In the region of Rajasthan, India, naturalist Gerhard Weihan takes up the challenge of raising and reinserting a small …
A group of men sculpt the immense figure of a saint. The act is a display of white particles and movement throughout th…
This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
This animated short film depicts the harsh reality for the prisioners inside Honeheck, a jail for women in former East …
In this film, the simple life of the astronomer Bernardo Riedel, a telescope maker, is interspersed with galactic oppor…
In November 2017, a devastating earthquake hit western Iran. It took only 13 seconds to lose everything. This is a flee…
An old woman from Mong Htet, in northern Shan State in Myanmar, looks back on a life marked by privation and loss. Her …
Angelica has a problem with her sexuality, a psychological and physical blockage. Through a video diary, shared with tw…
In this atmospheric animated short film, the wounds of the real estate business in Bogotá are left open after an incide…
In this short documentary essay, filmmaker Antoine Fontaine delves into a forgotten archive of 16mm film belonging to a…
In 2005, a suicide bomber walked into Ashraf's wedding, killing 27 people. Now he is on a quest to confront terrorism a…
Filmmaker Arsenio Cadena points the camera at his father, a 73-year-old tailor who has an obsessive passion: climbing t…
Almost twenty years after appearing as a young boy in "Ten", the famous Abbas Kiarostami's film, Amina is now a transge…
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
In a time when women seem to be juggling the demands of career, family and beauty standards, a new overall fashion tren…
Elena works as an erotic photographer, Luz and Nerea as prostitutes. They met at a photo shoot and Elena wanted to know…
In this video art, multidisciplinary artist Samuel Bester makes a free, experimental and sensually charged interpretati…
This short film follows filmmaker Heilika Pikkov's grandparents. They both renew their vows as a couple in their old ag…
Daughter and mother arrive at a Buddhist monastery in a land very far from their own. Both are victims of a complicated…
After being disappeared by a fascist group in 1960, this film by the Master Jacinto Esteva about the emigration of Span…
Sergei Loznitsa, a master of contemporary documentary filmmaking, makes a delicate observation of the bodies of men and…
Tiina and Ülo live among various colorful objects accumulated throughout their life. This film tells the story of a dee…
Through a walk through a cemetery, a narrator reflects on how society and politics impact the individual dimension of t…
Filmmaker Aljona Surzikova films the arrival of her new baby in the privacy of her family. But the joyful atmosphere is…
In less than fifteen minutes, Victor conducts a cinematic experiment to investigate the nature of his body. To others, …
In Madrid, a woman pursues the traces of a father she never knew.
Due to an autoimmune disease, Julika has lived without hair since the age of 9. Now, at 25, we experience with her what…
Defying an ancient rule, a young woman enlists in a Napoleonic guard that re-enacts historical scenes where only men ca…
In this short film, a man enters a forest where dilapidated houses hold stories of his past of vitality and loneliness …
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
Hans and his female double Agnes wander around the streets of Lisbon looking for a man named Arief, who was their first…
Through powerful black and white photographs and a poetic voice that tells the drama, the filmmaker Mathieu Volpe docum…
Halfway between a making-of film and an cinematic essay on the process of a film workshop directed by Abbas Kiarostami,…
Grandma has died but left a diary. The last time she wrote, it was the day before her death. How much can we learn abou…
Set somewhere in México, in this short film ancient spaces apparently dynamited by time appear in front of us. Unexpect…
Alternating between sensory and narrative moments, this short film immerses us in the life of an old woman who finds in…
A comfortable sofa, nail polish and strange gloves. You are about to witness a conversation as fleeting as it is reveal…
After being found dead in his room, the painter and photographer Pierre Molinier left behind a peculiar body of work. T…
Experimental filmmaker Khaled Abdulwaheds cinematically deconstructs a photograph of a cactus field in 1998 Syria. Now …
When a European man lands on a tropical island in Tanzania, we hear his reflective voice through the letters he sends t…
This gripping film follows the last log floater on the river Tara in Montenegro, a wild and very dangerous river.
Nineteen-year-old Kirill hangs out on the rooftops of apartment blocks, where his brazen stunts have earned him the nic…
In the absence of images of the case, Palau's former president explains in a short interview what really happened to si…
Gravitating on the border between reality and the dream, this short film delves into the feelings of a woman who suffer…
At a street market in Croatia, people try to find the best locally produced groceries. Filmmaker Ana Hušman studies the…
Canada-based Iranian director Farhad Pakdel films four Iranian families in this country as they reminisce about the spa…
This animated short film made by six filmmakers evokes one of those inevitable and essential conversations, the one bet…
How often do you listen attentively to the sound of birds? This fleeting short film is a provocation for contemplation …
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