Mi Vida (2023)

VHS Diaries

The filmmaker revisits the diaries she kept during the years when video was banned in Iran. Using her personal VHS archive of films as a point of reference, the film explores a very personal film history with audio interviews with film historians, film buffs and those involved in the film black market. This is the story of an underground subculture of cinephiles hiding amongst the first Iranian post-revolution generation, who pursued their love for cinema despite strict government restrictions and the threat of imprisonment.

The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922

The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, which honored 13 (15 in 1932) young actresses each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. 1922 was the first.

Undertaker for Life!

With candour, compassion and a healthy dose of humour, an insightful group of morticians and funeral directors take us on a philosophical journey through our inevitable mortality and behind the scenes of their industry's daily routines.

Fungi: The Web of Life

Much of life on Earth is connected by a vast, hidden network that we are only just beginning to understand. Out of sight, between the world of plants and animals, another world exists—the kingdom of fungi.

Safe Place

A Southern Indiana man endures a fatal night of torture after being arrested for a routine traffic stop.

The Court Watchers

The Court Watchers is a short film about the importance of court watching.

'Til Death Do Us Part Kourtney & Travis

Kourtney, Travis, and their guests enjoy a luxurious wedding weekend in Portofino, Italy. Private and personal footage reveal an intimate family event full of beautiful moments.

The Secret Peacemaker

The story of Father Alec Reid’s complex and controversial peace plan to bring an end to violence in Northern Ireland, which eventually led to the historic Good Friday Agreement.

Subterranean

Digging far below the surface, two gritty teams of hobbyist cavers are poised to discover the longest and deepest caves in Canada. Risking life and limb, their curiosity is matched only by their courage to chart the unknown.

Someone Lives Here

Chronicles the modern-day David and Goliath tale amidst North America's housing crisis. During the pandemic, Khaleel Seivwright, a young Toronto carpenter, builds life-saving shelters for unhoused people facing the winter outside. His actions attracted international acclaim but also staunch opposition from the city government, portraying a compelling narrative set against the backdrop of societal challenges and governmental resistance.

Unsolved History: Life of a King

Unsolved History: Life of a King is a ground breaking documentary airing in Broadcast Markets across the United States. The 44 minute film explores unanswered questions surrounding Rev. A.D. King's death just 15 months after the assassination of his brother, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. —Josetta Shropshire

Cynara

After a break-in, a mother calls 911 seeking help for her disabled daughter, Cynara. Hours later, Cynara is dead, and her mother is the prime suspect in this gripping story of Canada's justice system on trial.

Terre de Glaces

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Laura Pausini - Laura 30

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The Video Game Revolution

A light-hearted look at the worldwide phenomenon of video games, and how they have revolutionized technology and forever changed popular culture.

1991: The Year Punk Broke

David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live performances by Dinosaur Jr, Babes in Toyland, The Ramones and Gumball.

Plankton Salesmen

A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov.

Rivalidades: Corinthians X Palmeiras

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Permanecer a tiempo

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Two Sisters

Violeta and Vyollca Dukay live in the south of Kosovo, close to the border with Albania. Faced with a very high unemployment in their country since the end of the war, they became deminers. They’ve been going to the minefields every day for six years now. The unique and very strong relationship that exists between the two sisters helps them to overcome their fear and to keep hoping in spite of the precariousness of their situation and the risks they run each day to earn their living.

Hurdle

Hurdle provides an inspiring and visceral look at the next generation of Palestinian youth living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The characters, separated from one another and living in the shadow of the Israeli separation wall, are united in their pursuit for self-determination. In an unexpected turn, the characters utilize the sport of parkour and the documentation of daily as tools to attain personal and political freedom. In a world with towering walls and constrictive checkpoints, the characters must bury self-doubt in order to lead their communities through a dramatic year of political and violent conflict.

Marching Forward

Two dedicated high school band directors—one black, one white—were inspired by music to cross the color lines of segregation and work together for the sake of their students. This courageous cooperation resulted in the experience of a lifetime for both black and white students traveling from the Deep South to the 1964 New York World’s Fair. Featuring interviews with band directors and former students, many of whom are now professional musicians.

Black Man's Houses

In 1832 the government of Van Diemen’s Land sent the last Aboriginal resistance fighters into exile at Wybalenna on Flinders Island, bringing an end to the Black War and opening a new chapter in the struggle for justice and survival by Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Black Man’s Houses tells a dramatic story of the quest by Aboriginal people to reclaim the graves of their ancestors against a background of racism and denial. Documenting a moving memorial re-enactment of the funeral of the great chief Manalargenna, the film also charts the cultural strength and resilience of his descendants as they are forced to fight for recognition in a society that is not ready to remember the terrible events of the past.

Katwalk

This is the international version of 'De wilde stad', with a new soundscore and a couple of edits.

Around China with a Movie Camera

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China. The cinematic journey of Around China with a Movie Camera contains many films which may never have been seen in China, or at the very least not for over 70 years. These travelogues, newsreels and home movies were made by a diverse group of British and French filmmakers, some professionals, but mainly enthusiastic amateurs, including intrepid tourists, colonial-era expatriates and Christian missionaries.

The Wait: Mike Tyson's First Fight Out of Prison

After serving a 4-year prison sentence Mike Tyson was released from an Indiana prison May-1995. For Tyson’s first opponent Don King selected an unknown heavyweight named Peter McNeeley. This is a behind the scenes documentary of the event.

Underplayed

Filmed over the summer festival season, Stacey Lee’s uplifting documentary examines gender inequality in the electronic dance music scene.

The Boy from Medellín

Colombian reggaeton singer J Balvin prepares for his 2019 homecoming concert amid intense political turmoil.

Alexandre Grothendieck, sur les routes d'un génie

In the mid-1990s, Alexander Grothendieck, a genius mathematician, retired for good. We lose track. Winner of the Fields Medal (the equivalent of the Nobel Prize), this man had brought to the mathematical world one of his greatest theoretical advances. Its intellectual domination was assured. But in 1988 he turned down the Crafoord Prize and its million and a half dollars.

The Hippie Temptation

CBS TV news special hosted by Harry Reasoner explores the way-out world of the Hippies and the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic 1960s LSD scene. Footage of LSDs users experiencing bummer trips. The Diggers, the Oracle and cool street and Golden Gate Park scenes with hippies tripping out. The Grateful Dead are interviewed and are shown performing "Dancin' in the Streets" on a flatbed truck in Golden Gate Park. The Hippie Temptation!

Corners of the Earth: Kamchatka

In February 2022, filmmakers Spencer Frost and Guy Williment, and pro surfers Letty Mortensen and Fraser Dovell started a journey to the unexplored Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia. After two years of planning, their adventure almost ended before it even started, when Russia invaded Ukraine an hour before their scheduled flight to Moscow. They went anyway.

FLOW

An aerial and symphonic journey with skier Sam Favret, in the heart of a closed resort during the winter of 2021 – with doses of unreality, serenity, powerful skiing, and above all, the pleasure of rediscovering a playground in its wild state.

The Panola Project

Highlighting the heroic efforts of Dorothy Oliver to keep her small town of Panola, Alabama safe from COVID-19, The Panola Project chronicles how an often-overlooked rural Black community came together in creative ways to survive.

To All the Man-Babes Out There

Kim is a homosexual born with cerebral palsy and is Christian. Now he wants to find love. Kim has never had a sexual or love relationship and now dreams of meeting someone exciting to get close to. Through video greetings, he overcomes his shyness, starts going to bars, and rides a ferry trip. Meetings occur even if it doesn’t always turn out like he imagined.

We Are Here

What is it like to walk this land in the shoes of an immigrant under 30? We Are Here offers reflections of people who immigrated to the U.S. as children, and a reminder to look beyond citizenship.

El perfecto cerdo

One of the first works by María Cañas, an excessive metadiscursive exercise on the “pig character” of current information and archive culture.