Surreal, mesmerizing, explosive. In this short documentary, the pyrotechnic rituals of a Mexican village light up the n…
Boxer by day, nightclub watchman by night, Christ prepares for his next fight in the ring while in the streets of Libre…
In a remote village in rural Portugal, a filmmaker arrives to delve into his family's past.
Through archival footage of the television show her mother hosted in post-Soviet Bulgaria, filmmaker Elitza Gueorguieva…
Prolific musician Petra Nachtmanova embarks on a journey from Berlin, through the Caucasus and Turkey, to Iran, in sear…
Premiered at the prestigious Visions Du Reel, this short film tells the story of a day in the life of Makenzy, a boy li…
In addition to boxing, Sergio Palma also liked to sing and write. But as a world boxing champion, that was a facet that…
With their tenacity and total commitment on the rugby field, the players of The Sydney Convicts prove that it is possib…
Three women in their sixties embark on the greatest adventure of their lives: To cross Europe from Lithuania to France …
Set in Almadén, a decaying Spanish mining town, this beautifully photographed black-and-white film follows the life of …
In the privacy of their homes, seven parents of LGBTI individuals talk about their life-changing experiences of leading…
Being gay in Cameroon, you have to face the daily struggle of not being able to express your physical love publicly, in…
By observing a group of Kazakh migrants working in a remote rural village in Russia, we learn about their harsh story o…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
In her sixties, Gwendolyn, a three-time weightlifting world champion, prepares for her next tournament while battling c…
After being deprived of an ancient totem more than a hundred years ago, an indigenous family of the Easter Island sets …
Could we define happiness? An ordinary man with a penchant for philosophy after the 1979 Islamic revolution ponders thi…
Filmmaker Joel Allen Schroeder embarks on a personal journey to discuss America's most famous comic strip, Calvin and H…
An evangelical man returns to his Dominican provincial town, where he must face the difficult consequences of his fathe…
A trip to a big city means for Lee and Jia to leave behind the old red house where they have lived for the last few yea…
A group of young skaters in Georgia build their own space of freedom in the crevices of urban architecture. Their daily…
Stine is 37 years old and the single mother of three girls. Her daughter Cecilie, age 11, has cancer and has had it sin…
Hundreds of meters under the ground and the European night, men and machines carve the tunnels that unite a modern cont…
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless…
Inspired by Skateistan, Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, this emotional feature-length documentary is a journe…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
This posthumous portrait follows the trail of Uruguayan composer Alfredo Zitarrosa. Banished by a bloody dictatorship, …
Blood, punches, jumps and screams. These are the kind of things we will see when the fighters face each other in the in…
Directed and narrated by the mythical filmmaker Jorge Sanjinés, this documentary rescues the story of the anonymous Bol…
AleksEy and Valya are a couple that don't see each other often. He is a truck driver, and Vaya is used to wait for him …
As nostalgic as it may seem, there are thousands of Lego collectors in the world who make stop-motion home movies with …
A group of adventurous cyclists set out on an almost impossible quest: to ride more than 1,200 kilometers across Japan …
What happens when the process of making a piece of art itself becomes a work of art? Let's accompany the artist Terres …
After being defeated in World War II, Adolf Hitler fled to Argentina, where he died in 1962. Did he not? This docudrama…
Played by the inhabitants of a humble fishing community in Venezuela, this hybrid short film follows two brothers tryin…
Fifteen years after living as an exchange student in Arizona, filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa returns to the United States to…
As nostalgic as it is contemporary, this gaze at a remote rural village is a precious opportunity to appreciate the sim…
An exorcist, a horse breeder, a stuntman. These are just some of the amazing characters you will meet at the electric a…
When a conversation begins in the basement of the house of a man isolated from society, his darkest secrets come to lig…
A privileged individual receives a permit to make a copy of a famous Monet painting in a lonely museum. But is he reall…
Filmmaker Inna Denisova visits her Russian hometown and delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Russia after the annexatio…
Inspired by the novel by Svetlana Alexievitch, this documentary is an intimate gaze at the faces of survivors who recou…
The voices of the Mapuche and Creole communities, in the Argentinian Patagonia, explain Transhumance, as they call it. …
Deep in a forest in Laotia, a young man supports his family by growing opium, the substance that both saves and condemn…
In times where modern medicine has progressively intervened in maternal childbirth, a woman embarks on a journey where …
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
Since the day Ethan Bialick heard the rocket alert while visiting Tel Aviv, his life was changed forever. This animated…
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