Shot in 16mm in the best style of the informational ethnographic documentaries of the 1980s, this is a portrait of the …
In the fields of southern France, a young shepherdess will have to learn how to kill the animals she works and lives wi…
Set in the majestic mountainous landscape of southern Chile, a wise man isolates himself in this dreamlike place where …
In charge of his father-in-law's stable, a prestigious jockey from Artois, France, prepares for a decisive horse race i…
In the best style of the ethnographic photographers of the last century, this film shot in 16mm presents a lyrical albu…
Premiered at Locarno, this short film by multi-award-winning filmmaker Laila Pakalniņa is a visual testament of the lan…
In the bucolic and desolate Argentinian wilderness, a young man spends his days alone surviving as in ancient times. Wh…
When a child dies in a remote Afro-descendant Colombian village, two artisans must make a traditional drum for the fune…
Blending fiction and documentary, this beautifully photographed film documents the tense wait of a religious woman in a…
In a remote village in rural Portugal, a filmmaker arrives to delve into his family's past.
Welcome to the mythical mountains of Peru. In its depths, the rites practiced by the locals perpetuate ancestral myths.…
Set in Almadén, a decaying Spanish mining town, this beautifully photographed black-and-white film follows the life of …
Nina, the director of the film, returns to her small rural village in Potosi, Bolivia. Around her, myths, rituals and s…
As nostalgic as it is contemporary, this gaze at a remote rural village is a precious opportunity to appreciate the sim…
Deep in a forest in Laotia, a young man supports his family by growing opium, the substance that both saves and condemn…
As the future of Russia hangs in the balance in the impending presidential election, the inhabitants of a Siberian vill…
With the landscape of the Balkans as a backdrop, this documentary follows a family of Aromanians, an ethnic minority tr…
This may be the most powerful portrait of a man's loneliness you will ever see. Inspired by the novel "Moby Dick", livi…
In a remote mountainous region of China, Hou Junli and his family remain in a small village that has seen so many leave…
In the best style of the Cine-Verité school, filmmaker Dmitry Kabakov portrays a humble village near Moscow, where Russ…
Have we ever asked ourselves about the way we inhabit our cities? This film exposes the city habitat by contrasting it …
Following the myth of a religious leader who claims to be the reborn Jesus Christ. A mother and her three children move…
In the context of a parliamentary coup in Brazil, a historic peasant movement begins to occupy lands owned by powerful …
Jovica, a young man from Kosovo, among other things, dreams of emigrating and having a girlfriend to start a family. Bu…
In bucolic rural Germany, the lives of four German teenagers are about to change. Childhood is behind them and the firs…
A small town in northeastern Brazil is at the center of a political firestorm during a polarizing local mayoral campaig…
After becoming a widower, Inacio, the former shaman of a remote Portuguese community, begins to live with an endearing …
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film follows two Cuban boys in their minimalist - and full of freedom - everyday life,…
In the southeast of Brazil, in the Goiás region, there are two rural towns where only adults and old people remain. But…
In a small village in western Russia all the inhabitants celebrate a day in which the mourning for a dead person turns …
In an indigenous territory in the north of the Amazon, a filmmaker and Abraim, a local villager, will have a short and …
Filmmaker Otavio Cury documents the Yanomami, in the Brazilian Amazon. Seen from otherness, the film reflects on the Ya…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
Amid the idyllic landscape of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Redz works every day on his small plot to earn a livi…
The desert of northern Argentina is getting drier due to the activity of extraction companies. Flora and her llamas fin…
In Doel, Belgium, only a handful of inhabitants remain after several decades of decline. Weird and humorous, this docum…
Following the thread of an omnipresent narrator, this hybrid film takes us to the dreamy Irish countryside, a setting o…
Priorat, a region of Catalonia known for its vineyards, was about to disappear from the map of the best wines in the wo…
This beautiful hybrid film navigates between documentary and fiction to illustrate, from their imaginary, the changes f…
Following the quest of Alfred von Rodt, a Swiss who sought to found a kingdom on the Chilean island that inspired Robin…
Desert, mythical, twilight. This visual contemplation is a kind of silent western about life in the landscape of Alente…
A small village in Papua New Guinea faces the dilemma of leaving its ancestral lands due to the threat of a flood cause…
A man returns to his small village in Azerbaijan with a strange animal: a European cow. The arrival of the animal unlea…
Tree planting in Rajasthan, India, has become a symbol of freedom in the middle of the desert. Families in this communi…
Surrounded by southern pine trees, in the solitude of the Chilean mountains, Juan lives every day resisting the imminen…
Two octogenarian brothers return to their native Poland. One is a painter, the other a scientist. Despite their differe…
8-years-old Janek has just moved from Poland to the Argentine countryside with his family. Here he meets Marcia, his in…
This documentary makes a portrait of the Ithanvong family and their epic journey from war-torn Laos to a town in Santa …
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