The people of Visaginas, a Lithuanian city created in the golden age of the USSR, face an uncertain future because of t…
After living in Paris for years, Arash, a demotivated young Iranian, visits the coasts of France with his friends, who …
This short film is a sensory journey through a moment in the life of Pablo Carranza, a young skater from San Francisco …
Director Andrew Lancaster delves into his family's past and brings to light the case of his uncle Bill Lancaster, an av…
The filmmaker Bernhard Braunstein shoots a group of French students in a conversation practice. A reflection on languag…
What could a former prisoner of the Stasi tell us about the state of civil rights in modern democracies? He gives his t…
Banned in his home country, this documentary by young filmmaker Nontawat Numbenchapol is a crude and experiential gaze …
In this artistic documentary, the legendary Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián shares his experiences and his creation pro…
We embark alongside Bill Viola, the greatest video artist of this century, on his twelve-year adventure of crafting his…
Using material from a mythical silent film that served as a manifesto of the Art Deco movement, this experimental essay…
This experimental short film is an observational study of the Alps and how the human trail permeates their geography.
When thousands of people protest on the streets, television shows something very different. This animated short film is…
This curious cinematic investigation-conversation oscillates between Paris and Portugal to inquire into the "Danses Mac…
A girl draws a sketch of her schoolyard and explains how this space is divided between boys and girls at recess every d…
This film invites us to a hypnotizing experience in a slow motion world. A high speed camera allows us to feel the move…
This documentary follows four outcasts in Montreal at night: Kye, Tobie, Paul, Kim. The four support each other and dru…
This documentary follows the career of Joan Fontcuberta, considered the most important contemporary visual artist in Sp…
A series of impressive photographs of Algerian landscapes and the voices of its inhabitants reflect the traces of the A…
Sergei Loznitsa, a master of contemporary documentary filmmaking, makes a delicate observation of the bodies of men and…
Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
In the safety of a desolate house, a group of homeless people in the city of Porto tell us what it is like to live and …
Through beautifully crafted puppets made of beach sand, this animated short film tells us an endearing story of childho…
The life of a man changes abruptly. After serving a prison sentence, he is no longer part of the privileged class and n…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
When his girlfriend is interned in a psychiatric hospital after a traumatic event, the author of this short film docume…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
After undergoing a laryngectomy and becoming mute, Joël Perrotte confined himself to his basement. But it is time for h…
After living for several years in the United States, a group of men are deported and forced to return to the Azores, th…
Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…
Filmed with infrared cameras, this short film documents a group of refugees planning to cross to Great Britain through …
A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short …
The sketches found after the death of Sarah, a drawer of faces without body or sex, detonate the analysis of these stro…
This documentary surrounds the creative process of the painter Bernard Legay, a man who isolates himself from civilizat…
Shot with the subtlety of an avid observer, this film documents the creations of twenty comic books creators during the…
This short film is a millimeter observation to the art of Arnaud, an artist whose work is based on the intervention of …
This short film follows French street artist Eric ZeKing, known as EZK, whose work has been a reference for social and …
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
When high school students in France stop their classes to speak openly with the institution's authorities, the tensions…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
This documentary is a delicate accompaniment to four septuagenarian women in their constant and emancipatory habit of s…
In Guimbereru, a small village in Benin that seems lost in time, a young man from the community begins a personal searc…
With a “direct cinema” approach, this film follows Peipei, a young female artist who does not conform to the institutio…
This poetic documentary follows the rehearsals of the renowned Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris as it prepares to pr…
This short film documents the interaction of human beings with natural formations in northern France and southeast Engl…
Through a meticulous observational approach, this short film takes us to a village in the Bulgarian Balkans to show us …
Through an irreverent narrative, this short film reinterprets the roots of Bulgaria, a territory where rites and battle…
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