Endless folding, cleaning, tidying up: behind the scenes at a hotel in the Italian Dolomites, the staff do everything they can to prevent complaints. We see no tourists in this film, only the people who do the dirty work.

Collection of stories about people living in the Congolese capital Kinshasa, which was left without electricity when inundated by flooding in late 2022. Despite their precarious lives, the community manages to reinvent itself.

An engaging portrait of the retired architect Ertil, who passionately designs fictional building projects. He looks back on his life and the developments in his city of Istanbul, while fighting against the announced demolition of his own house.

Leoneidi is a 12-year-old mother whose life is divided between parental responsibilities and childlike playfulness. In an interview with the director of this short documentary, she tells us her unusual life story.

An emotive mixed-reality tour of a Ukrainian living room in which elements appear—borscht on the table, a cuddly cat on the sofa—before, during and after the whole area is dragged into the war.

Two Indonesians in Taiwan sit in a park in the evening and talk about their day. They write poems and start a radio station for Indonesian migrant workers, in a gentle, sensitive film that shows the process of its own making.

A playful VR experience in which you go on an adventure with an unknown fellow user. You meet in dreamlike surroundings and get to know each other in a way that’s entirely different from real-life interactions or dating apps.

An emotive mixed-reality tour of a Ukrainian living room in which elements appear—borscht on the table, a cuddly cat on the sofa—before, during and after the whole area is dragged into the war.

Climate change and desertification force a Mongolian herder and his family to move from the Gobi desert to the big city. The loss of their animals severs their connection with nature.

An old shepherd and a young nature lover live in the Ariège region, in the French Pyrenees, where the brown bear has been reintroduced. The nuisance caused by the protected animal leads to fierce confrontations between its supporters and opponents.

Summer, 1989. The Tiananmen protests have just been crushed and the Eastern Bloc is showing cracks. These tensions are palpable at the World Youth Festival in North Korea. In unique footage, it looks like a socialist dance on the edge of a volcano.

An emotive mixed-reality tour of a Ukrainian living room in which elements appear—borscht on the table, a cuddly cat on the sofa—before, during and after the whole area is dragged into the war.

A playful VR experience in which you go on an adventure with an unknown fellow user. You meet in dreamlike surroundings and get to know each other in a way that’s entirely different from real-life interactions or dating apps.

Age section 9-12 years. An exciting exploration of what life is like for a child needing to be invisible – either in order to survive, or to feel safe. Specially for these children, the filmmaker creates a superhero—on screen, but invisible.

Using AI, a simple selfie becomes a lifelike vision of the future. During this interactive group experience, the abstract idea of “generations to come” is brought home in a striking way.

In scenes without commentary, Sergei Loznitsa observes the impact of Russia’s full-scale invasion on every aspect of daily life in Ukraine. The war impacts on the population in countless ways, but never weakens their courage and resilience.

An emotive mixed-reality tour of a Ukrainian living room in which elements appear—borscht on the table, a cuddly cat on the sofa—before, during and after the whole area is dragged into the war.

More than 20 years after the release of her iconic electroclash album Peaches still has a lot to teach us, as this rousing document proves. A portrait of a feminist icon, queer fighter and all-round who-gives-a-shit.

A playful VR experience in which you go on an adventure with an unknown fellow user. You meet in dreamlike surroundings and get to know each other in a way that’s entirely different from real-life interactions or dating apps.

Corruption plagues Pedro’s work as an insurance claims adjuster in Mexico. Hoping to forget his worries, he accepts a role in a theater play with a seductive actress. But that makes things even more complicated. It’s the start of a complex quest.

An emotive mixed-reality tour of a Ukrainian living room in which elements appear—borscht on the table, a cuddly cat on the sofa—before, during and after the whole area is dragged into the war.

Five Cubans dance in their own bedrooms to songs that sum up their lives. The music is inaudible to the viewer. Indirectly, these intimate portraits create a picture of the socioeconomic situation in Cuba.

A look back at the ban on broadcasting the voices of IRA and Sinn Féin representatives on UK radio and TV between 1988 and 1994. Through a loophole in the law, the media circumvented the censorship by using the voices of actors.

No one in director Misha Vallejo’s family ever talks about his grandfather. A collection of photographs and slides is the starting point for a visually poignant exploration that digs into the effects of absent father figures throughout a family tree.

The universe of the famous Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal translated into a visual sound poem. Sounds of nature, instruments made from trash, teacups, horses’ hooves, the hubbub of the market: everything is music.

An emotive mixed-reality tour of a Ukrainian living room in which elements appear—borscht on the table, a cuddly cat on the sofa—before, during and after the whole area is dragged into the war.

A portrait of women in Afghanistan fighting against Taliban oppression, largely filmed clandestinely. They hope to attract the attention of the international community through their demonstrations.

A contemplative portrait of the patients and staff in a French psychiatric hospital. In long, unhurried scenes, we see the philosophical, intelligent, sometimes hopeful human being beneath the layers of complex delusions, fears or depression.

A playful VR experience in which you go on an adventure with an unknown fellow user. You meet in dreamlike surroundings and get to know each other in a way that’s entirely different from real-life interactions or dating apps.

A contemplative journey through the twentieth century, composed entirely of archival film footage. In this wordless film, full of beauty and bitterness, the excitement of adventure becomes a curse, and tears of joy mingle with the pain of despair.

Survey interviewer Amber Kumar Gurung travels through the heart of Bhutan with a questionnaire, assessing the well-being of his compatriots. This tender portrait shows how ít's possible to be happy in times of adversity.

Chinese poet Xiuhua Yu has cerebral palsy and didn’t find true love until she was 46. In this sequel to the award-winning 2016 documentary Still Tomorrow, we follow her tumultuous journey as she falls in love for the first time.

An emotive mixed-reality tour of a Ukrainian living room in which elements appear—borscht on the table, a cuddly cat on the sofa—before, during and after the whole area is dragged into the war.

In 2020, with Covid on the increase, almost half a million farmers in India rose up in protest against the new farming laws. The film crew spent a year immersed in the daily struggle and the unyielding spirit of this historic and triumphant movement.

Campaigning is fierce where the majority of the public school board members are up for reelection in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. Tense observational portrait on a micro level of a deeply divided nation.

A playful VR experience in which you go on an adventure with an unknown fellow user. You meet in dreamlike surroundings and get to know each other in a way that’s entirely different from real-life interactions or dating apps.

An emotive mixed-reality tour of a Ukrainian living room in which elements appear—borscht on the table, a cuddly cat on the sofa—before, during and after the whole area is dragged into the war.

Somewhere in a desert, three donkeys discover an astronomical observatory, and with it an entire universe. What is more wondrous: the immense brilliance of the Milky Way, or the little fluffy hairs in a donkey’s ear?

The arbitrariness of national borders, the effects humans have on nature, and the unseen victims: in this short film we see all this through the eyes of a lost bison. A new perspective on the cold reality of Fort Europe.

An emotive mixed-reality tour of a Ukrainian living room in which elements appear—borscht on the table, a cuddly cat on the sofa—before, during and after the whole area is dragged into the war.

Persistent drought is causing escalating conflict between herders and landowners in the Laikipia region of Kenya. This story about climate change and colonial legacy focuses on two families living in separate worlds.

A poetic and at times tragicomic look at life in a remote, run-down Bulgarian village viewed from the perspective of animals. The film explores superstition, traditions in decline, and the interdependence of humans and animals.

In southern Mexico, a family of Tsotsil women tend their sheep while honoring the memory of their land. Less a portrait than an encounter, the film evolves into an associative examination of the relationship between humankind and the landscape.

Contemplative, behind-the-scenes film about a group of civilian Syrian fighters in 2013. Between combat operations, the men live together, play cards and discuss the state of the country and their precarious, tension-filled existence.

Mark Brown’s great dream is to recreate a primary forest in his own garden. The film crew follows him along the French coast as he identifies the plants growing there. The resulting close-ups accompanied by his commentary are pure poetic science.

Age section 13+ years. A vertical phone screen, filmed for eight minutes. That’s all this short film needs in order to show what it means to have every trace of your former existence erased. A powerful illustration of the far-reaching effects of state repression.

This shocking but hopeful report from Ukraine follows the makeshift relief network that has emerged in the middle of wartime violence. The tireless volunteers evacuate residents, support refugees and retrieve bodies from the battlefield.

An emotive mixed-reality tour of a Ukrainian living room in which elements appear—borscht on the table, a cuddly cat on the sofa—before, during and after the whole area is dragged into the war.

For 13+ years. It's the summer when Camille turns eighteen and falls in love with Jean. A perfect boy, who later turns out be violent. As she recalls this summer, we see images of junk cars in a wild race that ends in their demolition.

Based on numerous testimonies, this compelling and moving montage of richly varied archive material from the interbellum brings the neshoma, the soul, of Jewish Amsterdam to life.

A playful VR experience in which you go on an adventure with an unknown fellow user. You meet in dreamlike surroundings and get to know each other in a way that’s entirely different from real-life interactions or dating apps.

In this contemplative urban symphony, a queer director returns to his hometown of Tripoli, Lebanon to interview a cross-section of the population about their ideas and beliefs.

As a living part of her performance/installation, Lisa Schamlé confronts both herself and her audience. Is it possible to look at her body without judgement? As you watch, she looks back.

As the head of the Nazi film guild in the Netherlands during the Second World War, filmmaker Jan Teunissen became known as “the Dutch Leni Riefenstahl.” This revealing portrait also questions the boundaries between documentary and propaganda.

Chronicle of a trip around the world through the eyes of an adventurous Canadian family who aim to collect visual memories. Three of the four children have a genetic condition that means that they will gradually lose their eyesight.

Despite arrests and the bloody putdown of protests in 2019, young activists use music and poetry to energize their struggle for a livable and democratic Sudan. “Words are stronger than bullets,” is their mantra.

An emotive mixed-reality tour of a Ukrainian living room in which elements appear—borscht on the table, a cuddly cat on the sofa—before, during and after the whole area is dragged into the war.

A portrait by Yolande Zauberman of trans women in nighttime Tel Aviv, many of whom have fled Palestine. The search for the mysterious title character is the red thread which loosely ties this intimate and unorthodox film together.

A playful VR experience in which you go on an adventure with an unknown fellow user. You meet in dreamlike surroundings and get to know each other in a way that’s entirely different from real-life interactions or dating apps.

It’s August 1965 and the Beatles are in New York. While they are driving their fans wild in that city, images of the Watts riots emerge from the other side of the country, in Los Angeles. The result is unembellished realism with a poetic touch.

An emotive mixed-reality tour of a Ukrainian living room in which elements appear—borscht on the table, a cuddly cat on the sofa—before, during and after the whole area is dragged into the war.

The dreamlike, melancholic story of Toto, a Chilean gold prospector, and his son Jorge, who designs a gold prospecting machine to make his 60-year-old father’s life easier.

Filmmaker Miranda Stern knows little about her deceased mother. As she navigates recovery from addiction and contemplates motherhood herself, she pieces together the fragmented visual record of her past, embracing rather than concealing its flaws.

In the hilly city of Chongqing, an painter searches for the old apartment where he and his parents used to live. His daughter documents his journey from behind the camera, as they muse about history, memories, and what it means to see and make images.

An immersive dome experience in which a family photo evokes disturbing memories for a lonely boy. Hunting for the dark creatures that increasingly emerge, he sinks into the shadowy recesses of his home, as well as his subconscious mind.

Lidija Zelović has been portraying her displaced family for the past thirty years. Over time, her film essay has become a warning against the violent consequences of social polarization.

An in-depth analysis of the controversial life and work of filmmaker and photographer Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), who worked for the Nazis. Can her aesthetics be seen separately from the underlying message, as she herself claimed?

Four Mexican journalists talk about their work. Their lives are in danger because they expose links between the worlds of crime and politics. But they see no other choice in this country where the right to information is under seige.

A portrait of Polish mountaineer Wanda Rutkiewicz, who conquered eight Himalayan peaks before an apparently fatal fall in 1992—but is she in fact still alive, living in a Tibetan monastery? The search becomes a tribute to an inspirational sportsperson.

Is it possible to perform an entire theater play in an online multiplayer game? Two out-of-work actors try to do just that. They stage Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto, with surprising results.