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…
If for filmmaker Valentina Signorelli becoming a naturalized British citizen was not difficult, for three other migrant…
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 …
"Holodomor" is a term that refers to the Great Famine that occurred in Ukraine in the early 1930s. American Writer Kath…
A small village in Russia holds the souls of many persecuted politicians of the Soviet Union. In the autumn of his life…
This is the inspiring story of Eva Kor. In the Holocaust, she was a victim of Nazi experiments conducted by Mengele. Af…
If in the last century the pioneering black ballerinas faced exclusion and discrimination, today there are still young …
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…
A community is about to disappear. Faced with a government-imposed plan, the inhabitants of The Platz, a huge shanty to…
This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, …
Lludy, a Brazilian immigrant, has just lost his flat in Barcelona and has nowhere to go. Through her belongings we disc…
Following the Chinese government's one-child policy, workers at a birth control center in a remote rural village are ta…
Filmed in Sweden, Germany and Canada, this documentary gives a voice to immigrants of Indian, Turkish and Kurdish origi…
By closely following Central American migrants on their perilous journey to the US-Mexico border, this bold documentary…
Five transgender people reflect on their experience overcoming the binary conception of genders and tell us about their…
In 2011, a young Chilean man, Manuel, was killed by a bullet fired by the security forces in a demonstration. This is t…
Three people that have suffered racist and fascist attacks in Germany during the last decades decide that these crimes …
This documentary follows Dragon, who makes a living smuggling people fleeing North Korea through the border with China.…
Luis Quijano, the son of an officer of the Argentine dictatorship of the late 1970s, looks at us on camera and tells us…
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