Samuele is twelve years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, and loves shooting his slingshot and going hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross it to get to his island. But his is not an island like the others, its name is Lampedusa and it is the most symbolic border of Europe, crossed by thousands of migrants in the last...

In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Farrel asks the captain of the freighter he works on to go ashore once they reach the port of Ushuaia, a town in southern Argentina. He wants to return to his birthplace and see if his mother is still alive. For the past twenty years he has worked as a seaman. Having reached the cluster of houses where he grew up, Farrel discovers his mother is indeed still alive, but someone else has become part of the family....

1864: As war ravages the nation, on the outskirts of the Civil War, it is business as usual for slave-owners and traders. Will is a fatherless thirteen-year-old boy who survives by working with a white bounty hunter gang. They send him to earn the trust of runaway slaves in order to lure them back to the south. On a dangerous mission into the free north to find Nate, a fugitive freedman, things go wrong, and Will and Nate find themselves on the run....

"'The Human Experiment' lifts the veil on the shocking reality that thousands of untested chemicals are in our everyday products, our homes and inside of us. 'The Human Experiment' tells the personal stories of people who believe their lives have been affected by chemicals and takes viewers to the front lines as activists go head-to-head with the powerful and well-funded chemical industry."--

It's Christmas Eve and an unidentified corpse is discovered in the Bois de Boulogne gardens and Inspector Antoine Jouin investigates the murder. Or was it suicide? It's a case that takes him deep into Paris' secret underbelly and into the heavily wooded park on the outskirts of Paris. In this place, people go to seek out and satisfy their darkest desires surreptitiously. This time, Jouin must venture off the beaten track, but at what cost? Under...

Talal Derki returned to his Syrian homeland where he gained the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses primarily on the children, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up with a father whose only dream is to establish an Islamic caliphate. Osama and his brother Ayman both love and admire their father and obey his words, but while Osama seems content to follow the...

"A medieval couple in Macedonia cannot conceive. An old woman offers help but only if they give her their firstborn. A year after they have a baby, she visits them. A taxi driver hits a man in the street. The ambulance and neighbors come and go. Seated alone on the curb in the rain, he waits for the police. Taken with his honesty, Rodna brings him an umbrella. Three years later they are married, but can't conceive until they try in-vitro. She gets...

"Tells the story of the rise and fall of the Gun Trace Task Force of 2015-2017 Baltimore, a group of corrupt cops involved in drug traffic, racketeering, planting fake evidence, and other crimes."--

"Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever mounted, now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the art world--with glowing reviews, global publicity, and tickets sold out through the entirety of its run--the Rijksmuseum's Vermeer retrospective is nothing short of an historic event. Suzanne Raes's film follows curators, conservators, collectors, and experts in their joint mission to shine a new light...

"The documentary portrait of theater operator Nicolas "Nick" Nicolaou moves from the 1970s Times Square adult film houses through decades of city regulation, chain takeovers, and cultural shifts, charting a charming odyssey through the history of film exhibition and New York City. Abel Ferrara traces the life and work of friend and fellow cinephile Nicolaou, a Cypriot immigrant who began working as a teenager in small neighborhood movie theaters around...