Locarno Film Festival
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
Camerimage International Film Festival

Dorottya Zurbó's insightful documentary explores the life of Kafia, a 17-year-old who fled to Hungary on her own, escaping from a child marriage in Somalia, at the age of fifteen. Sh...

Vancouver International Film Festival

This distinctive short film from directors Chloe Van Landschoot and Niamh Wilson examines the relentless nature of healthcare work, the exhaustion that the job can elicit and the toll it takes on body and mind. Utilising movement, rhythm, and dance, Tidal is...

Based on the ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine’s hut is on the hill…”, Toloka is about a rescue of Catherine’s lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine’s history and reconstructs its dramatic and ...

Dok Lepizig Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival

Nicole Wegner's documentary pays homage to the American DIY spirit, and the diversity of the US musical landscape outside the commercial music industry, by portraying 12 American avant-gard...

Inside Out LGBT Toronto Film Festival
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Outfest Los Angeles

“We transgender are the revolution!” Indianara Siqueira, trans activist and politician, says as she admonishes her political party for ousting her days before the 2018 Brazilian national elections. In the same election ...

Canada Shorts Film Festival
San Jose International Short Film Festival
Roma Short Film Festival

Flyer Boys is the story of a Ukrainian grandfather and his Canadian-born grandson who find themselves at both generational and cultural odds as they spend long summer days working together delivering ...

"Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin announce themselves as docmakers to watch with this piercing chronicle of a Scottish teen's drastic coming of age." Variety

Tribeca Film Festival
Hot Docs
Edinburgh International Film Festival

A winner of multiple awards across the festival circuit, including Be...

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Belgrade Film Festival
Pula Film Festival

When Jasna (Daria Lorenci-Flatz) returns to her childhood home in Croatia in order to care for her mother, Anka (Neva Rosic), who is in ill health, she is forced to confront the complex, damaging relationship she has wi...

Seattle International Film Festival

In this one-of-a-kind comedy, Didi (Dee Hsu) is an aspiring actress trying to prove herself to her superstar sister. She keeps having the same dream about the love affairs of a woman named Xu Chunmei (also Dee Hsu), who owns a spaceship restaurant known for a ...

"a dreamy acid trip through Rio de Janeiro’s queer nightlife." Now Magazine

Berlin International Film Festival
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival

In her dreamlike, essayistic film Obscuro Barroco, Greek director Evangelia ...

"Emmanuelle Bonmariage delivers a multi-layered documentary about a filmmaker and extraordinary man’s road to remembrance." Cineuropa

IDFA
Docville
Munich Dok Fest

The Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage now has Alzheimer's at age 76. As his memory starts to fade, his daughter Emmanuelle goes bac...

Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Cleveland International Film Festival

Alisa Kovalenko’s documentary focusses on a crucial period in the life of Alina, a gifted 20-year-old footballer from Kyiv, whose passion for the sport has a chance of saving her from pover...

Ukrainian-born filmmaker Damien Kolodiy travelled to his homeland in 2014 to document the violent insurrection from the streets, chronicling the extreme chaos engulfing Ukraine in a remarkable and intense narrative. Told from the point of view of Kolodiy, with exhaustive research and incredible u...

Directed by Adriana Luhovy, Recovery Room is a feature documentary that tells the story of several humanitarian Canadian Medical Missions to Ukraine. Plastic surgeons with their specialized team of 25 Canadian health professionals arrive at the Main Military Clinical Hospital in Kyiv during 2014 ...

"one of the year’s most notable Korean independent features.” Screendaily

Toronto International Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival

After dedicating years of her life studying for the public official exam, Ja-young (Moon Choi) suddenly loses interest and makes the difficult decision...

"In a nation crying for change, Since I Been Down is not only timely but a vital piece to an ever-growing picture that needs to be seen." Film Inquiry

Directed by Dr. Gilda Sheppard, Since I Been Down tells the dramatic story of how an American community, held captive by 1990’s punitive policies...

"A lyrical work that's as bright and captivating as it is poignant." The Hollywood Reporter

Dublin International Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Palm Springs Films Festival

A Swazi girl embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue her young twin brothers in a tale is born of the imaginations o...

“Compelling… ‘Transmissions After Zero’ chronicles Brainiac’s unlikely rise and subsequent fall with intelligence and humor.” -Variety

SXSW Film Festival
Cleveland Film Festival
Cork Film Festival

In the mid 90’s the Dayton, OH music scene became a hot spot generating worldwide buzz for the inf...

"...the kind of intimate portrait that captivates purely on the basis of what it reveals about the pain and the complexity of the human experience." Hollywood Reporter

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Open City Docs Fest
El Gouna Film Festival

Filmmaker Cyril Aris' directs his camera to...

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Filmfest Hamburg
Brooklyn Film Festival

Silence Is A Falling Body follows filmmaker Agustina Comedi as she explores hundreds of hours of footage from the videotapes that her father Jaime recorded throughout his life. Her search to learn more abou...

"A superb performance from Yelizar Nazarenko propels this drama about a nine-year-old boy in increasingly dire straits." Screen Daily

Busan International Film Festival
AFI Fest
Camerimage

After being smuggled across the border from Ukraine into Germany, nine-year-old Roman (Yelizar Nazarenko) i...

Rotterdam International Film Festival
Art of the Real
Montreal International Documentary Festival

A hybrid form of documentary, fiction, travelogue and letters makes for a compelling film diary in While We Are Here. The film focuses on Lamis, a Lebanese woman, who has just moved to New York and...

The latest film from award-winning Canadian filmmaker, historian, and journalist James Cullingham (Searching For Blind For Death) focuses on the lives of three journalists - Abdulrahman Matar from Syria, Luis Nájera of México and Arzu Yildiz from Turkey - exploring the reasons that each person fl...

Busan International Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival

Miso (Esom) is a young woman struggling to get by as a housekeeper in Seoul, earning barely enough to cover rent and her two indulgences - whiskey and cigarettes. When she finds herself having to choose between re...