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…
Through a direct cinema style and taking the point of view of a faithful follower of his campaign, this documentary fol…
The pass of time has left a blank space in a sentence written on the facade of a humble rural house in China: "Only__is…
Known as one of the best dancers in Tehran and having been Iran's first female film director, Shahrzad's artistic caree…
Three stories from Sierra Maestra, Cuba, unravel on the day of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution. What will the li…
In this hilarious film, an old Serbian peasant woman tries to learn how to operate a used cell phone. Set in a small vi…
Present-day Bulgaria. After discovering the secret police files belonging to her grandfather, a man who joined the anti…
Through an educational approach, The Brave Class explores the dilemma of human language as a vital factor to construct …
One courageous woman’s journey from undercover agent to First Lady and the untold story of the birth of a new nation.
The film is an unrelenting personal report of a faltering relationship between the filmmaker Nada Riyadhin and a young …
In times of terrorist threat, risk prevention and all embracing control phantasms, the images of surveillance cameras, …
Coming out as a product of the sensationalist and shocking "Mondo" film series, this documentary shows with consequent …
Valzeina, an isolated village in Switzerland. Within a house run by the government to retain rejected asylum seekers, a…
A document about the protesters that filled the streets of Washington D.C. on the day of the inauguration of Donald Tru…
Through the director's comments on observational images filmed in Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and Tunisia, this documentary te…
The film takes place in the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria. Forced to join the Palestinian Liberation Army, …
Told in first person, the director of this documentary narrates the story of his friendship with Asier Aranguren, a mem…
Two Arab truck drivers face different obstacles to reach their destinations in an area affected by the war in Syria and…
The documentary details the investigation carried out by journalist Edmundo Cruz, who cleared the mystery about the dis…
On the eve of the 2012 presidential election in Russia, a cavalry battalion in Moscow prepares to carry out its duties …
Before 1979, thousands of Israelis lived in Iran with very favorable economic conditions under the protection of the Sh…
Fighting for their right to freedom of movement within their own land, a group of Palestinians challenge their own cult…
An exhaustive investigation reveals the financial scandal that shook Europe at the beginning of the 21st century.
An observational film about how life moves on a bicycle path in Latvia named after Alfred Rubiks, a former communist pr…
The prominent American thinker Russell Jacoby takes an x-ray of the current state of contemporary American society and …
After 30 years of being out of his country, Iraqi filmmaker Kasim Abid returns to Baghdad on the eve of the American to…
In the spring of 1990, environmentalists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney survived a bombing attack while driving their car…
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…
The film follows twenty-seven Czechs who have decided to spend approximately 2,600 Euros on a sightseeing tour of a cou…
Golos is a collection of stories told by, and about the people of Ukraine; exploring from a unique perspective the natu…
Two cousins from a close-knit rural community have opposing plans to develop their homeland on South Africa's Wild Coas…
Black Sheep follows two brothers from the North of England and their adolescent curiosity for the EDL - a right-wing st…
'UDITA' follows a turbulent half decade in the lives of women on the front line in the garment workers struggle. From 2…
President Wanted shows the behind the scenes of the candidates running for the first direct presidential election in th…
When Switzerland became involved in Ruanda in the 1960s, it entailed a dangerous game with the power elite from the sta…
Three Central American migrants embark on a journey to the north. Seeking safety and a better life, they find the will,…
"While Ceausescu was alive, we knew who was good (the West and the United States) and who was evil. Since then, things …
A mother's emotional search for reconciliation with the Palestinian sniper who killed her son in the Israeli-occupied t…
This film follows Rafael Correa during an arduous political campaign in his aim to be reelected as president of Ecuador…
Since 1905 to approximately 1967, thousands of Australian aboriginal girls who were uprooted from their families were t…
Maher, a Palestinian man, a former political prisoner. He is an electrical engineer by profession but an artist at hear…
MARTIN ARMSTRONG, once a US based trillion dollar financial adviser, used the number pi to predict economic turning poi…
The shooting of the film about Václav Havel, the president of the Czech Republic, was started in 1992 by Pavel Koutecký…
Premiered at IDFA, this documentary follows the struggle of Palestinian teenage boys trying to get back to life outside…
At the brink of losing the idealistic love of her life, filmmaker Maja Borg takes us on a poetic road trip through the …
The Train to Moscow chronicles the end of an era and the end of a dream through the eyes of Sauro Ravaglia, an amateur …
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