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 …
How could Beethoven compose his best pieces after his deafness? This documentary is a thorough investigation into the e…
Some photographs found in the streets of Buenos Aires trigger an investigation into the possible existence of two varie…
This award-winning short film is an experimental portrait of Yussuf Mume Saleh, an Ethiopian man who has a deep connect…
In this episode of UN In Action, scientists at the National Museum of History in Albania are using a non-destructive me…
This episode of UN In Action shows us the experience of Quid, a woman-led eco-fashion brand that addresses climate chan…
Filmed over two years, this film documents life inside the studio of three artists and how the death of one of them ope…
This film, winner of the Grand Prix of the prestigious Cinéma du Réel, documents the life of the young soldiers who swa…
Two lifelong friends decide to spend a summer on a farm in the Swiss Alps. What could go wrong? Well ... almost everyth…
This unique film follows the musician and folk dancer Clark Wang as he prepares his own "green burial" before his death…
In this Un In Action, a UN program helps bring ambient temperatures down in New York by episode painting roofs white wi…
This episode of UN In Action is a gaze at Uganda, where the funding shortfall is significantly impacting the ability to…
Set in rural Thailand, this documentary follows an endearing elderly couple in their last years of life together. A min…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
A long tracking shot introduces us to a polluted river, where a woman fishes and the inhabitants of a village refuse to…
In this episode of UN In Action, two women fight for sustainable policies that prevent consequences for climate change …
An observation of life among the inhabitants of the Costa da Morte, on the northwest coast of Spain, reveals the tense …
This episode of UN In Action shows how a new invention in Africa can turn Methane released from cow dung into gas for c…
Filmed across several continents, this film reveals how development aid in poor countries reproduce poverty and increas…
This short film documents the apparently insignificant moments of the inhabitants of a Suburb of Lisbon, while they fig…
This is the extraordinary story of Bruno Banani, the only inhabitant of the small island of Tonga, in the South Pacific…
This documentary gravitates between the past and the present of the people of the Ave Valley, an area whose history is …
In this episode of UN In Action we follow a Syrian Family that fled Homs, their home city, after the war erupted, and n…
Through the Whatsapp voice notes that she exchanges with her grandmother, a Venezuelan filmmaker living in Barcelona in…
In Mexico City, 9 out of 10 women have been victims of sexual violence during their journeys in the public transportati…
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…
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) tries to protect refugees worldwide. In Japan, not all immigrants are recognized as refug…
This documentary is a delicate accompaniment to four septuagenarian women in their constant and emancipatory habit of s…
This episode of the UN In Action shows how through women's empowerment the Fund for Agricultural Development helps coas…
This is the portrait of Ali Badri, an elderly Kurdish man who has learned to enjoy a humble and loving life despite his…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into Casa Roshell, an underworld where the art of feminization and trans…
Why is it so important to be pretty? Why does the gaze of others matter so much? This personal documentary explores the…
Full of humor and freshness, this film is a road movie across Finland that follows a group of Argentines who come to di…
Did you know that more than a third of homeless youth in the United States belong to the LGBT community? This short fil…
This documentary makes us travel through the route of the sand that will feed Cape Verde's hunger for new hotels and re…
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