After André Levesque missionnaire, Oksana Karpovych is back at the RIDM with her first feature, which she filmed in her native country, Ukraine. To take the pulse of the country, the filmmaker adopts one of documentary cinema’s most prolific sub-genres: the train film. Filmed entirely in the old, run-down, overcrowded passenger trains used by ordinary Ukrainians, the film captures conversations, observes the landscape, and accompanies several protagonists on their journey; they open our eyes to popular preoccupations in a country that seems perpetually anchored in its highly visible Soviet legacy. A fine lesson in listening and humanity.

Following the 1884–85 Berlin Conference resolution on the partition of Africa, the Portuguese army uses a talented ensign to register the effective occupation of the territory belonging to the Cuamato people, conquered in 1907, in the south of Angola. A STORY FROM AFRICA enlivens a rarely seen photographic archive through the tragic tale of Calipalula, the Cuamato nobleman essential to the unfolding of events in this Portuguese pacification campaign.

In The Lost Pyramid, we travel deep into the Guatemalan jungle with some of the greatest digital creators of a generation to realize a dream 25 years in the making. A dream that was once deemed impossible. A dream that was once buried in bureaucratic red tape. A dream that was sacrificed for. And almost came true many times. The very dream that Yes Theory was founded on and that friendship and serendipity eventually reinvigorated. From our hearts to yours, this is The Lost Pyramid.