"A chilling glimpse into the fragility of democracy,...The banality of evil is on full display as the film remixes history, dissecting propaganda in order to indict a criminal dictatorship with its own rhetoric" - True/False BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: www.truestory.film/behind-close...

"a deeper message about the interconnectedness of all things" - Documentary Magazine @documentary.org on APPLE CIDER VINEGAR by Sofie Benoot, out now on True Story.

"The film’s quiet, steady observation frames the housing dispute as a clash between lived human geography and financial abstraction, a small portrait that reflects a common contemporary crisis" - Gazzetely on BRUNAUPARK, out now on True Story.

"What are the pieces that make up a life? This thorny question lies at the heart of Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe’s riveting, emotional documentary, whose structure resembles a detective story." - Guardian

Brunaupark in Zurich faces demolition: 200+ livable flats set to be torn down. Felix Hergert and Dominik Zietlow's documentary follows the residents fighting to save their community amid a growing housing crisis. #Zurich #Brunaupark #HousingCrisis #Community

"An important film: there are no other words to describe The Lost Boys of Mercury...huge care in the images and music" #Variety on THE LOST BOYS OF MERCURY, out now on True Story. variety.com/2023/film/gl...

Changes in my home city Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, were followed by fire at my home. All of my memories were destroyed, leaving me feeling alienated. Taking my camera, I go through the remains of my home, as well as old spaces around my neighbourhood.

"a joyful and sensitive film painting a portrait of an entire community" @cineuropa.bsky.social on BRUNAUPARK, out now on True Story.

"A heartrending chronicle in search of memory and justice" - Visions du Reel Watch on True Story: www.truestory.film/lost-boys-of...

"With a decades-long commitment to the filmmaking process within community, a sense of humour, and a quest to move between worlds...embodies the many meanings of transformation" Winner - Best Film + Outstanding Artistic Contribution - IDFA Envision Comp. CANUTO'S TRANSFORMATION buff.ly/f3o3hBs

"I can only speak from my own pain. In the documentary film industry, we are one big family, from institutions to individual filmmakers present. My fellow Palestinian filmmakers are here...to be able to tell first-hand stories that have been silenced over and over again" Watch: buff.ly/WRzpL62

"Great courage, physical and moral, is shown by the three principal interviewees in this heartbreaking French documentary.....participates intimately in the healing process by giving these men the platform to tell their truths – and is no less valuable for it." - Guardian Out NOW on True Story.

"a profound study of the contrasts of a war zone: hope and despair, innocence and terrorism, the present and future, western influence and traditional culture....a patient and honest gaze on the hovering presence of violence, seen through the eyes of innocents” Winner IFF Rotterdam

"The calm, almost whispered commentary and the poetic, cinematic shots of sun-drenched landscapes, details of flowers and the sea...leave room for your own contemplations. As well as the impact and causes of violence, the film also deals with identity and the longing for a home." - IDFA

"With great caution, director Clémence Davigo allows the three to tell their stories...Even when the three men are silent, the camera records their grief, anger and despair" #IDFA Watch THE LOST BOYS OF MERCURY: buff.ly/suWQXT1

"a complex, mysterious docufictional mediation which unfolds at an unhurried walking pace, co-authored by the Indigenous Brazilian film-maker Ariel Kuaray Ortega, a member of the Mbyá-Guarani movie collective, and Ernesto de Carvalho" @Guardian on CANUTO'S TRANSFORMATION, out now on True Story.

Seven elderly monks in a small Cistercian monastery in Ireland strive to keep their spiritual life and fragile community going. With shaky voices – but deeply committed – they gather in church seven times a day to pray. www.truestory.film/lovers-of-th...

As children in the 50s to the 70s, Dédé, Michel and Daniel were sent to the Belle Étoile “correctional” facility run by abbot Garin. There, they were beaten, humiliated, starved and broken. With director Clémence Davigo they reunite to break their silence. THE LOST BOYS OF MERCURY: buff.ly/suWQXT1

Somi and her husband strive to forge a new identity after being involved with the Naxalite movement, a communist guerrilla group that has been waging war on the Indian State since the 60’s. Following a decade of armed struggle, the couple deserted the movement and surrendered to the police.

In the final days leading up to the Colombian national soccer finals, Jorge, a young hooligan from the slums of northeastern Colombia, travels 1,000 miles across the country with his friends to see his native Bucaramanga’s soccer team. "intimate, dirty and glorious" - Letterboxd

"The intimacy and empathy with which Davigo treats her protagonists lead to some meticulous characterisation, helping the viewer not only perceive them as they are today, but also imagine what they were like as boys" @cineuropa.bsky.social on THE LOST BOYS OF MERCURY, out now on True Story.

"an extraordinary and intriguing communal project that addresses major themes—colonisation, the disadvantaged status of indigenous communities—and records everyday beauty and fun as well" - IDFA Watch CANUTO'S TRANSFORMATION: www.truestory.film/canutos-tran...

"Astonishing...This is a hugely special, rewarding documentary whose ending manages to encompass both victory and loss." - Guardian SING, FREETOWN: www.truestory.film/sing-freetown

"I wanted to make a film that would capture what I saw in these men. Each of them is marked by their stay at the Belle Étoile center....For most of them, the trauma is such that they had to wait 60 years for the word to get out" - director Clémence Davigo introducing LOST BOYS OF MERCURY on the blog

"Wilfred Buck´s complex life is not just the story of a man who has overcome the most terrible and dark moments...it also a story of how indigenous people have struggled to reclaim lost knowledge, ancient traditions and, crucially, self-respect after 100s of years of colonialism” #BusinessDocEurope

"an archival horror film, a riveting account of an authoritarian uprising as depicted by the official cameramen of both sides...events to unspool one raw, precipitous episode at a time." #MuseumoftheMovingImage LIMITATION: buff.ly/PeP4iFI

"The film ends with a doctor demanding scientific answers and a representative of the Guarani people making their position clear—they do not need to justify or give explanations about an event they are witnesses to" - Ficci Festival Cartagena CANUTO"S TRANSFORMATION: buff.ly/RTFsuBp

"film-makers Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse and Quentin L’Helgouac’h find strange beauty in this post-apocalyptic world filled with brutality and bloodshed..When we are simply allowed to be in the game....something truly magical happens" @guardian KNIT'S ISLAND: www.truestory.film/knits-island

"Seamlessly moving between earth and stars, past and present, Wilfred Buck is a hybrid feature documentary that looks to one man’s life to tell a story that spans generations" #Guardian on WILFRED BUCK, out now on True Story. *not North America

"The camera remains steady and patient, attentive to daily rhythms and the slow current of oral history. It searches for a truth that hides beneath what sight offers, a truth that arrives like a murmur from the forest." #Gazettely on CANUTO'S TRANSFORMATION, out now on True Story.

"The shooting of Where God Is Not shook me deeply. I was deeply moved by the stories of the people I was filming, by their humanity and strength" Watch www.truestory.film/mehran-tamadon

"tragic, heartwarming...Visually appealing static shots capture the protagonists in this deprived neighborhood at their most vulnerable, surrounded by every imaginable kind of treasure and trash." #IDFA www.truestory.film/the-pawnshop

“Just because I am Guarani, people expect me to make films about the beauties of the land...My cinema has always been political, it has always been about the Indigenous reality.” Ariel Kuaray Ortega talking to @variety.com about CANUTO'S TRANSFORMATION, out now on True Story.

"a beautiful and compelling work that moves between past and present, and between Earth and the stars, to overcome the ghosts of colonisation" #CPHDOX Watch WILFRED BUCK: www.truestory.film/wilfred-buck *not North America

"two relatives who were aware of the couple’s condition did not want the film to be made. For them, revealing the couple’s illness in broad daylight would mean that shame would fall upon the entire family" THE BURDEN director Elvis Sabin Ngaibino talking to #BusinessDocEurope

"two relatives who were aware of the couple’s condition did not want the film to be made. For them, revealing the couple’s illness in broad daylight would mean that shame would fall upon the entire family" THE BURDEN director Elvis Sabin Ngaibino talking to #BusinessDocEurope

"dances between the past and present, between the earthly and the celestial" @thenation.com on WILFRED BUCK, out now on True Story. *not North America

Helena Trestikova's first film is short graduation piece THE MIRACLE, in which the young director’s eye for detail brings an everyday miracle to life. "handles the miraculous, poignant moments before and after childbirth with particular sensitivity." #IDFA

""Her life is split between borders and constant goodbyes, a transient emotional state vividly captured in Maria Lisa Pichler and Lukas Schöffel’s intimate portrait." #Guardian TOMORROW I LEAVE: www.truestory.film/tomorrow-i-l...

"another incredible one....a wonderful, inspiring film" @letterboxd.social/rchristensn on WILFRED BUCK, out now on True Story. letterboxd.com/film/wilfred...

"film-makers Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse and Quentin L’Helgouac’h find strange beauty in this post-apocalyptic world filled with brutality and bloodshed..When we are simply allowed to be in the game....something truly magical happens" #Guardian KNIT'S ISLAND: www.truestory.film/knits-island

In northern Colombia there is a popular version of the Spanish bullfight: the ‘corraleja’, an overcrowded spectacle where the most prestigious cattlemen of the region choose their wildest bulls to confront a group of brave voluntary men. BURNING THE LAND: www.truestory.film/burning-land

"Colonization has taken a hatchet to the chain of knowledge our ancestors carried forward, but it didn’t sever it. And through the work of Wilfred and countless other Elders, knowledge keepers, teachers and oskapiwis (helpers), the knowledge is being transmitted again" - Lisa Jackson

Éanna Mac Cana creates a unique film by combining his personal recordings as an inpatient being treated for Burkitt's lymphoma with Dr Burkitt's astonishing archive from sub-Saharan Africa. The legacy of Dr Burkitt's medical work holds significance today, affecting the lives of millions worldwide.

What are you willing to accept in order to have a good life? Maria works as a 24-hour caregiver to a woman in Vienna, and sees her family in Romania only every other month. *Winner* Franz Grabner Prize 2025 for Cinema Documentary, Diagonale Film Fest TOMORROW I LEAVE: buff.ly/gWcToSc

The extraordinary story of the charismatic and irreverent Indigenous elder who survived life on the streets by reclaiming ancestral star knowledge and ceremony. "beautiful and compelling" #CPHDOX WILFRED BUCK: www.truestory.film/wilfred-buck

"a hard-hitting viewing experience. It’s a documentary about pain and powerlessness " @cineuropa.bsky.social on THE BURDEN, out now on True Story.

"a relational, temporal and cinematographic journey....Recent Chinese history is implicitly outlined, the rapid growth of the 1990s having left a mark on society as a whole. A LONG JOURNEY HOME is a brilliant quest for emancipation, seeking a place among one's own people" #VisionsduReel, Winner

“I want to underscore how deeply hopeful I find this film. I hope it can be seen as something that will open doors to new ways of looking at the world through an Indigenous lens, and that viewers will enjoy getting to meet this phenomenal man in the process” #Variety Out today

"an archival horror film, a riveting account of an authoritarian uprising as depicted by the official cameramen of both sides" - Museum of the Moving Image NYC LIMITATION: www.truestory.film/limitation