Seen from afar, the Alps may look like a picturesque fantasy, but those who live beneath them know how menacing they ca…
Josefina, the filmmaker's grandmother, settles in a remote village next to a mysterious forest. When several fires star…
Inspired by Aristophanes's "The Birds", this experimental piece provokes an encounter between two humans and these wing…
Welcome to the mythical mountains of Peru. In its depths, the rites practiced by the locals perpetuate ancestral myths.…
When a conversation begins in the basement of the house of a man isolated from society, his darkest secrets come to lig…
The voices of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave narrate the lives of siblings Erika and Klaus Mann. Both gay, they ma…
Told with snippets from films of the time, before us is the incredible biography of Leonie Brandt, an actress who serve…
Silent, incisive, radioactive. This short film, screened at Rotterdam and Locarno, follows the daily life of Sergey and…
Through the lives of two Pakistani men, one dedicated to the spiritual life and the other a defender of an ancient musi…
The traces of the first people who occupied the territory of Brazil detonate this documentary essay premiered in Rotter…
This gem from the Rotterdam Film Festival is a chronicle-essay ... or rather a kind of diary, as philosophical as it is…
This is more than just the biography of the editor of one of the most important films in history. It is a captivating j…
Used by millions, YouTube is already the container of the world's imaginary. Filmmaker Dominic Gagnon makes a collage o…
Welcome to the Hotel Nueva Isla. Once a luxurious hotel, now this decaying building houses souls from the Havana fringe…
Miguel has heard that he looks a lot like his father, whom he has never met. In this story we accompany him in a poetic…
The film scraps of unfinished movies that remained forgotten in the film museum in Buenos Aires come to life in this pr…
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 …
This gem is the first documentary feature film about Robert Frank, with exclusive access to the places, memories and wo…
Using black and white film footage of the time, filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa reconstructs the siege of the Nazi army in Le…
Based in Brussels, filmmaker Sanaz Azari begins to study Farsi with a children's book that dates back from the Islamic …
A long tracking shot introduces us to a polluted river, where a woman fishes and the inhabitants of a village refuse to…
Why is it so important to be pretty? Why does the gaze of others matter so much? This personal documentary explores the…
Full of humor and freshness, this film is a road movie across Finland that follows a group of Argentines who come to di…
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
This film invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film an…
Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apo…
In this experimental short documentary, a solitary walk around a common neighborhood becomes a surreal experience inspi…
After being disappeared by a fascist group in 1960, this film by the Master Jacinto Esteva about the emigration of Span…
This experimental film is inspired in a curious image. A tiny bird representing friendship.
Without dialogues or didactic pretensions, this documentary makes an observation of forgotten spaces in Brasilia. In th…
In this documentary, the screen is divided into 9 frames to show us the service of the Reformed Church in Holland in a …
This documentary takes us into the culture of the Evuzok, inhabitants of southern Cameroon who through the ritual of th…
Images, or rather everyday scraps of the town of Bremen, Germany, reach the most unimaginable fantastic situations seei…
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