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An uptight rafting instructor loses his clients to the dank waters and dark forests of a river valley pregnant with the paranormal. Bound by the roots of their pagan past and submerged in unconscious passions: do they want to be saved?

In 1970 Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka made a desperate leap for freedom from his Soviet vessel to a US Coast Guard cutter, but the Americans sent him back - inciting one of the Cold War's most complex and suspenseful political blunders.

They're called water carriers, domestics, 'gregarios', 'Sancho Panzas' of professional cycling. Always at the back of the group, with no right for a personal victory. These wonderful losers are the true warriors of professional cycling.

ALL ART IS PROPAGANDA. George Orwell ...AND ALL PROPAGANDA IS ART. Laibach

A journey in time and inner space, the image of an eccentric genius and the spellbinding landscapes of the far south USA in this documentary film about the creator of the Coral Castle, Edward Leedskalnin, who was born in Russian imperial Latvia, crossed the North American continent and created a monument capturing the eye and imagination for 70 years since.

This creative documentary cinema tracks a group of sex workers and their young children form CAM-ON, a film production house in the Kalighat brothel, Kolkata. Despite the opposition, they are determined to become film technicians, resist prostitution among the second generation, strengthen the inter-personal relationships, survive through the art of cinema and aspire to transform the red light area into a professional film colony.

War questions our being, our artistic path, and everything we took for granted.

Inta is a brusque, crusty woman who lives alone on the edge of a picturesque marsh. One day her solitude is intruded upon by the arrival of a documentary filmmaker. In his eyes Inta is an outstanding would-be film protagonist but the wild woman would rather put a curse on the importunate intruder than let herself be filmed. But the filmmaker's persistence finally succeeds in melting the ice of Inta's heart... just in order to break it soon afterwards.

This documentary recounts the lives of Roberto Rossellini's children from the perspective of Alessandro Rossellini, the first grandson of the director.

A deeply personal view on the life of artist Gustav Klucis, one of the foremost representatives of early 20th century Russian avant-guard art, whose life drama reflects the tragedy of a whole nation during the years of Stalin's repressions. It is a story about boundless ambitions, hope, love and artist's responsibility that continues haunting him after his death.

The film, set in a north-western industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanisms that entice human beings to voluntarily become a resource to the state. Can a person ever be free in an imperialist society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director's subtle but demanding look reveals "the system" at work in the most benign-looking situations, in all aspects of the everyday. What happens to people's free will and self-determination in such conditions? The film is a Nietzschean treat, asking the core existential question: is a human being ever born free?

"TESA MAN" is a poetic music film, inviting into an animistic experience where music performed by the band Tesa in a frozen Baltic landscape attempts to transform air, steam, ash and clay into something much more alive.

The first Story of Soviet Techno Revolution "In the USSR that was the beginning of a new era. The Era of Dance".

When Anna Zakis was young, she experienced the upswing of social networks. Once active cultural life has slowed down but the desire for real conversations is still there. She will fight to the end - for a chance to talk with someone.

Kristine Briede and Audrius Stonys's meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.

A tragicomic portrait of a two-man team of sheriffs in a remote Ukrainian village disturbed by everyday incidents and political developments.

Every day, come rain or shine, Theodore used to bike the seven kilometres from his house to the centre of the village to sit and drink beer in the bus stop. For him, no doubt, this place was the centre of the Universe. With his death, the centre has moved elsewhere, and the bus stop is just a bus stop again.

Two brave men from Latvia go to five months long journey of their lifetime. Different cultures, unexpected accidents and fresh experience. Crazy yet funny situations on their way of freedom around half the globe.

A breathtaking road movie about Samtskhe-Javakheti, an isolated region in the republic of Georgia, where Georgians and Armenians live together in suppressed hostility.

A documentary film crew arrive at a Latvian garbage dump to investigate reports of a giant mutated worm living in the garbage. When the worm story proves to be a myth, rather than waste their trip, they decide to film the dump itself. Far from being a lifeless wasteland, the dump proves to be home to a multitude of birds and animals and a handful of people, all struggling to survive in an endless cycle of death, decay and rebirth. Insects and snakes, beavers and deer, men and machines play out their roles against the backdrop of an expanse of gently steaming garbage which, thanks to deft camera work, at times seems surreally beautiful.