In the style of a travel video diary, a traveler (the director), documents the steps he takes in Tokyo on the eve of hi…
A collection of super8 films takes Joachim Michaud to the New York where Emilienne, an adventurous woman who could be h…
Seen from an European point of view, this ethnographic documentary is an educational and exciting journey through the i…
After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
Through still pictures and textual resources, a short story unfolds: the encounter between a western explorer and a Nig…
In this documentary short we accompany the musicians of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik, a band that mixes traditional Bavar…
Brazilian filmmaker Octavio Cury travels to Syria and obtains a book written by his great-grandfather, an icon of Arab …
Shot in different countries, between antipodes like South Africa and Colombia, this short documentary is a visual essay…
Benin, West Africa. Three tourists are being photographed by local photographers, wearing extravagant masks of their ch…
In this emotional and sensory journey, we accompany filmmaker Khoa Lê to Vietnam. Here he reunites with his roots amid …
Rolf and Renata leave their home and embark with their young children to live with indigenous communities in various pa…
For the protagonists of this film, life on land is on hold. On board a cruise ship, normality has other rules. This sho…
When a piece of clothing gets stolen from her at a hotel on the island of Samoa, an anthropology student begins an odys…
A woman returns to meet her mother in her hometown, in Portugal. During her trip, we discover the history of her family…
A filmmaker discovers what happened to the dream of who was his next-door neighbor 16 years ago, a man who built an oce…
When a select group of artists gather in an exclusive residence on the seashore, many things can emerge from creation. …
Conceived as a kind of documentary tragicomedy, this film takes us into the microcosm of a private resort in the Domini…
In the beautiful Vietnamese bay of Ha Long, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a family faces its imminent separation when t…
A dark tunnel at the end of the light. In this documentary, this unfolded metaphor reveals the paradox between capitali…
Airports, the summits of modern society. In this captivating animated documentary we become travelers immersed in the v…
Mother and daughter embark on a trip to Brazil in search of the healer “Joh of God”. But not everything goes as planned…
For many years, the mountain has been moved between two countries, Brazil and China. Romulo, an ex-mineworker, heads in…
A collection of amateur films about people going to the beach on holidays allows director Ermanno Cavazzoni to reflect …
A girl of a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father travels from Moscow to a small town in Azerbaijan to meet her pate…
Director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian town, where she is confronted with traditional views of…
Framing the Other is a documentary about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photos of exotic tribal people …
Confronted with the idea of getting married after several years of being a couple, two intrepid travelers visit four ma…
The film takes us into the third class wagons of the Moscow-Vladivostok train, which crosses Russia on the most extensi…
A ferry makes its way through the ice that floats somewhere in the Baltic Sea in the middle of a calm, dark night. Insi…
After having been living for over two decades in Austria, a father and his daughter travel to Iraq on a journey of redi…
A Uruguayan Navy vessel crosses the southern Atlantic Ocean towards Antarctica to supply a military base. A sensory jou…
Being home to several of the archaeological wonders of humanity, the inhabitants of the Jordanian city of Petra propose…
Shih captures the return of Paola Shih to Taiwan to meet with her father after twenty years of separation. Following Pa…
The film follows twenty-seven Czechs who have decided to spend approximately 2,600 Euros on a sightseeing tour of a cou…
At first glance, Australians Jock and Dianne Chambers look like an ordinary couple on a trip around India. But their mo…
When A Balinese girl is denied permission to marry outside of her clan, there is a traditional solution for the family …
Renato Zucchelli is the last travelling shepherd left in a metropolis, and he has a dream: to lead his flock of sheep t…
This film invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film an…
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