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Documentary about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with documentary images of the band and a musical mise-en-scene composed of songs from their discography.

E.1027 is a cinematic journey into the mind of Eileen Gray. A story about the power of female expression, and men's desire to control it.

The first manned mission from Earth to Mars in 2033 attempts to colonize the red planet.

Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this portrait of film-maker Guy Maddin's home town of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Two professional actors undergo an immersive process to find out what it takes to be a cop in Mexico City.

A flashback to earlier episodes in the life of Leon Trotsky, the Marxist revolutionary, framed by events during his asylum in Mexico City 1939-1940

Docudrama that daily recreates two stories based on real, curious, and attractive clinical cases.

The experience of six fame hungry actors is documented as they unknowingly trade their lives to star in an experimental horror film.

In 2013 the military police of the Brazilian Federal District initiated a large operation against drug traffic in the peripheral city of Ceilândia, dismantling a series of illegal networks and arresting sixteen men.

A life of Nigerien immigrants in Abidjan, Ivory Coast within a week.

Plastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone, and has been missing for two years. Shohei Imamura and his crew follow Oshima's fiancé Yoshie and actor Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as they investigate the disappearance.

Director Jonás Trueba captures the spirit of a group of teens in Spain in an empathic, compelling, and moving way. In 2016, Trueba asked the teens to participate in a five-year project, in which they recreated situations from their lives. They talk about their insecurities, wanting to be accepted, loneliness, and what they are supposed to do with their lives. They demonstrate against school privatisation, debate politics and, like many adults, worry about the planet's future.

"Clash of Futures" created by Jan Peter and Gunnar Dedio explores the dramatic era of the 1920s and '30s. The eight-part series follows the fates of extraordinary men, women and children from France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Austria, Sweden, Poland and the Soviet Union using their own diary entries, letters and memoirs. These are people drawn into the war by their convictions, who with their loves and decisions bring the history of Europe with all its contradictions to life.

In the desolate wilderness of the disappearing islands along the Brahmaputra river, 12-year-old orphan Afrin is coming of age. When heavy rainfalls and flood waters ravage Afrin's island, she refuses to surrender to its deadly tides. Afrin rows herself in a wooden boat toward the teeming metropolis of Dhaka to find her estranged father among the millions of climate refugees. Forced to grow up fast, Afrin must confront the mysteries of a sinking world.

In Bali, a young woman falls in love with a musician, but he may have eyes for her half-sister.

A TV series to tell, with the language of docu-fiction, the story of the 1986-87 "Maxi-trial" against Cosa Nostra in Palermo, Italy. Instructed by the Anti-Mafia pool, led by Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the story of this historical process and of its exceptional numbers (476 defendants, 200 lawyers, a 8,000-pages-long verdict, 19 life sentences and 2,665 total years of prison) is recounted through the real images from court audiences (thousands of hours of audiovisual material that RAI Teche have restored, digitized, studied and investigated), enriched by reconstructions with fictional scenes.

Years after the crime, three clueless investigators discuss the disappearance of a young tourist in a small French town.

Married couple Appignanesi and Baum an English literature university professor, attempt to figure out their relationship on screen, involving an angst-riddled trip to the United States.

Daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, intimate portrait, with unprecedented access, of a working-class Chinese family.

Justina has been rewarded by her former employer for her lifelong devotion to her as a maid with a colossal mansion deep in the Argentinian Pampa. The only condition is that she must never sell it.

A familiar place can feel fresh and new when seen through the eyes of an expert or an enthusiast. This work is a documentary-style drama that takes an eccentric look at everyday scenery in Kansai. Fujisawa Shiori, who works at a publishing company, was transferred to the new business department and moved to Osaka three months ago. Struggling to adjust to the unfamiliar city, she reunites with a former colleague who now lives in Osaka who invites her to join as a participant in a quirky tour organized by one of her friends.

Invincible Force is a detailed chronicle of one man's meticulous transformation from slovenly man-child to infallible titan.

A Mauritanian worker, Sidi, works in France. Like most immigrant workers, he is employed in the most arduous and dangerous jobs.