Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society with her famous experiment about racism. What start…
Inspired by Skateistan, Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, this emotional feature-length documentary is a journe…
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
Focusing on the phenomenon of evangelical drug dealers that have become common in the Brazilian slums, this incisive do…
Through the different perspectives of two guerrilla fighters, this documentary delves into the ins and outs of the peac…
Played by the inhabitants of a humble fishing community in Venezuela, this hybrid short film follows two brothers tryin…
Filmmaker Inna Denisova visits her Russian hometown and delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Russia after the annexatio…
Deep in a forest in Laotia, a young man supports his family by growing opium, the substance that both saves and condemn…
The inhabitants of a tourist area nestled in Chilean Patagonia are the faces of contradiction. Tourism flourishes while…
A narrator introduces us to the microcosm of Milan's troubled China Town. When an Italian guy proposes marriage to a lo…
With the landscape of the Balkans as a backdrop, this documentary follows a family of Aromanians, an ethnic minority tr…
The Greek island of Lesvos is today a bridge to the European dream for thousands of Asian and African migrants. Through…
Filmed only a year after the deadly earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, this film - named after the onomatopoeia its …
Compassion and redemption are discovered by a man as he manages a mental asylum run by its own patients in Juárez, Mexi…
Three filmmakers from Indonesia, South Korea and Serbia exchange video letters. The correspondance is full of faces and…
Seen from the point of view of a 3-year-old girl, this documentary follows the tortuous migration journey of a refugee …
If in the last century the pioneering black ballerinas faced exclusion and discrimination, today there are still young …
In the context of a parliamentary coup in Brazil, a historic peasant movement begins to occupy lands owned by powerful …
Bhanu and Bhuntu, two young Indian women leave their villages to live and work in a suburban textile center. Through th…
What happens when a traditional musician and a heavy-metal rocker come together to create something unique? In this doc…
This inspiring documentary tells the success story of a group of women from rural India who defied patriarchy through t…
In a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all the inhabitants are part of a program to overcome crack addiction. In every cor…
In the midst of a Cuba undergoing major changes, a young athlete is torn between committing herself to her track team o…
Irreverent, iconoclastic and beautifully free. Linn da Quebrada, a black and transsexual artist, displays all her truth…
The town of Kiruna, in northern Sweden, is collapsing due to mining activity. This documentary follows its characters a…
Jovica, a young man from Kosovo, among other things, dreams of emigrating and having a girlfriend to start a family. Bu…
Can filmmaking help overcome social or even psychological barriers in post-apartheid South Africa? This documentary unc…
A small town in northeastern Brazil is at the center of a political firestorm during a polarizing local mayoral campaig…
A community is about to disappear. Faced with a government-imposed plan, the inhabitants of The Platz, a huge shanty to…
Through the daily life of a Japanese family living in the Hiroshima of the nineties, this documentary uses valuable tes…
Everything around Asalif, an Ethiopian boy, is in constant change. The construction of a housing complex on his land af…
What is a family? This documentary explores the enigma through Aliona, a special needs child who begins to live with an…
In an indigenous territory in the north of the Amazon, a filmmaker and Abraim, a local villager, will have a short and …
Filmed over two years, this documentary follows the vessel of the NGO "Mission Lifeline" in the Mediterranean on its mi…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
By closely following Central American migrants on their perilous journey to the US-Mexico border, this bold documentary…
Eighteen-year-old Josefin travels from Sweden to Peru in search of answers. According to a family myth, her aunt was a …
From Mumbai to Quebec, this eye-opening documentary takes us around the world to show us how people on the margins are …
An orphanage in the village of Chitima, Mozambique, becomes a place of transformation for twenty young women who day by…
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
Summer of 2016. All the attention of the world is on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But from the favelas that …
The inhabitants of Montserrat, a small Caribbean island, are trying to regain the life they had before the eruption of …
The last part of the Barrientos trilogy focuses on the love story of Naty and Daniel Barrientos, the pillars of a humbl…
This is the second part of Mikael Wiström's trilogy on the Barrientos Family. The film focuses on the relationship betw…
The desert of northern Argentina is getting drier due to the activity of extraction companies. Flora and her llamas fin…
A small village in Papua New Guinea faces the dilemma of leaving its ancestral lands due to the threat of a flood cause…
Amid pandemic times, filmmaker and UN Sustainable Development Goals advocate Richard Curtis take viewers on a journey t…
This is one of the first films that makes visible the Gorani people, Muslims settled in southern Kosovo who historicall…
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