This first installment of the Accentus Music trilogy explains how music and the great composers were forever changed by…
Sixty years after being buried by Nazis in Poland, a Roma woman rises from her grave to tell us about the racism her pe…
This film essay by Adam Kossoff mixes images from The Paris Exposition of 1937 with literary excerpts from works by Wal…
This film follows Arvo Pärt, the most acclaimed contemporary composer, in the staging of one of his compositions in col…
This multi-award-winning documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival looks at four men in various parts of the wo…
Through a collage of images taken by tourists in exotic territories, this documentary questions the "tourist eye" as a …
This gripping investigative documentary attempts to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a prisoner of war durin…
Immersed in the heart of the wild, filmmaker Roman Droux and bear researcher David Bittner show us what life is like fo…
This is a jazz documentary like no other. Preserved by the Library of Congress, this vintage film documents the unforge…
Having escaped from Africa to Europe after being harshly harassed for her homosexuality, Pepsi tells us what it has bee…
We've all heard of Mount Everest, but we don't know who were the first two men to reach its summit. This vintage Oscar-…
Featuring star motorcyclists - like Steve Mcqueen himself - this Oscar-nominated vintage documentary immerses us in the…
This rare documentary piece is a propaganda film with which the Pentagon trained its security personnel against the thr…
Filmed in 1981, this all time classic documentary follows the evolution of four American women during a demanding milit…
Following a dream that revealed to him an indigenous massacre ordered by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, a Native American spi…
After leaving behind a war-torn Belgrade, three Serbian artists navigate a new life in New York. This is their story of…
Through a letter written to the ghost of his grandfather, filmmaker Kelvin Kyung Kun Park makes this experimental film …
In just fifteen minutes, this documentary dissects the American male stereotype through the art of Aaron Ray, a drag pe…
A Mexican director. A white American actor. What can happen in this fifteen-minute conversation about race and privileg…
Vaclav Havel is the father of modern democracy in the post-Soviet Czech Republic. This biographical documentary offers …
This experimental film mixes contemplative observations of the interior of Silicon Valley homes with actorly reflection…
What is it like to be a female tattoo artist in a male-dominated art? In this documentary, world-famous tattoo artist D…
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
How to make another living being happy? And how to do it if that other living being is a turtle? These questions are an…
Through incisive research and the participation of protagonists and experts, this documentary dissects the 1971 partiti…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
To dig into her family tree, a Kenyan woman in exile embarks on a journey to three countries to construct the figure of…
With a global perspective, this educational documentary sheds light on the evolution of one of the most revolutionary e…
When a film crew arrives in Ghana to shoot a film about supposed child witchcraft, the ethical dilemmas of the filmmake…
After being a sexually abused child, Dave Ohlmuller embarks on an adventure to bike from Chicago to New Jersey to raise…
While the decline in drinking water supplies threatens existence of life on planet Earth, already in Cape Town, South A…
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
When a series of violent incidents begin to occur among the students of a prestigious medical school in India, filmmake…
In the decadent town of Gonzalez, Texas, no cultural event attracts more attention than the traditional cattle auction.…
An old sailor faces physical and mental decline in his 80s. When a sailor can't go on anymore, he sets out for his fina…
To reflect on the atomic bomb and the human race's apparent mania for self-destruction, this film essay takes us to thr…
In a country historically closed to immigration, a group of asylum seekers show themselves only through their hands and…
Focusing on the experiences of three children with autism, this documentary is an intimate look at living as a family w…
In this experimental short film, a man traverses landscapes that discourse on modern civilization, the control of natur…
In only six minutes, a little boy portrays his domestic universe. A younger brother, his grandparents, his most technol…
After a tragic fire in Melbourne's northeast in 2009, a group of Australian Blacksmiths begin to build their greatest j…
Gopi Shankar, an intersex individual, is publicly vying for a seat in the legislative assembly of a conservative region…
These three young men may not have a home of their own, but their hopes of living an independent life away from the fos…
Looking for the meaning of life, a filmmaker travels to Tokyo and discovers 63-year-old Yamada-San, an irreverent chara…
Pedagogical and inspiring, this documentary follows the life and work of Indian Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, one of the …
Imagine a regenerated world: can we reclaim our deforested forests, polluted seas and melting ice masses? This episode …
A filmmaker is stranded at the airport in Dakkar, Senegal. In this short film, she launches images of this journey spun…
Hilarious, shocking and informative at the same time, this bold documentary takes a historical look back at sex educati…
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