This animated short film depicts the harsh reality for the prisioners inside Honeheck, a jail for women in former East …
In November 2017, a devastating earthquake hit western Iran. It took only 13 seconds to lose everything. This is a flee…
How a child who dreamed of becoming a doctor ends up being charged with murder? Adeyemi Michael starts a quest to find …
This is the second part of Mikael Wiström's trilogy on the Barrientos Family. The film focuses on the relationship betw…
Played by the inhabitants of a humble fishing community in Venezuela, this hybrid short film follows two brothers tryin…
In the safety of a desolate house, a group of homeless people in the city of Porto tell us what it is like to live and …
The life of a man changes abruptly. After serving a prison sentence, he is no longer part of the privileged class and n…
In this atmospheric animated short film, the wounds of the real estate business in Bogotá are left open after an incide…
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
In this short film, the voices of workers in the Argentine textile industry cooperatives tell their stories of belongin…
From Mumbai to Quebec, this eye-opening documentary takes us around the world to show us how people on the margins are …
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
In their own voice, the former miners of the uranium mines in a Gabonese village tell us how they were forgotten by the…
Four individuals find relief and isolation from the hostility of the streets of Paris in a newly opened low-risk drug c…
What is it like to return to the place where you were born 30 years after leaving? Filmmaker Régis Sauder returns to th…
USA, the land of the possible. This free visual essay deconstructs the imaginary and mythology of the United States as …
Through powerful black and white photographs and a poetic voice that tells the drama, the filmmaker Mathieu Volpe docum…
Through stories told by the protagonists themselves, this animated documentary tells the unknown interstices of African…
With the premise to achieve a kind of lyrical collage, the renowned Spanish filmmaker Jacinto Esteva makes a prismatic …
Through the different perspectives of two guerrilla fighters, this documentary delves into the ins and outs of the peac…
A traveling cameraman and father of three observes what happens when human skills no longer command a "market value".
In the late 70s, the Khmer Rouge regime killed around two million people in Cambodia suspected of being “internal enemi…
Irreverent, iconoclastic and beautifully free. Linn da Quebrada, a black and transsexual artist, displays all her truth…
This educational short film is an inspiring portrait of resilience and collaborative community work through the experie…
Filmmakers Wambui Ndegwa and Cole Lewis make the Kenyan reality visible through the story of a family that began adopti…
A woman living in downtown Cairo tries to support her family by selling potato chips. Known as "Potatoes lady" she star…
This multi-award-winning documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival looks at four men in various parts of the wo…
Over the course of two years, this documentary follows a group of workers in the south of France in the biggest challen…
Navigating between reality and fiction, this documentary unveils the characters and the particular atmosphere that oper…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
A Mexican director. A white American actor. What can happen in this fifteen-minute conversation about race and privileg…
A foreigner arrives in Cuba to elucidate what for him is a riddle from the western point of view: Why in Cuba can you g…
Through interviews with Korean female workers of the present, we are taken back decades to unveil the labor oppression …
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
Through slow motion postcards, this short film shows us an ordinary day in the life of the inhabitants of North Korea, …
When the presidents of Mexico and France unveiled his chaquira mural at the entrance of the Louvre Museum, indigenous a…
After being a sexually abused child, Dave Ohlmuller embarks on an adventure to bike from Chicago to New Jersey to raise…
A wave of suicides among young people from indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon triggers this documentary in …
Grandma lives alone and hasn't left the bed for days. The only constant observer of her everyday life is the camera.
If altruism had a face, it would be that of Mrs. Angelina. Whenever she can, this slender elderly Italian woman visits …
Amid the recurring political tensions that plague the Crimean peninsula, a group of workers struggle to keep a once-com…
When the premises of the peace treaty in Colombia are threatened by a new government, two coca and marijuana growers fi…
After a tragic fire in Melbourne's northeast in 2009, a group of Australian Blacksmiths begin to build their greatest j…
Trying to beat an algorithm he considers unfair, a young bike courier with more than 20,000 kilometers pedaled makes hi…
These three young men may not have a home of their own, but their hopes of living an independent life away from the fos…
How is the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban revolution celebrated without the presence of its lea…
This documentary follows Wu and Tang, two young Chinese trying to find their true passion in life amidst the pressures …
A team of teenagers from a marginalized indigenous Mexican community prepare to compete in the International Basketball…
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