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A private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.

The New Greatness Case offers remarkable access to a group of young Russians entrapped by the secret service, resulting in unjust trials and prison sentences - echoing the intensified crackdown on dissent and free expression in Russia we see on the news every day. As we are witnessing the intensified crackdown on dissent and free expression in Russia, The New Greatness Case brings you into the life of young Russians caught in the crossfire. Anya was an ordinary teenager, discussing Russian politics and social issues on the internet with a group of friends, when a secret agent joined their chat group and rented them a meeting space - pushing them towards direct physical action. Police storm their homes to arrest and jail the teens, accusing them of plotting to overthrow the government and fabricating charges of extremism. Three years later, Anya's mother, continuing her desperate fight to prove her daughter's innocence, has transformed from a loyal follower of Vladimir Putin to a hunger-strike enacting political activist. With hidden camera footage, and an intimate relationship with the protagonists, director Anna Shishova shows the complete repression of present-day Russia, and how young, free-thinking people, are seen as a threat to the government.

In an attempt to make sense of his late father's excessive insatiability, filmmaker Marc Schmidt embarks on a personal search for the emptiness within us and himself. Why are we afraid of the void?

A 52-year-old Hazara woman, Hawa, embarks on a journey of self-emancipation after an arranged marriage, educating herself, starting a textile business, until their lives are disrupted by the Taliban's resurgence in 2021.

Based on the struggle of young people in Goma (Northeastern Congo) against the prevailing Western reporting about war and misery, Stop Filming Us investigates how these Western stereotypes are the result of a skewed balance of power. Stop Filming Us creates a cinematic dialogue between Western perceptions and the Congolese experience of reality. While the Congolese perspective becomes increasingly clearer in the film, questions arise about the perspective of the film itself; is a white director able to make a film about the new Congolese image or is it primarily a story created by his own Western perspective?

The human cost of US immigration policy reaches far beyond physical borders.

After the death of their best friend and hero, two filmmakers find a box containing tapes of their road trip 25 years ago, which ended in argument and deception. They decide to edit the tapes. Have they stayed true to their friendship?

Follows the work of activist Mariette Liefferinck and her seemingly unending struggle to mitigate the hazardous legacy of gold mining. Mountainlike dump sites of mining waste riddled with uranium covers the town of Jozi in a radioactive dust causing damage to humans and the environment alike.

Five ambitious young people with immigrant parents explore the influence of their inner, critical voice on their lives. What does rest mean when you have been brought up to believe you can only be successful through hard work?

Whistleblowers, prisoners and an investigative journalist paint a shocking picture of South Africa's first privatized prison. Profit is the priority, with underpaid guards and violence against prisoners as the inevitable outcome.

Farewell Paradise is about the search for a truth within a broken family, based on the personal story of director Sonja Wyss's family. From one shared history, through 6 different perspectives, 6 different stories emerge.

After its former president Dési Bouterse is convicted for murder, the people of Suriname remain bitterly divided. Opponents and supporters of the ex-president are unable to put the country's turbulent history behind them. Ananta Khemradj (32) wants to know what it takes to reunite the Surinamese people.

In an as stirring as hopeful music story Dj Robert Soko, who came to fame with his Balkan Beats, embraces musical influences from newcomers in multicultural Europe.

SAMAR - are we flying or falling? follows life in the socialist-anarchist kibbutz Samar over the course of a year. Through the eyes of three different individuals, each with their own dreams and disappointments, the documentary explores the (im)possibilities of living in a small community in line with your ideals.

A cinematic examination of the emotional connection between the Western audience and those affected by the climate crisis on the island of Tuvalu.

An examination of the variety of pre-war fascist movements in the Netherlands, a country usually associated with liberalism and tolerance.

After twenty years, filmmaker Wiam Al-Zabari asks his father to open up about their past for the first time. Why did they flee Iraq and why did they never talked about it? Can he let go of the past and finally embrace a future in the Netherlands?

A WAY TO B is a portrait of the flamboyant dance group Liant la Troca, of which some of the performers have a physical disability. Fluently merging documentary and dance into each other, the hybrid film is an ode to zest for life and love.

Like so much of Spain, the small village of Frigiliana is marked by the violence of Franco's dictatorship, with tragedies, disappearances, and unprocessed pasts reverberating into the present. Decades on, inhabitants continue to mourn their dead. In attempt to heal from past loss, a plan is made to dramatize the violent events of the past - but not everyone wants to open up old wounds.

It is a coming of age story depicting three boys coping, each in his own way, with physical and mental obstacles enclosing life in their Palestinian hometown of Hebron.

An alternative creation myth of the small Caucasian Republic of Abkhazia sheds new light on a highly topical question in a world on fire: What is a country?

In their village in Guinea-Bissau, everyone knows the twins Renildo and Vanildo, because they're always dancing. Mama Dila takes care of them in the village, because their mother died when they were just a year old. They only see their hardworking father from time to time. They're going to visit him again soon, and as a surprise, they want to dance for him. Their father's approval is very important to them, so they practice a lot. But he's mainly focused on their grades, will he also appreciate their dancing?