Directed by Axel Breuer • Documentary • 2012 • 82 minutes

Chicago. A man has been innocently imprisoned - for more than twenty years. All claims have been rejected. He is condemned to life sentence. His only chance: a handful of law students.

At the Northwestern University of Chicago, several g...

Directed by Suvi West, Anssi Kömi • Documentary • 2023 • 76 minutes

Filmmaker Suvi West takes the audience behind the scenes of the museum world, revealing a visual, philosophical, and spiritual realm. Sámi herself, she seeks a connection with her ancestors through old museum objects, eventually...

Directed by Ilaria Malagutti • Documentary • 2017 • 73 minutes

A colorful sparkling history of The Car and us, in it. Hearing, smell, touch, sight, taste, that is to say all of the the human biological nature, has apparently changed since we started driving. More than any other object, cars have...

Directed by Erika Gonzalez Ramirez, Matthieu Lietaert • Documentary • 2022 • 58 minutes

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Three women share a common goal: Carolina, Bertha and Maxima are leading today's fight against modern conquistadors. Whereas gover...

Directed by Louise Detlefsen • Documentary • 2021 • 94 minutes

At the small retirement home Dagmarsminde, the founding nurse May Bjerre Eiby has no interest in specific dementia diagnoses or medicine, since neither is improving the quality of life for the 11 residents. Instead, May and her staff...

Directed by Patrick Farrelly, Kate O’Callaghan • Documentary • With Jaha Dukureh • 2017 • 80 minutes

Jaha’s Promise tells the story of a young woman who returns home to campaign against the brutal practices that almost destroyed her life. Jaha Dukureh was subject to female genital mutilation as ...

Directed by Sigrid Faltin • Documentary • 2008 • 52 minutes

"La Paloma" was born in the 1860s as a Cuban Habanera, composed by the Basque Sebastian Iradier. His simple love song took off on a flight around the world and became an immediate hit in Mexico. "La Paloma" brought tears to the eyes of ...

Directed by Lina Makboul • Documentary • 2005 • 58 minutes

What kind of a person hijacks an airplane? The family of Leila Khaled, fled to Lebanon in fear of the armed Jewish group Stern Gang. This paramilitary unit first came to Palestine after WW2 to prepare the territory for those who had surv...

Directed by Julia Fuhr Mann • Documentary • 2023 • 79 minutes

In a poetic-radical utopia, the film shakes up stereotypical gender relations in competitive sports. It searches for the queer-feminist potential in the Olympic running disciplines and sketches a world beyond rigid gender images.

If ...

Directed by François Verster • Documentary • 2002 • 54 minutes

It will take anyone in the world no more than a few bars to recognize this song: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight”, also sung as "Wimoweh”.

The melody has been covered at least two hundred times by artists as diverse as James Last, Henri Sa...

Directed by Joe Medeiros • Documentary • 2013 • 86 minutes

How did an unassuming housepainter from Italy pull off the greatest little known art heist in modern time? Was his motivation more than money?

Writer-director Joe Medeiros traces the path of Vincenzo Peruggia, charged with the 1911 thef...

Directed by Batoul Karbijha • Documentary • 2023 • 55 minutes

Filmmaker Batoul Karbijha uses making a film about her disappeared sister as a means of finding out what happened and as a way of dealing with it. For herself, for her family and for all families who lost loved ones on their way to a ...

Directed by Kata Oláh • Documentary • 2023 • 83 minutes

Gergő and Lénárd are a young gay male couple living in a remote Roma settlement in the poorest part of Hungary. They live in a community where being gay is considered an unforgivable sin, yet they dream of making a musical film about their ...

Directed by Karin af Klintberg, Anders Helgeson • Documentary • 2015 • 90 minutes

The teams' players don't live in Somalia any longer. They have immigrated to a small town in Sweden. None of the players have ever been on ice. The championship in Siberia starts in 6 months. Someone has clearly be...

Directed by Arto Koskinen • Documentary • 2017 • 60 minutes

Once upon a time there was a large Finnish company that manufactured the world’s best and most innovative mobile phones. This film tells the rise and fall of Nokia and the Finnish mobile phone industry from grassroots, the point of view...

Directed by Jacob Jørgensen & Henrik Lundø • Documentary • 2010 • 77 minutes

From the huge golden sun of The Weather Project at the Tate Modern until last year's New York Waterfalls, Olafur Eliasson has managed to rattle audiences and art critics alike.

Filmmakers Henrik Lundø and Jacob Jørgens...

Directed by Carol Dysinger • Documentary • 2023 • 92 minutes

This story of intimate female friendship forged amidst America's longest war is told by a filmmaker who spent fifteen years in and out of Afghanistan. In this war movie, the battlefield lies behind the curtains of an Afghan home as Bib...

Directed by Ayelet Heller • Documentary • 2024 • 74 minutes

Recently exposed classified trial transcripts of the 1956 massacre by Israeli soldiers in the Palestinian village of Kafr Qasim interwoven with survivors' testimonies shed new light on unknown facts and troubling truths on the societal ...

Directed by Hynek Pallas, Jane Magnusson, Fatima Varhos • Documentary • With Wes Anderson, Alexander Payne, Agnes Jaoui, Robert de Niro, Laura Dern • 2013 • 45 minutes

A new insight into the genius of Bergman and most of all, a portrait of the greatest filmmakers of today. How they work, why the...

Directed by Duki Dror, Chen Shelach, Galia Engelmayer-Dror • Documentary • 2015 • 56 minutes

Brought together by a shared business acumen of the logistics industry, the women combine forces to help Palestinian businessmen navigate the everyday absurdities of the Israeli occupation. But while the...

Directed by Alexandros Merkouris • Documentary • 2023 • 26 minutes

Upcoming London cook Marianna Leivaditaki returns to her homeland in Chania, Crete, reconnecting with her family and seeking inspiration for her new menu. “People are always looking for the next best diet and the superfoods that ...

Directed by Hanka Nobis • Documentary • 2022 • 82 minutes

It is the women, the tender, difficult, exciting relationships with them, through which Antek learns to really be a man. The film follows him from when he has all the answers to the many questions any young man needs to answer for himself...

Directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich & Hetty Naaijkens - Retel Helmrich • Documentary • 2013 • 85 minutes

Fished for over a thousand years, the Hollandse Nieuwe (Dutch New Herring) is a phenomenon that has become a national cultural icon. More recently, the Dutch herring fleet has lost a great dea...

Directed by Marie Skovgaard • Documentary • 2019 • 88 minutes

After her own divorce, Sherin openly begins granting islamic divorces to women unhappily married and performs inter-faith marriages of Muslim women and non-Muslim men. Having sacrificed her own marriage for the cause, Sherin wants to ...