The only way to change the world is to make a little noise: The extraordinary story of The Silk Road Ensemble, an international musical collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

Director: Morgan Neville

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 96 min.

Year of production: 2015

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Life, Animated

A documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams based on a book by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Ron Suskind.

Director: Roger Ross Williams

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 89 min.

Year of production: 2016

Children Cinema Disability Education Family Health Humor Media Personal Story Society Youth

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Kafka’s Last Trial

Kafka asked for his writings to be destroyed. His friend disobeyed, sparking a century-long saga that ends in a Tel Aviv courtroom. A surreal docu-animation about legacy, betrayal, and who owns a cultural treasure - an heir, a friend, or the state?

Director: Eliran Peled

Language: English, German, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 72 min.

Year of production: 2025

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Louder than a Bomb

A mic. A stage. A pen. A page. The story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare to compete in the world's largest youth slam

Director: Jon Siskel | Greg Jacobs

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 99 min.

Year of production: 2010

Arts and Culture Children Education Literature Society Youth

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My Name Is Happy

Kurdish singer Mutlu Kaya’s journey from Turkey’s Got Talent star to shooting survivor fighting for justice against femicide. The documentary highlights her resilience as she heals, finds strength in her family, and empowers women through music and activism.

Director: Ayşe Toprak | Nick Read

Language: Turkish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 82 min.

Year of production: 2022

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Butterfly in the Sky

BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY tells the story of the beloved PBS children’s series “Reading Rainbow,” its iconic host LeVar Burton, and the challenges its creators faced in cultivating a love of reading through television.

Director: Bradford Thomason | Brett Whitcomb

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 87 min.

Year of production: 2022

American History Arts and Culture Children Education Literature

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32 Sounds

Discover the immersive power of sound with 32 Sounds, a captivating documentary exploring how it bends time, crosses borders, and shapes our perception

Director: Sam Green

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 97 min.

Year of production: 2023

Arts and Culture Education Science

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Unseen Skies

Yaara Bou Melhem’s documentary "Unseen Skies" explores state and corporate surveillance evolution through Trevor Paglen's audacious launch of artwork in space.

Director: Yaara Bou Melhem

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 98 min.

Year of production: 2021

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Romeo Is Bleeding

Richmond, CA is a community struggling with gun violence, stemming from a turf war which spans multiple generations. A local arts organization recruits young people to take part in an urban adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.

Director: Jason Zeldes

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 93 min.

Year of production: 2015

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¡Viva Maestro!

Superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel faces the test of a lifetime when social unrest in his Venezuelan homeland challenges his conviction that music has the power to unite

Director: Ted Braun

Language: English, Spanish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 99 min.

Year of production: 2022

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Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend

A film charting the rise of Bob Marley and The Wailers to international stardom - made from footage shot in the early 1970s and lost for 30 years

Director: Ester Anderson | Gian Godoy

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 96 min.

Year of production: 2011

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DRAW FOR CHANGE! (Series)

Six female cartoonists from Mexico to Syria defy censorship with powerful satire on social justice, facing threats and violence. Their stories of resilience, filmed by top female directors, showcase art’s role in activism and the unbreakable drive for truth.

Director: Alisar Hasan | Alaa Amer | Nada Riyadh | Anna Moiseenko | Sama Pana

Language: Arabic, English, Russian (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 4 x 54 min.

Year of production: 2023

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The Students of Umberto Primo

In April 1941, when Nazi forces descend on Thessaloniki, Greece, nine young Jewish students of the Italian school, Umberto Primo, must put their hopes and dreams on hold and focus only on how they will survive.

Director: Alessandra Maioletti

Language: Greek, Italian (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 83 min.

Year of production: 2022

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Rumba Rules, New Genealogies

Glimpse into the contemporary music scene of Kinshasa featuring Brigade Sarbati Orchestra

Director: David N. Bernatchez | Sammy Baloji

Language: French, Lingala (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 107 min.

Year of production: 2020

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Dark Blossoms

The deep friendship between three young outsider goths is threatened when one of them falls in love and eyes a possible escape from the Danish province.

Director: Frigge Fri

Language: Danish, English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 80 min.

Year of production: 2021

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The Cemetery of Cinema

A delightful and modern Don Quixote tale

Director: Thierno Souleymane Diallo

Language: French (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 95 min.

Year of production: 2023

African Cinema and Culture

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The Arc of Oblivion

In a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. What can be saved?

Director: Ian Cheney

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 98 min.

Year of production: 2024

Arts and Culture Education Technology

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The Torch

Guitar icon Buddy Guy reflects on his legacy.

Director: Jim Farrell

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 109 min.

Year of production: 2019

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Mr. SOUL!

Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL! Ellis Haizlip ensures the Revolution will be televised with SOUL!, America’s first “Black Tonight Show.”

Director: Melissa Haizlip

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 104 min.

Year of production: 2018

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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States

Director: Göran Hugo Olsson

Language: English, Swedish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 92 min.

Year of production: 2011

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Between Revolutions (Între Revoluții)

Two friends separated by political revolutions find connection through letters, defying distance and turmoil.

Director: Vlad Petri

Language: Persian, Romanian (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 69 min.

Year of production: 2023

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Gurrumul

GURRUMUL is a portrait of an artist on the brink of global reverence, and the struggles he and those closest to him faced in balancing that which mattered most to him and keeping the show on the road.

Director: Paul Damien Williams

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 96 min.

Year of production: 2017

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Alreadymade

After one hundred years, a lost work of art by an anonymous maker is more topical than ever. Can we bridge that century by giving the possible artist a voice?

Director: Barbara Visser

Language: Dutch, English, French, German (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 86 min.

Year of production: 2023

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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

The life and insights of author Kurt Vonnegut

Director: Robert B. Weide | Don Argott

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 126 min.

Year of production: 2021

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The Art of Making It

Who gets seen, who gets left behind, and why does it matter who is anointed to tell the stories of our time?

Director: Kelcey Edwards

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 94 min.

Year of production: 2021

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Fouad Elkoury by Fouad

Fouad Elkoury, a renowned Lebanese photographer since the 70s, captures Middle Eastern life amid war-torn Lebanon and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A new documentary offers an intimate look at his work, showcasing an emotional odyssey through exile, war, and resilience.

Director: Kamy Pakdel

Language: French (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 55 min.

Year of production: 2023

Arts and Culture Conflicts Human Rights Middle Eastern Studies Personal Story Photography War

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Side by Side: The Science, Art, and Impact of Digital Cinema

Investigating the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation, revealing what artists and filmmakers have accomplished with both film and digital and what the future may bring.

Director: Chris Kenneally

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 98/52 min.

Year of production: 2012

Arts and Culture Cinema Creative Media Science Technology

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Hong Kong Symphony: Heaven-Earth-Mankind

Tan Dun's "Symphony 1997" premieres as Hong Kong switches from British to Chinese rule.

Director: Larry Weinstein

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 57 min.

Year of production: 1997

Arts and Culture Asian Studies Music

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MADE TO MEASURE – a Digital Search for Traces (Eine digitale Spurensuche)

Made to Measure is a data experiment recreating a woman's life using only her Google data - 100,000+ data points over five years. It shows how deeply our digital traces reveal who we are, even without names, photos, or personal contact.

Director: Moritz Riesewieck | Cosima Terrasse | Hans Block

Language: English, German (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 52 min.

Year of production: 2021

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Cathedrals of Culture

"If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves.

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 6 x 26 min.

Year of production: 2014

Arts and Culture Creative Society Urbanism

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The Art of Museums (series)

Blurring the boundaries between entertainment and high culture, this series takes the viewer into a fine selection of world’s most renowned museums.

Director: Julie Kirchhoff, Sylvie Kürsten, Ralf Pleger, Kurt Mayer

Language: English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 8x52 min.

Year of production: 2018

Arts and Culture

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Sabine Weiss, One Century of Photography

Sabine Weiss (1924-2021) created a monumental body of work: thousands of faces, top fashion collections, and global photo reports. As a 20th-century witness focusing on society's margins, she was a Humanist photography icon. This film captures her final words and legacy.

Director: Camille Ménager

Language: French (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 58 min.

Year of production: 2022

Arts and Culture History Personal Story Photography Society Women

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Voices: Our Stories before Roe v. Wade

Every movement starts with the gathering of stories.

Director: Randy Field

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 27 min.

Year of production: 2024

Activism Education Social Justice Women

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