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 short film takes us to post-apocalyptic New York built on a famous video game. Together with a group of snipers, w…
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…
In the remote mountains of central Japan, a Zen Buddihist Master has been helping people return from the limbo of depre…
Interspersing footages of the present and the past of Finland, this experimental short film uses various editing techni…
Three prodigious Caribbean pianists located in Havana, New York and Las Canarias, Spain, make a tribute to Ernesto Lecu…
In what we could consider a subtle psychological thriller, a kind of journey into the mysteries of a soul, Viggo confro…
Sometimes frantic, sometimes thoughtful, this documentary, as educational as it is entertaining, is a journey through t…
After being diagnosed with cancer, and amid the tension of the political crisis, a Syrian man begins a family explorati…
The story of an elderly refugee torn between the past, the insecure present and the bleak future. He struggles to decid…
A small village in Papua New Guinea faces the dilemma of leaving its ancestral lands due to the threat of a flood cause…
This is a unique portrait of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, wife of the great filmmaker Joris Ivens and a reference, along wi…
This documentary follows Dragon, who makes a living smuggling people fleeing North Korea through the border with China.…
A man returns to his small village in Azerbaijan with a strange animal: a European cow. The arrival of the animal unlea…
Four mountaineers return to K2, the second highest mountain in the world, following the tracks of their parents, who pe…
Premiered at the prestigious IDFA, this documentary follows the Swedish rapper Silvana over several years through her w…
Banned in his home country, this documentary by young filmmaker Nontawat Numbenchapol is a crude and experiential gaze …
Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film documents the popular insurgency that overthrew the Mubarak regime in …
A young Russian woman fights along with the LGBTI community against a law that discriminates homosexuals. But her love …
A 26-year-old Kurdish-German woman returns to Turkey and becomes the mayor of her city, near the border with Syria and …
This short film premiered at the prestigious IDFA takes us into Ostend's Ibis, a boarding school where children with be…
A glimpse into the soul of Teresa Smith, an African-American mother who through her profound singing finds a way to dem…
This film makes visible the small community of Malana, in the mountains of the Himalayas, where an advanced concept of …
For the protagonists of this film, life on land is on hold. On board a cruise ship, normality has other rules. This sho…
In the Cerro Rico mines in Bolivia, three humble women try to survive in a microcosm hostile to women. And dynamite is …
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
Through beautifully crafted puppets made of beach sand, this animated short film tells us an endearing story of childho…
This film is a gloomy, dream-like document about what remains of a Jewish state created by Stalin for communist Jews in…
Clinging to their land, Matsumura and his old father remain in the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear plant. F…
This life-inspiring documentary follows four children who live in Zaatari, a small city of refugees, who dream of a bet…
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
This award-winning short film is an experimental portrait of Yussuf Mume Saleh, an Ethiopian man who has a deep connect…
Set in rural Thailand, this documentary follows an endearing elderly couple in their last years of life together. A min…
Filmed across several continents, this film reveals how development aid in poor countries reproduce poverty and increas…
Full of humor and freshness, this film is a road movie across Finland that follows a group of Argentines who come to di…
A filmmaker films his own family and asks whether he is a good son. The scenes we see next comppose a cinematic explora…
After surviving 9 months and 9 days drifting in the Pacific Ocean, three Mexican castaways face greater dangers when th…
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