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Moacir’s dreams stray from typical boyish fantasies of superheroes and pirates. He wants nothing more than to escape his Nicaraguan life of poverty and abuse to live the American dream. The mission north teaches Moacir that unlike many childhood narratives, dreams don't always come true, but the journey can teach you lessons far greater. You can help provide love, opportunities and a future for children like Moacir by visiting lovelifehope.com or visiting facebook.com/misionmexicochildren

Comedy about the members of an early 1900s fire company.

Azara Meghie explores and negotiates queer politics through dance and spoken word.

Shot across three continents, in New York, São Paulo and Cape Town, this documentary chronicles the intergenerational experiences of spatial violence and its correlation to apartheid spatial planning and its modern incarnation, gentrification.

Echoing the precarious times we live in, a newly commissioned documentary Fire In My Belly (2021) offers a compelling take on questions of home, community and crisis in the metropolitan city of London. (Whitechapel Gallery) HD video, colour, sound

A Screen Song from the Fleischer Studios with the song "Talking Through My Heart".

In To My Women Friends, revealing interviews with six Russian lesbians convey the joys and hardships of being a lesbian in the former Soviet Union. The six women are interviewed separately, but splices of party/meeting scenes show a vital and strong community. While Tatjana speaks hesitantly about her sexuality, believing it to be a private matter, Muchabat charmingly flirts with the filmmaker. This fascinating documentary touches on a range of issues including women's prisons, transsexuality, lesbian and gay community organizing (the Wings Association, a lesbian group), coming out and homophobia. Under article 121 (which criminalizes homosexuality) lesbians and gay men in the former Soviet Union faced the threat of imprisonment, blackmail, government harassment and family rejection.

Like ships in a harbor, men come and go in relationships. But, as one character says to another character who is heartbroken: "You sucked enough juice out of him... don't be greedy!"

A struggling artist reunites with his old friend and mentor over breakfast.

A haunting, experimental narrative that merges the roaming voice of a battered wife with popular images of women to question the conventional ideology of representation and the denial of domestic violence. Alternating between provocative poetry and submissive prose, the voice echoes terrifying thoughts of the abused woman while gradually deconstructing - and reconstructing- manipulated found footage.

A heartbroken girl tries to get over her ex-boyfriend with the help of her friends by having her first hookup experience, only it's harder to find someone than she imagined.

Spunky and adventurous, Raida, heads off to Manila for two reasons: to visit her godmother, and to meet with Ariel, her pen pal. But strange things happen on her way to the big city.

Every year, thousands of North Koreans risk their lives to escape their country. But even if they make it to China, they are not safe. North Korean women are often trafficked and sold numerous times. This is not the ending that their story deserves.

A film exploring the privatisation of the Irish state-owned telecommunications company Telecom Éireann from the viewpoint of shareholders communicating on early online forums. The event is contextualised within ideologies of technological emancipation in the pre-millennium period.

Two shipwrecked boys become the focal point of a religious power struggle.

Embark upon this amazing journey through the life of America’s beloved heroines, Rosa Parks, as her family introduces a side of Parks few people knew. Her cousin, personal caretaker and assistant, Carolyn Williamson Green, along with Parks’ researcher, Dr. Jeanne Theoharis, gives us a glimpse behind the stoic icon who was indeed a rebel against discrimination not only in the South, but also in the North. Follow Green’s passion as she keeps her cousin’s memory alive through a lifetime of public service in the city of Detroit.

Alien drag queens in outer space versus hunky young cadet space boys. Hair toxins, revenge, love, and deceit on the final frontier forces the dashing Captain Priapus into a love triangle, splitting him from lover and leading him to confront his greatest enemy...his hairdresser!