Wicked Mike's 150 Best Documentaries 2022
Good documentaries, and there are many this year, have the ability to improve our world and personal lives.
Modern documentaries are so well created that they risk becoming entertainment only. We should never forget that they teach us. Understanding foreign cultures, social issues, world events beyond propaganda, and celebrities beyond gossip, is essential to our personal development as responsible, caring human beings.
Modern documentaries are so well created that they risk becoming entertainment only. We should never forget that they teach us. Understanding foreign cultures, social issues, world events beyond propaganda, and celebrities beyond gossip, is essential to our personal development as responsible, caring human beings.
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- DirectorKiwi ChowStarsGwyneth HoBenny TaiDue to political restrictions in Hong Kong, this documentary following protestors since 2019, is broken into pieces, each containing interviews and historical context of the conflict.Hong Kong, China
- DirectorHogir HiroriStarsMahmud ReshoSihamZahraFilm follows a group into Syria's Al-Hol, a dangerous camp in the Middle East, as they risk their lives to save a women being held by ISIS as abducted sex slaves.Syria/Kurdistan, Iraq
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsNan GoldinDavid VelascoMegan KaplerFollows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.USA
- DirectorChloe FairweatherOver one in three women in Turkey experience domestic violence. Lawyer Ipek Bozkurt's clients risk their lives while fighting the culture of violence in courtTurkey
- DirectorSara DosaStarsMiranda JulyKatia KrafftMaurice KrafftIntrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.USA
- DirectorSushmit GhoshRintu ThomasStarsMeera DeviShyamkali DeviSuneeta PrajapatiIn a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India's only newspaper run by Dalit women. Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, redefining what it means to be powerful.India
- DirectorMichael WebberStarsCarole BaskinHoward BaskinKeith GadRetired Ohio police officer, Tim Harrison, stumbles upon a bombshell discovery when he suspects that the world's most famous celebrity conservationists may be secretly connected to the exotic big cat trade.USA
- DirectorChoi Jin-sungStarsChang Eun-joNicole GoseMoon Hyung-wookAnonymous and exploitative, a network of online chat rooms ran rampant with sex crimes. The hunt to take down its operators required guts and tenacity.Korea
- DirectorMarie AmiguetVincent MunierStarsVincent MunierSylvain TessonTwo men explore the high-altitude wilderness of Tibet with many cameras, filming wildlife from a respectful distance and searching for the rare snow leopard.France/Himalayas
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsEnnio MorriconeSilvano AgostiAlessandro AlessandroniA documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone.Italy
- DirectorAbdallah Al-KhatibStarsAbdallah Al-KhatibAfter the Syrian Revolution, Al-Assad's regime besieges the district of Yarmouk, largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world. Yarmouk is cut off. The director records the daily deprivations while celebrating the people's courage.Palestine/Syria
- DirectorWill BattersbyBased on Mallory Smith's posthumously published memoir, Salt In My Soul offers a look inside the mind of a young woman trying to live while dying. Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, Mallory turned to a secret diary to record her thoughts.USA
- DirectorValerie BlankenbylThe Bubble examines often-surreal senior citizen life within The Villages, America's largest retirement community. Retired life beneath the Floridian sunshine however, is not perhaps as idyllic, or as welcomed, as one may imagine.Austria but set USA
- DirectorDon ArgottDemian FentonStarsRonnie James DioWendy DioMick WallThe first career spanning documentary on the heavy metal vocalist to be authorized by the artist's estate includes scenes with peers, family and friends; never before seen footage; personal photos.USA
- DirectorSimon Lereng WilmontStarsMarharyta BurlutskaAnjelika StolyarovaOlga TronovaChildren and staff in a special kind of home: an institution for children who have been removed from their homes while awaiting court custody decisions. Staff do their best to make the time children have there safe and supportive.Ukraine
- DirectorEd PerkinsStarsPrincess DianaKing Charles IIIQueen Elizabeth IIPrincess Diana's story is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death. It also illuminates how the public's attitude to the monarchy was, and still is.UK
- DirectorMatt SarneckiStarsRobert FicoRobert KalinakAndrej KiskaIn Slovakia, a young investigative journalist is brutally murdered. When the police files of the murder investigation are leaked to the reporter's colleagues, they uncover vast corruption reaching the highest levels of Slovak society.Slovakia
- DirectorDavid A. WeinerStarsSean YoungClancy BrownAdrienne BarbeauA nostalgic journey through '80s sci-fi films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by the artists who made them and by those who were inspired to turn their visions into reality.USA
- DirectorHa Le DiemIn the misty mountains of northern Vietnam, a Hmong teenage girl faces the challenges of growing up. In Di's traditional culture, girls marry as early as 14. But at school she learns there are alternatives.Vietnam
- DirectorHanna PolakHanifa and Saeed barely survived the hell that ISIS inflicted on them and their people. Hanifa escaped kidnapping, but her younger sisters were enslaved by the Islamic State. Hanifa embarks on a mission to find them and bring them home.Poland set Kurdistan, Iraq
- DirectorFazila AmiriStarsAryana SayeedZahra ElhamSadiqa MadadgarUnder the mentorship of controversial pop star Aryana Sayeed, two young singers vie to become the first-ever female winners of Afghan Star. As their dreams are within grasp, their lives are changed when the Taliban returns to power.Afghanistan
- DirectorMaura AndersonClay TweelStarsHassan Al-ThawadiPhaedra AlmajidJens Sejer AndersenKickback is the decades-long crusade of one eccentric investigative journalist, Andrew Jennings, to expose corruption inside football's sole governing body and the largest sports organization in the world, FIFA.USA
- DirectorMichael KranzStarsShyamal AdhikaryBondhu-KidsHafezaExploration of Bangladeshi Brothels and Syndicates, when a victim in same brothel raised few question of life, fate and cost of redemption in another documentary filmed by another German Director on Same topic.Germany set India
- DirectorJames ErskineStarsFlorian ToncarLena KampfMartin OsterlohUpstart payment firm Wirecard wowed the financial industry with its runaway success — until a tenacious team of journalists exposed massive fraud.Germany
- DirectorMaria SpethStarsDieter BachmannAynur BalÖnder CavdarHow does one feel at home? In Stadtallendorf, a German city with a complex history of both excluding and integrating foreigners, genial teacher Dieter Bachmann offers his pupils the key to at least feeling as if they are at home.Germany
- DirectorLucien Castaing-TaylorVerena ParavelFocuses on five hospitals in northern Paris neighborhoods. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others.France
- DirectorDaniel GellerDayna GoldfineStarsLeonard CohenNancy BacalSteve BerkowitzThis documentary explores the life of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, "Hallelujah".USA
- DirectorAlejandro HartmannStarsElias ArgentiereJosé Luis CabezasDomingo CavalloThis documentary examines the murder of photojournalist José Luis Cabezas, a crime that shook Argentina and exposed a political and financial conspiracy.Argentina
- DirectorXavier de LauzanneStarsBashar al-AssadJihane Cheikh AhmedJean-Matthieu GautierLeila Mustapha is Kurdish and Syrian. Her fight is Raqqa, the former capital of the Islamic state of three hundred thousand inhabitants, reduced to a field of ruin after the war. An engineer by training, mayor at just 30 years old, immersed in a human world, her mission is to rebuild her city, to reconcile, and to establish democracy there. An extraordinary mission. A French writer crosses Iraq and Syria to meet her. In this still dangerous city, she has 9 days to live with Leila and tell her story in a book.Syria
- DirectorRyan WhiteStarsAngela BassettJon StewartStephen ColbertThe film follows Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rover affectionately dubbed Oppy by her creators and scientists at NASA. Oppy was originally expected to live for only 90 days but she ultimately explored Mars for nearly 15 years.USA
- DirectorFelicity MorrisStarsSimon LevievCecilie FjellhøyKristoffer KumarPosing as a wealthy, jet-setting diamond mogul, he wooed women online, then conned them out of millions of dollars. Now some victims plan for payback.USA
- DirectorAlina GorlovaAfter they fled the war in Syria, the Suleyman family was scattered across Europe. Lazgin lives with his family in Ukraine, but his brother Koshnhav is in Germany, while a third brother is in Kurdish Iraq, and a fourth remains in Syria. This Rain Will Never Stop follows Lazgin's son Andriy, who is now a volunteer with the Red Cross and dealing with another military conflict, this time in Ukraine. Whether to escape the war or help relieve the suffering on site-such is the dilemma that Andriy struggles with during a visit to his brother in Germany and an emotional reunion with relatives in Iraq. After the sudden death of his father, Andriy decides to accompany the body back to Syria. Andriy's journeys are interspersed with footage of humanitarian relief efforts, displays of military strength, festive gatherings, and slices of everyday life-like an endless cycle of war and peace, in striking black-and-white cinematography. A dark atmosphere and the sparingly supplied information emphasize the grief and uncertainty within a war-torn family.Ukraine
- StarsMichelle CottomDeborah LloydKenny NackeAmerican 11, United 175, American 77, and United 93 tells the riveting and emotional human stories of those aboard each doomed jetliner.USA
- DirectorJose GomezStarsPeter FlihanThe story of the worst terrorist attack in European history. Survivors and insiders recount March 11, 2004's terrorist attack on Madrid, including the political crisis it ignited and the hunt for the perpetrators.Spain
- DirectorScott BarberStarsDave BrockieHunter JacksonSexecutionerThe powerful story of the most iconic heavy metal/art collective/monster band in the universe, as told by the humans who have fought to keep it alive for over thirty years.USA
- DirectorBruce David KleinStarsCarl IcahnAndrew Ross SorkinExplores the fascinating contradictions at the heart of the famed financier, Carl Icahn. Amassing close to $20 billion dollars over the last half century and at the forefront of some of the most legendary business deals of our times.USA
- StarsRoger OrdishMark LawsonMeirion JonesJimmy Savile once ruled the airwaves with a quirky persona and good works. So how did this icon manage to hide his many alleged bad deeds for so long?UK
- DirectorCamilla HallTells the extraordinary story of the child abuse scandal that erupted on the idyllic island of Jersey in 2007. For a long time, the victims' voices had remained unheard, but when widespread allegations of sexual abuse resurfaced in the late 2000s, Jersey's then health minister Stuart Syvret spoke out about the scale of this historic child abuse and the damage done to the victims.UK
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánProtests that exploded onto the streets of Chile's capital of Santiago in 2019 as the population demanded more democracy and social equality around education, healthcare and job opportunities.Chile
- DirectorMaxim ArbugaevEvgenia ArbugaevaStarsMaxim ChakilevFollows a man waiting in his hut in the desolate expanse of the Russian Arctic. He is holding out in order to observe a natural event that occurs here, every year, but ocean warming is taking its toll.Russia
- DirectorJamie RobertsStarsOari Salahuddin AyubiSofia Flesch BaldinJoe BidenFeatures never-before-seen archival footage of the historic confrontation at Kabul airport, from the U.S. withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan through the subsequent evacuation of Afghan citizens after the Taliban seized the city.USA set Afghanistan
- DirectorChristopher OtwellGraham SuorsaStarsJessi CombsKitty O'NeilFilmed over more than seven years beginning in 2013, the film chronicles the extraordinary life of professional racer and TV personality Jessi Combs.USA
- DirectorDavid HeilbronerDave WooleyStarsBurt BacharachJerry BlavatSnoop DoggSet against a music world profoundly divided between black and white, DON'T MAKE ME OVER tells the dramatic story of Dionne Warwick's meteoric rise from New Jersey gospel choirs to international cross-over super stardom.USA
- DirectorJohn DaschbachStarsMasamoto UedaFor more than forty years, ramen master Masamoto Ueda has been serving his legendary Tokyo-style ramen to a community of regulars who are not only his customers, but true friends.Japan
- DirectorLizzie MacKenzieStarsKen SmithAfter 40 years of solitude, a spirited elderly hermit opens his life to young female director as he tackles ill health, a declining memory, and questions whether he can live out his last years in the wilderness he calls home.UK
- DirectorJack LoweStarsBen JohnstonJames JohnstonSimon NeilInspired by the industry wide reset, the band reflect on their careers for the first time as they reconnect with their homeland and create their 9th and most DIY record to date in the most unusual of environments.UK
- DirectorSkye BorgmanStarsKaren ParsleyCharles EnglesMerle BeanA young mother's mysterious death and her son's subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman's true identity and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.USA
- DirectorRory KennedyStarsMark InmanHazel OsbornePouroto NgaropoPortrays human bravery and resilience after a tragic volcano disaster in New Zealand.New Zealand
- DirectorPablo DuranaDrew PulleyJ.J. KelleyRenowned caver Bill Stone is on a lifelong quest to go deeper beneath the earth than any human has ever ventured. Deep in the unexplored depths of Cheve Cave in Mexico, his goal is to set a new world record by finding a passage beyond a depth of 7,208 feet, proving once and for all his theory that Cheve is the deepest cave in the world. The expedition has been compared to climbing Everest - but in reverse. The three-month underground journey is a dangerous and highly technical adventure through over 12 miles of tight, twisting passages. The pressure to conquer the cave will push Bill and the team to the absolute limits of survival and sanity.USA set Mexico
- DirectorRoger StahlStarsOliver StoneMatt AlfordRobin AndersenIf you've seen Top Gun or Transformers, you might suspect all that military machinery comes with strings attached. This influence is not limited to a handful of movies, though. A vast new trove of internal documents reveals that the Pentagon and CIA have doctored thousands of film and television scripts. Parting the curtains on this world, media professor Roger Stahl engages an array of other stunned scholars, frustrated veterans, PR insiders, and industry producers. Stahl reveals in unsettling detail how the US military-industrial complex pushes a version of history that scrubs the screen of war crimes, corruption, criticism of the nuclear arsenal, racism, sexual assault, assassinations, and torture. From James Bond to Jack Ryan, Captain Marvel to Cake Boss, the creation of this other "cinematic universe" is one of the great PR coups of our time.
- DirectorRita BaghdadiStarsAlaa AlnawaShery BecharaTatyana BoughabaLilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East's first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.Lebanon
- DirectorLars OstenfeldStarsJason BoxDorthe Dahl-JensenAlun HubbardA grand, cinematic adventure on the Greenland ice sheet with three leading scientists in search of what the ice can tell us about our climate, our past and possible future. Epic and thought-provoking.Denmark but in English and set in Greenland
- DirectorJimmy ChinElizabeth Chai VasarhelyiStarsElon MuskBob BehnkenDouglas HurleyOffering rare inside access to NASA and SpaceX, this is the thrilling story of the nearly 20 year journey to send American astronauts back to space aboard U.S. rockets, from filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin.USA
- StarsKim WallPeter MadsenA two-part documentary, examining the disappearance and murder of journalist, Kim Wall, and the subsequent trial of her killer.USA set Denmark
- DirectorRory KennedyStarsDonald TrumpMaria BartiromoLester HoltExamining the months since the tragedies, which caused global panic in March 2019 after two new aircrafts crashed within five months, killing 346 people.USA
- DirectorHarvey LilleyStarsTom HardyJan KoopsJulian ThompsonOn the 40th anniversary of the conflict, senior commanders and ground troops reveal how a series of mistakes nearly cost Britain its hard-won victory over Argentina in the South Atlantic.UK
- DirectorNathaniel KahnStarsJanet ArenbergJon ArenbergNatalie BatalhaTaking us behind the scenes with NASA's high-stakes Webb Space Telescope, The Hunt for Planet B follows a pioneering group of scientists - many of them women - on their quest to find another Earth among the stars.USA
- DirectorEvie CheungCathy ChuYuk-Kwok HuangThe protests in Hong Kong portrayed from the inside by young activists in a courageous film about an entire generation's last chance for a democratic future.Hong Kong, China
- DirectorMat WhitecrossStarsRami MalekDaniel CraigMichael CaineFollows the remarkable history of six decades of James Bond music, going behind the lens into one of the greatest movie franchise and the iconic 007 theme song.UK
- DirectorSaeed Taji FaroukyStarsZim Ko AungThein ShweHtwe TinIn the Magway region of Myanmar, a country home to one of the oldest petroleum industries in the world, live husband and wife Thein Shwe and Htwe Tin. Running an unregulated oil field, they produce a barrel every few days. They wish above all else to see their youngest son succeed, to break the cycle of poverty.Burma/Myanmar
- DirectorHnin Ei HlaingTwo midwives, one Buddhist and one Muslim, defy strict ethnic divisions to work side by side in a makeshift clinic in western Myanmar, providing medical services to the Rohingya of Rakhine State.Burma/Myanmar
- DirectorShaunak SenStarsSalik RehmanMohammad SaudNadeem ShehzadAmidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.India
- DirectorElizabeth D. CostaStarsSuma AkhtarAyesha AkterRifa AkterBangla Surf Girls is an immersive documentary that takes us into the heart of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, where young girls join a local surf club and dare to dream of freedom and escape from a life of drudgery and abuse.Bangladesh
- DirectorAlex PritzStarsNeidinha BandeiraBitaté Uru Eu Wau WauWhen a network of Brazilian farmers seizes a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, a young Indigenous leader and his mentor must fight back in defense of the land and an uncontacted group living deep within the forest.Brazil
- DirectorKarim AïnouzA travel diary filmed on director Karim Aïnouz's first trip to Algeria, the country where his father was born, mixing travel records, home footage, family photographs, historical archives and super-8 footage.Algeria (but Brazilian director)
- DirectorCharlie RussellStarsJohn McAfeeDean BarrowRocco CastoroLife and death of software pioneer John McAfee who developed the software: McAfee Antivirus.USA
- DirectorLars EdmanWilliam JohanssonIn the mid-80's the Swedish mining giant Boliden dumped 20000 tonnes of hazardous waste in Arica in Northern Chile. Thousands of 'Ariqueños' were affected with cancers and other serious illness. Now a group of survivors are seeking justice.Chile/Sweden
- DirectorBen SteeleStarsEmma ReillyInvestigation into wrongdoing, corruption and whistle-blowing in the United Nations.USA
- DirectorJennifer PeedomJoseph NizetiStarsWillem DafoeA stunning exploration of the timeless relationship between human civilization and Earth's rivers, in all their majesty and fragility.USA
- DirectorLesley ChilcottStarsPaul WatsonCo-founder of Greenpeace and founder of Sea Shepherd, Captain Paul Watson has spent 40 years fighting to end the destruction of the ocean's wildlife and its habitat.USA
- DirectorA.B. ZaxStarsMatthew TannenbaumShawnee TannenbaumSophie TannenbaumIn the shadow of the pandemic, a small town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore.USA
- DirectorChris SmithStarsRobert Downey Sr.Zaina AliPaul Thomas AndersonFollow the tender but appropriately irreverent account of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr., the fearless and visionary American director who set the standard for countercultural comedy in the 1960s and 1970s.USA
- DirectorVolker HeiseStarsDieter DegowskiHans-Jürgen RösnerIn August 1988, two armed bank robbers keep German and Dutch police at bay for 54 hours during a hostage-taking drama that ends badly.Germany
- DirectorWill LovelaceDylan SouthernAndrew CrossStarsRyan AdamsJulian CasablancasBrian ChaseAn immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s. A new generation kick-started a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.USA
- DirectorDominic SivyerYvann YagchiA master conman schemes and scams his way into stealing millions from the French elites. His accomplices and victims look back on the man's career to try and find out what made him so successful.France
- DirectorMarlén ViñayoA ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang deals with his sexuality inside an evangelical Salvadoran prison, where he is not just guilty of crimes, but of an unforgivable sin under God and gang: being gay.El Salavador
- DirectorFranz BöhmThree young female activists in Hong Kong, Chile, and Uganda cope with the staggering personal impacts of their activism.Hong Kong, Chile, and Uganda
- DirectorKathryn FergusonStarsSinéad O'ConnorGay ByrneJohn O'ConnorFollowing the career of singer Sinéad O'Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream.UK
- DirectorMax JabsStarsMax JabsNono KonopkaTwo young friends set off on a 15,000 km bicycle tour around the world for a unique fund-raising campaign - barely knowing what to expect, but with the dream of building a school in Guatemala.Germany
- DirectorIan Bell187 minutes passed from Trump urging the crowd to go to the Capitol and asking them to go home. Using footage from the day and cable news Trump reportedly watched, 187 Minutes is a look at the experience of those involved as the constitutional order came under threat.USA
- DirectorBen LawrenceStarsJohn ShiptonStella AssangeNils MelzerAssange remains a remand prisoner at U.K.'s maximum security Belmarsh Prison as he appeals an extradition order to the U.S. where he could face 175 years in prison for his role in the release of classified U.S. diplomatic files.UK
- DirectorBilly CorbenStarsTom ArnoldMichael CohenTed CruzGiancarlo Granda, former pool attendant at the Fontainebleau Hotel, shares the intimate details of his 7-year relationship with a charming older woman, Becki Falwell, and her husband, the Evangelical Trump stalwart Jerry Falwell Jr.USA
- DirectorTrevor FrostMelissa LeshStarsDante Cueva AltamiranoCristian De La CruzErick Scott Vargas LauraBack from war in Afghanistan, a young British soldier struggling with depression and PTSD finds a second chance in the Amazon rainforest when he meets an American scientist, and together they foster an orphaned baby ocelot.USA set Peru
- DirectorTommy HainesStarsBlake BiondiElliot Van OrsdelIndio DowdIn Minnesota's fabled heartland of US ice hockey, the teams of rival towns skate for a last chance to etch their names into local lore.USA
- DirectorAlek KeshishianStarsRaquelle StevensLiana BlackburnBrent L. BoxbergerAfter years in the limelight, Selena Gomez achieves unimaginable stardom. But just as she reaches a new peak, an unexpected turn pulls her into darkness.USA
- DirectorLisa HepnerGuy MossmanStarsMaren BadgerEugene BrandonKevin D'AmourBehind every breakthrough are the patients who risk everything for everybody else.USA
- DirectorJacquelyn MillsStarsZoe LucasAn immersion into the rich landscapes of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote strip of sand.Canada
- DirectorHeddy Honigmann100UP is a film which investigates the will to live. It portrays a colourful selection of 100+ year old people from all over the world. They have lived for over a century and witnessed great historical events, but instead of dwelling on the past, they look ahead. With the clock inevitably ticking, these centenarians cling to life, set new goals with a joie de vivre, refusing to admit the betrayal of their deteriorating bodies. Time is both their enemy and their friend. They have overcome diseases, lost partners and some of them survived their own children. Nevertheless, these active, curious and creative 100+ year olds are amazingly good at restarting every new day.USA
- DirectorBlake ZeffStarsAri MelberChuck SchumerBlake ZeffExposes the scam behind the disastrous school loan crisis.USA
- DirectorRob RapleyStarsAndre BraugherExplore the 1928 dam collapse, the 2nd deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, who had ensured the growth of Los Angeles by bringing water to the city via aqueduct.USA
- DirectorPaula FouceStarsJonathan BalcombeKeith ChristiePaul CoxAll the pretty fishes and the price paid to tank them.USA
- DirectorDaniel RoherStarsAlexei NavalnyYulia NavalnayaChristo GrozevFollows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.USA/Russia
- DirectorIryna TsilykStarsDanylo DydenkoGanna GladkaOlena GladkaTo cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children are making a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.Ukraine
- DirectorAmy Bandlien StorkelBryan StorkelStarsSteve GlewKathy GlewJosh GlewSteve Glew spent the 1990s smuggling rare pez dispensers into the USA from Eastern Europe, making millions of dollars. It was all magical until his arch-nemesis, The Pezident decided to destroy him.USA
- DirectorPietro MarcelloFrancesco MunziAlice RohrwacherStarsPietro MarcelloFrancesco MunziCarlotta ParodiA portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the opportunities that surround them, the dream of what they want to become, the fear of failing, the trials they hope to overcome.Italy
- DirectorPawel LozinskiComposed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment, each story in 'The Balcony Movie' is unique and deals with the way we try to cope with life as individuals. All together, they create a self-portrait of contemporary human life, and the passers-by present a composite picture of today's world.Poland
- DirectorKartiki GonsalvesStarsBellieBommanBomman and Bellie, a couple in South India, devote their lives to caring for an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu, forging a family like no other that tests the barrier between the human and the animal world.India
- DirectorJoscha BongardStarsNico NiceJamie YoungSylvia SadzinskiAndreea and Nico made a fortune as "Verified Couple" on porn websites. Now they live their dream under palm trees in the tax haven state of Cyprus. But how does it look off the stage?German production set Cyprus