This documentary makes visible the struggle of the Ranqueles, an indigenous community in Argentina who have resisted th…
Two famous Bolivian sculptors embark on the most challenging adventure they have ever experienced: transporting a 164-f…
In Cochabamba, Bolivia, the surroundings of an urban landfill were declared uninhabitable due to their levels of contam…
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
This documentary makes a portrait of the Ithanvong family and their epic journey from war-torn Laos to a town in Santa …
The arrival of new members to the workplace of a blind man who leads a group of food tasters poses an unprecedented cha…
Balcon De Europa is a tourist place in the coastal town of Nerja, Spain. This documentary is a discreet gaze at this vi…
This beautiful documentary portrays a small ethnic community in Udmurtia, Russia, and its unique singing, a precious ar…
Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
This film makes visible the small community of Malana, in the mountains of the Himalayas, where an advanced concept of …
After spending 30 years of his life working in an iconic industrial factory, Marc Coton begins a journey of introspecti…
Mystical and visceral at the same time, this short documentary presents a poetic approach to the culture of berry plant…
This documentary follows four outcasts in Montreal at night: Kye, Tobie, Paul, Kim. The four support each other and dru…
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
This film documents the last days of work of men and women who work blocking and unblocking the chains of the pedestria…
This beautifully photographed documentary follows the unique life of a fisherman in a small Lisbon coastal community.
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
The life of a man changes abruptly. After serving a prison sentence, he is no longer part of the privileged class and n…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
Five years after the Egyptian revolution that overthrew the Mubarak regime, four young Egyptians look back on that even…
After undergoing a laryngectomy and becoming mute, Joël Perrotte confined himself to his basement. But it is time for h…
During a radio show, the inhabitants of a city share intimate revelations on the eve of the end of the world according …
Mladen and Maja seek their space in a society that rejects them. They also want their independence from the health syst…
Clinging to their land, Matsumura and his old father remain in the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear plant. F…
Through a series of interviews, this documentary portrays the stories of men who have had to confront an unforeseen pre…
Filmed over several years, this documentary is a portrait of an old brothel in a mining area of Australia and the las…
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
This peaceful and light-hearted film shows us how life in old age flows in present-day Cuba through three elderly music…
This documentary is the result of a series of visits the filmmaker makes over the course of a year to the house of Pier…
This documentary gives us a never-before-seen access to a mysterious ritual of purification practiced in northern India.
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
Follow Del Keens, "the ugliest model in the world," in this humorous documentary that reflects on the historic dilemma …
This film, winner of the Grand Prix of the prestigious Cinéma du Réel, documents the life of the young soldiers who swa…
An observation of life among the inhabitants of the Costa da Morte, on the northwest coast of Spain, reveals the tense …
This short film documents the apparently insignificant moments of the inhabitants of a Suburb of Lisbon, while they fig…
This documentary is a poetic approach to the stories that survive the flooding of a small village nestled in the mounta…
Through an almost theatrical approach, this short film reconstructs postcards observed in the commercially vibrant bord…
This documentary makes us travel through the route of the sand that will feed Cape Verde's hunger for new hotels and re…
A woman returns to meet her mother in her hometown, in Portugal. During her trip, we discover the history of her family…
After surviving 9 months and 9 days drifting in the Pacific Ocean, three Mexican castaways face greater dangers when th…
Through interviews conducted in a video workshop, the inhabitants of a neighborhood in the margins of Rome talk about t…
In a small village in northern Iran, the life of the inhabitants revolves around Barre, a fighting bull that sustains t…
In northern Uganda, Patricia dedicates her life to helping women to give birth in her small village. This beautiful pho…
Through a bold accompaniment to the crew aboard a trawler in the Barents Sea, we witness their hard days, their hopes, …
Discover eleven love stories in old age in Montevideo, Uruguay. Among experiences of violence, disappointment, hope and…
This short film is a portrait of Didou, an 88-year-old Algerian man who preserves the memory of his deceased wife on th…
In 1998, the inhabitants of an entire town were resettled so that the brown coal underneath the village could be mined.…
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