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Flyer Boys
Movie + 1 extra
Canada Shorts Film Festival
San Jose International Short Film Festival
Roma Short Film FestivalFlyer 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 ...
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Scheme Birds
Movie + 1 extra
"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 FestivalA winner of multiple awards across the festival circuit, including Be...
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Mater (Matriarch)
Movie + 1 extra
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Belgrade Film Festival
Pula Film FestivalWhen 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...
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Didi's Dreams
Movie + 1 extra
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 ...
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Obscuro Barroco
Movie
"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 FestivalIn her dreamlike, essayistic film Obscuro Barroco, Greek director Evangelia ...
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Manu
Movie + 1 extra
"Emmanuelle Bonmariage delivers a multi-layered documentary about a filmmaker and extraordinary man’s road to remembrance." Cineuropa
IDFA
Docville
Munich Dok FestThe Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage now has Alzheimer's at age 76. As his memory starts to fade, his daughter Emmanuelle goes bac...
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Home Games
Movie + 1 extra
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Cleveland International Film FestivalAlisa 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...
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Freedom Or Death
Movie + 2 extras
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...
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Recovery Room
Movie + 1 extra
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 ...
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Our Body
Movie
"one of the year’s most notable Korean independent features.” Screendaily
Toronto International Film Festival
Busan International Film FestivalAfter dedicating years of her life studying for the public official exam, Ja-young (Moon Choi) suddenly loses interest and makes the difficult decision...
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Since I Been Down
Movie + 1 extra
"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...
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Liyana
Movie + 1 extra
"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 FestivalA Swazi girl embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue her young twin brothers in a tale is born of the imaginations o...
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Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero
Movie + 1 extra
“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 FestivalIn the mid 90’s the Dayton, OH music scene became a hot spot generating worldwide buzz for the inf...
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The Swing
Movie + 1 extra
"...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 FestivalFilmmaker Cyril Aris' directs his camera to...
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Silence Is A Falling Body
Movie + 1 extra
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Filmfest Hamburg
Brooklyn Film FestivalSilence 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...
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Rival
Movie + 1 extra
"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
CamerimageAfter being smuggled across the border from Ukraine into Germany, nine-year-old Roman (Yelizar Nazarenko) i...
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While We Are Here
Movie + 1 extra
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Art of the Real
Montreal International Documentary FestivalA 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...
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The Cost of Freedom: Refugee Journalists in Canada
Movie + 2 extras
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...
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Microhabitat
Movie + 1 extra
Busan International Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival
Los Angeles Film FestivalMiso (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...
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Maggie
Movie + 1 extra
"Exuberantly nonsensical debut from South Korea’s Yi Okseop"
Busan International Film Festival
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Fantasia International Film FestivalStylish and surreal, Yi Okseop's bold debut feature is part relationship drama, part sci-fi, part comedic satire, and a lot m...
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Una Banda De Chicas (A Girl's Band)
Movie + 1 extra
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Mar del Plata Film Festival
FRAMELINE, San Francisco International LGBTQ Film FestivalUna Banda De Chicas (A Girl's Band) sees former punk band bassist, Marilina Giménez, documenting women's bands from across Argentina, showing their struggles and achieveme...
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Luisita Photo Studio
Movie + 1 extra
Buenos Aires Int’l Independent Film Festival
Havana Film Festival
Brooklyn Film FestivalAt the crowded Corrientes Avenue in Buenos Aires City, among all the theatres, you can find Estudio Luisita. From 1958 to 2009, the photographic studio produced iconic images of the stars of Buenos Aires sho...
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Summer Rebels
Movie + 1 extra
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Cinekid Film Festival
Goa International Film Festival11-year-old Jonas (Eliás Vyskocil) longs to spend summer shooting rabbits and exploring the Slovakian countryside with his cool Grandpa Bernard, but his mother has already made alternate vacation plans...
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180 Degree Rule
Movie + 1 extra
Toronto International Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Fajr Film FestivalBased on real events, director Farnoosh Samadi's provocative debut feature is an incise and powerful examination of Iranian patriarchal society. Sahar Dolatshahi plays Sara, a school teacher from Tehran who is prepar...