Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
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 an irreverent narrative, this short film reinterprets the roots of Bulgaria, a territory where rites and battle…
This documentary brings to the canvas a unique point of view, based on the turnaround in the life of visual artist Vera…
Amid an apparent calmness, this film makes a portrait of a fragmented Nicaraguan family thorugh Estela and Sebastián, w…
This documentary shows all the facets of Alexandro Jodorowsky, cult filmmaker, mime artist, performer, comic writer, cr…
Through interviews conducted in a video workshop, the inhabitants of a neighborhood in the margins of Rome talk about t…
Filmmaker Frédéric Ramade follows a curious shaman on his tour throughout France. The trip will be a meeting of seeming…
In northern Uganda, Patricia dedicates her life to helping women to give birth in her small village. This beautiful pho…
Two teenagers explore love, fear and passion amid the seemingly calm French countryside.
Through a bold accompaniment to the crew aboard a trawler in the Barents Sea, we witness their hard days, their hopes, …
Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her…
Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
The filmmaker Iman Behrouzi prepares to make a film for the woman he loves, which triggers within his family a debate a…
This short film is a portrait of Didou, an 88-year-old Algerian man who preserves the memory of his deceased wife on th…
The ocean, a place of infinite pleasure. This essay documentary reflects on the concept of maritime transport, the men …
In this short film made like a collage, an eloquent female journalist recounts her experience as a freelance correspond…
Daniela films her mother as she prepares to leave the family house. Inside, we feel the absence of the diceased father.…
In this experimental short documentary, a solitary walk around a common neighborhood becomes a surreal experience inspi…
In this experimental short film, fragments of the film "The Wild Child" are reinterpreted in image and sound to propose…
Vincenzo has always led a marginal existence. He is now 42 and has not seen his daughter for a long time. One day, he t…
In this atmospheric animated short film, the wounds of the real estate business in Bogotá are left open after an incide…
Seen from above, on the sands of the California desert there are geometric traces that precede the closest civilization…
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