The 2nd edition DOC SCREENINGS INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

One of the rarest lizards in the world is caught in the Indonesian jungle, exported across two international borders and dies miserably in the care of a European collector.

In northern and central Europe, the European pond turtle is now a very rare animal and has been included in the Red List of Threatened Animals in many countries.

Having spent nearly 40 years in the freetown of Christiania in Copenhagen Laurie returns to his hometown of Bergen to die.

Noirs les Hussards tells the French Republican school History through the one of a family of teachers, from the beginnings of the Third Republic to our own times.

Landholders and ecologists are working in Hume City Council's Green Wedge to restore and manage land in harmony with nature, saving critically-endangered grasslands from extinction.

Chiral molecules come in left- and right-handed forms; discriminating between them can make the difference between life and death...

Two young Israeli social activists visit the great master Yair Zaban, who devoted 70 years of his life to the struggle of improving the social conditions and the political situation in Israel.

Children of Holocaust survivors share their parents’ remarkable accounts of surviving history's darkest evils and illustrate how the Holocaust has shaped their own lives.

Four young hikikomori and the author meet virtually, to discover that we can say no to the rhythms that our society imposes on us.

When we don’t share the same obsession, hobbies can be hard to understand. They appear time consuming, often expensive and even pointless. But hobbies can also offer us peace, and an immeasurable sense of fulfillment. Beginning this project Tessa & Mirte weren’t sure what had motivated their father’s lifelong hobby of breeding Welsh Mountain Ponies. In the seven years that followed it became clear what was at stake for him - recreating perfect ponies that had been lost, sustaining the historic breed, and most importantly, winning. Tessa & Mirte work on a film about their father Marius and his Oisterwijk Welsh Mountain Pony stud from 2015 until 2022. The result is a portrait of a father by two daughters. ‘A Perfect Waste of Time’ tells a story about endless patience, and the unbreakable generational thread between breeders and ponies.

Somewhere on the outskirts of the city, unfamiliar people gather to listen to each other's stories. They've been doing this for many years in a row. It helps them survive. Meanwhile, in a half-abandoned apartment, complete strangers also meet to immerse themselves either in the celebration of life, or in mutual grief. And it helps them to survive as well.The study of existential turns into an in-depth observation of dozens of people who, consciously or in a state of altered consciousness, are trying to find the relationship between trauma, addiction and the hope of salvation.

Science for Hire takes us on a journey through the most critical scientific issues that directly affect our health and well-being, shedding light on the hidden secrets of the scientific, pharmaceutical, and military industrial complexes.

In a forest in eastern Poland, an archaeologist digs to uncover traces of the Sobibor extermination center, as construction begins on a new memorial museum.

Tohoku Monogatari is an ethnographic documentary about the Northeast Japanese tradition of the Itako mediums.

During the Belgian colonization, in Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, several thousand mixed-race children were victims of a targeted segregation, which is still unknown today.

The Only Black Mark in an Infinite White follows a young hearing-impaired violinist's journey to independence with the help of music and a unique orchestra founded by an academic in Istanbul, Turkiye. The film tells the stories of Assistant Professor Mehmet Ali, who invented a method that enables the hearing impaired to play instruments, and Nazlı, one of the earliest orchestra members. Unfortunately, both were saddened after the orchestra ended because of a nationwide corruption case.

In Ireland, “If you’re hungry enough, you’ll dig up the tar on the road with your teeth to get a vote.” It’s not only the other parties who are a threat to you; it’s your running mate.

This film reveals a dialectical relationship between two generations, through the use of vernacular footage that highlights the quotidian aspect of life.

From a young age, Eleni Tsakmaki's life challenged her with great hardships. The dream of a self-determined life was denied to her. At the age of 5 she witnessed cruel NaziGerman occupation.

El Bierzo is a place where life can be. The best florist in Australia, a bank manager, the costume designer for the Foo Fighters, a beautician or a documentary filmmaker are some of the people who have decided to design their lives, live as they really want.

Poland is in the group of countries threatened by water deficit. Forests are refuges of wild rivers today. Here we have a unique opportunity to observe still natural processes occurring in the natural environment.

“Top Nine” are one of the most famous crews in the world of break-dance.

Közüngü is the name given to the mirrors worn on the chest areas of their ritual costumes by kam, who were the anonymous sages, inventors, manufacturers, artists and craftsmen of the hunter-gatherer Turkish communities.

How to protect livestock against damage caused by large predators? How to achieve a balance between human activity and wildlife in the wild? Worldwide, livestock guarding dogs are probably one of the most effective preventative measure in order to reduce depredation on farm animals, especially when animals graze in open country.

The shock of very first raindrops on a baby rhino's skin; horns, that may either be tender or inflict serious pain. Droughts, predators, mating acrobatics - a rhino's life is as full of surprises as it is rich with deep social bonds from the start. So is the close relationship between Malaika and her son Elias. For years, the two of them are inseparable. But Malaika is pregnant. When she finally goes into labor, nothing is the same anymore.