Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
Tour Du Faso, Africa's top cycling race, where foreigners and locals try to be the winner on a route full of unforeseen…
When others film pain, Silvana Lopa films happiness. In just five minutes, the young Argentine filmmaker captures fragm…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
To dig into her family tree, a Kenyan woman in exile embarks on a journey to three countries to construct the figure of…
Mark Inglis reached the summit of Everest with both legs amputated in 2006. But his achievement was tarnished by allege…
Filmed over several years, this iconic documentary directed by Helena Třeštíková follows a married couple from their ho…
When a film crew arrives in Ghana to shoot a film about supposed child witchcraft, the ethical dilemmas of the filmmake…
How much pain can you accumulate until you can't take it anymore? This light-hearted documentary follows an acting teac…
An Artist, a Musician, and a Dreamer leave their comfortable life in Great Britain to create a home in the picturesque …
In the interior of a Japanese apartment where an art gallery operates, a daughter and her mother with dementia live day…
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
Inspired by a film by Agnes Varda, this experimental short film features actors and actresses to stage and reflect on g…
When a series of violent incidents begin to occur among the students of a prestigious medical school in India, filmmake…
A foreigner arrives in Cuba to elucidate what for him is a riddle from the western point of view: Why in Cuba can you g…
In the decadent town of Gonzalez, Texas, no cultural event attracts more attention than the traditional cattle auction.…
Calais is not only a prominent port city in France, but also the crossroads for many migrants trying to reach England. …
Filmmaker Tana Gilbert films the relationship between her octogenarian grandmother and her uncle Jhonny, a mentally uns…
In the inhospitable desert lands of northeastern Mexico, a community of ranchers prepares to migrate to a new home in t…
To stand up against discrimination, a group of gay men gather in downtown Seoul to sing in South Korea's only amateur g…
This short film takes us to the majestic plains of Badlands National Park, USA, to tell the story of a rodeo horse rais…
A group of North Korean refugee women living in South Korea have an essential ritual since they left their home in sear…
This is a fascinating insight into the life of Swiss skier and Olympic medalist Lara Gut-Behrami. From the peak of her …
What is so poetic about the rite of swimming from a beach to a buoy? Filmmaker Fernando Spiner takes us to his hometown…
Through interviews with Korean female workers of the present, we are taken back decades to unveil the labor oppression …
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
Through slow motion postcards, this short film shows us an ordinary day in the life of the inhabitants of North Korea, …
When the presidents of Mexico and France unveiled his chaquira mural at the entrance of the Louvre Museum, indigenous a…
After a long absence, a daughter returns to her parents' home with a movie camera. Beset the same financial problems th…
When a beaver plague gets out of control in the harsh territory of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, a couple of biologists …
A few days away from death, terminally ill patients can spend their last days in a hospice in Seoul, South Korea. This …
When great-grandmother Inés died, it meant nothing to little Luisa. Several decades later, some old manuscripts bring t…
To reflect on the atomic bomb and the human race's apparent mania for self-destruction, this film essay takes us to thr…
A theater group in Zagreb rehearses a play inspired in a murder case of a 12-year-old girl that occurred 25 years earli…
As the world's largest medieval battles championship approaches, a group of Argentinean warriors of this fantastic spor…
A stolen camera is the tool that a director of a theater group in Dakar needs to shoot an LGBTI film with his actors. B…
In a country historically closed to immigration, a group of asylum seekers show themselves only through their hands and…
A wave of suicides among young people from indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon triggers this documentary in …
An essay on the tale of the famous photographer Francis Reusser. A personal story and a brief history of image, spannin…
Grandma lives alone and hasn't left the bed for days. The only constant observer of her everyday life is the camera.
Living as a lighthouse keeper on a remote Atlantic island, a man sets out for the Congo as a member of the UN Peacekeep…
As a parody of the democratic system, a group of political science students runs as candidates in the Croatian parliame…
Filmed over two years in southern Argentina, this documentary makes visible the indigenous people who rediscover their …
When a man discovers he is suffering from an incurable disease, he embarks in a kind of farewell journey filming everyd…
If altruism had a face, it would be that of Mrs. Angelina. Whenever she can, this slender elderly Italian woman visits …
In this experimental short film, a man traverses British landscapes that discourse on modern civilization, the control …
Hailing from the remote villages of the vast subcontinent, in this inspiring documentary, a children's choir from the A…
The young South Korean photographer Haneul Dameun invites us in this documentary to what she calls her "secret garden",…
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