In the early years of the Franco dictatorship, Clara Pueyo Jornet, an active militant in the Communist Party, escapes f…
In this eye-opening documentary, a determined group of widows ravaged by industrial pollution takes on a system rigged …
Two exceptional female athletes and devoted mothers who use the power of water sports to defy gender inequality and cre…
When they stop receiving their salaries after the economic collapse of a maritime company, 320 seamen in Grece embark o…
On April 29th, 1992, Latasha Harlins was killed in South Central Los Angeles. Her death ignited the LA riots, yet her …
Elena works as an erotic photographer, Luz and Nerea as prostitutes. They met at a photo shoot and Elena wanted to know…
This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
If for filmmaker Valentina Signorelli becoming a naturalized British citizen was not difficult, for three other migrant…
At 85 years old, Lucy tells us with passion and eloquence how as an transgender person she managed to navigate the most…
Born a woman, Marion decides to become Marian, a man. This documentary follows Marian over 10 years documenting her gen…
This multi-award winning documentary is an incisive yet simple portrait of a Neo-Nazi in his seemingly harmless everyda…
A vehement Cypriot woman begins a personal investigation on the trail of her great-aunt, who was forced to marry a stra…
The final installment of the Accentus Music trilogy focuses on the political edges that traversed the world of academic…
Being transgender in the Brazilian army in the middle of the last century was an experience that had hard consequences …
Sixty years after being buried by Nazis in Poland, a Roma woman rises from her grave to tell us about the racism her pe…
Despite being HIV positive, human rights activist Ortwin Passon is preparing a thesis to defend the right of people lik…
This gripping investigative documentary attempts to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a prisoner of war durin…
Having escaped from Africa to Europe after being harshly harassed for her homosexuality, Pepsi tells us what it has bee…
In response to the assassination of a black women's rights activist in Brazil, a group of women massively turn out for …
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan. The director, Naomi Mizoguchi, spent a decade creating this film about the…
After being a sexually abused child, Dave Ohlmuller embarks on an adventure to bike from Chicago to New Jersey to raise…
With a sexual reassignment surgery, Rosa Maria, a 59-year-old transsexual woman, seeks to complete her transition after…
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
To stand up against discrimination, a group of gay men gather in downtown Seoul to sing in South Korea's only amateur g…
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
A group of North Korean refugee women living in South Korea have an essential ritual since they left their home in sear…
Through interviews with Korean female workers of the present, we are taken back decades to unveil the labor oppression …
In a country historically closed to immigration, a group of asylum seekers show themselves only through their hands and…
Four transgender people in Thailand talk about their intimacies and most cherished dreams. Can survival cease to be the…
After the signing of the peace treaty between the guerrillas and the Colombian State, the sixth front of the FARC-EP be…
A group of HR activists is kidnapped when they try to denounce the Chinese regime during the visit to Serbia of one of …
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
On the dangerous route that Central American migrants take to the United States, a Catholic missionary welcomes travele…
Did you know that the richest country in the world has one of the most alarming poverty rates in the world? This docume…
A lawyer and human rights activist embarks on a quest that could take a lifetime: to find her mother, who disappeared f…
This experimental short film uses found footage of trips in Europe during the 70s to make a powerful and fleeting essay…
Being gay in Cameroon, you have to face the daily struggle of not being able to express your physical love publicly, in…
With the Bolivian people as the collective protagonist, this mythical film documents the popular resistance to the dict…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
This posthumous portrait follows the trail of Uruguayan composer Alfredo Zitarrosa. Banished by a bloody dictatorship, …
Shot in secret and with exclusive access to the interior of the PKK guerrillas in Turkey, this documentary makes visibl…
Fifteen years after living as an exchange student in Arizona, filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa returns to the United States to…
Filmed at the height of the Covid19 pandemic, a chorus of voices, including those of health care workers, paint a horri…
The 1969 Stonewall riots in New York marked a milestone in the beginning of the LGBTQ movement in the United States. Th…
The Yongsan tragedy in South Korea claimed five lives that could have been avoided. This documentary delves into the de…
Through interviews, re-enactments and documentation of live events, this documentary reflects on the evolution of the l…
Against the backdrop of the gray Soviet architecture of St. Petersburg, drag queens of various generations come out to …
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