Ukrainian-born filmmaker Damien Kolodiy travelled to his homeland in 2014 to document the violent insurrection from the streets, chronicling the extreme chaos engulfing Ukraine in a remarkable and intense narrative. Told from the point of view of Kolodiy, with exhaustive research and incredible u...

Directed by Adriana Luhovy, Recovery Room is a feature documentary that tells the story of several humanitarian Canadian Medical Missions to Ukraine. Plastic surgeons with their specialized team of 25 Canadian health professionals arrive at the Main Military Clinical Hospital in Kyiv during 2014 ...

"one of the year’s most notable Korean independent features.” Screendaily

Toronto International Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival

After dedicating years of her life studying for the public official exam, Ja-young (Moon Choi) suddenly loses interest and makes the difficult decision...

"In a nation crying for change, Since I Been Down is not only timely but a vital piece to an ever-growing picture that needs to be seen." Film Inquiry

Directed by Dr. Gilda Sheppard, Since I Been Down tells the dramatic story of how an American community, held captive by 1990’s punitive policies...

"A lyrical work that's as bright and captivating as it is poignant." The Hollywood Reporter

Dublin International Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Palm Springs Films Festival

A Swazi girl embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue her young twin brothers in a tale is born of the imaginations o...

"A Cinephile's Delight, anyone who loves movies is bound to love Saving Brinton" The Hollywood Reporter

Rotterdam International Film Festival
DOC NYC
AFI DOCS

In a farmhouse basement on the Iowa countryside, collector Mike Zahs makes a remarkable discovery - the showreels of the man who brought...

“Compelling… ‘Transmissions After Zero’ chronicles Brainiac’s unlikely rise and subsequent fall with intelligence and humor.” -Variety

SXSW Film Festival
Cleveland Film Festival
Cork Film Festival

In the mid 90’s the Dayton, OH music scene became a hot spot generating worldwide buzz for the inf...

Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Heartland Film Festival
Mil Valley Film Festival

An Emmy winner in the Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary category, Belly of the Beast follows a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer as they discover a pattern of illegal sterilizations in California’s ...

DOC NYC
BFI Flare Film Festival
Bendfilm Film Festival

Little Miss Westie follows two transgender siblings as they navigate puberty, school, family and transitioning during the Trump era. Ren is competing in the Little Miss Westie Pageant; her older brother Luca is coaching her on posing, make-u...

"...the kind of intimate portrait that captivates purely on the basis of what it reveals about the pain and the complexity of the human experience." Hollywood Reporter

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Open City Docs Fest
El Gouna Film Festival

Filmmaker Cyril Aris' directs his camera to...

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Filmfest Hamburg
Brooklyn Film Festival

Silence Is A Falling Body follows filmmaker Agustina Comedi as she explores hundreds of hours of footage from the videotapes that her father Jaime recorded throughout his life. Her search to learn more abou...

"A superb performance from Yelizar Nazarenko propels this drama about a nine-year-old boy in increasingly dire straits." Screen Daily

Busan International Film Festival
AFI Fest
Camerimage

After being smuggled across the border from Ukraine into Germany, nine-year-old Roman (Yelizar Nazarenko) i...

Rotterdam International Film Festival
Art of the Real
Montreal International Documentary Festival

A hybrid form of documentary, fiction, travelogue and letters makes for a compelling film diary in While We Are Here. The film focuses on Lamis, a Lebanese woman, who has just moved to New York and...

The latest film from award-winning Canadian filmmaker, historian, and journalist James Cullingham (Searching For Blind For Death) focuses on the lives of three journalists - Abdulrahman Matar from Syria, Luis Nájera of México and Arzu Yildiz from Turkey - exploring the reasons that each person fl...

Busan International Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival

Miso (Esom) is a young woman struggling to get by as a housekeeper in Seoul, earning barely enough to cover rent and her two indulgences - whiskey and cigarettes. When she finds herself having to choose between re...

"Exuberantly nonsensical debut from South Korea’s Yi Okseop"

Busan International Film Festival
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Fantasia International Film Festival

Stylish and surreal, Yi Okseop's bold debut feature is part relationship drama, part sci-fi, part comedic satire, and a lot m...

Rotterdam International Film Festival
Mar del Plata Film Festival
FRAMELINE, San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival

Una Banda De Chicas (A Girl's Band) sees former punk band bassist, Marilina Giménez, documenting women's bands from across Argentina, showing their struggles and achieveme...

Buenos Aires Int’l Independent Film Festival
Havana Film Festival
Brooklyn Film Festival

At the crowded Corrientes Avenue in Buenos Aires City, among all the theatres, you can find Estudio Luisita. From 1958 to 2009, the photographic studio produced iconic images of the stars of Buenos Aires sho...

Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Cinekid Film Festival
Goa International Film Festival

11-year-old Jonas (Eliás Vyskocil) longs to spend summer shooting rabbits and exploring the Slovakian countryside with his cool Grandpa Bernard, but his mother has already made alternate vacation plans...

Toronto International Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Fajr Film Festival

Based on real events, director Farnoosh Samadi's provocative debut feature is an incise and powerful examination of Iranian patriarchal society. Sahar Dolatshahi plays Sara, a school teacher from Tehran who is prepar...

Seattle International Film Festival
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal
Whistler Film Festival

When young, up-and-coming, musician Sasha receives a surprise visit from her mother just as she's about to perform one of the biggest shows of her career, she is forced confront a past she's worked ...

"Vanishing Days marks the emergence of an artist with an audacious vision." The Hollywood Reporter

Berlin International Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival

First time director Zhu Xin's impressive debut feature is a surreal, poetic and dreamlike...

Sundance Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

A young Wayúu woman named Doris has a dream that she reunites with her deceased cousin. When she tells her grandmother about the dream they decide that her vision is the inception of an ancient ritual. Do...

"a mesmerizing, artful and emotional piece of filmmaking that consistently surprises and awes in its sensitivity." The Playlist

SXSW Film Festival
Hot Docs International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

Dreamlike, lyrical and haunting, Petra Costa’s deeply personal film document...