A powerful film report on the unimaginably cruel Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, from where AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov and his team send their shocking images of the besieged city around the world.

A captivating portrait of two friends, showing how the younger generation of fishers in Mumbai are trying to respond to today’s climate problems. Is it best to stick with traditional community knowledge or embrace modern fishing techniques?

Filmmaker Aïcha Chloé Boro returns from France to Burkina Faso, where an inheritance dispute has arisen after the death of her uncle. There she sees how her life might have been. A warm, wistful and multi-layered family portrait.

In most Native American tribes in the US, independent journalism is impossible, as the media is funded by tribal governments. In Oklahoma, journalists from the Muscogee Nation are fighting for freedom of the press in their constitution.

Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass (Paradise Now, Succession) left her homeland more than 30 years ago. Daughter Lina’s personal search for the reasons behind her mother’s emigration brings a fresh perspective to their family history.

Former housekeeper Justina lives with her daughter in a castle-like mansion on the Pampas of Argentina. She inherited it from its former owner under one condition: she is not permitted to sell it.

A playful quest to find a lost film made in 1953—reputedly the first film by an African director in Francophone Africa—triggers reflections about the historical and cultural importance of cinema, and the importance of a good archive.

The reintroduction of Amchilini, an Islamic custom requiring single women to select a husband in public, is greeted with great skepticism by young women in a traditional village in Chad.

A young woman from West Virginia directs a podcast that revolves around a suspected murder. This brings the case national exposure and makes her a celebrity. But at what point does the search for truth enter the realm of conspiracy theories?

Awarded at Cinéma du Réel, this dynamic generational portrait follows a group of impassioned and talented Nigerian students. At their campus film club, they conduct critical and sometimes heated discussions about national and global issues.

A tragicomic short film in which an Indian family gather at a hotel for the 90th birthday of the paterfamilias, who has dementia—he barely recognizes his relatives and gets lost in a confusing search for his dentures.

In 1976, Shere Hite dropped a feminist bombshell about the female orgasm in her book The Hite Report. A wealth of archive material reveals who she was. Why did she disappear from public life? A film that inspires to hit the barricades again.

For Allister, an amateur radio enthusiast in Northern Ireland, communication isn’t something he can take for granted. But the human need for contact and community finds its way, and Allister’s horizons steadily broaden. A layered and moving portrait.

Photojournalist Amanda Mustard investigates the sexual abuse perpetrated by her grandfather, and confronts her family with their silence. A non-traditional portrait of generational trauma, exploring how abuse can be enabled by those closest to us.

The Taliban immediately seized power after the last American troops left Afghanistan in 2021. Egyptian filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at gets up close to the Taliban to show their transformation into a military regime.

With scenes taken on his trips as a volunteer evacuation driver, filmmaker Maciek Hamela portrays heart-wrenching accounts of civilians who had to leave their homes during the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine.

On a summer evening, future dance student Rosa says goodbye to her friends. This wistful coming-of-age movie is both a fiction and a making-of film, with scenes alternating between the beach party and the rehearsal room.

The iconic singer Joan Baez looks back on her 60-year career and private life. Unique archive footage shows her political engagement, and Baez also talks candidly about her darker sides and the unhappy family she grew up in.

Two Argentinian lovers travel through Eastern Europe to track down the last living practitioners of the Jewish wedding music known as klezmer. The journey also becomes a requiem for Yiddish, the language of the vanished Jews of Eastern Europe.   

In an entirely virtual, post-apocalyptic game world, the filmmakers talk to the people behind the digital avatars. From death squad member to church leader to solitary wanderer.

Violence, beauty and wisdom abound in this crackling portrait of four Black trans women in New York and Atlanta—on their raw reality of earning money through sex work, their place in the Black community and the path to acceptance.

Funky Town is a club in Chengdu where young and unorthodox free spirits can live their dreams. But when nighttime ends, those dreams make way for cold, hard reality. And the expansion of the subway means the club will soon vanish forever.

A high-energy portrait of the uncompromising American singer Cyndi Lauper. Beneath a vibrant and joyful appearance, her activist voice rings out in 80s hits like “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and “True Colors.”

In his Yangon apartment, a young, anonymous artist and filmmaker reflects on how his life has changed since the military coup in Myanmar. Out of fear, he lives indoors, where a window offers his only view of the outside world.

Three men in their sixties come together in Savoie, France, to share their experiences about the Catholic boys’ boarding school where they were abused. A tender and urgent portrait of men who remain hurt children inside.

Fatma and her daughters Najeh and Waffeh are wedding musicians in Tunisia. But when the party is over, each of the two self-assured sisters turns out to have their own, very different struggles with marriage.

When filmmaker Mariam Chachia contracted tuberculosis, the idea of having to stay in a remote, run-down sanatorium scared her—so she decided to investigate. After years of filming there, she returned with a documentary that transcends the personal.

A raw yet poetic debut film about the pain and powerlessness of mothers in a Chilean women’s prison. Using mobile phone videos secretly taken by prisoners, the experiences of multiple inmates are condensed into the moving story of one woman.

In this personal and poetic portrait, the South African Milisuthando Bongela examines the consequences of apartheid. She grew up in “independent” Transkei, without realizing that the territory’s freedom was embedded in a deeply racist system.

A reconstruction of a one-man Christian mission, when in 2018 a young American illegally sought contact with one of the world’s last uncontacted peoples. He didn’t live to tell the tale. An exploration of the fine line between faith and madness.

Asmae El Moudir uses unorthodox methods to reconstruct a painful period for her family and for her homeland of Morocco. A scale model of the neighborhood where she grew up becomes the setting for unexpected insights and catharsis.

While activists protest Belarusian state violence in the streets of Minsk, a mother seeks justice for her son who was murdered while in military training, and a new recruit finds himself unwillingly pitted against his peers.

With a series of re-enacted police interrogations, filmmaker Mehran Tamadon hopes to hold up a mirror to the Iranian state. The film leads up to a tense and deadly serious role play, which exposes how alarmingly fragile humanity really is.

An entertaining and richly documented portrait of the visionary South Korean video artist Nam June Paik, whose work reflected a society in which media came to play an increasingly prominent role.

Asylum seekers cross the snowcapped mountains at night near the French-Italian border village of Montgenèvre. A team of volunteers walk the paths to offer them help while the border police strives to arrest them and send them back.

A sparklingly intelligent, genre-fluid exploration of the trans experience, in which philosopher and trans activist Paul B. Preciado directly addresses Virginia Woolf. Her famous fictional character Orlando was the inspiration for this film.

Born and raised in Magadan, a city in the far east of Russia notorious for its gulag past, 21-year-old non-binary Gena combines radical performance art with activism. At the risk of her own life.

In preparation for a film role, an actress talks to pregnant teenage girls in the Dominican Republic. The girls gradually start to steer the direction of the film with their stories.

Kit Vincent has a terminal brain tumor, which he finds hard to talk to his parents about. Could it help to make a film? A rich, sensitive exploration of life, death and family ties, maintaining a sense of humor despite the tragedy.

A Brazilian mining company stores waste behind huge, poorly constructed dams. Despite deadly disasters, the company is expanding with government support and international funding. Residents and activists are fiercely fighting their unequal battle.

An intimate and poetic portrait of women who literally and figuratively bare all in a traditional Estonian sauna, where listening to traumatic stories from one another’s lives has a powerful healing effect.

A magical realist animation in pen and watercolor about an Indian feminist book that’s more than a hundred years old. For Inés, from Spain, the book is a starting point for a fictional exploration of the importance of dreamers and dreams.

A mesmerizing work of Afrofuturist activist performance art. Earth Spirit calls the world to account from the top of a stinking rubbish tip because the African continent is suffering from exploitation by the global North.

The boundary between fact and fiction is hazy in this portrait of a young Chinese woman, which is also an examination of the constraining roles in which women so often lose their identity.

During the Second Intifada, the director’s mother made home videos of her Palestinian family. With these images, he tells the story of a mother and her camera, of a boy and his childhood, and of the history of the Palestinian people.

Are all the computer systems going to crash at the start of the year 2000? This flashback to the millennium bug, composed entirely of archive material from the USA, shows Y2K fears getting out of control as the turn of the millennium approaches.

After the Taliban takeover, Australian journalist Jordan Bryon is determined to stay in Afghanistan, which is not easy as a trans man. A candid and often surprising report about journalistic and personal choices.

A record of the unique trial of the Argentine military junta in 1985, edited from hundreds of hours of television footage. The viewer is present in the courtroom as witnesses paint a horrifying picture of perverse state terror.

The story of a theft of musical instruments is the starting point for an associative tour of a city filled with sound. Through inventive audio editing, Alison O’Daniel presents a world that connects deaf and hearing people.

With the frontline just around the corner, five teenagers in the Donbas region of Ukraine dream of life after the war. Plans for an expedition to the Himalayas bring new opportunities, and relief from dull summer days and boredom in the countryside.

In a Parisian warehouse, three former political prisoners recreate the Iranian cells where they were interrogated and tortured. This prompts the reliving of powerful experiences, intense emotions and critical questions addressed to the filmmaker.

Ukrainian children fleeing the war are confronted by their past as they explore their new environment in Germany: a former Wehrmacht military barracks. The camera patiently explores the terrain.