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Click the Link Below (2025)

Click the Link Below follows filmmaker Audun Amundsen as he buys into the world of online “contrepreneurs,” paying US$7,500 for a mentorship that never quite proves its worth. The doc peeks behind the hype and hustle with rare access and quiet unease, but its gentle approach stops it from landing a real critique. Insightful, revealing, and frustratingly cautious.

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A Quiet Love (2025)

A Quiet Love follows three Deaf couples across generations in Ireland’s first ISL feature film: a tender, beautifully crafted portrait of love, identity, and resilience within the Deaf community. Directed by Garry Keane, it blends intimate storytelling with thoughtful subtitles and an immersive Deaf-led soundscape, offering a rare, deeply human window into Deaf life.

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Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippine Sea (2025)

Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippine Sea is a tense, human‑centred documentary that follows Filipino fishermen and Coast Guard personnel risking their lives near Scarborough Shoal. Told entirely from the Filipino perspective, it captures quiet heroism, fear, and resilience as small wooden boats face off against far stronger forces.

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Pōneke Classical Sessions (2025)

Pōneke Classical Sessions is a vibrant short documentary about Wellington musicians reshaping classical music; breaking from its colonial, elitist traditions and rebuilding it as something inclusive, playful, and community‑driven. Through candid interviews and live sessions in unconventional venues, it shows a new generation reclaiming the genre with experimentation, honesty, and heart.

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Wildboy (2025)

Wildboy follows Brando, a young Kiwi adventurer driven by ADHD and a hunger for purpose, as he tackles epic solo journeys; from walking Aotearoa’s entire coastline to crossing Greenland and cycling the Australian outback. Stunningly shot and emotionally open, the film captures both the beauty and the brutality of long‑distance exploration, revealing how endurance becomes a path to identity, mental health, and self‑discovery.

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Os Barcos (2025)

Os Barcos is a slow-burning, quietly powerful portrait of Gamboa, a Brazilian favela caught between viral tourism and everyday survival. Without narration or commentary, it watches locals cook, fish, build, and fight for dignity as influencers flock to a rooftop restaurant that masks deep inequality. As the Iemanjá festival nears, the community’s resilience, pride, and struggle against rising tensions come sharply into focus.

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Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025)

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror is a warm, energetic documentary tracing how Richard O’Brien’s scrappy 1973 stage show became a global cult phenomenon. Through candid cast interviews, archival footage, and O’Brien’s reflections on identity, it celebrates the film’s legacy as a haven for outsiders and a joyful anthem of queer liberation.

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Through A Glass, Lightly (2025)

A quiet nine‑minute portrait of Brian Scadden, one of the few artists keeping wet‑plate photography alive. Through a Glass, Lightly contrasts his slow, intentional craft with our fast digital habits, offering a gentle reminder of the value of patience, permanence, and truly seeing.

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Two Travelling Aunties (2025)

Two Travelling Aunties follows Norah and Susie as they trade expectations for open roads, turning a life of quiet resilience into one of freedom, love, and adventure. What begins as a light travel story becomes a tender portrait of two women carving out a world where they can finally live as themselves.

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Voices from the Abyss (2025)

A stark, poetic glimpse into Acapulco’s legendary La Quebrada cliff divers, Voices from the Abyss blends striking black‑and‑white imagery with the divers’ own reflections to reveal a community shaped by ritual, danger, and devotion. More visual poem than traditional documentary, it honours the legacy, labour, and quiet resilience behind every 100‑foot leap.

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Never Get Busted (2025)

Cooper’s doggedness, his willingness to stand alone, and his refusal to back down suggest that change is not only possible but achievable. He may not be a perfect figure, and the documentary is honest about that. But his commitment to fighting injustice, even at great personal cost, is something worth celebrating. Full marks! 5 out of 5!

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Folktales (2025)

Folktales is a beautifully observed documentary that follows three teenagers through a transformative year in the Arctic wilderness of northern Norway. Blending breathtaking cinematography, emotional honesty, and the unique bond between humans and sled dogs, the film offers a moving reflection on resilience, belonging, and self-discovery.

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Fatal Watch (2025)

Fatal Watch is a gripping and unsettling documentary that shines a light on the hidden dangers faced by fisheries observers working far from public view. Through powerful personal stories and sharp investigative reporting, it exposes a system where profit often outweighs accountability, creating a sobering portrait of corruption, exploitation, and the human cost of industrial fishing.

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Blame (2025)

Blame tackles the fraught debate surrounding Covid-19's origins through the eyes of three virologists whose work became entangled in politics, conspiracy theories, and public scrutiny. While Christian Frei delivers a timely examination of misinformation and the pressures placed on scientists, the documentary's heavy reliance on narration and repeated assertions ultimately weakens its impact.

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The Last Ride (2025)

The Last Ride is a heartfelt and visually stunning documentary that explores an extraordinary friendship between a former Hells Angel and a giant manta ray. Blending marine conservation, personal redemption, and breathtaking underwater cinematography, the film delivers a moving reflection on connection, loss, and the enduring impact one relationship can have on both a life and a species.

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Front Row (2024)

Front Row is a stirring and deeply human documentary that explores the resilience of the Ukrainian spirit through the transformative power of ballet. Following a troupe of exiled dancers and a wounded soldier finding new purpose on the stage, the film weaves together themes of identity, loss, courage, and hope.

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