The Trouble With Mr. Doodle »

The Trouble With Mr. Doodle is the story of Sam Cox, an extraordinary boy born into an ordinary family in an unremarkable English town and how a childhood passion for drawing threatened to take over his life, his home and his mind. Language: English

The Cranes Call »

In this real time crime thriller set in a warzone, director Laura Warner embeds with war crimes investigator Anya Neistat and her team as they track down a group of survivors bold enough to take a stand against those accused of committing the most heinous crimes of rape, torture and murder against their families. Working […]

Lindprii »

“Lindprii” is a portrait of a filmmaker and a legendary Estonian film. In 1971, the controversial, young and talented director Vladimir Karasjov-Orgusaar completed the nearly four-hour (!) television film “Lindpriid” (“Outlaws”), which can rightly be called the arthouse flagship of Estonian film history today. The film was something so new, different and strange that the […]

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things »

Despite once having claimed in an interview that he didn’t intend to make biographical work, documentary maker Mark Cousins has gone on to make several. After films on Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock among others, he now turns his attention to the forgotten artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. This is by no means a typical biographical film […]

Invisible People »

Master Yoshito Ohno—son of Butoh founder Kazuo Ohno, who passed away during the shooting of this film—leads this transformative exploration of Butoh, the unique Japanese contemporary dance born from natural experience, expressed without moves or intentional meaning, that represents a communion between the living and the dead. In Butoh, “the shapes are not important but […]

Romina »

Romina is living her youth in Bologna: she is following her passion in boxing, helps out her mother who works as a cleaner, and at night, she hangs out with her friends at the edges of town. Coaches encourage the gifted young woman and she excels in competitions. Everything seems to be going well until […]

Eros »

There are 5000 motels in Brazil, and Eros offers the viewer a peek behind their doors. Guests at these motels have sex, conversations, meals, and lounge around in hot tubs. Eros is a story about the base urges of human beings, about intimacy, love, and being accepted. Documentarian Rachel Daisy Ellis set up a date with a new partner at a […]

Writing Hawa »

Hawa is a 52-year-old Afghani mother of six, who belongs to the Hazara minority. At the age of 13, she was married off to a man thirty years older than her. Now that her children have grown, Hawa wants to do something for herself for the first time in her life: she wants to learn to […]

Songs of the Slow Burning Earth »

Over the course of two years and at various locations—both close to and far from the frontline—director Olha Zhurba collected footage for this powerful, personal, and metaphysical audiovisual album of the war in Ukraine. We see the invasion itself—the first explosions, evacuations to safer places, and convoys transporting relief supplies—and the absorption of war into […]

A Want In Her »

The mother of Myrid Carten is like a ghost that appears and disappears again. At the beginning of her film, Carten describes seeing her mother in the centre of Belfast dead drunk with a bottle of wine in her hand. At times no one can find her, not even the police. The daughter tries to reach her […]