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Tataya The Ivatan Boat

2019

A look inside the Batanes traditional boat and how the Ivatans preserve their custom of constructing their tataya (boat).

Police Dive

Sgt. Mike Berry - officer, man of God, and world famous underwater detective, stands on Lake Chesdin's muddy shore, ready to dive for a murder weapon through a kaleidoscope of memories.

Roll Modelz

As forces threaten to divide and silence Latino communities, a lowrider club in rural Washington transforms personal tragedy into a rolling act of resistance.

Fly Chicks

2026

Fly Chicks explores the practice of fly fishing through a feminist lens. The film follows three fly fisherwomen and their relationship with the river and its inhabitants, the sport, and their identities.

A conversation with the ocean

2021

The ocean is the origin of creation. We simply wouldn't be here without it. In this poetic short film, we explore our relationship with it, allowing the ocean to speak to us, while wondering how we can best respond to the questions it makes us ponder. Will we ever be able to change our destructive behavior towards its environment? Perhaps we can only do so by understanding our relationship with it and remembering the deep connection we seem to have forgotten about.

The Outlaw: Dan Hardy

★ 7

Dan Hardy is a champion. He isn’t delusional about exactly where his talents lie: “I get paid to beat people up,” he has said at the Canadian/USA border when asked by border patrol what he does for a living. He’s not your average MMA fighter, however. He’s also known as a sweetheart.

Kristallen en Kleur

1935

The crystallization processes of various chemicals which are visible only through the microscope are shown using time-lapse acceleration at times.

Once upon a time returning to my hometown

2003 · ★ 6.5

Extra, behind scenes from Hideaki Anno's film Ritual (also known as Shiki-Jitsu).

The Making of Crime Scenes

2022

A film producer, an assassin, and a patriot. These aren’t three characters in this film but three ways of describing Wu Dun, a member of the United Bamboo Gang who murdered the Taiwanese-American writer Henry Liu and became a producer of wuxia films. Hsu Che-yu, who previously brought Single Copy (IFFR 2020) and Re-rupture (IFFR 2018) to Rotterdam, visits Wu’s abandoned studio to restage the events with forensic scanning techniques.

The Blue Boat Initiative

This documentary portrays the arrival in Chilean Patagonia of the intelligent buoy of The Blue BOAT Initiative, a project developed by Fundación MERI in collaboration with the Government of Chile and 20 other national and international institutions, to change the way we protect and conserve our oceans. Through wonderful images of the biodiversity of southern Chile, this documentary invites you to immerse yourself in its history, the challenges of its installation in the powerful southern waters of the Corcovado Gulf, and to continue celebrating this important achievement of the scientific community, authorities and experts. This production reflects the pride and joy of a small southern country, at the end of the planet, that advances contributing science and technology to the world.

The Aggressive Impulse

1977

Examines the manifestation of aggressive instincts in animals and in humans. Discusses ways in which both animals and humans impose limitations on their violent impulses.

The Last Mooseskin Boat

1982 · ★ 8

This short documentary follows Gabe Etchinelle as builds a mooseskin boat as a tribute to an earlier way of life, where the Shotah Dene people would use a mooseskin boats and transport their families and cargo down mountain rivers to trading settlements throughout the Northwest Territories.