In the midst of a city that never stops building buildings, a man leaves his country life behind and decides to run in …
When his piano is destroyed in the Syrian war, pianist and composer Ayham Ahmad continues to make music of resistance n…
Through equidistant materials, from dance competitions in Brittany, France, to nuclear tests in Polynesia, experimental…
Respected in both North and South Korea, renowned composer Isang Yun dreams that music can one day reconcile the two co…
This multi-award winning documentary is an incisive yet simple portrait of a Neo-Nazi in his seemingly harmless everyda…
Faced with the government's plan to build the Great-Western Airport in the Nantes area, France, opponents of the projec…
In the absence of images of the case, Palau's former president explains in a short interview what really happened to si…
The final installment of the Accentus Music trilogy focuses on the political edges that traversed the world of academic…
This documentary makes visible the life of Branko Črnac Tusta, a puck-rock icon who became an activist for labor rights…
Egyptian director Amr Bayoumi revisits his country's tumultuous contemporary past through his own family traces as the …
How could an ordinary man become the only known Soviet spy to have infiltrated the CIA during the Cold War? This is the…
Woochul is just one face among the 600,000 soldiers in the South Korean army. This documentary follows this young man d…
For decades, Uzzi Ornan has been an activist against religious coercion in Israel. In the autumn of his life, he still …
This rare documentary piece is a propaganda film with which the Pentagon trained its security personnel against the thr…
In response to the assassination of a black women's rights activist in Brazil, a group of women massively turn out for …
After 12 years in power, a controversial mayor of a Greek town will do the impossible to get enough votes for his candi…
With an important use of the subtitle as a form of expression, this experimental short film is a dissertation on the so…
Vaclav Havel is the father of modern democracy in the post-Soviet Czech Republic. This biographical documentary offers …
Through incisive research and the participation of protagonists and experts, this documentary dissects the 1971 partiti…
As a parody of the democratic system, a group of political science students runs as candidates in the Croatian parliame…
The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
When the premises of the peace treaty in Colombia are threatened by a new government, two coca and marijuana growers fi…
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 …
Gopi Shankar, an intersex individual, is publicly vying for a seat in the legislative assembly of a conservative region…
When the electoral campaign for the student elections begins in a Brazilian high school, the friendships, dreams and pa…
How is the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban revolution celebrated without the presence of its lea…
A lawyer and human rights activist embarks on a quest that could take a lifetime: to find her mother, who disappeared f…
In this short film, the voices of workers in the Argentine textile industry cooperatives tell their stories of belongin…
Boxer by day, nightclub watchman by night, Christ prepares for his next fight in the ring while in the streets of Libre…
Through archival footage of the television show her mother hosted in post-Soviet Bulgaria, filmmaker Elitza Gueorguieva…
With the Bolivian people as the collective protagonist, this mythical film documents the popular resistance to the dict…
A group of young skaters in Georgia build their own space of freedom in the crevices of urban architecture. Their daily…
With the texture of videotapes from the early 1990s, a Turkish filmmaker in exile makes a personal essay on the consequ…
Focusing on the phenomenon of evangelical drug dealers that have become common in the Brazilian slums, this incisive do…
Through the different perspectives of two guerrilla fighters, this documentary delves into the ins and outs of the peac…
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…
Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck undertakes an investigation that begins in the realm of art and becomes political when a series…
Filmmaker Inna Denisova visits her Russian hometown and delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Russia after the annexatio…
As the future of Russia hangs in the balance in the impending presidential election, the inhabitants of a Siberian vill…
How did the revolutionary German sculptor Arno Breker become the object of adoration and protégé of Adolf Hitler? In th…
With his usual sharpness and critical sense, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck makes a revisionist essay about the interne…
An international dispute is seen through the life of an Uruguayan woman. In this tragicomedy, Mirta is torn between two…
"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…
Drawing on memories of his childhood vacation in Belgrade, Swiss director Nicolas Wagnières films an iconic hotel in th…
A small town in northeastern Brazil is at the center of a political firestorm during a polarizing local mayoral campaig…
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