Hot Docs Film Festival
imagineNATIVE Film Festival

Marie Clement's The Road Forward is a musical documentary that utilizes numerous filmmaking techniques to powerful effect. Using the story of Canada’s first Indigenous newspaper, The Native Voice, as its focal point, this particularly distincti...

“Diciembres” blends together archive footage and fictional scenes – using a poetic style that viscerally recreates moments from the invasion." - Variety

Diciembres centres on the US invasion of Panama in 1989 and a reconciliation among survivors a decade later in December 1999 when a photographe...

“But this is an important, ground breaking movie. See it with an audience that’s bound to be passionate and proud.” - NOW Toronto

Hot Docs International Documentary Festival

Our Dance Of Revolution is a documentary that tells the stories of Black queer folks in Toronto. Throughout history the c...

Berlin International Film Festival
Durban International Film Festival
New Horizons Film Festival

Mpumelelo Mcata’s debut documentary feature is an inventive and complex film looking at the life and work of Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiuarai. The film uses the artist's 2011 exhibition ‘State of ...

BFI Flare
Cucalorus Film Festival
Framline Film Festival

Based on a true story, Torrey Pines is an inventive, wonderfully imaginative coming-of-age tale taking place in Southern California in the early 1990's. The animated film focusses on the filmmaker Clyde Petersen's childhood over the course...

Berlin International Film Festival

Fanon is an ambitious young Black African filmmaker attending the Durban International Film Festival. Directors Mpumelelo Mcata and Perivi Katjavivi convey how she tries desperately to find a producer to fund her debut feature film. The film accurately portrays...

Berlinale Film Festival
Hong Kong International Film Festival

Director, Lisa Zi Xiang’s Chinese family saga, A Dog Barking At The Moon, winner of the Teddy prize at Berlinale for LGBT-themed features, is told through different periods of time, often exploring pivotal moments in a family's histo...

"a sensational noir thriller" The Guardian

Toronto International Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Durban International Film Festival

Director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka's stylish and compelling thriller follows an introverted high school teacher, Parker Sitole (Mothusi Magano), in rural South Afr...

SXSW

Wendy Schneider’s illuminating documentary pays tribute to the history of Madison, Wisconsin-based recording studio, Smart Studios and its connection to the global rise of Alternative Rock in the 1990s. Featuring fantastic archive material and contributions from its founders and many of the...

"This black-and-white study of human endurance, communication and compassion manages to be both austere and moving." Hollywood Reporter

San Sebastian International Film Festival
Torino Film Festival

Living in Barcelona, Stella is an Argentinian without any papers and suffers from ALS. As her li...

Dok Leipzig 2018 – Next Masters Competition

Cinema Morocco, located in São Paulo, Brazil was once the location of lavish red carpet film premieres and the most luxurious theatre in South America in the 50's. It was the host to Hollywood stars and South American premieres of classic films like Su...

Berlin International Film Festival
ACID program, Cannes Film Festival
Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Argentinian director Santiago Loza's highly imaginative, and consistently surprising, Brief Story From The Green Planet premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2019, going on to win th...

Incuna International Film Festival
porto/post/doc

A Tarkovskian Stalker-like atmosphere surrounds Fernando José Pereira’s O laboratório. The ruins we traverse, they are a landscape of memories. Memories of the past, above all. But they also foreshadow a future, a future of ‘life after life’, a f...

"Second Star on the Right winningly captures our varying levels of maturation and individualism, with beauty and style." Film Inquiry

Palm Springs International Film Festival
Inside Out LGBT Film Festival

Emilia is a 30-something bisexual woman who teaches acting classes to children, but is tr...

Martin is burdened with the relentless, wily personification of his anxiety and depression: a character named Hagge. After a freewheeling colleague encroaches on Martin's workspace, he comes to discover that his apathy is a choice. Serious subject matter is explored with humour and whimsy in this...

Indielisbao
Sarajevo Film Festival

First, a black screen with a woman’s whisper in the background. Then, a naked man with a horse-shaped head walking towards the camera. Aleksandra Niemczyk’s film Centaur begins obscure, almost otherworldly. Vlado, a man in his late forties, early fifties, strug...

Cannes Film Festival
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Moscow Film Festival

Dark clouds hang over the island of Fogo. An evacuation order has been issued as a result of an increasing decay of the local community. People leave, often reluctantly, but they submit to their fate. And so do tw...

An eccentric one-line actor, keen to save his characters from extinction, uses costumes from past roles to tell their stories and inadvertently wins over a world weary wardrobe mistress into his theatrical imagination. This deeply affecting short film is anchored by the exquisite performances of ...

Hong Kong International Film Festival
Nara International Film Festival

Iranian filmmaker Ida Panahandeh directs this Japanese drama focussing on Tatsuya Nikaido, a middle-aged divorcee who runs an agricultural company and lives in a suburb with his daughter and mother. After his only son's death...

"...in equal parts magical, haunting, mysterious and tangible." Cineuropa

Berlin Film Festival
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Camerimage

Twelve-year-old Alba longs to discover the mysterious, unknown reality of death in director Diana Toucedo's debut feature, an intensely atmospheri...