At 92, having lived so long is a joy for Shirley Affleck, and even more pleasurable is being able to recount her journe…
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
Valentina, the filmmaker of this short film, was raised by her grandparents and not by her parents. Many years later, s…
Blending fiction and documentary, this beautifully photographed film documents the tense wait of a religious woman in a…
In a remote village in rural Portugal, a filmmaker arrives to delve into his family's past.
In the privacy of their homes, seven parents of LGBTI individuals talk about their life-changing experiences of leading…
Stine is 37 years old and the single mother of three girls. Her daughter Cecilie, age 11, has cancer and has had it sin…
Played by the inhabitants of a humble fishing community in Venezuela, this hybrid short film follows two brothers tryin…
A young filmmaker films her reunion with her father, an addicted man who has just been released from prison. Through ci…
Mixing animations, old home videos and film footage of the present, filmmaker Steffan Strandberg recalls the most impor…
A father has only a year to live and leave a legacy to his newborn son. Mixing animation with home video footage, this …
A nine-year-old girl and her parents, the three of them locked up at home. The girl must do her school homework, but th…
Filmmaker Juan Fernandez films the flowers, animals and objects that inhabit a house. But he is really portraying the m…
Set against the seascapes of the little-known Russian Far East, this film documents Fatei's daily life as he and his fa…
Compassion and redemption are discovered by a man as he manages a mental asylum run by its own patients in Juárez, Mexi…
Following the myth of a religious leader who claims to be the reborn Jesus Christ. A mother and her three children move…
In this heartwarming short film, filmmaker Elisabeth Aspelin films the everyday life of her two young children: Karla a…
On the eve of her departure from Italy, filmmaker Chiara Cremaschi turns to her beloved cousins to face this turning po…
After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
Isabel, a Brazilian woman, dreamed that someone strangled her three days before she was murdered. Years later, her son,…
Filmmaker Agustina Comedi investigates hours of home videos recorded by her father before he died. A magnetic essay, as…
What is a family? This documentary explores the enigma through Aliona, a special needs child who begins to live with an…
Brazilian filmmaker Octavio Cury travels to Syria and obtains a book written by his great-grandfather, an icon of Arab …
In this emotional and sensory journey, we accompany filmmaker Khoa Lê to Vietnam. Here he reunites with his roots amid …
The last part of the Barrientos trilogy focuses on the love story of Naty and Daniel Barrientos, the pillars of a humbl…
Rolf and Renata leave their home and embark with their young children to live with indigenous communities in various pa…
This is the second part of Mikael Wiström's trilogy on the Barrientos Family. The film focuses on the relationship betw…
Swedish Filmmaker Mikael Wiström documents his reunion with a Peruvian family after 16 years of absence. This is the fi…
What makes two women sisters? Is it just the biological aspect or can it be a magical and invisible thread? In this doc…
In what we could consider a subtle psychological thriller, a kind of journey into the mysteries of a soul, Viggo confro…
After being diagnosed with cancer, and amid the tension of the political crisis, a Syrian man begins a family explorati…
After spending more than twenty years in prison during the Soviet Union, a 71-year-old grandfather dedicates himself to…
This emotional Oscar-nominated short film, follows the day-to-day of five seniors living in a retirement resort in Palm…
What is the experience of children growing up in same-sex families? This documentary offers a children's point of view …
A filmmaker returns to his parents' home, where a ghostly presence has much to say about a mother and a father facing t…
Arami returns from Europe to Paraguay to take care of her elderly mother, who suffers from epilepsy and Parkinson. Clou…
An exploration into the family past pushes a young Argentinean on a revealing journey in which he discovers that his gr…
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…
Two octogenarian brothers return to their native Poland. One is a painter, the other a scientist. Despite their differe…
In October 2017, Juan Martín Guevara traveled to Bolivia to be present at the events commemorating the murder of his br…
This mid-length documentary shows us how a Mixed Martial Arts ring is seen from the eyes of Anna Azovskaya, a mother an…
Argentine filmmaker Iar Said shoots a set of tragicomic postcards documenting his aunt Flora, a 90-year-old woman who w…
After years of absence, the filmmaker Kat Tolkovsky returns to her hometown in the Czech Republic. A documentary short …
The filmmaker Sara Broos invites us to this beautiful poetic catharsis, full of art and contemplation, about the relati…
Through a stop-motion animation, the filmmaker reinterprets a story that emanates from her grandfather's old diary.
Through the Whatsapp voice notes that she exchanges with her grandmother, a Venezuelan filmmaker living in Barcelona in…
Through this intimate documentary, the filmmaker Chaghig Arzoumanian returns to her Armenian origins. Her grandparents'…
This documentary closely follows a Roma family from a humble neighborhood of Macedonia while they make a living amid ec…
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