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- DirectorBenedetta ArgentieriStarsTooba GondalIn a unique interview, we get to meet the woman who lured scores of Western women to join IS. Using social media, she became a deadly matchmaker.
- DirectorErik GandiniStarsElon MuskNoam ChomskyAstrid MossThe majority of jobs that exists today will disappear within a few decades. As technology surpasses human capacity, we have the opportunity to rethink the role of work in our lives. Are we ready for an excess of time? For a work-free existence? Sweeping across four continents, the film describes widely different lives where some barely spend any time outside of work while others bathe in leisure. Through these stories and characters we are thrown into the existential tension between that which is and that which could be.
- DirectorHans BlockMoritz RiesewieckCosima TerrasseMade to Measure is an experiment that asks if you can reconstruct a person based solely on their digital data trail. Can you build a doppelganger of a person you don't even know? Record, recreate, and replay the life of someone and their personality in detail?
- DirectorTonje Hessen ScheiMichael RowleyStarsArik AschermanGary BurdRalph DrollingerAn influential movement of Christian fundamentalists in the US, who with millions of dollars in backing and threads into the government are fighting for the end of the world.
- DirectorAmanda KimStarsNam June PaikSteven YeunThe life and times of Nam June Paik, the father of video art, who coined the phrase "Electronic Superhighway."
- DirectorMaksym MelnykIn a remote village, whose name roughly means "a cold place", this film looks for warmth in encounters. The Ukrainian village of Stuzhytsya is situated in the Carpathian Mountains in the border triangle between Poland and Slovakia. The three elderly female protagonists - a farmer, a post office clerk and a biologist - are firmly rooted in a place where hardly any young people are left in 2019, the year of Zelensky's election victory. Over time, the film crew also becomes, at least temporarily, a valued part of the village community.
- DirectorAnna HintsStarsKadi KiviloMaria MeresaarElsa SaksIn the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.
- DirectorAndreas KoefoedJørgen LethStarsJoey BaronJakob BroAnders ChristensenA documentary that explores the lives and processes of some of the world's most renowned and prolific jazz musicians.
- DirectorSara NewensMina T. SonWas the planting of tamarisk trees along the historically Black Lawrence Crossley neighborhood in Palm Springs a symbol of segregation?
- DirectorJohan KramerStarsJasonKimLanaA tragicomic documentary about the inseparable bond between pets and their owners. Do their pig, hairless cats, dancing dog, spiritual snail, or Insta-cat fill the gaps of their human existence?
- DirectorSierra UrichSpurred by a provocative family memory and a lifetime of separation from the country her mother left behind, a young filmmaker delves into her mother and grandmother's complicated pasts and her own fractured Iranian identity.
- DirectorAlisa KovalenkoStarsAlisa KovalenkoFor five teenagers living in the conflict-ridden Donbas region of Ukraine, a Himalayan expedition provides a brief escape from reality. A portrait of a generation that, in spite of everything, is able to recognize and celebrate the fragile beauty of life.
- DirectorMarc ShafferStarsGary OldmanMarta BraunPhilip BrookmanExposing Muybridge tells the story of trailblazing 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who changed the world with his camera. Muybridge set the course for the development of cinema when he became the first photographer to capture something moving faster than the human eye can see--Leland Stanford's galloping horses. He also produced a sprawling and spectacular landscape catalog, ranging from Alaska to Central America, Utah to California. Artful, resilient, selfish, naive, eccentric, deceitful--Muybridge is a complicated, imperfect man and his story drips with ambition and success, loss and betrayal, near death experiences and even murder. "The machine cannot lie," Stanford declared of Muybridge's pioneering motion images. But what about the photographer? More than a century after his death, Muybridge's photographs have never ceased to seduce cutting-edge artists, scientists, innovators, and general viewers alike.
- DirectorMadeleine GavinStarsHyeonseo LeeSung-eun KimSo-yeon LeeThe story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.
- DirectorFlorian Heinzen-ZiobStarsMalou AiraudoJorge Puerta ArmentaGloria U. BiachiTwo spectacular dance projects show how a young generation of dancers from all over the world are rediscovering Pina's choreography: the Semperoper Ballet Company in Dresden rehearses Pina's dance opera Iphigenia in Tauris, and dancers from all over Africa rehearse Pina's ballet Le Sacre du Printemps at the École des Sables in Senegal. A fascinating metamorphosis: while the dancers of street dance, classical ballet, traditional and modern African dance transform Pina's work, Pina's choreography transforms the dancers.
- DirectorJialing ZhangStarsZijuan ChenTutuWenzu LiTwo families fight for justice from within the digital prison of the Chinese surveillance state.
- DirectorGuy DebordStarsGuy DebordLeonid BrezhnevFidel CastroGuy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book "La société du spectacle" (1967).
- DirectorTonislav HristovIvan, 58, is a seagull, a Bulgarian ladies' man hooking up with female tourists at a Sunny Beach resort. He has done this for forty years, ever since the Communist times. Ivan wants to settle down, but that's not so easy for an old Seagull. He's got no savings and the pandemic makes things even more difficult: there are no tourists. Ivan supports himself by washing cars and windows. He tries to connect to Russian ladies to help them get visas to the EU and buy property in Bulgaria. He soon understands that he's not really credible as a serious male companion. Ivan's real wound is an adult son in Ukraine who refuses to talk to him. Maybe now, in spring 2022, would be the right time to reconnect.
- DirectorJakub PiatekStarsLeonora ArmelliniAlexander GadjievEva GevorgyanYoung pianists take part in the legendary International Chopin Piano Competition. A unique chance of a lifetime, portrayed from backstage and set to Chopin's music.
- DirectorTomás BojarAdéla KomrzýArtistic endeavor isn't about competing; even so, applicants still have to be placed in order of merit at the academy's entrance exams. But how do you assess artistic talent? And what role can art play in today's world?
- DirectorThomas von SteinaeckerStarsWerner HerzogChloé ZhaoJoshua OppenheimerDocumentary presents a comprehensive portrait of an iconic artist of our time.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsNan GoldinDavid VelascoMegan KaplerFollows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
- DirectorLuke McManusStarsGemma DunleavyJohn Francis FlynnJohnny FlynnA Musical Trip Through Dublin's North Inner City
- DirectorCamilla HallJennifer TiexieraStarsEvgeny AfineevskyArthur AgeeMukunda AnguloFilmmakers examine the impact that well-known documentaries and their commercial success have had on the lives of their subjects. They focus on the ethics and responsibility inherent in documentary filmmaking.
- DirectorCody SheehyA Chinese biophysicist disappears after developing the first designer babies, shocking the world and the entire scientific community, but an investigation shows he may not have been alone in his experiment to create "better" human beings.
- DirectorWerner HerzogHerzog casts his gaze on the human brain, looking for clues as to why a piece of tissue can produce deep thoughts and feelings, while also considering the philosophical, ethical and social implications.
- DirectorWojciech GostomczykStarsLeon K. DziemaszkiewiczThierry MuglerPerformance artist Leon (60) rejects limits between art and life which puts him often in conflict with society and family. Only his famous boyfriend, the iconic fashion designer Manfred Thierry Mugler seems to understand him. To overcome a middle-age crisis, Leon decides to work on his last big show which will prove that he is still a good artist but whenever things go wrong, he reaches for alcohol. And what can go more wrong than the sudden and unexpected death of his beloved Manfred?
- DirectorRebecca Landsberry-BakerJoe PeelerWhen the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring its free press, a rogue reporter fights to expose her government's corruption in a historic battle that will have ramifications for all of Indian country.
- DirectorAlexandre O. PhilippeStarsAmy NicholsonRodney AscherJohn WatersVictor Fleming's film The Wizard of Oz (1939) is one of David Lynch's most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch's work.
- DirectorLukasz KonopaEmil LangballeStarsKrispus AyenaDominic OgwenAs a nine-year-old boy, Dominic Ongwen was abducted and conscripted into Joseph Kony's army of child soldiers. Some 30 years later, he is the first former child soldier to be indicted in International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes.
- DirectorSimon WallonStarsBonnie TimmermannPaul AusterSteve BuscemiA portrait of legendary casting director Bonnie Timmermann. An homage to the craft of acting.
- DirectorViolet Du FengQing ZhaoStarsXin HuSimu WuHe YanxinThe story of two Chinese women trying to balance their lives as independent women in modern China while confronting the traditional identity that defines but also oppresses them.
- DirectorLea GlobStarsApolonia SokolLea GlobOksana ShachkoThe talented Apolonia grows up seeking her place in the art world while grappling with the agonies and joys of womanhood and relationships in a world dominated by patriarchy, capitalism, and war.