Set in the heights of the Bolivian Andes, Mamachas del Ring is the story of Carmen Rosa the Champion, an indigenous woman who struggles to make it on her own in the male-dominated world of Bolivian professional wrestling.

A film about a woman who works in Pukch'ŏng apple village to produce apples with the best quality encouraging the villagers to join her efforts. She also works with them to develop the best techniques to perserve them.

The romance between a lonely college student and who seems to be the girl of his dreams is burdened by the sudden arrival of cruel fate.

A village boy awaits his father's return from the front. Though he doesn't yet know the alphabet, he begins composing letters and enrolls in school early to learn to write. He believes the Moon Witch — a figure from a fairytale — is behind all the misfortunes of war. In his dreams, he battles her on the moon as she casts black letters — death notices — down to Earth...

Shot in Paris in December 1958, La Sorcière (The Witch) is Żuławski’s student film and directorial debut. The story is based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.

Afghanistan. 1986. A column of soviet military armour heads from the frontier for Kabul, along a mountain road. It is shielded from air by military helicopters. The way of a column lies through the only bridge in the neighbourhood. Afghan militants are well informed about it, and, led by an American instructor, they prepare a trap. At the moment a Soviet geological expedition, located in mountains, is exposed to a night attack of dushmans (transl. from Afghanian enemy). The Afghan column disperses and geologists decide to go to Kabul. On their way they get information about an approaching soviet column, which would make their trip to Kabul much safer. But they dont know that they are already a part of the operation on the bridge.

Strangers meet at night near cliffs before his impending marriage. Despite her disbelief in pleasure, they connect intimately and unconditionally for one night, exploring desire and vulnerability on the edge before parting ways.

Kahi and Baadur get a letter from Berik, who sent them photographs of women and a letter in which he informs them that he has decided to marry one of them. Having also decided to build their family life with unmarried others, the friends buy a hive of bees and set off on the train.

A young journalist Sofia, who survived the betrayal and death of her husband, has to write an article about a detective. For all his activities, only two of the cases assigned to him remain unsolved. Sofia understands the reason for these failed cases.

Petr Polyakov, director of a large factory, meets a girl named Varya in a very unusual way. She gets into his car and, introducing herself as his daughter, shows Polyakov a photograph of her mother. Polyakov recognises the face in the photograph—it is his former lover, Zinaida.

A sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives far from home and the painstaking labor that supports them, they journey through grief together in hopes of finding family.

Sarah, a former professional kickboxer from Vienna, accepts an offer to work as a personal trainer for a rich family in the Middle East. She finds herself in a foreign world, in a palace behind walls and cut off from the internet, where the sisters are under surveillance around the clock. They have no interest in learning to box. So why has Sarah been brought here?

When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.

Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.

While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict—or free—the accused killer.

Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with her two vivacious daughters and plies a successful trade as a hairdresser, putting clients at their ease all day long. Yet beneath Pansy’s abrasive exterior are hints of a more fragile psyche, one motivated by fear and damaged by repressed pain.

The son of a Countess runs away to join the circus and becomes a great trapeze artist. He returns years later and falls in love with a young woman.

A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.

Aging Bosnian rocker Toni Riff hasn’t written a single song in twenty years; suffering from depression, he relies on financial support from his wife Sonia. The latter decides to make a last-ditch attempt to salvage Toni’s talent – and their marriage.

An abbé claiming to be the late nobleman’s brother disrupts the Rigatti family with secrets, suspicion, and inheritance intrigue.

Private detective Tom Machata, lost in the dramatic fantasies of crime novels, is pulled into a real-life mystery when his assistant Archibald is robbed of a bag full of money. Clues lead them to investigate women with tiny feet, prompting Tom to pose as a skate helper and Archibald as a shoeshine boy. Tom falls for one of the women and gets hired by her to spy on her boyfriend, who then hires Tom to spy on her.

While researching or playing a role, an actor decides to quit acting and live the life of their character instead.

Shula and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family during the funeral proceedings for her uncle.

Jacob tries to hide the suicide of his father because he is afraid to have to live in an orphanage.

The feature documentary Czechoslovak Architecture 58-89 is the first film that comprehensively maps Czechoslovak architecture of the second half of the 20th century. Brutally beautiful, though brutally neglected. Besides the grey flood of prefabricated blocks of flats, the second half of the twentieth century also saw the creation of exceptional, spiritual and timeless buildings that attracted attention even in the West. In his unique feature-length documentary based on the original idea of Vladimir 518, director Jan Zajícek makes an expedition into the pre-revolutionary Czechoslovak architectural scene. With accounts of leading architects and theorists and impressive shots of the most interesting Czech and Slovak post-war buildings, he creates a plastic portrait of an era where a brave, modern and inspiring spirit flourished alongside the official and the structured.

In her only self-produced film, Ruth Weyher plays the wife of a bankrupt night editor who secretly performs as a vaudeville dancer to alleviate his financial woes. Her stuffy husband, however, believes she inherited money from a wealthy aunt. When the supposedly dead aunt suddenly appears on the doorstep, a turbulent game of hide-and-seek ensues…

The murder of an ordinary policeman happened in a provincial town Limansk. Police officer Lyubov Virtanen comes from Moscow to investigate the crime. Her appearance is troubling the local authorities.

Ostap, a young Ukrainian forester, travels to Tashkent to claim a house his aunt left him on Thirteen Poplars Street. There he meets Mastura, a local girl who, charmed by his genuine admiration, offers to show him the city’s hidden wonders. When Ostap departs, he leaves behind not just a house but the memory of a bond that transcends borders.

Three mice live in a cinema. One day, inspired by the gangster movies, they decide to conduct a grand robbery in a cheese shop...

Silent version of a story later remade in French and German as Baby: A count's daughter wants a stage career, her show girl friend wants an education, so they change places.

Kizaki, an upstart at a trading company has one more assignment for the day before meeting his lovely girlfriend, Natsuki for a date. Little does he know that he's walking straight into a trap set up by his boss, Asanuma and his murderous right hand man. The next day Kizaki finds himself framed for the murder of the company president, and the robbing of the company safe. Natsuki innocently waves goodbye to her loved ones as the boat sails only find herself caught in Asanuma's evil scheming and the object of his lust. In a desperate attempt to escape, she falls to the watery depths. When we next see her she has washed ashore like a siren in the nude on a deserted island inhabited by five castaways who fight each other for her. She learns there's a rich wealth of clams underwater and eventually comes into a large fortune in pearls. Once rescued, she returns to Japan with revenge on her mind.

Melissa is an experienced, exemplary prison guard. But a dangerous spiral is set into motion when she transfers to a Corsican jail, where she accepts help and protection from inmate Saveriu to get her bearings. Upon his release, he contacts Melissa expecting to collect.

A man seeks his moral compass while meeting authority figures, including his future cellmate Gene.

Follows a land surveyor on an assignment to measure an ancient forest for a developer, but soon loses his reason in a supernatural environment that has its own plans.

After a neighbor's daughter throws some contemptuous remarks about his dead father, ten years old boy teaches the girl a cruel lesson thereby condemning himself in the eyes of the surrounding folk.

No one ever met the Hermit, and if he did, he did not recognize him by sight. His arrival always initiates a certain "domino principle", an "avalanche" of events, which changes everything beyond recognition. But in this strange place, called Station, it is already awaited. The search for God, the meaning and way of life, himself and his place in this cruel place are made of the people of Wanderers, those who never close their eyes and continue the eternal search.

Carole tries to save the life of her son who has been wrongfully sentenced to death in a rigged trial.

Gabelkin and Nikita, two little boys from a northern Russian village, never meet, and their lives appear to move in opposite directions. Gabelkin lives with his alcoholic mother, while Nikita is one of the many at a local orphanage. Gabelkin's teacher struggles with the fact that she can't have any children of her own. She'd like to adopt him, but can't, and does all she can to help. Nikita believes his mother is a woman from a photograph he found on the street.

A film about Finnish artist Kalervo Palsa who was completely neglected by his peers and time.

Dreaming of an escape from the bleakness of their hometown, two teens form a unique bond at a local modeling school, where the promise of a better life pushes girls to violate their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.

Advanced Style examines the lives of seven unique New Yorkers whose eclectic personal style and vital spirit have guided their approach to aging. Based on Ari Seth Cohen’s famed blog of the same name, this film paints intimate and colorful portraits of independent, stylish women aged 62 to 95 who are challenging conventional ideas about beauty, aging, and Western’s culture’s increasing obsession with youth.

A documentary short on Brazil's National Film Archive, the Cinemateca Brasileira, based in the city of São Paulo.

The story of five sisters.

A middle-aged man builds a summer house in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro. Married to a beautiful woman, father of two and successful career, the house is a symbol of his personal achievements. But as the wind, the salt and the sand threaten to invade the breaches of the house, their marriage begins to crumble. And like a bad omen, a mysterious murder takes place in the vicinity.

Marianne, a doctor, and Tor, a nurse, avoid relationships. After meeting on a ferry where Tor seeks casual encounters, Marianne explores the possibility of spontaneous intimacy, questioning societal norms.

Aya, in her late twenties, still lives with her parents in southern Tunisia and feels trapped in a life without prospects. One day, the minivan in which she commutes daily between her town and the hotel where she works crashes. As the sole survivor of the accident, she realizes it could be her chance to start a new life. She flees to Tunis under a new identity, but everything is soon compromised when she becomes the main witness to a police blunder.

There may be a 50-year age difference between Samid and Ayaz, but they share a passion for film. Both are brimming with ideas to revive the cinema in their village in the hills of Azerbaijan. Once the long-awaited Holy Grail – a projector bulb – arrives after many months, the cinema is packed out with locals... But will the magic work?

A drama centered around a German construction manager who works with undocumented workers and an Albanian girl searching for her missing father.

A forest mystical being appoints two men in succession as the legendary outlaw defender of the oppressed.

The film explores O'Brien's life and writings through dramatic readings, interviews with scholars, and scenes from a conference in Prague.

Billy Brannigan, a mechanic, has some difficulties and problems when he gets mixed up with the police looking for a jewel thief. An identical suitcase used by Billy and the thief cause most of the troubles.

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

World War II is around the corner, but the only thing Sally Bauer can think of is the ocean. Her dream is to swim across the English Channel.

Ginette, a Parisian seamstress, lives poorly but happily with her musician lover. When Count la Ferronnière offers to teach her the manners and behaviours that will open her the doors to a richer world, she quickly chooses wealth over love.

It depicts the mysterious relationship between a sister with lung ailment who lives in the warehouse and a younger brother who longs for her. A film adaptation of Seishi Yokomizo's novel of the same name

When the water supply cuts out in a small town, turning the dystopian society into a war zone, three hustlers struggle to find the real enemy before it's too late.

Neda and Boyan are travelling in a car to the city. Their memory takes them back to their youth - their unsettled life, their noisy arguments, their vague hopes, picking up individual scenes, episodes, conversations. Their youth had foolishly gone without love. Now they try to resurrect its ghost. It seems to them that not everything is lost yet, everything can be brought back. So there is a deviation from the usual, measured life to themselves, to true feelings.

A film story about a young talented director of children's theatre, who, despite terminal illness, came to work in the regional city.

A modest employee of a savings bank inherits a valuable art collection. The unexpected wealth changes the course of the heroine's life so much that she does not know whether to be happy or sad. Only after losing everything does the young woman realise what she really needs for happiness.

Pierce Brosnan narrates this beautifully crafted documentary, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of enigmatic Irish painter Jack B. Yeats.

Located in Ardmore, Waterford, Saint Declan’s Well dates back to the 14th century. In this film, the viewer is shown parts of the oratory and Saint Declan’s tower, but perhaps the most interesting is footage of a man and a woman walking underneath Saint Declan’s stone. Legend has it, on the feast day of the saint (24th of July) pilgrims would crawl under the stone as a cure for arthritis. However, the mythical tale also warned that the stone should not be approached by the unworthy, as they risked getting stuck and trapped for their sins.

As future cinema owners, the Horgan Brothers had the foresight to know any event that attracted enormous crowds was worthy of filming. From 1917, their amateur newsreel The Youghal Gazette was shown in The Horgan Picture Theatre, and people from the locality would come to catch a glimpse of themselves on the big screen. This footage of church goers leaving Sunday mass and walking down the church steps in Youghal, is one of the finest examples from their collection and vividly illustrates the broad strata of society that came to worship.

This is the story of the Horgan Brothers of Youghal, photographic, cinematic, and animation pioneers.

Tamara, who has left for America, has a sister Natasha in Ivanovsk. Tamara invites her to come and stay with her. She is ready to help Natasha, to do everything necessary to get her back on her feet in an overseas country. But, strange as it may seem, Natasha does not want to accept such a generous gift from her sister and has no intention of leaving her hometown. She lives well here, she has her own business. And Natasha hopes that she will be able to arrange her personal life.

Trenque Lauquen, a small town in Argentina, invites an Italian fashion house to show its latest collection. After an elaborate welcome ceremony and an initial photo shoot, the fashion house's model vanishes, and a team of local police and consultants, including a clairvoyant, investigates.

With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.

Jean-Pierre, a frazzled sport agent, has better things to do than to look after his friend's labrador Didier. An amazing discovery will lead him off on an amazing adventure.

When two enemy sides ex-change the captives in the middle of a minefield, a nameless man without identity and memory, subsequently named Jakov, leaves the column unnoticed and wanders around in order to minimize other people's sufferings. On his dangerous journey, he meets a female first-fighter who runs an orphanage, a commander who got back from Foreign legion and runs a defense line from a disco club, and goes through many other adventures only to end up in the endless backwaters of the Neretva river where war threats to arrive.

The Making Of... is a unique reflection of the transformation of the time spirit from November 17, 1989, to November 17, 2009. The film reconstruction of the revolutionary moments culminates in a clash between demonstrators and public security on the day of the celebration of the fall of the Iron Curtain. The commented home video transforms over the course of 20 years from a euphoric trip into a picture of social emptiness.

One-time visit turned into a party, the party turned into a flatshare. Filmmaker and musician Jan Foukal and Albert Romanutti, frontman of Bert and Friends and a striking figure of the Czech music scene, become the main characters of the first Czech bromance. Jan has just rented a flat to sort out his family situation. The COVID-19 pandemic robbed Albert of his musical gigs, and he has just broken up with his girlfriend. While some people were writing their lockdown diaries, these two boys used their unique openness, creativity, and an omnipresent Handcam and shot a feature romance about a male friendship.

Journalist Alexei Krivtsov tries to understand in detail how important historical events are assessed at the Institute of Humanitarian Problems in the times of perestroika.

Charles Rouvier, a lawyer, is in jail for trying to save one of his clients, Hedwige. He decides to be revenged on women and his inmates teach him how to seduce and exploit them.As soon as he is released from prison he places a personal ad in a newspaper. This is how the newly self-appointed "cynical Don Juan" will meet three creatures: Florence, Gisèle and Henriette. Who will eat who?

Apprentice director Emmanuel Mouret submits a group of apprentice actors to a series of experiences : to what extent are they ready to expose themselves, either physically or psychologically, in the eyes of their director first, and then of the viewers?

The merciless decline of a great poet, Dino Campana, author of the Canti Orfici, remembered more for his passionate relationship with Sibilla Aleramo than for the depth of his art. Locked up in an asylum in his early thirties, psychopathic yet brilliant, subjected to the cruel care of a doctor who would really like to rehabilitate him, Campana slides towards death with hallucinating determination, alternating delirium with flashes of lucidity, the memory of Sibilla with a poetic creativity stronger than his alienation.

A miserable Argentine troupe of actors, dancers, musicians, filmmakers and a girl embark on a theatre tour to some country, probably in Latin America.

Inga, a medical school graduate, is diagnosed with a blood disease. She needs a bone marrow transplant, but Inga is afraid of the operation and considers herself doomed. Vadim, who loves her, having learnt about it, comes to her in the Carpathians, where she works on assignment after graduating from the institute, and offers Inga to become his wife. Vadim's love and faith in the cure help Inga to defeat the disease.

A collective farm agronomist was dismissed and expelled from the Party by the district CPSU committee. Disagreeing with this decision, the agronomist appeals to a higher Party instance. The secretary of the regional committee comes to the collective farm to sort out this complicated case.

Vladimir is already over fifty, and he is bored with the routine of family life. He has found a young and beautiful mistress Olga, with whom he goes on a romantic trip to Yalta. At home Volodya informs that he is going fishing with friends to Solovki. Arriving in the south, Vladimir and Olga suddenly discover that Volodya's wife is also here, and not alone, but in company with a witty and handsome Georgian Givi. At the suggestion of the bruised and deceived in the best feelings of the spouse, the first couple begins to follow the second, and the serene holiday of the heroes acquires an adventurous character.

The universe of Ukrainian village has always been one of the key topics for Oleksandr Koval. This film is his cinematic testament and, at the same time, a lyrical cinematic confession, which was filmed in his native village of Zherdova near Kyiv, where he was born and where he started his "career in cinema" as a cinema mechanic. This work is particularly illustrative with regard to Koval's tragic view of himself as a person who had to conceal his true self throughout his life.

This film tells the story of the patients of the Lviv Regional Psychiatric Clinic who are treated with art, rehearsing Shakespeare's play Hamlet, and its main idea is to reflect on us ‘normal’ people, our lives and actions in the ‘normal’ world.

Katerina has long since divorced her husband and is raising her fifteen-year-old daughter on her own. Her parents have been separated for a long time and now need her help. Her daughter does not help, and at work there is only trouble. But what Katerina needs is not compassion and help, but love.

The life of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting, from the moment he dresses up to the moment he undresses.

Through dramatic reconstruction and documentary asides, the spirit of Italian poet, playwright, journalist, aristocrat and army officer Gabriele D’Annunzio is captured, presenting the nascent fascism in his attempts to forge a new state in the aftermath of the First World War.

Viktor Kingissepp has been the underground head of the Communist Party of Estonia for three years. He corresponds with Moscow, writes speeches for the members of the Communist Workers' Party and makes leaflets for the events of trade union. His purpose is to overthrow the Republic of Estonia since he does not believe in Estonian independence nor in any national ideals. Yet the clock keeps ticking, tuberculosis spreads rapidly, the world revolution is being postponed. What to do in order to make one's efforts work?

The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death. This biblical story is set in present-day Germany.

Zhora is a well-known master of stuffed birds and animals in the neighbourhood. His wife's overbearing nature and her endless insults about his strange work once awakened in him the desire to leave home.

David Sims' impressionistic National Film Unit short film explores the responses of four NZ painters to a landscape illuminated by a distinctive light, but yet to feel the full impact of human settlement. The award-winning film examines Brent Wong’s floating architectural shapes, Colin McCahon’s religious symbolism, Toss Wollaston’s earth-hued palette, and Michael Smither’s hard-edged realism. Their works are taken from safe gallery confines and moved closer to their subject matter, while the words of writers (Katherine Mansfield, Charles Brasch, Bill Pearson) provide another angle.

Having fled the Liberian Civil War and living undocumented, renowned self-taught artist Johnson Weree creates otherworldly portraits while seeking asylum in the Netherlands.

A string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads veteran FBI agent Terry Husk into a white supremacist plot to overthrow the federal government.

In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.

Bureaucrats from the chemical plant of a small industrial town allow the lake to be polluted with waste. Zaborov, an enthusiast of the fight for environmental cleanliness, starts an open struggle and is defeated. This does not embarrass him and for a while he disappears. Some time later, a prehistoric lizard appears in the lake, which immediately attracts the attention of the world community.

Ksana meets Ivan Mazayev, a miner, and follows him to Magadan. But the difficult life of a miner quickly bores her. She leaves for Moscow, but cannot forget Ivan...

Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.