Control Room with Mekki Leeper

Using only $1,000 over the course of one week, comedian Mekki Leeper sets out to fabricate an absurd alternative medicine company and fool the world into thinking it’s real.

Seven Up!

A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. The filmmakers plan to re-interview them at 7 year intervals to track how their lives and attitudes change as they age.

Au boulot !

Following a heated debate on a French news television channel, Left wing MP François Ruffin defies a TV columnist and attorney, Sarah Saldmann, to work and live one month on the minimum-wage. This humanistic and humoristic documentary highlights the daily struggles and joys of the working-class compared to the fantasy the bourgeoisie has built up in the media. It also raises a thorny question : can the rich be socially reintegrated ?

Bumpa

This documentary will explore the Afro-Caribbean dance, ‘whining’ alongside the practice of twerking to analyze respectability politics, pressures to accommodate whiteness, and gendered criticism of sexual expression within the Black diaspora. Using archival footage of West African dance, expert opinion from dancing and gender studies professors, and the active participation of partygoers in a dance experiment, Watkins will paint the picture of the defiance, autonomy, and ancestral veneration intrinsic to these traditional movement styles.

Sommes-nous tous racistes ?

In this unprecedented primetime program, 50 volunteers take part in experiments without knowing that the aim of the program is to understand the unconscious mechanisms that can lead us to discriminatory behavior. Because if they knew, it would bias the results of the experiments.

A la poursuite de la jeunesse éternelle

Girls State

What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds in Missouri navigate an immersive experiment to build a government from the ground up.

Lucy the Human Chimp

The profound story of Lucy Temerlin, a female chimpanzee raised as human from birth in a domestic environment, and Janis Carter, the woman who took on the seemingly impossible task of giving her a new life in the wild.

Is Love Racist? The Dating Game

Emma Dabiri looks at racism in Britain via the world of modern dating, love apps, and a national survey suggesting that young Britons could be more segregated than ever.

The Ugly Face of Disability Hate Crime

Adam Pearson - who has neurofibromatosis type 1 - is on a mission to explore disability hate crime: to find out why it goes under-reported, under-recorded and under people's radar.

Fake Famous

Explores the meaning of fame and influence in the digital age through an innovative social experiment. Following three Los Angeles-based people with relatively small followings, the film explores the attempts made to turn them into famous influencers by purchasing fake followers and bots to “engage” with their social media accounts.

Being Black in Corporate America

A feature-length documentary about being in corporate America... but as a catfish? A corporate catfish? A white corporate catfish?

Space Oddity

A space-obsessed man gets the opportunity of a lifetime thanks to a Mars colonization program but finds his plans compromised by his feelings for a woman who brings him down to Earth.

Bedtime for Bonzo

College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.

Real Life

A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".

El hoyo 2

After a mysterious leader imposes his law in a brutal system of vertical cells, a new arrival battles against a dubious food distribution method.

Welcome to Blood City

Five strangers awake, finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed - what the townspeople refer to as being "immortal" - by killing twenty of the other inhabitants of the town under the scrutiny of the sheriff (Jack Palance), otherwise they will spend their lives in slavery.

Wasabi

Narrator is a man in his early 30s who is cooking pasta while enjoying a seemingly normal morning. Suddenly, the phone rings: a mysterious voice is telling him things that don't make much sense. Something is not right but not wrong either, and it seems that some memory from the past might have triggered all this...

Axegrinder 4: Souls of Blood

When a social worker takes a group of non-violent criminals to the woods as a progressive rehabilitation program that will get them a reduced sentence for their crimes, it seems like she has thought of everything and nothing can go wrong. But Freddy Palmer is an insane killer who wears a mask and likes to chop up every person he sees with his trusty axes, and he is back in these woods.

Un Día Cualquiera

Some friends are spending a weekend in a rural house. A remote and apparently quiet place, where nothing is what it seems, not even friendship.