After a startling post on social media shakes the world, Latin music icon Alejandro Sanz hits a crossroads—facing his past, reclaiming his flamenco roots, and exposing the vulnerable, unfiltered artist hidden beneath his global stardom. This journey uncovers not the superstar, but a man questioning identity, purpose, and decades under scrutiny. Through candid reflections and the support of voices like Shakira, Rosalía, Residente, and Juan Luis Guerra, he reconnects with the roots that first shaped him. What emerges is a layered portrait of an artist—fragile, searching, and on the brink of renewal.

The Ark is an improbable tale of the transcendent relationship between a people and their land, as amid constant danger, a Ukrainian family’s home transforms into a refuge for chickens, donkeys, horses, emus and hundreds of displaced animals abandoned by war

I am Ricardo. For 24 years I've struggled to pronounce the letter R, suppressing my voice. This documentary essay is an intimate journey in search of my voice’s identity and the effort to liberate it, reflected by my personal journey going back to my parent's home

COLOSSAL WRECK takes us on an odyssey inside the COP28 climate conference in Dubai. Are these enormous get-togethers all about false promises that hinder change? Or are they the only hope we've got for world-saving unity? With his innocuous selfie-stick, filmmaker Josh Appignanesi moves unnoticed through Dubai's seductive slickness to reveal the talks, meetings and elite backroom parties behind the strange mixture of global cry for help and political posturing that is a COP. Lost in translation, he comes face to face with the irony of an oil baron hosting this last-chance climate saloon in a techno-utopian leisure city -- that, er, happens to be built in a burning desert. But then the business-as-usual is ruptured by a searing encounter with indigenous voices from the frontline of climate injustice… An urgent, moving, insider's depiction of 'the conference at the end of the world', and the antidote to its corruption, in the light of the recent COP30 conference this is a must-see.

When filmmaker Jacques-Hervé Fichet loses his best friend to a sudden heart attack, a series of chance encounters draw him into one of humanity’s greatest enigmas: the origin of consciousness. Alongside Élisabeth Loesch, he travels from intimate testimonies of near death experiences, then meets with some of the world’s most brilliant minds, including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose, neurologists Steven Laureys and Charlotte Martial, and psychiatrist Christophe Fauré. Blending science, philosophy, and human emotion, this documentary is both an investigation and an inner journey, searching for answers to the question: does consciousness come from the brain… or beyond?

This is the story of Mirela, a Bosnian woman who lives in Italy but who arrived with a humanitarian convoy during the 1992 siege of Sarajevo when she was only 10 years old. It is also the story of her return to Sarajevo after a long time as she searches for her former schoolmates from the Institute where she grew up. She also searches for her mother who gave her up to the Institute, she searches for Bosnia, her mother-land and finally, she searches for herself. The year 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the siege of Sarajevo, adding a significant layer of contemporary relevance to Mirela's story.

Silent Struggle avoids interviews and narration. After an injury that sidelines Isco Alarcón from the European Championship, Sara Sálamo films from the closest vantage point: the intimacy of everyday life, away from the spotlight. The camera listens to what is left unsaid, follows the exhausting repetition of training, and adopts the rhythm of a wounded body that moves first slowly, then stubbornly. The result is an observational portrait of resilience, silence and the human cost of public life, where sport intersects with intimacy and the universal.

A HOUSE FOR HUMANS is a powerful and unflinching documentary encompassing the 125-year journey of Minda Inc, South Australia’s largest and oldest disability service provider. Through personal testimonies, and historical records, the film unearths the complex and often confronting history of an institution that shaped the lives of hundreds. From moments of compassion to stories of neglect and hardship, A HOUSE FOR HUMANS offers a courageous reflection on the past. This documentary is a vital act of catharsis, a reckoning that acknowledges pain, honours resilience, and paves the way for healing, reform and the future.

An epic journey through space and time exploring one of the most pressing questions of our era: how can we feed the planet a healthy diet, with a global population projected to reach nearly 10 billion and natural resources already under strain from human activity? From Ukraine to the Congo, via Argentina, moving through food systems, diets, lobbying forces, and farming communities, How to Feed the Planet reveals how some of the greatest conflicts of our time are driven not only by the race for oil and rare earths, but also by the struggle to control land and food resources. A global journalistic investigation in search of answers – starting with the right questions.

Most wildlife films show us what animals do. This one asks what we might reveal if we are truly present. On Australia’s Sapphire Coast, filmmaker Drew Kelly spends months observing one of the ocean’s least understood giants — the Bryde’s whale, a tropical species whose behaviour remains largely undocumented. When shifting currents trap vast shoals of baitfish, the sea erupts into feeding frenzies where Bryde’s whales, dolphins, fur seals and migrating humpbacks converge in explosive encounters. At the centre of the film is a mother and juvenile whose coordinated hunting reveals intimate behaviour rarely captured on camera. Yet Hunting Secrets of the Tropical Whale is not simply a record of spectacle. Through patient observation, rare multi-angle drone cinematography, and reflections from the field, the film explores deeper questions about survival, adaptation, and what it means to remain attentive in a changing natural world. Blending scientific insight, connection to Yuin Sea Country, and contemplative storytelling, the film invites audiences into a moment of attention where chaos becomes choreography — and where one of the ocean’s most elusive giants finally steps into the ligh

In an unprecedented, eye-opening journey through time and space In Symbiosis tells the true story of food and food security, providing the pivotal answers as to why our health and our environments are crumbling and what can be done to exit the perpetual cycle of ill-health and ecological destruction. A striking and vibrant cast of interviewees, featuring farmers, scientists and activists from the Global South and Global North, unveils the driving forces of a broken system and puts forward a path to creating true resilience in and around us.

Fifty years ago, on May 16, 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. She achieved this feat just twelve days after surviving an avalanche at 6,300 meters, while she was asleep. Although her achievement was celebrated mainly in Asia, her story remains one of the most inspiring in the history of sport. In a time when adventurous ambitions were considered inappropriate for women, Tabei defied Japanese social norms and cultural expectations. She adopted leadership methods often associated with masculine or Western expedition structures to organise all-women high-altitude climbing teams.

In 2011, after years of struggle, the government of São Paulo evicted the last families living at Vila Itororó. The tenement had been expropriated to become a cultural center. Down at the empty Vila, only the exotic buildings and statues remained, preserved as listed heritage. In the skies above, however, old stories survive in the form of a blazing zodiac. (Old Constellations) Above Vila Itororó is a hybrid of virtual exhibition and interactive documentary that invites visitors to witness Vila’s history and reflect upon the trauma inherent to cultural heritage. By deploying contrasting forms of digital imaging, the work seeks to materialize the violence of the archive. The first part of the experience presents official records and artifacts in a seemingly realistic museum setting; the second evokes objects of memory and oral testimonials of former residents, which, like a haunting, calls into question the legitimacy of the monolithic state narrative. The work can be experienced via 6doF tethered VR (with teleport controls) or standalone PC (mouse + keyboard). Running time varies between 5-8 minutes due to the piece's interactive aspects. Shared documentation video has unfinished sound design. • TO RUN: open the executable file in the respective folder/zip (OC_VR for VR version; OC_Win for standalone PC version). The experience will run in loop. To quit, use ALT+F4. • VR CONTROLS: point forward with the right controller thumbstick to teleport; tilt the right controller thumbstick left or right to turn in the specified direction. • STANDALONE PC CONTROLS: ASDW keys to move; move the mouse to look around; click and hold the left mouse button to zoom in your gaze.

After losing his sight to a terrorist bomb and rebuilding his life in Oxford, a blind Syrian professor collaborates with a British artist to paint his story. But the process unexpectedly surfaces the artist’s own buried trauma, forcing both men to confront their pasts. When a fire threatens the work on the eve of completion, the pair must lean on their friendship to move forward with what remains.

PFAS are forever chemicals found in many everyday items, including Teflon which can be found in non-stick pans. These perennial pollutants; are carcinogenic and contaminate the air, drinking water and human organisms around the world. This film is a story between Europe and the US highlighting the scale of this disaster and the emergency for collective European action against this global threat.

Matthew Lancit grew up in Canada, where teenagers of his generation were marked by the “body horror” film genre. Taking cue from that, Play Dead! is culled from his diary of his family’s quotidian, filmed over five years. He stages the ‘diabetes’ as a hidden, alien presence that haunts his apartment and the very depths of his body. Using performative and burlesque codes, form and content feed off each other as the filmmaker’s body transforms gradually into a haunted shell. Laced with comedy, irony and tenderness, Play Dead! mediates the complexity of living with the disease, living with someone afflicted with it, and how relationships oscillate between caring, listening, and impatience, anger, or fear. (Rasha Salti)

“Protecting Our Territory” documents how a Peruvian film collective used an action camera and mobile phones to co-create a 360 video project with a group of young people as a way to deepen their sense of belonging and connection to the natural world. Bishu Cine is a non-profit cultural association that uses film, audiovisual media, the arts, and new information and communication technologies as tools for social change. Together with the Great Ingenious Readers Club of Carabayllo (located on the outskirts of Lima, Peru), Bishu Cine created the participatory exhibition "Protecting Our Territory and Environment," which gave twenty young people their first virtual reality experience. Bishu Cine began by adapting the interests of the club's members to a story based on everyday spaces, such as their soccer field and the nearby Bed of Clouds in the Spring Hills, and then helped them film scenes with a specialized camera to capture 360-degree landscapes and transcoded the footage so they could explore them with virtual reality headsets. The experience strengthened the young people's sense of belonging and care for their surroundings and emphasized the importance of preserving environmental memories through their own perspectives.

“The Quiet Diplomat” centers on former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Along with his family, Secretary General Ban was displaced during the Korean War. The UN Command fought on the side of South Korea and forever changed Ban’s life, inspiring him to become a man who fought for peace throughout his career. Nearly fifty years later, Ban was selected as the 8th Secretary General of the UN. During ten years (two terms), in one of the toughest jobs in the world, “SG” Ban discovered the challenges of international, UN-led diplomacy in an increasingly splintered world. Globally, war and authoritarianism are on the rise. In this documentary, we see Ban’s ‘quiet diplomacy’ as one tactic to promote multilateralism at a time when collaboration between countries is a key to our survival.

Touching the Sky takes the viewer on a voyage of human powered flight like never before - following wingsuit base jumpers in the European Alps, and a paragliding team across the Himalayas in Pakistan