S1.E1 ∙ Islands of Life

Seventy short films about cinema and its future.

In powerful images, alternating between documentary observation and staged sequences, and dense soundscapes, Luiz Bolognesi documents the Indigenous community of the Yanomami and depicts their threatened natural environment in the Amazon rain forest.

The docu-drama The Real Hunt for Red October reveals, for the first time, the astonishing secret events behind the Russian submarine K-129 that went missing on March 8, 1968, taking the Soviet Union and the U.S. to the brink of war.

Docu-drama telling the story of one of the most infamous incidents in recent British medical history. On 13th March 2006, 8 healthy young men took part in a clinical trial for a leukaemia drug that went very wrong.

Docudrama telling the story of the 14-year-old schoolboy from surrey who was groomed online by 18-year-old Lewis Daynes via online video games and lured to his death.

The daily life of those who dream of working in the world of the bullfighting. A movie that follows the pupils of the School of Tauromachy in Madrid. Reveals the human side of the bullfighter: his emotions, sensations, and sacrifices.