The desert of northern Argentina is getting drier due to the activity of extraction companies. Flora and her llamas fin…
This short film uses the perspective of three military drone pilots to see life differently. Pixelated, distant, dehuma…
A street in St. Pauli, Germany, is home to a group of Latin American transsexuals who come to Germany to experience the…
Three people that have suffered racist and fascist attacks in Germany during the last decades decide that these crimes …
Through the small details in the memories of a Syrian refugee in Berlin, this short film makes the exercise of illustra…
A man returns to his small village in Azerbaijan with a strange animal: a European cow. The arrival of the animal unlea…
After spending more than twenty years in prison during the Soviet Union, a 71-year-old grandfather dedicates himself to…
Four mountaineers return to K2, the second highest mountain in the world, following the tracks of their parents, who pe…
In 1811, two bodies were found shot in Lake Wannsee, near Berlin. The German poet Kleist and a woman. What is known abo…
More than five decades later, two actors make a dramatized reading of the letters that the poets Anja Plaschg and Laure…
What could a former prisoner of the Stasi tell us about the state of civil rights in modern democracies? He gives his t…
USA, the land of the possible. This free visual essay deconstructs the imaginary and mythology of the United States as …
Surrounded by southern pine trees, in the solitude of the Chilean mountains, Juan lives every day resisting the imminen…
A series of bold collage and remix creators from various areas spark a discussion about the existence of these art made…
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
A 26-year-old Kurdish-German woman returns to Turkey and becomes the mayor of her city, near the border with Syria and …
In this Berlinale award-winning short film, a film crew shoots the tests that scientists are doing on laboratory mice. …
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
This animated short documentary illustrates in less than two minutes the arrival of an Iranian refuge in Germany, his n…
In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
Four war veterans who confronted each other during the war between South Africa and Angola face a reconciling reunion a…
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
Follow Del Keens, "the ugliest model in the world," in this humorous documentary that reflects on the historic dilemma …
How could Beethoven compose his best pieces after his deafness? This documentary is a thorough investigation into the e…
This is the extraordinary story of Bruno Banani, the only inhabitant of the small island of Tonga, in the South Pacific…
This documentary is a poetic approach to the stories that survive the flooding of a small village nestled in the mounta…
Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
Full of humor and freshness, this film is a road movie across Finland that follows a group of Argentines who come to di…
This documentary follows five adults in their daily lives and in the extraordinary world they enter every weekend, when…
This documentary closely follows a Roma family from a humble neighborhood of Macedonia while they make a living amid ec…
This documentary unveils with irony and diligence the connection between business, politics and sport in Donetsk, Ukrai…
In 1998, the inhabitants of an entire town were resettled so that the brown coal underneath the village could be mined.…
No one knew that a great 75-year-old poet lived in a small town in eastern Serbia until his son begins posting videos o…
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…
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