Who can see a war coming? It started with fireworks in Crimea, a strike on a civilian plane with 298 people on board over Donetsk, the onslaught on Kyiv by Russian soldiers. Millions of local residents are trying to flee from Ukraine, while thousands of foreign journalists are trying to get in.

“The result is an immersive and existential deep dive into the world of gaming, accessible to all audiences, whether gamers or not.” @variety on KNIT'S ISLAND, out now on True Story* *not USA, France, Beglium, Brazil

The film is made in black and white. “All these lives are in the shadow, people without a real life. They work, they pax taxes but they always have to hide in a way and to be very low key,” Peter explains why the filmmakers didn’t use colour. The DREAMERS directors talking to #BusinessDocEurope

"A Black Jesus, a documentary produced by famed German filmmaker Wim Wenders, creates a compelling juxtaposition, putting together Christian faith (with its enduring message about acceptance and favouring those less blessed than ourselves) and xenophobia" #Cineuropa

"For undocumented immigrants, life is a state of perpetual limbo; the present is fraught with unexpected dangers, while the future is as ephemeral as a mirage. Shot in lyrical black and white...conveys these feelings of anxiety and isolation" @theguardian.com on DREAMERS, out now on True Story

"an archival horror film, a riveting account of an authoritarian uprising as depicted by the official cameramen of both sides...Asatiani and Dumbadze allow the fateful concatenation of events to unspool one raw, precipitous episode at a time." #MovingImageNYC

"often moving...it’s a classic David and Goliath story that pits its plucky Sami underdogs against a big, bad foe (in this case the Norwegian government); but it looks ravishing and is never less than completely engaging." - Guardian

At the age of 9, Carlos arrives from Mexico to Chicago with his three brothers and his parents. The day he turns 18, his future becomes uncertain. According to US law, Carlos is now considered as undocumented. The slightest mistake can lead him to deportation. DREAMERS: buff.ly/8QA9x6v *not USA

""The traumatic past hems these night folk in as impassably as the surrounding mountains; it’s striking how many talk, in the absence of a viable future, about simply existing in the present moment" @guardian on ANHELL69 by Theo Montoya.

"the horror is palpable. The lo-fi aesthetics of Limitation bristle with radical agitation, dismantling ideals about the pure, objective image and stressing the idea that, regardless of visual quality, all recorded footage is infected with hidden agendas and motives" @theguardian.com on LIMITATION.

"The black and white camera work of Nikolaï von Graevenitz (German Camera Award 2022) was specifically chosen to highlight these contrasts, contradictions, and to emphasize what it means to live in the shadow of the US legal system." Read an interview with the DREAMERS directors over on the blog.

More than 120 kids live together in Las Delicias agrotechnical boarding school in the Argentine countryside. In that school, away from their families, they will experience the end of their childhood and the beginning of their youth. THE DELIGHTS: www.truestory.film/delights

My father immortalised the most beautiful moments of his life in family films, while my mother’s difficulties hit the blind spot in his images. Today, I revisit these films to tell another story: the one about a woman who sees her role as a mother gradually taking away her freedom.

"A lifetime prison hidden in the centre of the free world" @moderntimesreview.bsky.social on DREAMERS, out now on True Story.

"a powerful portrait of the abuse of power....an unflinching account of being pushed to the extremes of one’s own humanity – what it means to be broken and to resist" @sheffdocfest.bsky.social Watch WHERE GOD IS NOT: www.truestory.film/where-god-is...

Jessi, Naia and Shelby are just like any other girls. Or are they? Born in the heart of traditional Texas, heirs to a historically male-dominated pastoral culture, they are part of a new generation of women shaking up the male world of rodeo. Watch RODEO GIRLS: www.truestory.film/rodeo-girls

"tries to restore the dignity of two and a half million Americans known as dreamers" @cineuropa.bsky.social on DREAMERS, out now on True Story* *not USA, France, Germany

"‘Limitation’ serves as a reminder of Russia’s tactics in dealing with its Post-Soviet states. What happened in Georgia 30 years ago, civil warfare incited from outside followed by a military invasion, is not that different from what we see in Ukraine." #AsianMoviePulse on LIMITATION.

"Extending far beyond the conventions of pure ethnographic cinema...a wondrous record of contact with a society that has lived far from the reaches of modern life, and a bleak reminder of the voraciousness of our world." - Sheffield Doc Fest on THE INVENTION OF THE OTHER, watch on True Story.

"A raw and immediate found-footage assemblage, 'Limitation' traces Russia’s hand in the coup that overthrew Georgia’s first post-Soviet president Zviad Gamsakhurdia." @filmverdict.bsky.social on LIMITATION, out now on True Story.

"the title is taken from the brutal words sprung upon a prisoner by their jailer who declares that, within the forbidding walls of the prison, God simply does not exist. Tamadon’s interview subjects testimony lays bare how terrifyingly true that statement is" @Guardian Out now on True Story.

An architect and filmmaker from Europe visit Yekepa, a town in the remote highlands of Liberia, once a thriving mining community, now decaying and desolate: a concrete ruin in the West African bush. “unearths....spectral traces" - Sight&Sounds Watch: www.truestory.film/videos/uppla...

"the horror is palpable. The lo-fi aesthetics of Limitation bristle with radical agitation, dismantling ideals about the pure, objective image and stressing the idea that, regardless of visual quality, all recorded footage is infected with hidden agendas and motives." Guardian Out NOW!

"Both in its editing and visually, ANHELL69 is often striking — as the camera withdraws from the cemetery grounds where the friends are huddled together, a striking tableau of a group of young people who have found themselves too soon to be living among the dead" #ScreenDaily, out now on True Story.

At the Natural History Museum in Vienna, everything that is found on earth, in outer space, and that humans can get their hands on, is collected, archived, and studied in the name of evolutionary research. Watch ARCHIVE OF THE FUTURE: www.truestory.film/archive-of-t...

Nominated for the ReFrame Award for Creative Use of Archive @idfafestival, LIMITATION by Elene Asatiani and Soso Dumbadze examines the involvement of Russia in the 1992 coup d’état that overthrew Zviad Gamsakhurdia, who was elected as Georgia’s first president in 1991. Watch: buff.ly/9PxY1PC

WHERE GOD IS NOT by Mehran Tamadon is a film based on the testimonials of those who have been brutally treated by the Iranian regime. It seeks to understand how the most repressive aspects of this totalitarian system rely on imprisonment and torture. Watch: www.truestory.film/where-god-is...

"Every day, with his sneakers on, he climbs and descends the iron stairs, running from one department to another and from one bedside to another. Jamal is Sisyphus, and Beaujon is his mountain" - Nicolas Peduzzi introduces his film ON THE EDGE over on the blog.

"Because I felt that this moment in Georgian history was truly decisive and shaped everything that's happening now, shaped our lives. As we reviewed and collected the materials, all our wounds were exposed." Read an interview with the LIMITATION directors on @currenttime.tv, out now on True Story

A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. ANHELL69 explores the dreams, doubts and fears of an annihilated generation, and the struggle to carry on making cinema. Watch: buff.ly/dgrkxTv *not USA

"women serving prison sentences are actually listed as the cinematographers here. There is nothing else...just these snippets of their existence in various Chilean jails, captured in absolute secret. That she managed to edit it all into an understandable narrative...is insane" @cineuropa.bsky.social

"In telling these survivors’ story, Tamadon’s film is as much of a personal story as a political one, depicting the chasm between survivors’ trauma and the audience’s understanding, movingly lingering on the unresolved nature of these memories." #OffScreen on WHERE GOD IS NOT, out now on True Story.

"a striking commentary of the political state in Colombia, a country marked by a history of violence and drugs. Taking root in the healing and creative energy of his queer community, Montoya uses magical realism to reimagine a different past and present" True/False Watch: buff.ly/TDABcHs *not USA

"a powerful portrait of the abuse of power....an unflinching account of being pushed to the extremes of one’s own humanity – what it means to be broken and to resist" #SheffieldDocFest on WHERE GOD IS NOT, out now on True Story.

"an engrossing character study and a sharp social comment" #LittleWhiteLies, ON THE EDGE is out now on True Story.

"The traumatic past hems these night folk in as impassably as the surrounding mountains; it’s striking how many talk, in the absence of a viable future, about simply existing in the present moment." #Guardian on ANHELL69, out now on True Story.

"an engrossing character study and a sharp social comment" @lwlies.com, ON THE EDGE is out now on True Story.

"We constantly summon the past, and yet the moment, the instant weighs very heavily. It's beautiful, and the emotions are very strong." #Letterboxd/#claiireuuuh on WHERE GOD IS NOT:

"a striking commentary of the political state in Colombia, a country marked by a history of violence and drugs. Taking root in the healing and creative energy of his queer community, Montoya uses magical realism to reimagine a different past and present." True/False ANHELL69:

"Tamadon's framing device is that this is a film aimed at the torturers: if they saw it, he reasons, they would be confronted with their crimes and reflect on them....there is little doubt that the director knows what he is doing." @@cineuropa.bsky.social on WHERE GOD IS NOT, out today on True Story

"a sprawling work of colour and sound...There is a reason Montoya uses the dead to stand in for a community denied existence and safety in society—he has found a new avenue to represent the queer community, given that they are not afforded it in real life." #StrandMagazine, Out now on TS* *not USA

"It’s Theo Montoya’s requiem, love poem, wet dream, horror fantasy, document of a lost generation, protest against the culture they got lost in, and tribute to those who’ve survived this far" #Letterboxd/BeBraveMorvern Out now on True Story* *not USA, Spain, France, Germany

"stark tale of truth, lies and politics in postwar Austria...Ruth Beckermann’s investigation into Kurt Waldheim’s Austrian presidential campaign is as engrossing as it is relevant" - The Guardian Watch THE WALDHEIM WALTZ: www.truestory.film/the-waldheim...

"My work over the last 7 years consistently features silenced communities. I’m drawn to what happens when humans are pushed to extremes..There are a lot of suppressed voices in the regions I travel to" Lukas Marxt talking to @sonicacts.bsky.social Read more: buff.ly/wldaipk

“a lyrical documentary about paternal nostalgia, haunted love and death in a conflicted Medellín, between icons of Jesus Christ and posters of Britney Spears.” - Cinematographe.it on ANHELL69, out now on True Story* *not USA, France, Germany, Spain

"The Salton Sea is also special because the United States tested numerous atomic bombs here in the final phases of World War II and the Cold War – initially in preparation for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, later as training for missions that fortunately never took place."

"In politically and socially volatile times, dedicated documentary streaming platforms may play a critical role in responding to today's realities" We spoke to Sevara Pan for an article about documentary streaming platforms in @moderntimesreview.bsky.social Read more: buff.ly/mqQGtxb

"This is a story of fragile existence focused on the queer community in Medellín, a city ravaged by authoritarianism, narco wars, and relentless homophobia." @msicism.bsky.social on ANHELL69 for In Review Online Out now on True Story* *not North America, France, Germany

"Derek is one of the many locals whose trails Lukas Marxt and Vanja Smiljanić calmly follow, gliding with them through the desolate landscapes. In the process, they pick up slivers of nuclear history time and again" - DOK Leipzig Watch AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB: buff.ly/h5e5d8m

“The Image You Missed is a meticulously hand-made, achingly evocative piece about a son coming to terms about who his father was as a man and as an artist.” @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy Watch THE IMAGE YOU MISSED: buff.ly/ZZnOT2E *not USA