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- DirectorMira BurtStarsMark AchbarStephanie BoydChristine BurtThe recorded footages of a Canadian documentary filmmaker for a final film called UTOPIA, as narrated by his daughter.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunStarsVyacheslav BihunJustyn Bihun-SikorskyA documentary visualizes a candid personal letter to Andrei Tarkovsky.
- DirectorRoss McElweeStarsRoss McElweeDede McElweeRoss McElwee Jr.Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps getting sidetracked by his own love life.
- DirectorHerz FrankStarsJuris PodnieksAn autobiographical work from Herz Frank. Images guide us through the countries in which he worked, interspersed with fragments from his earlier films: births, autopsies, circumcisions, prisoners awaiting execution and other shocking themes.
- DirectorEnric RibesStarsMuriel Grey MolayThe story of José Carlos Grey, also known as Carlos Greykey, a Black Holocaust survivor, Civil War and French Resistance fighter and one of the only Black men known to have been imprisoned at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
- DirectorMathieu VolpeWhen I got to Rignano, the Ghetto residents told me: "You mustn't keep any trace of our lives here in these precarious houses. This despair is not yours to display." The misery in the Ghetto is the first thing that struck me, the first thing I wanted to show.
- DirectorTheresa Moerman IbStarsTheresa Moerman IbJean KayserCees MoermanA daughter's journey to find her estranged, alcoholic father's grave.
- DirectorCarol NguyenStarsThao Nguyen-DuongA collection of family secrets, confessions and confrontation.
- DirectorBeatrice BaldacciStarsBeatrice BaldacciAlessandra De BonisTeresa Del PozzoDrawing from blurred VHS images and equally blurry childhood memories, Superheroes without Superpowers shows a journey in which the filmmaker processes some of the most important moments of her life and the relationship with her mother and her sickness, reconstructs the most intimate of narratives in order to find what she had lost.
- DirectorAlan BerlinerStarsAlan BerlinerOscar BerlinerA portrait of the director's father, searching for the extraordinary in the subject's seemingly normal existence.
- DirectorSophy RomvariStarsSophy RomvariBenjamin RomvariMarcos ArriagaA box of family photos unseen for decades awakens lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.
- DirectorLauren GreenfieldStarsLauren GreenfieldBret Easton EllisParis CroninA documentary that investigates the pathologies that have created the richest society the world has ever seen.
- StarsVolodymyr ZelenskyyValerii Fedorovych ZaluzhnyiVitali Klitschko'Ukraine on Fire 2' is one-minute docu-series about the Russia's war on Ukraine.