Through a meticulous observational approach, this short film takes us to a village in the Bulgarian Balkans to show us …
Through an irreverent narrative, this short film reinterprets the roots of Bulgaria, a territory where rites and battle…
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
This Oscar-winning documentary short film made in 1949 poses an institutional approach to explain the role of the publi…
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
In this short film made like a collage, an eloquent female journalist recounts her experience as a freelance correspond…
The filmmaker Renato Borrayo films the first year of his first son Carlos. He is dark skin and was born in the Russian …
A filmmaker discovers what happened to the dream of who was his next-door neighbor 16 years ago, a man who built an oce…
Through the texture of a 16mm camera, this short film makes a contemplative approach to a mystical island.
Some make documentaries of successful people, while others - like the case of this short film - prefer to look at those…
An Indian family faces the dilemma of eating or not their hell-raising pet rooster, so that they can reclaim their live…
Captured with a beautiful black and white film grain, this short film documents the process of a vinyl pressing plant.
In this experimental short documentary, a solitary walk around a common neighborhood becomes a surreal experience inspi…
Judit tries to convince her mother Ica to move to a house near her before the Alzheimer's separates them further than t…
This beautiful and heartbreaking short film captures the previous instants of a group of young Russian women who face t…
With humor and intelligence, this documentary is a picturesque exercise of observing life within a metro in Russia.
Having as background the port city of Murmansk, in Russia, a young human rights activist questions her position towards…
This animated experimental short film discourses on how containerization is shaping the world as we know it today.
In this experimental short film, fragments of the film "The Wild Child" are reinterpreted in image and sound to propose…
Inspired by a short story of the writer Fernando Pessoa, this short film plays with words and dream-like images to tell…
With a stunning camera work, this short film portrays the craftsmanship of prisoners in four prisons in Serbia, where i…
In just a few minutes, this short documentary shows us in a cold and punctual way how social violence in Chicago is ram…
When a select group of artists gather in an exclusive residence on the seashore, many things can emerge from creation. …
Through exclusive interviews with Apollo 8 astronauts, this documentary tells the story of the first image captured of …
This serene documentary short film takes us to a small village in the north of Portugal. After a long time of absence, …
Ana, a seller of religious calendars and rosaries, Zorka, her inmmediate contender, and The Square we they work, are an…
Why group of Croatian football fans give their support to a small football team of a nearby village instead of cheering…
This experimental film is inspired in a curious image. A tiny bird representing friendship.
In the early nineties, during the war in Croatia, two friends had to separate as children. This short film documents th…
Filmed in a contrasting black and white, this short film documents life in a tyre recycling workshop in Myanmar. In thi…
Seen from above, on the sands of the California desert there are geometric traces that precede the closest civilization…
Hokman Joma, a Kurdish refugee, is arrested and sentenced for the throwing of a shoe to Turkish President in the city o…
A lovingly filmed portrait of the filmmaker’s parents who make out a living making ‘jaggery’ sweets from toddy palm syr…
This candid documentary shows us the process of creation a father and his son while they work in their respective paint…
This documentary shows us the life in a refugee camp on Arbat, in the Iraqi Kurdistan. The film focuses on a boy of th…
Like silent observers, in this short film we are witnesses of how children of all ages play with toy weapons of all kin…
Without dialogues or didactic pretensions, this documentary makes an observation of forgotten spaces in Brasilia. In th…
In this documentary, the screen is divided into 9 frames to show us the service of the Reformed Church in Holland in a …
The visits of a sacred painting to the houses of ordinary Polish people frames the visit of a homeless person to his mo…
This compelling documentary tells the story of the last Sherpa family holding the traditional Sherpa profession in the …
A young filmmaker revisits the footage of his parents, two famous Myanmar actors in the 60s. By watching the tapes, he …
This essay documentary conveis what it means to have been raised in Naples. It is Christianity, volcanoes, and the Camo…
Ten minutes in the atelier of a painter is just enough time for a dance of drawn objects to invade the entire screen. A…
A dark tunnel at the end of the light. In this documentary, this unfolded metaphor reveals the paradox between capitali…
ISIS has carried out violent offensives against the Kurdish Yazidis, kidnapping women, selling them and raping them. Na…
Airports, the summits of modern society. In this captivating animated documentary we become travelers immersed in the v…
Breathtaking black and white postcards of the world of football in the city of Salgueiro make the perfect background to…
A Moroccan man traveled to Spain, to another land, another sea, with the certainty of finding a better city, but he did…
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