Through the diary written by his grandmother during her days of work in an ammunitions factory during the Second World …
This documentary explores how art and creativity can be vital values to end injustice and achieve peace in conflict zon…
This observational documentary captures the conversations, confidences and emotionally charged moments of migrants in c…
Karine is a professional embalmer. As the one in charge of freezing life in an inert body, every day is a battle for pe…
Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
Fausto is a very special young man. Fausto faces the process of entering the public university in Argentina. Fausto has…
Judit tries to convince her mother Ica to move to a house near her before the Alzheimer's separates them further than t…
This documentary takes us to several countries to show us how Muslim men around the world are challenging the tradition…
This beautiful and heartbreaking short film captures the previous instants of a group of young Russian women who face t…
With humor and intelligence, this documentary is a picturesque exercise of observing life within a metro in Russia.
This documentary shows the urban transformation in Istanbul through the contrast between a small Shanty and an apartmen…
Having as background the port city of Murmansk, in Russia, a young human rights activist questions her position towards…
This animated experimental short film discourses on how containerization is shaping the world as we know it today.
In this experimental short film, fragments of the film "The Wild Child" are reinterpreted in image and sound to propose…
Inspired by a short story of the writer Fernando Pessoa, this short film plays with words and dream-like images to tell…
With a stunning camera work, this short film portrays the craftsmanship of prisoners in four prisons in Serbia, where i…
In just a few minutes, this short documentary shows us in a cold and punctual way how social violence in Chicago is ram…
When a select group of artists gather in an exclusive residence on the seashore, many things can emerge from creation. …
Through exclusive interviews with Apollo 8 astronauts, this documentary tells the story of the first image captured of …
Ana, a seller of religious calendars and rosaries, Zorka, her inmmediate contender, and The Square we they work, are an…
This beautiful film ventures to take a closer look at the naked body and the fragile spirit that lies within it. The fi…
In 1983, the band "Miller, Miller, Miller and Sloan" were still young and filled with great hopes and dreams of “making…
Dragan Wende conquered the night scene of a divided Berlin during the Cold War. 25 years later later, the directors of …
Why group of Croatian football fans give their support to a small football team of a nearby village instead of cheering…
This experimental film is inspired in a curious image. A tiny bird representing friendship.
Vincenzo has always led a marginal existence. He is now 42 and has not seen his daughter for a long time. One day, he t…
In this atmospheric animated short film, the wounds of the real estate business in Bogotá are left open after an incide…
Conceived as a kind of documentary tragicomedy, this film takes us into the microcosm of a private resort in the Domini…
An indigenous man left his tribe at the age of 15. Several years later, he crosses the heart of Brazil, following the f…
In the early nineties, during the war in Croatia, two friends had to separate as children. This short film documents th…
This documentary tells the compelling story of a mother and daughter who resolve to uncover their wartime past buried h…
Filmed in a contrasting black and white, this short film documents life in a tyre recycling workshop in Myanmar. In thi…
A religious young man’s identity is called into question when he visits a controversial conversion therapist.
Seen from above, on the sands of the California desert there are geometric traces that precede the closest civilization…
One man and his family-run TV station have become a relentless voice against corruption and organised crime in Sicily. …
Hokman Joma, a Kurdish refugee, is arrested and sentenced for the throwing of a shoe to Turkish President in the city o…
A group of homeless people embarks on the Adventure of building an ocean-going yacht to sail on a trip around the world.
A young man decides to make the journey his adopted brother could not finish. Years ago, his brother died in a plane cr…
A lovingly filmed portrait of the filmmaker’s parents who make out a living making ‘jaggery’ sweets from toddy palm syr…
This candid documentary shows us the process of creation a father and his son while they work in their respective paint…
This documentary shows us the life in a refugee camp on Arbat, in the Iraqi Kurdistan. The film focuses on a boy of th…
Like silent observers, in this short film we are witnesses of how children of all ages play with toy weapons of all kin…
Without dialogues or didactic pretensions, this documentary makes an observation of forgotten spaces in Brasilia. In th…
This film is a unique view from within the most massive, longest, and politically significant student protest in Croati…
In this documentary, the screen is divided into 9 frames to show us the service of the Reformed Church in Holland in a …
This observational documentary follows a man who works in the construction of the largest prison in Uruguay. But on the…
In 1976, a 19-year-old daughter of a senior Communist official in Slovakia was found dead and raped. Since then, seven …
The visits of a sacred painting to the houses of ordinary Polish people frames the visit of a homeless person to his mo…
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