Woochul is just one face among the 600,000 soldiers in the South Korean army. This documentary follows this young man d…
For decades, Uzzi Ornan has been an activist against religious coercion in Israel. In the autumn of his life, he still …
Following a dream that revealed to him an indigenous massacre ordered by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, a Native American spi…
In this beautiful film essay, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films the landscape outside his studio window for s…
This beautiful documentary takes us close to Lanny Gordin, a prolific guitarist who worked with great musicians such as…
Set in the majestic mountains of Taiwan, this documentary relies on extensive archival and testimonial material to tell…
Through a letter written to the ghost of his grandfather, filmmaker Kelvin Kyung Kun Park makes this experimental film …
To discover the truth behind the mysterious objects her uncle brought back from the Far East during her childhood, film…
Multi-media artist Kelvin Kyung Kun Park looks back to the “heroic age” of heavy industry in 1960s South Korea and the …
A Mexican director. A white American actor. What can happen in this fifteen-minute conversation about race and privileg…
Didn't know flying motorcycles existed? This adventure documentary follows two intrepid microlight aircrafts riders as …
Vaclav Havel is the father of modern democracy in the post-Soviet Czech Republic. This biographical documentary offers …
Inspired by the best-selling book "The Gift", this documentary follows characters from three continents to weave an end…
This experimental film mixes contemplative observations of the interior of Silicon Valley homes with actorly reflection…
Skateboarding in a socialist country has its virtues. This must-see documentary for fans of the sport retraces the orig…
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
Tour Du Faso, Africa's top cycling race, where foreigners and locals try to be the winner on a route full of unforeseen…
When others film pain, Silvana Lopa films happiness. In just five minutes, the young Argentine filmmaker captures fragm…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
To dig into her family tree, a Kenyan woman in exile embarks on a journey to three countries to construct the figure of…
Mark Inglis reached the summit of Everest with both legs amputated in 2006. But his achievement was tarnished by allege…
Filmed over several years, this iconic documentary directed by Helena Třeštíková follows a married couple from their ho…
When a film crew arrives in Ghana to shoot a film about supposed child witchcraft, the ethical dilemmas of the filmmake…
How much pain can you accumulate until you can't take it anymore? This light-hearted documentary follows an acting teac…
An Artist, a Musician, and a Dreamer leave their comfortable life in Great Britain to create a home in the picturesque …
In the interior of a Japanese apartment where an art gallery operates, a daughter and her mother with dementia live day…
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
Inspired by a film by Agnes Varda, this experimental short film features actors and actresses to stage and reflect on g…
When a series of violent incidents begin to occur among the students of a prestigious medical school in India, filmmake…
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 the decadent town of Gonzalez, Texas, no cultural event attracts more attention than the traditional cattle auction.…
Calais is not only a prominent port city in France, but also the crossroads for many migrants trying to reach England. …
Filmmaker Tana Gilbert films the relationship between her octogenarian grandmother and her uncle Jhonny, a mentally uns…
In the inhospitable desert lands of northeastern Mexico, a community of ranchers prepares to migrate to a new home in t…
To stand up against discrimination, a group of gay men gather in downtown Seoul to sing in South Korea's only amateur g…
This short film takes us to the majestic plains of Badlands National Park, USA, to tell the story of a rodeo horse rais…
A group of North Korean refugee women living in South Korea have an essential ritual since they left their home in sear…
This is a fascinating insight into the life of Swiss skier and Olympic medalist Lara Gut-Behrami. From the peak of her …
What is so poetic about the rite of swimming from a beach to a buoy? Filmmaker Fernando Spiner takes us to his hometown…
Through interviews with Korean female workers of the present, we are taken back decades to unveil the labor oppression …
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
Through slow motion postcards, this short film shows us an ordinary day in the life of the inhabitants of North Korea, …
When the presidents of Mexico and France unveiled his chaquira mural at the entrance of the Louvre Museum, indigenous a…
After a long absence, a daughter returns to her parents' home with a movie camera. Beset the same financial problems th…
When a beaver plague gets out of control in the harsh territory of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, a couple of biologists …
A few days away from death, terminally ill patients can spend their last days in a hospice in Seoul, South Korea. This …
When great-grandmother Inés died, it meant nothing to little Luisa. Several decades later, some old manuscripts bring t…
To reflect on the atomic bomb and the human race's apparent mania for self-destruction, this film essay takes us to thr…
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