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At five years old, Todd Payette found his father's body dead from suicide. It sent him on a hard road: violence, drugs, prison. Bodybuilding saved his life. From losing everything to walking across the stage as the Canadian National Heavyweight bodybuilding champion, Todd relives...

A true story about Arizona women who dedicate their life's work to helping both horses and humans live better lives.

Biopic about larger-than-life Canadian pot activist Marc Emery, who served 5 years in a U.S. penitentiary for selling marijuana seeds to Americans over the Internet.

Unveil the mysterious world of the Men in Black in this gripping documentary. Delve into the shadowy organization's origins, covert operations, and encounters with extraterrestrial phenomena. Witness the enigmatic agents, their elusive history, and the enduring legends that surround them. Discover the truth behind...

This lively debut doc is a love letter to Melbourne's once vibrant network of video shops and the artists that used them.

Aishe, Khawla and Rehab are on a mission - they repair leakages, clean water tanks and show housewives how to handle water properly. Aishe, after losing her husband, was trained by her best friend and self-assigned first female plumber of Jordan Khawla Al-Sheikh, in...

A Karachi garment factory fire kills 260 workers, amongst them Saeeda's only son. Her transformation from domestic mother to labour rights activist brings her to the centre of a re-emerging Pakistani labour movement and a chance for systemic change.

Three expats learning to drive realize that the great challenge is not the strange traffic rules (in their new countries), but rather their ingrained behavioral patterns. They all need a driving license somewhat urgently. While taking lessons and trying to pass their tests, they...

Anoosh and Arash are at the center of Tehran's underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the police and their stagnating career, they organize one last manic techno rave under dangerous circumstances in the desert. Back in Tehran they try their luck selling their...

In Havana, transsexuals Odette, Juani and Malu wait for genital surgery - performed by European top surgeons and organized by the president's daughter, Mariela Castro. Castro is leading a sexual revolution combined with classic state socialism. New possibilities face old problems: will Cuban trans...

The Badjao are sea nomads living near Borneo. For centuries, they lived on the sea and from the sea. But the fishing industry and diving resorts make it difficult for them to survive. With his uncle Alexan, young Sari goes on his first fishing...

Young migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia and Venezuela attend a Swiss integration class where they learn a new language and prepare for employment.

Petri is a product of the marketing industry, an ideal consumer with an apartment filled with all kinds of stuff. Dumped by his girlfriend, burdened by a huge mortgage, scarred by a maxed out credit card, and haunted by the stuff that failed to...

Tapdig has a dream of bringing a European cow into his picturesque village in Azerbaijan to improve the conditions of his poor family. He decides to call the cow Madona.His passion unsettles the traditional community, the Old Men see a threat in having a...

With an AI, you have to keep your sentences short and to the point. This piece of advice is given to Chuck as he's picking up his robot partner Harmony fresh from the factory. In Tokyo, Grandma Sakurai is given the cute robot Pepper,...

Follow six adventurers as they retrace the route taken by a GPS-collared Oregon wolf, Wolf OR-7. The first known wolf in California in nearly 90 years, and he is still out there...

A documentary film that follows a group of snowboarders and surfers as they drift from their respective sports into the world of activism. Together they journey across the west coast of British Columbia, weaving a story of learning, inspiration and resistance as they encounter...

Clothing has forever distinguished and cemented bonds of cultural identity, but along the Peruvian Andes a network of encoded messages is woven into every hat. This is a story of how wool and straw become forms of communication and resistance- where one's hat can...

Paco and his forest rangers know their protected areas cannot be defended or saved from the multiple human activities threatening it from all sides. Yet, every day despite the infinite limitations these men and women fight on, struggling against impossible odds to do their...

Eduardo Cofino has been an entrepeneur, politician, ex-con, basketball player, triathlonist and family man throughout his incident prone life. On his 60th birthday he decides to stage an extravagant stand up musical show dressed as a woman to tell his life story. This is...

San Miguel Ixtahuacan, a mountainous village in the heart of the Guatemalan Highlands has been desolated for over 450 years. Ever since the distant land's mineralized soil has barely provided enough for subsistence agriculture. The harsh geography around having them cut off from the...

The long-standing friendship between Javier Lobon, a CSIC researcher, and the great curaca Uitoto Ama Hitoma, has made it possible to hold a conference on the dialogue between science and indigenous culture. Through spectacular images of the most extensive jungle on the planet, representatives...

Sorolla's generation represented the pinnacle of centuries of artistic development. Among all of his contemporaries, Sorolla was probably the most gifted, which explains his fabulous success. However, artistic trends changed at breakneck speed and the art world soon forgot about him. Nevertheless, the general...

The Sacramento is a river with two personalities, one that retains a sense of wildness, home to endangered salmon, to otter, eagle and osprey. One that is a massive plumbing system; it's waters captured and transferred hundreds of miles for agriculture and drinking. Traveling...

Cabo de Gata, located In the southeast of Spain, is the coastline that best preserves the essence of the Mediterranean. That is why in the last 40 years it has become the home of artists of many disparate nationalitles. Here, seven of them, from...

Through the riveting stories of five American communities, 'Right to Harm' exposes the devastating public health impact that factory farming has on many of our country's most disadvantaged citizens. Known formally as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations - or CAFOs - these facilities produce millions...

Not Without Us follows seven grassroots activists from around the world to the 21st U.N. Climate Talks in Paris. With climate change already affecting their lives, they reveal what's at stake if a strong agreement to limit carbon emissions is not reached. Yet, the...

An independent documentary that blends the rush of snowboarding and surfing with powerful story telling of the threats fossil fuel expansion is already having in northern communities. The adventure leads the crew to communities on the front lines of resource extraction, from the Alberta...

During 2015 Everett Custom Homes purchased a property in Portland's Eastmoreland Neighborhood. On the lot stood three giant sequoias, which the developer planned to cut down. "Giants" details the efforts and challenges neighbors of Eastmoreland confronted in their attempts to save these unique trees....

After 21 years of continuous failure in UN climate change negotiations 195 nations, 20.000 worldwide negotiators meet at a private airport shielded by the military in the north of Paris for a last attempt to save our planet.

White water kayakers are adventurers, extreme sports enthusiasts, and adrenaline junkies who push themselves through stretch after stretch of white water for the love of the challenge and to gaze fondly into the heart of nature. For one man that river exists only in...

The Carbon Rush focuses on the suffering caused by carbon trading around the world and the failure of global carbon markets to stop climate change.

TOMORROW'S POWER showcases three communities from Gaza, Colombia and Germany and their responses to the environmental and economical crises they face.

If a crime is committed in order to prevent a greater crime, is it forgivable? Is it, in fact, necessary? THE RELUCTANT RADICAL follows activist Ken Ward as he confronts his fears and puts himself in the direct path of the fossil fuel industry...

Retracing legendary musician Rick Nelson's final performance in Guntersville, Alabama, this film focuses on the locations significant to Nelson's last days and places the spotlight on the community there that welcomed him and remembers him fondly.

WHEN HOUSTON HAD THE BLUES" focuses on the rich, but sadly unheralded, spawning ground of great Black music. No other city can claim giants such as Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Mama Thornton, Clifton Chenier, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Albert King, Freddie King, and...

The Purple Pie Place is a seasonal shop that serves delicious pies and ice cream. Located in Custer, South Dakota, they opened in 1981 to serve homemade treats to those visiting the Black Hills. Follow Yuliia on her journey as the fourth owner of...

What does it take to reach the top of the world? A question everyone once in their life always asks. Kovid Mittall dreams of reaching Mount Everest one day, but before that he must conquer other peaks, his failures and battle against his own...

Em and Jay, respectively a woman film director and her lead actress, both with an ailing career, embark on a journey between Montreal, Canada and Durham, North Carolina, where a short film of theirs is being presented at the North Carolina Gay and Lesbian...

After 50 years, six Vietnam War veterans return to confront their past, seeking closure. For them, it's not just revisiting old grounds but also processing their trauma and honoring the fallen. Hanoi, now unrecognizable, has healed from war's wounds. Former military prisons attract tourists,...

The band Nova Rex continues the rock-n-roll life and mayhem in this hilarious documentary about their time in the late 1980s hair band era and then crashing into a wall of early '90s grunge along with the ups and down and constant mayhem of...

A gripping historical documentary depicting the legendary Siege of Rome in 1849. Mazzini and Garibaldi, along with many heroes from all over the world, defended the new Roman republic and its innovative constitution against attacks from around the world.

In Iraq 2003, Corporal Martin Webster filmed fellow soldiers beating Iraqi youths during rioting in Al Amara. Two years later, a British newspaper obtained his footage. The story that ran led to outrage across the world. In March 2007, he approached three filmmakers. This...

Son of Cornwall is a biopic about the life and career of opera star John Treleaven. His son takes him on a personal and emotional journey down memory lane, exploring what drives him as an artist. The film tells of success and sacrifice and...

MoonShot: The Remarkable Journey of Apollo Chamber Players tells the story of four musicians from different backgrounds who came together to create one of the most innovative ensembles in the world. It is a tale of resilience and determination, of radical musical inclusivity that...

Rising Star captures life on the road for singer/songwriter Griffin House, an artist who has navigated the ups and downs of a 15-year music career. Throughout the film, we witness the everyday struggles of tour life, as Griffin wrestles with raising a family, maintaining...

Box 25" is the story of the Panama Canal as told by the men who built it, recorded in 114 vintage letters rediscovered in the US Library of Congress.

<p>From acclaimed producer Barbara De Fina ("Goodfellas", "Casino") comes the true story of May 15th, 1848, when protesters in Paris finally pushed the French political establishment to let them have a popular vote to elect their ruler, only to see the outcome of their...

The Invaders follows the rise and fall of a militant black power group based in Memphis, TN in the late 1960's, from its creation, to their final negotiations with Martin Luther King Jr. minutes before his assassination.