A small town in northeastern Brazil is at the center of a political firestorm during a polarizing local mayoral campaig…
In the quiet interior of his studio, a Ukrainian painter draws portraits of Kiev that delineate the recent tumultuous p…
What would happen if you entered a nocturnal Athens that you did not imagine? Political, human, unpredictable. This doc…
A Chinese filmmaker isolates thirteen actors in a weapons factory where they must live as in times of the Cultural Revo…
This is a portrait of a young Chinese man filmed over the course of several years, from his fervent patriotism in his s…
In only 11 minutes, this short film documents how, on the eve of Fidel Castro's death, reporters and passers-by take ad…
In a disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia, a man planted the flag of the fictional country called "Liberland".…
When Daniel Ortega returns to power in Nicaragua in 2006, a group of Americans see the lands they bought in the past th…
Luis Quijano, the son of an officer of the Argentine dictatorship of the late 1970s, looks at us on camera and tells us…
In the midst of a severe crisis, Lebanon is the stage of a battle between the people and its political class. This shor…
What could a former prisoner of the Stasi tell us about the state of civil rights in modern democracies? He gives his t…
Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film documents the popular insurgency that overthrew the Mubarak regime in …
Palm D'Or winner Ken Loach directed this provocative and sensitive document on the poetic and artistic side of the Mine…
In October 2017, Juan Martín Guevara traveled to Bolivia to be present at the events commemorating the murder of his br…
A young Russian woman fights along with the LGBTI community against a law that discriminates homosexuals. But her love …
During the dictatorship of Pinochet in Chile, a women's movement took to the streets to protest against the regime for …
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
A 26-year-old Kurdish-German woman returns to Turkey and becomes the mayor of her city, near the border with Syria and …
A congress bill promises to return the lands to those affected by violence in Colombia. The filmmaker visits this ghost…
The world knows who Mandela was for South Africa, but we don't know about F.W. de Klerk, the president that ushered in …
This documentary follows the difficult path of African-American politician Bakari Sellers in his quest to become the fi…
Award-winning filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda makes this two-part follow-up to Japanese politician Yama-san as he tries to defe…
Marcos, a young Brazilian living in Argentina, faces a dilemma in his family's WhatsApp group that involves the impeach…
This documentary rescues part of the vast propaganda footage that the Soviets shot in Africa to document their humanita…
Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
Five years after the Egyptian revolution that overthrew the Mubarak regime, four young Egyptians look back on that even…
Starring Oliver Stone as the interviewer and president Putin as one of the interviewees, this pro-Russain propaganda fi…
With almost no budget to shoot, filmmaker Lee Salter conducts an in-depth investigation into the implications of the ph…
A ghost is haunting Europe, the ghost of right-wing populism. This film reflects with sarcasm and crudeness how this ph…
This is the second part of filmmaker Kasuhiro Soda's follow-up to the Japanese politician Yama-san, who is now trying t…
After the murder of a Buddhist art teacher in southern Thailand, three filmmakers make a journey through the region to …
An Iranian director based in Germany visits his country with a mission: to show Iran beyond the negative stereotype tha…
A group of men sculpt the immense figure of a saint. The act is a display of white particles and movement throughout th…
Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
This award-winning documentary follows the anarchistic punk band Pussy Riot in its struggle against president Putin’s c…
This documentary unveils with irony and diligence the connection between business, politics and sport in Donetsk, Ukrai…
This film tells the story of Raul Castells, an indomitable Argentine social activist who fights incessantly against the…
Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
Hokman Joma, a Kurdish refugee, is arrested and sentenced for the throwing of a shoe to Turkish President in the city o…
This documentary draws a portrait of the economist and activist Arcadi Oliveres who led the student struggle against th…
A dark tunnel at the end of the light. In this documentary, this unfolded metaphor reveals the paradox between capitali…
The documentary is "a father's 'love letter' to his adult daughter Cáitrín, a young American woman who has a dream: to …
In what could be an undiscovered recent cult film, this satirical documentary tells the story of an ordinary and unknow…
In this documentary made only with footage filmed by activist filmmakers with hidden cameras in West Sahara, we witness…
This documentary follows the captivating life of the famous Georgian actor Kachki Kavsadze, who survived Nazi and Sovie…
Donus Return follows the life of Jérôme Bastion, who has been correspondent for Radio France International in Istanbul …
With a provocative title, this short film essay delves into the image that documents a rally of the National Democratic…
In a journey through the images of Lebanese mass media in recent years, the contradictory portrait of a country that li…
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