An observation of life among the inhabitants of the Costa da Morte, on the northwest coast of Spain, reveals the tense …
This short film documents the apparently insignificant moments of the inhabitants of a Suburb of Lisbon, while they fig…
This documentary is a poetic approach to the stories that survive the flooding of a small village nestled in the mounta…
Through an almost theatrical approach, this short film reconstructs postcards observed in the commercially vibrant bord…
This documentary makes us travel through the route of the sand that will feed Cape Verde's hunger for new hotels and re…
A woman returns to meet her mother in her hometown, in Portugal. During her trip, we discover the history of her family…
After surviving 9 months and 9 days drifting in the Pacific Ocean, three Mexican castaways face greater dangers when th…
Through interviews conducted in a video workshop, the inhabitants of a neighborhood in the margins of Rome talk about t…
In a small village in northern Iran, the life of the inhabitants revolves around Barre, a fighting bull that sustains t…
In northern Uganda, Patricia dedicates her life to helping women to give birth in her small village. This beautiful pho…
Through a bold accompaniment to the crew aboard a trawler in the Barents Sea, we witness their hard days, their hopes, …
Discover eleven love stories in old age in Montevideo, Uruguay. Among experiences of violence, disappointment, hope and…
This short film is a portrait of Didou, an 88-year-old Algerian man who preserves the memory of his deceased wife on th…
In 1998, the inhabitants of an entire town were resettled so that the brown coal underneath the village could be mined.…
In Roshmia, the last natural valley in Haifa, an elderly Palestinian couple prepares a final standoff with the local au…
In the midst of loneliness and far away from their loved ones, the elders of an old age in Iran try to follow their dai…
Eastern Ukraine. After all the villagers of Pesky were evacuated due to the armed conflict between pro-Russian rebels a…
Six scenarios play out against the backdrop of modern London, enabling a portrait of human beings as consumers of their…
Some make documentaries of successful people, while others - like the case of this short film - prefer to look at those…
This biographical documentary portrays the multifaceted Argentine artist José Martinez Suárez, a 90-year-old man with t…
This documentary follows the renowned clown Robert Gorodetsky around the city of St. Petersburg, a portrait of the less…
Jelle and Sofie, two filmmakers with a decadent love relationship, decide to film themselves during a trip to Greece. T…
This observational documentary captures the conversations, confidences and emotionally charged moments of migrants in c…
Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
With humor and intelligence, this documentary is a picturesque exercise of observing life within a metro in Russia.
This beautiful film ventures to take a closer look at the naked body and the fragile spirit that lies within it. The fi…
Filmed in a contrasting black and white, this short film documents life in a tyre recycling workshop in Myanmar. In thi…
Back in southern Italy, the filmmaker revisits and reinterprets a bar that made a strong impression in his childhood.
Committed to the passion that as a child pushed him to flee home, Nigua is determined to carry out the project of his l…
Constructed mostly of intimate micro-narratives of relations between people and institutions, this unique film unites a…
This creative documentary uses cardboard puppets to provide a depiction of the most hated government agency in Sweden: …
This classic documents the life in a rural area where the sole source of income is the physically gruelling labour of s…
Through an observational approach, this short film documents the inhabitants of the neighborhood of Zeynebiye, in Istan…
Avant Garde filmmaker Kamal Swaroop explores the ancient myths and politicking of Indian Gods as the heavens descend an…
Through a compelling contemplative approach, this film follows the people living inside the caldera of the volcano Pico…
While her mother cuts tea in a nearby field, Bahri and Damla, two children from a small village in the Turkish mountain…
In a journey through the images of Lebanese mass media in recent years, the contradictory portrait of a country that li…
This film reflects on the relationship between human beings and the locusts, insects that represent one of the biggest …
The pass of time has left a blank space in a sentence written on the facade of a humble rural house in China: "Only__is…
In this beautifully photographed documentary, the inhabitants that live on the banks of an Indian river show us their p…
In a house located in a peaceful village in Croatia, eight underage girls try to improve their lives by living together…
The film follows four young Brazilians around their humble neighborhood where they live between work and fun, crime and…
This funny animation takes us through the diverse voices that make up the Bronx through the music and the street object…
To make contact with distant beings, wether ghosts, birds or radio listeners on the other side of the world, is the onl…
In this hilarious film, an old Serbian peasant woman tries to learn how to operate a used cell phone. Set in a small vi…
The Madman and the Cathedral is a documentary about one man’s dream to build a cathedral with no construction experienc…
Fragmented and multilingual, this short film is a random journey through the images of the author's quotidian world to …
In this documentary, a boat acts as a metaphor to illustrate the following premise: technological advances could be the…
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