Even though they don’t speak English, Illiterate women from towns around the world with no electricity try to learn how…
This documentary brings to the canvas a unique point of view, based on the turnaround in the life of visual artist Vera…
A filmmaker films his own family and asks whether he is a good son. The scenes we see next comppose a cinematic explora…
Did you know that millions of people eat insects on a daily basis? This documentary demonstrates how this habit can hel…
This film portrays the youth with fewer opportunities in Brussels through a public vocational school where the students…
Amid an apparent calmness, this film makes a portrait of a fragmented Nicaraguan family thorugh Estela and Sebastián, w…
In this episode of the UN In Action series, we follow the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon in its task of demini…
Oh! the famous American Delis, the ones we have always seen in films and pictures. This documentary takes a look at the…
This short film is a gaze at the severe drought crisis in Somalia of 2017, where the UN tries to help the population th…
Shot as an austere Italian western, this short film follows an old cowboy that claims to have seen a mysterious panther…
Discover how two panda cubs became ambassadors for the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
This documentary follows the last days of the show Gardenia, made by a group of transsexuals and drag queens in the aut…
Through the educational experience of a school in a popular neighborhood in Seville, Spain, this documentary shows the …
Filmmaker Frédéric Ramade follows a curious shaman on his tour throughout France. The trip will be a meeting of seeming…
A man who killed his life companion in a jealousy fit tries to live in isolation after serving a seven-year sentence. B…
The guide of a museum presents a famous painting to sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man, each group w…
In this intimate documentary, a young film student faces a doubt, whether to continue in her profession or devote herse…
In a small village in northern Iran, the life of the inhabitants revolves around Barre, a fighting bull that sustains t…
This award-winning documentary follows the anarchistic punk band Pussy Riot in its struggle against president Putin’s c…
This is the fascinating portrait of Corradino d’Ascanio, the inventor of the helicopter and the most famous scouter in …
In northern Uganda, Patricia dedicates her life to helping women to give birth in her small village. This beautiful pho…
A Finnish filmmaker finds her own national identity alongside the Wayuu people and its cosmovision, in the desert betwe…
A dreamy animated documentary about the dangers of early cinema.
Two teenagers explore love, fear and passion amid the seemingly calm French countryside.
Through a bold accompaniment to the crew aboard a trawler in the Barents Sea, we witness their hard days, their hopes, …
Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her…
In the Philippines, an innocent man faces the death penalty in a controversial murder case that separated two families …
Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
This documentary unveils with irony and diligence the connection between business, politics and sport in Donetsk, Ukrai…
In this award-winning documentary, survivors of the Srebrenica Genocide talk about the events leading up to the mass mu…
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
The filmmaker Iman Behrouzi prepares to make a film for the woman he loves, which triggers within his family a debate a…
Discover eleven love stories in old age in Montevideo, Uruguay. Among experiences of violence, disappointment, hope and…
This film documents the situation of rescued dogs in Northeast Canada and especially in one of the animal shelters that…
Pawel dedicates his life to finding the ideal sound hidden in everyday objects: wires, old toys, screws. This is a shor…
After his sudden death, in this documentary the famous Bolivian rapper Abraham Bojórquez (Ukamau y Ké) comes back to li…
This short film is a portrait of Didou, an 88-year-old Algerian man who preserves the memory of his deceased wife on th…
In an industrial community of New York, immigrant small business owners band together to fight a development plant that…
In 1998 Apple discontinued Newton, its first touchscreen handheld computer. This film shows how, twenty years later, Ne…
In 1998, the inhabitants of an entire town were resettled so that the brown coal underneath the village could be mined.…
The ocean, a place of infinite pleasure. This essay documentary reflects on the concept of maritime transport, the men …
Guided by the reflections of José Mujica, known as the world’s most austere president, three stories in three different…
In this short film made like a collage, an eloquent female journalist recounts her experience as a freelance correspond…
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
In Roshmia, the last natural valley in Haifa, an elderly Palestinian couple prepares a final standoff with the local au…
No one knew that a great 75-year-old poet lived in a small town in eastern Serbia until his son begins posting videos o…
In the midst of loneliness and far away from their loved ones, the elders of an old age in Iran try to follow their dai…
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