The Man Who Stopped the Desert
As a child in Burkina Faso, Yacouba was sent away from home to study the Qur’an, where he and his classmates were almost starving. The young boys would trek across…
Cool It
A documentary that takes an alternative approach to dealing with the global warming crisis.
BBC Proms
A young gardener sets out to save her family farm by entering a floral competition for Easter. She meets a local pastor along the way who helps her restore the…
The Song of Lunch
A dramatisation of Christopher Reid’s narrative poem that tells the story of an unnamed book editor who, fifteen years after their break-up, is meeting his former love for a nostalgic…
Simple Simon
Simon has Asperger’s syndrome and doesn’t like changes in his life. He lives with his big brother Sam and Sam’s girlfriend Frida. When Frida can’t stand having to adapt to…
Territories
Five friends return home from a marriage in Canada to the United States. Not far from the border, two customs officers stop them to check their identity.
Taipei Exchanges
Doris simply wanted to open a refined, stylish coffee shop in a bohemian Taipei neighborhood, but when she’s stuck with a load of useless gifts from the opening celebration, her…
Sunday Morning in Victoria Park
About a young woman who struggles in foreign countries to improve her self esteem to her family and to the community.
Frits and Freddy
Frits and Freddy Frateur are brothers who, after a confrontation with the white collar criminal Carlo Mus, kidnap his wife, Gina. The situation for the brothers goes from bad to…
Colorful
Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of…
Where Are You Taking Me?
A high society wedding, bustling city streets, a center for former child soldiers, a nightclub full of music and laughter: these are the many faces of today’s Uganda, as wonderfully…
The Secret Life of Chaos
Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that…
Abandoned Souls
In an underground prison an inmate escapes during a riot. One year later, a group of friends set out to locate an old hermit shack. They’re worst nightmares are revealed…
Little Ships – The Miracle of Dunkirk
To mark the 70th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation, Dan Snow tells the story of the ‘little ships’ which made the perilous cross-channel voyage, as 50 of them return to…
Black Rat
Six classmates receive an email from Asuka, who they thought had committed suicide, asking them to meet her later that night. But when they are attacked by a girl in…
Hello! How Are You?
Musician Gabriel and dimpled dry-cleaning proprietress Gabriela live like two strangers who no longer see each other. But in humorous contrast to their staid, passionless lives, characters in a constant…
Fuck My Life
Javier wants to forget his ex. But it’s impossible when she’s always on line. Getting drunk and partying it’s the only solution. Or not.
Dissolution
Hitparkut (Dissolution) combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black and white realism to explore the condition of violence which permeates contemporary Israeli society. Shot is Yafo (the predominantly…
Xtinction: Predator X
When her father seemingly goes missing, divorcee Laura LeCrois is forced to return home after a 20-year hiatus. However, home is not the way Laura remembers it. Her father is…
Messages from the Sea
After the death of his mother, Yehia decides to return to Alexandria, the place where he first grew up and fell in love with the girl next door. He gives…
The Perfect Teacher
A spoiled, selfish teenager becomes infatuated with her teacher. She befriends his daughter as a way of worming her way into the family, and sets about manipulating every aspect of…
Voodoo Cowboys
A group of hoodoo slingers battle zombies in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then
The true story of a man who built a house to heal his wife.
Ice Quake
As the permafrost melts in Alaska, underground rivers of volatile liquid methane form which sets off a series of devastating earthquakes. Forced apart by this violent occurrence, one family must…
Nixon and Hogan Smoke Christmas
Strangeville’s famous stoners set out to help Santa finish his Christmas deliveries after he accidentally smokes some yule-tide zombie weed.
Autumn Gold
The film follows five senior athletes along their biggest challenge – maturity. As all of them are between 80 and 100 years old it is a race against time and…
South Africa in Pictures
British fashion photographer Rankin explores South Africa’s rich photographic tradition, discovering how its leading photographers have captured this complex, often turbulent, nation through remarkable images and charting the unique role…
Our Day Will Come
Redheaded teen Remy is bullied by his soccer teammates and drawn into fights with his younger sister and mother in their cramped apartment. After a flare-up of domestic violence, he…
Love Storming
Set in the heart of Christmas, the film tells the story of Sergio, a boy who could not finish the year in worse shape. It is New Year’s Eve, the…
Kapitalism: Our Improved Formula
An imaginary return of dictator Ceausescu after 20 years of capitalism in his country, Romania, where he finds a new society but also old habits in the country’s businessmen.
The Names of Love
Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn’t hesitate to sleep with those who don’t agree with her to convert them…
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania.
Outbound
Matilda takes a one-day release from jail to attend her mother’s funeral, with no intention of returning. The clock is ticking as Matilda tries one last time to get help…
A Woman Kills
Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is…
Absent
Documentary on the social pandemic of fatherlessness afflicting today’s societies.