As a poet, thinker, agricultural engineer and revolutionary, Amílcar Cabral led the struggle for independence in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. This associative film portrait is constructed from his words and writings, combined with archival material.

In the remote Eastern European countryside, marshy earth is plowed, homemade wine tasted, a hunting rifle prepared. In stark black-and-white images that capture the silence, pain, and emptiness, Martin Imrich evokes the existential.

A tragicomic melodrama about a young Chinese woman who returns home after seven years abroad. The move forces her to navigate the complexities of family life and traditional expectations.

Fordlândia was established as Henry Ford’s utopian dream but ended as a ghost town in the Brazilian jungle. This hypnotic film foregrounds the voices of the Indigenous people who are working to redefine this place.

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 heated conflict between two sisters-in-law disrupts the peace in a southern Italian village. How could this quarrel escalate so dramatically? A calmly observed family portrait that balances between fiction and realism.

A candid film debut in which Jeroen Kooijmans uses home videos to trace his long struggle with depression, including a psychotic episode in New York in the wake of 9/11. Presented as a love letter to his partner and fellow artist Elspeth Diederix.

An abstract nature film, creative journey of self-discovery and moving family portrait of two Mexican siblings. A voyage through bodies and nature in transition, tracing family histories, in search of new narratives.

A woman who has fled Iran asks her aging parents, who stayed behind, to install cameras throughout their home so she can remain connected from afar. As she watches the footage, she reflects on family, political unrest in Tehran, and longing for home.

Sky Hopinka, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, organized and filmed a powwow. In cinéma vérité style, he shows how this traditional singing and dancing event gives Native Americans a sense of the past, present, and future.

A revealing documentary, in the form of a photographic scrapbook, about the forgotten history of the trans community in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Four trans women engage in conversation, reflecting and recalling memories.

A woman walks barefoot over a rocky outcrop, somewhere by the sea. Who is she, and what is she doing there? Is it a meditation, an act of penance, defiance perhaps? Or a gesture of love? A minimalist, masterful call to action by Victor Kossakovsky.