In a small village in western Russia all the inhabitants celebrate a day in which the mourning for a dead person turns …
In an indigenous territory in the north of the Amazon, a filmmaker and Abraim, a local villager, will have a short and …
Filmmaker Otavio Cury documents the Yanomami, in the Brazilian Amazon. Seen from otherness, the film reflects on the Ya…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
Amid the idyllic landscape of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Redz works every day on his small plot to earn a livi…
The desert of northern Argentina is getting drier due to the activity of extraction companies. Flora and her llamas fin…
In Doel, Belgium, only a handful of inhabitants remain after several decades of decline. Weird and humorous, this docum…
Following the thread of an omnipresent narrator, this hybrid film takes us to the dreamy Irish countryside, a setting o…
Priorat, a region of Catalonia known for its vineyards, was about to disappear from the map of the best wines in the wo…
Following the quest of Alfred von Rodt, a Swiss who sought to found a kingdom on the Chilean island that inspired Robin…
Desert, mythical, twilight. This visual contemplation is a kind of silent western about life in the landscape of Alente…
A small village in Papua New Guinea faces the dilemma of leaving its ancestral lands due to the threat of a flood cause…
A man returns to his small village in Azerbaijan with a strange animal: a European cow. The arrival of the animal unlea…
Tree planting in Rajasthan, India, has become a symbol of freedom in the middle of the desert. Families in this communi…
Surrounded by southern pine trees, in the solitude of the Chilean mountains, Juan lives every day resisting the imminen…
Two octogenarian brothers return to their native Poland. One is a painter, the other a scientist. Despite their differe…
8-years-old Janek has just moved from Poland to the Argentine countryside with his family. Here he meets Marcia, his in…
This documentary makes a portrait of the Ithanvong family and their epic journey from war-torn Laos to a town in Santa …
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
This documentary gives us a never-before-seen access to a mysterious ritual of purification practiced in northern India.
After years of absence, the filmmaker Kat Tolkovsky returns to her hometown in the Czech Republic. A documentary short …
Two lifelong friends decide to spend a summer on a farm in the Swiss Alps. What could go wrong? Well ... almost everyth…
Set in rural Thailand, this documentary follows an endearing elderly couple in their last years of life together. A min…
This documentary gravitates between the past and the present of the people of the Ave Valley, an area whose history is …
This documentary is a poetic approach to the stories that survive the flooding of a small village nestled in the mounta…
This is the portrait of Ali Badri, an elderly Kurdish man who has learned to enjoy a humble and loving life despite his…
Amid an apparent calmness, this film makes a portrait of a fragmented Nicaraguan family thorugh Estela and Sebastián, w…
Shot as an austere Italian western, this short film follows an old cowboy that claims to have seen a mysterious panther…
In a small village in northern Iran, the life of the inhabitants revolves around Barre, a fighting bull that sustains t…
A Finnish filmmaker finds her own national identity alongside the Wayuu people and its cosmovision, in the desert betwe…
This is the epic tale of John, a maverick Midwestern farmer, as he stands amidst a falling economy, vicious rumors and …
This serene documentary short film takes us to a small village in the north of Portugal. After a long time of absence, …
An indigenous man left his tribe at the age of 15. Several years later, he crosses the heart of Brazil, following the f…
This classic documents the life in a rural area where the sole source of income is the physically gruelling labour of s…
The people in the Estonian village of Pähkla have grown old since Uudu last saw them. Now he visits them once more – as…
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