Mystical and visceral at the same time, this short documentary presents a poetic approach to the culture of berry plant…
This poetic documentary follows the rehearsals of the renowned Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris as it prepares to pr…
Welcome to the Explorer. By playing this documentary you will become a silent crew member of this container ship on its…
This documentary follows the members of Voina (War) an art group that became known for its controversial and anarchic f…
After living in Paris for years, Arash, a demotivated young Iranian, visits the coasts of France with his friends, who …
This beautiful hybrid film navigates between documentary and fiction to illustrate, from their imaginary, the changes f…
Filmmaker Agustina Comedi investigates hours of home videos recorded by her father before he died. A magnetic essay, as…
This multi-award winning documentary is an incisive yet simple portrait of a Neo-Nazi in his seemingly harmless everyda…
Nineteen-year-old Kirill hangs out on the rooftops of apartment blocks, where his brazen stunts have earned him the nic…
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…
Beautiful and Disturbing at the same time, the film rescues through cinema "The invisible mother", a photographic pract…
Using videos that have gone viral on social networks about the conflicts in their countries of origin, migrants based i…
Woochul is just one face among the 600,000 soldiers in the South Korean army. This documentary follows this young man d…
Filmed over several years, this iconic documentary directed by Helena Třeštíková follows a married couple from their ho…
How much pain can you accumulate until you can't take it anymore? This light-hearted documentary follows an acting teac…
When a series of violent incidents begin to occur among the students of a prestigious medical school in India, filmmake…
The world knows who Mandela was for South Africa, but we don't know about F.W. de Klerk, the president that ushered in …
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
Set in Almadén, a decaying Spanish mining town, this beautifully photographed black-and-white film follows the life of …
In her sixties, Gwendolyn, a three-time weightlifting world champion, prepares for her next tournament while battling c…
A group of young skaters in Georgia build their own space of freedom in the crevices of urban architecture. Their daily…
Stine is 37 years old and the single mother of three girls. Her daughter Cecilie, age 11, has cancer and has had it sin…
Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society with her famous experiment about racism. What start…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
This posthumous portrait follows the trail of Uruguayan composer Alfredo Zitarrosa. Banished by a bloody dictatorship, …
Focusing on the phenomenon of evangelical drug dealers that have become common in the Brazilian slums, this incisive do…
Daniel Burmeister, a bearded film buff, goes from town to town making ultra low-budget films starring the locals themse…
An international dispute is seen through the life of an Uruguayan woman. In this tragicomedy, Mirta is torn between two…
Conceived as an essay film, we follow a man in a suit walking through Tokyo on an existential journey. We hear a voice,…
Filmed over four years, this short film follows a group of young men who, amidst doubts, laughter and twists, give thei…
This documentary, awarded at the prestigious IDFA, films over the years two Iranian girls from their religious initiati…
Seen from the point of view of a 3-year-old girl, this documentary follows the tortuous migration journey of a refugee …
In this heartwarming short film, filmmaker Elisabeth Aspelin films the everyday life of her two young children: Karla a…
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…
In this documentary filmed inside a motel in Santiago, Chile, the women who do room service have a lot to say about lov…
Everything around Asalif, an Ethiopian boy, is in constant change. The construction of a housing complex on his land af…
Dragan Jaćimović was the first Serbian man to reach the summit of Everest. This documentary uses excerpts from his diar…
Eighteen-year-old Josefin travels from Sweden to Peru in search of answers. According to a family myth, her aunt was a …
This is a portrait of a young Chinese man filmed over the course of several years, from his fervent patriotism in his s…
In only 11 minutes, this short film documents how, on the eve of Fidel Castro's death, reporters and passers-by take ad…
This is the second part of Mikael Wiström's trilogy on the Barrientos Family. The film focuses on the relationship betw…
This short film takes us to post-apocalyptic New York built on a famous video game. Together with a group of snipers, w…
Swedish Filmmaker Mikael Wiström documents his reunion with a Peruvian family after 16 years of absence. This is the fi…
Filmmaker Stéphane Goel goes out in search of answers about the existence of an idyllic place after death. Several Swis…
This short film uses the perspective of three military drone pilots to see life differently. Pixelated, distant, dehuma…
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