This peaceful and light-hearted film shows us how life in old age flows in present-day Cuba through three elderly music…
This is the second part of filmmaker Kasuhiro Soda's follow-up to the Japanese politician Yama-san, who is now trying t…
The filmmaker Sara Broos invites us to this beautiful poetic catharsis, full of art and contemplation, about the relati…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
This documentary connects the parallel experiences of two films that were shot in Barcelona in 1969: Count Dracula, pla…
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
This short film takes us to the mountainous south of China to draw a subtle portrait of a 10-year-old girl. Her dream: …
This inspiring documentary follows Suraj, an 11-year-old boy who works in the coal mines of northeast India, a confinem…
Through a stop-motion animation, the filmmaker reinterprets a story that emanates from her grandfather's old diary.
Follow Del Keens, "the ugliest model in the world," in this humorous documentary that reflects on the historic dilemma …
The paths of a turtle from Syria and a soldier from Germany cross in this curious film about war and the relationship b…
How could Beethoven compose his best pieces after his deafness? This documentary is a thorough investigation into the e…
Filmed over two years, this film documents life inside the studio of three artists and how the death of one of them ope…
This unique film follows the musician and folk dancer Clark Wang as he prepares his own "green burial" before his death…
Set in rural Thailand, this documentary follows an endearing elderly couple in their last years of life together. A min…
Filmed across several continents, this film reveals how development aid in poor countries reproduce poverty and increas…
This is the extraordinary story of Bruno Banani, the only inhabitant of the small island of Tonga, in the South Pacific…
Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into Casa Roshell, an underworld where the art of feminization and trans…
Why is it so important to be pretty? Why does the gaze of others matter so much? This personal documentary explores the…
Full of humor and freshness, this film is a road movie across Finland that follows a group of Argentines who come to di…
This documentary makes us travel through the route of the sand that will feed Cape Verde's hunger for new hotels and re…
Mariana left her parents' house to live with her boyfriend in Lisbon. But when he leaves for New York, Mariana begins a…
With a “direct cinema” approach, this film follows Peipei, a young female artist who does not conform to the institutio…
Even though they don’t speak English, Illiterate women from towns around the world with no electricity try to learn how…
Did you know that millions of people eat insects on a daily basis? This documentary demonstrates how this habit can hel…
This film portrays the youth with fewer opportunities in Brussels through a public vocational school where the students…
Amid an apparent calmness, this film makes a portrait of a fragmented Nicaraguan family thorugh Estela and Sebastián, w…
This documentary follows the last days of the show Gardenia, made by a group of transsexuals and drag queens in the aut…
Filmmaker Frédéric Ramade follows a curious shaman on his tour throughout France. The trip will be a meeting of seeming…
The guide of a museum presents a famous painting to sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man, each group w…
In a small village in northern Iran, the life of the inhabitants revolves around Barre, a fighting bull that sustains t…
This Oscar-winning documentary follows the incredible feat of Japanese skier Yuichiro Miura, the first man to descend M…
In northern Uganda, Patricia dedicates her life to helping women to give birth in her small village. This beautiful pho…
A dreamy animated documentary about the dangers of early cinema.
Through a bold accompaniment to the crew aboard a trawler in the Barents Sea, we witness their hard days, their hopes, …
In the Philippines, an innocent man faces the death penalty in a controversial murder case that separated two families …
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
The ocean, a place of infinite pleasure. This essay documentary reflects on the concept of maritime transport, the men …
Through interviews with experts and people involved in the gender issue, this documentary sheds light on the representa…
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
Guided by the reflections of José Mujica, known as the world’s most austere president, three stories in three different…
In this short film made like a collage, an eloquent female journalist recounts her experience as a freelance correspond…
29 years old Italian Enea really wants to have sex. As Italy doesn’t offer any legal solution to the desire of a person…
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apo…
Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
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