The Island of Spies

The Divided Island

The Divided Island brings the ‘Cyprus problem’ back into focus, revealing untold stories and unravelling the intricate history that still reverberates today. After 50 years of failed negotiations, the issue remains on whether the Island will ever become re-united.

Cyprus 1974: Landing For Peace

On the 50th anniversary of the Cyprus Peace Operation, TRT World revisits the island's turbulent history and asks: Is there still hope for reconciliation?

Private Potter

A military mission is interrupted when a British soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision.

The James Dean Story

Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him, his paternal grandparents, a New York City cabdriver friend, the owner of his favorite Los Angeles restaurant, outtakes from East of Eden, footage of the opening night of Giant, and Dean's ironic PSA for safe driving.

Fragments of Mindelo

Mindelo is the cultural capital of Cape Verde. Throughout the time generations of writers, painters, singers and intellectual people were the full expression of Cape Verdean art and way of thinking. Fragments of its inhabitants’ lives reveal the force of its history, the beauty of its creativity and, above all, the resistance against the scourge of life in Mindelo, a meeting point of various nationalities.

Healthy Seas: Mission to Santorini

Over 640,000 tons of fishing gear are left or abandoned in the seas and oceans each year. It is a major environmental problem that requires immediate attention. The Healthy Seas initiative works with volunteer divers to remove the plastic nets from the seas and makes sure they are regenerated to produce a sustainable new yarn. The film follows the divers on World Oceans Day during a mission in Santorini, Greece as they recover half a ton of ghost nets. During an unprecedented underwater live-stream, Pierre-Yves Cousteau described the mission to inspire the protection of the World’s Seas and Oceans.

Cancer; The Integrative Perspective

Cancer; The Integrative Perspective takes a deep dive into the fast-expanding paradigm of holistic and integrative wellness approaches for preventing and reversing cancer that treats the disease with conventional tools, while also supporting patients’ strength, stamina and quality of life with evidence-based natural therapies. Nathan Crane, a pioneer in natural healing and cancer prevention, brings together world renowned medical experts and cancer survivors to share evidence-based insights into the power that the mind, body and spirit play in cancer care and prevention. The latest research is presented by Dr. Francisco Contreras, Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, Dr. Francisco Calvo, Dr. Sunil Pai, and Dr. Thomas Lodi.

Oranfe Onile Ina

Oranfe Onile Ina documentary narrate the Yoruba origin from Oranfe Onile Ina (also called Oramfe) who existed in the ancient Ife-Oodaye. Oranfe Onile Ina, the primordial father of the Yoruba people is said to be the oldest (existing even before Oduduwa).

Eerindinlogun Through her Cowries

Through her Cowries by Ayankola Ayanwuyi is a Yoruba documentary on Eerindinlogun, also called Dilogun in Brazil. Eerindinlogun is a Yoruba system of sixteen-cowrie divination that carries centuries of wisdom, story, and generative power. This film journeys with Chief Mrs Alice Oyeronke, an elder custodian and practitioner from Ogbomoso as she opens her pouch to reveal how the system works, and what birthed the practice.

Capitão Fausto - Um Ensaio para o Futuro

Unsheltered

As of 2015, 42% of Australia’s homeless population is under the age of 25. Perth, Western Australia also has the highest homeless population per capita in the nation. “Unsheltered” offers insights into those trying to fix the issue, as well as those who are currently suffering from being out on the streets, night after night.

Eerindinlogun: A Leaf from the Olorisa in Oyo

Eerindinlogun is a Yoruba based system of divination. It is a divination system (also called Idaasa or Dilogun in Brazil) widely used by Orisa adherents which includes Obatala, Sango, Oya, Osun, Yemoja, amongst others. This documentary entitled Eerindinlogun: A leaf from the Olorisa in Oyo, produced by Israel Ayanwuyi, explore the origin of Eerindinlogun, the order of its practice and position among the traditional families in Oyo.

Ibeji: Identical from Within

Ibeji: Identical from Within is an Ayankola Ayanwuyi 14-minute documentary that tell the cultural and spiritual significance of Ibeji (twins) within the Yoruba landscape. This film look into the unique traditions, beliefs, and stories that celebrate the extraordinary bond of twinhood among the Yoruba people.

Idi Bhimanjaneyudi Story

Telugu Film Director Vamsy Shares the Story of Actor Rajanala.

Super Women

The story of five cashiers who work the same shift in a supermarket, in Tel Aviv. Most are immigrants from Russia, others are native Israelis. The film follows their relationships, the mutual support and solidarity, dealing with the management and customers, their difficulties making a living and their working conditions, as they try to change their fate. "Super Women" is a beautiful example of cinéma verité and a special peek into a hidden world.

The Last Hippie of the USSR

The protagonist of the film lives in the former capital of barge haulers, the city of Rybinsk. His values in life can be summed up in a phrase from The Beatles song "Nothing's gonna change my world". The rules of life of the "last hippie of the USSR" and his political principles against the backdrop of the everyday life of a small Volga city and the holidays of a large country.

House of Fun

Near the Central Bus Station in the northern part of Israel, in the city of Karmiel, there is a 7-story building surrounded by a high fence with surveillance cameras. About 100 teenagers who came to Israel without families from the countries of the former Soviet Union live in this building. They undergo a nine-month adaptation course, after which they must turn from "Russians" into "Israelis". Excessively long stay in a closed atmosphere produces the opposite effect.