A congress bill promises to return the lands to those affected by violence in Colombia. The filmmaker visits this ghost…
This beautiful documentary portrays a small ethnic community in Udmurtia, Russia, and its unique singing, a precious ar…
Rejected by society, Dario and Maury decide to move to a gay nudist beach in Roma. Full of brushstrokes of pop, psyched…
Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
A girl draws a sketch of her schoolyard and explains how this space is divided between boys and girls at recess every d…
This Oscar-Nominated animation illustrates the dilemma of Bill Babbitt, who must make a decision when he realizes his b…
This film makes visible the small community of Malana, in the mountains of the Himalayas, where an advanced concept of …
For the protagonists of this film, life on land is on hold. On board a cruise ship, normality has other rules. This sho…
In this Berlinale award-winning short film, a film crew shoots the tests that scientists are doing on laboratory mice. …
Mixing reality and fiction, we see the trial and the interpellation of those involved in the murder of a young Portugue…
Immersed in the middle of the Colombian jungle, surrounded by nature and the violence that gravitates in the area, Mr. …
The world knows who Mandela was for South Africa, but we don't know about F.W. de Klerk, the president that ushered in …
Mystical and visceral at the same time, this short documentary presents a poetic approach to the culture of berry plant…
This documentary follows four outcasts in Montreal at night: Kye, Tobie, Paul, Kim. The four support each other and dru…
A group of Yodelers in the Swiss Alps must face unprecedented fame, and an impending presentation in Shanghai becomes a…
This documentary follows the difficult path of African-American politician Bakari Sellers in his quest to become the fi…
In the Cerro Rico mines in Bolivia, three humble women try to survive in a microcosm hostile to women. And dynamite is …
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
The arrival of a magic car creates a change in a small town in Iran where children often drop out of school due to the …
This film documents the last days of work of men and women who work blocking and unblocking the chains of the pedestria…
A series of impressive photographs of Algerian landscapes and the voices of its inhabitants reflect the traces of the A…
With discretion and subtlety, this film documents in a school in Portugal the experience of the Generación Orchestra, a…
Marcos, a young Brazilian living in Argentina, faces a dilemma in his family's WhatsApp group that involves the impeach…
This documentary rescues part of the vast propaganda footage that the Soviets shot in Africa to document their humanita…
This animated short documentary illustrates in less than two minutes the arrival of an Iranian refuge in Germany, his n…
This beautifully photographed documentary follows the unique life of a fisherman in a small Lisbon coastal community.
Trapped in an Indian society that does not accept their relationship, two young lesbian women commit suicide in Nandigr…
Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
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 …
When a piece of clothing gets stolen from her at a hotel on the island of Samoa, an anthropology student begins an odys…
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
Five years after the Egyptian revolution that overthrew the Mubarak regime, four young Egyptians look back on that even…
After undergoing a laryngectomy and becoming mute, Joël Perrotte confined himself to his basement. But it is time for h…
Through interviews with experts on both sides of the Atlantic, this film visits various natural history museums and zoo…
Based in Brussels, filmmaker Sanaz Azari begins to study Farsi with a children's book that dates back from the Islamic …
Four war veterans who confronted each other during the war between South Africa and Angola face a reconciling reunion a…
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 filmmaker has a recurring nightmare: machine guns killing people. In this experimental essay, he makes sense of these…
During a radio show, the inhabitants of a city share intimate revelations on the eve of the end of the world according …
With almost no budget to shoot, filmmaker Lee Salter conducts an in-depth investigation into the implications of the ph…
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