In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
Five years after the Egyptian revolution that overthrew the Mubarak regime, four young Egyptians look back on that even…
A filmmaker has a recurring nightmare: machine guns killing people. In this experimental essay, he makes sense of these…
Through interviews with experts on both sides of the Atlantic, this film visits various natural history museums and zoo…
Filmed with infrared cameras, this short film documents a group of refugees planning to cross to Great Britain through …
Mladen and Maja seek their space in a society that rejects them. They also want their independence from the health syst…
Bold and concise, this animation illustrates the bizarre yet ordinary day at an elementary school in Israel.
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
This documentary is an essay, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes futuristic, that portrays the industrial city of Charleroi…
This documentary is the result of a series of visits the filmmaker makes over the course of a year to the house of Pier…
When high school students in France stop their classes to speak openly with the institution's authorities, the tensions…
After years of absence, the filmmaker Kat Tolkovsky returns to her hometown in the Czech Republic. A documentary short …
The filmmaker Sara Broos invites us to this beautiful poetic catharsis, full of art and contemplation, about the relati…
The image of a model on the box of an inflatable hair-dryinghood inspires the filmmaker Susanne Helmer a curious and im…
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
This short film takes us to the mountainous south of China to draw a subtle portrait of a 10-year-old girl. Her dream: …
This short film is a delicate gaze at a religious and culinary rite in a town in Iran, where the believers prepare a me…
This short film documents the apparently insignificant moments of the inhabitants of a Suburb of Lisbon, while they fig…
This documentary follows the last days of the show Gardenia, made by a group of transsexuals and drag queens in the aut…
A man who killed his life companion in a jealousy fit tries to live in isolation after serving a seven-year sentence. B…
A dreamy animated documentary about the dangers of early cinema.
A Finnish filmmaker finds her own national identity alongside the Wayuu people and its cosmovision, in the desert betwe…
In 1998, the inhabitants of an entire town were resettled so that the brown coal underneath the village could be mined.…
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
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…
29 years old Italian Enea really wants to have sex. As Italy doesn’t offer any legal solution to the desire of a person…
This film invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film an…
No one knew that a great 75-year-old poet lived in a small town in eastern Serbia until his son begins posting videos o…
The filmmaker Renato Borrayo films the first year of his first son Carlos. He is dark skin and was born in the Russian …
Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
Since 1898 more than 2.000 people have been exonerated of a serious crime in the U.S. This documentary tells the story …
Daniela films her mother as she prepares to leave the family house. Inside, we feel the absence of the diceased father.…
Alternating beautiful animations with the intimacy of customary moments, this film is a journey into the creative world…
In this experimental short documentary, a solitary walk around a common neighborhood becomes a surreal experience inspi…
This observational documentary captures the conversations, confidences and emotionally charged moments of migrants in c…
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…
This documentary shows the urban transformation in Istanbul through the contrast between a small Shanty and an apartmen…
Having as background the port city of Murmansk, in Russia, a young human rights activist questions her position towards…
In just a few minutes, this short documentary shows us in a cold and punctual way how social violence in Chicago is ram…
This beautiful film ventures to take a closer look at the naked body and the fragile spirit that lies within it. The fi…
An indigenous man left his tribe at the age of 15. Several years later, he crosses the heart of Brazil, following the f…
Seen from above, on the sands of the California desert there are geometric traces that precede the closest civilization…
One man and his family-run TV station have become a relentless voice against corruption and organised crime in Sicily. …
A young man decides to make the journey his adopted brother could not finish. Years ago, his brother died in a plane cr…
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