The visits of a sacred painting to the houses of ordinary Polish people frames the visit of a homeless person to his mo…
A young filmmaker revisits the footage of his parents, two famous Myanmar actors in the 60s. By watching the tapes, he …
In the beautiful Vietnamese bay of Ha Long, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a family faces its imminent separation when t…
The documentary is "a father's 'love letter' to his adult daughter Cáitrín, a young American woman who has a dream: to …
Dissatisfied with his personality, a young mathematician from a family of divorced academics decides to punish his moth…
Lulú lives with the uncertainty of not knowing the whereabouts of her husband and son after they were kidnaped 5 years …
(Re)immersing himself in body building, David Nicolas Parel endeavours to follow his younger brother as he trains for t…
Mother and daughter embark on a trip to Brazil in search of the healer “Joh of God”. But not everything goes as planned…
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
Shooted over the course of nine years, this intimate film documents the fatherhood, the breakup of his relationship and…
David has two passions in life: being a father and rap. Through a close and chronological follow-up, we become witnesse…
The Swiss singer Stephan Eicher and his brother Erich embark on a musical journey to their Yenish origins. The two toge…
Seen trhough the lens of her own daughter's camera, this film documents the grieving process of Mette Hannibal after he…
In an intimate and exciting journey to the root, the film follows a family based in Okinawa, Japan, that visits Taiwan …
Trapped in the structures of a destructive family, with no help from the outside world, a mother and a daughter embrace…
In a family of women, the corners of an old house are witnesses of the course of life. The older women go through the l…
Sault Ste. Marie I-500 is an annual snowmobile race held in Michigan, United States. After two years of cinematic invol…
Fragmented and multilingual, this short film is a random journey through the images of the author's quotidian world to …
A piglet named Caesar lives a happy life with a loving owner, which is very different from other piglets’ lives. But do…
Present-day Bulgaria. After discovering the secret police files belonging to her grandfather, a man who joined the anti…
After finding her mother’s war diary written during II WW, a daughter discovers who she really was. A journey into the …
A group of young dancers whose members are immigrants from the former Soviet Union try to win the International Breakda…
Arina, a Russian girl, crosses the border from Turkey to visit her father, a Kurdish man who lives in the tense calm of…
This is a filmed portrait of João Carlos Castanha, a 52 years old actor who is also gay, son, cross dresser and capable…
A girl of a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father travels from Moscow to a small town in Azerbaijan to meet her pate…
Director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian town, where she is confronted with traditional views of…
Confronted with the idea of getting married after several years of being a couple, two intrepid travelers visit four ma…
Through the old objects of a house in Portugal and the letters sent among relatives during the past century, director J…
The co-director of this film returns to the humble home of his family in Algeria after 10 years of absence, a reunion t…
A ten-year-old transgender girl finds in a queer team of Roller Derby the confidence to continue her transition.
Structured in a selection of scraps of a diary, the director's voice takes us into his inner world, addressing his homo…
When the summer is ending, three young people from the calm and languid south of Italy spend the days before an imminen…
Beautiful and Disturbing at the same time, the film rescues through cinema "The invisible mother", a photographic pract…
A family awaits the return of the first-born, who is serving a year in prison. Living under the same roof, an effect of…
In the middle of a moment of uncertainty in his life, a young filmmaker undertakes a revealing trip from France to Gote…
After having been living for over two decades in Austria, a father and his daughter travel to Iraq on a journey of redi…
Two sisters talk over the internet after the recent death of their father. As one of them remains in Brasil and the oth…
It is Egypt after the fall of Mubarak. A young Egyptian filmmaker films his Christian parents during the tense course o…
Financial difficulties threaten the continuity of the school founded in Beirut by the father of Lebanese director Nadin…
In Madrid, a woman pursues the traces of a father she never knew.
In 1950, Frans Swinkels and his friend Broer left their native Dutch village to embark on a bicycle trip to Rome. 60 ye…
Before 1979, thousands of Israelis lived in Iran with very favorable economic conditions under the protection of the Sh…
A grandmother and her grandson struggle to save the photo shop that both operate in Tel Aviv, a place that houses a uni…
An inspiring documentary about a group of South Asian women living in Calgary, Canada, who promote women's rights from …
After forging a strong and close relationship throughout their life, two sisters face the unveiling of a past that had …
After 30 years of being out of his country, Iraqi filmmaker Kasim Abid returns to Baghdad on the eve of the American to…
11-year-old Werka and her 9-year-old brother Marcel wind up at the front door of a children's home in Wroclaw. Asked wh…
Shih captures the return of Paola Shih to Taiwan to meet with her father after twenty years of separation. Following Pa…
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