This observational documentary makes visible the faces behind the famous manhole covers on the streets of New York, whi…
This documentary takes us into the fascinating work of Amancio Williams, an icon of modern Argentine architecture.
Arami returns from Europe to Paraguay to take care of her elderly mother, who suffers from epilepsy and Parkinson. Clou…
The filmmaker Bernhard Braunstein shoots a group of French students in a conversation practice. A reflection on languag…
Luis Quijano, the son of an officer of the Argentine dictatorship of the late 1970s, looks at us on camera and tells us…
This documentary by filmmaker Rama Rau is a journey as raw as it is impressive to the golden years of the burlesque sce…
Through a cinema workshop, a group of students from an Armenian school in Argentina use film resources to reconstruct a…
Miguel has heard that he looks a lot like his father, whom he has never met. In this story we accompany him in a poetic…
This episode of UN In Action takes us to New York, where the United Nations promotes urban farming as a sustainable way…
In this episode of UN In Action we follow the Somali police force in their attempt to eradicate the contamination of ex…
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…
Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film documents the popular insurgency that overthrew the Mubarak regime in …
In Vienna, a group of immigrants from the Middle East try to integrate into the Austrian society in the midst of the ho…
The effects of the Syrian conflict are being felt by the inhabitants across the ceasefire line in the Israeli Occupied …
The film scraps of unfinished movies that remained forgotten in the film museum in Buenos Aires come to life in this pr…
This documentary follows the prominent British artist Marc Quinn for more than a year in his life as he creates and exh…
Using film footage from different periods, this essay on family memory and documentation compiles films sent as postcar…
In this curious road movie, a film lover takes his mobile Polish film festival through the beautiful landscapes of Icel…
Right next to the wall that is built to prevent migration to the U.S. those who live on the border with Mexico tell us …
Surrounded by southern pine trees, in the solitude of the Chilean mountains, Juan lives every day resisting the imminen…
This engaging documentary plunges into the fascinating life of John Healy, the renowned literary author, chess player, …
Two octogenarian brothers return to their native Poland. One is a painter, the other a scientist. Despite their differe…
From his delicate architectural eye, filmmaker Karl-Heinz Klopf makes a contemplative observation of architect Andra Ma…
José and Citlalli, an indigenous couple in Ecuador, begin to question their family's identity when they find out they a…
8-years-old Janek has just moved from Poland to the Argentine countryside with his family. Here he meets Marcia, his in…
With the beautifully photographed urban world of Dublin as a backdrop, this film reflects on the evolution of Skateboar…
We embark alongside Bill Viola, the greatest video artist of this century, on his twelve-year adventure of crafting his…
South of Buenos Aires, in a coastal city, there is a public school in the middle of a forest, where its students have a…
Through the voice of one of its inhabitants, the reality of a shelter for homeless people comes to light from the shado…
A series of bold collage and remix creators from various areas spark a discussion about the existence of these art made…
This documentary makes visible the struggle of the Ranqueles, an indigenous community in Argentina who have resisted th…
Using material from a mythical silent film that served as a manifesto of the Art Deco movement, this experimental essay…
This documentary follows Hedil and Naam, two Yazidi women who try to give their families a decent life in a refugee cam…
This film transports us to the jungle heart of Brazil, where the Ãwa indigenous people tell us their story of forced mi…
This beautiful rarity is an experimental documentary that, in only an uninterrupted shot, takes us into a vertical hous…
A young Russian woman fights along with the LGBTI community against a law that discriminates homosexuals. But her love …
This experimental short film is an observational study of the Alps and how the human trail permeates their geography.
This film essay presents five different atmospheres and stories in a planet that is torn between decadence and resistan…
This documentary makes a portrait of the Ithanvong family and their epic journey from war-torn Laos to a town in Santa …
When thousands of people protest on the streets, television shows something very different. This animated short film is…
In the everyday of four small homes, this documentary traces imprints of the larger world as four families of Filipino …
A 26-year-old Kurdish-German woman returns to Turkey and becomes the mayor of her city, near the border with Syria and …
This short film premiered at the prestigious IDFA takes us into Ostend's Ibis, a boarding school where children with be…
"If today would be a great adventure, in 1948 it was an epic" says a certified voice in this documentary about the bigg…
A glimpse into the soul of Teresa Smith, an African-American mother who through her profound singing finds a way to dem…
Jaki is 27 years old and has to deal with... well, everything that entails. A hybrid short film about a state of mind i…
Filmmakers Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra resort to their common imaginary, vibrant scraps of images and sounds tha…
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