After the impressive Gulistan, Land of Roses (VdR 2016), the Kurdish filmmaker Zaynê Akyol returns with these conversations with imprisoned members of the Islamic State, alternating their words with aerial…

Adrian Hughes digs into his mother’s dramatic life, from the jetset Copenhagen of the 1950’s to loneliness and alcoholism, but a bitter farewell letter opens new wounds. In Jesper Dalgaard’s…

Ariel Phenomenon explores an African extraterrestrial encounter witnessed by over sixty schoolchildren in 1994. As a Harvard professor, a BBC war reporter, and past students investigate, they struggle to answer…

Viewers travel around the world, getting a global perspective on the three biggest (and interrelated) problems our species faces – climate change, species loss and soil loss. More importantly, viewers…

The daughter of a Holocaust survivor embarks on an international quest to uncover answers about the plight of her mother and her six siblings who, as mere children, escaped Nazi…

This slice-of-life documentary follows a New Jersey-based elementary school teacher who spent his nights playing in a successful punk/ska band with his first ever music student. Now, many years later,…

Modern Whore is a hybrid documentary that reimagines popular depictions of sex work through the lived experiences of writer, performer, and sex worker, Andrea Werhun.

A Sri-Lankan artist discovers the collection of one of her country’s indigenous communities in Switzerland and gets involved with its restitution. An obstacle course through the authorities begins.

Guinaw Rail, a forgotten neighbourhood on the outskirts of Dakar, is emptying out. Bulldozers are demolishing houses along the route of the ‘Train Express Regional’, the symbol of President Macky…

On November 13, 2015, the attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis, carried out by three Islamist commandos and claimed by ISIS, were the deadliest in France since the end of World…