Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
Through the texture of a 16mm camera, this short film makes a contemplative approach to a mystical island.
Filmed in a grainy black and white, this short film makes a portrait of Jurgen Blin, a retired German boxer who fought …
As farmland is becoming scarce, large corporations secure their control through the land grabbing business. This docume…
Some make documentaries of successful people, while others - like the case of this short film - prefer to look at those…
Alternating beautiful animations with the intimacy of customary moments, this film is a journey into the creative world…
Having as background the port city of Murmansk, in Russia, a young human rights activist questions her position towards…
This beautiful film ventures to take a closer look at the naked body and the fragile spirit that lies within it. The fi…
Dragan Wende conquered the night scene of a divided Berlin during the Cold War. 25 years later later, the directors of …
A young man decides to make the journey his adopted brother could not finish. Years ago, his brother died in a plane cr…
A lovingly filmed portrait of the filmmaker’s parents who make out a living making ‘jaggery’ sweets from toddy palm syr…
Without dialogues or didactic pretensions, this documentary makes an observation of forgotten spaces in Brasilia. In th…
In the beautiful Vietnamese bay of Ha Long, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a family faces its imminent separation when t…
This essay documentary conveis what it means to have been raised in Naples. It is Christianity, volcanoes, and the Camo…
Captured with a beautiful black and white film grain, this short film documents the process of a vinyl pressing plant.
Since Evelin’s amputation of both legs, friends abandoned her. She is stuck in her apartment for years now, moving only…
Nineteen-year-old Kirill hangs out on the rooftops of apartment blocks, where his brazen stunts have earned him the nic…
The release in 1986 of Karl-Marx-Stadt meant a musical revolution for their generation. This film documents the short l…
Through a compelling contemplative approach, this film follows the people living inside the caldera of the volcano Pico…
With a provocative title, this short film essay delves into the image that documents a rally of the National Democratic…
This animated short film depicts the harsh reality for the prisioners inside Honeheck, a jail for women in former East …
This mysterious short film is a kind of night road trip across downtown Cairo spun by the account of the dreams of its …
Trapped in the structures of a destructive family, with no help from the outside world, a mother and a daughter embrace…
The Earth's population is increasing. Genetically engineered crops shall secure the world's nourishment. And soy is one…
This film shows social and visual changes affecting Pirimze, a six-floor building from the Soviet era, built especially…
A group of young dancers whose members are immigrants from the former Soviet Union try to win the International Breakda…
Discover the life and work of Walter Pfeiffer, a Swiss photographer who at his 70 years of age is still at the forefron…
Paul Leeming and Pauls Irbins, two civilians who are preparing to be sent to Mars in 2024 by a private organization, im…
Director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian town, where she is confronted with traditional views of…
In times of terrorist threat, risk prevention and all embracing control phantasms, the images of surveillance cameras, …
An anonymous man explores the Mojave Desert in search of water stagnations around the abandoned buildings of a failed h…
An intimate and minimalistic approach allows us to witness the daily routine of Mrs. Loosli in her home in the Swiss Mo…
After having studied together at the University of Toulouse several years ago a Nigerian man and a French man meet once…
When the summer is ending, three young people from the calm and languid south of Italy spend the days before an imminen…
Images, or rather everyday scraps of the town of Bremen, Germany, reach the most unimaginable fantastic situations seei…
Two Arab truck drivers face different obstacles to reach their destinations in an area affected by the war in Syria and…
A look at four barbershops located in Raval, a neighborhood in Barcelona’s old town. These four small businesses of for…
Seeking a better future in Germany, a young Iranian filmmaker must separate from his girlfriend in his native country. …
The film follows the European tour of Mummenschanz, one of the most creative and unique theater companies in the world.
After being sold by her family as a child to work as a domestic slave for 12 years, Urmila, a young Nepalese girl, take…
Two teenage girls who are best friends and two young brothers grow up surrounded by the cold mountains of Lesotho, a co…
Sky, a boy with a severe hearing impairment, takes on the daily challenge of being a normal child.
A grandmother and her grandson struggle to save the photo shop that both operate in Tel Aviv, a place that houses a uni…
In a world where pollution is already a commodity, this fascinating financial thriller reveals the cracks in the tradin…
An exhaustive investigation reveals the financial scandal that shook Europe at the beginning of the 21st century.
A personal journey to interpret the death of a father becomes a revealing experience about the true motivations of trad…
Niko von Glasow was born disabled due to the side effects of the drug thalidomide. So were the eleven people he finds t…
Lithuanian photographer, the legend of Soviet Sixties' generation Vitas Luckus tragically passed away in 1987. Yet the …
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