encapsulates the chaotic essence of a new, virtual Eldorado. It's a landscape dominated by fleeting cryptocurrencies, rapid financial gains and losses, and a...

A dynamic, poignant portrait of an idealist showing the French health care system in crisis. A psychiatrist faces impossible odds but works alone to save the patients of a large Paris hospital....

Where does our daily bread come from in the 21st century? From underwater salmon farms to endless olive groves – a spectacular and mercilessly precise vivisection of the modern agricultural industry....

Patrick Dykstra, leaving behind his legal profession, dedicates himself to whale photography. His long-term observations of these oceanic giants ignite a desire to communicate with them. The...

A multidimensional look at menstruation, which, contrary to cultural stereotypes, does not have to be a shameful problem. 

A portrait of a generation steeped in the fight against global warming. Protests, police harassment and climate depression  should teenagers bear the burden of responsibility for the fate of the...

This 2014 Sundance winner examines determined American activists who, irrespective of the legal consequences, provide safe abortion access to women. Sound familiar?  

An Irish journalist reveals the sinister reality of a Catholic centre for single mothers and pays tribute to the women who, despite the small-town pressure, speak out against the omnipotence of the...

The exclusion zone around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 12 years after the great catastrophe. Abandoned towns, lunar landscapes of contaminated areas, endless cemeteries of irradiated machines -...

A sophisticated collective portrait of the residents of Chernobyl and the surrounding area 12 years after the disaster - and a contemporary epilogue: a documentary investigation of the Russian...

Do the deceased have human rights? A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at efforts to restore identity to the nameless victims of the migration crisis and attendant mafia skirmishes. 

The last of the righteous; Russian lawyers face dire personal consequences for defending prisoners of conscience in court. 

Shocking testimony on the weaponization of sexual violence during the Balkan conflicts. An experimental film edited exclusively from evidence of the Tribunal in The Hague. 

What to do when the person closest to you is running from reality? An intimate and painfully real film about addiction, family and emotional patterns that block true intimacy.  

A truly grand film and a comprehensive and unexpected portrait of a world that stood still as monumentally captured by the master of cinematic aesthetics. 

The eponymous "Swedes" are the 130th platoon fighting as part of the Donbas Kyiv Territorial Defence Battalion. They move just before sunrise. The group is led by White, deputy platoon commander,...

The indigenous people of the Amazon defend their territory from illegal logging, while protecting the last community untainted by contact with the white man's civilization.  

Who delivers food to your door? The filmmaker takes a job as a bicycle courier delivering fast food in Tokyo gripped by pandemic fever.  

In this electrifying documentary thriller, an Australian war correspondent in Afghanistan wins the trust of the Taliban, who are unaware of his true gender identity. 

Polish actor Kasia Smutniak undertakes a risky journey from Italy to the heart of darkness, accompanying activists rescuing migrants in a restricted zone on the Polish-Belarusian border. 

Two short, insightful portraits of young women. Olive tries to find her way in the thicket of difficult family relationships, while Valeria fights on tiktok for a just cause

Three short films that are united by the concept of the border: a documentary investigation of the Russian occupation of Chernobyl in 2022, the story of a migrant lost in a bureaucratic maze - and a...

Martyna Wojciechowska and Hanna Jewsiewicka offer a moving glimpse into the lives of women during the Ukraine war. This documentary explores the essence of sisterhood amid adversity, the profound...

Legendary Indian documentarian Anand Patwardhan examines members of his immediate family who left their indelible marks on the history of India and the world. 

A street campaign by Hungarian activists facing the impossible odds of convincing a society manipulated by government propaganda to invalidate a homophobic referendum.