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2016 • 13 min

Two best friends drive their way together, following their GPS, not knowing whether it's on the way to disaster.

Find My Phone

2016 • 21 min

Ever reached into your pocket to find your phone had been snatched? Dutch film student and former iPhone owner Anthony van der Meer experienced that awful feeling first-hand while having lunch in Amsterdam. Unsatisfied with the response from the Amsterdam police, who register an average of 300 stolen phones per week, Meer decided to find out what kind of person steals a phone. He downloaded DIY security software on a decoy Android phone, intentionally got the phone stolen, and was able to spy on his thief for weeks. He recorded the ups and downs of his covert investigation and turned it into a 22-minute documentary called Find My Phone.

Possession

2016 • 22 min

A recently divorced father struggles to keep custody of his young child while keeping his head above water. All of that changes one night when something crashes in the woods behind their house...

Snack Bar

2016 • 13 min • Germany

This documentary tells the story of a Greek family who run a thriving snack bar on the Greek island of Lesbos. Their only customers are refugees who have just arrived from the war-torn areas of the Middle-East.

Días de Fuga

2016 • 20 min

It's Christmas and Ana is alone; Manuel is gone. The Christmas lights invade the gloom and the neighboring parties postpone the hours of sleep. In the silence, Ana finds something else that won't let her sleep: a leak, a leak. But it's Christmas and no one seems to care. "Wait until Monday" they tell him

Tuesday Sun

2016 • 5 min

Deep in the backwoods, a man roams around in confusion with a woman's dead face stapled to his own.

Help Me Chase Those Seconds

2016 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about the band Bastille

West Side Stories: The Making of a Classic

2016 • 60 min • United Kingdom

As the world prepares to celebrate the 60th anniversary of West Side Story in 2017, dancer Bruno Tonioli and broadcaster Suzy Klein go in search of the true stories behind the inception of this classic show. For the first time on television, they hear first-hand from those involved in the show when it opened on Broadway in September 1957, including Sondheim himself, producer Hal Prince and original cast members from both show and movie, including Chita Rivera Carol Lawrence and Rita Moreno. With the BBC Symphony Orchestra and specially cast singers, we re-live some of the wonderful music and, in the company of Suzy and Bruno, we discover how West Side Story placed the 1950s phenomena of racial tension and teenage gangs centre stage to create a hit that changed musical theatre forever.

Day by Day

2016 • 26 min • Bangladesh, South Korea

Shain has been living in Korea and working hard since 2004. One day, he is suddenly falsely accused of being a terrorist and is seriously injured during an immigration raid.

Private Parts

2016 • 3 min

A refreshingly open talk about vaginas, sexuality and all that other stuff we often blush over.

Light Song

2016 • 5 min • United States of America

The Undiscovered Peter Cook

2016 • 60 min

Documentary about Britain's greatest satirist Peter Cook, with unprecedented access to his private recordings, diaries, letters, photographs and much more. Following his death, Peter Cook's widow Lin locked the door of his house and refused all access to the media. Until this year, when she invited her friend Victor Lewis-Smith and a BBC crew inside to make a documentary about the man she knew and loved.

Après le volcan

2016 • 17 min

The earth quakes, ashes fall from the sky, and there’s this fire that firefighters don’t get to extinguish. The villagers decide to take refuge in the forest. Surronded by wild beasts, a new life begins.

The Search for Life in Space

2016 • 32 min

Journey from the depths of the Pacific Ocean into the far reaches of space on a quest to find something that changes everything...signs of life, somewhere else in the universe. With cutting-edge imagery from the world's most powerful telescopes, The Search for Life in Space takes audiences from the surface of Mars and the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, to the extreme lava fields of Hawaii and thermal vents deep beneath the sea. In these harsh environments, astrobiologists look for clues to how life takes hold. As this immersive adventure into the universe reveals the possibility of planets like ours, The Search for Life in Space will make you re-examine such fundamental questions as: "Where did we come from?", "How did we get here?" and "Are we alone?"

3 Voice Memos

2016 • 9 min

I found an iPhone on the ground. The phone had nothing on it except 3 voice memos. I've decided to share them with you.

Gorbachev-Reagan: Duel at the top

2016 • 55 min • France

When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time in Geneva in November 1985, the Cold War is experiencing a new arms race. While both men celebrate the appeasement, a game of poker goes behind the scenes where all the shots will be allowed. After three years of negotiations, they will end the Cold War. Two years later, the USSR implodes.

America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience

2016 • 45 min • United States of America

Chronicles over four centuries of African American influence on the development of the modern-day United States. Before Plymouth Rock and Jamestown, St. Augustine, FL had built a multicultural colony of free and enslaved men and women. This small colony would eventually set the stage for the first Underground Railroad in the late 1600s. Then, 300 years later, be the epicenter of events that would lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Parle-moi encore

2016 • 57 min

For the "Cinéma, de notre temps" collection, Jean-Paul Fargier sends his friend filmmaker Jean-Daniel Pollet a letter written to the second person.

His Sweat

2016 • 4 min • Germany

In the first of a new series of Define Beauty, Berlin-based directer Matt Lambert—known for his often-NSFW work exploring sex and intimacy—gets under the skin of our infatuation with sweat. Read more on NOWNESS

The Sap

2016 • 13 min • Switzerland

Lena, 12 years old, lives alone with her mother in an old, remote house in the countryside. Her refuge is a tree from which she observes her elder sister Marie, and Eloi, her future husband, who have come for a family weekend. Gradually, Lena becomes fascinated by Eloi and tries to take him with her onto her tree.

Washington Capitals Time Capsule

2016 • 9 min

Jeff Krulik's camera is let loose in the Verizon Center to capture the goings-on during live NHL hockey.

Fishing in the Moonlight

2016 • 25 min

Once upon a time, there was John, an old American Indian, living on a reservation in Northern Ontario, Daniel, his young, disillusioned neighbor, and Marion, a pretty French girl, smitten with her "Johnny, my love." When Marion arrives on the reservation, adorned with her beautiful wedding dress, Daniel informs her that John has already departed this world; he never returned from a solo fishing expedition. More importantly, Marion is mistaken: John was his friend, if she and John were to be married, Daniel would have known about it.

[Banned] Extremely Scary TV Ghost Videos 5: Hidden Ghost Footage from TV Production Company

2016 • 55 min • Japan

This is a psychic documentary that includes a number of banned videos from TV production companies that have never been shown to the public before. Includes a total of 11 films, including “Live Rehearsal Room,” “Sexy Shots,” and more.

Thierry Henry: My France, My Euros

2016 • 59 min

Documentary presented by former French international footballer Thierry Henry. He looks at the stories of Euros gone by and the cultural impact football has had across Europe.