1. Cidade São Mateus (Cidade São Mateus)
São Mateus is a sacred ground where many dreams are born. Many of those become great songs. The neighborhood is a stronghold of great composers who are inspired by their experience in there. Lyrics full of emotions compose the neighborhood's memory. São Mateus presents three artists telling their trajectories and how the neighborhood influenced their art.
2. Sergei Parajanov, The Exile (Sergei Parajanov, o exoristos)
Sergei Paradjanov, the great Soviet filmmaker of Armenian origin who was born and grew up in Tbilisi, Georgia, studied film in Moscow and worked for many years in Ukraine, talks on camera to Fotos Lamprinos about his life, his films, and events in the USSR under Gorbachev’s Perestroika, a few short months before he died and while the state of his health was already deteriorating. The film includes rare footage of the massacre of Georgian civilians by the Soviet Army in April 1989 and unpublished material from the Ukrainian prison in which Paradjanov served his sentence.
It has an average vote of 4.6 on TMDB.
3. Meiner ist bei den Soldaten (Meiner ist bei den Soldaten)
East German short film
4. Oil (Нефть)
Found footage short about oil.
5. Achtung Staatsgrenze (Achtung Staatsgrenze)
Short film about the GDR state border
6. An Act of Affection
While making a portrait of a single gay man in Lisbon, a Vietnamese filmmaker offers his character a little gift from the bottom of his heart. This is a film about the act of filming.
7. The Verve: Bittersweet Memories
Renowned Photographer Chris Floyd captured the tumultuous life of the iconic band The Verve from the inside, as they toured as relative unknowns on their first American tour, all the way through to their farewell tour in 1997 at the very top of their game. Using previously unseen photographs, self shot video from the band and interviews, this is an intimate look at an important moment in popular culture. Chris candidly talks about the relationship he had with the band and reveals incredible insight into his process, as well as explaining his views on the meaning of the relationship between photographer and subject and what can happen when that professional line becomes blurred.
8. Stars on Horseback
A profile of blacksmith George Garfield, among whose Hollywood clients were the horses of Joel McCrea and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.
9. Pontevedra, cuna de Colón (Pontevedra, cuna de Colón)
Speculative historical essay defending the theory, sustained by Spanish historian Celso García de la Riega and his followers, that the famous explorer Christopher Columbus was born in a small village near the city of Pontevedra, in the region of Galicia, Spain.
10. Grüße von Rosita aus Peru (Grüße von Rosita aus Peru)
Rosita Hernandez, a nine-year-old Indio girl, tells about the everyday life of her family living in the the desert plain between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, about 300 km south of Lima. Specific social and economic problems as well as ways of coping with them become visible.
11. Behind The Garden Gate
'Behind The Garden Gate' is a documentary film about homegrown biodiversity and the challenges that come with it. In the 1970s Guus Lieberwerth and friends cleared a patch of agricultural wasteland in order to take care of rare and endangered plants and animals. Now, 50 years later nature is thriving within a hidden paradise just five minutes away from a city centre, but even closer to systemic pressures and land developers.
12. Katzen im Haus (Katzen im Haus)
In twelve short episodes, which are interwoven into the course of a day, the film depicts situations that arise from keeping and caring for two cats for a family with six children in a suburban home. In addition to aspects of animal care, the film also addresses social problems and conflicts that arise from dealing with the animals in this family.
13. Grüße von Twaha aus Tansania (Grüße von Twaha aus Tansania)
The everyday life of a family in Tanzania is portrayed from the point of view of the eight-year-old son Twaha.
14. Ivan Hellberg, Baggerführer in Kiruna (Ivan Hellberg, Baggerführer in Kiruna)
Short documentary about an excavator operator in sweden
15. Neapel (Neapel)
Short documentary about Naples, Italy.
16. Können Analphabeten lesen? (Können Analphabeten lesen?)
The short film answers the question of whether illiterate people are able to read.
17. Biocentrics (Biocêntricos)
Through the eyes and voice of biologist Janine Benyus, the non-fiction feature “Biocentrics” takes the viewer through different corners of the planet to reveal the birth and the principles that guide biomimicry, a methodology of innovation inspired by nature. As a hub connecting ancestral knowledge, diverse cultures, natural technologies and initiatives that choose the continuity of life as their premise, the charismatic activist proposes a common agenda, a new posture and a tool, which is the vanguard of contemporary science, to face the global challenges that lie ahead and putting life back at the center of decision-making.
18. Cradle of Genius
Longtime playwrights and performers of the Abbey Theatre share colourful reminiscences of the national institution founded by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1904. Oscar Nominee: Best Documentary Short
19. Her Painting (Jej Obraz)
The documentary deals with the topic of body positivity and shows how different we can be depending on the environment.
20. At Grandma's (U Babci)
A story about the relationship between a grandma and her granddaughter, despite the physical difficulties.