What happens when a traditional musician and a heavy-metal rocker come together to create something unique? In this doc…
This inspiring documentary tells the success story of a group of women from rural India who defied patriarchy through t…
In this documentary filmed inside a motel in Santiago, Chile, the women who do room service have a lot to say about lov…
Shot in stark black and white, this short film is a look at the creative process of the famous French painter Abdelkade…
Irreverent, iconoclastic and beautifully free. Linn da Quebrada, a black and transsexual artist, displays all her truth…
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese filmmaker documents the radiation-free zone.…
In a public park, an army of crows emerges from the mist. A camera films them. A gun is fired. Is this short film a kin…
What is the future of learning?. Indian professor Sugata Mitra brings an innovative approach to education based on a de…
Jovica, a young man from Kosovo, among other things, dreams of emigrating and having a girlfriend to start a family. Bu…
On the eve of her departure from Italy, filmmaker Chiara Cremaschi turns to her beloved cousins to face this turning po…
This short film is a simple and poetic look at the work of a patient and talented blacksmith from Houston, USA.
Psychedelic, strident, etheric. This is how Lima emerges in this portrait of the Peruvian capital through a kaleidoscop…
In bucolic rural Germany, the lives of four German teenagers are about to change. Childhood is behind them and the firs…
Investigating the involvement of a mysterious ancestor in the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, filmmaker Anna Kryve…
A small town in northeastern Brazil is at the center of a political firestorm during a polarizing local mayoral campaig…
A collection of super8 films takes Joachim Michaud to the New York where Emilienne, an adventurous woman who could be h…
A community is about to disappear. Faced with a government-imposed plan, the inhabitants of The Platz, a huge shanty to…
Through the lives of two Pakistani men, one dedicated to the spiritual life and the other a defender of an ancient musi…
Ivan cannot move without his electronic anklet. After years in prison, he is on probation and trying to get back to nor…
Seen from an European point of view, this ethnographic documentary is an educational and exciting journey through the i…
The debut feature of risk-taking filmmaker Gustavo Vinagre takes place in a single location and in a single, compelling…
With their golden years behind them, two fifty-something boxers from the north of Brazil decide to invoke their histori…
After becoming a widower, Inacio, the former shaman of a remote Portuguese community, begins to live with an endearing …
The traces of the first people who occupied the territory of Brazil detonate this documentary essay premiered in Rotter…
Little by little, two characters take shape on the screen through objects, sounds and flavors. Who are they? What unite…
Unveiling a little-known version of the beginning of World War II, this informative documentary brings to light the her…
After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
In the quiet interior of his studio, a Ukrainian painter draws portraits of Kiev that delineate the recent tumultuous p…
Dragan Jaćimović was the first Serbian man to reach the summit of Everest. This documentary uses excerpts from his diar…
Isabel, a Brazilian woman, dreamed that someone strangled her three days before she was murdered. Years later, her son,…
This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, …
Lludy, a Brazilian immigrant, has just lost his flat in Barcelona and has nowhere to go. Through her belongings we disc…
In the southeast of Brazil, in the Goiás region, there are two rural towns where only adults and old people remain. But…
In a small village in western Russia all the inhabitants celebrate a day in which the mourning for a dead person turns …
Through still pictures and textual resources, a short story unfolds: the encounter between a western explorer and a Nig…
Filmmaker Agustina Comedi investigates hours of home videos recorded by her father before he died. A magnetic essay, as…
What is a family? This documentary explores the enigma through Aliona, a special needs child who begins to live with an…
In this documentary short we accompany the musicians of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik, a band that mixes traditional Bavar…
In an indigenous territory in the north of the Amazon, a filmmaker and Abraim, a local villager, will have a short and …
Coral, voyeuristic, incisive. This documentary, in the best style of the filmmaker Jean-François Lesage, dissects summe…
Filmed in Sweden, Germany and Canada, this documentary gives a voice to immigrants of Indian, Turkish and Kurdish origi…
Filmmaker Otavio Cury documents the Yanomami, in the Brazilian Amazon. Seen from otherness, the film reflects on the Ya…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
This documentary not only reviews the work of the revolutionary and controversial choreographer Dave St. Pierre, it al…
By closely following Central American migrants on their perilous journey to the US-Mexico border, this bold documentary…
This episode of UN in action shows how the UN tries to recover the city of Mosul (Northen Irak) from devastation and ex…
This episode of UN In Action is only a quick look at what the UN agencies are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisi…
Amir Awad, from the Syrian National Team for wrestling, introduces us to the Syrian Sports Academy, a place that trains…
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