The catalogue

An actress and director Jafar Panahi drive into rural Iran to investigate a young girl's desperate video plea, and find tradition as fierce as local hospitality.

A 16th-century conquistador finds himself stranded in modern Mexico, meeting ordinary people still living with the wounds of colonization, in Rodrigo Reyes's bold hybrid.

A woman posts one synonym for love every week for a year, and sends a gentle ripple through her social network, in a funny blend of documentary and drama.

Folk, blues and jazz singer, activist and troublemaker still on the road at 90: the many lives of Barbara Dane, and the music that earned her an FBI file.

A woman out jogging is abducted by a deranged mountain man and dragged to his remote cabin.

A dreamlike reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, where small moments carry the weight of history.

A group of friends at a Baltic Sea holiday home find emotions running high as the parched forest around them catches fire.

After a crime, a victim's sister fights for a fair trial and justice for her brother.

Canada's leading musicians and artists come together to tell the tale of poet Al Purdy and the A-frame cabin he built.

From a graceful cantata to a fugue performed by tap dancers, a celebration of Bach's universal music, filmed at Canada's Bach 300 Festival.

In late-'80s and early-'90s downtown New York, two vibrant subcultures, skateboarding and hip hop, collided.

When her child is injured alone at home and placed in foster care, a single mother takes on the legal system to win her family back.

In Mumbai, a nurse unsettled by a gift from her estranged husband and her younger roommate searching for a place to be alone with her boyfriend chase their own kinds of freedom.

Ron Mann's portrait of Robert Altman, the maverick who defied Hollywood's rules and proved that truly independent films were possible.

Eugene McCarthy's 1968 anti-war run for the presidency, from college towns to the failure in Chicago.

Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, confronts the inherited trauma of the women in her family who survived the Chinese tradition of concubinage.

Shot on 16mm over three years and narrated by her own audio diaries, an intimate portrait of shy Melbourne musician Courtney Barnett on tour.

Six urban neurotics living technologically accelerated lives realize their world feels unreal, because it is.

A psychoanalyst returns home to Tunisia to open a practice and finds a nation of colourful patients at a crossroads, in Manele Labidi's sparkling comedy.

An amnesiac soldier searching for his lost love joins the fight against the Bolsheviks in Archangel, unaware that the Great War ended three months earlier.

A woman serves five years in prison for firing a gun to protect her mobster lover, then goes looking for him to pick up where they left off.

At 18 she shocked New York with an underground art-porn masterpiece; Barbara Rubin went on to connect Warhol with the Velvet Underground, then stunned everyone by becoming a Hasidic Jew.

A warm, funny conversation with spiritual teacher Ram Dass that distils his life and teachings into a meditation on ultimate freedom.

The strange journey of a lock of Beethoven's hair, from his deathbed through Nazi Germany to a Sotheby's auction, and the secret it reveals about his death.

A struggling actor running a prison theatre workshop takes his troupe of convicts on tour with Waiting for Godot, and every show becomes a triumph.

'We all get dressed for Bill': a portrait of 80-year-old Bill Cunningham, the New York Times street photographer who turned fashion into cultural anthropology.

A bored young man trapped by a pregnancy claim and a woman stuck in a stifling marriage find each other by chance.

At 93, Irish literary icon Edna O'Brien looks back on her controversial life, novels and loves, with her journals read by Jessie Buckley.

Ron Mann celebrates 20 years of Blue Rodeo with a reunion concert by the band's five original members.

Ordered to a senior colony at 77, a woman refuses and sets off on a journey through the Amazon that will change her destiny.

The teenage years of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how the New York of the late 1970s, its people and its movements, shaped the artist he became.

A ten-minute portrait of the Bowery, the lower Manhattan street known for its derelict past.

A portrait of the life and work of avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage.

A rich car dealer loses his mind while his son hides in the bomb shelter and his suicidal wife has an affair with his cross-dressing sales manager.

He had himself shot, locked up and crucified in the name of art; the life and daring work of performance artist Chris Burden.

Eight comic mini-operas, each capturing a different stage of a romantic relationship.

A look at the world of Burt Shavitz, the face and co-founder of Burt's Bees.

Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson weaves 25 years of her footage into a moving memoir that asks what it means to film another person.

Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin star as a vacationing couple whose cosy bed-and-breakfast is run by three flesh-eating women, in this Canadian horror spoof.

Guy Maddin's early masterpiece, set in an Alpine village where everyone must whisper to avoid avalanches, while forbidden passions threaten to bring the mountain down.

In a gentrified Greenwich Village, guitar maker Rick Kelly builds instruments from the bones of old New York, beloved by Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and Patti Smith.

Jia Zhangke follows a fragile love across 25 years of a transforming China, an epic built from the footage of all his past films.

Writer and activist Jane Jacobs takes on 'master builder' Robert Moses in the battle for the soul of New York, and the future of cities everywhere.

Ron Mann's archival portrait of Clairtone, the Canadian company whose sleek modernist stereos captured the spirit of the 1960s, before it all came crashing down.

An ordinary man who makes his living reselling goods online slowly attracts the resentment of those around him, until he's fighting for his life.

Toronto inkmaker Jason Logan harvests colour from weeds, berries, bark and rust, revealing the mystery and power of our oldest medium.

Ron Mann profiles 22 of North America's most important comic book artists and writers in this landmark, animated history of the art form.

The wild story of CREEM, the Detroit rock magazine and its band of misfit writers, from underground rag to national powerhouse to tragic collapse.

Resistance fighter, Nobel laureate, philandering husband and recluse: the many lives of Samuel Beckett.

A devout Communist Party official witnesses the 1962 Novocherkassk massacre, as a strike over food prices draws in her own daughter.

Noah Hutton's ethereal portrait of North Dakota's oil boom, where landowners, oil workers and Indigenous communities meet the dark ecology of deep time.

Two young men meet at an airport gate and begin monthly secret trips to Amsterdam, until the need to hide their love turns it toxic.

Seductive, feared and banned by Nazis, Communists and the Pope: Larry Weinstein tells the story of the saxophone and its legendary curse.

A lone farmer defending his mountain forest from an industrial giant faces a greater threat when his estranged son returns after twenty years, in a contemporary Greek Western.

In a quiet Swiss village in 1971, a young housewife surprises everyone, herself included, by joining the fight for women's right to vote.

A 15-year-old Yuruk boy in a remote Macedonian village escapes into music, and falls for a girl promised to another.

An overworked production assistant shooting a workplace safety video for a multinational must rewrite a worker's story to suit the company line.

A free-spirited Nobel laureate living in Tuscany speaks out against Europe's rising fear after a terror attack, and is unprepared for the fallout.

A solitary woodcutter's life is upended by an unexpected responsibility, in a world of nature where human reason holds no meaning.

Vampires, zombies, sex, car chases and AI images collide in a riotous, anything-goes riff on Dracula.

Painter Paul Young's final year teaching at the Ontario College of Art.

The rise and fall of Rochdale, a high-rise dream of freedom where artists and educators lived alongside bikers and dealers.

Two years after his wife's death, a grieving actor-director heading to Hiroshima to stage a play forms an unlikely bond with his reticent chauffeur.

A cinematic journey into the mind of designer Eileen Gray and her modernist masterpiece by the sea, a story of female expression and the men who tried to control it.

A call girl (Andrée Pelletier) leads a rebellion of sex workers against a New York pimp.

How the Laurel Canyon bands of the mid-60s, the Byrds, the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and the Mamas and the Papas, were inspired by the Beatles and inspired them back.

A portrait of Toronto's Coach House Press, the innovative publisher and printer of experimental poetry, fiction and art since 1965.

Over four decades in the Italian Alps, Pietro and Bruno share a profound, complicated friendship.

Inspired by Jonathan Franzen's New Yorker essay, a band of European bird lovers risk their lives to stop the illegal slaughter of migratory songbirds.

A grey donkey with melancholic eyes wanders through a world of good and bad people, joy and pain, never losing his innocence.

After a tragedy, a mother, her daughter and a teenage boy take the family holiday to Tenerife that never happened, and past and present begin to overlap.

A quiet village near Tokyo is unsettled by plans for a glamping site offering city dwellers a comfortable escape to nature.

Philosophy leaves the classroom for the street, as great thinkers take their ideas out into the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

In Niagara Falls, a priest is forced to reckon with his past when a man accuses him of sexual misconduct 40 years earlier.

When a magic trick at a birthday party turns her authoritarian husband into a chicken, a submissive mother must take charge, and transforms along the way.

The explosive story of the free jazz revolution, and the outlandish personalities who played it.

Made by Ron Mann when he was just 16, a gritty improvised drama and a raw glimpse of a Toronto long gone, screening for the first time in 30 years.

Artist Brion Gysin's Dream Machine promised a drug-free high; friends, users and scientists recount their experiences with the hypnotic flicker.

When a great flood devastates his home, a solitary cat takes refuge on a boat full of other species and must learn to work with them to survive.

Writers, artists and musicians come together to celebrate the whale.

Chuck Smith celebrates The Fugs, the radical 1960s New York band who channelled the raw energy of counterculture rebellion into provocative, anti-establishment rock.

Shot on 16mm, an immersive portrait of Sable Island through the eyes of naturalist Zoe Lucas, who has spent over 40 years on this remote Atlantic sandbar.

Thom Andersen's cheeky city symphony walks through Los Angeles' neglected corners, set to the region's musical history.

Jim Jarmusch tells the story of The Stooges, the Ann Arbor band whose savage sound blew a crater in rock and planted the seeds of punk.

Woody Harrelson leads a bio-fuelled bus trip down the Pacific Coast Highway to show that one person can spark real change.

A portrait of the Canadian writer Scott Symons.

In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest journeys into remote Iceland and gradually loses his grip on reality, his mission and his sense of duty.

A high school class trip to Pompeii awakens desires that push its students toward an irreversible fracture, in Marine Atlan's hypnotic debut.

Ron Mann's funny and surprisingly balanced history of recreational marijuana in 20th-century America.

In a demented, timeless suburbia where adults wear braces on straight teeth and family members get swapped like favours, everyone competes for acceptance.

A struggling country singer on the road watches his life fall apart, as his partner goes solo, his son runs wild and his ex-wife waits for him to fail.

Two homeless men try to return a stolen baseboard heater for a refund, and when that fails, must find another way to survive the night.

Catherine Deneuve, Grace Jones, Charlotte Rampling and Isabella Rossellini interpret the life and work of photographer Helmut Newton: were his women subjects, or objects?

A chaotic, tender family bickers its way across a rugged landscape on a mysterious road trip, while the older brother stays silent.

A story of teenage relationships, small-town politics and triumph over the pressures of the adult world.

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

The gene-editing breakthrough CRISPR could cure disease, reshape nature and let us design our own children; what will that power mean for humanity?

On a snowy night in 1972, jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan was shot dead by his wife Helen; Kasper Collin's love letter to two unforgettable people and their music.

In the uneasy lull between wars, two Iranian artists transform a vast archive of abandoned photographs and discarded belongings into an improvised museum, blurring preservation and obsession as they recover lives history has forgotten.

Twenty years after Chumbawamba, frontman Dunstan Bruce asks how an angry, invisible middle-aged radical gets back up again.

The pioneers of 1960s free jazz, once controversial, talk and play in this intimate portrait of a musical revolution.

Martin Sheen stars alongside the Ploughshares 8, playing themselves, in the trial of peace activists who staged the first act of disarmament since World War II.

At 70, Margaret Atwood reinvents the book tour, turning her dystopian novel into a travelling theatrical event and a call to action for an endangered planet.

The roots of the Vietnam War, from French colonialism and Dien Bien Phu to America's deepening commitment through the offensive of 1968.

The strange story of Igor Kenk, the Toronto man dubbed 'the world's most prolific bicycle thief,' told through interviews and animation from the graphic novel.

Three volunteers delivering aid to a remote Romanian village are led off course by a stranger, in Radu Muntean's suspenseful drama about the limits of generosity.

Six teenage scientists from Indonesia, Hawaii, India and Mexico take on the environmental crises in their own backyards, and the world's biggest science fair.

In 1950s Rio, two inseparable sisters, one dreaming of becoming a pianist, the other of true love, are torn apart by their father but never stop searching for each other.

Four young Jews survive the Third Reich hiding in plain sight in the heart of Berlin, living so boldly that they become invisible.

He released only one album before his sudden death in 1997; unseen footage, voice messages and those who knew him best reveal the captivating Jeff Buckley.

Asked by the Pompidou 'Where are you at, Leos Carax?', the filmmaker answers in pictures, with a playful self-portrait full of questions.

Singer-songwriter Janis Ian, the voice behind 'At Seventeen' and 'Society's Child,' tells her remarkable life story, with Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie and Jean Smart.

A journey into the dramatic world of cutting-edge medicine and the heart of a true American pioneer, scientist Jim Allison.

How Jimmy Carter's love of music, and his friendships with Bob Dylan, the Allman Brothers and Willie Nelson, helped carry him to the White House.

The story of Joe Papp, founder of the Public Theater and Shakespeare in the Park, and producer of Hair and A Chorus Line, who believed great art was for everyone.

In 1970 a Soviet sailor leapt onto a U.S. patrol boat in a bid for freedom, only to be handed back; decades later he re-enacts his daring jump.

Prompted by Jim Jarmusch, Ron Mann heads to the Telluride Mushroom Festival to meet the nerds, tripsters, chefs and foragers who worship the mighty fungus.

In 1970s Germany, a rebellious teenage promoter pulls off the impossible: a concert by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett at the Cologne Opera.

A bailiff in Cluj is thrown into moral crisis when an eviction she carries out ends in disaster.

Yayoi Kusama's journey from a conservative upbringing in Japan to 1960s New York, where she rivalled Warhol for attention, to international fame at last.

A brilliant Paris lawyer risks her career and family when she begins a passionate affair with her 17-year-old stepson.

The personal struggles of musicians and their families, and the essential role drumming plays in human life.

A Portuguese immigrant couple in London fight the British social services to keep their family together after a misunderstanding over their deaf daughter.

Poet Jim Carroll rises from his hospital bed to take to the streets in Ron Mann's fearless, punk-inspired satire of 1984 corporate greed.

At 70, an Austrian astronomer facing an uncertain career and a drifting marriage looks to the stars, and the origins of the universe, for answers.

Set high in the mountains, fall comes to an end and a family prepares for the long winter ahead.

Thom Andersen's essay on how the movies have seen, and misrepresented, Los Angeles, from Chinatown and Blade Runner to Killer of Sheep.

Lucky, a 90-year-old atheist who has outlived and out-smoked everyone he knows, sets out on an unexpected spiritual journey in his small desert town.

Simon Ennis's wry, affectionate portrait of dreamers and schemers who have devoted their lives to the Moon, from a man selling lunar lots to one determined to move there.

Two carnivorous mermaid sisters come ashore in an alternate '80s Poland and become nightclub sensations, until one falls for a human, in Agnieszka Smoczyńska's savage horror-musical fairytale.

In 1932, a decade before Citizen Kane, Mankiewicz wrote a visionary screenplay warning of Hitler that was never made; its story still resonates today.

A young garment worker in Dhaka defies her bosses and her husband to form a union with her co-workers.

Judith (Virginie Efira) juggles two families in two countries, until the lies start to crack and she must choose.

Larry Weinstein's Oscar-nominated portrait of a small-town Ontario orchestra of hog farmers, teachers and seniors, united by the joy of making music.

The singular career of the elusive David Hammons, from Watts-era Los Angeles to global art-world acclaim, and his fierce critique of race and the art establishment.

Five women dive into the growing world of 'mermaiding,' where donning a tail becomes a path to escape, transformation and empowerment.

In 1972 Bucharest, a 17-year-old's letter to a clandestine Radio Free Europe music show brings Ceaușescu's secret police to her door.

Why people of every nation, culture, age and musical taste are turning to the humble ukulele to express themselves and connect with each other.

An ironic, pre-Watergate portrait of Richard Nixon's career, from 1946 to Kent State, that landed on the president's enemies list.

After surviving a car crash unhurt, a young woman is taken in by the local family who witnessed it, until their shared past can no longer be ignored.

A young man returns to his village for his old boss's funeral and stays on with the widow, until a disappearance, a menacing neighbour and a strange priest turn his visit upside down.

Moby narrates his own surreal life story, from underground punk to chart-topping star, and from addict to vegan activist.

An American treasure hunter in Bhutan crosses paths with a young monk wandering the mountains on his teacher's orders to make things right again.

A romantic dance fantasy by choreographer Ann Ditchburn, performed by the National Ballet of Canada.

A playful tribute to Mozart and the eccentrics who keep his spirit alive, from a woman who believes he lives inside her to an astronaut who took him to space.

Radical filmmaker Emile de Antonio looks back at a life documenting art and politics while being pursued by the FBI.

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney bemoans his countrymen's lack of appreciation, in full operatic voice.

Thirty-five years later, Daniel Lutz tells his side of the infamous Amityville haunting, and the real scars it left behind.

Larry Weinstein explores the turbulent Vienna years of Arnold Schoenberg, the revolutionary composer whose music was met with open hostility.

Nam June Paik, the father of video art, whose journey from Korea to Fluxus to New York revolutionized image-making in the electronic age.

Canadian electronic music innovator Nash the Slash, in an unearthly film about artistic integrity, courage and the price that comes with it.

Directed by Lucy Lawless, a portrait of fearless CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth and the war zones she refused to look away from.

A hapless 30-year-old wakes up in a handsome stranger's apartment on the Fourth of July, just as a zombie virus overtakes the town.

Two parallel love stories are thwarted by hidden obstacles, the force of superstition and the mechanics of power.

A warm and humane film about Toronto's gay community as AIDS swept through it, narrated by Kate Reid.

Never-before-seen footage of the legendary 1978 Nova Convention, where William S. Burroughs, Patti Smith, Frank Zappa and Allen Ginsberg collided in an explosion of counterculture.

The past collides with the present in an excavation of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest.

The life and career of renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks.

Academic turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado tells his own and others' stories of transition through Virginia Woolf's Orlando, in a Berlin award winner.

A young Syrian refugee who has lost almost all his family stows away to Helsinki, where his story crosses paths with a stranger's, by chance.

A smooth French official in Tahiti (Benoît Magimel) navigates a world of power and rumour as whispers spread of a submarine and the return of nuclear testing.

Emile de Antonio visits the studios of Rauschenberg, de Kooning, Johns, Warhol and Frankenthaler to talk about American painting from Abstract Expressionism to Pop.

The landmark portrait of New York's 1980s Black and Latinx drag ball scene, where voguing was born and 'throwing shade' became an art.

On the night of France's 1981 election, a newly separated mother starts work on a late-night radio show and takes in a troubled teen who changes her family's life.

A temperamental master perfumer and the only driver who dares stand up to her form an unlikely partnership.

In small-town Virginia in the early 1980s, a 13-year-old desperate for a perm to fit in gets a disastrous cut-price one, in a comedy about adolescence and bad hair.

Over one day in New York, a rookie reporter, a rebellious teen, a lovelorn young man and a vinyl collector hunting a rare record navigate life's big and small questions.

From child actor to pop star to producer and manager of legends, the extraordinary life of Peter Asher, from Paul McCartney to James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.

A promising undercover cop assigned to entrap gay men defies his orders when he falls in love with one of his targets.

An ageing, erratic poet finds new purpose mentoring a talented teenage girl, though dragging her into his world may not be the kindest gift.

Twenty-four of North America's leading poets sing, chant and perform their work in the film dubbed 'the Woodstock of Poetry.'

A one-hour special of never-before-seen outtakes from Poetry in Motion, hosted by Damian Rogers.

Senator Joseph McCarthy, at bay before the establishment, and the moment he was asked, 'Have you at long last, sir, no sense of decency?'

During a hazy northern Ontario summer, a 13-year-old desperate for a best friend meets a boisterous girl who gives her more than she bargained for.

A Hungarian neurosurgeon leaves her American career for the man she loves, but when she finds him in Budapest, he claims they have never met.

Nathaniel Kahn goes inside the art market with Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter and top collectors to ask how we put a price on the priceless.

Two teenage sisters about to leave their country forever unexpectedly reconnect with their absent father, a bond that both deepens and eases the pain of goodbye.

When her son is detained in Guantanamo, a feisty Bremen housewife teams up with a mild-mannered human rights lawyer to take on George W. Bush, all the way to the Supreme Court.

A portrait of John Weinzweig, Canada's most outspoken champion of new music, and the powerful, often beautiful work he created.

A portrait of the elusive composer Maurice Ravel, told through a rich array of his greatest works.

A tragic and celebratory tone poem on Maurice Ravel's final years, when illness left him able to hear music in his head but unable to write it down.

In a world where people have given up dreaming to live longer, a few dangerous dreamers still warp time, in five dreams that travel through the history of cinema.

Man Ray's films, restored in 4K for their centenary, become a hypnotic piece of visual music.

Built entirely from military and TV archival footage, a poetic, furious look at how America responded to the uprisings of the late 1960s.

A sensitive portrait of artist Robert Irwin, whose investigations into perception radically expanded what art can be.

Orphaned young, 18-year-old Marina travels to Spain's Atlantic coast to meet the grandparents she never knew, and pieces together the story of her parents.

A university student watches and records as a communal drug family begins to dissolve from within.

Mark Lane and Emile de Antonio build a vivid legal brief that asks the still unanswered question: who killed John F. Kennedy?

Too ill to tour, Ryuichi Sakamoto gathers his strength for one final performance: a concert film of him alone at his piano.

The Sadies play songs from their new record Colder Streams in an impromptu concert that could possibly be their last.

A young novelist attending the trial of a woman accused of killing her baby daughter finds her own convictions shaken.

In Mogadishu, where a woman is not supposed to run, a young woman defies every taboo to race through the streets, and all the way to the Olympic Games.

The scandalous story of Scotty Bowers, the ex-Marine whose Hollywood gas station secretly connected closeted stars with lovers for decades.

In 2003, eight Rhode Island artists built a secret apartment inside a busy shopping mall and lived there for four years, filming everything.

A dreamlike fusion of concert, cabaret and expressionist cinema reimagines the songs of Kurt Weill, newly restored.

A gingko tree in a German botanical garden bears witness to three people across three eras, each quietly transformed by the power of nature.

A live-in maid with big dreams and the wealthy, lost man she works for find a quiet connection across a divide that only seems to widen.

Siri Hustvedt leaves Minnesota for New York to find her first novel, and becomes one of the most compelling voices in contemporary American literature.

Sara Driver's luminous debut, an oddball comic fantasy about ancient Chinese curses and Xerox machines set in Manhattan's Chinatown.

A tragicomic opera that sends up a great political leader brought down by his colossal ego.

In Chad's Ennedi desert, a young woman haunted by visions stands by an outcast friend against her own village, in a fight for their freedom.

Jazz and decolonization collide in Johan Grimonprez's electrifying essay film on the Cold War plot behind the 1961 assassination of Congo's Patrice Lumumba.

Two of Canada's most celebrated young chefs collaborate on a special meal for a surprise guest, revealing a philosophy of food that is a philosophy of life.

Three stars of today's golden age of children's picture books lead a journey through their art, using archival treasures and stop-motion paper animation.

A woman sees her husband's double on a city bus, and follows him to an apartment where he is greeted by another woman.

As an investigation uncovers evidence of unmarked graves at a Canadian residential school, a community confronts generations of trauma and finds the strength to heal.

When a school bus crash devastates a small town, the lawyer who arrives to represent the grieving families finds nothing is quite what it seems.

A high school senior chasing a scholarship finds his future at risk when the girl he studies with becomes pregnant.

Jia Zhangke's 18-chapter symphony of Chinese life since 1949, told through the memories of four writers from four generations.

A postmodern documentary exploring the meaning and nature of love from a gay perspective.

During a smallpox epidemic in turn-of-the-century Manitoba, two hospital roommates confess their darkest secrets and become deadly rivals.

Ron Mann's largely animated portrait of hot-rod artist Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth, creator of Rat Fink, voiced by John Goodman, Ann-Margret and Brian Wilson.

A Paris philosophy teacher whose husband leaves her for another woman must reinvent her life, in Mia Hansen-Løve's wise and ironic portrait.

Narrated by Weird Al Yankovic, the fairytale rise of Tiny Tim, the outcast whose trailblazing persona paved the way for Bowie, Prince and Boy George.

A moving portrait of Tish Murtha, the trailblazing photographer who devoted her life to documenting working-class communities in North East England.

A 'domestic opera' about an upwardly mobile couple who cannot resolve an argument over the cap on the toothpaste.

Over one long day at her grandfather's house, as the family prepares a surprise party for her father, seven-year-old Sol realizes her world is about to change.

In postwar Helsinki, painter Tove Jansson embraces freedom, parties and an all-consuming love for theatre director Vivica Bandler.

Fleeing to Marseille ahead of the German army, a refugee assumes a dead writer's identity, and falls for a mysterious woman searching for her husband.

From hip-shaking scandal to the dance craze that rocked the world, the hilarious and revealing story of rock and roll dance.

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz and artist Maggie Barrett, married and in their 80s and 70s, navigate love, ageing and creative rivalry with brave, funny honesty.

Twyla Tharp opens up about her storied career, from pioneering dances to collaborations with Miloš Forman, Billy Joel and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

An egomaniacal filmmaker (Alex Ross Perry) crosses the Yucatán on the eve of the 'end of the world' to make his last movie, a psychedelic Western.

Umberto Eco guides us through his private library of more than 50,000 books, and the library of his extraordinary mind.

Members of the Weather Underground, once near the top of the FBI's Most Wanted list, reflect on their radical years amid footage of the movements they fought for.

A Berlin historian is pulled back into an ancient myth when the man she loves betrays her, in a modern fairy tale.

Sleeping rough in London, charismatic, self-destructive Mike tries to break free of the chaos of his addiction after an act of violence lands him in jail.

In a remote village suspended in time, Maura Delpero conjures her own family's past in a luminous tale that recalls the great Italian neorealists.

The story of the Weather Underground, the radicals who bombed the U.S. Capitol in 1971 and waged war on the government from underground.

Charismatic, controversial and witty, Pauline Kael championed the New Hollywood and savaged studio hits from her perch at The New Yorker.

Women caught up in Belarus's 2020 protests against Alexander Lukashenka share their sadness, bravery and resilience.

A despairing young housewife and mother of two, ignored by her successful husband, searches for a way out of her domestic prison.

The story of Swans, from brutal 1980s New York post-punk through chaos and breakups to one of the most ambitious bands in the world.

How a group of young creatives launched Rock Against Racism, uniting The Clash, Steel Pulse and a generation of fans against the far right in 1970s Britain.

Best-selling authors, climate scientists and master flatulists ask: if we can't deal with our own gas, how can we face the climate crisis?

Determined to expose what he witnessed in Manchuria on the eve of war, a Kobe merchant puts his marriage at risk, in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Venice-winning Hitchcockian thriller.

Molly Shannon plays Emily Dickinson in a funny, bold reappraisal of the poet's lifelong romance with her sister-in-law Susan.

How a team of Osaka textile workers and their ruthless coach became volleyball champions, feminist icons and anime legends.

Matt Green has spent six years walking every street in New York City, 8,000 miles of sidewalks, paths and roads, collecting the city's hidden stories along the way.

When a celebrated actress and her professor husband are both dismissed by the Turkish state for their ideas, their marriage is tested in exile in Istanbul.

Escaped from a mental hospital, a silent young woman takes refuge in her sister's home and quietly plots to stay.

A film about a film that was never made: Charlie Shackleton's playful anti-true-crime essay about our obsession with the Zodiac Killer and the genre itself.