Game and Glory (2023)

Not a Game

This documentary offers an honest look at our fraught, complex relationship to video games from the perspectives of gamers and their concerned parents.

Earthbound, USA

American teenagers connect on the early internet to crusade for their favorite videogame of all time, pitting their fan site against a corporate goliath and their own looming adulthoods.

Free to Play

Follow three professional video game players as they overcome personal adversity, family pressures, and the realities of life to compete in a $1,000,000 tournament that could change their lives forever.

Enter the Battlefield: Life on the Magic - The Gathering Pro Tour

Magic: The Gathering is the most popular collectible card game in the world. At Magic's Pro Tour, players from around the globe compete to prove who is the best. They are writers, game theorists, jewelry apprentices, female pioneers, and teenage geniuses.

To Win It All

To Win It All: The Road to the Six Invitational is an exciting view into Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, one of the world's fastest-growing esports. Three top players from around the globe try to balance lives, relationships, and training while chasing a chance to compete in the Six Invitational and win its life-changing $2,000,000 prize pool.

FPS: First Person Shooter

This documentary takes a game-by-game deep dive into the history and evolution of a genre that has grown from the simple wireframe graphics of Maze War and Spasim to become a staple of popular culture that is enjoyed by millions of gamers worldwide. Explore the creation and legacy of the most popular and significant FPS titles from the last 48 years, including favorites such as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, GoldenEye, Half-Life, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex, Halo… and many more.

FURIA: Road to Legends

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Gamer Girl

Gamer Girl follows Allison Drouillard, a college freshman and top ranked Valorant player. While fighting off virtual enemies, she’ll recount her battles with very real ones as she balances her interest and skill in collegiate esports with everyone else’s expectations.

Pagan Invasion, Vol. 13: Doorways To Satan

The dawn of the 21st Century has found much of modern society obsessed with occult mysteries, sadistic violence, and evil. Everything from cartoons and video games to recorded music and major theatrical films are being designed and promote to "satisfy" the public's insatiable lust for the macabre. Most disturbing is the rise in the practice of Satanism. Law enforcement agencies are unable to keep up with the increasing numbers of heinous, Satanically inspired crimes. Basically a remake of Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism (1989) using the same footage.

Here Comes A New Challenger

Here Comes A New Challenger details the origins of the gaming phenomena that is Street Fighter II and how it impacted the lives of kids and teenagers worldwide. It explores not just the tournament aspect of the series, but what made it special to players who didn't have the opportunity to play it in the arcades but in the comfort of their own home. Bedrooms and living rooms became the arcade as children challenged their friends to become champions of the playground.

Mind Games - The Experiment

Can exercise sharpen the brightest minds? In this ground-breaking experiment, four world-class gamers, competing in eSports, Chess, Mahjong and Memory Games, put this to the test.

Video Games: The New Masters of the World

In thirty years, the video game has conquered an increasingly wide audience. Drawing on the recent work of economists, sociologists, experts and interviewing major players in this field, this investigation unravels the overwhelming domination of this new mass media.

This is Not a Game

Angela Su’s fictional artist Rosie Leavers is the last remaining person to upload her consciousness to a video game. Contemplating during a pandemic year which also saw people’s resistance movements in many parts of the world, the work pinpoints the uncanny affinities between gaming and warfare strategies. They have mutually informed the infrastructure of both worlds since time immemorial when diplomatic conflicts played out on the battlefield of the 64 squares of a chess board to flight simulation technologies which were adapted to shape gaming experiences as we know it now. When the conflict is between the state and its people, she speculates that gaming strategies empower civilians in resistance movements to counter imperialism through its own operative logic. But once we upload our consciousness, are we able to return to the sensibilities and political motivation that inspired the revolution to begin with?

League of Legends: Origins

Fans, experts and creators of “League of Legends” detail the game’s rise from free demo to global esports titan.

O Meu Lugar é Jogando

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Born to Win: the King Pro League Saga

A gripping documentary about the preparations that led up to the 2021 King Pro League tournament finals, the most watched event in gaming history.

The Story of Nintendo

Over 133 years in the making, from humble beginnings manufacturing 'Hanufuda' cards came one of the world's most recognized videogame companies, from the birth of Mario and Luigi to Donkey Kong and Zelda... to beating its competition and presenting itself as a platform for quality games and strong values. This is the story of Nintendo.

Token Taverns

The golden age of arcades may have been in the 80s, but decades later arcades are back and bigger than ever in the arcade bar. Arcade bars have been spreading across the globe; transporting old school gamers back to their childhood while bringing in a new generation of players. It's Cheers for nerds, a place where every body knows your game. "Token Taverns" is a documentary exploring the growth of arcade bars and what this growing trend is all about. "Token Taverns" centers on 3 arcade bars and their owners over 2 years as they try to thrive and survive through a global pandemic.

Gamechangers: Dreams of BlizzCon

GAMECHANGERS: Dreams of Blizzcon enters the unexplored realm of professional esports through the eyes of two of the world’s top StarCraft II players.

Summer Game Fest 2022

A fan-first celebration of the future of video games, featuring world premiere new game announcements and first looks at the latest games from the world's biggest video game developers.

Propaganda

An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean perspective.

I Am Street Fighter

For one of the longest-running game franchises in history, Street Fighter creators Capcom needed something exceedingly special to accompany the release of their 25th anniversary edition of the game. AREA 5 produced, shot, edited, and finished a documentary that spans three countries, more than two decades, and tells the story of how a game not only birthed an entire genre, but changed the lives of a generation.

The Story of PlayStation

Discover how Sony entered the video game market and created a console that took the world by storm, forever transforming the gaming landscape.

Ready Up

It's a sport, it's a competition, it's an accidental perfect game. An absolute fight, an everyday fight, that doesn't stop. It’s Counter-Strike.

The Making of Titanic Adventure Out of Time

An in-depth documentary about the development and love surrounding this cult classic! This video will feature an deep look into why "Titanic: Adventure Out of Time" is so unique in the history of video games, as well as the history of CyberFlix itself. Featuring Scott Scheinbaum (CyberFlix Co-Founder and Sound Director), an opening cinematic by Titanic Animations, and some recreated music from the soundtrack.

Wreck Or Get Rekt

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New Heights - A documentary by G2.Kinguin

What a major in Cluj-Napoca! As the title says we feel like the team and all the players reached a whole new level. We showed what we are capable of and proved that we are on the very top. This is the beginning of a new era, the next major is ours!

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After talking to an AI online, our protagonist, Mayne, is receiving strange phone calls from an unknown person. Soon he will have to face heavy threats, and get engaged into an action packed adventure to save humanity from evil forces.

The Valorous Marksman

It is a story of an underdog that hopes to win an esports tournament and gain his son’s trust. Main character is a middle-aged game streamer and not a successful one: his audience is constantly making fun of him. He’s behind his rent, ex-wife is taking a full custody over his son. The only hope is an FPS tournament with a prize pool of 5,000,000 RMB that will change his life for the better.

Love O2O

What is it that makes a man fall in love with a woman at first sight? Appearance? Aura? Wealth? NO, when campus prince and gaming expert, student Xiao Nai first saw Bei Wei Wei, what made him fall in love was not her extraordinary beauty, but her slim and slender fingers that were flying across the keyboard and her calm and composed manner!!! Embarrassing, no? At the same time, gaming expert Bei Wei Wei, at this time and place is on the computer, methodically commanding a guild war, and won a perfect and glorious victory despite being at a disadvantage, and was completely unaware that cupid is nearby. Soon after basketball player, swimmer, all-around excellent student, and game company president, Xiao Nai, uses both tactics on and off-line to take this beauty’s heart. Therefore this romance slowly bloomed. ~~ Movie adapted from the novel by Gu Man.

Challenger

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Gary and Milo

Two brains in jars exist exclusively in a game of PONG, oblivious to the world falling apart outside of their computer.

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Los Amigos wins the Spanish basketball championship for the first time but are disqualified due to Sergio’s fault, leading to their dramatic breakup. Two years later, Cecilia, an inexperienced but optimistic coach, commits to fulfilling Julio’s dream of reuniting the team. Despite a string of misfortunes associated with Cecilia’s arrival, labeled as a “jinx”, Los Amigos’ enthusiasm remains unwavering. Against all odds, they find themselves participating in a thrilling and unexpected international eSports tournament watched by millions worldwide.

Battle School

Tang Niu was admitted to the e-sports school in order to prove the value of the game to his brother. Unexpectedly, he defeated the provocateurs on the first day, swept the campus, and successfully attracted the spice team Yan Yi. Later, with the encouragement of the principal, he faced a world-class game competition. The mysterious KNS e-sports academy was founded by SKY. Dogma is ignored here. The only rules are micromanagement and skills. The transfer student Tang Niu came here for the first time and showed extraordinary talent. The purpose of coming here is to dominate the entire academy. Over time, the hidden masters of the e-sports academy emerged, and they all possessed unique skills; Tang Niu recruited troops, formed his own team, and repeatedly defeated his rivals in the cruel e-sports academy. A master, he ignores honor and rank, and possesses abnormal operations and thinking that ordinary people can't understand, and Tang Niu has fallen into an unprecedented crisis.

Argentina, Forgive Me

Argentina, Forgive Me

Splatoon - Squid Sisters Concert at Japan Expo 2016

The Squid Sisters performed at Japan Expo in Paris on Friday. Check out the show!

Family of Winners

A retired cyber game player recruits a team of rookies to play in the national league.