Director Melinda Raebyne embeds herself at one of Seattle’s homeless camps over one winter, challenging public ignorance and humanizing a population that locals would rather neglect.

This special compilation of short films explores encounters between Māori and non-Māori dating back to 1901. This rich and fascinating special presentation includes a range of remarkable and rarely seen footage from the vaults of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. From the first filmed encounter between Māori and British Royals to footage of the 1975 Land March, these recordings evoke a strong sense of the shared stories and rich dual histories of Aotearoa New Zealand. These special recordings come from Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision – Aotearoa New Zealand’s Archive of Film, Television and Sound. NTSV collects, preserves, cares for and shares the audio-visual taonga of Aotearoa, so that our nation’s stories are never lost. Part of the remit of today’s cultural institutions is to draw attention to how our narratives have formed, and to gently nudge us toward asking ourselves to examine how we feel about what is being shown to us. – Sharon Taylor-Offord

27 real-life stories of American horror are told by a mysterious narrator, who draws inspiration from some famous paintings of American art displayed in an ancient abbey.

The problems and struggles of daily life create distance between Nima and Sarah. The two have no hope of a relationship and are trying to divorce, but an accident with a child, Mehran, changes their lives.

The story takes place in both past and present times. People loved each other, or expressed their affections not so differently in any era.

As clouds begin to roll, we see the afternoon life of a busy city. Cars jam the streets, as people make squares of the side streets they walk on. People queue in line as they try to board the city train. This is Sam’s picture of his daily route to the university. He is a young filmmaker, who in his daily commute, picks up his girlfriend Isa from the train station before heading to school together.

Tracing the story of a student uprising this documentary explores how the NRA manages to keep a permissive gun law alive, and why it has such a strong hold over American society.

This is a story about Bimo and Arimbi. They share their future, about uncertainty, and how their life after swearing to each other forever.

The story of three Salvadorian women who saw their fundamental rights violated when they were accused of a crime of abortion and finally, imprisoned for aggravated homicide, when in out-of-hospital deliveries they lost their babies.

"What will we leave behind after the collapse?" We think that if we disappear, the earth will be safe again... It is not true. Embark now for the last story after the collapse. BEYOND US is an autoproducted and independent short film, trying to spread a simple message about our civilisation and what we will leave behind after the collapse.

Mired in his shyness, Fernando does not dare to declare himself to a girl he likes.

A new breed of warrior has emerged to fight a global plague of coups, kidnappings and assassinations: the commando. Follow these international super soldiers on actual covert missions as they take on the world’s worst villains.

Two teams of Special Forces -- one during the Persian Gulf War, the other during the Vietnam War -- must draw upon all their resourcefulness, strength and determination in these untold true stories of commando courage. First, British SAS commandos must battle bad intelligence on a mission to dismantle Scud missile launchers in Iraq. In the next segment, eight U.S. Green Berets must endure a night of enemy fire while trapped in a concrete bunker.