In the Darhat valley of northern Mongolia, the horses of the nomadic tribes are disappearing. Bandits are stealing them to sell to Russian abattoirs for just a few rubles. But Shukhert, a crime-fighting Darhat horseman, is relentlessly pursuing them to the Taiga mountain range of Mongolia, on the border with Siberia.

"What are you fighting for?" Armed simply with this question, Arthur MacCaig goes to Northern Ireland to confront Irish Republicans. The result is an inside look at the ghettos of Belfast. The Jackets' Green calls no one to arms, but offers simple portraits of a few men and women most often represented as fanatical zealots. As they speak candidly about their cause, it becomes difficult to continue branding them as "terrorists."

A short film by the Manaki brothers that documents the celebration of Epiphany in Bitola.

A short film by the Manaki brothers which documents a Wedding in Bitola.

A short film by the Manaki brothers which documents a celebration with slogans in Greek.

In 1975 French Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Pierre Dominique Gaisseau traveled to Panama to make a film on the indigenous island-dwelling Kuna people. Accompanied by his wife and their daughter, Gaisseau lived with the Kuna for a year, gaining their trust and filming their most intimate ceremonies. He promised to share the resulting film with the community, but that never happened. Fifty years later, the Kunas are still waiting to discover “their” film, now a legend passed down from the elders to the new generation. One day, a hidden copy is found in Paris…

Parisian taxi drivers Ahmed, Jean Jacques, and Madame Tang document La Base - a gigantic transit hub isolated on the outskirts of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport - reappropriated by the drivers to become a rich microcosm of community life, a refuge facing the decline of their trade and the fast-changing world.

David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe for extermination made him the target of a 15-year manhunt by Israeli agents. Rare videotapes of the trial, exclusive interviews with courtroom witnesses, prosecutors, and others recount the emotionally explosive proceedings.

Details the history of the of post-war Japanese Marxist radicals and the New Left in the 1960s and 1970s.

Many years ago an old woman in a village decided to transform her house into The Museum of Antiquities of All Species. She lives in her museum surrounded by the fantastic world she created with her writings, her creations and imaginations.

The footage of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein crawling out of a hole in the ground in 2003 is iconic. Now, 20 years later, the man who dug that hole tells the fantastical story of how he, an ordinary farmer, hid the deposed president beneath a flowerbed in his garden for eight months. On camera, he talks about the day his house was selected as a hideaway for this wanted man, hunted by 150,000 US soldiers. The Iraqi farmer had no choice but to assume the role of presidential hairdresser, physician and bodyguard—and something akin to a friendship seems to have grown between them as they ate together and helped wash each other’s backs.

Nobuyoshi Kikuchi has devoted his life to books. Over the course of his career, he has designed more than 15,000 book covers. Even in the digital age, he still works with a ruler, scissors, and pencils, creating unique fonts, and being meticulous about the properties of the chosen paper. He enjoys the personal exchange with authors, a good cup of coffee, and a stroll through the flea market. Nanako Hirose presents a fascinating portrait of a seemingly old-fashioned personality – but maybe it is exactly this kind of personality which can give an inspiration to reflect on the really valuable things in life?

Short film about the upgrades and technological improvements on the British railways.

A man forms an unlikely friendship with a wild otter while living in the remote Shetland Islands.

While her father was in his deathbed, she and her nieces were playing in the rain.

Iwate Prefecture, Ohasamacho. In the foothills of Mt. Hayachine, the kagura (devotional dance) offered to the mountain goddess by the mountain priests is still performed today nearly unchanged from mediaeval times. This dance, which has been handed down along several lines of succession in the villages of Take and Otsugunai, has its origins in prayer. Take’s kagura and Otsugunai’s kagura are said to be closely related. The film shows the people who lovingly continue to perform these two types of dance and the transition from ancient tradition to modern life. Even from the first moment that director Haneda was charmed by Hayachine’s kagura, the mountain villages that were home to the gods had already begun to disappear

A documentary film about the leader of the band "Зоопарк" (Zoo Park) Mike Naumenko.

From different places in Peru, a group of ancient operators prepare the projection of a movie in which they themselves are the protagonists: former operators, ticket takers and administrators will reveal their most intimate and unforgettable experiences linked to the old cinemas that they grew old with them.

From Venice to Illiers, a journey into the memory of Proust. Freely intersperses documentary language with fiction, embodied in the figure of a visitor in search of the places and faces that Proust loved, from the Illiers-Combray of his childhood to the longed-for Venice that he never got to know.

Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.

Horror in the Andes is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. Directed by audio-visual anthropologist Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, it explores how Andean filmmakers use the horror genre as a means to revive stories of a pre-colonial past. Appropriating a global cinematic language to tell local (hi)stories, Horror in the Andes pays testament to the craft of filmmaking and its community.

Short documentary hymning the wonders of 'modernisation' on the railways.

Hungary could have been the happiest barracks under socialism only because, with the involvement of the Colombian drug cartel, it smuggled several tons of drugs into the United States every year. The Hungarian mafia from Los Angeles was also actively involved in the distribution of the drug methaqualone produced in Újpest. Since the psychotropic drug, also known as Quaalude, generated millions of dollars in profit for the comrades on the Danube, Budapest used this amount to feed the population, plug the budget deficit and build hotels. Of course, it didn't take long for the American Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, to eavesdrop on the action and blackmail the People's Republic of the Carpathian Basin.

It's the end of the academic year at the Hénin-Beaumont high school. Between two TikTok videos and their science lessons, best friends Linda and Irina confide in each other about their families and their future. But Linda is going to have to move in the coming year. What will remain of their friendship? The marvellous story of a bygone summer.

Observation of an important infrastructure in Amazonia: downstream on a cargo boat that brings passengers and goods to the isolated communities in the Peruvian rain forest.

Tony Robinson and the team present a radical picture of the British Iron Age, by concentrating on its charismatic hill forts. This period was virtually ignored by antiquarians, who assumed the structures related to the Roman conquest of Britain. Nevertheless, many of the tracks, boundaries, ditches, and hill defences are still visible or in use today. Modern archaeologists like Barry Cunliffe, Mike Parker Pearson, and J.D. Hill have thrown new light on structures such as Maiden Castle and Danebury, suggesting their function was social and religious rather than military.

The impact of graffiti as a cultural phenomenon in the city of São Paulo and its international influence as one of the main currents of Street Art The film participated in the exhibition Ne dans la Rue (Born in the Street), the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris. The documentary shows the reality of taggers, accompanies some actions, conflicts with the police and shows a different view of some interventions already much exploited by the media. The film does not provide answers, but provides arguments for the debate: is graffiti art or a crime?

A few miles from Els Gorgs lies the village of Argelaguer, where Josep Pujiula by himself is building (and re-building) his dream.

An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, revealing letters, essays, and print interviews — and brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork.

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, and other rare archival elements.

Pegah talks about Gholam, a man who’s not like her father, mother, uncles, or aunts, even though he’s always present at family gatherings. Gholam films these everyday scenes with his own camera. At the time, Pegah can’t imagine what the purpose of these films might be, but she’s happy to pose before the lens of this family friend, who she’s certainly very fond of.

The story of the 1914-1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Andrew Graham-Dixon looks at neglected, but rich German art from the time of the Middle Ages.

A collection of shorts, some documentary and some fictional, showing the political climate in Argentina during the military regime of the late 1960s.

When Post Office subpostmasters up and down the country started to experience big shortfalls in their accounts, Post Office assumed they were stealing the money and prosecuted them. Hundred were given criminal convictions and many were sent to prison. Lives, marriages, reputations – all ruined. The shortfalls were in fact, a result of errors in the Post Office’s own IT system, known as Horizon. It was something the Post Office had always denied. For over twenty years, former subpostmaster Alan Bates has fought tirelessly for justice for all the subpostmasters who were so poorly treated by the brand they had loved. This is his story.

Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.

Life in a coastal resort town outside the tourist season.

An educational film about the technological and artistic development of cinematography.

The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come.

Art experts track down the work of of some of the biggest names in art that are lying hidden away in museums, art galleries and country houses around the UK.

In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world's most respected film critics. In his writings, he advocated for a cinema that would simultaneously embrace the fractures and polyphony of modern life and the equitable social vision of left radical politics. This film-biography is assembled out of distorted fragments of films on which he had written, an impression of erupting consciousness.

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

In the vast plains of Kyrgyzstan, men have been cultivating a group sport with a long tradition. The aim of the game buzkashi is to steal the trophy of a dead goat from the rival team of riders, all while staying on horseback. Into this tough masculine world enters Atirkül, a woman with an enterprising spirit and a sense of humour. The film follows the everyday life of the headstrong horse lover Atirkül, whose ambition is to build her own buzkashi team of local young men to preserve the heritage of her native region. The ethnographic perspective alternates with a purely personal one, gradually revealing the possibilities of overcoming gender roles

A film about architecture and our personal relation with it.

Inspired by the testimony of an American technician who, examining the São Paulo dump, stated: “Sao Paulo rubbish is the richest in the world.” The film shows the misery of those who live on this garbage and the police repression on the scavengers.

In the garden in front of the house, the children Draga, Bozena and Vladimir play alone. In the second frame, their mother Matilda joins them, they move closer and further away from the camera in the game.

Scenes from a market fair at Ljutomer.

It shows local people leaving the church after the Sunday mass in Ljutomer.

The introductory film to the Slovene Ethnographic Museum's permanent exhibition offers a brief insight into important aspects of daily life of the past. It covers the migration of the Slavs onto the territory of the current Slovenia, their dwellings and farming methods, the appearance of castles and towns, peasant revolts, the formation of Slovene language. There are few archeological finds, frescoes or books bearing witness to this time, so the film also makes use of animations and reconstructions of farming and handicraft tasks.

How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged industry, manage to unfurl the cataclysm of World War Two and come to occupy a large part of the European continent? Based on recent historical works of and interviews with Adam Tooze, Richard Overy, Frank Bajohr and Marie-Bénédicte Vincent, and drawing on rare archival material.

Children dig for clams on the beach

In 1990, a mechanic in Albania named Alexander Gruda undertook one of the most daring feats in recent human history. After being fired by the navy for dissidence, he hijacked a warship in order to gain freedom for himself and his family.

Tells the story of the News on Sunday, an attempt by a small group of far-left individuals to launch a left-wing mass market Sunday tabloid. The film borrows its title from the paper’s ill-fated advertising campaign; “No tits, but a lot of balls” – just one in a seemingly endless series of mistakes made in the course of the paper’s disastrously short life. The paper went bust in June 1987, its demise mirroring the demise of the Left in the late 1980s.

In the late 1970s in Leeds, a group of women called the Revolutionary Feminists splintered away from mainstream feminism. Unlike the socialists, who pictured a revolution where the ruling class and the working class would be on opposite sides, Revolutionary Feminists declared war on men. Their leading activist was academic Sheila Jeffreys.

'Property is Theft' documents a squatted street in Brixton in the 1970s. The lifestyle in Villa Road epitomized the ideals of the late 1970s - communal living, collective action and an unswerving commitment to Marxist ideology.

The times they were a-changing.

In this 1980 documentary, originally in three parts but presented here in its entirety, Vittorio De Seta presents the drama of the Vietnamese refugees who arrived in the great Asian metropolis.

Based on the struggle of young people in Goma (Northeastern Congo) against the prevailing Western reporting about war and misery, Stop Filming Us investigates how these Western stereotypes are the result of a skewed balance of power. Stop Filming Us creates a cinematic dialogue between Western perceptions and the Congolese experience of reality. While the Congolese perspective becomes increasingly clearer in the film, questions arise about the perspective of the film itself; is a white director able to make a film about the new Congolese image or is it primarily a story created by his own Western perspective?

Presented by Eric Knowles, this fascinating program shows how the historic home was brought back to life in time for its opening to the public. 78 Derngate is a Georgian house in Northhampton, England, originally built in the 1820s. In 1916, the house's new owner commissioned Mackintosh to renovate the rather pokey and old-fashioned interiors into a modern and convenient home. The work was conducted from 1916 to 1917, and architectural historians consider the resultant interiors one of this period's most important works. "The House That Mackintosh Built" was originally a 15-episode half-hour series broadcast on Discovery Home and Leisure in 2003. The commercial DVD release has been edited into a single 93-minute program.

Flag Mountain records a vast flag, the insignia of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, painted onto the side of the Kyrenia mountains overlooking Nicosia, the divided capital of the former island nation. The flag, situated in what is officially understood under international law to be ‘Turkish occupied’ northern Cyprus, is accompanied by the legend ‘Ne mutlu Türküm diyene’ (‘How happy is he who can say “I am a Turk”‘). The statement, a quote from the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, is clearly legible from the south of the city and its surrounding countryside.

“Burckhardt’s travelogue of Port-au-Prince is a unique city symphony whose pace and rhythm favor tropical island life. He does not focus on voodoo but on Haiti’s daily life, neighbors, jokes, gossip, small dramas, Saturday night dances, and ghost stories,” evoking a place where time seems to stand still.” - Bruce Posner

Filmed during Ana Mariscal's tour of various locations in the north of the peninsula to present her first feature film, "Segundo López, aventurero urbano", shows a day in the life of the city of Santiago de Compostela, with special attention to a liturgy celebrated in its cathedral and following its very young and wild altar boy, although also showing part of the daily practice of a disenchanted Pharmacy student and configuring the physiognomy of a city marked by rain, the University and the power of the Catholic Church.

This documentary film examines, dissects and all but lobotomizes the wealth of music, literature, theatre and film that have assisted in creating Waits legendary genius and, results in hand, reviews the life and career of Tom Waits from this fascinating and rarely identified viewpoint. With exclusive interviews, rare and often previously unseen footage and contributions from Toms legendary producer Bones Howe Moris Tepper and John French from Captain Beefhearts Magic Band and occasional TW collaborator, Ken Nordine Harry Partch associates David Dunn and Dean Drummond BBCs head of music Chris Ingham Beat-era scholar John Tytell plus Tom Waits historians, music academics, and respected writers. Also features numerous seldom seen photographs, much archive film and a host of other features which all at once make for an educational, inspiring and joyous celebration of Tom Waits and those he holds close to his heart.

Over the past 20 years, Francis Coppola , the award-winning writer-director of the two Godfather films, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now, has established himself as one of the most gifted, adventurous and controversial filmmakers...

A community of monks lives isolated from the world, practicing martial arts and following the master’s strict rules. This film investigates their harsh life and the flow of Time in unique closed environment, to approach deep motivations of a radical choice, and the reasons that pushed the monks away from their affections.

In 1930, during what became known as the Industrial Party Trial, some members of the Soviet technical elite were tried for plotting to form a counter-revolutionary party. This documentary depicts that trial, in which a dozen men are prosecuted for crimes against the Russian Revolution. They promptly confess and are given the chance to address the court with an explanation. Full of remorse, they plead for the opportunity to pay off their debt to society by working. Then they wait for their sentence.

High Tension, Inside, Martyrs, Frontier(s) and Them. In the years of 2003 to 2008, those sensational and innovative horror movies were made and left huge impact around the world. This movement is called New Wave of French Horror. This film explores the meaning and hidden secrets of this significant movement.

At the end of the Middle Ages, in Florence, Italy, a revolt of the poorest textile workers, the Ciompi, upsets the city and succeeds in overthrowing the government. In Florence, I film in their footsteps to bring out the ghosts of this revolt. In the industrial suburbs, I discover the echoes in the present, in the modern textile factories where immigrant workers are exploited. In Paris, I dialogue with the militant researcher who made the history of the revolt. Together we question the political stakes of writing history in the construction of a fertile collective memory.

First feature film by István Homoki Nagy.

The Red and the Gray is a documentary essay proposing an adaptation of Ernst Jünger's famous war tale, Orages d'acier, from several thousand German-made and mostly unpublished photographs.

Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd continues his powerful political and poetic body of work with this new film, shot in 16mm, which travels through the regions around Ararat along its “inner lines”, to use the military terminology. These parallel routes are also used by messengers and their carrier pigeons to connect communities scattered by conflict.

Documentary made in Yemen (and first film ever shot in this country) under the leadership of archaeologist Jules Barthou. During the adventure of this film, René Clément will serve four days in prison for having concealed a camera under his clothes, then will be captured by rebels and threatened with being shot. The majority of the negatives will be seized by the guards of Imam Yahia, and it is with the remaining rushes that Clément will edit what becomes The Forbidden Arabia, a film entrusted to the Musée de l’Homme in 1965 where it is forgotten until that ethnologist Claudie Fayein unearths it and has it restored.

Follows a group of scientists, researchers and activist exposing the extinction behind sharks.