When the electoral campaign for the student elections begins in a Brazilian high school, the friendships, dreams and pa…
Northwest of Mexico City, there is one of the most biodiverse natural microcosms in Latin America. This is a kaleidosco…
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
Four young Chinese artists united through an artistic project compose a unique panorama that give us a glimpse of the e…
In a quest for independence, a group of amputees try out a new body with implants at a French rehabilitation center.
In the best style of the ethnographic photographers of the last century, this film shot in 16mm presents a lyrical albu…
The world knows who Mandela was for South Africa, but we don't know about F.W. de Klerk, the president that ushered in …
At a rural school in South Korea, a youth archery team prepares to make history at the inter-school championship.
Shot in a beautiful black and white at a Zimbabwean orphanage, children and teenagers look at us and talk about the lif…
When no one sees them, two men repair parts of the Dutch railway even in the most hidden corners. But how does this har…
Hilarious, shocking and informative at the same time, this bold documentary takes a historical look back at sex educati…
Through the observation of three apes, filmmaker Jos de Putter encourages a reflection on the similarities between us a…
This short film premiered at the Berlinale takes us to the farm of Juan, who has worked in agriculture all his life and…
With exclusive film footage of the era, this documentary brings to life the famous Pebble Beach Road Races of the 1950s…
A lawyer and human rights activist embarks on a quest that could take a lifetime: to find her mother, who disappeared f…
In the interiors of a remote Tibetan monastery, five-year-old Hopakuli faces the rigorous day-to-day life of this relig…
In the bucolic and desolate Argentinian wilderness, a young man spends his days alone surviving as in ancient times. Wh…
A team of teenagers from a marginalized indigenous Mexican community prepare to compete in the International Basketball…
Ready for a trip to the heart of the blues? This 16mm gem features legends such as B.B. King, Rufus Thomas and Evelyn Y…
Next to a majestic forest, in the southeast of Cameroon, the inhabitants of a village survive with their prosaic activi…
Surreal, mesmerizing, explosive. In this short documentary, the pyrotechnic rituals of a Mexican village light up the n…
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
Boxer by day, nightclub watchman by night, Christ prepares for his next fight in the ring while in the streets of Libre…
Prolific musician Petra Nachtmanova embarks on a journey from Berlin, through the Caucasus and Turkey, to Iran, in sear…
With their tenacity and total commitment on the rugby field, the players of The Sydney Convicts prove that it is possib…
Set in Almadén, a decaying Spanish mining town, this beautifully photographed black-and-white film follows the life of …
Some people compare it to the industrial revolution or the renaissance, but how revolutionary is the rise of the realm …
Being gay in Cameroon, you have to face the daily struggle of not being able to express your physical love publicly, in…
In her sixties, Gwendolyn, a three-time weightlifting world champion, prepares for her next tournament while battling c…
In the midst of the chaos of the WWI war front, a brave soldier managed to photograph the harsh reality of that conflic…
An evangelical man returns to his Dominican provincial town, where he must face the difficult consequences of his fathe…
Hundreds of meters under the ground and the European night, men and machines carve the tunnels that unite a modern cont…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
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…
Focusing on the phenomenon of evangelical drug dealers that have become common in the Brazilian slums, this incisive do…
As nostalgic as it may seem, there are thousands of Lego collectors in the world who make stop-motion home movies with …
While a group of Russian army soldiers train intensively, a family mourns the death of their son, Dima. Two seemingly u…
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…
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…
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 …
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