Director Robert Hamilton
Australia
Runtime 57:47
Completion Date: February 5, 2026

"The Witchdoctor and the Windmill” explores the life of the Indigenous artist, Linda Syddick Napaltjarri. She was the last of the world’s 6 ‘clever women’ who after experiencing a fully traditional, nomadic desert childhood went on to win Australia’s biggest art prize.

Director Masza Makarowa
Poland
Runtime 01:02:47
Completion Date: November 16, 2025

“The Granddaughter” is a feature-length documentary about returning to places that remember more than people do. Its protagonist, Ewa Heller, was smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto as a two-year-old child. Now 85 and a psychotherapist, she revisits the spaces of her earliest life, including the former Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital. She is accompanied by Masza, a historian and the film’s narrator.

Director Sina Moser
Austria
Runtime 01:01:37
Completion Date: January 6, 2026

Jaydeep Narayan, a Brahmin from Prayjagraj (india), invited me to the opening of his ashram, which was completed in time for the Maha Kumpf Bela 2025. Fascinated by the worshippers bathing in the Ganges, I also visited two places of particular spiritual significance for Hindus: Varanasi and Rishikesh. Hindus call liberation from eternal rebirth Moksha. It is their highest goal. In this liberation, a soul becomes aware of its origin and recognizes its true divine nature. 

​Director Lauro Rocha
United States
Runtime 01:07:22
Completion Date: March 20, 2026

When a catastrophic stroke destroys the creative half of his brain days before his international breakthrough, a celebrated rebellious Russian performer wakes paralyzed - unable to walk, speak, swallow, or sing.
Filmed over several years, WILL POWER follows his fragile and nonlinear rehabilitation as fame fades and his family turns away. What begins as a medical recovery becomes something deeper: a dramatic confrontation with identity, limitation, and choice.

Director Fabio Floris
Switzerland
Runtime 01:18:00
Completion Date:March 21, 2026

Ayurveda, the science of life, this is the story about the Naram's family with Dr. Pankaj Naram, Dr. Smita Naram and their son Dr. Krushna Naram. They received the knowledge from the old babas, sharing the potentials of the pulse reading and the practice from the ancient scriptures. They are spreading the ayurveda and siddha veda wisdom with their health service around the world. 

Director Michaël Jean-françois PICAUD
France
Runtime 02:07:00
Completion Date: April 22, 2022

Fils de Lorient takes the spectator behind the scenes with Soldat Louis, a French band familiar to many, unknown to some. It gives a voice to those working both in the spotlight and in the shadows, revealing a complex musical environment. 

Director Lynda Medjuck-Suissa
Canada
Runtime 01:26:00
Completion Date: July 1, 2025

“Sheitel – Beauty in the Hidden” shines a light into the world of Orthodox Jewish women and the practice of hair covering, revealing the deeper significance of this tradition as an expression of cultural identity, faith, and female empowerment. Filmed in Jerusalem, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax , the documentary offers an insightful exploration of this topic from many voices and perspectives . 

Director Berry Blanton
United States
Runtime 38:50
Completion Date: February 10, 2026

Hosted by Kari Byron (MythBusters), this visually bold documentary short demystifies the difference between a cybersecurity firewall and a data diode through cinematic experiments, robotics, explosive demonstrations, and dynamic motion graphics. 

Director Svetlozar Petrov Georgiev
Bulgaria
Runtime 01:10:19
Completion Date: May 4, 2025

If there is one thing that is more interesting than what happens on the stage of a theatre play, it is what happens behind it. Learning to Fly takes us behind the scenes of what may sound like an impossible endeavor: the creation of a bilingual performance by a group of artists, coming from Japan and Bulgaria, who share little beyond their love for puppet theatre.

Directors Victor Quijada, Samuel Greffe
Canada
Runtime 25:13
Completion Date: December 3, 2025

Anchor Points is a 24-minute documentary-style art film by RUBBERBAND that retraces the trajectory of Victor Quijada from street dancer to contemporary choreographer. Through archival footage and visual effects, it examines his personal and artistic evolution and introduces the foundational RUBBERBAND Method as described by company members. 

Director  Babek Abbaszade
Azerbaijan
Runtime 40:05
Completion Date: December 11, 2025

The film tells the story of the genocide committed against Azerbaijanis by Armenian armed forces in the Ismayilli region in 1918.

Director  Janos Tari
Runtime 01:30:02
Completion Date: 

How the sometimes profane details of everyday life are presented in a folkloric documentary style works very well, and causes no tension or conflict, but creates a unique poetry. It was an experience to see the spirituality of a live faith come through; light radiates from the entire film in every sense.

​Director  Yuhan Luo
China
Runtime 22:53
Completion Date: May 31, 2025

Bai Zifen, an elderly woman, lives under the same roof with her son and daughter-in-law, yet they cook separately. Hoping to confide her frustrations when her daughter returns home for the New Year, she ultimately decides to stay silent after feeling her children’s warmth and care that very day. 

​Director  Katharina Pohlen
Germany
Runtime 26:00
Completion Date: September 26, 2025

The documentary "More than alone" explores the growing phenomenon of loneliness among Generation Z and shares personal stories that highlight how deeply this feeling is woven into everyday life.
Loneliness has become a defining issue for many in Generation Z. It is a quiet yet deeply felt experience within today’s interconnected society. More than alone follows two young adults who each confront this feeling in their own way, offering intimate insight into their emotional realities. 

Director  ALLATRA Global Research Center
Germany
Runtime 03:26:55
Completion Date: December 7, 2025

This documentary presents the results of a comprehensive scientific investigation into one of the most urgent environmental and public health challenges of our time: micro- and nanoplastic pollution. It explains how plastics, once seen as a symbol of technological progress, break down into microscopic particles that can penetrate biological barriers and accumulate in living organisms, including humans.