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Gerald Hayo is a lesbian activist from Kenya. She is a survivor of one of the most cruel practices against LBQ women: corrective rape. This short documentary portrays her life as an activist in Mombasa, where she lives and works with her girlfriend Dee, and her return to Kisumu, her hometown, from where she had to flee after being disowned by her family. Nobody wants to see Gerald in Kisumu except her older sister, Cecilia.

Simon Panay’s film takes us into the world of Opio, a boy of 13 who works at a gold mine in Burkina Faso. As you might imagine, it’s a harsh existence, with an oppressively narrow range of options. Even the most basic education costs money, and Opio’s family has precious little of that. The boy decides on a training program for welders, but to earn enough for tuition, he must take his current occupation one step further, moving from peripheral tasks to the dangerous work of going down into the pits.

The territory of Akwesasne straddles the Canada-U.S. border. When Canadian authorities prohibited the duty-free cross-border passage of personal purchases - a right established by the Jay Treaty of 1794 - Kanien'kéhaka protesters blocked the international bridge between Ontario and New York State.

Pedestrians and motorists share the responsibility for accident prevention. Filmed on the streets and sidewalks of Oakland, California, and on a tabletop with model cars and dolls representing pedestrians.

From the perspective of a rocket launch simulator, this film follows the emotional ups and downs of the machine's struggle to feel "good enough".

A lonely sex worker becomes mysteriously pregnant with what seems to be divine intervention.

A depressed man searches for meaning to stave off his own spontaneous combustion.

The script is an improvised sexting session I had with my collaborator Noa Simhayof Shahaf, which we held in order to create an original narrative that would contain our different desires. The explicit text functions as a base to the implicit, scripted performance of the two actors. Each actor was a proxy of either Simhayof Shahaf or I, but while we felt comfortable to be playful and outgoing during the writing process, it was important for us to remain soft and withholding in the way we portrayed living female bodies on the screen.

Turn the other cheek.

People in a coma end up in a different world. With the help of new techniques and improved diagnoses, doctor Steven Laureys and his team in the Coma Science Group are able to communicate with these patients.

In the dark night of a prairie city, a vampire considers her future with a fetching mortal. But requiring blood for sustenance brings a host of problems to the relationship.

“I Am Because You Are”” follows the journey of six women of colour as they embark on their first mountaineering trip in the beautiful and rugged Bugaboos. The plan was for a summer trip with the opportunity to learn foundational mountain skills from their guides, but up until the last minute the trip was almost cancelled due to historic levels of spring snow. Despite the group having mixed levels of experience with backpacking or camping in snow, the crew decides to come together, pack their bags and take on the adventure with trust in their guides.

A surreal encounter at Père Lachaise cemetery between brightly coloured jelly pudding and Mickey Mouse.

Mamma Moo produces a musical and realizes that it is a part of her identity. However, her brother, Teddy Bear disappears due to her fault. Crow asks: “why couldn’t you be a normal cow?” Mamma moo refuses to be ordinary, but at the same time, she has to take responsibility for her choice. Mamma Moo comes to visit her brother with Crow. It is also a way to confirm another identity of hers. Along with her breezy move.

A minor miracle that happened to someone who lost her daughter.

“Baba” spent 30 years of his life working in Saudi Arabia while his daughters grew up in Cairo. Much of their relationship was created and preserved through videos exchanged over the years. When they are reunited, none of the family members completely manage to abandon this form of communication, as if trapped in the logic of exile.

Linda gives birth to an illegitimate child from a relationship with her boyfriend, Alex, who dies in an accident. To avoid a scandal, her father asks his younger sibling to take the baby to Cirebon. Linda is then told that the baby is dead. The baby, Yatim, is treated badly by the caregiver. The caregiver steals the money sent by Linda’s father to support the baby, so Linda’s father gets angry when more money is demanded. Linda overhears the conversation and is told the truth. So Linda goes to Cirebon to pick up her child but Yatim has already run away to Jakarta to look for her. He is aimless and homeless, and becomes a shoe polisher. A children’s toy seller hears a radio broadcast looking for the missing child and advises Yatim to go meet his parent. Yatim refuses, and instead gets hit by a car. Finally, they are reunited at the hospital.

In 1988, 20-year-old Kirsi Marie Liimatainen travels from Finland to the GDR, to study Marxism-Leninism at the International Youth Academy. In summer of´89 the course ends and the students spread out over the world. Afew months later, the Berlin Wall falls. 24 years later Kirsi, sets out on a cinematic journey to Nicaragua, South Africa, Chile, Bolivia, Lebanon, Germany and Finland to meet up once more with her former fellow students. What remains of their dream of the liberation of the oppressed?

Paloma is a young psychiatrist, who is hired to work as a director of a clinic in Galicia, and is attracted to Mario, her very first patient. He suffers from a rare form of amnesia, commonly known as Korsakov's syndrome. As a result, both his short and long term memories are affected, and he has temporary lapses of perception. However, Paloma finds Mario to be a fascinating individual, not just a regular patient. Intrigued, she decides to explore Mario's past and, through their dialogues, their relationship takes an unexpected turn.