1. Algorithmes - vers un monde manipulé (Algorithmes - vers un monde manipulé)
By observing the technological developments of artificial intelligence in several countries, this film sheds light on the advantages and limits of algorithms and their repercussions on the lives of citizens. Whether at the level of the State, the police, universities, or companies, artificial intelligences should be used as a tool, but very often become a substitute for the work of the individual. There are many abuses: manipulations, addictions, or centralization of power. What can governments and States do to best regulate these technological advances?
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
2. Swamp Dialogues
The Danube Delta in Romania - the 'Last European Sanctuary’ - is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. While major efforts are made to protect biodiversity, the plight of local communities is largely overlooked. Social scientists claim that the traumatic nature of the swamp bears heavy on the villagers' lives. But is Nature really to blame? Swamp Dialogues is based on an extensive field-research in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve. Through a careful ‘argument montage’ built entirely on cinematic language the film represents an anthropological analysis formulated in image and sound.
3. Before Father Gets Back (სანამ მამა დაბრუნდება)
In a darkened classroom, the white cracked walls serve as a movie screen. We are in a remote mountain village in Georgia. The light from the projector breaks the darkness: the children's first cinematic experience is about to begin. Among the kids are Iman and Eva, two Muslim girls, for whom the experience becomes a turning point and inspires them to pick up a camera and start filming their daily lives. The girls are growing up in a valley infested by radicalism, where most people live in constant fear that their relatives will sacrifice their lives in the name of God.
4. Cherrie - ut ur mörkret (Cherrie - ut ur mörkret)
(Cherrie - ut ur mörkret)
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
5. Welu De Fasli (Welu De Fasli)
Fasli is a child born and raised in Kampung Kalo, Lengko Ajang, Manggarai Timur, East Nusa Tenggara. This film is about Fasli and his family; a conversation among the sounds of candlenuts.
6. Golek Garwo (Golek Garwo)
Golek Garwo is a matchmaking forum, held monthly vis-a-vis in Yogyakarta. Basri , a worker who longed for love and one out of hundreds of participants of the event, falls for Musiyem , who is also a participant. They then decide to join a mass wedding, but Basri’s wish for a life together turns out differently in reality.
7. Robot Somnambulism (Robot Somnambulism)
In this era, robotic peo- ple making humanized machine, is it a hopeless tragedy, or the beginning of a brave new world?
8. From Local to Social
Using local media footage from the London Borough of Southwark spanning the past 20 years, this documentary discusses complex social issues including gang violence, knife crime, and mental and sexual health.
9. Des Rives (Des Rives)
(Des Rives)
10. Pariah Dog (Pariah Dog)
Shot over three years, Pariah Dog paints a kaleidoscopic picture of the city of Kolkata, seen through the prism of four outsiders and the dogs they love. These men and women have found meaning and purpose in their shared mission to care for neglected street dogs, who have existed in the towns and villages of India for thousands of years. For some this mission is enough, for others, dreams of a better life are always near.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
11. Québec...? (Québec...?)
This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective work produced for the Quebec Ministry of Industry and Commerce calls on several major Quebec figures.
12. Title IX: 37 Words that Changed America
Candace Parker takes a personal look at the past, present and future of Title IX and the drive for equality in sports.
13. The Patent Wars
Did you know that you can patent colours, numbers, plants and animals – and that 20% of your genes are patented and owned by private corporations? In a creative investigation, filmmaker Hannah Leonie Prinzler uncovers who profits from intellectual property, and who bears the economic and social consequences.
14. Healing US
The final case for American healthcare to be free and accessible to all—through a single-payer system. Using an all-star lineup of heavy-hitters in the healthcare movement, Healing US walks through all key points of the arguments in favor of a universal, single-payer healthcare system.
15. Fight (Fight)
In a conservative Armenian family a 16 years old Karine dreams to become a veterinarian, but her family, especially her father, who is a well-known dog-fighter, is against it. They say it’s not a proper job for women. Karine needs to choose: to follow her dreams or to listen to her patriarchal family.
16. Stand for Humanity [a PSA about Hate Crime]
A PSA about Hate Crime. Young Izaak finds out that his father has been yet another victim of Hate Crime, while also learning what to do in this situations.
17. Poverty, Inc.
Poverty, Inc. explores the hidden side of doing good. From disaster relief to TOMs Shoes, from adoptions to agricultural subsidies, Poverty, Inc. follows the butterfly effect of our most well-intentioned efforts and pulls back the curtain on the poverty industrial complex - the multi-billion dollar market of NGOs, multilateral agencies, and for-profit aid contractors. Are we catalyzing development or are we propagating a system in which the poor stay poor while the rich get hipper?
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
18. Perfecting the Art of Longing
Cut off from his loved ones due to the strict COVID-19 lockdown at the long-term care facility where he lives, a quadriplegic rabbi is filmed by his daughter while reflecting on love, mortality and longing.
19. The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (Земля блакитна, ніби апельсин)
Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, motivating them to shoot a film inspired by their own life during a time of war. The creative process raises the question of what kind of power the magical world of cinema could have during times of disaster. How to picture war through fiction? For Anna and the children, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human.
It has an average vote of 7.533 on TMDB.
20. Hikikomori (Hikikomori)
(Hikikomori)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.