1. Screen Generation: Sick Generation? (Génération écran: génération malade ?)
Smartphones, computers, gaming consoles or digital tablets are now givens in our daily lives. The electronic intrusion is causing controversy and collective hysteria. Are we damaging our brains with all these screens? How will unprecedented exposure to screens impact humanity? To find out, the filmmakers examine how science has been applied to distinguish between truth and falsehoods, and explore the suspected side-effects of screen exposure. The documentary travels through the US and Europe to meet and speak to researchers who are leaders in this field.
It has an average vote of 8.8 on TMDB.
2. Insides and Outsides (Insides and Outsides)
Insides and Outsides is a documentary film project, which captures a timeline from the end of 2019, when the CAA/NRC protests were at their peak, till 2022 when the pandemic had upturned everyone's personal life. In an increasingly hostile environment of escalating violence, Arbab explores what it is like being a Muslim in India. The film ebbs and flows between looking outside, where a constant stream of hate erupts, and inside, where Arbab's parents renegotiate their place in the country with changing times.
3. Peach (Durazno)
How are biographies charted? How is identity constructed? Can we relive our past, reinvent it, rearrange or recycle it? Can we really know who we are if we ignore where do we come from?
4. Die fremde Frau - Winterreise nach Flossenbürg (Die fremde Frau - Winterreise nach Flossenbürg)
(Die fremde Frau - Winterreise nach Flossenbürg)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
5. Cyborg Society
What does the looming A.I. revolution mean for us as individuals and as a society?
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
6. Beauties of the Night (Bellas de noche)
What happened to those vedettes who represented the mexican cabaret’s exotic beauty in the ‘70s and ‘80s? Four decades after the end of their roles, they tell their stories with dignity.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
7. Such a Resounding Silence (Un silence si bruyant)
Through this documentary, Emmanuelle Béart aims to uncover the truth about incest. The actress, accompanied by director Anastasia Mikova, breaks her silence and confronts her reality with that of others, shedding light on a taboo subject.
It has an average vote of 9.2 on TMDB.
8. The Legend of Lapot (Legenda o lapotu)
In a remote mountainous village elderly people no longer deemed productive are stoned to death.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
9. The Betrayal by Technology: A Portrait of Jacques Ellul (Het verraad van de techniek)
A portrait of Jacques Ellul, a French theologian/sociologist & anarchist who first became well-known to American readers with the English publishing of his book The Technological Society in 1964. For Ellul, technique represented an entire way of life characterized by life fragmented so that efficiency ultimately rules over all ethical decisions. Ellul warned that technique was having drastic effects on all aspects of modern life. Many Green Anarchists have cited Ellul's work on technique as influential on their thought.
10. Faut-il avoir peur d'Amazon ? (Faut-il avoir peur d'Amazon ?)
(Faut-il avoir peur d'Amazon ?)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
11. Apple, Google, Facebook… Les nouveaux maîtres du monde (Apple, Google, Facebook… Les nouveaux maîtres du monde)
(Apple, Google, Facebook… Les nouveaux maîtres du monde)
12. Germany in Autumn (Deutschland im Herbst)
Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion . The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
13. Pink Tokyo (Pink Tokyo)
(Pink Tokyo)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
14. Waste Land (Otzenrather Sprung)
By 2045, twenty localities in Germany will be resettled because of brown coal open pit mining. The film Waste Land follows the inhabitants of three villages in the Rhenish coal-mining district during their last years in their old home and documents how an entire region prepares for its collective relocation.
15. Golden Road: Today's Senior Drivers
Does your parent's car have new dents or nicks? Does mentally reviewing the trip ahead of time help you when driving? When should a senior relinquish the keys or when should someone step in and remove them? The Golden Road: Today's Senior Drivers provides the tools you need in order to recognize, understand and confront these issues with deliberation and care.
16. Fadia’s Tree
While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies above, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is denied. When a chance meeting introduces her to the director, Sarah, she challenges her to find an ancient mulberry tree that once grew next to her grandfather’s house in historic Palestine, a tree that stands witness to her family’s existence.
17. #followme (#followme)
Reporter Nicolaas Veul decides to set up his first Instagram account and accumulate as many followers as possible. Over time, he becomes more interested in the social network's inner workings and uncovers a well-oiled machine based on fraud. While users enthusiastically give likes to selfies, a brisk business with user accounts is underway behind the scenes. There are huge numbers of fake profiles, and internet bots are producing new followers for those who want to feel more successful. Can anything on Instagram be believed?
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
18. Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies
A year in the life of the Palm Springs Follies, featuring beautiful, ageless performers from around the world in a show that is always Standing Room Only. The film intercuts colorful interviews with the participants and footage of auditions, rehearsals, and the actual performances.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
19. Pāragate (Pāragate)
From Belgium, Jialai Wang maintains contact via smartphone and camera with her mother and grandmother in China. When her grandmother’s health deteriorates, Jialai returns to Shanghai, but when she arrives, her grandmother has already died, and she is left alone with her mother. A devout Buddhist, her mother seems to pay more attention to her daily prayers, Maoist past and dog Dongdong than she does to her daughter. She herself had been abandoned as a child by her own mother, when she divorced Jialai’s grandfather and moved to the city.
20. México, México: Mexique en mouvement (México, México: Mexique en mouvement)
"Mexico begins where the roads end ”. Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes tells us about the history of Mexico: its invasions, its revolutions, its sacred lands, its forgotten legends, its religious rituals and this frightening misery. François Reichenbach and his camera sink into the dust, on this sacred land, where "the land never ends."
