In the mountains of central Afghanistan, a Hazara family embarks on a journey for truth and justice after their daughter Zahra mysteriously dies at Kabul University. A moving and poetic contemplation of love, loss, and perseverance, on the eve of the Taliban takeover of the country. Kamay is a wild, self-sufficient pla...
Ten years in the life of troubled Budapest street kid Sanyi, as he grows from 8 to 18 years old. Over the course of a decade, he turns from a mischievous youth into a public enemy. An intimate coming-of-age story. Sanyi is the youngest son of a very poor family in the centre of Budapest. A creative and excited kid, he ...
In 2018, Dalton Harris, a young musician from rural Jamaica became the first Black man to win The X Factor UK. Filmed over four years, this coming-of-age documentary follows Dalton as he struggles for fame, love, and acceptance whilst battling dangerous allegations about his sexuality and spiralling mental health. With...
The story of brave Iranian Reyhaneh Jabbari. At 19, Reyhaneh killed a man who threatened to rape her. Her death sentence can be revoked if the victim’s family forgives her. For Reyhaneh, it becomes a choice between her life and her values. Reyhaneh Jabbari’s life was changed forever when the man ...
When he was just 14, Sajid Khan Nasiri fled Afghanistan alone. After a two-year journey filled with danger and hardships – which he minutely documented on his phone camera – he arrives in Belgium to seek asylum. There, a whole new struggle begins. Intimate sequel to the prize-winning documentary Shadow Game. They call...
When he was just 14, Sajid Khan Nasiri fled Afghanistan alone. After a two-year journey filled with danger and hardships – which he minutely documented on his phone camera – he arrives in Belgium to seek asylum. There, a whole new struggle begins. Intimate sequel to the prize-winning documentary Shadow Game. They call...
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam wants to become more inclusive and diverse but it won't happen overnight. In White Balls on Walls, director Sarah Vos shows from the inside how new director Rein Wolfs and his team take on this socially delicate, urgent and uncomfortable process of change on the work floor and within t...
A group of residents from Marseille opposes the increasing security cameras in the streets of the French city. Pedestrians become suspects and every move you make is being watched and registered. The group of residents try to understand what exactly these cameras are meant to record. Will they find a way to outsmart th...
When A Town Runs Dry documents life in Stratford, a small town in California’s Central Valley. A farming community for over a hundred years, Stratford is suffering from a drought that is severely impacting the community, land, and residents’ daily lives. Currently in its sixth year of drought, the Central Valley is hom...
Lyuda is part of the government of Novotsjerkassk in the Soviet Union in 1962. The political situation is tense. When workers start to protest Lyuda suggests to mercilessly suppress their resistance. By doing so she endangers her own daughter, because she is protesting alongside the workers. During the Second World War...
Dazzling documentary about the renowned Apollo Theater in Harlem, with archive footage of numerous artists, including Ella Fitzgerald, Lauryn Hill and 12-year-old Stevie Wonder, revealing the theater’s paramount importance for the careers of black artists and for the black community in New York.Artists often felt weak ...