Director Maxime Simone
France
Runtime 59:17
Completion Date: November 8, 2024

Every week, the C.S Godrange football girls come to train on the pitch, on the outskirts of the village. Here, we play with friends, we experience each game with our hearts, then we are back to work or to the classrooms. With Outsiders the viewer is immersed in a team of anonymous football players, sharing their emotions, all along the year, from summer afternoons to freezing winter evenings.

Directors Eugenia Ledovskaya, Eugene Dabizha
Oman
Runtime 1:01:15
Completion Date: April 24, 2025

"Track in the Desert" is a documentary film about a young and ambitious team of Russian drifters conquering the tracks of Oman at the prestigious OIDC championship. Their journey starts off tough: mechanical breakdowns, pressure from rivals, and the harsh desert conditions threaten their dream of victory. But through the strength of the team, mutual support, and an unbreakable spirit of drive, they overcome every obstacle and achieve the impossible — claiming second and third places on the podium, becoming a true sensation in the drifting world.

Director Simon David de-Tusch Lec
Denmark
Runtime 01:40:00
Completion Date: January 30, 2025

In a relentless attempt to build the largest library of the genetic blueprint of the human race throughout human history, famous professor Eske Willerslev gets swirled into the political, ethical and existential tangle his work creates. A real-life documentary film with an incredible story about the struggle to find your place in this world.

Director Cheyanne Kane
United States
Runtime 01:10:00
Completion Date: May 31, 2024

ISKY centers on Edward Iskenderian, a true pioneer in the world of hot-rodding and drag racing. Our documentary tells the story of Edward and his crew of bold, brilliant mavericks—John Athan, Mickey Thompson, Vic Edelbrock, Don "Big Daddy" Garlits, and Bones Balogh, among others—who helped create not just a new motorsport, but a cultural revolution.

Director Iris Liberty
Israel
Runtime 72:00
Completion Date: 2024

This documentary tells two parallel stories: one about a beauty salon in Kyiv, near Independence Square, that continues to operate during the war, and another about a manicurist and her client in Israel who are involved in volunteer work. At the heart of the film are candid conversations about life in wartime, female solidarity, and rituals of self-care that help preserve a sense of normalcy in abnormal times.

Director Magdalena Zelasko
Austria
Runtime 01:40:00
Completion Date: September 1, 2024

In September 1943, 17-year-old Stanisław Zalewski was arrested in Warsaw as a member of a Polish resistance group and taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp for labour service. From there, he was sent to Mauthausen and finally to the Gusen camp, where the prisoners were forced to work for the German armaments industry under inhumane conditions.

Director Or Ben David
United States
Runtime 01:03:43
Completion Date: November 11, 2024

Documentary, produced by Carey Smolensky, filmed in December 2023 during Carey's two week volunteer mission to Israel after the horrific attack on October 7th, where he embraced and uplifted those ravaged by conflict while seeing and experiencing the people and sights of a beautiful country on its path to heal itself.

Director Seyran Mahmudogly Badalov
Azerbaijan
Runtime 01:09:40
Completion Date: March 1, 2025

Until recently, the village of Alexeyevka existed on the territory of the Khachmaz district of Azerbaijan. Russians and Ukrainians, resettled in Azerbaijan many years ago, lived here peacefully together with Azerbaijanis. Alexeyevka was an international village and homeland, a warm hearth for all who lived there. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the population, Russian and Ukrainian by nationality, began to move to other regions of the world for various personal reasons. In doing so, Alekseevka slowly changed...

Director Svetlana Strelnikova
Greece
Runtime 01:28:00
Completion Date: January 1, 2025

On the remote Greek island of Gavdos, a microcosm of modern society, diverse groups—dropouts, locals, and exiled philosophers—struggle to balance freedom, tradition, and individuality amidst global chaos, revealing the tensions between unity and self-preservation over a decade of change.

Director Daniel P Sullivan
United States
Runtime 54:00
Completion Date: November 3, 2024

Documentary about real life miracles and stories

Director Guoyi Liu
China
Runtime 01:23:00
Completion Date: January 31, 2025

Two cotton farming families in southern Xinjiang faced various challenges during the busy harvest season. They rallied together with one goal in mind: to sell their cotton before the market price drops below 10 yuan per kilogram.

Director Lior Rosenfeld
United States
Runtime 01:04:42
Completion Date: January 19, 2025

"Losing It" delves into the complex tensions shaping Israeli society both before and after October 7. The challenge of balancing cutting-edge innovation with deep-rooted religious traditions has led to tragedy.

Directors Edward Kui-ming Li, Ellen Ngai-luen Pun
Hong Kong
Runtime 02:00:00
Completion Date: December 31, 2024

The term "Mystical Zone" (結界) is a Buddhist concept, derived from the Sanskrit word Sima-bandha, with a history spanning over 2,500 years. It was inherited from India and was introduced to Japan during the Tang Dynasty over 1,200 years ago, flourishing among both the aristocracy and common people, and becoming a secretive ritual not shared with outsiders. In recent years, the term “Mystical Zone” has gained widespread attention, with layer upon layer of its mysterious veil being unraveled.

Director Ruslan Kechejiyan
Russian Federation
Runtime 01:00:00
Completion Date:

The documentary drama "Mum, Don't Cry" is based on the story of two mothers who lost their children during the armed conflict in Donbass. In April 2023, Victoria Kaliushchenko learned that her eight-year-old daughter Masha and her mother had died in a minibus in the center of Donetsk, and Elena Tomyak lost her ten-year-old daughter Veronika in July 2022, who was walking with a neighbor's boy near her house when a Ukrainian shell exploded near her.

Director ALAIFU
China
Runtime 01:39:18
Completion Date: October 16, 2024

The Life of a Shepherd Family in four seasons

Director Olivier van Malderghem
Belgium
Runtime 01:28:01
Completion Date: September 22, 2024

Michaël, a wandering waiter, hunts for bargains at the flea market. He buys a locked trunk, takes it home, and discovers the entire past of an anonymous narrator, embodied by visual archives and texts. From this disorder emerge characters, united in a quest for revolutionary justice, and their antagonists, associated in the greedy conquest of power. But soon this story escapes him: the narrator takes up the torch.

Director Chava Floryn
United States
Runtime 01:50:18
Completion Date: November 1, 2024

"Resilient" is an award winning documentary, which delves into the profound mental health impacts of trauma and the innovative healing approaches emerging in post-war Israel. The film follows somatic healer Chava Floryn, a PTSD survivor herself, as she seeks to illuminate the stories of those affected by the October 7 massacre.

Director Olivier Van Malderghem
Belgium
Runtime 01:15:11
Completion Date: September 1, 2020

The narrator films a Montreal alley, just to see. In doing so, he suffers from a heart attack. Between life and death, he reviews what he has lived, but also what he could have lived. And what he will live? In the future. If he does not die there.

Director Donald D'Haene
Canada
Runtime 57:37
Completion Date: December 31, 2024

How the loss of one family's displaced brother [in Vancouver, BC] taught them not to see homeless people as just the end result; they were once beautiful, talented, creative and loved; they were us. Human. Erik was not nothing; he was everything.

Director Julian Semilian
United States
Runtime 01:26:25
Completion Date:

FISH HAVE NO PSYCHIATRISTS: A DAY WITH ANDREI CODRESCU is a creative documentary collage centering around the life and times of poet, novelist, public speaker and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu. From Dada to quadrupedalism, Andrei offers us an ode to free-thinking and free-wheeling perspective, one which doesn’t fall easily into categories. The film is a playful paean countering totalitarianisms and other forms of functional fixedness.