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- DirectorMaryann DeLeoRichard FarrellStarsDicky EklundDocuments 18 months in the lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachusetts.
- DirectorJohan van der KeukenStarsJulika MarijnThis four hour documentary looks for the exotic in the everyday life observed in just one city, the filmmaker's own Amsterdam.
- DirectorRosemary HouseStarsAnita BestBrian HennesseyAndy JonesIn this documentary, six locals, Mary Walsh, Andy Jones, Anita Best, Brian Hennessey, Ed Riche, Des Walsh, writers and performers all, who walk through their home town and try to show what makes them love it so.
- DirectorMarc SingerStarsMarc SingerA cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
- DirectorCorinne van EgeraatStarsSwaylee LoughnaneFour people from Kosovo re-enact the Western westerns they saw in their youth (like SHANE and THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN).
- DirectorRob HodselmansStarsRobin BerlijnXander de BuisonjéWilfried de JongDocumentary about Dutch artist Ellen ten Damme and her battle against breast cancer at age 38.
- DirectorEames YatesMontana Meth takes a look into the world of Crystal Meth in a few towns in the state of Montana. Actual users give their insight and tales of their addiction and what its done to them and their lives.
- DirectorOlly LambertStarsBen RogersThis documentary shows the decline of Ben as he spirals in to heroin addiction
- DirectorThomas BalmèsStarsBayarHattieMariA look at one year in the life of four babies from around the world, from Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo.
- DirectorDavid BondMelinda McDougallStarsFrank M. AhearnDavid BondPhil BoothDirector David Bond finds out how much private companies and government know about him by attempting to disappear. Tracked by two ruthless private investigators, his chilling journey forces him to contemplate the loss of privacy.
- DirectorWerner HerzogDmitry VasyukovStarsWerner HerzogGennady SolovievAnatoly BlumeiA documentary depicting the life and work of the trappers of Bakhtia, a village in the heart of the Siberian Taiga, where daily life has changed little in over a century.
- DirectorThomas NapperStarsKevin CohenManuel CompitoDanny HarrisNarrated by Catherine Keener, Lost Angeles takes an uncompromising yet life-affirming look at the lives of eight remarkable individuals, people who have found a way to make a life for themselves within the community of homelessness..
- DirectorJeff MalmbergStarsMark HogancampEmmanuel NnejiEdda HogancampDocumentary about Mark Hogancamp. After a vicious attack leaves him brain-damaged and broke, Mark seeks recovery in "Marwencol", a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he creates in his backyard. Inspired the movie Welcome to Marwen (2018)
- DirectorEster GouldSabine Lubbe BakkerBoth born in the Golan Heights, bosom buddies Ezat and Bayan have lived their entire lives under Israeli occupation. Thanks to their Syrian parentage, they get the opportunity to go study in Damascus. The students are allowed to cross the border once a year, which means that they won't be able to visit their village for 12 whole months. With a considerable dose of self-confidence and testosterone, the two head off to a new life of opportunity. In Damascus, they want to discover their Arab roots and make their dreams come true, like so many other young people in the world. But the Syrian capital turns out to be a drab metropolis where they don't feel at home and they apparently have to be careful about what they say. People from the Golan Heights get the cold shoulder, and they will have to choose a side - between their new home and the village of their birth. They want to be free, but they also want to belong somewhere. From Shouting Hill, which is on the border between Syria and the Golan Heights, the boys call out to their families. Filmed from the perspective of these young fellows as they try to find themselves, a forgotten part of the Middle East conflict gets a human face.
- DirectorNick BrandestiniStarsMonty BranniganNancy BranniganHank JonesPropelled from society by tragic turns, the isolated community of Darwin, Death Valley (population 35) must now find ways to coexist in a place without a government, a church, jobs, or children.
- DirectorArnon GoldfingerStarsMichael AdlerYaron AmitAvrham BarkaiAs a documentarian cleans out the flat that belonged to his grandparents--both immigrants from Nazi Germany--he uncovers clues pointing to a complicated, shocking story.
- DirectorGabrielle ProvaasRob SchröderStarsLouise FokkensMartine FokkensA documentary on Louise and Martine Fokkens, 69-year-old twin sisters who have worked as prostitutes in the red-light district in Amsterdam for over 40 years.
- DirectorDana DoronUriel SinaiStarsGita KalderonZoka LevyDanny ChanochSeries involving 2 smart brothers solving crimes.
- DirectorMarc SchmidtMatthew's autism give him a special way to see the world, but at the same time it causes him to have legal problems with his landlords, who want to have him evicted due to the alterations he makes in his apartment.
- DirectorWim van der AarFilmmaker Wim van der Aar discovers a box filled with audiotapes at the Waterlooplein market. It turns out to be a collection of private recordings of the youngest son of an influential Dutch family. This discovery forms the beginning of an exploration of a life story full of relationships, failures, hopes and sadness. The truth behind a bizarre upbringing, and its dramatic consequences, is gradually unraveled.
- DirectorKirsten DirksenTV producer and Internet-video personality Kirsten Dirksen invites us on her journey into the tiny homes of people searching for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness by creating shelter in caves, converted garages, trailers, tool sheds, river boats and former pigeon coops.
- DirectorClaire SimonStarsSimon MérabetA documentary portrait of the Gare du Nord. Countless people pass through the station and cross it, whether they come from the Paris suburbs, provincial France or abroad.
- DirectorSabine Lubbe BakkerNiels van KoevordenStarsBobMarcelSet in a village on the edge of Belgium, Bob, Flemish, and Marcel, Walloon share their solitude, sense of humor and craving for alcohol.
- DirectorMonique NolteStarsKees MommaHenriëtte MommaWillem MommaThe touching story of Kees, an authistic 46-year old, who has been giving both trouble and love to his parents for all his life.
- DirectorMercedes StalenhoefStarsPeter Schuster
- DirectorHella de JongeWhen her 88-year-old father moved home, estranged daughter Hella de Jonge acquired the legacy of her great aunt who survived the Nazi terror along with Hella's parents. This inspires her to investigate the history of her family. With the aid of photos and documents, a videotape of Hella's mother's testimony made as part of Steven Spielberg's Shoah project, conversations and visits to places with painful memories, the father and daughter begin to heal their fractured relationship. Hella de Jonge didn`t always get on with her 88-year-old father. When he had to move recently, she acquired the legacy of her great aunt, who survived the Nazi terror along with Hellas parents. A publicity photo from 1885 of her great-grandfather as part of a comic duo then inspired Hella to investigate the history of her family.
- DirectorRobert CohenStarsRobert CohenKathy GriffinConan O'BrienWhat does it actually mean to be Canadian? This humorous documentary, featuring interviews with a who's-who of famous media related Canadians, hopes to find the answer.
- DirectorSteven OkazakiDocumentary examining the impact heroin has had on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, following the stories of eight people who are all in their twenties as they battle with their addiction.
- DirectorRoman BondarchukA tragicomic portrait of a two-man team of sheriffs in a remote Ukrainian village disturbed by everyday incidents and political developments.
- DirectorEwan McNicolAnna SandilandsUncertain is a visually stunning and disarmingly funny portrait of the literal and figurative troubled waters of Uncertain, Texas, a 94-resident town so tucked away "you've got to be lost to find it".
- DirectorPeter LatasterPetra Lataster-CzischStarsKiet EngelHaya KhleifBranche JovanovskiImmigrant children have to find their way in a new classroom, with a new teacher and a language they don't understand. An ode to the teacher every child deserves.
- DirectorKatharine EnglishStarsDavid OakesLaurie KynastonSam ClemmettDocudrama telling the story of the 14-year-old schoolboy from surrey who was groomed online by 18-year-old Lewis Daynes via online video games and lured to his death.
- DirectorMaasja OomsA disturbing, observing film portraying the daily life and deepest emotions of a young, homeless girl who is in danger of derailing.
- DirectorCarina MolierStarsBhisham MansukhaniAnthony RoseWill PikeOn November 26, 2008 a series of terror attacks occurred in Mumbai. The famous five-star Taj Mahal Hotel was one of the targets. In the film, some of the surviving hotel guests return to India and talk about what it means to live through an attack like that. The film observes them for 24 hours in and around the hotel. At first, together with these protagonists we get to know the luxurious hotel and then we return with them to the dark hours of the attack. Gradually we discover how this drastic event has impacted the lives and thinking of the victims. The years that went by since the attack offer space in their minds for reflection on fear, both at an intimate, personal level and at the level of society.
- DirectorElaine McMillion SheldonStarsJan RaderPatricia KellerNecia FreemanThree women fight to break the cycle one life at a time.
- DirectorJason HanasikStarsJohn KapellasJohn Kapellas lives in darkness for 10 years now, due to his allergy of light. In the seclusion of his home covers his walls and ceilings with meticulous drawings of circular patterns, as a self-found creative outlet.
- DirectorRuslan FedotovA girl or a woman? Wearing a bright red scarf, plush mouse in tow. Looking at her you won't guess she's 50 and homeless for three years. She survives in the cold streets of Moscow by her incredible passion to live.
- DirectorJohn ChesterStarsJohn ChesterMolly ChesterToddDocumentarian John Chester and his wife Molly work to develop a sustainable farm on 200 acres outside of Los Angeles.
- DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsXiaoshuai WangLiu XiaodongFactory and construction workers, farmers, commuters, miners, students. The director captures the state of his nation, by static filming one or more people in more or less motionless poses. No narrative, just portraits.
- DirectorCorneliu PorumboiuStarsLaurentiu GinghinaCorneliu PorumboiuThey talk about the beautiful game, but for Laurentiu Ginghina, it's not enough. Football must be modified, streamlined, freed from restraints; corners are to be rounded off, players assigned to zones and subteams, norms revised. In retrospect, he first realized that the rules of football were wrong when he was tackled during a game in his youth, in the summer holidays, on another pitch now covered in snow, but in Vaslui, not Bucharest. The tackle hit so hard it fractured his fibula, a year later his tibia broke too, on New Year's Eve 1987, he had to walk home in the snow and no one helped him. Today he's a local bureaucrat with an uninspiring job, it's no wonder he prefers to talk about the game, his own version of it, to Porumboiu, his friend, the director, who's always listening, asking questions, nearly always in frame. Ginghina's monologues are so rich you might think someone wrote them in advance, they proceed from the same old subject, but never stay in one place. All roads lead to football, but all roads lead away from it too, to land ownership issues, to orange farms in Florida, to political utopia and the traces left by life, to version 2.0, 3.1, 4.7, to infinity.
- DirectorGuillermo RocamoraStarsMuhammad AbdallahAfter thirteen years in Guantanamo, Muhammad is set free and taken to Uruguay. He has a second chance in an unknown place where he shall start to live a new life in freedom.
- DirectorJason CharnickStarsJason CharnickArnie CharnickRaymond CharnickA man discovers a box of interviews with his father, a heroin addict who died of AIDS in 1997. What he finds will uncover generations of family secrets, forcing him to redefine his own past, doubt his present, and question his future.
- DirectorAlexandra WestmeierA prestigious but never-completed Soviet nuclear power station in Crimea now stands in ruins, but several outsiders have found their salvation in this desolate place.
- DirectorKim A. SnyderIn the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that took the lives of 20 first graders and their teachers, local clergymen Father Bob Weiss receives a letter from a fellow priest in Dunblane, Scotland, whose community suffered an eerily similar fate in 1996. From across the Atlantic, the two priests forge a poignant bond through the shared experience of trauma and healing.
- DirectorKate DavisDavid HeilbronerStarsSandra BlandShavon BlandHannah BonnerAn investigation into what happened to activist Sandra Bland, who died in police custody after a routine traffic stop.
- DirectorEd PerkinsStarsAndrew CaleyAlex LewisMarcus LewisAfter losing his memory in an accident, Alex Lewis trusts his twin brother, Marcus, to tell him about his past only to discover that he's hiding a dark secret about their childhood.
- DirectorMichael Beach NicholsStarsChristopher BarciaMiguel BeyTrevor J. BlankIn Florida, parents can hire Wrinkles the Clown to scare their misbehaving children.
- DirectorSam HobkinsonStarsMisha DefonsecaKaren SchulmanJane DanielMisha and the Wolves is the dramatic tale of a woman whose holocaust memoir took the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher - who turned detective - revealed an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.
- DirectorDavid SingtonStarsHerbert A. FuchsSammy SilverwatchNick YarrisA convicted murderer who has spent 23 years on Death Row tells his story.
- DirectorTommy AvalloneStarsDavid AllanBalu ArtTommy AvalloneThis documentary explores various urban legends around Hollywood's most elusive star.