It’s the year 2073, and a woman is struggling to survive in a devastated world. Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy) compiles the calamities of recent decades to form the prologue of a sinister science fiction film with a crystal clear message.

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.

Georgina, a trans woman now in her seventies, belongs to the Wayúu people in Colombia. For years, she has been fighting for social acceptance and a correct ID. Step by step she moves, through the beautiful desert landscape, towards recognition.

A personal and lyrical documentary by Canadian director Eisha Marjara about how anorexia led her to the brink of death as an adolescent.

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.

When journalist Shiori Ito is raped by a colleague, she decides to seek justice, in the face of a Japanese culture of silence. In a legal battle that lasts years, she takes on police and politicians, and the unequal relationship between men and women.

Animated film about three women living in Kenya, India and Saint Martin who are forced by climate change to move from the countryside to Nairobi, Dubai and Paris, respectively. Instead of a better life, they face bureaucracy and exploitation.

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.

A group of young women in a remote Egyptian town form an emancipated street theater company. After following them for four years, it appears that dreams are likelier to come true on stage than in reality.

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 intimate portrait of Gaël Kamilindi’s mother, who died when he was five. From Switzerland, where the filmmaker grew up, he travels to Rwanda to reconstruct her life with those who loved her.

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.

This unsettling directorial debut from Christine Angot pinpoints the isolation experienced by incest victims, and shows how this unfathomable form of abuse leaves a trail of impotence and destruction within families.

In the apartment tower blocks forming Belfast’s Catholic New Lodge neighborhood, Joe McNally reenacts memories of his childhood during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The trauma of the past ruptures the present.

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.

Images of devastation in Ukraine accompany phone calls between Russian soldiers and their loved ones—intercepted by Ukrainian intelligence. The combination creates a disturbing sense of the sinister psychology of war.

A cinematic survey of the life and work of photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková, combining photographic and diary material. Artistic recognition for her raw and personal work came only later in life.

A wave of national protests in South Korea presents Arum Nam with a stark choice: will she be a patriot like her father or an activist like her mother? A lighthearted reflection on the director’s political coming-of-age.

Fascinating, tense and playfully edited reconstruction of the rise and fall of OneCoin. This crypto currency scheme claimed millions of victims, and entered the history books as the world’s biggest crypto fraud case.

What is life? This film is a nuanced and playful philosophical reflection on that question. The narrative thread concerns Marius, a young giraffe in a Danish zoo whose planned euthanasia sparked global outrage a decade ago.

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.

Filmmaker Elahe Esmaili is the only woman in her family who consistently goes without the hijab. This is a concern to her mother in particular, while it turns out not to really matter. Can oppression be something you inflict upon yourself?

When her laptop is stolen, filmmaker Patricia Franquesa becomes the victim of digital extortion. She tells the detailed story of the cat-and-mouse game that ensues, and how she ultimately makes a courageous decision to take back control.

In her directorial debut, the filmmaker reflects on her life under the Iranian regime after 1979. The lives of countless strangers seep into her story through purchased home videos. Together, they create a single narrative about living in two worlds.

As a child, filmmaker Inadelso Cossa was shielded from the cruel reality of Mozambique’s civil war. Now he visits the village of his youth, in a penetrating, sensory search for the ghosts of the past.

An award-winning documentary about the ceaseless Israeli attacks on a network of Palestinian villages in the West Bank, heroically documented by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli journalists.

A man captures sounds from the past where a housing project once stood in Cairo, Illinois. In these now empty fields he is building an archive of Black American culture.

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 digital revolution has opened up boundless possibilities. Are we the freest generation ever, or are we prisoners in a virtual universe deprived of true connection?

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.

As New York drag queen and human rights activist, Amichai has a complex relationship with his prominent Orthodox Jewish family, his religious faith and native country of Israel. In this portrait, filmed over 21 years, he chooses for love and inclusion.

In this tribute to compassion, we follow events on a ship belonging to aid organisation SOS Méditerranée, sailing along the Libyan coast. Now close to safety, boat refugees share their often terrifying escape stories.

Nasreen wants to become a singer—a far from obvious choice for a woman in Iran. Her sister Leila films Nasreen’s transformation from a vulnerable stay-at-home mother to a woman who takes matters into her own hands.

Powerful audiovisual report on two years in Ukraine, close to and far from the front line. From the panic surrounding the invasion to the resigned acceptance of war as a part of everyday life.

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.

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.

The discovery of unmarked graves leads to a searching investigation into the abuse of indigenous children placed in a boarding school by the Canadian state. The film gradually exposes the role of the Catholic Church in a colonized society.

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.

Their bodies yearned for each other, their hearts were one, but they were never together. One of the lovers is now dead. Memories of a love experienced online, experimental and poetic, captured in images and text.

Victoria Verseau travels back to the hotel room in Thailand where she stayed during her gender-affirming surgery. Her memories provide the loose structure for reflections on femininity, loss, and death.

Heartwarming portrait of a Brussels café and its customers, who sing chansons and karaoke to break the drudgery of everyday life—the popular traditional music helps forge close friendships.

An intimate, observational dual portrait of an aging artist couple. With the inevitable end in sight, frustrations and existential questions arise that reveal the complexities of their long-term relationship.

A fly-on-the-wall documentary following an attempt to unionize an Amazon distribution center in New York City, over a period of a year. Amazon tries to torpedo the initiative with disinformation and litigation.

Valentina lives in rural Sicily. She is 27, and wants to escape the sometimes suffocating love of her parents. On the nearby American military base, meanwhile, communications satellites are causing dangerous radiation.

How do you prevent a coup? How to deal with events like those that took place during the storming of the US Capitol? American political and military veterans participate in a simulation in which they are called on to avert a civil war.

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.

Filmmaker Farah Kassem is just as loving, funny and hardheaded as her father, the elderly poet Mustapha. She returns to Tripoli after many years and tries to bridge the generation gap by surprising his poetry club with a poem of her own.

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.

The Wet’suwet’en people tirelessly resist the construction of oil and gas pipelines traversing their ancestral lands. An insider’s account.

A short film that uses a variety of visual techniques, disruptive sounds and an ever-quickening pace to create a visual and auditory poem about pain, transformation and rebirth.