RIFF 2016

Two DJ's in Tehran are battling to play the music they love and set up dance parties. Local regime does not look well at harbingers of western culture of decay so the protagonists need to do big decisions.

A sequel to Streetwise, focusing on Tiny.

Documentary of 1980's near-launch of a nuclear missile from Arkansas, based on Eric Shlosser's award-winning book of the same name.

Cheer Up takes us into the teenage lives of a team of losing cheerleaders in the Arctic Circle, Finland. They try their best to get better and look perfect doing it, while really, life just sucks. For Patricia, Aino and Miia, finding out who they are, where they belong and what family means is much more important than any trophy.

Louis Theroux documents his investigation into what goes on behind the scenes of the infamous Church of Scientology.

Oscuro animal tells the story of three women forced to flee their homes in a war torn region in Colombia. .

16-year-old Laura is swift, lively and stubborn. She wants to join a group of parkourists and gets caught off guard by love which she begins to feel toward Luky. She starts living a double life. In the fantasy world of romantic and comic visions Luky belongs to her. In reality her attempt to get closer to Luky fails. The moment these two worlds somehow entwine, Laura has to decide which one she wants to choose.

Ten years after the breakup Sarah arrives at her ex-husbands summer cabin. He's writing on a play, and wants her to contribute. Sarah would love to, until she realizes that the play is about their years together.

In 2012, a young woman was gang raped by six men inside a moving bus in New Delhi. Eleven actors collaborated on a fictional dramatization of the lives of the rapists.

With help from his recent recruit, a gang leader takes on an established crime lord in a battle for control of Vancouver's arms and drug trade.

Best friends forever and ever revolves around an intensive friendship between two women and the blurry lines between friendship and love.The movie explores the emotions of a young woman who believes she has found her soulmate: Her best friend. She refuses to seek further, -why would you need anyone else in your life than your best friend?

A nurse traffics the ID cards of demented patients on the black market of identity theft. Driven by easy cash, and an addiction to morphine, she struggles to keep tabs on her emotional void, and a growing fear of punishment.

Irish Republican Bobby Sands' 1981 hunger strike protesting his status as a criminal prisoner sparked a pivotal moment in Northern Ireland's conflict, drawing global attention and triggering efforts towards resolution.

Aslaug Holm follows closely her two young sons Markus and Lukas in their everyday life, while being sons, close brothers, as well as being kids having pleasures and disappointments.

In an effort to determine their sustainability as a food source, two chefs travel throughout the world tasting insects.

Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia's cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and moral impact of current and previous policy.

A young girl struggles to make sense of her multi-cultural heritage against the backdrop of New York City.

IN LIMBO s a documentary essay that questions the world of memory that we are all building, through the everyday digitization of our lives and our environment. The voice of a mysterious spirit (embodied by Nancy Huston) wakes up in the maze of data centers which makes up the global network. As though there were nothing left on Earth but this huge machine, still running. Diving into her memory, she is fascinated by the strange life that lies within, inhabited by ghostly characters (the Internet's founding fathers, Google CEOs, digital librarians, etc). Enchanted by the promises of this world, she abandons herself into it. Pure soul, she wanders through this after-life, attempting to once more experience the essence of nostalgia.

An airstrip, a hangar and a classroom somewhere in rural Ghana: This is the place where 18-year-old Lydia and 20-year-old Esther hope to achieve their dream: learning how to fly.

The rarely seen lives of an Arctic tribe who try to continue to honor their way of life 80 miles above the Arctic Circle on a fragile barrier island disappearing due to climate change.

After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, a young Afghan refugee in Iran channels her frustrations and seizes her destiny through music. Grabbing the mic, she spits fiery rhymes in the face of oppressive traditions.

The whale hunters of the Faroe Islands believe that hunting is vital to their way of life, but, when a local professor makes a grim discovery about the effects of marine pollution, environmental changes threaten their way of life forever.

A film about the prison from the places we least expect to find it.

A courageous young woman tries to free herself from tradition in Delhi.