This creative documentary uses cardboard puppets to provide a depiction of the most hated government agency in Sweden: …
In this documentary made only with footage filmed by activist filmmakers with hidden cameras in West Sahara, we witness…
Since Evelin’s amputation of both legs, friends abandoned her. She is stuck in her apartment for years now, moving only…
In Orleans, France, the inmates gave a concert inside the prison. The sound was broadcasted outside for the audience. T…
A captivating short film about Thea, a 12-year-old Norwegian girl whose life is conditioned by epileptic seizures.
After twenty years of exile near Geneva, Switzerland, Ustad Hossein Arman, a popular Afghan singer, returns to Kabul to…
An experimental portrait of the French pianist Erik Satie through audio recordings, musical compositions and the traces…
Set amidst the rugged mountains of Northern California, The End Of Weed is a short homage to a passing California way o…
Lulú lives with the uncertainty of not knowing the whereabouts of her husband and son after they were kidnaped 5 years …
This classic documents the life in a rural area where the sole source of income is the physically gruelling labour of s…
50 years after the death of poet Roald Mandelshtam, director Maxim Yakubson unearths the life of the artists a document…
The people in the Estonian village of Pähkla have grown old since Uudu last saw them. Now he visits them once more – as…
Through an observational approach, this short film documents the inhabitants of the neighborhood of Zeynebiye, in Istan…
Confronted with the evidence that the Earth is not eternal, Ernesto is inspired by the Metatron's shape to design his o…
In this film we follow the Musical Director of the Paris Opera and the Paris Opera Orchestra during rehearsals for usta…
Mother and daughter embark on a trip to Brazil in search of the healer “Joh of God”. But not everything goes as planned…
A rarely discussed topic emerges in this documentary through the testimonies of young men from ethnic minorities in Tur…
Through a compelling contemplative approach, this film follows the people living inside the caldera of the volcano Pico…
With a provocative title, this short film essay delves into the image that documents a rally of the National Democratic…
This mysterious short film is a kind of night road trip across downtown Cairo spun by the account of the dreams of its …
Shot during the dusk for two months in a row, in this film a disciple documents the daily life of his irreverent film p…
After being sentenced for murder, a young South African gets his life back through boxing.
In this beautifully photographed documentary, the inhabitants that live on the banks of an Indian river show us their p…
In a house located in a peaceful village in Croatia, eight underage girls try to improve their lives by living together…
Safe Passage is a silent look at a historic passage between Iran and Iraq for pilgrims heading from one country to anot…
Through an observational exercise, this short film documents the only hour of freedom for prisoners in a Brazilian jail.
This funny animation takes us through the diverse voices that make up the Bronx through the music and the street object…
When three young friends set out on a journey they discover being on your own isn’t as easy as it seemed.
The Madman and the Cathedral is a documentary about one man’s dream to build a cathedral with no construction experienc…
In remote areas of Cambodia, Miss Rain, a woman haunted by her tragic past, makes a journey to the place where she lost…
Fragmented and multilingual, this short film is a random journey through the images of the author's quotidian world to …
A piglet named Caesar lives a happy life with a loving owner, which is very different from other piglets’ lives. But do…
This film shows social and visual changes affecting Pirimze, a six-floor building from the Soviet era, built especially…
Arina, a Russian girl, crosses the border from Turkey to visit her father, a Kurdish man who lives in the tense calm of…
Turned into a cow herder during the summer in the Swiss Alps, a filmmaker documents her attempts to erect herself as th…
Paul Leeming and Pauls Irbins, two civilians who are preparing to be sent to Mars in 2024 by a private organization, im…
After the lost of an experimental film made by the prominent Indian painter Akbar Padamsee, the filmmaker Ashim Ahluwal…
Chanaika, a girl who prepares to dance at the Caribbean carnival in Rotterdam, exposes her bravery after surviving dome…
1.500 deer remain in a huge farm built in the depths of a Hungarian forest. This documentary takes the pulse of the dyn…
Framing the Other is a documentary about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photos of exotic tribal people …
In their struggle to defend their human rights, the African street vendors who work in the streets of Barcelona underta…
Seen through dreamy black and white images filmed in 35 mm, the inhabitants of a rural microcosm in Georgia, United Sta…
Through the old objects of a house in Portugal and the letters sent among relatives during the past century, director J…
The portrait of Giovanni, a man who lives from the scraps he sells in his Italian city while the ghosts of eviction and…
Through a kind of intimate trial, we unveil the painful case of Moriom, a young Bangladeshi woman with a mysterious loo…
An intimate and minimalistic approach allows us to witness the daily routine of Mrs. Loosli in her home in the Swiss Mo…
A specific geographical point, a house on a street in Belgium, is the starting point to rescue memories and reflections…
In the early hours of the first day of the New Year, the camera takes to the streets of Santiago, Chile, in search of t…
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