A resilient woman with a turbulent past takes to the streets as a sex worker at 46 to make Christmas brighter for her g…
This powerful film serves as a parable on the devastating impact of industrialization, focusing on the dismantling of M…
With humor, avant-garde spirit, and eloquence, this documentary reviews the fascinating life of the prolific French com…
With his usual sharpness and critical sense, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck makes a revisionist essay about the interne…
When a film crew arrives in Ghana to shoot a film about supposed child witchcraft, the ethical dilemmas of the filmmake…
Hans and his female double Agnes wander around the streets of Lisbon looking for a man named Arief, who was their first…
Celebrate Duke Ellington’s cinematic elegance, from the jazz-infused streets of "Black and Tan" to the vibrant performa…
Underneath the glamor of a successful fashion designer's life in Shanghai, Chen Chen navigates hidden complexities and …
An exploration of a psychiatrist's unconventional wisdom on the human psyche, interwoven with cultural rituals that rev…
In this video art, multidisciplinary artist Samuel Bester makes a free, experimental and sensually charged interpretati…
Defying an ancient rule, a young woman enlists in a Napoleonic guard that re-enacts historical scenes where only men ca…
Irreverent, iconoclastic and beautifully free. Linn da Quebrada, a black and transsexual artist, displays all her truth…
Identical twins, celebrated photographer Joel-Peter and painter Jerome, diverge in art and life, with their shared hist…
This is an emotional family portrait that surrounds the Mexican indigenous troubadour and social leader Jaime Martínez.…
This insightful documentary explores the life and overlooked literary contributions of Marcelo Chiriboga, an Ecuadorian…
Uncovers the innovative spirit of Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, celebrating his unique approach to music,…
Looking for the meaning of life, a filmmaker travels to Tokyo and discovers 63-year-old Yamada-San, an irreverent chara…
Eastern Ukraine. After all the villagers of Pesky were evacuated due to the armed conflict between pro-Russian rebels a…
Against the backdrop of the gray Soviet architecture of St. Petersburg, drag queens of various generations come out to …
Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
With the premise that the legal system in the United States makes sustainability illegal, this film demonstrates how pe…
Before formal education looms, 6-year-old Stanley revels in his final year embodying Disney's Queen Elsa.
This cult classic takes us on a journey through the most eccentric and fascinating places of 1970s Australia. A film fu…
Conceived as a kind of documentary tragicomedy, this film takes us into the microcosm of a private resort in the Domini…
David has two passions in life: being a father and rap. Through a close and chronological follow-up, we become witnesse…
An exorcist, a horse breeder, a stuntman. These are just some of the amazing characters you will meet at the electric a…
An Iranian director based in Germany visits his country with a mission: to show Iran beyond the negative stereotype tha…
In Southern Iran, a determined Roghieh fights to protect a women's bazaar, a beacon of empowerment, from being razed by…
Funny and absurd, yet profoundly realistic. This documentary follows a group of Middle Eastern immigrants as they try t…
Be ready to watch this unique, stop-motion animation entirely filmed in a municipal dump in Croatia!
A foreigner arrives in Cuba to elucidate what for him is a riddle from the western point of view: Why in Cuba can you g…
In just fifteen minutes, this documentary dissects the American male stereotype through the art of Aaron Ray, a drag pe…
Images, or rather everyday scraps of the town of Bremen, Germany, reach the most unimaginable fantastic situations seei…
This multi-award winning documentary is an incisive yet simple portrait of a Neo-Nazi in his seemingly harmless everyda…
When a film roll gets damaged in the middle of a screening, a projectionist and a young apprentice must repair it quick…
When a man discovers he is suffering from an incurable disease, he embarks in a kind of farewell journey filming everyd…
The town of Kiruna, in northern Sweden, is collapsing due to mining activity. This documentary follows its characters a…
This film essay presents five different atmospheres and stories in a planet that is torn between decadence and resistan…
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 documentary was conceived to enter the mind of an elderly Armenian suffering from Parkinson's. Through Cinema, we …
An Intimate Exploration of Life, Death, and Expanded Consciousness.
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…
After being sold by her family as a child to work as a domestic slave for 12 years, Urmila, a young Nepalese girl, take…
A woman living in downtown Cairo tries to support her family by selling potato chips. Known as "Potatoes lady" she star…
An intrepid couple and a crew of young Swiss adventurers sails to the Arctic's melting frontiers on a mission to witnes…
This film is a poetic observation of the last survivors of the Aymara culture in the Surire salt flat, located in the C…
Lludy, a Brazilian immigrant, has just lost his flat in Barcelona and has nowhere to go. Through her belongings we disc…
The film is a delicate gaze at Mina de São Domingos, a desolate village in Portugal whose past mining economy barely br…
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