A young film director travels back to his home country, Venezuela, to create a film based on his estranged father's lif…
What does a baby's cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodler, and what connects the head tone of a Tuvin no…
Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
This poetic documentary follows the rehearsals of the renowned Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris as it prepares to pr…
In Madrid, a woman pursues the traces of a father she never knew.
Hans and his female double Agnes wander around the streets of Lisbon looking for a man named Arief, who was their first…
A family filmed from within. The director captures his mother's fight against cancer, as his sister announces she is pr…
This multi-award winning documentary is an incisive yet simple portrait of a Neo-Nazi in his seemingly harmless everyda…
Over the course of two years, this documentary follows a group of workers in the south of France in the biggest challen…
A team of teenagers from the Czech Republic visits Morocco to play friendly ice hockey matches in that country. And whi…
Funny and absurd, yet profoundly realistic. This documentary follows a group of Middle Eastern immigrants as they try t…
Vertiginous, unpredictable, withering. These are the ways in which multi-award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films th…
In the quiet interior of his studio, a Ukrainian painter draws portraits of Kiev that delineate the recent tumultuous p…
Eastern Ukraine. After all the villagers of Pesky were evacuated due to the armed conflict between pro-Russian rebels a…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
Calais is not only a prominent port city in France, but also the crossroads for many migrants trying to reach England. …
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
To reflect on the atomic bomb and the human race's apparent mania for self-destruction, this film essay takes us to thr…
A theater group in Zagreb rehearses a play inspired in a murder case of a 12-year-old girl that occurred 25 years earli…
A wave of suicides among young people from indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon triggers this documentary in …
In the fields of southern France, a young shepherdess will have to learn how to kill the animals she works and lives wi…
Four young Chinese artists united through an artistic project compose a unique panorama that give us a glimpse of the e…
A lone man begins to play with the objects left in this apartment. As ephemeral characters and dances come to life, the…
Angelica has a problem with her sexuality, a psychological and physical blockage. Through a video diary, shared with tw…
This documentary follows Wu and Tang, two young Chinese trying to find their true passion in life amidst the pressures …
This documentary takes us to Guangzhou, China, where three enterprising African women try to make their way in business…
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…
Boxer by day, nightclub watchman by night, Christ prepares for his next fight in the ring while in the streets of Libre…
Premiered at the prestigious Visions Du Reel, this short film tells the story of a day in the life of Makenzy, a boy li…
Hundreds of meters under the ground and the European night, men and machines carve the tunnels that unite a modern cont…
Through a rich photographic, videographic and epistolary legacy, the director Ana Galizia makes a portrait of an uncle …
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
Shot in secret and with exclusive access to the interior of the PKK guerrillas in Turkey, this documentary makes visibl…
An exorcist, a horse breeder, a stuntman. These are just some of the amazing characters you will meet at the electric a…
A privileged individual receives a permit to make a copy of a famous Monet painting in a lonely museum. But is he reall…
Deep in a forest in Laotia, a young man supports his family by growing opium, the substance that both saves and condemn…
This may be the most powerful portrait of a man's loneliness you will ever see. Inspired by the novel "Moby Dick", livi…
Through a poignant observational approach, this documentary dissects the dynamics of the safari tourism business in Sou…
The town of Kiruna, in northern Sweden, is collapsing due to mining activity. This documentary follows its characters a…
In a public park, an army of crows emerges from the mist. A camera films them. A gun is fired. Is this short film a kin…
A community is about to disappear. Faced with a government-imposed plan, the inhabitants of The Platz, a huge shanty to…
Through the lives of two Pakistani men, one dedicated to the spiritual life and the other a defender of an ancient musi…
After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
Dragan Jaćimović was the first Serbian man to reach the summit of Everest. This documentary uses excerpts from his diar…
Filmmaker Otavio Cury documents the Yanomami, in the Brazilian Amazon. Seen from otherness, the film reflects on the Ya…
By closely following Central American migrants on their perilous journey to the US-Mexico border, this bold documentary…
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