This documentary follows the last days of the show Gardenia, made by a group of transsexuals and drag queens in the aut…
Through interviews conducted in a video workshop, the inhabitants of a neighborhood in the margins of Rome talk about t…
In a small village in northern Iran, the life of the inhabitants revolves around Barre, a fighting bull that sustains t…
This award-winning documentary follows the anarchistic punk band Pussy Riot in its struggle against president Putin’s c…
This documentary unveils with irony and diligence the connection between business, politics and sport in Donetsk, Ukrai…
In this award-winning documentary, survivors of the Srebrenica Genocide talk about the events leading up to the mass mu…
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
Discover eleven love stories in old age in Montevideo, Uruguay. Among experiences of violence, disappointment, hope and…
This short film is a portrait of Didou, an 88-year-old Algerian man who preserves the memory of his deceased wife on th…
The ocean, a place of infinite pleasure. This essay documentary reflects on the concept of maritime transport, the men …
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
Guided by the reflections of José Mujica, known as the world’s most austere president, three stories in three different…
An observational approach allows us to follow a young Argentine in his first months of military training in the army.
Daniel is a young man. Daniel is a student and a writer. Daniel is also a pedophile. He is in love and keeps no secret …
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…
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
In Roshmia, the last natural valley in Haifa, an elderly Palestinian couple prepares a final standoff with the local au…
The inside story of drug lord Pablo Escobar through the eyes of his only son.
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of four different metropolitan cities: Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow and New …
As farmland is becoming scarce, large corporations secure their control through the land grabbing business. This docume…
An Indian family faces the dilemma of eating or not their hell-raising pet rooster, so that they can reclaim their live…
In this experimental short film, fragments of the film "The Wild Child" are reinterpreted in image and sound to propose…
Inspired by a short story of the writer Fernando Pessoa, this short film plays with words and dream-like images to tell…
With a stunning camera work, this short film portrays the craftsmanship of prisoners in four prisons in Serbia, where i…
Conceived as a kind of documentary tragicomedy, this film takes us into the microcosm of a private resort in the Domini…
Filmed in a contrasting black and white, this short film documents life in a tyre recycling workshop in Myanmar. In thi…
A lovingly filmed portrait of the filmmaker’s parents who make out a living making ‘jaggery’ sweets from toddy palm syr…
In this documentary, the screen is divided into 9 frames to show us the service of the Reformed Church in Holland in a …
A young filmmaker revisits the footage of his parents, two famous Myanmar actors in the 60s. By watching the tapes, he …
Breathtaking black and white postcards of the world of football in the city of Salgueiro make the perfect background to…
A Moroccan man traveled to Spain, to another land, another sea, with the certainty of finding a better city, but he did…
This creative documentary uses cardboard puppets to provide a depiction of the most hated government agency in Sweden: …
A Chinese businessman promises a large investment project in the small municipality of Kalmar, in Sweden. A humorous do…
A captivating short film about Thea, a 12-year-old Norwegian girl whose life is conditioned by epileptic seizures.
Dissatisfied with his personality, a young mathematician from a family of divorced academics decides to punish his moth…
Through an observational approach, this short film documents the inhabitants of the neighborhood of Zeynebiye, in Istan…
Even A Bird Needs A Nest is a documentary film about forced evictions in Cambodia, a phenomenon that is raging througho…
The access to precious archival footage and vibrant musical clips gives us the opportunity to witness an evocative port…
Malek, a Tunisian girl, wants to be a professional fencer when she grows up. Along with her best friend, Malek strives …
With a provocative title, this short film essay delves into the image that documents a rally of the National Democratic…
Shooted over the course of nine years, this intimate film documents the fatherhood, the breakup of his relationship and…
Devastated during the Spanish civil war in the 30s, today the old town of Belchite only exists in its ruins and in the …
This film reflects on the relationship between human beings and the locusts, insects that represent one of the biggest …
Trapped in the structures of a destructive family, with no help from the outside world, a mother and a daughter embrace…
Set against a backdrop of hurricanes, coastal devastation, and apocalyptic fear, the film is an unnerving exploration o…
Through an observational exercise, this short film documents the only hour of freedom for prisoners in a Brazilian jail.
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