The award-winning filmmaker João Botelho creates this gem of a film, a kind of cinematic tribute to his main inspiratio…
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
Defying an ancient rule, a young woman enlists in a Napoleonic guard that re-enacts historical scenes where only men ca…
Through powerful black and white photographs and a poetic voice that tells the drama, the filmmaker Mathieu Volpe docum…
Through equidistant materials, from dance competitions in Brittany, France, to nuclear tests in Polynesia, experimental…
In this documentary, the fog is the element that unites worlds and characters very different from each other. A film es…
Right next to the wall that is built to prevent migration to the U.S. those who live on the border with Mexico tell us …
Using videos that have gone viral on social networks about the conflicts in their countries of origin, migrants based i…
In this beautiful film essay, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films the landscape outside his studio window for s…
How dominated are we by computers and big data? This observational documentary dissects the day-to-day life of a financ…
After leaving behind a war-torn Belgrade, three Serbian artists navigate a new life in New York. This is their story of…
This is a making-of film like you've never seen another. The documentary follows the making of a film about the rise an…
Vertiginous, unpredictable, withering. These are the ways in which multi-award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films th…
When he arrives at a rehabilitation center for birds, Antonin, a man suffering from persistent fatigue, begins to see l…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
Halfway between videoclip and documentary, in this short film Violeta and Guillermo dance, kiss each other and talk in …
Premiered at Locarno, this short film by multi-award-winning filmmaker Laila Pakalniņa is a visual testament of the lan…
An evangelical man returns to his Dominican provincial town, where he must face the difficult consequences of his fathe…
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
Silent, incisive, radioactive. This short film, screened at Rotterdam and Locarno, follows the daily life of Sergey and…
This documentary, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, is a visceral portrait of the irreverent youth of a small tow…
Filmmaker Stéphane Goel goes out in search of answers about the existence of an idyllic place after death. Several Swis…
Following the quest of Alfred von Rodt, a Swiss who sought to found a kingdom on the Chilean island that inspired Robin…
Four mountaineers return to K2, the second highest mountain in the world, following the tracks of their parents, who pe…
Two octogenarian brothers return to their native Poland. One is a painter, the other a scientist. Despite their differe…
A group of Yodelers in the Swiss Alps must face unprecedented fame, and an impending presentation in Shanghai becomes a…
Mladen and Maja seek their space in a society that rejects them. They also want their independence from the health syst…
Even though they don’t speak English, Illiterate women from towns around the world with no electricity try to learn how…
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
29 years old Italian Enea really wants to have sex. As Italy doesn’t offer any legal solution to the desire of a person…
Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apo…
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of four different metropolitan cities: Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow and New …
Airports, the summits of modern society. In this captivating animated documentary we become travelers immersed in the v…
The Swiss singer Stephan Eicher and his brother Erich embark on a musical journey to their Yenish origins. The two toge…
Through a direct cinema style and taking the point of view of a faithful follower of his campaign, this documentary fol…
Through the old objects of a house in Portugal and the letters sent among relatives during the past century, director J…
The author of this captivating documentary, a man at risk of losing the ability to see, makes a first-person essay on t…
A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, to film the Northern Lights.
‘Kookaburra Love’ is a poetic documentary directed by Sjoerd Oostrik. Against a backdrop of disturbing images the viewe…
The End of Time is a cinematic experience from visionary filmmaker Peter Mettler which explores our perception of time.
Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a documentary road movie tha…
This film is a poetic observation of the last survivors of the Aymara culture in the Surire salt flat, located in the C…
Enric Marco, ex-president of the Spain’s main deportees’ association, embarks on a car trip to Germany, a demythologisi…
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