Fatal Watch

Dead men tell the ocean's secrets

Four marine observers vanish at sea under suspicious circumstances, and this gripping investigation uncovers why. From Fiji to Ghana, Spain to the US, Fatal Watch exposes the dark underbelly of the global tuna trade, where profit outweighs human life and environmental damage is hidden beneath the waves. With unprecedented access, international investigators reveal the rampant criminality, cover-ups, and violence tied to industrial overfishing.

The Mission

A volunteer surgeon exposes the horrors facing Gaza's fragile medical services

In the darkest days of the ongoing Palestinian genocide, British-Iraqi nerve surgeon Dr. Mohammad Tahir embarks on his third mission to Gaza. Amid waves of casualties flooding overwhelmed hospitals, he fights tirelessly alongside his colleagues to save innocent lives. The Mission captures the raw, brutal reality of Gaza's operating rooms in real time, a historic testament to human compassion amid profound catastrophe.

Iron Winter

Two young herders battle Mongolia's deadliest winter on record to save 2000 horses

In Mongolia’s coldest valley, horses mean life. But in the Iron Winter, nothing can survive alone. For countless generations, the herders of the Tsakhir Valley have protected their horses from ferocious arctic storms by amassing a giant winter herd, nominating their bravest young men to protect it. The daring tradition served as a brutal coming of age ritual, until five years ago, when under increasing environmental pressure, it abruptly ended. Fearful about the loss of culture, elders soon vowed to revive it. And two young friends were handed the daunting responsibility to not only protect the valley’s herd — but to save its most sacred practice. For four months, the boys battle Mongolia’s deadliest winter on record, testing friendship and faith in a fight to keep 2000 horses alive, and preserve an ancient way of life.

Mammoth Hunters

A baby woolly mammoth unravels mysteries that link humanity to these Ice Age giants

In the summer of 2022, a miner struck more than gold in Canada’s Yukon. A fully preserved infant woolly mammoth that died 36,000 years ago, protruded from the Arctic permafrost, her flesh still pink and green grass in her belly. Mammoth Hunters takes us on a journey back through time as we join five mammoth lovers — scientists, artists and citizen detectives — to solve the riddle of these ancient and mysterious animals.

*smiles and kisses you*

If you can't meet her, make her

Chris, a thirty-something gas station employee, lives in North Carolina with his girlfriend Mimi, a live-sized 'love doll', who he communicates with through an AI app. A clear-eyed, open-hearted and fascinating take on machine learning and AI, the rising levels of loneliness, and the social implications for people who may seek safety and control over their circumstances in ways they cannot find elsewhere in life.

Katwe

A salt-mining community navigate broken promises of development

Nima Shirali’s quietly witty, visually stunning film captures life in Katwe, Uganda; a community nestled between a salt lake and a national park. Through an enthusiastic teacher, a weary caretaker and a razor-tongued mother, the lake appears both lifeline and burden: promise eroded by seasonal floods, collapsing prices and toxic labour. As a flamboyant local politician sells grand schemes, residents quietly ask what future remains.

His Parents

Can parents ever truly stop loving their child, even when he's a killer?

Niels Hogel is the most prolific serial killer in Germany since WW2, labelled the 'patient killer'. Life goes on for his parents, Ulla and Didi Högel, but nothing is the same as before. They must accept the bitter truth about their son's crimes, figure out how to cope with everyday life, and reframe their parental relationship with a son who is serving a life sentence. A touching alternative perspective to the true-crime obsession.

December

Beyond the Christmas glow, refugees fight to survive

As December's festive lights begin to glow across Europe, refugees remain hidden in the freezing forests along the fraught Poland-Belarus border. Grzegorz Paprzycki’s poignant film contrasts scenes of Christmas cheer with the voices of those left unseen and unheard — exposing the cold indifference surrounding one of today’s most urgent humanitarian crises, and reminding us who is forgotten when the world celebrates.

Sex in the Soviet Union

How authoritarianism warps human sexuality

A cinematic, unflinching exploration of the sexual mores and brutal repression that defined life in the USSR. Delving into the darkest corners of Soviet society, the film sheds light on the underground worlds of pornography, prostitution, sexpionage, gay life, the gulag, abortion, rape and the daily terrors of searching for intimacy in a totalitarian regime. A stark warning of the personal consequences of authoritarianism.