Back in southern Italy, the filmmaker revisits and reinterprets a bar that made a strong impression in his childhood.
Committed to the passion that as a child pushed him to flee home, Nigua is determined to carry out the project of his l…
This compelling documentary tells the story of the last Sherpa family holding the traditional Sherpa profession in the …
As his country heads towards high-risk elections, Emmanuel Botalatala, the Minister of Garbage of Kinshasa (DR Congo), …
Constructed mostly of intimate micro-narratives of relations between people and institutions, this unique film unites a…
This documentary presents us the inspiring career of the Polish filmmaker Kazimierz Karabasz, the ideologist of the "pa…
The pioneer of documentary photography Saul Leiter invites us to his department in New York City to reflect on his care…
A young filmmaker revisits the footage of his parents, two famous Myanmar actors in the 60s. By watching the tapes, he …
In the beautiful Vietnamese bay of Ha Long, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a family faces its imminent separation when t…
This documentary draws a portrait of the economist and activist Arcadi Oliveres who led the student struggle against th…
This essay documentary conveis what it means to have been raised in Naples. It is Christianity, volcanoes, and the Camo…
Ten minutes in the atelier of a painter is just enough time for a dance of drawn objects to invade the entire screen. A…
Captured with a beautiful black and white film grain, this short film documents the process of a vinyl pressing plant.
A dark tunnel at the end of the light. In this documentary, this unfolded metaphor reveals the paradox between capitali…
ISIS has carried out violent offensives against the Kurdish Yazidis, kidnapping women, selling them and raping them. Na…
Airports, the summits of modern society. In this captivating animated documentary we become travelers immersed in the v…
The documentary is "a father's 'love letter' to his adult daughter Cáitrín, a young American woman who has a dream: to …
Breathtaking black and white postcards of the world of football in the city of Salgueiro make the perfect background to…
A Moroccan man traveled to Spain, to another land, another sea, with the certainty of finding a better city, but he did…
This creative documentary uses cardboard puppets to provide a depiction of the most hated government agency in Sweden: …
In this documentary made only with footage filmed by activist filmmakers with hidden cameras in West Sahara, we witness…
A Chinese businessman promises a large investment project in the small municipality of Kalmar, in Sweden. A humorous do…
Since Evelin’s amputation of both legs, friends abandoned her. She is stuck in her apartment for years now, moving only…
Through a rich photographic, videographic and epistolary legacy, the director Ana Galizia makes a portrait of an uncle …
A music documentary based on the work of Slovenian artist Frane Milčinski Ježek, whose satirical poems and songs from t…
TAN (Body in Farsi) is an experimental documentary confronting the relation between physical and social body within two…
In Orleans, France, the inmates gave a concert inside the prison. The sound was broadcasted outside for the audience. T…
When Norwegian-Turkish filmmaker Nefise was a child, she used to send balloon letters to Allah. Now she has decided to …
A captivating short film about Thea, a 12-year-old Norwegian girl whose life is conditioned by epileptic seizures.
Nineteen-year-old Kirill hangs out on the rooftops of apartment blocks, where his brazen stunts have earned him the nic…
After twenty years of exile near Geneva, Switzerland, Ustad Hossein Arman, a popular Afghan singer, returns to Kabul to…
This documentary follows the captivating life of the famous Georgian actor Kachki Kavsadze, who survived Nazi and Sovie…
Are we losing our sense of community in an increasingly unsustainable world? In this film, a small community in Austral…
Dissatisfied with his personality, a young mathematician from a family of divorced academics decides to punish his moth…
An experimental portrait of the French pianist Erik Satie through audio recordings, musical compositions and the traces…
Lulú lives with the uncertainty of not knowing the whereabouts of her husband and son after they were kidnaped 5 years …
Sahid does not like to wait anymore in a centre for immigrants that is due to close soon. With the help of his friend F…
50 years after the death of poet Roald Mandelshtam, director Maxim Yakubson unearths the life of the artists a document…
(Re)immersing himself in body building, David Nicolas Parel endeavours to follow his younger brother as he trains for t…
The people in the Estonian village of Pähkla have grown old since Uudu last saw them. Now he visits them once more – as…
Through an observational approach, this short film documents the inhabitants of the neighborhood of Zeynebiye, in Istan…
Even A Bird Needs A Nest is a documentary film about forced evictions in Cambodia, a phenomenon that is raging througho…
Mother and daughter embark on a trip to Brazil in search of the healer “Joh of God”. But not everything goes as planned…
In this film we follow the Musical Director of the Paris Opera and the Paris Opera Orchestra during rehearsals for usta…
Donus Return follows the life of Jérôme Bastion, who has been correspondent for Radio France International in Istanbul …
The access to precious archival footage and vibrant musical clips gives us the opportunity to witness an evocative port…
Avant Garde filmmaker Kamal Swaroop explores the ancient myths and politicking of Indian Gods as the heavens descend an…
A rarely discussed topic emerges in this documentary through the testimonies of young men from ethnic minorities in Tur…
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