Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. Rat Film

Marion Stokes, a reclusive activist and former TV producer, first pressed record on her VCR during the Iran hostage crisis

Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political, and feminist icons

The talking heads documentary gets a remarkable makeover in Regretters, winner of the Prix Europa Best Documentary at Berlin 2010.

‘I Want To Cheer You Up Ltd’ is a small Japanese company run by a man called Ryuichi, who can

If you’ve been feeling uncomfortable about a global capitalist system that seems to support the wealthiest while screwing down on

Sundance prize winner Return to Homs takes us into the middle of the raging civil war in Syria. Stripped of

Rules of the Game follows the progress of young job seekers who embark on a mentoring program at an employment

Salma tells the story of the singular-named poet who overcame horrifying oppression at the hands of her own family. Abandoned

On the rural outskirts of Gaza City, a small community of farmers is about to celebrate a wedding: the first

Bob’s car has been stolen, and when it finally turns up in Detroit, Bob travels from New Orleans to claim

In this funny and original film, teenagers and best friends Pietro and Allesandro make a selfie-style documentary about their rough

During the time of the Stolen Generations, thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families by the Australian Government.

The global arms trade may be the murkiest, most inscrutable industry on the planet, with billions of dollars and human

Shield and Spear looks at some of South Africa’s most contemporary and innovative artists, designers, and musicians, who are openly

Today, one in six people live in slums, squats or shantytowns due to mass migration to cities. This is often

Visually-stunning and filmed across the Pacific and Indian Oceans in Australia, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea,

Doctors Krassi and Mila and their driver Plamen run one of the few remaining ambulances servicing the Bulgarian capital of

Once upon a time, villagers in a tiny town in Tuscany came up with a remarkable way to confront their

In Starless Dreams, acclaimed filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei takes us inside a girls’ juvenile detention facility on the outskirts of Tehran.

Stop-Over offers an intimate glimpse of life in limbo for a group of undocumented migrants from Iran. The film opens

In his own words, 32-year-old Danny Houck is ‘a nobody’. He lives in a ramshackle farmhouse in backwater Ohio; he

Forming in the wake of 2 Tone bands like The Specials and Madness, Strange Tenants, the “Godfathers of Australian Ska”,

Through a classroom exercise which assembles recently arrived refugees in a detention centre in Sicily, a teacher gives them –

Brutally honest, this new documentary by award-winning director Mike Christie brings to life UK band Suede’s dizzying ride from Britpop

Your smartphone, safely shut off for the duration of this film, may never be turned on again, such are the

“I’m sorry, it’s not good news … the chemotherapy has failed. We’re very good at end-of-life care.” These are the

Ada is 19. She agrees to have dinner at the home of a man she knows. It all happens very

Co-directed by Martin Scorsese, The 50 Year Argument celebrates a half century of The New York Review of Books. Combining

You might have seen a dozen climate change docs, but you certainly haven’t seen this one. Director Jared P. Scott

Imagine this strange continuum: at one end, the funniest film about corruption and the illegal diamond trade in Africa. At

Every dry season, a 1.5km bamboo bridge is built across the Mekong River in Cambodia and then dismantled after the

Rajesh Ji has a lot on his mind. A private investigator in Kolkata, India, Rajesh is grasping for leads in

Documenting the dying art of hand-crafted saké making, The Birth of Saké unveils the meticulous approach employed by the Yoshida

In his apartment in São Paulo, in between making coffee and gay hook-ups, poet Marcelo Diorio’s intimate world is revealed.

In 2009, German freighter ‘Hansa Stavangar’ was captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia. Two men from vastly different

Fascinated by the reckless, ladies’ man lifestyle of the classic Mexican movie characters, Jaime García presents as a prototypical confident

Mojo’s favourite food is spaghetti, and he is partial to washing it down with a glass of French red. So

Inter-generational secrets and lies are exposed and dissected in this extraordinary and moving portrait of a family’s survival told from

The Collaborator and His Family is a film about a Palestinian family torn apart by espionage in the difficult climate

Completing his sublimely meditative trilogy on time, memory, and the relationship of Chile’s landscapes to its troubled history, Patricio Guzmán’s

Garrell, Catalonia’s own Tarzan and amateur movie star, constructs astounding architectural labyrinths in his roadside jungle paradise. But as forces

He was the literary discovery of a lifetime – 19-year-old JT LeRoy who had grown up on the streets and