In this short documentary essay, filmmaker Antoine Fontaine delves into a forgotten archive of 16mm film belonging to a…
In 2005, a suicide bomber walked into Ashraf's wedding, killing 27 people. Now he is on a quest to confront terrorism a…
Filmmaker Arsenio Cadena points the camera at his father, a 73-year-old tailor who has an obsessive passion: climbing t…
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
Elena works as an erotic photographer, Luz and Nerea as prostitutes. They met at a photo shoot and Elena wanted to know…
In this video art, multidisciplinary artist Samuel Bester makes a free, experimental and sensually charged interpretati…
This short film follows filmmaker Heilika Pikkov's grandparents. They both renew their vows as a couple in their old ag…
After being disappeared by a fascist group in 1960, this film by the Master Jacinto Esteva about the emigration of Span…
Daughter and mother arrive at a Buddhist monastery in a land very far from their own. Both are victims of a complicated…
Sergei Loznitsa, a master of contemporary documentary filmmaking, makes a delicate observation of the bodies of men and…
Tiina and Ülo live among various colorful objects accumulated throughout their life. This film tells the story of a dee…
Through a walk through a cemetery, a narrator reflects on how society and politics impact the individual dimension of t…
Filmmaker Aljona Surzikova films the arrival of her new baby in the privacy of her family. But the joyful atmosphere is…
In less than fifteen minutes, Victor conducts a cinematic experiment to investigate the nature of his body. To others, …
This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
Due to an autoimmune disease, Julika has lived without hair since the age of 9. Now, at 25, we experience with her what…
Defying an ancient rule, a young woman enlists in a Napoleonic guard that re-enacts historical scenes where only men ca…
In this short film, a man enters a forest where dilapidated houses hold stories of his past of vitality and loneliness …
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
Halfway between a making-of film and an cinematic essay on the process of a film workshop directed by Abbas Kiarostami,…
Grandma has died but left a diary. The last time she wrote, it was the day before her death. How much can we learn abou…
Set somewhere in México, in this short film ancient spaces apparently dynamited by time appear in front of us. Unexpect…
Alternating between sensory and narrative moments, this short film immerses us in the life of an old woman who finds in…
This short film is a portrait of chef Roslyn Spence. Trained at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Roslyn has a d…
A comfortable sofa, nail polish and strange gloves. You are about to witness a conversation as fleeting as it is reveal…
After being found dead in his room, the painter and photographer Pierre Molinier left behind a peculiar body of work. T…
Almost twenty years after appearing as a young boy in "Ten", the famous Abbas Kiarostami's film, Amina is now a transge…
Experimental filmmaker Khaled Abdulwaheds cinematically deconstructs a photograph of a cactus field in 1998 Syria. Now …
When a European man lands on a tropical island in Tanzania, we hear his reflective voice through the letters he sends t…
This gripping film follows the last log floater on the river Tara in Montenegro, a wild and very dangerous river.
In the absence of images of the case, Palau's former president explains in a short interview what really happened to si…
Gravitating on the border between reality and the dream, this short film delves into the feelings of a woman who suffer…
At a street market in Croatia, people try to find the best locally produced groceries. Filmmaker Ana Hušman studies the…
Canada-based Iranian director Farhad Pakdel films four Iranian families in this country as they reminisce about the spa…
This animated short film made by six filmmakers evokes one of those inevitable and essential conversations, the one bet…
How often do you listen attentively to the sound of birds? This fleeting short film is a provocation for contemplation …
Bittersweet testimonies of music students are heard while, in front of our eyes, handmade animations try to evoke their…
A woman living in downtown Cairo tries to support her family by selling potato chips. Known as "Potatoes lady" she star…
In this experimental film, artists Martina Meštrović and Tanja Vujasinović make animated female sculptures that invade …
When he suspects that his mother is involved in a mysterious online love affair, filmmaker Vincent Sparreboom acts like…
Be ready to watch this unique, stop-motion animation entirely filmed in a municipal dump in Croatia!
Alternating between still photographs and cinematic still shots, male figures appear in various Nordic landscapes. In t…
For decades, Uzzi Ornan has been an activist against religious coercion in Israel. In the autumn of his life, he still …
In a remote rural Portuguese village, a man wanders through the mist. His house, the crops, the animals, and the pine f…
In just fifteen minutes, this documentary dissects the American male stereotype through the art of Aaron Ray, a drag pe…
A Mexican director. A white American actor. What can happen in this fifteen-minute conversation about race and privileg…
After several years in Europe, Violeta returns to her native Brazil to renew vows in her religion. But the years do not…
This short film is the endearing portrait of Roed Roza, a South American migrant in Milan, Italy. Stripped of his land …
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