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(Country: US; Director: Andrea Kreuzhage)
Looking at a project considered to be the 21st century equivalent of a message in a bottle.

(Country: Germany; Director: Alexandra Westmeier; Writer: Alexandra Westmeier)
Inside a juvenile Russian reform school.

(Country: US; Director: Brittany Blockman, Josephine Decker; Writer: Brittany Blockman, Josephine Decker; Cast: Austin Head, J. Michael Bailey, Jennifer Bamgardner, David Barasch, Jonathan Caouette, Josh Caouette, Paula Caplan, David Chapman, Meridith Chibers, Lisa Diamond)
Exploration of the "bisexual revolution".

(Country: Austria; Director: Roland Wehap)
Lifting the lid on how glossy tourism to the country masks underlying corruption.

(Country: USA; Director: Miguel Kohan; Writer: Miguel Kohan, Gustavo Santaolalla)
A celebratory film about the maestros of tango.

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(Country: US; Director: David Modigliani)
Documentary charting the effect George W Bush had when he bought a ranch in a small Texas town.

(Country: UK; Director: Brice Lainé)
A powerfully optimistic vision of Africa as epitomised by the people of Togo.

(Country: US; Director: Werner Herzog; Cast: Werner Herzog)
The infamous director Werner Herzog visits the Antarctic, determined not to make a movie about penguins. ,

(Country: UK, Austria; Director: Manu Luksch; Writer: Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel; Cast: Aadam K. Ahmed, Manu Luksch, William Trevitt)
Using only images obtained from the operators of CCTV video-surveillance systems in London – as stated in the rules of the “Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers” – Luksch transforms London using oppressively familiar views into a nightmarish stage.

(Country: Australia; Director: Richard Todd)
Story of John Fawcett, an Australian ceramicist who devoted his life to helping cataract sufferers in Indonesia.

Wild Combination: A Portrait Of Arthur RussellPatti Smith: Dream Of Life
(Country: US; Director: Helen Hood Scheer; Writer: Scott B. Morgan, Helen Hood Scheer)
Documentary follows five jump-rope teams around the US.

(Country: UK; Director: Nick Higgins, Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Tilda Swinton, Sana Bilgrami, Alice Nelson, Doug Aubrey, David Graham Scott, Anna Jones)
Celebration the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declarations of Human Rights interpreted through the prism of Scotland today.

(Country: UK; Director: Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Nick Higgins, Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Sana Bi )
Filmmakers mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

(Country: USA; Director: Ron Davis, Stewart Halpern)
All the glamour and glitz you'd expect from the Miss Gay America beauty pageant, with spectacular costumes, inventive dance routines and an intriguing look at the contestants' home lives.

(Country: US; Director: Steven Sebring; Writer: Steven Sebring; Cast: Patti Smith)
An intimate portrait of music icon Patti Smith that mirrors the essence of the artist herself.

(Country: US; Director: James Moll; Cast: Matt Damon, Charlie Engle, Kevin Lin, Ray Zahab)
Documenting three men's quest to run across the desert.

(Country: UK; Director: Ulrike Kubatta; Writer: Ulrike Kubatta; Cast: Ulrike Kubatta, Jerri Truhill)
The story of Jerri Truhill who, in 1961, became one of the first women secretly trained by NASA to go into space.

(Country: United Kingdom; Director: Gideon Koppel)
Rural Wales faces change from all sides as the population ages.

(Country: Germany; Director: Christian Klandt; Writer: Christian Klandt; Cast: Hendrik Arnst, Florian Bartholomäi, Justus Carriere, Franziska Krumwiede, Karoline Schuch, Jürgen Verch, Henrike von Kuick, Gerdy Zint)
Exploration of how two drunken teenagers came to beat up a homeless man and set him on fire.

(Country: UK; Director: David Eberts; Writer: Jordan Roberts; Cast: Morgan Freeman)
Women of Zambia speak out on Aids. Narrated by Morgan Freeman.


Portrait of the famous cellist.


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