TDF23 (2021)

Gianfranco Rosi's new documentary is an immersive portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.

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.

With the guidance of her relentless coach, a teen weightlifter emerges from a scrappy training camp in Egypt to compete at the championship level.

As Hungary's political climate becomes increasingly radicalized, Virág, a former green politician, loses faith in the pretend-to-be democratic parliament of Hungary and retires from politics. She and her musician partner Nóra decide to adopt a child and focus on building a family together. With a sensitive lens and close access, directors Asia Dér and Sári Haragonics follow the two women through their long and ultimately successful adoption process to bring home their young daughter. But tensions begin to rise between the two as Virág thrives in her role as a mother and Nóra struggles to find her place within the family. As the rising tides of right wing propaganda in Hungary begin to overflow into their family, their lives hit a boiling point and they must face the difficult decision of whether to leave their country behind.

The Icelandic band Hatari is used to provoking everyone and everything, but at the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel they have the opportunity to call out the whole world - that is if they want to.

It is one of humankind's greatest achievements. More than 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep space - the first human-made object ever to do so.

A journey where the viewer can see Werner Herzog's creative and personal vision which was shared with iconic travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of 'In Patagonia' and a champion of the nomadic life.

A grand and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white areas of the world map. But no matter how far we go and how hard we try to find answers, we ultimately meet ourselves and our own transience.

In 1970 Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka made a desperate leap for freedom from his Soviet vessel to a US Coast Guard cutter, but the Americans sent him back - inciting one of the Cold War's most complex and suspenseful political blunders.

An Israeli gay couple's journey in pursuing their dream to become parents.

In the village of Lussas, France, some people meet up in an old house which used to be the town grocery. Today, it is transformed into the headquarters of a SVOD platform for art house documentary films.

On the overnight Aberdeen mail train, demented violinist Mancini (Henry Oscar) attempts to murder judge Sir Jacob March (C.M. Hallard) for refusing to grant him a divorce.

At a bus stop, in an undefined place, four unrelated characters are waiting for a bus that will never come. An almost still camera transforms the characters into anonymous silhouettes, likening them to microorganisms and commenting on their behaviors with a subtle and scathing humor.

EN - Twelve-year-old Bertha uses her creativity and entrepreneurship as an outlet, but above all as a force to fight against Wolfram, her rare and debilitating disease. We discover in a positive and inspiring way how she deals with the various obstacles in her path.

An Intermission is a portrait of contemporary Britain as seen through the eyes of a group of young people experiencing homelessness. For over a year and a half, they worked collaboratively with artist Edwin Mingard to make a film to express their views to the wider world.

Tika is ten years old. Her biggest passion is traditional Georgian dancing. She has promised to help a group of disabled children prepare a dance for a show for the town. Each day after school, Tika teaches the children to dance. She wants to help them build their self-esteem and feel the same joy when they dance as she does. But it's difficult for them to remember the steps. Nika, a boy with mental disabilities, has a solo, and he gets very frustrated when he keeps making mistakes. Tika starts to doubt herself. Is she able to succeed? Will the children feel proud of themselves afterwards?

Paolo Cognetti, a 40 year old Italian and award winning author, embarks on a journey in the footsteps of those writers who helped influence and inspire his career as a storyteller. Amongst his beloved masters are Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, Raymond Carver, and Alice Munro.

People sleeping at a train station.

Filmed in 15 countries along 4 years, Child of Nature follows stories of children and youth who against all odds are transforming their lives and their communities.

The Bubble examines often-surreal senior citizen life within The Villages, America's largest retirement community. Retired life beneath the Floridian sunshine however, is not perhaps as idyllic, or as welcomed, as one may imagine.

Ebubekir and Gonca are accused of being terrorists. After three years on the run, they manage to escape from their home country Turkey to Greece. They are now free but must come to terms with an unbearable loss. Ahmet, once a doctor, is spending his days in a secret location with other Turks who were also forced into exile. Over time though, he is torn between living as a fugitive and the need to belong to a new country. A film about the persecuted Turkish community, whose members are now ready to tell their story.

The film is focusing on two self organized pedagogical preschool projects in Greece based on the values of libertarian education and experiential learning.

In May 2020, during the first Greek lockdown, the staff and residents of a nursing home in Agios Stefanos, north of Athens, experienced an additional and simultaneous confinement for two months after sealing off the unit as a precaution. This was a unique action at national and European level, and perhaps even globally up to then.