"Family is family across the world, and the fights and familial bonds are all the same. Ivana The Terrible is an incredible relatable film." Film Threat

Locarno Film Festival
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival

A deeply personal film from director Ivana Mladenovic, I...

"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 ...

“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...

"Drljaca's camera travels each scene with slow insistence on its remarkable beauty." Globe and Mail

Toronto International Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal

Igor Drjaca's documentary is a complex and insightful examination of the modern-day tour...

Sundance Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

A young Wayúu woman named Doris has a dream that she reunites with her deceased cousin. When she tells her grandmother about the dream they decide that her vision is the inception of an ancient ritual. Do...

" ...an inspiring tale about one particular farmer who is struggling to overcome a traumatic event." Cineuropa

Berlin Film Festival
Indie Lisboa International Film Festival
Jeonju International Film Festival

Helvécio Marins Jr.'s film centres on Marcelo (Marcelo di Souza), an easygoing cowboy a...

"...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...

"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...

'a flower of a film amid the ruins of Caracas' The Guardian

Venice Film Festival
Miami International Film Festival Winner

A vivid and intimate account of the Venezuelan crisis told through the real-life struggle of a young father trying to save his family from the demolition of their home.

Ve...

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

There are many aspects that have defined our turn towards modernity and our plunge into the post-modern era. There are the ways in which we communicate, there are the ways in which we travel, the ways in which we work an...

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...

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...

CPH:DOX
IDFA

A huge, over-towering hangar is opened. The static camera is positioned at a distance, so that the full grandeur of the hangar and simultaneously that of the Bolivian airline Lloyd Aereo Boliviano is shown. Danish director Sebastian Cordes’s A Place Called Lloyd is a record of loyal...

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...

Camerimage
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Montreal World Film Festival

One defining characteristic of our post-modern life is the drastic change of our ways of communication. In the last fifteen to twenty years, emails and text messages have cast aside letters as a preferred way of communicat...

Cinéma du Réel
CPX:DOX

Returning home, experiencing time, exploring traces from the past. Miguel Hilari, from Bolivia, uses his camera to look into the past, and created with El corral y el viento a film that seems like a portrait of another time. Hilari returned to the Aymara village of his fat...

Sundance Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival

Caroline Monet's short film Mobilize flows seamlessly through the rushing waterways of the far north parallel to the fast-paced urban south, witnessing the hasty streets of a city and the charging force of a canoe on water. In tandem wi...

Toronto International Film Festival
Edinburgh Internatonal Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival

Wayne Wapeemukwa's powerful portrait of five Vancouverites during the 2010 Winter Olympics utilizes doc/fiction hybrid techniques to give voice to those living on the margins of Canadi...

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 ...

Rotterdam International Film Festival Winner
SXSW Film Festival
Viennale Film Festival Winner

The people in Forres don't work. Between 9 and 5 they dissolve into the pubs, where the light shines as a warm glow in their midst. Then the stranger Bodkin arrives into town. He has come to this remot...