In the mid-2000s, Rick Canty lost his mother and their home in Barry, Wales. Evicted, he climbed onto his roof in protest, remaining there for years. Rick on the Roof uses candid interviews and archive to reveal how his quiet neighbourhood transformed into a thriving community. Neighbours threw street parties and rallied around Rick through storms, until he was injured under mysterious circumstances. Amidst the backdrop of today’s cost of living crisis, the town reflects on Rick’s extraordinary defiance. This bittersweet documentary tells the peculiar story of one man on a roof who inspired and united a working-class Welsh community.
A grandfather on a quest to rescue his kidnapped grandchild. Unbeknownst to the culprit, this seemingly 'old man' has a dark past and possesses exceptional skills in assassination.
Melvin, a teenager, returns to his past in an attempt to remember who he truly was after feeling he left himself behind. He confronts his teenage and childhood selves to reflect on the pains and changes of growing up, realizing that "growing up means losing and leaving behind versions of ourselves." A nostalgic and reflective journey about time, childhood, and accepting the constantly changing self.
Dante, a lonely and ordinary man, forms a seemingly romantic connection with Nadia, a magnetic and enigmatic woman. But what begins as a seductive night turns into the complete opposite...
At the surface, the city’s massive central bus terminal hums with the familiar chaos of noise, movement, and crowds. But as night falls, a darker, hidden world begins to stir beneath.Two veteran bus drivers guide a young attendant through his “first experience” — taking him to a clandestine brothel tucked away in the terminal’s underground levels. What begins as a seemingly ordinary night of pleasure slowly unravels into a gripping chain of events.
A 70-year-young nameless Director still invents various vivid and bizarre characters on an old-fashioned typewriter. This respected veteran knows a thing or two about tenderness and aesthetics. He has heard the word 'stop' far too many times while preparing an arthouse festival gem. The fledgling producer orders his uncle to write something entirely different, involving all keen investors in sold-out, influential roles.
On the night of November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis initiated anti-Jewish violence throughout the German Reich. Hundreds of photographs and films rediscovered in archives provide insight into these pogroms. 30,000 Jews were deported to concentration camps. The November Pogroms mark a deeply disturbing event in German history that remains so to this day.
Every night, Kit dreams of the golden strap — the ultimate prize for the ultimate lesbian mud wrestler. Cheered on by sold-out community crowds, Lesbian Mud Wrestling regularly takes place as a way to raise funds for gender-affirming surgeries for legends like Kit. This latest release from Sapphic Flicks, directed by Kirsty Wilson, is an intimate and playful documentary that plunges you right into the mud, capturing Naarm’s young inclusive lesbian community as it is in 2025. God bless lesbians!
In the village of Anhovo on the Soča River, there lies an old asbestos factory that has managed to outlive wars, regimes and borders. It provided employment and stole life. Even today it continues to exhale smoke.
Ji-hae’s ex-girlfriend has gone missing. As one of her few acquaintances, Ji-hae is called in for questioning. The last time she saw her, she seemed to be spending an ordinary day working from home, but an unexpected confession led to an unforeseen turn of events.
In 1960s New York City, radical rock band The Fugs channels the raw energy of counterculture rebellion through their provocative music and anti-establishment stance.
Gaïa is a planet conceived as a body with a growing population. As resources become scarce, the inhabitants attempt to fertilise its egg cell – in search of new life.