A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short …
This episode of UN in Action portrays how climate change has forced communities in Madagascar to seek better opportunit…
This film is a gloomy, dream-like document about what remains of a Jewish state created by Stalin for communist Jews in…
New York 2001, Bagdad 2003, Algeria 2007, Uganda 2010 are dates remembered by victims of terrorism worldwide. This epis…
Mladen and Maja seek their space in a society that rejects them. They also want their independence from the health syst…
Bold and concise, this animation illustrates the bizarre yet ordinary day at an elementary school in Israel.
Clinging to their land, Matsumura and his old father remain in the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear plant. F…
Through a series of interviews, this documentary portrays the stories of men who have had to confront an unforeseen pre…
The sketches found after the death of Sarah, a drawer of faces without body or sex, detonate the analysis of these stro…
How long can a human being remain alive underwater? For Goran Čolak, the world champion in free diving, the meaning of …
This documentary surrounds the creative process of the painter Bernard Legay, a man who isolates himself from civilizat…
Shot with the subtlety of an avid observer, this film documents the creations of twenty comic books creators during the…
Filmed over several years, this documentary is a portrait of an old brothel in a mining area of Australia and the las…
This short film is a millimeter observation to the art of Arnaud, an artist whose work is based on the intervention of …
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
This documentary is an essay, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes futuristic, that portrays the industrial city of Charleroi…
This life-inspiring documentary follows four children who live in Zaatari, a small city of refugees, who dream of a bet…
In case you didn't know, we are in a global water crisis. The UN launched a program to accelerate efforts towards meeti…
In the midst of an unstable political and social situation, a contingent of female UN peacekeepers helps solve the prob…
Reminiscing about the days of the repressive cultural revolution, the Chinese artist Mu Xin tells us in this documentar…
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
A ghost is haunting Europe, the ghost of right-wing populism. This film reflects with sarcasm and crudeness how this ph…
This peaceful and light-hearted film shows us how life in old age flows in present-day Cuba through three elderly music…
Argentine filmmaker Iar Said shoots a set of tragicomic postcards documenting his aunt Flora, a 90-year-old woman who w…
This documentary is the result of a series of visits the filmmaker makes over the course of a year to the house of Pier…
A war without history can only be reconstructed through the statements of those who fought in it. This gripping documen…
This is the second part of filmmaker Kasuhiro Soda's follow-up to the Japanese politician Yama-san, who is now trying t…
When high school students in France stop their classes to speak openly with the institution's authorities, the tensions…
This documentary gives us a never-before-seen access to a mysterious ritual of purification practiced in northern India.
After years of absence, the filmmaker Kat Tolkovsky returns to her hometown in the Czech Republic. A documentary short …
The filmmaker Sara Broos invites us to this beautiful poetic catharsis, full of art and contemplation, about the relati…
The image of a model on the box of an inflatable hair-dryinghood inspires the filmmaker Susanne Helmer a curious and im…
After his previous film was banned by sensors in Thailand, filmmaker Ing K. documents the Shutdown Bangkok protests in …
Carlos used to live in the world's most dangerous city in Honduras. He fled gang violence and now lives with his grandm…
This documentary follows the producer of "Shakespeare Must Die", a film adaptation of Macbeth's, in his fight against t…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
This documentary connects the parallel experiences of two films that were shot in Barcelona in 1969: Count Dracula, pla…
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
This short film takes us to the mountainous south of China to draw a subtle portrait of a 10-year-old girl. Her dream: …
This inspiring documentary follows Suraj, an 11-year-old boy who works in the coal mines of northeast India, a confinem…
Through a stop-motion animation, the filmmaker reinterprets a story that emanates from her grandfather's old diary.
The story of Malakeh, a Syria woman who emigrated with her family to Germany, is that of millions of refugees now start…
In this episode of UN In Action, watch a day in the life of Afghan deminers who safeguard people from accidents, while …
Follow Del Keens, "the ugliest model in the world," in this humorous documentary that reflects on the historic dilemma …
Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
This short film is an endearing portrait of Peter Nhiany, who was forced to flee Sudan during a bloody civil war and no…
This short film is a delicate gaze at a religious and culinary rite in a town in Iran, where the believers prepare a me…
This episode of UN In Action addresses the famine situation in South Sudan, a hostile territory for organizations like …
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