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Documentary

Khartoum

January 27, 2025

Five people navigate the dangerous landscape of war-torn Sudan, their stories intertwine as they pursue dreams, face political turmoil, and overcome obstacles. They struggle for freedom and survival in a chaotic country.

Cutting Through Rocks

January 27, 2025

37-year-old Sara Shahverdi, a motorcycle riding, land owning, former midwife-turned-fierce citizen advocate and recent divorcée, just won a landslide local election in her remote Iranian village and everyone has an opinion about it.

Sugar Babies

Sugar Babies

January 27, 2025

A college student from rural Louisiana uses her social media to create an unconventional online business, aiming to break free from poverty and help her friends. Her ambition leads her down a risky path as she navigates new challenges.

Free Leonard Peltier

January 27, 2025

Leonard Peltier, an activist jailed for decades after a disputed conviction, faces his twilight years as a new generation fights for his release from prison before it's too late.

Heightened Scrutiny

January 27, 2025

Amid the surge in anti-trans legislation that Chase Strangio battles in the courtroom, he must also fight against media bias, exposing how the narratives in the press influence public perception and the fight for transgender rights.

Zodiac Killer Project

Zodiac Killer Project

January 27, 2025

Against the backdrop of deserted spaces, a filmmaker explores his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary, delving into the true crime genre's inner workings at a saturation point.

Life After

January 27, 2025

In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “right to die,” igniting a national debate about autonomy, dignity, and the value of disabled lives. After years of courtroom trials, Bouvia disappeared from public view. Disabled director Reid Davenport narrates this investigation of what happened to Bouvia and her story’s disturbing relevance today.

Lukas Bärfuss – Schriftsteller

Lukas Bärfuss – Schriftsteller

January 26, 2025

The camera accompanies Lukas Bärfuss for five years to various theatre productions, readings and research trips. On the road and at his home, it becomes clear who is behind the often sharp and pointed texts.

Nos chastè – Das Schloss Tarasp und seine märchenhafte Geschichte

Nos chastè – Das Schloss Tarasp und seine märchenhafte Geschichte

January 26, 2025

Tarasp Castle in the Lower Engadine sits enthroned on a rock and is visible from afar. The castle was managed by the director's family for three generations; she grew up there. Using documentary and animated film elements, she tells the eventful story of the centuries-old castle.

Coexistence, My Ass!

Coexistence, My Ass!

January 26, 2025

Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi's one-woman show tackles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the struggle for equality, challenging audiences with uncomfortable truths when her pursuit of coexistence starts sounding absurd.

Third Act

January 26, 2025

Filmmaker Tadashi explores his father Robert A. Nakamura's life as an influential Asian American artist and activist, while grappling with Robert's Parkinson's diagnosis, navigating themes of art, grief, and their father-son relationship.

Selena y Los Dinos

January 26, 2025

Selena Quintanilla's journey from performing at local events to becoming the "Queen of Tejano Music" with her family band Selena y Los Dinos, culminating in sold-out stadium tours, is chronicled through personal archive footage.

How to Build A Library

January 26, 2025

Two Kenyan women transform a dilapidated, junk-filled library in downtown Nairobi into a hub for the city's citizens and creatives.

Move Ya Body: The Birth of House

January 26, 2025

Revolves around the 1979’s Disco Demolition Night in Chicago, known as one of the darkest days in American music history, the incident saw 50,000 white teenagers descend on Chicago’s Comiskey Park to blow up records made by mostly Black artists.

Nebelkinder

Nebelkinder

January 25, 2025

Daughters, sons, mothers and fathers want to break the decades-long silence in their families. They search for files, go to archives, rummage through documents and study photo albums. They come up against powerful authorities, prejudices, overburdened families and desperate struggles of mothers for their children.

Boutique Patuzzo

Boutique Patuzzo

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Lugano, 1900: Alessandro and Agnese establish the Maison Patuzzo, a mirror of a tumultuous century. Between wars and love, rising hems and fashions, family and city waltz through time.

Benjamin

Benjamin

January 25, 2025

On July 25, 1985, Antonin's little brother Benjamin was born. He died three days later. His mother and him never saw him. No ritual, no support. How to mourn someone who barely existed?

Architecture of Happiness

Architecture of Happiness

January 25, 2025

For a hundred years, the former fishing village of Campione d'Italia, an Italian enclave in Switzerland, has drawn enormous wealth from a monumental casino. There is hardly a resident who has not benefited economically or socially from it. But the bankruptcy of this colossus destroys all prospects and autonomy. The reopening gives the village one last chance.

Ron Holland: The Voyage of Discovery

Ron Holland: The Voyage of Discovery

January 25, 2025

Explores the incredible life and career of legendary sailor and boat designer. It takes viewers on a journey through Ron’s life, from his difficult childhood in New Zealand to his early days as a sailor and his groundbreaking work as a yacht designer. Ron’s love of sailing and his natural talent for understanding the forces of wind, water, and shape led him to create some of the most innovative and successful yachts in the world, designe boats that have changed the face of sailing and helped usher in a new era of yacht design.

Osteria all'undici

Osteria all'undici

January 25, 2025

After a burn-out, Filippo, a film director, undertakes a professional reintegration as a waiter in a social enterprise.